Marvel’s Midnight Suns – Captain America Guardian Challenge Mission Walkthrough Guide and Hints. You can take a look at our guide for the challenge missions of all other characters except Captain America; Challenge Mission Walkthroughs and Hints.
Captain America – Guardian
Captain America’s Challenge revolves around his abilities that both generate Block and consume Block to damage enemies.
- Hint 1: How do you generate the most block as early as possible while minimizing card use?
- Hint 2: The Whisper of Memory holding Tactician is a bit of a red herring. Since it isn’t close to any environment, it can’t be defeated with a single Punch. Using additional cards on it wastes abilities needed later.
Primary Objective: Defeat the Incarnation of Memory to acquire the Shield Charge ability card.
Rules:
- There are infinite Card Plays.
- Redraw and Move are disabled.
- The Challenge is failed if there are no more cards to play or the turn ends.
Walkthrough:
- Use Punch on the Whisper of Memory on the right that holds The Best Defense. Knock it into the columns to defeat it.
- Use the acquired The Best Defense to start earning Block with all damage dealt and gain 2 Heroism.
- Use Shield Bounce on the three Whispers of Memory closest to the Incarnation of Memory. This leaves the one holding Shield Bash as the final Whisper and acquires Tactician. Captain America’s Block is now 36.
- Use Punch on the final Whisper of Memory and knock it into the columns to defeat it. This acquires Shield Bash and raises Captain America’s Block to 46.
- Use Tactician to gain more Block and draw 2 cards (a second Shield Bash and a Punch). Captain America’s Block is now at maxed at 62 (equal to his health).
- Use the first Shield Bash on the Incarnation of Memory, dealing 20 damage, which offsets the consumption of 15 Block.
- Repeat that with the second Shield Bash on the Incarnation of Memory.
- Use Punch on the Incarnation of Memory, knocking it into the wall to defeat it. This acquires Shield Charge.
- Finally, use Shield Charge on the newly-spawned Black Crystal to complete the Challenge.
What are Challenges?
Challenges are essentially solo character puzzles. Each character’s Challenge gives you a set hand, Offense stat, and even draw order to complete the mission, so don’t worry about character level or deck composition. The rules are generally the same (no Card Play limit, no Redraws or Moves, etc.), but they’ll all be listed in the sections below.
The first objective in most Challenges is usually to defeat certain enemies or destroy certain objects to add the character’s Legendary ability card to your hand, with the second objective simply an excuse to show the card off. Given the general nature of the first objective, the step-by-step walkthroughs aren’t the only solutions, but do solve the Challenge.
Completing a character’s Challenge gives you 2 rewards:
- The character’s Midnight Sun (Legendary) Suit
- The character’s Heroic (Legendary) card
Completed Challenges can be repeated for fun, but no longer award anything upon completion. Challenges only provide you with one copy of a character’s Heroic Legendary card. To obtain upgraded/modded versions of the cards, you must now either craft additional copies at the Forge or get lucky and find one in a Gamma Coil.
Since you get Hunter’s Challenge first, theirs is at the top of each section of this guide, with the remaining characters in alphabetical order.
Unlocking Challenges
To unlock Challenge Missions, the Armory upgrade must be built in the Forge, which becomes available after completing the research project, “Forged in Hellfire.” The requirements to research it are:
- The Forge must be at least Level 4.
- Complete 4 missions with Ghost Rider (both Story and General missions count).
The Armory costs 175 Credits to build, which adds the “Challenges” option to the Forge menu. The Hunter’s Challenge is immediately available. Other than Hulk’s, every