i faced so many galactus players the last 5 ranks to infinite, that I had to play a patriot deck with both cosmo and debrii to have a chance. It's rough out there.
What is the most frustrating part about the encounter is even if you have the answers in your deck, if you don't draw them by the arbitrary T4 when Galactus is dropped after a wave/electro, it's usually game over. Ok, so I put additional tech cards, SPECIFICALLY just for this match up and it weakens the deck/archetype I'm playing overall (more or less if isn't a control deck). And even then, there is a chance, which does happen when I don't draw the tech card or don't guess the correct lane that said tech card needs to impact. This crap gives me both that Zabu/Absorbing-Man/Spider-Man vibes and reminds of the KaiSa meta from LoR (minus the insane WR of that archetype) which was incredibly oppressive because of how binary the encounters were and how feels like you/your opponent are playing two totally different games; if you don't have the answer by T(3-4), it's usually a concede/loss. It really is like T.V.A. but the odds are overwhelmingly in Galactus' favor.
Honestly, yeah. I watched the video, added in debrii to my destruction deck, next two Galactus players took two and eight cubes from me. It really doesn’t pay to try honestly.
I deleted the game yesterday because of my MMR bubble. I face 82% of matches yesterday against Galactus (38 games yesterday) Predictable game pattern but if I don't have a counter I lose. What makes it worse is because people spend Tokens real money I know the Devs won't change it or if they do not in a timely manner.
I've been hesitant to pick up Galactus despite him initially being the first big bad I wanted because I see him a lot and his play pattern is super telegraphed so cube gains are pretty minimal and slow. In addition to the counters you mentioned Leech in the lane you expect him to be in is rough too because it means you can just load up on power at that location with impunity because Knull is 0, Death costs 9, and Shang chi does nothing. They basically have to immediately spiderman to have any chance.
I agree that Galactus isnt the most frustrating card in the history of Marvel Snap, but there are 3 reasons it annoys me... 1. It has become a lazy rote play-style that has taken the place of the lazy wrote play-style of Shuri. It rarely ever feels like a Galactus player is being clever, they are just following a simple step-by-step guide to the same result every time. 2. I don’t love that every single time I construct a deck I have to consider which Galactus counters I will include. 3. Maybe its just me, but despite the aforementioned lazy rote play-style, it seems Galactus players are inordinately cocky and love to spam emotes, especially when you retreat. "Bravo, buddy, you beat me by playing the same 5 cards in a row I've seen played 8000 times already. Look at you, you master strategist!"
Makes sense though. Snap has almost ALWAYS had a simple 4-5 card deck in the meta. It was Destroyer/Spectrum. Shuri/Red Skull. Leader/Any deck with Leech. Thanos/Lockjaw. Now Galactus/Nimrod or Knull. For the most part, unless you don't care about climbing ranks or Are in Infinite playing the meta or the meta counter is all you get to do effectively. Sucks but that's my experience. Just boring.
Another problem with Galactus is the opportunity cost if he doesn’t exist. Say your opponent plays a wave with empty lanes. If you have prio and play a counter for galactus, and then they play another card, you’re at a huge loss because you played a tech card and not a big 6 cost or something similar.
They don't understand especially now Galactus and Sandman looks just a like. I can't deal with Sandman if I am trying to stop Galactus it's fucking stupid.
Your content is probably the best i have ever seen, even if i compare it to others content creators in other games i played i my long gamer life (i' m 33...so i know what i'm saying) great job man!
I feel like the problem is that Galactus decks can play alternatives like Destroyer so that if their opponent has the counter then they just pivot to their backup game plan, which is sort of fine because then at least you get to play the 3-lane game, but when those alternative lines become strong enough it warps the game around the snap mechanic because they know which of their two game plans they’re going for and you don’t. You could argue that that’s true of every deck, but the difference is the way the Galactus deck forces specific lines of play. It forces you to counter it if you want to play the game, and then it also has alternative lines that beat the forced counter. I mostly just concede Galactus games without worrying about it too much, but it does get annoying when it becomes a popular enough deck.
Great timing was looking to me more informed about the Big Guy as being Spider-Man on turn 5 was making me feel awful. I JUST successfully guessed a Galactus lane, set up Onslaught thanks to their Wave then set up Super Skrull and Wasp, then they brought Doctor Doom out with their Doc Oc. They still played Knull on top of that and my Skrull doubled to 60 something. Super Skrull is a tricky counter but a satisfying one!
I absolutely despise Galactus, mainly because it feels so bad to lose against. Games against Galactus where you don’t draw your counter feels like standing on a train track and staring at the incoming train without being able to move
One potential nudge would be to have Galactus run the check and destroy at the end of the turn, not immediately on reveal (i.e. On Reveal: Destroy all other locations if you have no other cards at this location at the end of this turn). That would allow some of the counters to work regardless of priority.
Except part of the challenge of a Galactus deck is trying to get priority going into turn 4 or 5 so that you can negate the counters. To make it reveal at the end of the turn would feel a bit too punishing for all the build up play. Plus the cards played pre turn 4 tend to be low power anyway (wolverine 2, electro 2 etc) so you're less likely to have priority on average
I have given up playing around Galactus and just assume its a one-cube tax I occasionally have to pay. It feels like playing against Shuri pre-nerf, once their game plan is in motion, you are dead in the water without a comeback mechanic. There are counters, but assuming they play their yondu, wolverine, and wave in one lane, you're still 50/50 on which lane galactus will be played in. Even if the galactus doesn't go off they have other possible threats like a Destroyer/Nimrod combo that you have to play from behind on since you dedicated resources for the galactus counter.
I can see how others would enjoy it but I’m not a fan of the locations or cards that take away player agency. It always feels like you’re getting cheesed. I’m excited for High Evolutionary, the gameplay out of that card seems much more fun to me.
I got galactus recently after having it pinned for like a month, but I don’t have knull, Spider-Man, or destroyer (just got destroyer today actually) so I’ve been playing a Shuri nimrod version and I get dunked on all the time. The biggest annoyance for Galactus is knull BY FAR
I think the last Galactus nerf took care of the real problems the card had. Now it's both playable and easily countered. It's pretty obvious when someone is likely playing Galactus so you can play a counter or setup to beat it on the lane you think it'll get played into. Hell, a lot of Galactus players beat themselves by playing Doctor Octopus. He's a big bad that's really not that bad, imo.
He literally explained why it's bad,if you don't draw a counter you lose. In certain MMR brackets you play it very frequently. My case 82% of my matches. Very predictable but if I don't have counter retreat. So imagine retreat, retreat, retreat,counter, retreat, retreat, counter, retreat, retreat, retreat,counter. Retreating on turn 4 by the way.
@@pyrosdestiny You only loose 1 cube so this doesn't matter, the whole point of this game is to get cubes not wins and Galactus deck is not good for that, unless you use him as suprise card in some weird decks like Quinjet + Moongirl + Galactus turn 5 and Devil Dino finish
Haha, don't know what to tell you, my guy. Maybe reevaluate what you're playing or how you're playing. I don't lose to Galactus all that often, regardless of what deck I'm playing. It's an easy read and you should know before turn four 1) If they're playing Galactus 2) have a fairly good idea if not know for sure where they're playing it 3) If you can counter or beat them. Galactus doesn't lend itself to creativity. They're just trying to box you in. You want to see less Galactus? Don't reward them for playing it. Bounce if you can't take their cubes and let them have that one. You will make it up on the next game and they'll get tired of not climbing. Trust me, Galactus players thrive on people making bad decisions.
@@Doctor-Shoebill a Galactus deck has never got more than a cube from me. I don't think the card is oppressive at all. Having a polarising card so prevalent is not good for the long term health of the game. Aero,Leech and lockjaw are proof that the Devs agree. It's also about play experience and fun factor. If any card has such a negative effect to a large portion of the player base it isn't good for the game period.
I often asked the same question about Shuri before her nerf: Should she even exist in the game the way she is? Now after her nerf, she feels way more fair and more like Wong; powerful if left unchecked. I think the same thing with Galactus only for different reasons, and it makes the question more complicated. Is Galactus strong? According to analytics, no. But is Galactus frustrating? Yes. If they nerfed Galactus he'd be damn near unplayable, but for a card that makes it so that everything before in the match didn't matter, maybe that's ok? I'm rambling - but it's extremely complicated to me. I have made infinite the last two seasons after starting the game during Zabu season. I am aware that Galactus is exremely counterable in a lot of ways. But the card just provides such an eyeroll-inducing mechanic that I wouldn't be upset if it got nuked from the game. It's an extremely interesting conversation that I still don't have a firm opinion on.
Been SO frustrated by it, for all the reasons you mentioned.... but it's even worse having to watch that animation every time before being able to retreat.
What i noticed is if you have a key card that counters a certain card/deck.. example: you put debrii... suddenly the game won't match you against galactus players.
Hey! Great job. wWhat would have been really helpful was an explanation of the Galactus deck and what the opponent plays on what round to clue us in on how to react. As I have no intention of ever playing Galactus I don’t always spot they are using it.
For me it's definitely not a feeling of Galactus being overpowered or anything, it's about playing them too often. All Galactus games are identical, and I hate repeating the same matches over and over. Even if I mostly beat them. ( My main deck has Prof X, Spiderman & Magneto) I'd be in favor of them just changing the matchmaking for some of the 'unfun' cards like Galactus. So you can only face them every x amount of matches. Give Galactus players more bots. Let them have fun blowing shit up, just don't force me to play them in 30% of my matches right now.
Feels like every time I get a card it gets nerfed soon after. Happened with aero, happened with shuri, and now people are saying galactus is next. Can’t I have some fun for a while?
exactly, I feel the same. when I bought Shuri after a few weeks she got a nerf, now I'm wondering whether to buy Galactus because I really want to play this card but I'm afraid that it will soon be useless and will waste my 6k tokens
@@EducatedCollinsSnap looking to save yourself some tokens? Lol smart man. I kinda want that Howard the duck card. I love the look and can imagine an inked Howard the duck looking very cool.
YES! I have no counter or maybe 1, endless Galactus opponents. I build a deck with multiple counters all of a sudden I don't see any Galactus but I see a whole lot of decks I can't counter or that can counter me.
This! I don't know what happens. I have documented it, but I played 6 games back to back running into different Galactus players, 6! I swapped to my 'Counter Galactus' deck and didn't see a single one in 20 games. Swapped back to my original deck....first game... Galactus. I'm sure it's a coincidence but it sure doesn't feel like it sometimes.
Galactus doesn’t bother me because at most I lose 2, MAYBE 4 cubes if I think I have the upper hand. I just try to focus on cube management and I haven’t had a problem climbing
My favorite deck to counter Galactus is cerebro 3. Hear me out let them have prio and galactus you and then play spiderman in their galactus lane. Odds are they spiderman you as well and think they’ve won. They proceed to cocky emote spam and then you drop Jeff into the galactus lane for 8 cubes profit
Galactic has good counterplay he serves a role in the meta and is counterplay to other meta decks. He is the scissors, the go wide decks are paper, and leader decks are the rock.
Your TVA Analogy is perfect. All the "Oh he's so easily countered" people fail to consider, yeah, he is...if you have the ideal set up in your hand by Turn 4. "Well then retreat" is not an acceptable answer. "He's not a huge cube winner", Winning a consistent 1 or 2 cubes w/ Galactus via "Well just retreat" games is far more preferable to "win 2, lose 4, win 8, lose 2" of the other decks. Hence why he's played, hence why he's used to climb to ultimate and hence why he needs adjustments.
Even when you do have the counters. It's wolverine in one lane with Electro or Wave. Doc oc my hand into one of the other empty lanes. Galactus the other. If it's not Doc Oc it's Destroyer to clean up the shit you tossed on there side Galactus. Or the locations don't allow you to stop them. It's complete Bullshit. They don't have to fix Galactus just put Zabu back where he was if we not fixing cards don't fix cards.
Fuck Galactus.. it’s the most common opponent I face next to HE right now and a lil move. Dropped from 93 to 83 and hovering there now. Very frustrating I just want to play Destroy in peace.
I've been on both sides of the galactus play, but I wish he wasn't popular. I got him in a cache actually but we kind of should have seen this coming because we all spent months simutaneously bragging about saving up for the "big bad". he's not even that good, it's just that if you have all the right pieces and they don't have harrd counters in hand he's hard to beat. but you could say that about exodia wong which you can only react to instead of predict. at the same time I understand. it's polarizing. its also frustrating to play sometimes too which not a lot of people acknowledge. I genuinely everyone plays him so they can realize how hard he can be to pull off.
I don't know if this is a "counter", strictly speaking, but if you correctly guess which lane is about to be Galactus'd, Professor X can shut it down so that once he triggers, you win because the opponent can no longer play and Professor X's 3 power will exceed his 2 power
I'd like it if all the "counters" like shang chi had lower power, so that they'd feel really bad if they don't hit, since if they do hit they are usually winning you the game.
I’ve always thought Shang chi should destroy ur own cards that way u can feel confident playing to a location if they have a big powered card but it could also be a trick with cards like knull or even a buffed nimrod
@@andrewuber8184 yeah I don’t think it’ll change his extremely necessary counter play style at all but will make decks that love to build high powered cards like venom destroy play more confidently into certain lanes
At first I hated Galactus, but after countering it so many times, I’m just starting to feel bad for those players. I don’t think I’ll ever bother spending tokens on that card. Not my kind of gameplay.
I have galactus and i actively try not to be super obvious that I’m playing Galactus, but all the cards in a galactus deck broadcast what your doing. Wolverine for some reason alway shows Galactus, wave and electro should more be seen as ramping while nimrod is great it shows to. I see it can frustrate a lot of people but it’s obvious what’s going to happen a well placed cosmo in the empty lane or a smart aero in a location they have cards on priority is a great counter.
@@Pwn3dbyth3n00b i don’t like wolverine in galactus, i always try to avoid priority at the final turn in case to be shang or valkyrie. usually don’t need that extra 4-6 power to win
This is just one of those decks that makes people wine yet objectively it's okay. I doubt that will make them nerf him or cards around him and I hope they don't because he's objectively fine and any nerf that does come now would honestly kill him as he already has tons of games you just auto lose to.
Galactus definitely needs the kind of nerf they did to Magik like being grayed out before turn 5 and the protected lanes (armor, Pr.X, wakanda location) shouldn't be destoyed. I also think Death and Knull should only count the cards destroyed on the board, not the ones destroyed in the deck.
Galactus was my first big bad and I still haven't collected enough boosters to get him to purple lol. silly deck, not much brainwork needed and in the current meta it's also bad positioned because everybody is prepared for him. I get that he's unfun but he's also kinda bad
People need to stop whining about Galactus. I am more miffed with Second Dinner just tossing location after location that does not allow you to play cards and a lot of times there will be two, if not all three of them.
I have 6k tokens on my account and I want to buy my first series 5 card, I wanted to buy Galactus but High Evolutionary is very tempting. Please advise what should I choose
Galactus is the only deck I hate playing against, and it was a problem for me since December. This is just because my favorite deck is Hela. With Hela, I find it bad to play counter cards because besides the risk of not drawing them, I also have to deal with the risk of discarding them, and against every other deck than Galactus my deck gets much worse. A discarded goblin or goose won't do much when resummoned by Hela. Galactus also reduces the impact of Hela, since I got only a single lane to summon bombs in, and that lane gets locked out before I have the time to discard enough cards or even play Hela. My severe dislike for Galactus comes from the fact that the matchup feels unwinnable, and I am simply a fool to continue playing the match after Galactus was played. The only "counter-play" I have is to minimize the cube loses, and only give them 2. This completely unwinnable situation never happens for me against any of the other decks since I started playing the game, be it DoomWave, DeathWave, Dino, Hawk, Control, Sera, Patriot, Mr. Negative, Shuri or anything else. However, your advice is appreciated, you already motivated me during one of your streams to try something like Goose or Storm, since Hela's summons can still impact these lanes. I will keep trying! The suggestion for Magneto as a counter is brilliant, especially since he fits well the role of a "bomb" against other matchups.
I don't mind any card's ability as long as there are cards to counter that ability. If every single card that ruins our experience is blasted with the "nerf it" argument my fear is that the game may inevitably morph into something none of us will like (look what happened to Leech). I say this not only as someone who doesn't have Galactus, but possibly the least winning player of Snap. Some player's are simply good strategists, it's part of the game.
I do not like Galactus I think he is annoying, they often only just get one cube so I am not saying he is too overpowered. The issue for me is the game is about area control/area majority and he breaks that. He turns the game into you only needing to win the one and only location which changes the feeling of the game. Also, what's with Galactus players snapping only after they resolve Galactus...like c'mon we both know how this is going to end, enjoy your one cube you should have snapped earlier.
This card is polarizing. This video got my blood boiling. Just because you know it's Galactus don't mean you can stop it. I think this card is gonna be the one to make me quit snap. Doc Oc clears your counters Destroyer clears the board Spider man locks you out Shang Chi beats death but not Knull Super Skrull beats Knul but not death This card is way worst then Zabu ever was more I think about it Zabu was the counter to this dam card
@@peterkefalos7430 I just learned 10 minutes ago Shang Chi will destroy Knull. I heard people always say Shang Chi adds to my Knull so I always thought if Shang Chi hits Knull you destroy him he comes bigger. I always thought the ongoing was he didn't die.
@@icemanx5085 that is true that Shang chi adds to knull but usually when people say that they aren’t referring to galactus decks they mean like a knull Arnim Zola deck
@@LeBearr I know how the game works I just don't have Knull and I rarely see him but he is in most Galactus decks. It don't change the fact that my Shang Chi is often in another lane when they bring Galactus down. The deck still needs to be dealt with. I just played it a min ago. I blew up the Destroyer the Electro I took the Death hit two things in their hand with Ice man. They still felt comfortable enough to snap. Had I not played Leader I would of lost. The deck need to be dealt with. They deal with every other card.
Telling the galactus haters to actually play galactus is unironically good advice. If these guys spent even just a couple hours piloting galactus, they would see how trash of a card he is. someone else said it, but 7/10 games I am retreating when I play galactus. He is fun. He gives my brain the good chemicals when he lands. He does climb due to his straight forward snap/retreat strategy, albeit slowly. But he is not broken, he is not OP. people just need to spend some time with him to see that.
Not to mention how rarely you get a dock into galactus or spiderman galactus combo. People lose to it and think the galactus player on the other end is pulling that cheese off on people all day gaining 100’s of cubes. They don’t realize how rare that shit actually happens when playing galactus.
I play the deck with Spider-man and Pros X, Goblin. Turn 3 try to make them have only 1 lane left to put Galactus, play highest power card on turn 4 (the turn Galactus usually play) same lane with Galactus. Next turn play Spider-man and Snap. They will have to choose on turn 5, Shang-Chi our highest power card or Doc Oc or Spider-man. Or better just Pros X their Galactus lane on turn 4 and they're done. *Doc Oc + Glactus = 12 Power, your Spider-man/Pros X and highest power card (only need more than 9) always win. They always save Knull and Death for final turn.
I don’t find Galactus too big of a problem to counter. I just think it’s boring to play/play against, as I like to play a lot of different decks or I get bored.
You know you say you can have GALACTUS counters and not draw them by turn 4. It works both ways you have to draw GALACTUS and knull or whatever you play to WIN the GALACTUS lane. Galactus is encompassed in such a great lore way I hope he doesn’t get nerfed! Only low collection people complain about it or really bad players. Cosmo is one of the most played and common cards he’s all you need at times. Winning with GALACTUS is harder than countering him. Very bad complaint Shang chi is more impactful
the only annoying thing about galactus are those lazy clowns playing only wave and galactus and leave vs snap. theres no game there which is the problem with all these decks that have the option toi only play three cards. (sandman shuri etc) most people get frustrated if instead of having a cool game you counter or leave
That's not going to stop, the card is toxic unfun braindead polarizing cancerous card design and has no place in any card game, just because some guy tells people what they already know doesn't make the situation any better. Galactus can have 10 million counters and that's not going to make losing to the braindead toxic trash any better, even when you win against galactus there's no joy as 9/10 times they just retreat instantly and you might not even know why.
@@bo1273 You can call me toxic and try to berate me all you like, fact is what I said is the truth and you know it, make a real point or keep your comments to yourself, next @ will get you a harassment report.
@@PollexLLC chill tf out dude galactus is fine. He has a slightly above average win rate, lower than every other meta deck. On top of that his play rate isn’t even that high. If it bothers you so much I suggest you just retreat before they snap give them their one cube and move on with your day cause it ain’t that deep. Or if it still gets you that worked up maybe take a break from the game 🤷🏻♂️
@@peterkefalos7430 There's nothing fine about galactus, card has no place in the game it's braindead unfun cancer for bratty children who enjoy making everything about them. winrate, playrate, doesn't matter, card could be the least played lowest winrate card in the game and it wouldn't be any less toxic in it's current design, that's the end of the discussion.
I personally lose more to Cosmo than Galactus, I win more than I lose against Galactus, the only time I lose is if they set up the lane properly with Spiderman or something, and thats RARE, but if they dont I almost always win I have always felt that Galactus is such a non issue of a card, and he just makes the game not fun anyways, even when I do win (which again is most of the time) its never satisfying cuz its like "cool all strategy is out the window lets just having a pissing contest", like you said it turns into a completely different game, and I know if I make a Galactus deck I will just face even more of him, so that card is genuinely at the bottom of my list of 6 drops to get
Let's be clear why Galactus actually sucks. It's because it takes no intelligence to play. It's a literal script to follow every game. To me, it's equivalent to the old Shuri deck. Only beaten if you happen to have the right counters. There's very little room to outplay someone
Sandman, Patriot, Sera Control, Death Wave just to name a few also have pretty straight forward paths they follow nearly every game. The game itself doesn’t really have much variance in how your game plan plays out with only 12 card decks so I don’t get the script argument. Also just out of curiosity have you ever played galactus? If so you know how often Galactus players are actually retreating until they get paired with someone who didn’t draw or didn’t have the counter. That’s not even accounting for all the locations that screw the whole decks game plan over.
I don’t understand what’s the big deal. He’s easily countered and the Only reason why he’s more Prevalent NOW is because in the beginning the ONLY people that had him were the Whales and the TH-cam content creators. Wow! What a surprise right? Not really…But now that the Regular people like us who have been playing for 3 months or more are getting him and that’s why it’s more common cause the ACTUAL Player base is Getting Access to the card. It’s NOT EXCLUSIVE TO THE WHALES AND TH-camRS ANYMORE. They had a good 4-5 months head start on everyone else. THATS THE REASON WHY GALACTUS IS MORE POPULAR RIGHT NOW. But it’s a sucky card that’s polarizing
The people who say it's bad for the game don't realize the survivorship bias of seeing a Galactus pop off and not seeing the multiple failures they encounter because of basically all the counters you listed above. And they are printing more counters each and every time they make a card.
It's bad for the game, your arguement cannot convince me otherwise, I know 3 people personally who have quit because galactus is so unfun, I personally rarely play because the odds of playing galactus are so high right now, I know another who is regularly saying they're going to stop because of galactus, the card is literally pushing the playerbase out, it's the DEFINITION of bad for the game.
I am much more OK with Galactus than Cards like Armor (should be 2/2), Scorpion (Should be 2/1), or other cards that get so much play. I worry the community is always going to complain and if the devs keep nerfing it'll just become whack-a-mole
Sorry, but Galactus isn’t a problem. I lose so many games with Galactus and when I win, I get at most one or two cubes. Yet, when the opponent has an answer for Galactus, I lose 4+ cubes.
Meh... Galactus doesn't even climb, for real. Aside from being countered by so many cards, he's a 6-2. If your Galactus gets blocked, you just played 2 power on Turn 5. I had him when I still played the game, and he gets shut down, even on Turn 6, about 75% of the time. Then 14% of the time you'll only win/lose 1 cube. That last 1% consists of people who are just angry, and try to stay in anyway. There is no way to NOT telegraph Galactus. Even if you play the Turn 6 Galactus with Nimrod/Destroyer most players will play around a possible Galactus. Literally, if a lane is empty for no reason, and your opponent played a Ramp card, or GG, HG, Nimrod, etc... They're playing Galactus 99% of the time.😊
Making the excuse that you have to carry specific cards to counter Galactus is silly You don't need any special cards you can just retreat. No one is forcing you to continue on in the match. This whole video is just about hurt feelings. There are plenty of other cards that you have to consider when building your deck as well And those other cards are way more effective than Galactus
Galactus is just ppls new shuri because they need something to reee about. Its honestly getting old, the whiney turn from card to card that is "ruining" the game
i faced so many galactus players the last 5 ranks to infinite, that I had to play a patriot deck with both cosmo and debrii to have a chance. It's rough out there.
Oh no you had to play a top tier deck, poor baby
@@goodgrief5578 this just shows you don’t understand the statement. Their just saying that you have to add specific tech cards for one deck.
I’m at 92, I see about 50% Galactus depending on what time of day it is. It is a bit frustrating.
What is the most frustrating part about the encounter is even if you have the answers in your deck, if you don't draw them by the arbitrary T4 when Galactus is dropped after a wave/electro, it's usually game over. Ok, so I put additional tech cards, SPECIFICALLY just for this match up and it weakens the deck/archetype I'm playing overall (more or less if isn't a control deck). And even then, there is a chance, which does happen when I don't draw the tech card or don't guess the correct lane that said tech card needs to impact.
This crap gives me both that Zabu/Absorbing-Man/Spider-Man vibes and reminds of the KaiSa meta from LoR (minus the insane WR of that archetype) which was incredibly oppressive because of how binary the encounters were and how feels like you/your opponent are playing two totally different games; if you don't have the answer by T(3-4), it's usually a concede/loss.
It really is like T.V.A. but the odds are overwhelmingly in Galactus' favor.
Bruh Kaisa was so broken and she had the protection at all times and then Abom comes down if u finally deal with 3 Kaisa lol
Just let them have their 1 cube and move on
Honestly, yeah. I watched the video, added in debrii to my destruction deck, next two Galactus players took two and eight cubes from me. It really doesn’t pay to try honestly.
I deleted the game yesterday because of my MMR bubble. I face 82% of matches yesterday against Galactus (38 games yesterday) Predictable game pattern but if I don't have a counter I lose. What makes it worse is because people spend Tokens real money I know the Devs won't change it or if they do not in a timely manner.
I've been hesitant to pick up Galactus despite him initially being the first big bad I wanted because I see him a lot and his play pattern is super telegraphed so cube gains are pretty minimal and slow. In addition to the counters you mentioned Leech in the lane you expect him to be in is rough too because it means you can just load up on power at that location with impunity because Knull is 0, Death costs 9, and Shang chi does nothing. They basically have to immediately spiderman to have any chance.
Honestly think you can climb faster faking Galactus with Destroyer and Nimrod
Professor X is also a pre-Galactus answer, just risky. Won many games dropping X on the Galactus lane the same turn he came down when they Wave.
I thought about that but Prof x just don't fit my decks most cases.
I agree that Galactus isnt the most frustrating card in the history of Marvel Snap, but there are 3 reasons it annoys me...
1. It has become a lazy rote play-style that has taken the place of the lazy wrote play-style of Shuri. It rarely ever feels like a Galactus player is being clever, they are just following a simple step-by-step guide to the same result every time.
2. I don’t love that every single time I construct a deck I have to consider which Galactus counters I will include.
3. Maybe its just me, but despite the aforementioned lazy rote play-style, it seems Galactus players are inordinately cocky and love to spam emotes, especially when you retreat. "Bravo, buddy, you beat me by playing the same 5 cards in a row I've seen played 8000 times already. Look at you, you master strategist!"
Same thought, simple set up, no brain and they like "im the king of this game"
@@todayiswindyday theirs a couple no brain win strats. Sure it’s one of them but are you trying to get rid of all them or just only target GALACTUS?
Makes sense though. Snap has almost ALWAYS had a simple 4-5 card deck in the meta. It was Destroyer/Spectrum. Shuri/Red Skull. Leader/Any deck with Leech. Thanos/Lockjaw. Now Galactus/Nimrod or Knull. For the most part, unless you don't care about climbing ranks or Are in Infinite playing the meta or the meta counter is all you get to do effectively. Sucks but that's my experience. Just boring.
@@ZarelidT Galactus is the only card that can turn a 3 lane game into a one lane snooze fest.
@@nightowl2749 after a few turns yes. Not like he does it turn one. Your logic is snoozefest
Most of the time when they play Wave turn 4 they play Doc Oc which you can't do anything against if you don't have prio AND cosmo
Bullshit no one plays doc oc after wave, after electro yes but not wave
Wave into doc does nothing. Cause you can’t really galactis in that spot.
@@pmarques4322 i go against wave into doc ock in like 1/3 galactus opponents and im rank 95
@@pmarques4322 Only reporting what I was played. And maybe stop assuming things for everyone.
@@TiredDad2019 It is to avoid aero. They then Galactus in the 3rd lane
My issue with Galactus is the game is already short enough with only 6 turns and 12 cards in your deck. Galactus removes 2/3rds of the game.
i legit stop playing the game until i see much less galactus
what a loss to the Marvel Snap community...
Well you'll definitely see less Galactus if you don't play. Great logic.
Another problem with Galactus is the opportunity cost if he doesn’t exist. Say your opponent plays a wave with empty lanes. If you have prio and play a counter for galactus, and then they play another card, you’re at a huge loss because you played a tech card and not a big 6 cost or something similar.
They don't understand especially now Galactus and Sandman looks just a like. I can't deal with Sandman if I am trying to stop Galactus it's fucking stupid.
Your content is probably the best i have ever seen, even if i compare it to others content creators in other games i played i my long gamer life (i' m 33...so i know what i'm saying) great job man!
I feel like the problem is that Galactus decks can play alternatives like Destroyer so that if their opponent has the counter then they just pivot to their backup game plan, which is sort of fine because then at least you get to play the 3-lane game, but when those alternative lines become strong enough it warps the game around the snap mechanic because they know which of their two game plans they’re going for and you don’t. You could argue that that’s true of every deck, but the difference is the way the Galactus deck forces specific lines of play. It forces you to counter it if you want to play the game, and then it also has alternative lines that beat the forced counter. I mostly just concede Galactus games without worrying about it too much, but it does get annoying when it becomes a popular enough deck.
Great timing was looking to me more informed about the Big Guy as being Spider-Man on turn 5 was making me feel awful. I JUST successfully guessed a Galactus lane, set up Onslaught thanks to their Wave then set up Super Skrull and Wasp, then they brought Doctor Doom out with their Doc Oc. They still played Knull on top of that and my Skrull doubled to 60 something. Super Skrull is a tricky counter but a satisfying one!
I absolutely despise Galactus, mainly because it feels so bad to lose against. Games against Galactus where you don’t draw your counter feels like standing on a train track and staring at the incoming train without being able to move
that's why retiring exists lmao
Can you point out a couple of decks that feel good to lose to by comparison?
@@peterkefalos7430 For me: Bounce, Zoo, Any Move Deck, Surfer, Discard, Cerebro to name a few.
One potential nudge would be to have Galactus run the check and destroy at the end of the turn, not immediately on reveal (i.e. On Reveal: Destroy all other locations if you have no other cards at this location at the end of this turn). That would allow some of the counters to work regardless of priority.
How about (to save on word count) just add, “always reveals last” at the end.
Except part of the challenge of a Galactus deck is trying to get priority going into turn 4 or 5 so that you can negate the counters. To make it reveal at the end of the turn would feel a bit too punishing for all the build up play. Plus the cards played pre turn 4 tend to be low power anyway (wolverine 2, electro 2 etc) so you're less likely to have priority on average
@@DHREAVER That would also work. One way dodges Cosmo if Galactus has priority, one doesn't. So would just depend on that point of balance.
I have given up playing around Galactus and just assume its a one-cube tax I occasionally have to pay. It feels like playing against Shuri pre-nerf, once their game plan is in motion, you are dead in the water without a comeback mechanic.
There are counters, but assuming they play their yondu, wolverine, and wave in one lane, you're still 50/50 on which lane galactus will be played in. Even if the galactus doesn't go off they have other possible threats like a Destroyer/Nimrod combo that you have to play from behind on since you dedicated resources for the galactus counter.
The combo of doc oct then galatus is more problem
I can see how others would enjoy it but I’m not a fan of the locations or cards that take away player agency. It always feels like you’re getting cheesed. I’m excited for High Evolutionary, the gameplay out of that card seems much more fun to me.
I got galactus recently after having it pinned for like a month, but I don’t have knull, Spider-Man, or destroyer (just got destroyer today actually) so I’ve been playing a Shuri nimrod version and I get dunked on all the time. The biggest annoyance for Galactus is knull BY FAR
I think the last Galactus nerf took care of the real problems the card had. Now it's both playable and easily countered. It's pretty obvious when someone is likely playing Galactus so you can play a counter or setup to beat it on the lane you think it'll get played into. Hell, a lot of Galactus players beat themselves by playing Doctor Octopus. He's a big bad that's really not that bad, imo.
He literally explained why it's bad,if you don't draw a counter you lose. In certain MMR brackets you play it very frequently. My case 82% of my matches. Very predictable but if I don't have counter retreat. So imagine retreat, retreat, retreat,counter, retreat, retreat, counter, retreat, retreat, retreat,counter. Retreating on turn 4 by the way.
@@pyrosdestiny You only loose 1 cube so this doesn't matter, the whole point of this game is to get cubes not wins and Galactus deck is not good for that, unless you use him as suprise card in some weird decks like Quinjet + Moongirl + Galactus turn 5 and Devil Dino finish
Haha, don't know what to tell you, my guy. Maybe reevaluate what you're playing or how you're playing. I don't lose to Galactus all that often, regardless of what deck I'm playing. It's an easy read and you should know before turn four 1) If they're playing Galactus 2) have a fairly good idea if not know for sure where they're playing it 3) If you can counter or beat them. Galactus doesn't lend itself to creativity. They're just trying to box you in. You want to see less Galactus? Don't reward them for playing it. Bounce if you can't take their cubes and let them have that one. You will make it up on the next game and they'll get tired of not climbing. Trust me, Galactus players thrive on people making bad decisions.
@@Doctor-Shoebill a Galactus deck has never got more than a cube from me. I don't think the card is oppressive at all. Having a polarising card so prevalent is not good for the long term health of the game. Aero,Leech and lockjaw are proof that the Devs agree. It's also about play experience and fun factor. If any card has such a negative effect to a large portion of the player base it isn't good for the game period.
I often asked the same question about Shuri before her nerf: Should she even exist in the game the way she is? Now after her nerf, she feels way more fair and more like Wong; powerful if left unchecked.
I think the same thing with Galactus only for different reasons, and it makes the question more complicated. Is Galactus strong? According to analytics, no. But is Galactus frustrating? Yes. If they nerfed Galactus he'd be damn near unplayable, but for a card that makes it so that everything before in the match didn't matter, maybe that's ok?
I'm rambling - but it's extremely complicated to me. I have made infinite the last two seasons after starting the game during Zabu season. I am aware that Galactus is exremely counterable in a lot of ways. But the card just provides such an eyeroll-inducing mechanic that I wouldn't be upset if it got nuked from the game. It's an extremely interesting conversation that I still don't have a firm opinion on.
I would literally run a 1cost 0 energy card that made it so locations can't be destroyed and the card itself can't be destroyed.
Been SO frustrated by it, for all the reasons you mentioned.... but it's even worse having to watch that animation every time before being able to retreat.
What i noticed is if you have a key card that counters a certain card/deck.. example: you put debrii... suddenly the game won't match you against galactus players.
It's that easy!
Hey! Great job. wWhat would have been really helpful was an explanation of the Galactus deck and what the opponent plays on what round to clue us in on how to react. As I have no intention of ever playing Galactus I don’t always spot they are using it.
He has another video about how to pilot Galactus that he put out a few weeks ago that he should have mentioned here but it isn't too hard to find.
“But if you’re playing Stegron you probably have other issues”
Lmao
For me it's definitely not a feeling of Galactus being overpowered or anything, it's about playing them too often. All Galactus games are identical, and I hate repeating the same matches over and over. Even if I mostly beat them. ( My main deck has Prof X, Spiderman & Magneto)
I'd be in favor of them just changing the matchmaking for some of the 'unfun' cards like Galactus. So you can only face them every x amount of matches.
Give Galactus players more bots. Let them have fun blowing shit up, just don't force me to play them in 30% of my matches right now.
Are patriot and sandman not the same game basically every time?
Let them hoes go play bots!!!! The best thing ever been said.
@@peterkefalos7430 Sandman is also annoying yes. Patriot is a bit boring to play, but doesn't force anything on the opponent.
Feels like every time I get a card it gets nerfed soon after. Happened with aero, happened with shuri, and now people are saying galactus is next. Can’t I have some fun for a while?
Just Curious... what card are you looking to get next? MonkaS
exactly, I feel the same. when I bought Shuri after a few weeks she got a nerf, now I'm wondering whether to buy Galactus because I really want to play this card but I'm afraid that it will soon be useless and will waste my 6k tokens
@@EducatedCollinsSnap looking to save yourself some tokens? Lol smart man. I kinda want that Howard the duck card. I love the look and can imagine an inked Howard the duck looking very cool.
What I hate about Galactus it's the matchmaking, I may be crazy but it's like I have to build an anti-Galactus deck to NOT be against Galactus.
YES! I have no counter or maybe 1, endless Galactus opponents. I build a deck with multiple counters all of a sudden I don't see any Galactus but I see a whole lot of decks I can't counter or that can counter me.
This! I don't know what happens. I have documented it, but I played 6 games back to back running into different Galactus players, 6! I swapped to my 'Counter Galactus' deck and didn't see a single one in 20 games. Swapped back to my original deck....first game... Galactus. I'm sure it's a coincidence but it sure doesn't feel like it sometimes.
Galactus doesn’t bother me because at most I lose 2, MAYBE 4 cubes if I think I have the upper hand. I just try to focus on cube management and I haven’t had a problem climbing
My favorite deck to counter Galactus is cerebro 3. Hear me out let them have prio and galactus you and then play spiderman in their galactus lane. Odds are they spiderman you as well and think they’ve won. They proceed to cocky emote spam and then you drop Jeff into the galactus lane for 8 cubes profit
Galactic has good counterplay he serves a role in the meta and is counterplay to other meta decks. He is the scissors, the go wide decks are paper, and leader decks are the rock.
Your TVA Analogy is perfect. All the "Oh he's so easily countered" people fail to consider, yeah, he is...if you have the ideal set up in your hand by Turn 4. "Well then retreat" is not an acceptable answer. "He's not a huge cube winner", Winning a consistent 1 or 2 cubes w/ Galactus via "Well just retreat" games is far more preferable to "win 2, lose 4, win 8, lose 2" of the other decks. Hence why he's played, hence why he's used to climb to ultimate and hence why he needs adjustments.
Bro play galactus for 1 day and you’re retreating 7/10 games because you get countered by 1 card or 1 location
Even when you do have the counters. It's wolverine in one lane with Electro or Wave. Doc oc my hand into one of the other empty lanes. Galactus the other.
If it's not Doc Oc it's Destroyer to clean up the shit you tossed on there side Galactus. Or the locations don't allow you to stop them. It's complete Bullshit. They don't have to fix Galactus just put Zabu back where he was if we not fixing cards don't fix cards.
Fuck Galactus.. it’s the most common opponent I face next to HE right now and a lil move.
Dropped from 93 to 83 and hovering there now. Very frustrating
I just want to play Destroy in peace.
I've been on both sides of the galactus play, but I wish he wasn't popular. I got him in a cache actually but we kind of should have seen this coming because we all spent months simutaneously bragging about saving up for the "big bad". he's not even that good, it's just that if you have all the right pieces and they don't have harrd counters in hand he's hard to beat. but you could say that about exodia wong which you can only react to instead of predict. at the same time I understand. it's polarizing. its also frustrating to play sometimes too which not a lot of people acknowledge. I genuinely everyone plays him so they can realize how hard he can be to pull off.
I’ve found decent success with having Ironman on the galactus lane. He can’t shang chi me but my power will always be higher than him
I don't know if this is a "counter", strictly speaking, but if you correctly guess which lane is about to be Galactus'd, Professor X can shut it down so that once he triggers, you win because the opponent can no longer play and Professor X's 3 power will exceed his 2 power
I'd like it if all the "counters" like shang chi had lower power, so that they'd feel really bad if they don't hit, since if they do hit they are usually winning you the game.
I’ve always thought Shang chi should destroy ur own cards that way u can feel confident playing to a location if they have a big powered card but it could also be a trick with cards like knull or even a buffed nimrod
@@tf6026 I like that suggestion a lot
@@andrewuber8184 yeah I don’t think it’ll change his extremely necessary counter play style at all but will make decks that love to build high powered cards like venom destroy play more confidently into certain lanes
At first I hated Galactus, but after countering it so many times, I’m just starting to feel bad for those players. I don’t think I’ll ever bother spending tokens on that card. Not my kind of gameplay.
I have galactus and i actively try not to be super obvious that I’m playing Galactus, but all the cards in a galactus deck broadcast what your doing. Wolverine for some reason alway shows Galactus, wave and electro should more be seen as ramping while nimrod is great it shows to. I see it can frustrate a lot of people but it’s obvious what’s going to happen a well placed cosmo in the empty lane or a smart aero in a location they have cards on priority is a great counter.
same, i put in lizard and maximus pretend to be a tempo deck (also to win priority) and at the end they will all recycle in to knull
To me Wolverine/Electro/Wave = Galactus. Yeah you can use a destroy/ramp deck but 90% of the time it's Galactus
@@Pwn3dbyth3n00b i don’t like wolverine in galactus, i always try to avoid priority at the final turn in case to be shang or valkyrie. usually don’t need that extra 4-6 power to win
What are the best counters you’ve used or encountered against galactus
Galactus player with few more braincells leaves 2 lanes open so with cosmo and majority of other counters you have to shot in the dark
This is just one of those decks that makes people wine yet objectively it's okay. I doubt that will make them nerf him or cards around him and I hope they don't because he's objectively fine and any nerf that does come now would honestly kill him as he already has tons of games you just auto lose to.
They should just make his ability that he locks the another lanes for 2turns😢
Galactus definitely needs the kind of nerf they did to Magik like being grayed out before turn 5 and the protected lanes (armor, Pr.X, wakanda location) shouldn't be destoyed.
I also think Death and Knull should only count the cards destroyed on the board, not the ones destroyed in the deck.
Galactus was my first big bad and I still haven't collected enough boosters to get him to purple lol. silly deck, not much brainwork needed and in the current meta it's also bad positioned because everybody is prepared for him. I get that he's unfun but he's also kinda bad
galactus don't bother me that much, the thing I hate is doc oc, its like removing your entire hand
Thanks for putting this knowledge out. Definitely a very beatable match up but still think Galactus shouldn't be able to be played til 5
People need to stop whining about Galactus. I am more miffed with Second Dinner just tossing location after location that does not allow you to play cards and a lot of times there will be two, if not all three of them.
I have 6k tokens on my account and I want to buy my first series 5 card, I wanted to buy Galactus but High Evolutionary is very tempting. Please advise what should I choose
'but if you're playing Stegron, you probably have different issues' haha what? 😅
Pretty crazy all this talk about Galactus and it showed up on my afternoon shop refresh yesterday 😂😂😂
Is this a sign?!
@@EducatedCollinsSnap right! But I'm passing for now, I think I'm going to use my tokens for High Evo
Galactus is the only deck I hate playing against, and it was a problem for me since December. This is just because my favorite deck is Hela.
With Hela, I find it bad to play counter cards because besides the risk of not drawing them, I also have to deal with the risk of discarding them, and against every other deck than Galactus my deck gets much worse. A discarded goblin or goose won't do much when resummoned by Hela.
Galactus also reduces the impact of Hela, since I got only a single lane to summon bombs in, and that lane gets locked out before I have the time to discard enough cards or even play Hela. My severe dislike for Galactus comes from the fact that the matchup feels unwinnable, and I am simply a fool to continue playing the match after Galactus was played. The only "counter-play" I have is to minimize the cube loses, and only give them 2.
This completely unwinnable situation never happens for me against any of the other decks since I started playing the game, be it DoomWave, DeathWave, Dino, Hawk, Control, Sera, Patriot, Mr. Negative, Shuri or anything else.
However, your advice is appreciated, you already motivated me during one of your streams to try something like Goose or Storm, since Hela's summons can still impact these lanes. I will keep trying! The suggestion for Magneto as a counter is brilliant, especially since he fits well the role of a "bomb" against other matchups.
Why have a game that's excitement factor is trying to win 3 lanes when we can always just go for one? Galactus is absolute cancer.
Nimrod Destroyer destroy decks, makes Galactus a free 8 cube win every time.
I don't mind any card's ability as long as there are cards to counter that ability. If every single card that ruins our experience is blasted with the "nerf it" argument my fear is that the game may inevitably morph into something none of us will like (look what happened to Leech). I say this not only as someone who doesn't have Galactus, but possibly the least winning player of Snap. Some player's are simply good strategists, it's part of the game.
I do not like Galactus I think he is annoying, they often only just get one cube so I am not saying he is too overpowered. The issue for me is the game is about area control/area majority and he breaks that. He turns the game into you only needing to win the one and only location which changes the feeling of the game. Also, what's with Galactus players snapping only after they resolve Galactus...like c'mon we both know how this is going to end, enjoy your one cube you should have snapped earlier.
This card is polarizing. This video got my blood boiling. Just because you know it's Galactus don't mean you can stop it. I think this card is gonna be the one to make me quit snap.
Doc Oc clears your counters
Destroyer clears the board
Spider man locks you out
Shang Chi beats death but not Knull
Super Skrull beats Knul but not death
This card is way worst then Zabu ever was more I think about it Zabu was the counter to this dam card
In what world does Shang chi not beat knull lmao
@@peterkefalos7430 I just learned 10 minutes ago Shang Chi will destroy Knull. I heard people always say Shang Chi adds to my Knull so I always thought if Shang Chi hits Knull you destroy him he comes bigger. I always thought the ongoing was he didn't die.
@@icemanx5085 that is true that Shang chi adds to knull but usually when people say that they aren’t referring to galactus decks they mean like a knull Arnim Zola deck
@@icemanx5085 maybe learn how the game works before you make big paragraph rants next time
@@LeBearr I know how the game works I just don't have Knull and I rarely see him but he is in most Galactus decks. It don't change the fact that my Shang Chi is often in another lane when they bring Galactus down. The deck still needs to be dealt with. I just played it a min ago. I blew up the Destroyer the Electro I took the Death hit two things in their hand with Ice man. They still felt comfortable enough to snap. Had I not played Leader I would of lost. The deck need to be dealt with. They deal with every other card.
Telling the galactus haters to actually play galactus is unironically good advice. If these guys spent even just a couple hours piloting galactus, they would see how trash of a card he is. someone else said it, but 7/10 games I am retreating when I play galactus. He is fun. He gives my brain the good chemicals when he lands. He does climb due to his straight forward snap/retreat strategy, albeit slowly. But he is not broken, he is not OP. people just need to spend some time with him to see that.
I did the same thing. No one talks about the 30% of the time Galactus draws dead.
Not to mention how rarely you get a dock into galactus or spiderman galactus combo. People lose to it and think the galactus player on the other end is pulling that cheese off on people all day gaining 100’s of cubes. They don’t realize how rare that shit actually happens when playing galactus.
I agree, Galactus shouldn’t be in the game, it’s not about beating him, it’s boring
Doc Oc Has a less then 50% winrate it is overall a bad play
Wave is the ramp problem turn 4 Galactus is a problem
I play the deck with Spider-man and Pros X, Goblin. Turn 3 try to make them have only 1 lane left to put Galactus, play highest power card on turn 4 (the turn Galactus usually play) same lane with Galactus. Next turn play Spider-man and Snap. They will have to choose on turn 5, Shang-Chi our highest power card or Doc Oc or Spider-man. Or better just Pros X their Galactus lane on turn 4 and they're done.
*Doc Oc + Glactus = 12 Power, your Spider-man/Pros X and highest power card (only need more than 9) always win. They always save Knull and Death for final turn.
if you lose 8 cubes to galactus this just insta ya game
I don’t find Galactus too big of a problem to counter. I just think it’s boring to play/play against, as I like to play a lot of different decks or I get bored.
You know you say you can have GALACTUS counters and not draw them by turn 4. It works both ways you have to draw GALACTUS and knull or whatever you play to WIN the GALACTUS lane. Galactus is encompassed in such a great lore way I hope he doesn’t get nerfed! Only low collection people complain about it or really bad players. Cosmo is one of the most played and common cards he’s all you need at times. Winning with GALACTUS is harder than countering him. Very bad complaint Shang chi is more impactful
the only annoying thing about galactus are those lazy clowns playing only wave and galactus and leave vs snap.
theres no game there which is the problem with all these decks that have the option toi only play three cards.
(sandman shuri etc) most people get frustrated if instead of having a cool game you counter or leave
I'd rather lose to a low tier deck than galactus...
Thanks man this was much needed, I'm so tired of people complaining about it...
That's not going to stop, the card is toxic unfun braindead polarizing cancerous card design and has no place in any card game, just because some guy tells people what they already know doesn't make the situation any better. Galactus can have 10 million counters and that's not going to make losing to the braindead toxic trash any better, even when you win against galactus there's no joy as 9/10 times they just retreat instantly and you might not even know why.
@@PollexLLC who hurt you? You're so toxic man, worst than any card in the game lol
@@bo1273 You can call me toxic and try to berate me all you like, fact is what I said is the truth and you know it, make a real point or keep your comments to yourself, next @ will get you a harassment report.
@@PollexLLC chill tf out dude galactus is fine. He has a slightly above average win rate, lower than every other meta deck. On top of that his play rate isn’t even that high. If it bothers you so much I suggest you just retreat before they snap give them their one cube and move on with your day cause it ain’t that deep. Or if it still gets you that worked up maybe take a break from the game 🤷🏻♂️
@@peterkefalos7430 There's nothing fine about galactus, card has no place in the game it's braindead unfun cancer for bratty children who enjoy making everything about them. winrate, playrate, doesn't matter, card could be the least played lowest winrate card in the game and it wouldn't be any less toxic in it's current design, that's the end of the discussion.
I feel like he’s in a good place he’s not broken it’s the cards what are played with him and too pull of a good game u need wave turn 3
I like that Galactus exists, as ling as it isn't too common it i can be a fun matchup every now and then. I would get rid of Leader before Galactus.
I personally lose more to Cosmo than Galactus, I win more than I lose against Galactus, the only time I lose is if they set up the lane properly with Spiderman or something, and thats RARE, but if they dont I almost always win
I have always felt that Galactus is such a non issue of a card, and he just makes the game not fun anyways, even when I do win (which again is most of the time) its never satisfying cuz its like "cool all strategy is out the window lets just having a pissing contest", like you said it turns into a completely different game, and I know if I make a Galactus deck I will just face even more of him, so that card is genuinely at the bottom of my list of 6 drops to get
He needs a rework, his ability is polarizing and bad for the game
I luckily pulled Galactus from a CR so I feel no shame when it’s thrown down
Let's be clear why Galactus actually sucks. It's because it takes no intelligence to play. It's a literal script to follow every game. To me, it's equivalent to the old Shuri deck. Only beaten if you happen to have the right counters. There's very little room to outplay someone
Sandman, Patriot, Sera Control, Death Wave just to name a few also have pretty straight forward paths they follow nearly every game. The game itself doesn’t really have much variance in how your game plan plays out with only 12 card decks so I don’t get the script argument. Also just out of curiosity have you ever played galactus? If so you know how often Galactus players are actually retreating until they get paired with someone who didn’t draw or didn’t have the counter. That’s not even accounting for all the locations that screw the whole decks game plan over.
I don’t understand what’s the big deal. He’s easily countered and the Only reason why he’s more Prevalent NOW is because in the beginning the ONLY people that had him were the Whales and the TH-cam content creators. Wow! What a surprise right? Not really…But now that the Regular people like us who have been playing for 3 months or more are getting him and that’s why it’s more common cause the ACTUAL Player base is Getting Access to the card. It’s NOT EXCLUSIVE TO THE WHALES AND TH-camRS ANYMORE. They had a good 4-5 months head start on everyone else. THATS THE REASON WHY GALACTUS IS MORE POPULAR RIGHT NOW. But it’s a sucky card that’s polarizing
Just saw your other counter ideas
just run debrii and galactus ceases to exist tbh galactus is annoying but theres so much to do about it shuri was so much fucking worse
Galactus is fine. Having doc oct dump your hand on turn 4 is more of the problem for me.
The people who say it's bad for the game don't realize the survivorship bias of seeing a Galactus pop off and not seeing the multiple failures they encounter because of basically all the counters you listed above. And they are printing more counters each and every time they make a card.
It's bad for the game, your arguement cannot convince me otherwise, I know 3 people personally who have quit because galactus is so unfun, I personally rarely play because the odds of playing galactus are so high right now, I know another who is regularly saying they're going to stop because of galactus, the card is literally pushing the playerbase out, it's the DEFINITION of bad for the game.
Galactus has become way to easy to counter for him to not exist.
Galactus needs more variaty
This is literally the easiest deck to counter. Easiest deck to identify and so many cards stop it
I am much more OK with Galactus than Cards like Armor (should be 2/2), Scorpion (Should be 2/1), or other cards that get so much play. I worry the community is always going to complain and if the devs keep nerfing it'll just become whack-a-mole
Sorry, but Galactus isn’t a problem.
I lose so many games with Galactus and when I win, I get at most one or two cubes.
Yet, when the opponent has an answer for Galactus, I lose 4+ cubes.
Galactus is fine. T5 Spider-Man and t4 doc oct are the issue. It’s just no skill plays are really boring to play against.
For every game you don't draw a Galactus counter the Galactus player gets a game where they don't draw the Galactus
Meh... Galactus doesn't even climb, for real. Aside from being countered by so many cards, he's a 6-2. If your Galactus gets blocked, you just played 2 power on Turn 5. I had him when I still played the game, and he gets shut down, even on Turn 6, about 75% of the time. Then 14% of the time you'll only win/lose 1 cube. That last 1% consists of people who are just angry, and try to stay in anyway.
There is no way to NOT telegraph Galactus. Even if you play the Turn 6 Galactus with Nimrod/Destroyer most players will play around a possible Galactus. Literally, if a lane is empty for no reason, and your opponent played a Ramp card, or GG, HG, Nimrod, etc... They're playing Galactus 99% of the time.😊
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As a Galactus player I can confirm it's got a bunch of easy tells and counters
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@@EducatedCollinsSnap Breakfast needs to be nerfed its too OP. People literally call it the most important meal.
Making the excuse that you have to carry specific cards to counter Galactus is silly You don't need any special cards you can just retreat. No one is forcing you to continue on in the match. This whole video is just about hurt feelings. There are plenty of other cards that you have to consider when building your deck as well And those other cards are way more effective than Galactus
Galactus is just ppls new shuri because they need something to reee about. Its honestly getting old, the whiney turn from card to card that is "ruining" the game
Complaining about people complaining isn’t any better dude
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Galactus ils n'ont the best game of the game... Calm down.