[Marvel Snap] A card game where you'll hardly play mainstream Marvel characters.

MNC Dover

Welcome to Marvel Snap. This is a fast-paced CCG where games are only meant to last for 3 minutes. The game is developed by Second Breakfast, a new studio formed by a lot of old Blizzard employees.

Here's the hype trailer:
https://youtu.be/61zjv1HcJDI

And here's a breakdown of the gameplay:
https://youtu.be/eYYcxWMCghE

Game flow:
Basically, you'll build a deck of 12 cards. The game starts with 3 "locations" in the middle of the board. The first location on the left is revealed on turn 1, with the next two locations being revealed on turns 2 and 3. There are a total of 6 rounds, with each round having a player draw a card and gain an extra Energy to play their cards.

Players simultaneously place their card(s) on one of the three locations in the middle of the board. Once they lock in, their cards are revealed and any effects resolve. Your cards provide a Power value that combines with all your cards on a given location. If you have the most power at the end of turn 6, you win the location. The player who controls two of three locations wins the match.

More details:
Here's the highlights directly from the developer stream:

Everyone starts with the same, simple starter deck.
Some cards in the starter deck don't have any abilities. (Thing, Misty Knight).
There will be 60 locations available at launch of MARVEL SNAP.
Every week, a new location will be added to the game.
New locations will have an increased frequency of being seen when it's still new (a couple of days).
They already have "a ton" of new locations created, ready to launch after release.
Closed beta is starting within the next week or two. Go sign-up for it (Android only).
Cards have rarities, but all cards have the same chance of being obtained.
You can upgrade your cards to higher rarity levels.
Each rarity has a new cosmetic flair for the card.
Common - Static pictures of the card art.
Uncommon - The artwork breaks out of the frame.
Rare - 3d effect on the art.
Epic - The card gains an animation.
Legendary - The name of the card becomes shiny.
Ultra - Your card border becomes animated.
Infinity - Split the card into two copies, you keep your infinity copy and you get a new common version of it with a special cosmetic effect.
You can repeat this process multiple times to gain extra special effects each time.
Collection level increases as your cards gain higher rarities and this helps you unlock more cards.
Every month will have a new season pass with themed rewards.
Every month brings new cards in via a battle pass and later on they will become available for free.
Battle passes might be about upcoming Marvel content coming out or previous events in the universe.
Each month is a new ranked season.
Higher ranks means better rewards each month.

MNC Dover

Ugh, I gotta clean up the OP. Taking suggestions or copy/pasted information to add.

hush

blob change is good, if people really want to attempt the high roll (with the double activate from odin/grandmaster), they can maybe get him massive, but more likely, its gonna hover closer to 15, esp in thanos decks

MNC Dover

Jeff Hoogland created a python script to run 1,000 scenarios in where Blob's power would end up across the 3 most popular Blob decks.



Pretty neat stuff. In addition, his new text allows them to OTA adjust him by giving him less base power and/or capping the power he absorbs. Great change over all.

Knight_

imo the downside to blob should be sometimes you get fucked which would happen if it was x number of cards. especially in decks like thanos. because as of right now, a 6/15 minimum that's "downside" is an upside due to murdering darkhawk is stupid. a 6/15 that just for fun also neuters darkhawk, thanos' primary safety valve, is still broken. it's just less broken.

akThera

It kills him with Tribunal, which is what I liked. Oh well.

SeGaTai

Finished the climb to infinite playing selene-goblins-annihulus/galactus. Good decks not required to hit infinite. 100% worth it for the occasional instant concede when galactus flips

Beasteh

The best is when you bait them into Galactus the obvious lane and tip it back with a big card like infinaut

Vann Diras

I am having a lot of fun with the other side of move now, and getting a surprising amount of wins. Dagger and werewolf are powerhouses

Won a silver conquest against an infinaut deck who leeched me basically every game, that felt good. 75% of the time it felt like the leech didn’t slow me down at all, but that person was also pretty obvious with where the turn 7 slam was going

… also Hercules rules, the power bump feels significant. Like him and the one drop movers can threaten a lane on their own it feels like, while hurling a huge power dagger to the right side of the board for heimdall on turn six? It’s good

ChaosHat

SeGaTai wrote: »

Finished the climb to infinite playing selene-goblins-annihulus/galactus. Good decks not required to hit infinite. 100% worth it for the occasional instant concede when galactus flips

Good decks never really been required for infinite though. I think someone with enough patience and time could pilot literally 12 random cards.

MNC Dover

Moments before a massacre:



And the aftermath:


There are a lot of unspoken rules in Snap. One rule is if Wong is in play and you have no way to deal with him, just leave. Nothing good will come from staying. Of course, this is Infinite, so it doesn't matter, but still.

I do appreciate them sticking around to get the final screenshot.

Knight_

i always stay for dumb wong bullshit in infinite, especially since sometimes rng just lets you win depending on the flavor of the bullshit

discrider

Frankly, dumb Wong bullshit would've been a welcome relief a week ago.
I'm not sure if the meta has mellowed since the Blob nerf though, as I can't fully trust myself to allocate time appropriately with the app, and so have uninstalled again.

MNC Dover

The new Move/Bounce is extremely powerful but also very mentally taxing. I won a conquest series with it and felt super smart, but had to take a nap afterwards from brain drain.

Knight_

i play dumb kingpin move. just scramble everything around on my side and their side and maybe i win maybe i lose, you can't plan against me because i also don't know whats gonna happen.

it's very fun.

also i'm stuck at 93 for no reason.

Vann Diras

Knight_ wrote: »

i play dumb kingpin move. just scramble everything around on my side and their side and maybe i win maybe i lose, you can't plan against me because i also don't know whats gonna happen.

it's very fun.

also i'm stuck at 93 for no reason.

this has been me with Hercules. just accepting that I'm here to get dagger, vulture, and human torch as big as possible and if I finagle them into a winning combo of locations that's just gravy

Vann Diras

Spent a key and ended up getting gladiator, which I’m pretty into. Honestly stunned that it hit one of the like six cards I don’t have, and on top of that the one I wanted most out of the bunch

Edit: realized I had a bunch of credits built up, got another key and nabbed grandmaster! So a stupidly successful spotlight week for me, huzzah

cloudeagle

Given the changes to the meta, should I still spend the tokens to get Living Tribunal? Or should I go for Daken, Lady Deathstrike, Alioth, or Sebastian Shaw instead?

metaghost

cloudeagle wrote: »

Given the changes to the meta, should I still spend the tokens to get Living Tribunal? Or should I go for Daken, Lady Deathstrike, Alioth, or Sebastian Shaw instead?

I always recommend picking up what you think looks fun or if you just like the character. You never really know what might get buffed (or nerfed).

The above in mind, none of the cards you listed are really notable at the moment. Living Tribunal is at least a build-around.

MNC Dover

Two keys today to get GM. My one miss was the sweet Loki variant, so I’m not totally upset.

Beasteh

Random card was Hercules which I am ambivalent about

Took 4 to get GM which kind of sucks!!!

cloudeagle

metaghost wrote: »

cloudeagle wrote: »

Given the changes to the meta, should I still spend the tokens to get Living Tribunal? Or should I go for Daken, Lady Deathstrike, Alioth, or Sebastian Shaw instead?

I always recommend picking up what you think looks fun or if you just like the character. You never really know what might get buffed (or nerfed).

The above in mind, none of the cards you listed are really notable at the moment. Living Tribunal is at least a build-around.

...Howard the Duck it is!

Yes, I know he sucks as a card, I just dig him.

MNC Dover

Only missing Howard the Duck and Gladiator now. Of course that'll change as new cards get added over the next few months and I don't go digging for any of them. Then I'll stockpile keys (and Caches) and open the cards I'm missing in 2-4 months. What a weird system.

spool32

cloudeagle wrote: »

Given the changes to the meta, should I still spend the tokens to get Living Tribunal? Or should I go for Daken, Lady Deathstrike, Alioth, or Sebastian Shaw instead?

Alioth makes heads explode, it's so rude. Mainstay of my destroy deck and it wins me a lot of games!

spool32

MNC Dover wrote: »

Moments before a massacre:

And the aftermath:


There are a lot of unspoken rules in Snap. One rule is if Wong is in play and you have no way to deal with him, just leave. Nothing good will come from staying. Of course, this is Infinite, so it doesn't matter, but still.

I do appreciate them sticking around to get the final screenshot.

Sometimes it's worth sticking around for Wong bullshit!



In case that's too small, I won the round but that Wong lane... 2,097,165 points....

MNC Dover

https://x.com/UntappedSNAP/status/1750589518384931015

OK, now that's funny.

Catalase

Really disliking the current meta I seem to be running into in Conquest. So much Blob and Leech

MNC Dover

Wait, is C3 Grand Master a deck? Let me cook now...



Normal C3 stuff with the "Ah ha!" move being T5 Valkyrie on the left/right lane, then send her mid with GM on T6.

Plenty of other cheese lines as well with Scarlett Witching your Limbo or Quaking locations (see above). Maybe there's something here.

Being Cerebro, you'll get location screwed, but also pull big cubes from unorthodox play lines.

akThera

GM + Valk is def a deck I want to play. Drop a list, man.

MNC Dover

Sure thing!



There are a few headaches with the list. I removed Iron Man to fit in GM, which makes Mystique a lot less good. If I leave Iron Man in, I gotta cut something else for GM. And if I add GM & IM, now I have to consider Ravonna. She'd allow for a T6 Valk+GM for double lane clear surprises.

Choices...

Also, I navigated around Monster Island to win a PG match.



To be fair though, it might have been a bot since there was no reason to not play Shang Chi middle.

akThera

Cut Wasp imo

MNC Dover

akjak wrote: »

Cut Wasp imo

Wasp is one of the best cards in the deck. A 0-energy 3/5/7 power card is nutty.

akThera

Quake for Ravonna then? Yeah you're gonna do some silly things with Quake, but not as cool as Valk + Gm on 6.

The Judge

Five Keys in hand, going for Bill - how many will it take to get him?

Three, after Galactus and then Blob - again, so 1000 tokens

Vann Diras

Had a key to throw out there so I figured I’d take a stab at bill or the galactus variant

So, naturally, 1000 tokens

hush

i love all the bronze age variants but have none of them because i actually need caaaaaards

Crippl3

hush wrote: »

i love all the bronze age variants but have none of them because i actually need caaaaaards

I will be pulling for the Thanos one, that's the only card that has one that I own

MNC Dover

BRB is an easy pass for me this week. Not feeling like needing another Thor. That whole architype (Thor -> BRB -> Jane) feels very dependent on good draw, not unlike OG Discard. If Chavez was still around in her old form, maybe, but even then, I'm not big into the Mjolnir playstyle.

akjak wrote: »

Quake for Ravonna then? Yeah you're gonna do some silly things with Quake, but not as cool as Valk + Gm on 6.

Yeah, I cut Quake for Ravonna and Magik for Iron Man. This set up gives Mystique another target and Ravonna can discount 4 cards, unless they get hit by Bast, which is such a bizarre but necessary interaction for C3.

Knight_

i was interested in this before they replaced galactus with wwbn’s variant and elsa was fucking shot in the head

discrider

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MNC Dover wrote: »

BRB is an easy pass for me this week. Not feeling like needing another Thor. That whole architype (Thor -> BRB -> Jane) feels very dependent on good draw, not unlike OG Discard. If Chavez was still around in her old form, maybe, but even then, I'm not big into the Mjolnir playstyle.

akjak wrote: »

Quake for Ravonna then? Yeah you're gonna do some silly things with Quake, but not as cool as Valk + Gm on 6.

Yeah, I cut Quake for Ravonna and Magik for Iron Man. This set up gives Mystique another target and Ravonna can discount 4 cards, unless they get hit by Bast, which is such a bizarre but necessary interaction for C3.

I think if you're running Ravonna, you cut Bast.
And then look for the double Valk instead to handle all the zeroes.

Personally, my C3 decks don't use Bast, but also don't have Iron Man and Grandmaster, so I'm unsure whether you need him with the extra zeroes you're running.

akThera

Hear me out: Adam Warlock

LOL