The friendship between you guys has been absolutely amazing. This brotherhood is such a refreshing thing to see in this world. As Snap approaches year 2, thank you to both of you for making Mondays more bearable. ❤
Daredevil as Activate would be busted because everyone would just do Turn 6 so they could just calculate out the final turn and know definitively if they can win or need to retreat.
No more FOMO is needed on that sweat ladder. Infinite is nothing but a place to earn the right to face more bots later the next season and even then that's nonsense. Continual easy climb next season for the best players against more bots? No skilled streamer is asking for that or for the players in this game to feel even more left out and struggle even worse to infinite.
They need to stop spamming garbage titles as cosmetic fillers. These things are sooo low effort, they're usually not even related to the IP, they feel like they could have been generated by chat gpt, they hold zero value to me and yet they dilute the chances of me opening a variant. I opened six caches yesterday and three of them were titles. Absolute trash.
Card acquisition especially feels like a big issue for new/returning players. Once you hit pool 3 it slows to a snails pace and you just feel behind. It took me a month before I finally started getting some synergy with my pool 3 cards (and that’s only thanks to the free seasonal choice).
What's wild is you have it so much better than we did back at launch in the same position. There were no tokens or spotlight keys. You can get minimum a couple new s4/5 cards per week while building your s3 collection - we didn't even _have_ s4/5 back then so the drip feed s3 is all we had. I still think they could be doing a lot more for new/returning players but you legitimately have it better than at any time in the past.
Bro, I haven't unlocked Nebula yet! When you finish pool 3, it feels like every spotlight cache has something to offer, and your keys start to be more and more valuable over time.
As a player who has come back at 3k col lvl i feel so behind and, it feels almost impossible to catch up when I still haven't got the season 3 cards I need. Yet I have to infinite climb against players who have their synergies built out.
card acquisition is extremely horrible for new players or returning players.. series drops happen only once or twice a year.. and having to lose a key for nothing feels extremely painful.. and don't get me started on the 6k token prices for series 5 cards (where ALL COMPETITIVE DECKS RIGHT NO CONSIST OF MILLION SERIES 5 CARDS).. saying it's "ugly" is really an understatement..
Maybe slightly, but machine gun would be over No more gambit into Wong/Mystiq to have your board wiped. Imagine knowing so little about Marvel you let a guy who doesn’t read comics do “character breakdowns” it’s a wild world! Rip Comicstorian
@@MisterBadman are you talking about cozy? Cause if so thats a bad way to look at it. Cozy admits he doesnt know it all and his breakdowns are more surface level to let others who know literally nothing another way to get info through a person they enjoy. And at the very least its a guy who loves comics, wanting to do deeper dives on the characters he plays in marvel snap while at the same time sharing that info he gains with his audience. Its a positive thing through and through!
Card acquisition definitely needs to get better. and fast! Collection Level track is... almost an insult to players that grind at this point. Terrible terrible rewards, and the loading time to get those pitiful rewards just adds insult to injury
I think the card acquisition was downplayed a little. It’s by far one of the ugliest parts. Maybe not for those of us that have been playing for a long time and play often. But imagine a new player entering now. They don’t even have a dream of getting a lot of cards. They need to pray they reenter a cache, or save the rare tokens for that one card to show up. The more cards snap adds (which is over 1 a week), the bigger the barrier to entry for new players is.
@@JulieBoyer thats where I am at, I’ve been complete a few times but probably missing 5-6 now, at the pace it is going I don’t think I will ever get complete again, there is only one card out of those I am missing that I would have used, Namora, and she is the spotlight cache this week, so I think the card acquisition system is right where it should be. It is certainly on par with other games I have played. Being collection complete was a little..boring? I like having something in the game that I’m working towards. The developers were very clear when the game came out that they were not setting up a system for people to get complete collections easily and I agree with that. Someone starting to play today should have to put in the time and effort that I have to get a similar collection, 2 years. The system makes it possible for every player no matter their CL to be able to get ANY new card that they want not EVERY new card. So if you are f2p and getting 1 spotlight key a week(you can actually get a little more than that with collection rewards etc.) then you will be able to guarantee that you can get a new card you want every month at least. I do think some tweaking could be done for players who are just finishing series 3 but regarding new players I don’t see anything wrong with the system until then. Up until then you get new cards at a decent pace and you can get at least one brand new card every month…
Counter-point, card acquisition for new players is better than it's ever been. If you'd told me back at global launch that I could have a system where I could open up to four new s4/5 cards in a week (five with the season pass) I would have snapped at it in an instant. Every change they've made since then has improved the system.
That it isn't a more competitive tournament or esport focused game is the strangest thing about the game to me. As someone who does hit Infinite but mostly just wants to play for fun and try different decks and would love a draft mode, I hate the snap mechanic. Because it effects nothing mechanically other than Hydra Bob and I tend to play decks like zoo with less surprising final turns and lower cube wins so ranking up can take longer but snapping is the perfect mechanic for competitive play. If the game was being described to me as a pitch and they mentioned the snap button I would immediately think, "oh, hitting this changes the board state or alters cards." After being told what it does I would immediately think, "Ok, so you're focusing on eSports."
32:12 I disagree with stuff like Gambit and Spiderwoman. They might be niche, but when they are used, it's with On Reveal synergy. If you made those 2 activates, they'd be even weaker.
I disagree with the spiderwoman one. at the moment there is no counter to activate but on reveals have tons of counters. so her ability guarteed going through everytime and being able to pre place it so you can hit more cards later would be pretty good. Gambit would suck tho, especially because it'd be giving discard another hellcow type
One great combo on turn 6 could be grandmaster + Misery. She cleans all other low powered On Reveal cards while triggering their ability and then Grandmaster moves her to center and she does the same. You can also play Grandmaster before Misery so he triggers one good On Reveal card (e.g White Tiger or Ironheart or Dr. Doom) that you can trigger again when Grandmaster uses it's ability again and moves Misery to the center.
Marvel Snap is one of the few games that has hooked me in since day one, but I think what we see is what we are going to get. Instead of being something special, I think it might just turn into just another phone game, which is sad, because I think this game could have been very legit. Nothing special for the game in over a year doesn’t bode well for the future. Side note, don’t remember when the last time Alex said it is a great time to be a Marvel Snap player.
Shanna as an active. Less chance to clog early or screwing yourself getting that maw. But bring her down to a 2 cost so you have the option to still activate on 3 if u got MB in hand
"This one doesnt pertain to everybody" Neither does the collection track thing you mentioned. Most of us spend our $10 a month on the season pass and that's basically it. I'll always be needing to open my caches
I read somewhere that snap got another huge investment in their company. Really wish they would start showing that by fixing their bugs and adding new features already.
Speaking of letting newer players access Activate, Second Dinner has stated that the mechanic is only for Series 5, 4, and 3 cards. A completely baffling decision, in my opinion. A major mechanic should be in the tutorial, not locked behind months of grinding.
Alex has it right on Supergiant. She'd have to be dropped to a 1 or 2 cost to make it an interesting activate card. Making her 3 cost just makes it the exact same card.
Just wanted to add a "bad" is the alliance feature. We finally got it and were all hyped to get into our own aliances to work together and have some added community features. What have we gotten so far? Bounties that are literally the same set of however many "destory # cards, discard # cards, move # cards. Even the 'win with certain cards are literally the same cards, you would think to start to offer more. And the rewards, basically everyone in your league has to complete the 4000 in order to achieve the alliance rewards, for my alliance, it simply does not happen. I'm not going to berate or kick members for it, so lowering either the points OR put the mystery variant into person and add a border or premium variant to the alliance. To the subject - no battles or challenges have been added either. Ugly: Taking the gold out of conquest and nerfing credits for vibranium is just poor taste. Gold last year was nothing to really worry about, but now (for me) gold is literally drips in a cup of water where you are dying of thirst. To top that off, the bundles that include decent value of gold are all 99 dollars - literally three 100 dollar bundles this season while the gold cost bundle offer little to nothing. How could somene spend 2000 gold for a variant, some boosters, and an avatar when you could literaly spend 1200 for a bundle variant that gives you a key, or tokens. And yes, the whole split ratio revealed this week is literally sickening. The fact they've never really gave us % shoudl be illegal. For example, if you click on the top right premium variant and then the ? it takes you to a page where it 'kind of explains' your odds. Agree with the communication, really angry regarding the backtracking of previous promises. Tokens for borders, tokens can be used for something else now, I think boosters, and the collector's vault that while I don't care about players owning variants, I do care that I spent money on bundles which gave a variant in the bundle you could not obtain unless you bought that bundle and it was clearly stated this was factual. Now backtracking, being secretive, stealth nerfing split rates, decreasing resources, its all getting quite out of hand.
Its a free game that no one is to forcing you to play? “Not giving out the split % should be illegal” “really angry” “its all getting out of hand” seems you might be taking this literal “play while I’m sitting on the toilet” game just a tad bit to seriously? As far as gold goes, 4.99 a month for a gold pass is pretty good value and they have had for the last 6 months or so you get double gold when you buy any…agree completely that alliance rewards are total garbage
@@mikeyaeger9279 for many players it's not a free game. Games are never forced upon someone, but when you play a game it should be rewarding and fun for the player. As far as my previous post, that's my personal opinion, you have yours, so all is good.
The thing about activate is that it’s not affected by Cosmo/Isle of Silence. The more cards with Activate, the easier it is to dodge those tech cards/locations. I think keeping Spider-Woman as On Reveal is better.
I’ll add a few. Good: the gameplay is still amazing, and with few exceptions, new cards come out the gate playable and fun. Bad: they just keep taking stuff away. Fewer credits, less gold, fewer tokens, and everything costs more. In the name of “improving the economy” they seem to be improving *their* economy but we get no benefits from it. Ugly: agree that communication is ugly. They hired a community manager and they made a few points… and then disappeared. Someone even had to ask them “hey, what’s the patch/OTA schedule for this month?” And they said “that’s a good idea!” And they posted it… once. Haven’t seen any update since. Still don’t know what’s happening next week. Also ugly: Conquerers. Yes, you two casting it was amazing; the saving grace. But who thought it would be a good idea to get random streamers, some of which have never played snap before, to PLAY AGAINST BOTS FOR TWO HOURS.
I like some of the hybrid destroy options misery offers. Destroy clog seems like a natural fit. White Widow, debris, misery feels like a turn 4 retreat to me.
New game modes, Round Robin. 3 or 5 Players, all play each other once. Some combination of wins/score determine winner. Monthly Mini tournaments. 4 player. 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4. Winner of those play each other. End of the month, 32 or 64 player tournaments based on the highest win % of mini tournament play. Would need some kind of bracketing mech in it. Time played, total cards, over all win %, something to try and make the match ups somewhat even.
Slightly hilarious disconnect between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ around Cache opening times as a first-world problem. All mine are opened as I go, usually with me screaming “give me 200 credits so I can keep going to the next Spotlight key!” rather than advancing the tree and leaving them behind.
Hitmonkey as an activate would be a nerf since it telegraphs to your opponent which lane they should invest in or avoid, as opposed to them having to guess the lane on 6
One role Misery can excel in is a destroy activator. Turn 1: X23 Turn 2: Deadpool, Wolverine or Bucky Barnes in the same lane as X23 Turn 3: Venom to destroy X23 and Wolverine Turn 4: Misery on Venom to destroy herself, by the Venom, and destroy the twice-boosted Venom. Turn 5: Knull Turn 6: Arnim Zola the Knull. Maybe sneak Deadpool on this turn somewhere else. = 2 Humongous Knulls in two different lanes
Thank you for speaking out for the community on the major issues! 🙌🏻 you guys maybe don’t realize the impact the snapchat has on the community, thank you guys God bless the Snapchat ❤
surprised guardians were not mentioned as activate candidates. could even auto activate if it is played when opponent plays that turn, with backup activate for later turn if you whiff. Also i feel Kang could use activate. maybe not the same effect, but something cool
Fire, been playing snap for a while, just wanted to say you’re like my only content creator I watch, also do you have thoughts on making certain archetype defining cards more accessible like Knull, hit monkey, Gilgamesh, Loki etc
C TV is really well done. The research, animation, editing, audio, the list goes on! Great job Cozy, I really appreciate you and what you do for education and lore facts that are comic related. However, the Pats sucks this year, again. lol. Love you and Alex!!!❤
How do you not remember that Iron Man says "Underoos!"?!?!?! Like, a reference to the childhood of everyone who is in their 40's? Those underwear/sleepwear that were printed with superhero designs? -sigh- You guys just made me feel really, really old.
That’s too specific. Think TVA or Limbo. You’d have to activate it before the turn you want to use it, which makes it a dead card in hand to play T5, T6, T7 and Turn 3/4 in TVA.
In terms of ugly, can I add "Make cards fit together thematically?" It is still absolutely ridiculous that there is no way to make a competitive deck that uses all four members of the Fantastic Four. You can *finally* get something competitive that is all based around the Spider-verse, but a pure Avengers deck? A pure X-Men deck? They're garbage. The AvX imbalance patches made those kind of themes *fun*. I want to see synergy added between themed cards more than I can put into words.
Don't forget that you can still hit a card featured in the spotlight as the random on the S4/S5 slot of a cache, even if you have the card already. My opinion, that card should be excluded from the random S4/S5 slot if it's featured in the week.
@@mikeyaeger9279 It's what happened to me during Madame Web week. First key I used hit the random S4/S5, hitting Silk... Who was in the spotlight right next to it. I was ready to quit right then and there. Didn't... Somehow... >_> Probably cause I keep coming back for Cozy and Alex. They wouldn't want me to give up.
@@bigbossodin that is brutal, ya I would be pissed too, Ive always thought the random card should be one that you don’t have which really would have very little effect on the overall system as so few players are collection complete and with more and more cards its only getting harder l. I was collection compete at around CL # 15000 or so for 2 months until I missed a couple and since then I have missed at least a card a month and am probably 6-8 short. Don’t think I’ll ever get there again but Im alright with that. Most of the cards I am missing are cards I would not use anyway. They do need to fix the random/repeat feature for sure….
@@bigbossodin so you had silk already, then drew her as your random card and…got 1k tokens instead? Then did you spend anymore keys that week? Wondering if after the repeat silk you hit silk again as part of the cache? Assuming you would get another 1k tokens?
The trouble with activate is that you need that card down for a turn which would negatively impact cards like Zero if you are curving out and have the right cards in hand. If you could activate a card in hand and have the option to play it like an on reveal that would be legit
Don't forget Noor Dimension, she is gonna be massive and a snap worthy on that location, destroying those pesky 0/1 Djinns and reactivating their +1 energy. I think one that is very underrated synergy for Misery is Debrii, the opponent would never see another wave of Rocks coming their way. Also, Destroy Thanos might be a thing now.
I would love if if gambit got turned into an activate ability because then people couldn’t machine gun gambit and destroy their opponents board, which feels really bad to play against and is one of my most hated decks
I see Misery as great with the small on reveals. Hazmat and Misery in affliction or Misery with clog cards - White Widow/Debris/The Hood which clears space for you, but jams your opponent.
What I’m curious to see with misery is low cost high impact cards like the hood, white widow, iceman disruption instead of greedy combos. Made comment before watching 😂
White Queen - 3 cost, 2 power. Ongoing: Tap this to see the top card of your opponent's deck. Activate: Draw the top card of your opponent's deck. Can you imagine the mind games?
My big con about snap is the token system and keys. I wish it was much more obtainable for free to play. I feel like a lot of cards are so expensive and hard to get when you aren't paying for tokens and keys. I normally just get the season pass. But I feel like each week I have to be like I'm not getting this amd getting this one instead. Need to save tokens for whole seasons to buy one I missed out on
My Spider Man pitch - The card is Peter Parker. You play Peter Parker. You can activate him. On activate he transforms into Spider Man and does his thing (the thing he does now).
supergiant simply needs to reveal and delay your opponents play if you have priority. adjust the power no doubt, but when it was first datamined this way i was really looking forward to this disruption.
I’ll play magic on three or four and super giant on turn 5, hella on six, Modoc on seven… it gives me an alternate play line in case I don’t run into invisible woman. I think if super giant was to turn into an activate card, they’d have to lower its cost significantly to play the card and remove some power which would be pretty unfortunate for living tribunal
ended up skipping scream. not needed currently. if sd pushes the synergistic cards and she becomes relevant, get her in future spotlight cashes together with a brand new card. now i have ressources for misery. not sure how competitive she ends up being, but she allows some crazy plays and im all here for it.
Changing Gambit to Activate would negate the Gambit machine gun and the upcoming Scorn synergy with that strategy. And that card makes me feel like I need to work out.
Literally in every scenario i see Misery playble.... Clog , Mill , Thanos destroy with Killmonger and Death , Ronan and master mold , Darkhawk with rocks and even somewhat silver surfer / Wong decks or big giants with Jubilee reproc.... this card must be insane. IMO easly top 10 cards in the game for competitiveness and fun hands down. But very likely to be nerfed soon or later .
Not saying this with hate or anything, but what does a company owe to "creators"? Like you could make the argument that you are basically free advertising for the game, but at the same time I feel like if the game developers are working closely with the third party content makers... doesn't the authenticity of your content suffer? And even putting that aside, like, it seems like such a strange symbiosis to expect them to seek. Why would the developers of a major money making game want to let dozens and dozens of third parties know their internal machinations?
Bugs are indeed game breaking. Alex immediately pointed out Nico. I have had Howard bugged for a few months where he was unplayable. Know someone who Araña wouldn't work for them. Where you have to close the game out for the but to quit but that's time ate up when you're in a match. Then the other day the game just crashes mid match and won't let me back in to a match for over an hour. Yeah buggy af is an Ugly.
Any deck you could play misery in, she can be replaced. Odin, grandmaster, spiderman symbiot. You can use all 3 WITHOUT losing power. You cant slam her on 6, you will lose all power and can just use Odin. Need carnage or venom to reproc? Use grandmaster or Spiderman. I just cant imagine her being useful, but then again I am not a smart man lol
Misery is gonna need more support than is available yet. At this point she’s just more expensive grandmaster but worse. Definitely holding down keys for Toxin next week. He’s gonna be one of the strongest this month
The bugs that keep pissing me are what Alex said about the reconnect glitch and the one that when I'm in a game and I click on a card and it disconnects me from the game during my turn
The friendship between you guys has been absolutely amazing. This brotherhood is such a refreshing thing to see in this world. As Snap approaches year 2, thank you to both of you for making Mondays more bearable. ❤
Alex, you're killing me bud! The word you're looking for each week to describe knowing your opponents intentions is TELEGRAPHED! ❤
At this point it's just a ploy to get engagement.
Im just glad he hasn't talked about Nico Minoru in a while, he pronounces it Moneru and it kills me .
Daredevil as Activate would be busted because everyone would just do Turn 6 so they could just calculate out the final turn and know definitively if they can win or need to retreat.
Yeah daredevil is fine as is
would have to have magic treatment, where you can't activate turn 6 or something like that
@@coolshirtkidI assure you that it's also useful for good players when facing a custom deck. But I guess it doesn't happen often lmao
It would basically be a cheaper kang that you could use any turn you want 😂
Misery only destroy on reveal cards so your other cards are protected. This card got some potential fr
If I were running Snap, each season would have a mini comic, a story for the season and you unlock each page with the weekly mission.
Very different games ofc but it's funny because that's exactly what apex legends used to do
Trust me, no one would read those comics.
That would be a lot of time and effort wasted on something most people would just skip through to get back to the game
@@scrowll1565trust me you are wrong
@@Stickyz I mean, they don't even have to make them for Snap. They can use the thousands of already existing Marvel comics.
I think the fact that Alliances and Leagues weren't even mentioned is telling on how bad they're doing
Gambit as activate kills most of the reasons you want to play him. the Machine Gun factor is much more fun than a discard enabler.
It’s also nice to play on turn 3 where you can snipe something early
Hitting Infinite and winning an Infinity Conquest should give you a Spotlight key
No more FOMO is needed on that sweat ladder. Infinite is nothing but a place to earn the right to face more bots later the next season and even then that's nonsense. Continual easy climb next season for the best players against more bots? No skilled streamer is asking for that or for the players in this game to feel even more left out and struggle even worse to infinite.
Actually it would give f2p another way to get a key. Besides credits
You get an exclusive card back or exclusive infinite border. Don’t need a key
I think it’s a pretty good thing it’s just a better pay of for committing to the game. But who knows
Ugly is when you are supposed to be opening a "Mystery Variant", and instead you receive your 800th Avatar instead.
If you get avatars from mystery variants then you have all the 700g variants
Every mystery variant is a pixel. Not much of a mystery
They need to stop spamming garbage titles as cosmetic fillers. These things are sooo low effort, they're usually not even related to the IP, they feel like they could have been generated by chat gpt, they hold zero value to me and yet they dilute the chances of me opening a variant. I opened six caches yesterday and three of them were titles. Absolute trash.
Or title 😭😭
You are a massive whale if you're getting avatars from mystery variants.
Card acquisition especially feels like a big issue for new/returning players. Once you hit pool 3 it slows to a snails pace and you just feel behind. It took me a month before I finally started getting some synergy with my pool 3 cards (and that’s only thanks to the free seasonal choice).
Just wait until you see how slow acquisition is after pool 3.
What's wild is you have it so much better than we did back at launch in the same position. There were no tokens or spotlight keys. You can get minimum a couple new s4/5 cards per week while building your s3 collection - we didn't even _have_ s4/5 back then so the drip feed s3 is all we had. I still think they could be doing a lot more for new/returning players but you legitimately have it better than at any time in the past.
Bro, I haven't unlocked Nebula yet! When you finish pool 3, it feels like every spotlight cache has something to offer, and your keys start to be more and more valuable over time.
They need to add season 4 acquisitions like they do for series 3 or allow us to pin 2 cards and bump more series 5 cards down to series 4
As a player who has come back at 3k col lvl i feel so behind and, it feels almost impossible to catch up when I still haven't got the season 3 cards I need. Yet I have to infinite climb against players who have their synergies built out.
card acquisition is extremely horrible for new players or returning players.. series drops happen only once or twice a year.. and having to lose a key for nothing feels extremely painful.. and don't get me started on the 6k token prices for series 5 cards (where ALL COMPETITIVE DECKS RIGHT NO CONSIST OF MILLION SERIES 5 CARDS).. saying it's "ugly" is really an understatement..
Gambit as Activate is just making Hela even stronger.
Maybe slightly, but machine gun would be over
No more gambit into Wong/Mystiq to have your board wiped.
Imagine knowing so little about Marvel you let a guy who doesn’t read comics do “character breakdowns” it’s a wild world!
Rip Comicstorian
@@MisterBadman are you talking about cozy? Cause if so thats a bad way to look at it. Cozy admits he doesnt know it all and his breakdowns are more surface level to let others who know literally nothing another way to get info through a person they enjoy.
And at the very least its a guy who loves comics, wanting to do deeper dives on the characters he plays in marvel snap while at the same time sharing that info he gains with his audience. Its a positive thing through and through!
It’s not a Gambit if it’s an activate. Plus it won’t work Odin Wong
To lose 20 minutes and still do an hour long episode over here (after edit) and then Alex's side. These guys put in the work for damn sure.
Card acquisition definitely needs to get better. and fast!
Collection Level track is... almost an insult to players that grind at this point. Terrible terrible rewards, and the loading time to get those pitiful rewards just adds insult to injury
Yea, I have 150 caches and no plans to open them.
I think the card acquisition was downplayed a little. It’s by far one of the ugliest parts. Maybe not for those of us that have been playing for a long time and play often. But imagine a new player entering now. They don’t even have a dream of getting a lot of cards. They need to pray they reenter a cache, or save the rare tokens for that one card to show up. The more cards snap adds (which is over 1 a week), the bigger the barrier to entry for new players is.
I would love to see content creators periodically do new player accounts to keep this in view of the player base
Or being a loyal player for two years, buying the season pass each month and still not being collection complete....
@@JulieBoyer thats where I am at, I’ve been complete a few times but probably missing 5-6 now, at the pace it is going I don’t think I will ever get complete again, there is only one card out of those I am missing that I would have used, Namora, and she is the spotlight cache this week, so I think the card acquisition system is right where it should be. It is certainly on par with other games I have played. Being collection complete was a little..boring? I like having something in the game that I’m working towards. The developers were very clear when the game came out that they were not setting up a system for people to get complete collections easily and I agree with that. Someone starting to play today should have to put in the time and effort that I have to get a similar collection, 2 years. The system makes it possible for every player no matter their CL to be able to get ANY new card that they want not EVERY new card. So if you are f2p and getting 1 spotlight key a week(you can actually get a little more than that with collection rewards etc.) then you will be able to guarantee that you can get a new card you want every month at least. I do think some tweaking could be done for players who are just finishing series 3 but regarding new players I don’t see anything wrong with the system until then. Up until then you get new cards at a decent pace and you can get at least one brand new card every month…
Counter-point, card acquisition for new players is better than it's ever been. If you'd told me back at global launch that I could have a system where I could open up to four new s4/5 cards in a week (five with the season pass) I would have snapped at it in an instant. Every change they've made since then has improved the system.
"Underoos!"
That it isn't a more competitive tournament or esport focused game is the strangest thing about the game to me. As someone who does hit Infinite but mostly just wants to play for fun and try different decks and would love a draft mode, I hate the snap mechanic. Because it effects nothing mechanically other than Hydra Bob and I tend to play decks like zoo with less surprising final turns and lower cube wins so ranking up can take longer but snapping is the perfect mechanic for competitive play.
If the game was being described to me as a pitch and they mentioned the snap button I would immediately think, "oh, hitting this changes the board state or alters cards." After being told what it does I would immediately think, "Ok, so you're focusing on eSports."
32:12 I disagree with stuff like Gambit and Spiderwoman. They might be niche, but when they are used, it's with On Reveal synergy. If you made those 2 activates, they'd be even weaker.
Agree
I disagree with the spiderwoman one. at the moment there is no counter to activate but on reveals have tons of counters. so her ability guarteed going through everytime and being able to pre place it so you can hit more cards later would be pretty good. Gambit would suck tho, especially because it'd be giving discard another hellcow type
One great combo on turn 6 could be grandmaster + Misery.
She cleans all other low powered On Reveal cards while triggering their ability and then Grandmaster moves her to center and she does the same. You can also play Grandmaster before Misery so he triggers one good On Reveal card (e.g White Tiger or Ironheart or Dr. Doom) that you can trigger again when Grandmaster uses it's ability again and moves Misery to the center.
My favorite thing to listen to on my Monday
Same here
Facts
I feel like if they start making tech cards activate, it’s going to become very frustrating for casual players. I hope they don’t do that.
Marvel Snap is one of the few games that has hooked me in since day one, but I think what we see is what we are going to get. Instead of being something special, I think it might just turn into just another phone game, which is sad, because I think this game could have been very legit. Nothing special for the game in over a year doesn’t bode well for the future. Side note, don’t remember when the last time Alex said it is a great time to be a Marvel Snap player.
Shanna as an active. Less chance to clog early or screwing yourself getting that maw. But bring her down to a 2 cost so you have the option to still activate on 3 if u got MB in hand
"This one doesnt pertain to everybody" Neither does the collection track thing you mentioned. Most of us spend our $10 a month on the season pass and that's basically it. I'll always be needing to open my caches
I read somewhere that snap got another huge investment in their company. Really wish they would start showing that by fixing their bugs and adding new features already.
Speaking of letting newer players access Activate, Second Dinner has stated that the mechanic is only for Series 5, 4, and 3 cards. A completely baffling decision, in my opinion. A major mechanic should be in the tutorial, not locked behind months of grinding.
Alex has it right on Supergiant. She'd have to be dropped to a 1 or 2 cost to make it an interesting activate card. Making her 3 cost just makes it the exact same card.
Just wanted to add a "bad" is the alliance feature. We finally got it and were all hyped to get into our own aliances to work together and have some added community features.
What have we gotten so far? Bounties that are literally the same set of however many "destory # cards, discard # cards, move # cards. Even the 'win with certain cards are literally the same cards, you would think to start to offer more.
And the rewards, basically everyone in your league has to complete the 4000 in order to achieve the alliance rewards, for my alliance, it simply does not happen. I'm not going to berate or kick members for it, so lowering either the points OR put the mystery variant into person and add a border or premium variant to the alliance.
To the subject - no battles or challenges have been added either.
Ugly: Taking the gold out of conquest and nerfing credits for vibranium is just poor taste. Gold last year was nothing to really worry about, but now (for me) gold is literally drips in a cup of water where you are dying of thirst. To top that off, the bundles that include decent value of gold are all 99 dollars - literally three 100 dollar bundles this season while the gold cost bundle offer little to nothing. How could somene spend 2000 gold for a variant, some boosters, and an avatar when you could literaly spend 1200 for a bundle variant that gives you a key, or tokens.
And yes, the whole split ratio revealed this week is literally sickening. The fact they've never really gave us % shoudl be illegal. For example, if you click on the top right premium variant and then the ? it takes you to a page where it 'kind of explains' your odds.
Agree with the communication, really angry regarding the backtracking of previous promises. Tokens for borders, tokens can be used for something else now, I think boosters, and the collector's vault that while I don't care about players owning variants, I do care that I spent money on bundles which gave a variant in the bundle you could not obtain unless you bought that bundle and it was clearly stated this was factual.
Now backtracking, being secretive, stealth nerfing split rates, decreasing resources, its all getting quite out of hand.
Its a free game that no one is to forcing you to play? “Not giving out the split % should be illegal” “really angry” “its all getting out of hand” seems you might be taking this literal “play while I’m sitting on the toilet” game just a tad bit to seriously? As far as gold goes, 4.99 a month for a gold pass is pretty good value and they have had for the last 6 months or so you get double gold when you buy any…agree completely that alliance rewards are total garbage
Yeah, getting 3 titles instead from conquest feels bad
@@mikeyaeger9279 for many players it's not a free game. Games are never forced upon someone, but when you play a game it should be rewarding and fun for the player.
As far as my previous post, that's my personal opinion, you have yours, so all is good.
Misery coming out right as a hurricane is barreling towards me seems fitting .
Crossing my fingers that Pokemon Pocket doesn't get the usual Nintendo treatment of lowest effort possible
I love cozys mindset of " fuck it keys turn everything low cost activate what's the worst that can happen"
The thing about activate is that it’s not affected by Cosmo/Isle of Silence. The more cards with Activate, the easier it is to dodge those tech cards/locations. I think keeping Spider-Woman as On Reveal is better.
I’ll add a few.
Good: the gameplay is still amazing, and with few exceptions, new cards come out the gate playable and fun.
Bad: they just keep taking stuff away. Fewer credits, less gold, fewer tokens, and everything costs more. In the name of “improving the economy” they seem to be improving *their* economy but we get no benefits from it.
Ugly: agree that communication is ugly. They hired a community manager and they made a few points… and then disappeared. Someone even had to ask them “hey, what’s the patch/OTA schedule for this month?” And they said “that’s a good idea!” And they posted it… once. Haven’t seen any update since. Still don’t know what’s happening next week.
Also ugly: Conquerers. Yes, you two casting it was amazing; the saving grace. But who thought it would be a good idea to get random streamers, some of which have never played snap before, to PLAY AGAINST BOTS FOR TWO HOURS.
I like some of the hybrid destroy options misery offers. Destroy clog seems like a natural fit. White Widow, debris, misery feels like a turn 4 retreat to me.
ikr
I think there should be at least 500 free tokens in the pass plus 500 for paid pass minimum
Good idea, but they would never.
New game modes, Round Robin. 3 or 5 Players, all play each other once. Some combination of wins/score determine winner.
Monthly Mini tournaments. 4 player. 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4. Winner of those play each other. End of the month, 32 or 64 player tournaments based on the highest win % of mini tournament play. Would need some kind of bracketing mech in it. Time played, total cards, over all win %, something to try and make the match ups somewhat even.
13:26 if misery does this than she's a must pick!!
The proposed Daredevil change is essentially Kang. they would have to limit it so it doesn't work turn 6 cause it's such an important round.
18:27 Regis tried the Destroyer trick a few weeks ago and never got it to work, but it was a lot harder.
Im glad you brought up all those pc bugs. They are so annoying.
SNAP CHAT, there goes my Monday morning at work.
Slightly hilarious disconnect between the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ around Cache opening times as a first-world problem. All mine are opened as I go, usually with me screaming “give me 200 credits so I can keep going to the next Spotlight key!” rather than advancing the tree and leaving them behind.
Hitmonkey as an activate would be a nerf since it telegraphs to your opponent which lane they should invest in or avoid, as opposed to them having to guess the lane on 6
One role Misery can excel in is a destroy activator.
Turn 1: X23
Turn 2: Deadpool, Wolverine or Bucky Barnes in the same lane as X23
Turn 3: Venom to destroy X23 and Wolverine
Turn 4: Misery on Venom to destroy herself, by the Venom, and destroy the twice-boosted Venom.
Turn 5: Knull
Turn 6: Arnim Zola the Knull. Maybe sneak Deadpool on this turn somewhere else.
= 2 Humongous Knulls in two different lanes
Good lucky in this cosmo meta, this could work first day and then never again
Thank you for speaking out for the community on the major issues! 🙌🏻 you guys maybe don’t realize the impact the snapchat has on the community, thank you guys God bless the Snapchat ❤
I like Misery in a Mill deck, re-trigger Yondu, Cable, and Gladiator on curve
surprised guardians were not mentioned as activate candidates. could even auto activate if it is played when opponent plays that turn, with backup activate for later turn if you whiff. Also i feel Kang could use activate. maybe not the same effect, but something cool
Haven't got there yet but KANG better be on the "cards that suck" list. Love the content!
Absolutely LOVE the Monday Snap Chat. Thank you both.
1-2 Supergiant would be annoying. 2-3 seems like the perfect statline. Look what happened with Swan. Very good now.
Fire, been playing snap for a while, just wanted to say you’re like my only content creator I watch, also do you have thoughts on making certain archetype defining cards more accessible like Knull, hit monkey, Gilgamesh, Loki etc
C TV is really well done. The research, animation, editing, audio, the list goes on! Great job Cozy, I really appreciate you and what you do for education and lore facts that are comic related. However, the Pats sucks this year, again. lol. Love you and Alex!!!❤
How do you not remember that Iron Man says "Underoos!"?!?!?!
Like, a reference to the childhood of everyone who is in their 40's? Those underwear/sleepwear that were printed with superhero designs?
-sigh-
You guys just made me feel really, really old.
Alex is 38
@@brandaohimself Like I said, I feel old. :)
Give Activate to Daredevil but it doesn't work in the last turn. ("Last turn" is key so it doesn't always mean T6)
That’s too specific. Think TVA or Limbo. You’d have to activate it before the turn you want to use it, which makes it a dead card in hand to play T5, T6, T7 and Turn 3/4 in TVA.
I hope the devs will seek this video and read the comments. Thank You for speaking out loud about all the issues 👍🏻
Havok Activate cook is FIRE!!!
In terms of ugly, can I add "Make cards fit together thematically?" It is still absolutely ridiculous that there is no way to make a competitive deck that uses all four members of the Fantastic Four. You can *finally* get something competitive that is all based around the Spider-verse, but a pure Avengers deck? A pure X-Men deck? They're garbage.
The AvX imbalance patches made those kind of themes *fun*. I want to see synergy added between themed cards more than I can put into words.
Don't forget that you can still hit a card featured in the spotlight as the random on the S4/S5 slot of a cache, even if you have the card already. My opinion, that card should be excluded from the random S4/S5 slot if it's featured in the week.
Yes for sure, I generally have not nearly as many problems with the game as most but getting a repeat for a spotlight key is total garbage
@@mikeyaeger9279 It's what happened to me during Madame Web week. First key I used hit the random S4/S5, hitting Silk... Who was in the spotlight right next to it. I was ready to quit right then and there. Didn't... Somehow... >_>
Probably cause I keep coming back for Cozy and Alex. They wouldn't want me to give up.
@@bigbossodin that is brutal, ya I would be pissed too, Ive always thought the random card should be one that you don’t have which really would have very little effect on the overall system as so few players are collection complete and with more and more cards its only getting harder l. I was collection compete at around CL # 15000 or so for 2 months until I missed a couple and since then I have missed at least a card a month and am probably 6-8 short. Don’t think I’ll ever get there again but Im alright with that. Most of the cards I am missing are cards I would not use anyway. They do need to fix the random/repeat feature for sure….
@@bigbossodin so you had silk already, then drew her as your random card and…got 1k tokens instead? Then did you spend anymore keys that week? Wondering if after the repeat silk you hit silk again as part of the cache? Assuming you would get another 1k tokens?
@@mikeyaeger9279 Correct. I got the 1k tokens. The next key was Silk spotlight cache.
The trouble with activate is that you need that card down for a turn which would negatively impact cards like Zero if you are curving out and have the right cards in hand. If you could activate a card in hand and have the option to play it like an on reveal that would be legit
Thoughts for Master Mold? Maybe he could be changed to 2/2: Add 1 sentinel to your hand and 2 broken sentinels (1/1s) to your opponent’s hand
I doubt they will ever make MM into anything cool
3:13 kudos brother 👏
Reaching Infinite give you a card pull, selecting perhaps 3 to 6 artist option and the card you will pull is not something you already have.
Tony yells “underoos” to Spider-Man to give him the signal.
Don't forget Noor Dimension, she is gonna be massive and a snap worthy on that location, destroying those pesky 0/1 Djinns and reactivating their +1 energy. I think one that is very underrated synergy for Misery is Debrii, the opponent would never see another wave of Rocks coming their way. Also, Destroy Thanos might be a thing now.
I would love if if gambit got turned into an activate ability because then people couldn’t machine gun gambit and destroy their opponents board, which feels really bad to play against and is one of my most hated decks
I never ever seen gambit outside of discard deck lol. Peoples are overreacting a lot.
Yondu,Cable,Gladiator and misery should be a fun combo to deal with 🙁
ikr also white widow debrii misery is cool it has some really good combos but the inconsistency is something to be tested
When the collection track got so laggy they released the "shop is learning to aim more towards specialized for you" note
I see Misery as great with the small on reveals. Hazmat and Misery in affliction or Misery with clog cards - White Widow/Debris/The Hood which clears space for you, but jams your opponent.
What I’m curious to see with misery is low cost high impact cards like the hood, white widow, iceman disruption instead of greedy combos. Made comment before watching 😂
White Queen - 3 cost, 2 power. Ongoing: Tap this to see the top card of your opponent's deck. Activate: Draw the top card of your opponent's deck.
Can you imagine the mind games?
love love love!
Broken lmao
What’s UGLY is that in the last patch they dropped the rate that you get GOLD/INK/GOD SPLITS. That blows
Mill/Destroy hybrid loves this in the deck. Essentially 4 energy for Odin in a lot of decks.
Regis tried the Destroyer-Viper combo with Odin. He descended into madness. It was very entertaining! 🤣
misery seems like a good turn 3 backup play for a wiccan deck because you retain that ramping potential
Iron man says "Underoos" in Civil War because Spider man suit looks like a pyjama
Misery seems like a good fit for junk. White widow is a great 2nd proc and to lesser extent Korg and Rockslide could be good as well.
My big con about snap is the token system and keys. I wish it was much more obtainable for free to play. I feel like a lot of cards are so expensive and hard to get when you aren't paying for tokens and keys. I normally just get the season pass. But I feel like each week I have to be like I'm not getting this amd getting this one instead. Need to save tokens for whole seasons to buy one I missed out on
Havok: This card absorbs 1 max energy at the start of each turn. Activate: Gain +4 for each max energy absorbed, and stop absorbing energy.
My Spider Man pitch - The card is Peter Parker. You play Peter Parker. You can activate him. On activate he transforms into Spider Man and does his thing (the thing he does now).
I like the idea of vennom being retriggered on 5 before a Zola with misery..
Talking about bugs, playing Zabu on the Ongoing negation location and it keeps roaring
supergiant simply needs to reveal and delay your opponents play if you have priority. adjust the power no doubt, but when it was first datamined this way i was really looking forward to this disruption.
They really need a story mode in this game with Lore, Cozy would have a lore breakdown channel 😅
I’ll play magic on three or four and super giant on turn 5, hella on six, Modoc on seven… it gives me an alternate play line in case I don’t run into invisible woman. I think if super giant was to turn into an activate card, they’d have to lower its cost significantly to play the card and remove some power which would be pretty unfortunate for living tribunal
I feel like i'm the only one who is hyped for Misery. Doubling the early disruption cards to trade their power for 7 sounds fantastic.
ended up skipping scream. not needed currently. if sd pushes the synergistic cards and she becomes relevant, get her in future spotlight cashes together with a brand new card. now i have ressources for misery. not sure how competitive she ends up being, but she allows some crazy plays and im all here for it.
Broooo what a genius buff. Chavez being a 6 9 that draws on 6. Holy. I hope SD sees my comment
There needs to be some sort of counter for activate before they start giving it out to all the old cards
Master Mold activate would be nice. Turn 6 against a Discard Apoc give the opponent 2/3 chance to hit Sentinel instead of Apoc.
this months music is banger, i loved last octobers too and loki's
Take a drink everytime Cozy says Activate
I’ve never had the collectors cache issue on PC, it’s very smooth for me. But card backs not loading in is a glaring problem on PC.
Changing Gambit to Activate would negate the Gambit machine gun and the upcoming Scorn synergy with that strategy.
And that card makes me feel like I need to work out.
Literally in every scenario i see Misery playble....
Clog , Mill , Thanos destroy with Killmonger and Death , Ronan and master mold , Darkhawk with rocks and even somewhat silver surfer / Wong decks or big giants with Jubilee reproc.... this card must be insane.
IMO easly top 10 cards in the game for competitiveness and fun hands down. But very likely to be nerfed soon or later .
Not saying this with hate or anything, but what does a company owe to "creators"? Like you could make the argument that you are basically free advertising for the game, but at the same time I feel like if the game developers are working closely with the third party content makers... doesn't the authenticity of your content suffer? And even putting that aside, like, it seems like such a strange symbiosis to expect them to seek. Why would the developers of a major money making game want to let dozens and dozens of third parties know their internal machinations?
For someone as busy as Alex is, I can see why he thinks it’s a waste of time to open the caches.
Bugs are indeed game breaking. Alex immediately pointed out Nico. I have had Howard bugged for a few months where he was unplayable. Know someone who Araña wouldn't work for them. Where you have to close the game out for the but to quit but that's time ate up when you're in a match. Then the other day the game just crashes mid match and won't let me back in to a match for over an hour. Yeah buggy af is an Ugly.
Any deck you could play misery in, she can be replaced. Odin, grandmaster, spiderman symbiot. You can use all 3 WITHOUT losing power. You cant slam her on 6, you will lose all power and can just use Odin. Need carnage or venom to reproc? Use grandmaster or Spiderman. I just cant imagine her being useful, but then again I am not a smart man lol
Misery is gonna need more support than is available yet.
At this point she’s just more expensive grandmaster but worse.
Definitely holding down keys for Toxin next week. He’s gonna be one of the strongest this month
The bugs that keep pissing me are what Alex said about the reconnect glitch and the one that when I'm in a game and I click on a card and it disconnects me from the game during my turn
Giving Activate to On Reveals could be a nerf to them (e.g. Gambit) because it looses its synergy with wong/odin