18:24 What?! 3 was the best one! Humor balanced with real emotion and real life issues that solidified James Gunn as my favorite director and inspired me to watch Peacemaker for the first time. Chukwudi Iwuji is someone I've never heard of but he's a GREAT actor! I hated him so much that I loved the actor and I don't cry during movies but Guardians 3 got me the closest.
Yeah seriously. Honestly every guardians movie was just better than the previous one (hot take yeah 1 is the worst guardians movie but still makes my top ten mcu movies)
Probably too heavy for him. A lot of people cite the film as being a hard watch because of the animal experimentation stuff. Idk I loved it. The gamora and starlord stuff was kind of depressing as well, but Gunn was sort of cornered on that one after the Russo bros messed with his characters.
How about the Guardians steal the power from the card on the other side instead of just gaining it, they are kind of scoundrels it would fit thematically
There’s one big problem to those suggestions for buffing Rhino and her name is Wanda Maximoff. Even making him a 2/3 would be making him a “safer” version of the Scarlet Witch. Not that anyone plays her anymore; she could easily have been on today’s list herself.
She should be a 1/3 or a 2/4 to compensate for her randomness. Scarlet Witch is my favourite Marvel character and it's so sad to see her not being good.
Mail bag: I know this isn't exactly the newest, most unique idea. But PLEASE, just make it so each Guardian has a UNIQUE ABILITY that plays in addition to or instead of gaining power. For example... (Not necessarily perfectly balanced, just concept ideas) "On reveal: If the opponent also plays a card at this location this turn..." - Rocket keeps the +4, feels like it suits him. - Starlord gets like +3 and you can move him once. - Mantis copies the enemy card *and* gives it -1 cost. - Groot steals +1 from each enemy card at that location. - Drax destroys the lowest-cost enemy card at that location. - Gamora gives all other cards +1 power.
@source3nergy203 yeah, the ideas obviously aren't balanced - just throwing stuff out there to show what possibilities the cards COULD have. That said, +1 to every other one of your cards could easily end up being like +8.
I’m so petty that agent venom is a 2/5 with no downside. And my sweet sweet lizard…he used to be THE 2 drop. The power creep problem is only going to get worse. If only they would do a month of making old cards better. But that wouldn’t be very good for their pockets. I hope one day lizard and all cards can be played. In my dreams…😂
what do you mean no downside??? Are you kidding? He's basically bast now just 5 power. AND you can only put 3 power cards in your deck unless you want cards to have only 3 power.
Mailbag: Card acquisition could be fine, if second and third card in spotlight caches would be better. While High evo will show up for the 5th time (!!!) other cards never come back. I've made some research and here are some "Big Bads": Supergiant: came back to spotlight caches after release after 38 weeks. Blink: entered spotlight caches after release after 39 weeks. Gilgamesh: never been in spotlight caches, was released 27 weeks ago (and due to dataminers won't be in spotlight caches for next 10 weeks as well) Phastos: didn't return to spotlight caches after release for 24 weeks (and won't for next 10 weeks).
How about converting the "these cards suck" segment to a "least favorite card at every cost" segment? The brother to the best cards at every cost segment, that works so well? Love the show.
Alex old man moments like not understanding the lingo and reliving the good old days… they’re 10/10. I wouldn’t listen to anyone else get like that but Alex.
Guardians with Doom 2099 is something I'm thinking might work. With Nebula and Jean you can force your opponent to play one place then get Doom bots doing their thing also.
The Guardians are my favorite characters and I worked so hard to get gold splits on all of them and I never get to play them. I really hope we get reworks for them in the next few months. I think they can keep their 'if an your opponent played a card here...' but they need to give them unique abilities. My suggestions below for a few changes Mantis - The next card your opponent plays doesn't reveal until the start of next turn Groot - Add Baby Groot to your side of this location Baby Groot - At the start of each turn move to a random location and give a card there +1 power (moving each turn to emulate his dancing from the films) Drax - Destroy the top card of your opponents deck Star-Lord - Give your cards with increased power an extra +2 power // Give on reveals +2 power
@@source3nergy203 I'd love to have Star-Lord be a mini quest card like Thanos with something like 'if 3 or more guardians cards achieved their abilities gain +10 power' or something like that but I don't think snap will go down that route with grouping cards like that
Guardians with Doom 2099 is something I'm thinking might work. With Nebula and Jean you can force your opponent to play one place then get Doom bots doing their thing also.
Since it's near Christmas do you guys have any fun Christmas stories? or any weird gifts you have gotten from secret Santa? Love this podcast was my number 1 on my youtube rewind keep up the great work!
Mailbag: I usually listen to the snap chat during workouts on Mondays. You guys usually make me laugh bad enough to drop the barbell/weights on myself. That Skibbidi Sigma comment nearly crushed my skull, came out of nowhere 😂😂
Hot take: Balance should happen independent to any films coming out or any bundles being released. Having a bundle or season pass themed around the movie is enough. For example, I remember when the hellcow activate buff droped to perfectly line up with a black cat bundle, aka Hela meta. Pretty disgusting, both in terms of them bringing back a disliked archtype and then profiting off it.
15:24 For Kang I feel like they should just replace his ability with something like Nico’s. He’s usually using all this futuristic tech so just have him swap “weapons” every time you draw him or every turn. I just feel like any restart last turn ability simply isn’t worth it
Cool idea but that’s practically a new card. I thought about his ability doing something in addition to restarting the turn- for example, after the turn has restarted, the first card you play gets +2. You could get very creative with this, but it would give incentive and possibly SYNERGY to the card
mailbag: What do you guys think/wish for to come next cosmetic wise? I would love to see the option for "virgin" covers to turn on/off. The cards would look just like virgin comic book covers where there would be no text (cardname in Snaps case) at all and a full picture of the art. From the top of my head thinking about that one Abomination variant where Hulk is getting smashed on the ground but you almost can't even see him anymore as soon as you 3D upgrade the card, that would improve that variant by 1000% Keep up the 10/10 entertainment!
Yesterday, I started frantically listing in my sketchbook balance changes that I think should be made. Here's what I came up with: - Quicksilver, Domino, Sunspot, Martyr, Misty Knight, Shocker, Cyclops, The Thing, Abomination, Zero, Yellowjacket, Deathlok, Pixie, Cobra, and Invisible Woman: +1 base Power. (new stats: 1/3, 2/4, 1/1, 1/6, 1/3, 2/4, 3/5, 4/7, 5/10, 1/4, 0/3, 3/6, 2/2, 3/7, 2/4) - Bast and Giganto: +2 base Power. (new stats: 1/3, 6/16) - Loki, Blob, Storm, and Rock Slide: Revert the nerfs that ruined them. (new stats: 4/5, 6/0, 3/2, 3/3) - Darkhawk: -1 base Power. - War Machine: -6 base Power and -2 base Cost. (new stats: 2/0) - Ebony Maw: No longer stops you from placing cards at his location on turns 1, 2, and 3. - Hawkeye: Ability now gives +4 Power. - Rhino: +1 base Power and gains the additional ability "Nothing can stop you from moving or playing this to any location." - America Chavez: -1 base Power and ability now affects the top 2 cards of your deck. - Sentinel (Option A): Gains the additional ability "Activate: Add another Sentinel to your hand." - Sentinel (Option B): Ability now adds a 4-Power Sentinel. - Baron Mordo: Ability change: "On Reveal: Give the cards that cost the least in your opponent's deck +2 Cost." - Heimdall: -3 base Power and ability change: "On Reveal: Move your other cards 1 space towards the location with the fewest cards on your side." - Baron Zemo: -2 base Power and ability is now Activate rather than On Reveal. - Orka: Ability change: "On Reveal: Move your other cards here away." - Shuri: Ability change: "On Reveal: Double the Power of the next card you play here." - Kang (Option A): +9 base Power and ability change: "On Reveal: When this turn ends, restart it without this card's abilities. (if this started the turn in your hand)" - Kang (Option B): -1 base Cost, +5 base Power, and ability change: "Activate: Restart this turn when it ends. Only this card remains unchanged." (new stats: 5/9, 4/5)
This just dawned on me, scrolling through my multitude of infinite duplicates… why can’t they make a system where we can trade them in for tokens or for a new card? Maybe it’s already been discussed, just thought I’d share.
For the Guardians, I'd suggest having their ability trigger for *each* card played at that location that turn. Probably more that could be done, but it would be a start. Mantis and Warlock probably needs more work too.
Mailbag: I have an idea for a change to the Collector Reserves and wanted your thoughts. What if we changed them into Collector Keys and let players open what type of reserve they want to open. There would also be changes made to each reserve type and Token reserves would be removed. New Card Reserve - Series 3 card you don't own. If you are S3 complete then you would either pull 300-600 collector's tokens or have a small chance to pull an S4 or S5 card you don't own. This would be 1/10th of the value of an S4 or S5, and that is way better than 1/30th or 1/60th of the value of S4/5 cards. Credit Reserve - 150, 200, or rarely you could pull 500 credits Cosmetic Reserve - Titles, Avatars, Emotes, Boarders, etc... would be included here Variant Reserve - Mystery Variant or a rare chance at a Premium Mystery Variant that you could either open now or save.
Mailbag: What are 3 things you would do to improve card acquisition? Mine - 1. Remove gold conquest tickets from the CL track and replace that and the 100 tokens with 250-500 tokens, also increase the token rewards across the board or decrease the token cost 2. Add a free S4/5 card each month, like the S3 card we get each month. 3. Make series drops regular again at a 1 in, 1 out rate
MAILBAG: Since it is the season, whats the weirdest movie your family considers a xmas movie due to some bizarre circumstance? Forget about Home Alones, Die Hards or for the new kids the harry potters. Mine would be Alien... time the xenomorph popping out on the stroke of midnight... chef's kiss
Alex...Cozy... I love you guys, you make my Monday's so much better. Loved the section and worst card in Snap. Alex, bro. You need to calm down, 😆 🤣 But I'm right there with you. Thank you guys for the stellar hard work you guys do Happy Snapping
Rhino should also have, "Location effects cannot stop you from playing this anywhere before Turn 6." Then you can blow up problematic locations, but your opponent still gets at least one turn fo use those locations as well.
Too late for MAILBAG for next week?? Just wanted to wish you and Cozy the happiest of holidays. I’m a dad of two girls and part of why I enjoy your content is that the kids always come up in the convo! Dad gamers are the best! Happy Holidays!
actualy kang is in my legion, howard, ironlad, collector deck as a final backup to push another different card on hand without losing a turn, it saves me a lot and giving a plot twist to win the match. cheers
Rhino could have an ongoing ability where they give Rhino his own 3 locations like 1 where no cards can't be destroyed here this turn, rhino gain +1 power, and of course his ruin location still. Rotects those as a 3/3 would be a fire card!!! or maybe it has "The next card played here is protected by Rhino, so a mini armor for 1 card... They can be boring and make him a 2/4 with the same ability, but has it as "this location can not be changed"...
I would love if they made Mr fantastic give +2 to two other locations, or +4 if he affects only one location, that’ll at least give him so kind of play
I have a similar idea for Rhino... Rhino - 3/4 or 5 On Reveal: Destroy the location and fill the location with rubble Rubble - 1/0 At the start of the turn, If this location is full, destroy this card This would mean you basically have to play one card at a time at the location This would also come with a change for Ruined locations, if a location is ruined its filled with the Rubble token card I like how Kang works currently, but I have tried to come up with stuff they could do to change it, and everything I come up with is either extremely powerful or just worst lol
An idea I thought of for Kang is keep same ability but also steal 1 energy from your opponent for this turn. This is at the very minimum of a change they could make
lol i keep replaying Alex's Mantis rant. recently i put together the old guardians lockdown and i wanted to put Mantis in there so badly since i have all the other Guardians but she was just too bad for me i couldn't pull the trigger
Mailbag* " how about these two possible changes to lizard: Make him a 3-8. If your opponent's side is full he goes down to a 3-4. Or make him a 3-4, and the last card to fill either side turns into a 0-2 lizard." I really would like to play lizard again. They have to change him.
MAILBAG: Cozy, I understand Christmas carol classics will always be classics. But some of the new Christmas music are bangers. As someone in California I feel like you’d really relate to “winter things” and “snow in California” by Ariana grande. All love tho lol love you guys
i think what they should do for the guardians is to copy the idea of high evo decks and make it so that if you have all the guardians in your deck they will get an additional 2 power when activating their ability
*Mailbag* I still think a good change for the Guardians would be to give them the boost if the opponent plays a card there AFTER the turn you Reveal it. They are all less than 6 energy so you can play them when you need to. You get a small advantage if the opponent decides to avoid it or a buff if they do. They can still be countered by Cosmo and Shadow King. Get buffs from second On Reveals. And lean into Adam and the other “Guardian” themed cards. Making it all about the earlier planning and card placement gameplay. While still keeping in the spirit of the original design.
Instead of having Mr Fantastic in the middle, make him give +3 power to AN adjacent location, and +2 to the farthest location. OR make him a mini-Tribunal and a boost target where his power is spread between all locations?
I found a targeted discard deck with black knight, kang and dracula that was been so fun man, kang has become my favourite card in the game to just retreat, or thin the hand, or get in their head. Won so many games by Snap -> Kang -> Snap lmao
11:26 Magik is so much better than Rhino lol. In fact Magik is the best location changer in the game! I have her in every deck I have because it gives you location control that isn't random like Scarlet Witch AND it gives you an extra turn!
For the Guardians, I have been thinking of their game and how each character works. So here is my ideas for them besides Rocket (cause I think he feels fine in Zoo or Bounce). Gamora is very much a ruthless assassin. So why not have her be a card that reflects that a bit more. Like Gladiator, a card below her power on the opposite side, gets "cut in half" so they lose half their power. Drax loves fighting people of equal or greater strength so how about he "wrestles" an opponent of equal or higher power and slowly drains their power over time. Groot protects and crowd controls, so he gives his fellow deck mates a shell of roots so they can avoid damage one time (so locations like death chamber won't instant kill them but if they are 1 cost, killmonger can still get them afterwards). Peter in the game has different elemental guns, so why not give him the NIko treatement and give a random elelment with a different effect when he reveals?) and Mantis can be an activate that convinces an enemy card to join her side (not the hand, not the deck, the location)
Gamora 5/7, on reveal “halve the power of other cards here” or 5/2 “halve the power of your opponents cards at this location” Drax 4/4, on reveal “steal 2 power from a higher cost enemy card” or 4/4 “each turn if there is a higher cost card here steal 1 power” Groot, 3/3, on reveal “cards here this turn and next can’t be affected by other cards and/or locations” Mantis, 1/2, on reveal “if your opponent played a card here this turn, your opponents lowest cost/power card swaps sides” Star lord…how many and what does he do?
@source3nergy203 Ey this is a nice proper notes. Ok so...for Peter...I am thinking that he could have a stun or damage ability. So kinda like how Gwenpool hits random people with power he hits random people with negative power on the enemy side. The stun hits their cost. I am just kinda coming up with this on the spot so its not fully fleshed out. What do you think?
@ so far, star lord, on reveal “condition,” and could be these two but I’d like one or two more things he could do “afflict 3 random enemy cards with -1 power” or “any enemy cards played this turn don’t reveal until next turn”
I don't play Ebony Knight at all, even before the nerf. 4 cost is awkward to play and I have to discard a high power thing just to be worth it, and I prefer traditional discard style decks instead
A possible buff for lizard is make him kurt conners that would work similarly to the new bruce banner card. Transforming into the lizard once the locations is full or vice versa. Power buff would be needed of course
For guardians: has +1 power for each other guardian in play. Sort of like the valentines event they did. It would be in addition to their existing ability.
I took about a 9 month break from Snap and Alex is right, I'm screwed. Basically missing 3-5 cards for every archetype. I only sometimes win when I focus on two lanes and surprise them with an Iron Man followed up by a Mystique, and even that doesn't do very well. It's also crazy to see the collection level of people I'm playing against. I would say most are twice mine, but I have gone against several that are 3-5 times higher. Hard to compete with that.
25:59 this point right in here is what I’m shocked and nobody has brought up. Rivals got 10 million players in three days, it feels like marvel snap could of benefited more from that in any way😂😂 but they dropped the ball it feels like.
Just incase someone hasn’t said something already. The skibidi sigma thing is ironic humor created by combining two random pieces of internet culture. It has no real meaning. It’s honestly a little clever I think, it took a lot longer for us older internet folks to recognize that slang doesn’t need to make sense or have any easily defined meaning.
When I first saw Kang card, I thought it would do something like Daredevil, by moving back time and giving only the player who placed it the chance to change their play, and locking in place all the actions the opponent did, for replay. But given both can change what they can do, it sounded like dumb and anoying 🤷🏽♂
I think the problem with Rhino is that is they drop his cost, he kills Scarlet Witch because he's then a better option. Make him a 3/4, what's the worst that could happen?
Can the “These cards suck” segment get replaced with the top cheap(er) deck builds? Or top replacement cards for decks currently high in the meta that people like myself might be missing 1 or 2 cards.
Ive noticed over time just how much new players dont have to work with. I almost never see a deck that doesnt have at least 4 or more series 4/5 cards. I also feel like its a cool thought exersize to try to make a good deck with only one or two high series cards.
I don't just experiment themselves... But what you have and for the ones you don't just use your brain and experiment. When you put the cards together and play you will learn what is and isn't working out... Most decks people are missing that one piece to make the deck crazy.
You shouldn't wait for a "meta" budget deck. Play with the cards you love, build your own list with niche synergies you uncover yourself and you'll be good to go ! You'll be better off than having a "meta" deck everyone knows by heart
I've been proposing this Rhino idea for ages, but I really think it would fit him and make him an interesting card. Keep him at 3/3. Maybe even 4/4. The text would say: On Reveal: Destroy this location. Next turn he moves to the right and repeats this ability if possible.
Spider-Woman is interesting. As a 5-cost shes awkward in Afflict because you usually want to Ajax on 5 and Hazmat on 6. So far, 5s seem to need to either be unique Ongoing effects like Iron Man or Klaw, archetype build around 'anchors' like Ajax, Dino, Darkhawk, Gilgamesh or big body synergy pieces like Aero in Scream. Spider-Woman is none of those but that upcoming card could put her in a position similar to Aero.
Mailbag: Mr. Fantastic should just get a complete rework to a more unique effect -- don't make it a weak Ms. Marvel -- make it "On Reveal: move one of your cards from adjacent locations to this location." Still uses his "stretchy" lore. Or move cards away.
I am really annoyed then used Rocket and Groot for this new combined card instead of Cloak and Dagger. It’s like they designed it for Cloak and Dagger and then changed their minds afterwards.
Mailbag after 3 days playing Rivals, going back to Snap felt like going back to a toxic relationship 😂 Rivals is just more fun and you can play any chracter you want!
Mailbag question: Should SD up the percentage rate of getting the new card of the week using Spotlight Keys from 25% to 40%? It's not a perfect solution for new card acquisition but at least it would be a move in the right direction.
I'd be curious about your thoughts for potential buffs for Captain America Brave New World characters. We got an Agatha buff around when Agatha All Along released. Between Leader and Red Hulk, I guess Leader could use more of a buff, though I hope they're cautious with it if they do one.
I play Lizard in my main deck for the express purpose of giving my Venom +5 power early in the game. Lizard is one of my favorite Marvel characters but Snap is doing him dirty rn 😮💨
Mailbag: This is not a bit....I want a buff the Mister Fantastic BECAUSE of the InkPulp varient. I am a near complete collection player, with a tonne of varients, and this is easily in my top 3, along with Luchador Red Guardian and Noir Professor X.
It's odd to me that groot and drax don't at least get to 8 and 10 power respectively. Drax getting to 10 power would let him fill a niche of an accessible 4/10 for skaar decks too even though he would be kinda unreliable, and hitting him would actually trigger surtur unlike jessica jones. Groot having such a risky condition when speed basically says hey i reach the same statline or higher in 99% of games is just embarrassing and the upcoming R&G card will match his power output fast while also being able to move
18:24 What?! 3 was the best one! Humor balanced with real emotion and real life issues that solidified James Gunn as my favorite director and inspired me to watch Peacemaker for the first time. Chukwudi Iwuji is someone I've never heard of but he's a GREAT actor! I hated him so much that I loved the actor and I don't cry during movies but Guardians 3 got me the closest.
I had replay it over because I couldn't believe Alex said that
Yeah seriously. Honestly every guardians movie was just better than the previous one (hot take yeah 1 is the worst guardians movie but still makes my top ten mcu movies)
I'm so glad I ran to the comments. There are hot takes and there are HOT TAKES. How can you hate 3 Alex?!?!
I think the other 2 are better but I wouldn't exclude #3 specifically when saying they're better than most other marvel films.
yeah wtf, 3 is one of the best mcu films imo
Kang in the Tourney is Alex's version of Al Bundy's 4 touchdowns in a single game
I wonder how many will not understand your reference because they are too young.
Bundy! Bundy! Polk High Legend! 4 td’s in one game! I hear he went on to get married and have two…err three kids and a dog! Sold shoes for a living!
God tier reference
I cannot believe Alex dislikes Guardians 3... What the hell man 😅
Probably too heavy for him. A lot of people cite the film as being a hard watch because of the animal experimentation stuff. Idk I loved it. The gamora and starlord stuff was kind of depressing as well, but Gunn was sort of cornered on that one after the Russo bros messed with his characters.
Just a big bummer of a movie
Beat me to it man haha
@@Faltzerbeast90 It's a beautiful bummer of a movie.
It's part of the downfall of the Marvel universe of movies, so yeah checks out.
How about the Guardians steal the power from the card on the other side instead of just gaining it, they are kind of scoundrels it would fit thematically
Lizard solition, if your opponents side is filled, -4, if your side is filled, +4
Love this
There’s one big problem to those suggestions for buffing Rhino and her name is Wanda Maximoff. Even making him a 2/3 would be making him a “safer” version of the Scarlet Witch. Not that anyone plays her anymore; she could easily have been on today’s list herself.
She should be a 1/3 or a 2/4 to compensate for her randomness. Scarlet Witch is my favourite Marvel character and it's so sad to see her not being good.
On reveal “transform your opponents rightmost card into a card that costs 1 less”
Alex dropping some Gen-Z slang to reel in those last 500 subs
Mail bag: I know this isn't exactly the newest, most unique idea. But PLEASE, just make it so each Guardian has a UNIQUE ABILITY that plays in addition to or instead of gaining power. For example... (Not necessarily perfectly balanced, just concept ideas)
"On reveal: If the opponent also plays a card at this location this turn..."
- Rocket keeps the +4, feels like it suits him.
- Starlord gets like +3 and you can move him once.
- Mantis copies the enemy card *and* gives it -1 cost.
- Groot steals +1 from each enemy card at that location.
- Drax destroys the lowest-cost enemy card at that location.
- Gamora gives all other cards +1 power.
I like it but Gamora seems like a nerf
@source3nergy203 yeah, the ideas obviously aren't balanced - just throwing stuff out there to show what possibilities the cards COULD have. That said, +1 to every other one of your cards could easily end up being like +8.
@@source3nergy203 could change her to a 4 cost, they don't all have to stay as what they are currently
@@arazec1014 oh I thought it was just to the location
@ no, I wouldn’t change her cost as 5 costs are typically really good
Rhino card idea. When ge destroys the location, the location sharpnal hits your opponents cards and gives them -1. He could also be activate.
Love this idea
I’m so petty that agent venom is a 2/5 with no downside. And my sweet sweet lizard…he used to be THE 2 drop. The power creep problem is only going to get worse. If only they would do a month of making old cards better. But that wouldn’t be very good for their pockets. I hope one day lizard and all cards can be played. In my dreams…😂
lizard released today would be 2/7 easily
He has a downside. You have to play him in decks that benefit from his ability or you just nerf your own cards.
what do you mean no downside??? Are you kidding? He's basically bast now just 5 power. AND you can only put 3 power cards in your deck unless you want cards to have only 3 power.
Mailbag: Card acquisition could be fine, if second and third card in spotlight caches would be better. While High evo will show up for the 5th time (!!!) other cards never come back. I've made some research and here are some "Big Bads":
Supergiant: came back to spotlight caches after release after 38 weeks.
Blink: entered spotlight caches after release after 39 weeks.
Gilgamesh: never been in spotlight caches, was released 27 weeks ago (and due to dataminers won't be in spotlight caches for next 10 weeks as well)
Phastos: didn't return to spotlight caches after release for 24 weeks (and won't for next 10 weeks).
Mailbag question: What is Cozy's real first name? In my head canon it is Alex as well.
I will not tolerate the inkpulp Mr. fantastic SLANDER!! That variant is actually really cool looking imo
How about converting the "these cards suck" segment to a "least favorite card at every cost" segment? The brother to the best cards at every cost segment, that works so well? Love the show.
Alex old man moments like not understanding the lingo and reliving the good old days… they’re 10/10. I wouldn’t listen to anyone else get like that but Alex.
Guardians with Doom 2099 is something I'm thinking might work. With Nebula and Jean you can force your opponent to play one place then get Doom bots doing their thing also.
The Guardians are my favorite characters and I worked so hard to get gold splits on all of them and I never get to play them. I really hope we get reworks for them in the next few months. I think they can keep their 'if an your opponent played a card here...' but they need to give them unique abilities. My suggestions below for a few changes
Mantis - The next card your opponent plays doesn't reveal until the start of next turn
Groot - Add Baby Groot to your side of this location
Baby Groot - At the start of each turn move to a random location and give a card there +1 power (moving each turn to emulate his dancing from the films)
Drax - Destroy the top card of your opponents deck
Star-Lord - Give your cards with increased power an extra +2 power // Give on reveals +2 power
I like it
@@source3nergy203 I'd love to have Star-Lord be a mini quest card like Thanos with something like 'if 3 or more guardians cards achieved their abilities gain +10 power' or something like that but I don't think snap will go down that route with grouping cards like that
@@ZestWispa maybe if they introduce game modes but as it is now, no
Guardians with Doom 2099 is something I'm thinking might work. With Nebula and Jean you can force your opponent to play one place then get Doom bots doing their thing also.
That Mantis rework is 🔥 especially if they give her a 'sleeeeeeep' voiceline
Alex's shocker sound effect was incredibly convincing...what a hidden talent! So skippity Sigma ( I haven't the slighest idea of what that means btw)
I use mr. Fantastic with goose and i think it's pretty good
I'm so happy that Cozy and his friends also played the "Finish your beer during a race of Mario Kart but you can't drink and drive" game.
Scarlet Witch is the most egregious example of a card that sucks featuring a character that deserves way better
2/3, on reveal “transform the right most card into your opponents hand to a card that costs 1 less”
Honeslty Scarlet witch might just need a power buff. Her ability is fine but with there being better options she feels pretty whatever
C3 is the only home i've ever had for Rhino.
Its so funny watching this as a brand new player as most of these cards i legit see or use to some extent
Since it's near Christmas do you guys have any fun Christmas stories? or any weird gifts you have gotten from secret Santa? Love this podcast was my number 1 on my youtube rewind keep up the great work!
Mailbag: I usually listen to the snap chat during workouts on Mondays. You guys usually make me laugh bad enough to drop the barbell/weights on myself.
That Skibbidi Sigma comment nearly crushed my skull, came out of nowhere 😂😂
Hot take: Balance should happen independent to any films coming out or any bundles being released. Having a bundle or season pass themed around the movie is enough. For example, I remember when the hellcow activate buff droped to perfectly line up with a black cat bundle, aka Hela meta. Pretty disgusting, both in terms of them bringing back a disliked archtype and then profiting off it.
Ice cold take haha
Yeah this ain’t it.
Ah yes, Black Cat a series 3 card that can easily be cut from discard. You just want to be mad at SD
(sure, even though this was for the release of activate alongside black swan)
15:24 For Kang I feel like they should just replace his ability with something like Nico’s. He’s usually using all this futuristic tech so just have him swap “weapons” every time you draw him or every turn.
I just feel like any restart last turn ability simply isn’t worth it
Cool idea but that’s practically a new card. I thought about his ability doing something in addition to restarting the turn- for example, after the turn has restarted, the first card you play gets +2. You could get very creative with this, but it would give incentive and possibly SYNERGY to the card
He disappears and you draw a card would be nice.
mailbag: What do you guys think/wish for to come next cosmetic wise?
I would love to see the option for "virgin" covers to turn on/off. The cards would look just like virgin comic book covers where there would be no text (cardname in Snaps case) at all and a full picture of the art. From the top of my head thinking about that one Abomination variant where Hulk is getting smashed on the ground but you almost can't even see him anymore as soon as you 3D upgrade the card, that would improve that variant by 1000%
Keep up the 10/10 entertainment!
5:44 that’s hopium lmao we don’t even have character mastery and that was on the coming soon
Yesterday, I started frantically listing in my sketchbook balance changes that I think should be made. Here's what I came up with:
- Quicksilver, Domino, Sunspot, Martyr, Misty Knight, Shocker, Cyclops, The Thing, Abomination, Zero, Yellowjacket, Deathlok, Pixie, Cobra, and Invisible Woman: +1 base Power.
(new stats: 1/3, 2/4, 1/1, 1/6, 1/3, 2/4, 3/5, 4/7, 5/10, 1/4, 0/3, 3/6, 2/2, 3/7, 2/4)
- Bast and Giganto: +2 base Power.
(new stats: 1/3, 6/16)
- Loki, Blob, Storm, and Rock Slide: Revert the nerfs that ruined them.
(new stats: 4/5, 6/0, 3/2, 3/3)
- Darkhawk: -1 base Power.
- War Machine: -6 base Power and -2 base Cost.
(new stats: 2/0)
- Ebony Maw: No longer stops you from placing cards at his location on turns 1, 2, and 3.
- Hawkeye: Ability now gives +4 Power.
- Rhino: +1 base Power and gains the additional ability "Nothing can stop you from moving or playing this to any location."
- America Chavez: -1 base Power and ability now affects the top 2 cards of your deck.
- Sentinel (Option A): Gains the additional ability "Activate: Add another Sentinel to your hand."
- Sentinel (Option B): Ability now adds a 4-Power Sentinel.
- Baron Mordo: Ability change: "On Reveal: Give the cards that cost the least in your opponent's deck +2 Cost."
- Heimdall: -3 base Power and ability change: "On Reveal: Move your other cards 1 space towards the location with the fewest cards on your side."
- Baron Zemo: -2 base Power and ability is now Activate rather than On Reveal.
- Orka: Ability change: "On Reveal: Move your other cards here away."
- Shuri: Ability change: "On Reveal: Double the Power of the next card you play here."
- Kang (Option A): +9 base Power and ability change: "On Reveal: When this turn ends, restart it without this card's abilities. (if this started the turn in your hand)"
- Kang (Option B): -1 base Cost, +5 base Power, and ability change: "Activate: Restart this turn when it ends. Only this card remains unchanged."
(new stats: 5/9, 4/5)
This just dawned on me, scrolling through my multitude of infinite duplicates… why can’t they make a system where we can trade them in for tokens or for a new card?
Maybe it’s already been discussed, just thought I’d share.
Lizard 2/5: Each time your opponent plays a card at this location, -1 to lizard
For Lizard as a buff, add in an Activate wherein he can whiptail "move" one card away from its location so it can keep its 5 power hehe
For the Guardians, I'd suggest having their ability trigger for *each* card played at that location that turn.
Probably more that could be done, but it would be a start.
Mantis and Warlock probably needs more work too.
We NEEEEEEED to compare high school football pics of Cozy and Alex
Mailbag: I have an idea for a change to the Collector Reserves and wanted your thoughts. What if we changed them into Collector Keys and let players open what type of reserve they want to open. There would also be changes made to each reserve type and Token reserves would be removed.
New Card Reserve - Series 3 card you don't own. If you are S3 complete then you would either pull 300-600 collector's tokens or have a small chance to pull an S4 or S5 card you don't own. This would be 1/10th of the value of an S4 or S5, and that is way better than 1/30th or 1/60th of the value of S4/5 cards.
Credit Reserve - 150, 200, or rarely you could pull 500 credits
Cosmetic Reserve - Titles, Avatars, Emotes, Boarders, etc... would be included here
Variant Reserve - Mystery Variant or a rare chance at a Premium Mystery Variant that you could either open now or save.
Mailbag: What are 3 things you would do to improve card acquisition?
Mine -
1. Remove gold conquest tickets from the CL track and replace that and the 100 tokens with 250-500 tokens, also increase the token rewards across the board or decrease the token cost
2. Add a free S4/5 card each month, like the S3 card we get each month.
3. Make series drops regular again at a 1 in, 1 out rate
Spider Woman:
Change to 4/7 + on reveal to activate. There you have it.
17:25 thats some therapeutic shit right there, let it all out Alex 🤣
MAILBAG: Since it is the season, whats the weirdest movie your family considers a xmas movie due to some bizarre circumstance? Forget about Home Alones, Die Hards or for the new kids the harry potters. Mine would be Alien... time the xenomorph popping out on the stroke of midnight... chef's kiss
Alex...Cozy...
I love you guys, you make my Monday's so much better. Loved the section and worst card in Snap. Alex, bro. You need to calm down, 😆 🤣 But I'm right there with you.
Thank you guys for the stellar hard work you guys do
Happy Snapping
Rhino should also have, "Location effects cannot stop you from playing this anywhere before Turn 6." Then you can blow up problematic locations, but your opponent still gets at least one turn fo use those locations as well.
Alex, you and Cozy need a Rivals Chat just saying, the people would love it
Too late for MAILBAG for next week??
Just wanted to wish you and Cozy the happiest of holidays. I’m a dad of two girls and part of why I enjoy your content is that the kids always come up in the convo! Dad gamers are the best! Happy Holidays!
actualy kang is in my legion, howard, ironlad, collector deck as a final backup to push another different card on hand without losing a turn, it saves me a lot and giving a plot twist to win the match. cheers
Rhino could have an ongoing ability where they give Rhino his own 3 locations like 1 where no cards can't be destroyed here this turn, rhino gain +1 power, and of course his ruin location still. Rotects those as a 3/3 would be a fire card!!!
or maybe it has "The next card played here is protected by Rhino, so a mini armor for 1 card...
They can be boring and make him a 2/4 with the same ability, but has it as "this location can not be changed"...
I would love if they made Mr fantastic give +2 to two other locations, or +4 if he affects only one location, that’ll at least give him so kind of play
I have a similar idea for Rhino...
Rhino - 3/4 or 5
On Reveal: Destroy the location and fill the location with rubble
Rubble - 1/0
At the start of the turn, If this location is full, destroy this card
This would mean you basically have to play one card at a time at the location
This would also come with a change for Ruined locations, if a location is ruined its filled with the Rubble token card
I like how Kang works currently, but I have tried to come up with stuff they could do to change it, and everything I come up with is either extremely powerful or just worst lol
An idea I thought of for Kang is keep same ability but also steal 1 energy from your opponent for this turn. This is at the very minimum of a change they could make
lol i keep replaying Alex's Mantis rant. recently i put together the old guardians lockdown and i wanted to put Mantis in there so badly since i have all the other Guardians but she was just too bad for me i couldn't pull the trigger
Alex should add all the cars Cozy owes him to his Christmas wish list
Mailbag* " how about these two possible changes to lizard: Make him a 3-8. If your opponent's side is full he goes down to a 3-4. Or make him a 3-4, and the last card to fill either side turns into a 0-2 lizard." I really would like to play lizard again. They have to change him.
The reason it wasn't in Rivals is that it wasn't really a collaboration, really seems like it was a Rivals advertisement in snap.
Mr.Fantastic should give his power to adjacent locations, so you could make some kinda buff deck around him
MAILBAG: Cozy, I understand Christmas carol classics will always be classics. But some of the new Christmas music are bangers. As someone in California I feel like you’d really relate to “winter things” and “snow in California” by Ariana grande. All love tho lol love you guys
i think what they should do for the guardians is to copy the idea of high evo decks and make it so that if you have all the guardians in your deck they will get an additional 2 power when activating their ability
You know what card is horrible? - Colossus. That guy never even gets mentioned! He literally does nothing :D
*Mailbag* I still think a good change for the Guardians would be to give them the boost if the opponent plays a card there AFTER the turn you Reveal it.
They are all less than 6 energy so you can play them when you need to. You get a small advantage if the opponent decides to avoid it or a buff if they do.
They can still be countered by Cosmo and Shadow King. Get buffs from second On Reveals. And lean into Adam and the other “Guardian” themed cards. Making it all about the earlier planning and card placement gameplay.
While still keeping in the spirit of the original design.
Instead of having Mr Fantastic in the middle, make him give +3 power to AN adjacent location, and +2 to the farthest location. OR make him a mini-Tribunal and a boost target where his power is spread between all locations?
I found a targeted discard deck with black knight, kang and dracula that was been so fun man, kang has become my favourite card in the game to just retreat, or thin the hand, or get in their head. Won so many games by Snap -> Kang -> Snap lmao
The first spotlights were Knull, Jean Grey, and Living Tribunal.
I broke the rules, I took a shot every time Alex said “what’re we doing here??”
11:26 Magik is so much better than Rhino lol. In fact Magik is the best location changer in the game! I have her in every deck I have because it gives you location control that isn't random like Scarlet Witch AND it gives you an extra turn!
It just gives YOU a turn 7? What about your opponent? 😅 she's good but that extra turn gives your opponent another turn also
For the Guardians, I have been thinking of their game and how each character works. So here is my ideas for them besides Rocket (cause I think he feels fine in Zoo or Bounce). Gamora is very much a ruthless assassin. So why not have her be a card that reflects that a bit more. Like Gladiator, a card below her power on the opposite side, gets "cut in half" so they lose half their power. Drax loves fighting people of equal or greater strength so how about he "wrestles" an opponent of equal or higher power and slowly drains their power over time. Groot protects and crowd controls, so he gives his fellow deck mates a shell of roots so they can avoid damage one time (so locations like death chamber won't instant kill them but if they are 1 cost, killmonger can still get them afterwards). Peter in the game has different elemental guns, so why not give him the NIko treatement and give a random elelment with a different effect when he reveals?) and Mantis can be an activate that convinces an enemy card to join her side (not the hand, not the deck, the location)
Gamora 5/7, on reveal “halve the power of other cards here” or 5/2 “halve the power of your opponents cards at this location”
Drax 4/4, on reveal “steal 2 power from a higher cost enemy card” or 4/4 “each turn if there is a higher cost card here steal 1 power”
Groot, 3/3, on reveal “cards here this turn and next can’t be affected by other cards and/or locations”
Mantis, 1/2, on reveal “if your opponent played a card here this turn, your opponents lowest cost/power card swaps sides”
Star lord…how many and what does he do?
@source3nergy203 Ey this is a nice proper notes. Ok so...for Peter...I am thinking that he could have a stun or damage ability. So kinda like how Gwenpool hits random people with power he hits random people with negative power on the enemy side. The stun hits their cost. I am just kinda coming up with this on the spot so its not fully fleshed out. What do you think?
@ so far, star lord, on reveal “condition,” and could be these two but I’d like one or two more things he could do “afflict 3 random enemy cards with -1 power” or “any enemy cards played this turn don’t reveal until next turn”
I see Mr. Fantastic variant " so sick. Arms are so wiggly"
ALEX "ITS TRASH"
I don't play Ebony Knight at all, even before the nerf. 4 cost is awkward to play and I have to discard a high power thing just to be worth it, and I prefer traditional discard style decks instead
A possible buff for lizard is make him kurt conners that would work similarly to the new bruce banner card. Transforming into the lizard once the locations is full or vice versa. Power buff would be needed of course
For guardians: has +1 power for each other guardian in play. Sort of like the valentines event they did. It would be in addition to their existing ability.
Still garbage
I took about a 9 month break from Snap and Alex is right, I'm screwed. Basically missing 3-5 cards for every archetype. I only sometimes win when I focus on two lanes and surprise them with an Iron Man followed up by a Mystique, and even that doesn't do very well. It's also crazy to see the collection level of people I'm playing against. I would say most are twice mine, but I have gone against several that are 3-5 times higher. Hard to compete with that.
Peni focused decks are amazing. i love her and the merge deck, esp with symbiot Spider AND moon girl
25:59 this point right in here is what I’m shocked and nobody has brought up. Rivals got 10 million players in three days, it feels like marvel snap could of benefited more from that in any way😂😂 but they dropped the ball it feels like.
Just incase someone hasn’t said something already. The skibidi sigma thing is ironic humor created by combining two random pieces of internet culture.
It has no real meaning.
It’s honestly a little clever I think, it took a lot longer for us older internet folks to recognize that slang doesn’t need to make sense or have any easily defined meaning.
Drax didn't even get mentioned as worst cards in the game. Agreed, I wish they would revert Ebony Blade nerf.
When I first saw Kang card, I thought it would do something like Daredevil, by moving back time and giving only the player who placed it the chance to change their play, and locking in place all the actions the opponent did, for replay. But given both can change what they can do, it sounded like dumb and anoying 🤷🏽♂
I think the problem with Rhino is that is they drop his cost, he kills Scarlet Witch because he's then a better option. Make him a 3/4, what's the worst that could happen?
Love the card that suck part
Mailbag: which was the best new holiday song you found from the recomendation under part 1? And why was it White Wine in the Sun by Tim Minchin?
Can the “These cards suck” segment get replaced with the top cheap(er) deck builds? Or top replacement cards for decks currently high in the meta that people like myself might be missing 1 or 2 cards.
Ive noticed over time just how much new players dont have to work with. I almost never see a deck that doesnt have at least 4 or more series 4/5 cards. I also feel like its a cool thought exersize to try to make a good deck with only one or two high series cards.
Google marvel snap decks problem solved.
I don't just experiment themselves... But what you have and for the ones you don't just use your brain and experiment.
When you put the cards together and play you will learn what is and isn't working out... Most decks people are missing that one piece to make the deck crazy.
“Cheap deck builds”
LMAAAAOOOOO
You shouldn't wait for a "meta" budget deck. Play with the cards you love, build your own list with niche synergies you uncover yourself and you'll be good to go ! You'll be better off than having a "meta" deck everyone knows by heart
I've been proposing this Rhino idea for ages, but I really think it would fit him and make him an interesting card. Keep him at 3/3. Maybe even 4/4. The text would say: On Reveal: Destroy this location. Next turn he moves to the right and repeats this ability if possible.
Spider-Woman is interesting. As a 5-cost shes awkward in Afflict because you usually want to Ajax on 5 and Hazmat on 6. So far, 5s seem to need to either be unique Ongoing effects like Iron Man or Klaw, archetype build around 'anchors' like Ajax, Dino, Darkhawk, Gilgamesh or big body synergy pieces like Aero in Scream.
Spider-Woman is none of those but that upcoming card could put her in a position similar to Aero.
What they should do with lizard is make it a 2 5 no ability and then give it abilities with high evolutionary
Mailbag: Mr. Fantastic should just get a complete rework to a more unique effect -- don't make it a weak Ms. Marvel -- make it "On Reveal: move one of your cards from adjacent locations to this location." Still uses his "stretchy" lore. Or move cards away.
Alex cooking in this episode lol
I was planning to skip peni this month to go for Rocket, but i had one extra key, and I got her on that key, so I am getting every card this month
Rhino makes sense at 3:4 - "Destroy this location, can be played anywhere"
Y’all were talking about different apocalypses. Alex was talking about the biblical Rapture while Cozy was talking about the Mayan calendar.
I am really annoyed then used Rocket and Groot for this new combined card instead of Cloak and Dagger. It’s like they designed it for Cloak and Dagger and then changed their minds afterwards.
alex you're so close to 100K subs
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Thank you!!!
Mailbag after 3 days playing Rivals, going back to Snap felt like going back to a toxic relationship 😂 Rivals is just more fun and you can play any chracter you want!
Mailbag question: Should SD up the percentage rate of getting the new card of the week using Spotlight Keys from 25% to 40%? It's not a perfect solution for new card acquisition but at least it would be a move in the right direction.
Mailbag - snapchat idea for the holiday period, Cozy V Alex, best of 5, Marvel Snap. Who says no!?
Kang could be a 4/4 with the same effect but as an activate.
rhino: remove the on reveal and make it a card that can destroy any location even deep space or sanctum santorum
I'd be curious about your thoughts for potential buffs for Captain America Brave New World characters. We got an Agatha buff around when Agatha All Along released. Between Leader and Red Hulk, I guess Leader could use more of a buff, though I hope they're cautious with it if they do one.
I play Lizard in my main deck for the express purpose of giving my Venom +5 power early in the game. Lizard is one of my favorite Marvel characters but Snap is doing him dirty rn 😮💨
Spider-Woman in a Thena deck. Turn 6, Kitty and Spider-woman.
Mailbag: This is not a bit....I want a buff the Mister Fantastic BECAUSE of the InkPulp varient. I am a near complete collection player, with a tonne of varients, and this is easily in my top 3, along with Luchador Red Guardian and Noir Professor X.
Cyclops on Evo decks is a nightmare actually
It's odd to me that groot and drax don't at least get to 8 and 10 power respectively.
Drax getting to 10 power would let him fill a niche of an accessible 4/10 for skaar decks too even though he would be kinda unreliable, and hitting him would actually trigger surtur unlike jessica jones.
Groot having such a risky condition when speed basically says hey i reach the same statline or higher in 99% of games is just embarrassing and the upcoming R&G card will match his power output fast while also being able to move