Hi,

The card reads:

Exhaust this card during your turn and choose a monster within 3 spaces of a trap token and place 1 of your hero tokens on that monster's base, indicating that it is marked.
The next hero to attack a marked monster adds 1 to his attack results .

I was wondering, is the 1 only a one time use? There is no mention about discarding the Hero token, and as this is the only effect of the card, I suppose it lasts untill the Hero token is discarded right?

''The next hero'' sounds like only 1 time use, but I hope it's not the case. The Stalker is pretty unattractive already for my heroes but I try to reveal the strong sides of all classes to them... as they're lazy to do the research themselves ...okay not all of them.

Thanks!

"The next hero" definitely indicates one-time use to me. It would have been a simple matter to say "a hero" if it was meant to be any hero attacking while the monster waa marked. "The next" is very specific.

The stalker is not the strongest scout class at all.

Poison Barbs and Exploit are pretty good skills.

Ah... I feared so. This would make him pretty playable if it worked.

Do you discard the token after the one attack?

It doesn't say to, but without other skills referencing the marked monster I see no reason to leave the token.

Somewhere, I have an official ruling e-mail from FFG on this. It is indeed a one time use. To be even more clear, "the next hero" is NOT an optional thing.

Whomever (whichever?) hero attacks that marked monster next will be spending that hero token, whether or not he hits/misses, doesn't need the surge, etc.

If I can find the ruling in all of my other stuff, I will copy and paste it here.

the heroes should find a good surge weapon if they did get hunters mark. one good use would be the Grinding ax.

7 hours ago, Alarin said:

The next hero to attack a marked monster adds 1 to his attack results .

But if the next hero attacks twice, he would add 1 to both of his attacks, wouldn't he?

I think it says "The next hero" so i don't think so, but it isn't outside possibility. hero is singular. the next is for the next. I would assume no but its you group, you can do what ever u want.

3 hours ago, Ispher said:

But if the next hero attacks twice, he would add 1 to both of his attacks, wouldn't he?

No. True, the lack of "then, discard the token..." makes it grammatically ambiguous, but the implication of a one-time effect also implies a singular set of attack results. Though he is still technically "the next hero", it's no longer "the next attack." It would be an equally large jump to say "that 'next' hero adds a surge to all of his attacks for the rest of the encounter, right?"

Maybe it is their intention to say something like: "the next attack against that creature gets plus 1 surge(no idea how to get the surge sign)" or "for the rest of the turn, the next hero to attack this monster gets plus 1 surge"

I see the next hero to attack that monster gets plus one surge as a one time thing. the wording is"to attack". its a tricky one because of its miss wording.

The entry in the CRRG (v.1.6) on Hunter's Mark is based on this uFAQ: https://boardgamegeek.com/article/14108059#14108059

Thanks, Sadgit. That CRRG is a lifesaver.