How to craft and upgrade cards

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By now, you’ve probably learned how the card combat system works in Marvel’s Midnight Suns, as well as the various methods to acquire them. Still, there are more intricacies involved, including how you’ll manage your resources. Here’s our Marvel’s Midnight Suns guide to help you craft and upgrade your cards.

Note: We’ll have a Marvel’s Midnight Suns guides and features hub soon, so stay tuned. Likewise, you can take a look at our main guide regarding card collecting/acquisition.

Marvel’s Midnight Suns cards guide – How to craft and upgrade cards

Card Upgrades

Just relying on RNG results from Gamma Coils isn’t enough. You’ll need to craft and upgrade your cards in Marvel’s Midnight Suns if you want to survive the tougher battles ahead. Now, the upgrade function itself is available early on. All you need to do is check out the sword in the Yard and click the Upgrade Abilities button. Here’s the gist:

• You can upgrade your cards as long as you have a duplicate that’s not equipped.
• Cards upgrades use the same type of Essence (i.e., Attack/Skill/Heroic).
• The cost is higher depending on the card’s rarity.
• Modded cards, which we won’t discuss in detail here, tend to require more Essences if you want to turn them into the upgraded versions.

Card Crafting

To craft cards in Marvel’s Midnight Suns, you’ll need to put a bit more effort. For this, you’ll need the Book of Vishanti:

• Finish two missions with Doctor Strange in your team.
• Research Artifacts until you reach Forge Level 3.
• Complete the Book of Vishanti research and spend credits to construct this Forge Upgrade.

When that’s done, you’ll unlock the Forge’s Ability Crafting function. This lets you select a hero to create extra cards provided that you’ve already discovered them. You don’t actually need to own the cards. You simply need to have seen them pop-up as rewards (i.e., Gamma Coils/Abbey Clubs).

Even better, you’ll be able to create duplicates of any type of card, including legendaries. Just remember that you need to have a lot of Essences and the required Blueprints, too.

Note 1: All heroes can get legendary duplicates from this system, with the exception of the Hunter. The Hunter can only have Bladestorm duplicated here, since it’s the default card from the Challenge Mission. The two others, Summon Charlie and Annihilation, are tied to the Light and Dark Alignment system and Words of Power.

Note 2: A bit later in the campaign, you’ll also obtain a means of applying mods to cards. We discuss this in our card mods guide.

Marvel’s Midnight Suns is available via Steam.