This page is a Marvel Champions randomizer. Tick the products you own, press the button, and it rolls a complete setup — hero, aspect, scenario, difficulty and modular encounter sets — drawn only from content you actually have on the shelf. It runs in your browser, it is free, and it remembers your collection so you only tick the boxes once.
Below the tool there is the part most randomizers skip: what your collection can actually produce, and which box to buy next if you want it to produce more. The three community-built randomizers this page used to recommend are still here too, further down, because two of them do things this one deliberately does not.
Roll a random Marvel Champions setup
Tick what you own once — the tool remembers it in your browser — then roll. Hero, aspect, scenario, difficulty and modular sets, drawn only from products you actually have.
What do you own?
Content data from the community card database MarvelCDB, read 14 October 2026: 69 heroes, 57 scenarios and 149 modular encounter sets. Releases after Luke Cage (August 2026) are not in it yet — Fear No Evil’s encounter sets, Elektra, Iron Fist and the Shadowland scenario pack are missing, so the tool will not roll them.
How many different games can your collection actually make?
This is the question a randomizer exists to answer, and almost nobody puts a number on it. Using the content catalogued by MarvelCDB on 14 October 2026 — 69 heroes, 57 scenarios, 149 modular encounter sets and five Standard/Expert sets — here is what the shelf is worth:
| What you own | Heroes | Scenarios | Modular sets | Distinct setups |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core Set only | 5 | 3 | 5 | 300 |
| Core Set + one hero pack | 6 | 3 | 5–6 | 360–432 |
| Core Set + Civil War | 7 | 5 | 21 | 2,940 |
| Core Set + Age of Apocalypse | 7 | 8 | 17 | 3,808 |
| Everything released through August 2026 | 69 | 57 | 149 | 2,214,080 |
The conclusion is blunt and it is the opposite of how most people buy this game. A hero pack adds one hero. It multiplies exactly one of the four dimensions, and it moves a Core Set collection from 300 setups to about 360 — roughly 20 percent. A campaign box adds two heroes, five scenarios and a dozen modular sets at once, and it multiplies three dimensions simultaneously: the same Core Set jumps to 3,808 setups, about thirteen times what it started with, for two and a half times the price of a hero pack.
If you are buying Marvel Champions content specifically so that the randomizer keeps surprising you, buy scenario content and not heroes. Heroes are what you buy when you want to play a particular character. They are close to the worst value per dollar for variety, which is an awkward thing to say about the part of the line that sells best.
What to buy next, and what you can still get in October 2026
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Marvel Champions has a brutal out-of-print problem — most of the campaign boxes that would help you most are gone from retail. These are the ones that were verified buyable on 14 October 2026, checked against the US distributor catalogue and against Amazon’s own listing for each product.
Age of Apocalypse — the best variety per dollar
Two heroes (Bishop and Magik), five scenarios and twelve modular sets. On a Core Set collection it is a 12.7× multiplier, the largest of anything still in print. In print, sold out at the US distributor, and in stock on Amazon at $47.99 when we checked.
Civil War — the most modular sets in one box
Sixteen modular encounter sets, more than any other single product in the game, plus Tigra and Hulkling. Note that it is structurally unusual: there is no villain, you face opposing hero factions. In print and in stock at the US distributor — the only campaign box that is — and $35.99 on Amazon, the cheapest campaign box on this list.
Synthezoid Smackdown — the cheap way to add modulars
Eight modular sets and two scenarios for $23.80. The publisher describes it as two customizable scenarios built around She-Hulk and Vision as opposing leaders, extending the Civil War framework, so it is the natural follow-on to the box above rather than a standalone purchase. In print, in stock at the distributor.
The Core Set, if you are starting
Everything on this page assumes you own the Core Set — every hero pack is a 40-card deck that is explicitly not standalone. It went sold out at the US distributor on 14 October 2026, so Amazon is currently the route; it was in stock there at $55.99 against a $69.99 list price when we checked.
Three honest notes on things we did not put a button on. Fear No Evil is in print and buyable on Amazon at $47.99, but MarvelCDB has only 68 of its 276 cards, so its scenarios are not in the tool above and we cannot tell you what it adds. NeXt Evolution is publisher-flagged out of print even though it is still sold at list price, so we are not pointing you at it as a recommendation. Shadowland is in print, in stock at the distributor and adds three new scenarios according to the publisher, but we could not verify an Amazon listing for it, and we do not link to products we have not confirmed.
For the full picture, our complete Marvel Champions expansions index carries a publisher-stated status for all 65 products, and what is still in print is kept current separately.
The three community randomizers, and when they beat this one
These tools were this page’s original recommendation and they stay, because the people who built them maintain them for free and two of them do things the tool above does not. All three were confirmed online on 14 October 2026. All three are browser-based — there is no app to install.
Marvel Champions Randomizer — best all-around
The best balance of simplicity and functionality. You can set preferences including difficulty and player count, and it returns villain, modular, hero and aspect for up to four players. Its genuinely distinct feature is that you can fix the scenario and randomize everything else — useful when you know who you want to fight but want the rest to surprise you. One quirk: nothing obvious happens when you press generate, so scroll down.
Marvel Shuffle — best designed
The cleanest of the three. Select what you own, press the button, and it returns scenario, modular sets and hero with no ceremony. It also has a button that advances to the next scenario in a campaign, which the other tools do not, so it is the one to use if you are playing through a campaign box but want the modular sets randomized. It cannot set difficulty.
Marvel Champions Deck Randomizer — the only one that builds decks
This is the one that does something nothing else here does: it generates an actual decklist, not just a hero and an aspect. It pulls card relationships from MarvelCDB, so the decks it produces are playable rather than a random pile of cards. The interface is the least polished of the three, and it is hosted on a free service that can take a few seconds to wake up.
So when should you use the tool at the top of this page instead? When you want the roll restricted to exactly what you own and remembered between visits, when you want to re-roll one slot without re-rolling the rest, and when you want to know how many combinations your shelf actually holds. For full decklists, use the third tool. For campaign progression, use the second.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a free Marvel Champions randomizer that only uses the products I own?
Yes. The randomizer at the top of this page rolls a hero, aspect, scenario, difficulty and modular sets using only the products you tick, and it saves that selection in your browser so you set it once. It is free, needs no account, and covers every release catalogued through Luke Cage in August 2026.
How many different Marvel Champions setups can the Core Set produce on its own?
The Core Set alone produces 300 distinct setups: five heroes, four aspects, three scenarios and five modular encounter sets, counting one modular set per game. Adding a single hero pack takes that to roughly 360. A full collection of everything released through August 2026 reaches about 2.2 million distinct setups.
Which Marvel Champions expansion adds the most variety to a randomizer?
Age of Apocalypse adds the most variety of anything still in print: two heroes, five scenarios and twelve modular encounter sets, which turns a Core Set collection of 300 setups into 3,808. Civil War is close behind and carries sixteen modular sets, more than any other single Marvel Champions product.
What is a modular encounter set in Marvel Champions?
A modular encounter set is a small group of encounter cards added to a scenario to change its texture or difficulty, such as Bomb Scare or Legions of Hydra from the Core Set. There are 149 of them catalogued across the line, and swapping them is the cheapest way to make a familiar villain feel different.
Are the community Marvel Champions randomizer tools still working?
Yes. All three community randomizers recommended on this page responded normally when we checked them on 14 October 2026: the Marvel Champions Randomizer, Marvel Shuffle, and the Marvel Champions Deck Randomizer. They are free, browser-based, maintained by community members, and each does at least one thing differently from the others.
Shake it up
A randomizer is the cheapest expansion you will ever add to this game. The Core Set alone holds 300 setups that most people never see, because they reach for the same hero and the recommended modular set every time. Roll instead.
Big thanks to the community members who built and maintain the three tools above. If you are working out what to add to your collection, start with our complete expansions index, our guide to what is still in print, or the Marvel Champions buyer’s guide. If your collection has outgrown the box, we also cover storage solutions.
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