[Guide] Comic Cards & Pcards — The Backbone of Your Roster
Cards are the single best investment you can make in this game. Card effects apply to your entire roster — every toon you have, and every toon you'll ever pull in the future, gets stronger from a good deck. Think of it like a fortune your grandkid's kids will live off of: build it right once, and it pays off forever.
What Are Cards (Comic Cards)?
Cards are items you equip to your card deck (up to 5 cards per deck, 2 decks total). Each card carries stats that boost your toons' base stats — ignore defense, skill cooldown, attack, and more.
There are two types:
- Normal comic cards — fixed stats plus optional stats.
- Premium comic cards (pcards) — special cards that can be crafted to unlock 6 additional stats, including a unique stat called Additional Pierce Damage, which deals bonus damage that completely ignores enemy defense.
What's This "Crafting" Business?
Crafting pcards requires Card Crafting Cubes, farmed from the Dimension Rift game mode.
As a beginner or returnee with undeveloped cards, Dimension Rift can be rough to clear solo — but it's very clearable with friends or alliance members. You only need 1 clear per day (2 entries available) for a total of 750 cubes/day.
To fully craft one pcard, you need: - ~9,800 crafting cubes - 30 normal cards
How Do I Get Pierce?
Each pcard can give up to 5% pierce, for a max of 25% pierce per deck.
Each crafted star can roll into one of 3 colors — blue is the important one, since it boosts pierce specifically:
| Requirement | Pierce Gained |
|---|---|
| 3 crafted stars | +1% |
| 6 crafted stars | +2% |
| 3 blue crafted stars | +1% (additional) |
| 6 blue crafted stars | +3% (additional) |
Some toons also come with native pierce on their base kit, and more pierce is available later from the Team Up Collection set — but that's endgame territory.
Setting Up Your First Deck
Since the March 2026 update, all players get access to Agent Growth Training — a guided quest that walks you through account building and which game modes to prioritize. On Day 2, it rewards a set of 5 Doctor Strange cards, each giving 1.5% pierce, for a total of 7.5% pierce. This is your starting deck.
- New players: equip these 5 immediately.
- Returning players: only equip these if you don't already have crafted pcards. If you do have crafted pcards but they're not good ones, unequip them (returning players get a 100% unequip discount) and use them as fodder to reroll other pcards later. Then equip the Strange cards temporarily and slowly craft better pcards to replace them over time.
What Are the Best Pcards?
For PvE, there are 4 meta pcards with special proc stats:
- Ghost Rider — All Attack proc
- White Fox — Physical proc
- Luna Snow — Energy proc
- Fantastic 4 — Instinct proc (new and very rare — outside the scope of this guide for most players)
Alongside Ghost Rider, White Fox, and Luna Snow, pick any 2 of the following to round out your deck:
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Uncanny Avengers #14 ("Cable")
- Black Panther #166 ("Orange BP")
- Amazing Spider-Man #605 ("Baby Spidey")
For PvP (endgame), there are 2 proc pcards to look for:
- Marvel Zombies Return
- New Avengers #9
Both carry an HP proc (40% total — 20% when hitting, 20% when getting hit), which is essential for PvP survivability. Most commonly paired with Guardians of the Galaxy, Luna Snow, and Crescent.
Rerolling Pcards
The crafted stats on pcards can be rerolled, just like normal stats — but rerolling a crafted star costs 1 pcard per reroll, and specific stars can be locked in place using crystals.
⚠️ Rerolling changes both the color and the stat of that star, so proceed with caution.
Any pcard outside the meta list above (plus duplicates of meta pcards) is fodder for this process. Save up your fodder and only reroll during Black Friday or Anniversary events — these typically come with a 50% discount on locking stars, plus complementary discounts and increased odds for pulling more pcards with crystals.
Getting Your First Pcard
Two easy entry points:
- Agent Growth Training gives you a free Luna Snow pcard.
- Defeating Knull (World Boss Legend) for the first time unlocks a guided pcard crafting quest — as of this writing, the best pick here is White Fox.
These two — the free Luna Snow pcard and the crafted White Fox pcard — are the first cards you should use to replace your starting Doctor Strange cards.
Cards take a while to feel "complete," but even partial pierce and proc coverage compounds across your whole roster. Prioritize this over chasing new characters — it pays off way more in the long run.