I am free to play, I had 2 keys this week - I didn't have Thena, and I really wanted her, Malekith would have been a bonus as well. I spun both keys, I got the Tokens, and then Valentina. As Cozy said, I closed the game and went to play something else........so aggravating.....
The spotlight caches system is just a whole lot of feelsbad moments. I mean sometimes you'll hit your card on first key but damn between the dupes and lousy 1k tokens, and trash accompanying the new card, it's an awful system, regardless of whether it used to be worse.
It is so funny to me that Alex calls Luke Cage "Nick Cage" because of the story behind the two. Nicolas Cage isn't his real name; it's Nicolas Coppola. He chose his acting name to be "Nicolas Cage" because he was a fan of Luke Cage from the comics. So Alex calling him "Nick Cage" is just so wild 😂
In regards to the spotlight weeks, as an f2p player, December sucks because of the spotlight cards. Not enough tokens to make up and I might have to skip the entire month for the future.
I've skipped a lot of cards some months, especially when I was a newer Player. It's kind of annoying when you don't get to try out the new flavor of the week, but ultimately you are making a wise decision from a collection stand point. It's good to set yourself up for the future so you can always get the cards you miss while drawing for something really good the week it gets released. Even now, I'm almost collection complete and I still skip stuff like I have with malekith.
Luna Snow, Banner and Peni are all very obviously mid cards. Rocket and Groot is a very powerful card, but also fully replaceable. That said, Doom 2099 will likely be one of the most broken cards ever released if he happens to release as leaked. So I think you can skip December pretty confidently as long as you don’t skip Doom.
Man, being a returning player has been a blessing and a curse. On one hand, I don't have many of the good cards that's been released, but on the other hand, I don't have to worry about not getting cards in spotlights
I never hear about the Spider-ham and shadow king combo. Calling it a combo is a bit off since it’s not in sequence but if they play the pig shadow king will take its power to 0. One of my favorite gotcha plays.
Hoogland made some good points addressing this content creator gap that is furthering bit by bit. Especially as the game hopes to draw in new players all the time, their source of gameplay and info, at least from the upper echelon of YT Snap creators, won't be as relevant as often. While I think content could be made to balance both parties, I feel it falls more on SD & Snap to address the bridge, than it does creators like you. That said, I appreciate you both and the support/content you guys deliver. Im a higher CL and look forward to the new videos & discussions!
Mailbag: Spotlight Caches should be customizable! Every week you'd get a spotlight with the new card of the week and other 3 cards that you choose to go in that spotlight as well. That would support the new and returning Marvel Snap players to acquire the cards they miss to complete at least one or two meta decks! Example: a new player wants to play Destroy, so next week their spotlight would be Fenris Wolf and they choose Knull, X-23 and Death (yes, one spot could be a series 3 cards) to go in the spotlight. If they have 4 keys, it's a whole deck guaranteed!
Whole hearted agree on the spotlight duplicate protection. But as far as the comment made about them owning more cards doesn't pertain to the issue they were addressing. The cards in the spotlight caches may not be owned by newer players have yet, but that doesn't change the fact that the cards in the spotlight caches suck.
My son got me into Snap at launch. He's fallen off, and every time he's tried to come back, he's rolled keys and gotten duplicates. They are going to have a hard time growing the base if they don't do something about card acquisition.
If they made it so you wouldn't get duplicates on spotlights or you could use 2 keys to guarantee the new weekly card. That would make the game so much more fun and fair.
Mailbag: Thanks for the feedback on Malekith CozySnap now I can save my keys for the next couple of weeks, so now I ask fellas, between Fenris and Gorr, which is the must have and which is the pass?
Imo Fenris is going to give you the most value, he is a 2 cost that you can save his effect on turn 6 and he'll always give you the strongest card regardless of what you destroyed. This makes the likes of Shang Chi and Killmonger even more dangerous. Even if your opponent plays around him you can play the likes of Moon Knight, Silver Samurai and Black Bolt to force them to discard which also works for him. Lastly, other than protecting their cards from being destroyed, your opponent can't really counter Fenris's effect unless they use Red Guardian or Lady Deathsrike to prevent him from doing so. Gorr will probably be good because he also gets buffed by your opponent's on reveal as well but I think the value Fenris is going to have will be too good to ignore, especially now during the Surtur meta.
@@shai310 the opposite side of Fenris is there's no surprise. Your opponent knows exactly what you're getting and where. You are not going to steal cubes with the wolf at all.
Going to the past, in the old spotlights, you were "luckily awarded" with a random variant of a card you already own instead of the 1000 tokens that you receive now. I remember a Cozy's video where he obtained an Angela variant if I'm not wrong. His face in that moment was unforgettable (but not as unforgettable as the moment when Alex watched his son's maths in the car, for sure) 😅
IMO for every card in the spotlights, you should get both tokens and a variant of any duplicate you draw. The special variant on its own is just not worth that much from a CL perspective.
How does one ask a question for the Snap Chat? I want you guys to discuss the "Collector's Vault" which seems to appear randomly for a few days. I think this is poorly implemented so far. The first set of 6 I can't remember, but I got 2 of the same card and none of cards I play a lot. This time, I got a Deadpool card (already have 2 variants), Apocalyspse (Have a variant I like), 2 Squirrel Girls (neither look as cool as the variant I have) and Namor and Black Widow who I use so rarely I wouldn't buy variants for. Who are these vault's targeting? I have 13K gold, but it took about 10 seconds to look these over and go "nope."
I'm almost 50. When I was a kid, my mom would use liquid soap if I swore one pump. I quickly learned to just grab the soap and take a couple pumps and let loose with a chain of expletives but that ended that.
I will say, as far as my theory on shadow king rarely being popular, it’s because he affects your side of the board. Whenever I make a deck, I’m always tempted to add shadow king, but then I look at my deck and he’d be hurting me as much as my opponent. At least that’s most of the decks I end up playing, like phoenix force and Ajax. Because shadow king is so effective against so many decks, all of those decks can’t run him or he ends up extremely awkward
I spent the 4 keys on Malekith because at the end of the day, it is a draw 1 card. I am currently messing around with a deck that involves mostly ongoing and the other draw cards (Crystal, Jubilee). I'm getting all 12 cards down on the board semi-consistently. Just a matter of needing a bit more power currently but I'm winning more than losing.
MAIL BAG: I just got back into SNAP.I started back during Phoenix force season I used to watch every week But fell off with the game and video a while back during the pixie season. catching on the podcast and videos of you both has been a blast being able to see all the changes and new cards, Just wanted to say thank you guys for all the great content. Really has helped me get back into snap ps ..never unsubscribe when I stop playing tho😭💯and it’s 3 houses 🏘️ not 5🤦🏽♂️
SnapChat mailbag: Cozy, congrats on the new Rivals channel, will definitally watch, but what about your CozyTV channel? I loved watching it when new characters came out
So pleased you’ve mastered deck sorting fellas. I can only hope I do the same one day and, like the Knowledge of London for taxi drivers, I memorise the power of each card. Stretching, but achievable.
Hopping on the spotlight key complain train. I’m a collection level of 5000, and I’m missing most series 4/5 cards, and have rolled duplicates 5 times using keys. So frustrating and disappointing
Spider-Ham - Love him in my decks with Shadow King. Love hitting those hard to play cards and having my opponent play them. Shadow King it down to 0 power is great!
Mailbag: Love the co-lab between Rivals & Snap.. But i'm thinking bruce banner isn't portrayed correctly in Snap as he is in Rivals!.. I think when played he should give you a "Gamma Vial card" when played, Bruce banner HULKS out... "if destroyed" revert HULK back to bruce banner... That way you use 2 slots to get HULK 12 power, but a chance your opponent could destroy the vial to win! ~ I also agree playing Rivals should grant "Key's, or promo codes for variants"
Free to play here, since Miles Morales season and the points Werewolf made there are valid. For those getting into the game. It is a better source of card aquisition for them. However i would still say that the card selection needs to be tuned in a positive way. More variety of the picks, when there are good cards like Baron Zemo and Gilgamesh who are yet to appear in the caches but cards like Legion and Havok having multiple weeks together and Blob now appearing for his 4th. That and the duplicate protection, or up the tokens, really tokens could be increased anyway, 100 in the collection level track and 1000 in the keys still feel like drops in the water, taking months to be able to get a card in this way. Or even the rare occasion where the duplicate is a card that is in the spolight cache that week, happened to me with Miek last time he was in, first pull was the random and then the variant.
I’m excited for all the new cards coming to Snap. I’m interested in creating a somewhat themed deck for the Guardians of the Galaxy. I’m imagining playing down nebula in a location and throwing rocket and Groot on top to say “I dare you”. Similar things with Jean Grey to make Kitty players cry.
Hey, mostly collection complete player here, I ended up rolling this week so I could get both Malekith and Valentina, and to the point both Cozy and Alex are making on the weakness of the spotlights, this is the last week of the year when I need two of the cards in the cache, so it seemed worth it to roll.
I’ve been missing about 3-4 cards consistently for about half a year now. Not once have I gotten a “new” card from the 4th Spotlight slot. And I’ve gotten the duplicate veryyyy often
MAILBAG; With Pokemon Pocket giving players 2-3 packs a day, when is it finally going to be time to give Players more than 1 spotlight key a week, or change the spotlight system entirely? As someone whos been playing since last year when Loki released, ive been losing interest in Snap simply because there's been too many cards released with the same pump and dump scheme, especially for season pass cards
Y’all brought up contest of champions on one side of the snapchat talking about collaborations. I used to play contest all the time and had no idea it even still existed
Can I just say I find it so funny hearing Cozy praise US Agent after how badly you guys ragged on it when it was new? I got it, because I love the character, and I am now so happy that I did.
Dear Alex Coccia, I hope this comment finds you well, but what the hell are you talking about? Tim Horton's is trash?! How dare you attack such a time-honored franchise? Not only is it a piece of hockey history, but it's also a treasured favorite here in Michigan, as well as in many other northern states. Much like the Ambassador Bridge, or the soon-to-be-completed Gordie Howe International Bridge, Timmy's (as it is affectionately known) unites people from two different nations over a shared love of hockey, coffee, and doughnuts. I thought your friendship with Cozy would have taught you the value of such a border-defying sense of community. It seems even the educator himself still has many lessons to learn.
Mailbag question, can we as a community start calling ongoing decks that use Souron as non-going decks. I mean it's right there. Thanks guys, keep up the awesome work!
Planning to pass on Fenris and Gorr to save up for December. Did get Malekith though and cannot believe how excellently he’s played! Biggest week I’m looking forward to is the Peni Parker week as it’s a 3-card week for me, as I’m missing Gladiator and Sasquatch and both are cards I’d like.
been playing High Evo lately for fun and wondering if there's new cards which could have an unlocked effect. what if generated cards like squirrels, doom bots, Ultron drones, and demons all had unlocked effects? would need to alter High Evo's text but that'd be fun since we aren't likely to get new cards with no abilities.
Mailbag: Colossus's current state is abysmal especially considering how prominent he is in the X-men comics. What would you think of a text change along the lines of "Move an allied card here to another location and destroy (or remove X power from) a card there"? It would likely require a cost and power change as well but I think it would thematically represent the fastball special very well.
Mailbag: I have owned every card in the game since Snow Guard and I think of you are over 20k collection level you should get keys in reserves. Thoughts on how to make Reserves better?!
I wish the spotlight keys were 50/50’s on the new cards… I had to 4 key the last 3 cards i went for. And that is such a terrible situation when you only get maybe 6000 tokens a year from playing. And opening caches
I understand both sides of the argument for spotlight caches being a season pass buyer and gold pass buyer exclusively. I pulled specifically for thena this week, grabbed Valentina on the first pull and was not happy, got thena on the second and stopped cause I want Fenrir. Wouldn't have been mad if I got mal, however Alex is spot on if you were to put a dollar value on each series. I'd hate to spend $60 on a $40 card, it just feels bad. Maybe instead of a key they just give you 6 k "dust" (as much as a new card token buy) and you roulette and whatever you land on it deducts the value of your "dust" cache. Just spit ballin here
Thank you for calling out the issue of longevity with Malekith. I'm in that boat where I have enough tokens/keys to get him, but not enough to get what's coming in the next couple months as well. Knowing he's good, but not worth spending on is good information for the future. I want to see the numbers on Series 4 and 5 cards that have never been in a cache week after their release, or the cards that have been in the fewest caches. Maybe it's just me, but it feels like some cards are just existing as series 5 with maybe 1 variant. No upcoming caches and no reason to spend 6k on.
The spotlight cache system is so badly made, that even as a complete F2P player with only 4-5 months played, I still hit dupes from the random slot. Also many caches have cards that I already own, meaning they are being repeated within a few months even though there are soooo many cards I dont have, I'm not even Pool 3 complete
Would absolutely get down on some Rivals for some spotlight keys 🥺; sadly, I could absolutely not see SD being anywhere near that generous; 100 credits for sharing your “I just played rivals!” Status on Twitter 😅👌
tim hortons response from toronto man: alex is right for the most part. the one good thing they offer are the loaded bowls which are solid and affordable.
I did't even consider getting Malekith and he seemd to be skipable for me, but after seen how he really performs I got him for keys and I must say that he is suprisingly good card. I spent all my keys at the moment, because december caches are not so good to spent keys imho, and i did't have Thena also. I'm really glad to have Malekith. Now I'm rather saving keys for january and thinking to spent my 12k tokens for Fenris and Doom 2099.
I have gotten 1 or 2 keys every week since they implemented this system and every time I get the mystery card it has been a duplicate and keep in mind that I am consistently missing about 15 cards in total. Some months I get lucky and get all the new cards and other times I get the spotlight variants for cards I already have. The card acquisition really needs to change or at least go back to giving use larger amounts of tokens when we pull them on the track. it fees bad when we have like 20 chests saved and go to open them and we don't get any tokens but when w finally do we get 100 tokens when series 5 card cost 6000. That's insane
Biting the bar of soap, always worse. It gets into your teeth and ud taste it for hours. Where just applying soap to tongue u could drink water to wash it away. My parents would even say we would have to sit there for a min on our tongue before we could drink something.
Mailbag: kinda piggybacking on the island comment, it might be interesting to see a semi-monthly status report on a "second free to play account" to see the status of the new player experience and what deck building looks like with spotlight keys in the current environment compared to your normal account 😊
Tim's used to be good back in the day, as was KFC during Toonie Tuesdays times. Whenever Tims and Mcd's switched coffee bean providers it was day and night.
MAILBAG: Hi Alex , love the content! Sounds like theres some cool new cards coming out in December and January. If you and Cozy could add a new card each to Marvel Snap what stats would you give it and what kind of ability?
I think a tech card is any card that has a significant negative effect for the opponent personally. That can get tricky because a card like cassandra nova can be considered tech if thats the case, thats why i say significant.
I'm kinda surprised I haven't heard anyone mention yet thst we clearly know dakken us getting series dropped to a 3. Because we know that he's in January season pass variant.
So I am now on the Island with you guys. When I didn’t have all the cards, I was going all in almost every week, on keys! But once you get them all, bad spot lights SUCK!!! Cozy mentioned ghost spider because it come up so MANY times!! Ugh!! Jean Grey and Knull come to mind too! Stop making 4-5 star new cards and pairing them with DOO DOO spotlights! 😫😫
I don't think there'll ever be a tech card that surpasses Shang Chi's status as a tech card, regardless of which deck you're facing (with some exceptions like discard) you always have to consider Shang Chi as a threat. The guy even reached a point where we had Patriot/Surfer as a top meta deck because it was outside of Shang Chi's range (I think it was back when Skaar was a season pass card), he also got nerfed to destroying only 10 power card which led an entire patch notes to buff some cards to 10 power to be within in range and some cards to 9 power to be outside his range. I think the sheer dominance of Shang Chi throughout the game's lifespan and the fact that he's only a series 2 card you get early on (meaning that any deck can have him if they so choose) makes him the most powerful tech card in Snap
Mailbag: I've been working on fan-made card designs themed around the bosses from the Mega Man video game franchise, not just because it's my favorite video game franchise of all time but also because it drew a lot of inspiration from Marvel and even had several of its own series of comics! I've completed or near-completed exactly 80 of the 100 bosses I set out to design, and out of those 80, here are the 10 I most want to be added to Marvel Snap (I actually sorted all of these with 21 miscellaneous cards from S+ to D-, and these are the Mega Man cards from the S tiers). Now, which one of these do YOU guys most want added to the game? -*Elec Man || 3/4 || Activate: Gain +3 Power and move to your lowest-Power location. (that isn't full)* -*Flash Man || 2/1 || On Reveal: Afflict all enemy cards here with -1 Power and copy them into your hand.* -*Magnet Man || 2/0 || When you end a turn with unspent Energy, add the card that costs the least from your hand here.* -*Pharaoh Man || 2/1 || You can't play this after turn 3. Ongoing: Only the last digit of each player's total Power here counts towards winning here.* (also makes negative total power count as positive but that's not too important) -*Blizzard Man || 5/6 || When one of your other cards moves, +1 Power. (if in hand or in play)* -*Flame Man || 2/3 || On Reveal: Give a card in your hand -2 Cost. It destroys itself when played.* (still destroys if he leaves the board or loses his text) -*Junk Man || 4/7 || On Reveal: Add a Scrap Block to your opponent's side of this location with Power equal to the lowest-Power enemy card in play.* (0/0 base stats, no effect) -*Frost Man || 6/10 || On Reveal: +2 Power for each enemy card you've destroyed this game.* (specifically destroyed by your cards) -*Clock Men || 1/2 || When you draw this, duplicate it.* (duplicates into your hand; yes, 'men' is intentional) -*Impact Man || 3/4 || On Reveal: Replace this location with 'Underground Tunnel'.* (non-token location with the effect: 'Has the abilities of all other locations.') Well, if you guys end up answering this one, I really hope it doesn't take too long, and thank you so much! I'm really proud of all 101 original cards I've designed, either Mega Man or otherwise, and it's been fun watching so many new and creative cards get added to the game! Snap is my favorite card game of all time, and its cool, fun, and exotic card designs make up a lot of that love!
Alex the Spotlight need to go down to 3 to make it a 33% chance to pull the new card you're searching for. After that the next thing that really needs to be addressed is the collection level track. Boosters need to come off of the track...10 boosters every 15 levels is trash.
Mailbag: Cozy would you please help with Alex's camera settings? my man is one blue shade away from being a frost giant. P.S. love what you guys do for the community.
mailbag: do you guys feel like there’s a higher % chance for new cards to be randomly generated? for example, every time there’s a new card i get it from agent coulson or arishem. i’ve gotten malekith from arishem 3 times already and i don’t even play that much 😂
@AlexanderCoccia wow! That seems like a lot of work. I guess that's how you get compelling videos like this. I'm just used to watching people stare in the camera and talk.
I say a free key every week for all players. Put it in the weekend missions maybe. That way we all get a chance to gamble on the new card and if we miss so be it
i got mal and val with my keys. malekith has proved fun and interesting to play with. one time i won a match against discard because my red guardian from malekith flipped over before the opponent's dracula could trigger. i have speed, quake, and juggernaut, and those have been cool with mal as well. i put sera and spider-woman in the deck for control, maximus, quicksilver, and lizard for tempo and efficient malekith usage, and super-skrull and u. s. agent as tech cards. however, i'm most certainly going to remove u. s. agent because i don't have luke cage, surtur has been going down, spider-woman still combats skaar, and you really have to draw agent at a super-specific time to be able to play it late but not pull it with mal. overall, i'm surprised at how much fun i've been having while playing a deck with quicksilver, lizard, and speed in it. 9/10 great card; would recommend.
tl;dr my malekith deck is quicksilver, quake, u.s.agent (tbd), lizard, maximus, juggernaut, red guardian, speed, super-skrull, malekith, sera, and spider-woman. surprisingly enjoyable and competitive. 9/10 great card; would recommend.
Here they talk about Tech cards, but the amount of tech being seen played is absurd. Killmonger in Destroy Thanos, Luke in Ajax and Anti-Venom, Shadow King, Shang-Chi and Red Guardian everywhere. It's absurd how much tech is played in the meta right now. Not to win, but to prevent your opponent from winning.
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I am free to play, I had 2 keys this week - I didn't have Thena, and I really wanted her, Malekith would have been a bonus as well. I spun both keys, I got the Tokens, and then Valentina. As Cozy said, I closed the game and went to play something else........so aggravating.....
Never pull unless you have four keys
. I've had to learn that lesson the hard way as well. Sorry for your misfortune though.
The spotlight caches system is just a whole lot of feelsbad moments. I mean sometimes you'll hit your card on first key but damn between the dupes and lousy 1k tokens, and trash accompanying the new card, it's an awful system, regardless of whether it used to be worse.
You can almost tell how they feel about a card with how bad the 2 other cards are.
Gambling and losing?! Unheard of
They should reward less keys in collection track but let us pick the card
the part at the end about your guys’ kids was so touching, I can tell you guys are both amazing fathers any kid would be blessed to have!
It is so funny to me that Alex calls Luke Cage "Nick Cage" because of the story behind the two. Nicolas Cage isn't his real name; it's Nicolas Coppola. He chose his acting name to be "Nicolas Cage" because he was a fan of Luke Cage from the comics. So Alex calling him "Nick Cage" is just so wild 😂
Here too? Been multiple times now and it’s melding with my dreams and becoming real…
“Save your tokens” ….
What tokens?!? 😂😂😂
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In regards to the spotlight weeks, as an f2p player, December sucks because of the spotlight cards. Not enough tokens to make up and I might have to skip the entire month for the future.
I've skipped a lot of cards some months, especially when I was a newer Player. It's kind of annoying when you don't get to try out the new flavor of the week, but ultimately you are making a wise decision from a collection stand point. It's good to set yourself up for the future so you can always get the cards you miss while drawing for something really good the week it gets released. Even now, I'm almost collection complete and I still skip stuff like I have with malekith.
@ True. Saving for the future can get you the new card and the card you skipped now, protecting you from dupes.
Luna Snow, Banner and Peni are all very obviously mid cards.
Rocket and Groot is a very powerful card, but also fully replaceable.
That said, Doom 2099 will likely be one of the most broken cards ever released if he happens to release as leaked.
So I think you can skip December pretty confidently as long as you don’t skip Doom.
Yeah, I have the same feelings about it.
Man, being a returning player has been a blessing and a curse. On one hand, I don't have many of the good cards that's been released, but on the other hand, I don't have to worry about not getting cards in spotlights
The original 4th spot in the caches was a random variants. That was dark times.
Lmfao
I never hear about the Spider-ham and shadow king combo. Calling it a combo is a bit off since it’s not in sequence but if they play the pig shadow king will take its power to 0. One of my favorite gotcha plays.
Hoogland made some good points addressing this content creator gap that is furthering bit by bit. Especially as the game hopes to draw in new players all the time, their source of gameplay and info, at least from the upper echelon of YT Snap creators, won't be as relevant as often.
While I think content could be made to balance both parties, I feel it falls more on SD & Snap to address the bridge, than it does creators like you.
That said, I appreciate you both and the support/content you guys deliver. Im a higher CL and look forward to the new videos & discussions!
Mailbag: Spotlight Caches should be customizable! Every week you'd get a spotlight with the new card of the week and other 3 cards that you choose to go in that spotlight as well. That would support the new and returning Marvel Snap players to acquire the cards they miss to complete at least one or two meta decks!
Example: a new player wants to play Destroy, so next week their spotlight would be Fenris Wolf and they choose Knull, X-23 and Death (yes, one spot could be a series 3 cards) to go in the spotlight. If they have 4 keys, it's a whole deck guaranteed!
Malekith is one of my favorite villains so I love to see my boy getting play
I can definitely feel Cozy’s energy is spent by the time they record Alex’s side. BUT Mr Alex Coccia keeps the energy high throughout!
I think he's trying to not upstage Alex and let him lead the chat.
Go eat a sandwich and chill
Whole hearted agree on the spotlight duplicate protection. But as far as the comment made about them owning more cards doesn't pertain to the issue they were addressing. The cards in the spotlight caches may not be owned by newer players have yet, but that doesn't change the fact that the cards in the spotlight caches suck.
I been getting duplicates with my keys too!! They need to give more tokens for duplicates IMO, 1000 is booty
My son got me into Snap at launch. He's fallen off, and every time he's tried to come back, he's rolled keys and gotten duplicates. They are going to have a hard time growing the base if they don't do something about card acquisition.
Currently eating Tim Hortons as I watch Alex rant about how bad it is.
The thing is...he's not even wrong.
Thank you guys so much for answering my question! I loved your answers so much, definitely my favorite part of the podcast.
Any time!
If they made it so you wouldn't get duplicates on spotlights or you could use 2 keys to guarantee the new weekly card. That would make the game so much more fun and fair.
Mailbag: Thanks for the feedback on Malekith CozySnap now I can save my keys for the next couple of weeks, so now I ask fellas, between Fenris and Gorr, which is the must have and which is the pass?
We won't know until we try them :)
I think Gorr is better. But it’s just a guess, like Alex said we won’t know for sure till we get to play them.
Imo Fenris is going to give you the most value, he is a 2 cost that you can save his effect on turn 6 and he'll always give you the strongest card regardless of what you destroyed. This makes the likes of Shang Chi and Killmonger even more dangerous. Even if your opponent plays around him you can play the likes of Moon Knight, Silver Samurai and Black Bolt to force them to discard which also works for him.
Lastly, other than protecting their cards from being destroyed, your opponent can't really counter Fenris's effect unless they use Red Guardian or Lady Deathsrike to prevent him from doing so.
Gorr will probably be good because he also gets buffed by your opponent's on reveal as well but I think the value Fenris is going to have will be too good to ignore, especially now during the Surtur meta.
@@shai310 the opposite side of Fenris is there's no surprise. Your opponent knows exactly what you're getting and where. You are not going to steal cubes with the wolf at all.
Going to the past, in the old spotlights, you were "luckily awarded" with a random variant of a card you already own instead of the 1000 tokens that you receive now. I remember a Cozy's video where he obtained an Angela variant if I'm not wrong. His face in that moment was unforgettable (but not as unforgettable as the moment when Alex watched his son's maths in the car, for sure) 😅
I loved THREE houses! Super good game! Made me miss it when Engage came out.
Featured in the mailbag made my day, Love you guys! And said EP is finished and streaming now! Band: THERAPY EP: the ballad of mr bucks
IMO for every card in the spotlights, you should get both tokens and a variant of any duplicate you draw. The special variant on its own is just not worth that much from a CL perspective.
You guys sound like great dads! That's awesome!
How does one ask a question for the Snap Chat?
I want you guys to discuss the "Collector's Vault" which seems to appear randomly for a few days.
I think this is poorly implemented so far. The first set of 6 I can't remember, but I got 2 of the same card and none of cards I play a lot. This time, I got a Deadpool card (already have 2 variants), Apocalyspse (Have a variant I like), 2 Squirrel Girls (neither look as cool as the variant I have) and Namor and Black Widow who I use so rarely I wouldn't buy variants for.
Who are these vault's targeting? I have 13K gold, but it took about 10 seconds to look these over and go "nope."
The beginning with cozy staring was hilarious
I love your podcast! It's always so informative, witty and heart-warming. You guys are the true Marvel Snap GOATS 🐐🐐
I'm almost 50. When I was a kid, my mom would use liquid soap if I swore one pump. I quickly learned to just grab the soap and take a couple pumps and let loose with a chain of expletives but that ended that.
Mailbag: I think it would be nice if each one of you two came up with a theorycrafted deck as a segment in the weekly snapchats
I will say, as far as my theory on shadow king rarely being popular, it’s because he affects your side of the board. Whenever I make a deck, I’m always tempted to add shadow king, but then I look at my deck and he’d be hurting me as much as my opponent. At least that’s most of the decks I end up playing, like phoenix force and Ajax. Because shadow king is so effective against so many decks, all of those decks can’t run him or he ends up extremely awkward
I spent the 4 keys on Malekith because at the end of the day, it is a draw 1 card. I am currently messing around with a deck that involves mostly ongoing and the other draw cards (Crystal, Jubilee). I'm getting all 12 cards down on the board semi-consistently. Just a matter of needing a bit more power currently but I'm winning more than losing.
MAIL BAG: I just got back into SNAP.I started back during Phoenix force season I used to watch every week But fell off with the game and video a while back during the pixie season. catching on the podcast and videos of you both has been a blast being able to see all the changes and new cards, Just wanted to say thank you guys for all the great content. Really has helped me get back into snap ps ..never unsubscribe when I stop playing tho😭💯and it’s 3 houses 🏘️ not 5🤦🏽♂️
Big Fire Emblem fan. Happy to hear someone I watch is just as big of a fan
SnapChat mailbag: Cozy, congrats on the new Rivals channel, will definitally watch, but what about your CozyTV channel? I loved watching it when new characters came out
So pleased you’ve mastered deck sorting fellas. I can only hope I do the same one day and, like the Knowledge of London for taxi drivers, I memorise the power of each card. Stretching, but achievable.
Hopping on the spotlight key complain train. I’m a collection level of 5000, and I’m missing most series 4/5 cards, and have rolled duplicates 5 times using keys. So frustrating and disappointing
Spider-Ham - Love him in my decks with Shadow King. Love hitting those hard to play cards and having my opponent play them. Shadow King it down to 0 power is great!
Mailbag: Love the co-lab between Rivals & Snap.. But i'm thinking bruce banner isn't portrayed correctly in Snap as he is in Rivals!.. I think when played he should give you a "Gamma Vial card" when played, Bruce banner HULKS out... "if destroyed" revert HULK back to bruce banner... That way you use 2 slots to get HULK 12 power, but a chance your opponent could destroy the vial to win! ~ I also agree playing Rivals should grant "Key's, or promo codes for variants"
Before the 1k tokens it was a Premium Mistery Variant. In fact, that's where they originated
Last week I got Red Guardian as my mystery card for tokens, then got red guardian spotlight variant before getting Frigga… it was absolutely brutal!
30:49 wondering if he realized he slipped lol
Alex hyping Cozy is very wholesome I need to do that more with my buddies
Free to play here, since Miles Morales season and the points Werewolf made there are valid. For those getting into the game. It is a better source of card aquisition for them. However i would still say that the card selection needs to be tuned in a positive way. More variety of the picks, when there are good cards like Baron Zemo and Gilgamesh who are yet to appear in the caches but cards like Legion and Havok having multiple weeks together and Blob now appearing for his 4th. That and the duplicate protection, or up the tokens, really tokens could be increased anyway, 100 in the collection level track and 1000 in the keys still feel like drops in the water, taking months to be able to get a card in this way. Or even the rare occasion where the duplicate is a card that is in the spolight cache that week, happened to me with Miek last time he was in, first pull was the random and then the variant.
I’m excited for all the new cards coming to Snap. I’m interested in creating a somewhat themed deck for the Guardians of the Galaxy. I’m imagining playing down nebula in a location and throwing rocket and Groot on top to say “I dare you”. Similar things with Jean Grey to make Kitty players cry.
I love the discard deck. I won so much but also had to earn a lot of them! SO many thinking moments!
Hey, mostly collection complete player here, I ended up rolling this week so I could get both Malekith and Valentina, and to the point both Cozy and Alex are making on the weakness of the spotlights, this is the last week of the year when I need two of the cards in the cache, so it seemed worth it to roll.
“Alex you’re an enigma “ 😂😂😂
12:40 I think used to be a random premium mystery variant if I remember correctly
26:36 Bro if Cosmo if cosmo only affected the opponent he’d have to be top 2 and he’s not 2
Red guardian on the surtur is pretty op.
I’ve been missing about 3-4 cards consistently for about half a year now. Not once have I gotten a “new” card from the 4th Spotlight slot. And I’ve gotten the duplicate veryyyy often
MAILBAG; With Pokemon Pocket giving players 2-3 packs a day, when is it finally going to be time to give Players more than 1 spotlight key a week, or change the spotlight system entirely? As someone whos been playing since last year when Loki released, ive been losing interest in Snap simply because there's been too many cards released with the same pump and dump scheme, especially for season pass cards
You realize how many duplicates you get in Pocket? Atp, if I I get one new card in 3 packs, I’m on a lucky streak
@@notquitepeterpan6397 Seriously, I hate packs.
Y’all brought up contest of champions on one side of the snapchat talking about collaborations. I used to play contest all the time and had no idea it even still existed
Can I just say I find it so funny hearing Cozy praise US Agent after how badly you guys ragged on it when it was new? I got it, because I love the character, and I am now so happy that I did.
It got a massive buff tho
Dear Alex Coccia,
I hope this comment finds you well, but what the hell are you talking about? Tim Horton's is trash?! How dare you attack such a time-honored franchise? Not only is it a piece of hockey history, but it's also a treasured favorite here in Michigan, as well as in many other northern states.
Much like the Ambassador Bridge, or the soon-to-be-completed Gordie Howe International Bridge, Timmy's (as it is affectionately known) unites people from two different nations over a shared love of hockey, coffee, and doughnuts. I thought your friendship with Cozy would have taught you the value of such a border-defying sense of community. It seems even the educator himself still has many lessons to learn.
Mailbag question, can we as a community start calling ongoing decks that use Souron as non-going decks. I mean it's right there. Thanks guys, keep up the awesome work!
Planning to pass on Fenris and Gorr to save up for December. Did get Malekith though and cannot believe how excellently he’s played!
Biggest week I’m looking forward to is the Peni Parker week as it’s a 3-card week for me, as I’m missing Gladiator and Sasquatch and both are cards I’d like.
been playing High Evo lately for fun and wondering if there's new cards which could have an unlocked effect. what if generated cards like squirrels, doom bots, Ultron drones, and demons all had unlocked effects? would need to alter High Evo's text but that'd be fun since we aren't likely to get new cards with no abilities.
Mailbag: Colossus's current state is abysmal especially considering how prominent he is in the X-men comics. What would you think of a text change along the lines of "Move an allied card here to another location and destroy (or remove X power from) a card there"? It would likely require a cost and power change as well but I think it would thematically represent the fastball special very well.
Mailbag: I have owned every card in the game since Snow Guard and I think of you are over 20k collection level you should get keys in reserves. Thoughts on how to make Reserves better?!
I wish the spotlight keys were 50/50’s on the new cards… I had to 4 key the last 3 cards i went for. And that is such a terrible situation when you only get maybe 6000 tokens a year from playing. And opening caches
I understand both sides of the argument for spotlight caches being a season pass buyer and gold pass buyer exclusively. I pulled specifically for thena this week, grabbed Valentina on the first pull and was not happy, got thena on the second and stopped cause I want Fenrir. Wouldn't have been mad if I got mal, however Alex is spot on if you were to put a dollar value on each series. I'd hate to spend $60 on a $40 card, it just feels bad. Maybe instead of a key they just give you 6 k "dust" (as much as a new card token buy) and you roulette and whatever you land on it deducts the value of your "dust" cache. Just spit ballin here
Snapchat mailbag: new card idea for move. Has +X power for each time a card moved this game. That would essentially be the gilgamesh of move
Thank you for calling out the issue of longevity with Malekith. I'm in that boat where I have enough tokens/keys to get him, but not enough to get what's coming in the next couple months as well. Knowing he's good, but not worth spending on is good information for the future.
I want to see the numbers on Series 4 and 5 cards that have never been in a cache week after their release, or the cards that have been in the fewest caches. Maybe it's just me, but it feels like some cards are just existing as series 5 with maybe 1 variant. No upcoming caches and no reason to spend 6k on.
The spotlight cache system is so badly made, that even as a complete F2P player with only 4-5 months played, I still hit dupes from the random slot.
Also many caches have cards that I already own, meaning they are being repeated within a few months even though there are soooo many cards I dont have, I'm not even Pool 3 complete
Would absolutely get down on some Rivals for some spotlight keys 🥺; sadly, I could absolutely not see SD being anywhere near that generous; 100 credits for sharing your “I just played rivals!” Status on Twitter 😅👌
12:10 that made my skin crawl because i opened up a duplicate ghost-spider last week
Literally got the exact same thing 😢
tim hortons response from toronto man: alex is right for the most part. the one good thing they offer are the loaded bowls which are solid and affordable.
I did't even consider getting Malekith and he seemd to be skipable for me, but after seen how he really performs I got him for keys and I must say that he is suprisingly good card. I spent all my keys at the moment, because december caches are not so good to spent keys imho, and i did't have Thena also. I'm really glad to have Malekith. Now I'm rather saving keys for january and thinking to spent my 12k tokens for Fenris and Doom 2099.
save up tokens, save up tokens...but tokens are very hard to get.. as f2p
I have gotten 1 or 2 keys every week since they implemented this system and every time I get the mystery card it has been a duplicate and keep in mind that I am consistently missing about 15 cards in total. Some months I get lucky and get all the new cards and other times I get the spotlight variants for cards I already have. The card acquisition really needs to change or at least go back to giving use larger amounts of tokens when we pull them on the track. it fees bad when we have like 20 chests saved and go to open them and we don't get any tokens but when w finally do we get 100 tokens when series 5 card cost 6000. That's insane
Thanks for the video.
Biting the bar of soap, always worse. It gets into your teeth and ud taste it for hours. Where just applying soap to tongue u could drink water to wash it away. My parents would even say we would have to sit there for a min on our tongue before we could drink something.
Mailbag: kinda piggybacking on the island comment, it might be interesting to see a semi-monthly status report on a "second free to play account" to see the status of the new player experience and what deck building looks like with spotlight keys in the current environment compared to your normal account 😊
Just hit gold with white kirby shadow king added pink cosmic border. Straight fire.
Tim's used to be good back in the day, as was KFC during Toonie Tuesdays times. Whenever Tims and Mcd's switched coffee bean providers it was day and night.
I miss when we had Dunkin Donuts in Canada, the donuts and timbits are soooo bad at Tims
MAILBAG: Hi Alex , love the content! Sounds like theres some cool new cards coming out in December and January. If you and Cozy could add a new card each to Marvel Snap what stats would you give it and what kind of ability?
I think a tech card is any card that has a significant negative effect for the opponent personally. That can get tricky because a card like cassandra nova can be considered tech if thats the case, thats why i say significant.
I'm kinda surprised I haven't heard anyone mention yet thst we clearly know dakken us getting series dropped to a 3. Because we know that he's in January season pass variant.
My Surfer deck with him Malekith and Anti-Venom is cracked.
So I am now on the Island with you guys. When I didn’t have all the cards, I was going all in almost every week, on keys! But once you get them all, bad spot lights SUCK!!! Cozy mentioned ghost spider because it come up so MANY times!! Ugh!! Jean Grey and Knull come to mind too! Stop making 4-5 star new cards and pairing them with DOO DOO spotlights! 😫😫
What if pulling the dupe also refunded the spotlight key used??
Would you say Killmonger is channeling his “Wooimaboutamakeanamefomyselfere”
I can't wait for Gorr, already have a Mr Negative type deck to put him in
I don't think there'll ever be a tech card that surpasses Shang Chi's status as a tech card, regardless of which deck you're facing (with some exceptions like discard) you always have to consider Shang Chi as a threat. The guy even reached a point where we had Patriot/Surfer as a top meta deck because it was outside of Shang Chi's range (I think it was back when Skaar was a season pass card), he also got nerfed to destroying only 10 power card which led an entire patch notes to buff some cards to 10 power to be within in range and some cards to 9 power to be outside his range.
I think the sheer dominance of Shang Chi throughout the game's lifespan and the fact that he's only a series 2 card you get early on (meaning that any deck can have him if they so choose) makes him the most powerful tech card in Snap
Mailbag: I've been working on fan-made card designs themed around the bosses from the Mega Man video game franchise, not just because it's my favorite video game franchise of all time but also because it drew a lot of inspiration from Marvel and even had several of its own series of comics! I've completed or near-completed exactly 80 of the 100 bosses I set out to design, and out of those 80, here are the 10 I most want to be added to Marvel Snap (I actually sorted all of these with 21 miscellaneous cards from S+ to D-, and these are the Mega Man cards from the S tiers). Now, which one of these do YOU guys most want added to the game?
-*Elec Man || 3/4 || Activate: Gain +3 Power and move to your lowest-Power location. (that isn't full)*
-*Flash Man || 2/1 || On Reveal: Afflict all enemy cards here with -1 Power and copy them into your hand.*
-*Magnet Man || 2/0 || When you end a turn with unspent Energy, add the card that costs the least from your hand here.*
-*Pharaoh Man || 2/1 || You can't play this after turn 3. Ongoing: Only the last digit of each player's total Power here counts towards winning here.* (also makes negative total power count as positive but that's not too important)
-*Blizzard Man || 5/6 || When one of your other cards moves, +1 Power. (if in hand or in play)*
-*Flame Man || 2/3 || On Reveal: Give a card in your hand -2 Cost. It destroys itself when played.* (still destroys if he leaves the board or loses his text)
-*Junk Man || 4/7 || On Reveal: Add a Scrap Block to your opponent's side of this location with Power equal to the lowest-Power enemy card in play.* (0/0 base stats, no effect)
-*Frost Man || 6/10 || On Reveal: +2 Power for each enemy card you've destroyed this game.* (specifically destroyed by your cards)
-*Clock Men || 1/2 || When you draw this, duplicate it.* (duplicates into your hand; yes, 'men' is intentional)
-*Impact Man || 3/4 || On Reveal: Replace this location with 'Underground Tunnel'.* (non-token location with the effect: 'Has the abilities of all other locations.')
Well, if you guys end up answering this one, I really hope it doesn't take too long, and thank you so much! I'm really proud of all 101 original cards I've designed, either Mega Man or otherwise, and it's been fun watching so many new and creative cards get added to the game! Snap is my favorite card game of all time, and its cool, fun, and exotic card designs make up a lot of that love!
Am I crazy or is enchantress at three cost is OK?
I used one of my keys and I rolled Valentina. I already have Thena so I I'll hold off til next week for Fenrir.
Alex the Spotlight need to go down to 3 to make it a 33% chance to pull the new card you're searching for. After that the next thing that really needs to be addressed is the collection level track. Boosters need to come off of the track...10 boosters every 15 levels is trash.
I'm getting Gorr for sure ... 16 keys ... and still don't know if I want to get Fenrir. December looks so good.
Can anyone source the comment about the Jim Lee Rogue pose being “copyrighted”? I can’t find anything about that
Mailbag: Cozy would you please help with Alex's camera settings? my man is one blue shade away from being a frost giant. P.S. love what you guys do for the community.
The random s4/s5 is always a dupe for me. I've never gotten anything new from that. And I'm missing roughly 12-15 cards.
mailbag: do you guys feel like there’s a higher % chance for new cards to be randomly generated? for example, every time there’s a new card i get it from agent coulson or arishem. i’ve gotten malekith from arishem 3 times already and i don’t even play that much 😂
Mailbag: Persona 4 Specialist seems to be your signature song, are you a persona fan? Persona 3 is one of my favorite games of all time.
I really noticed all the camera switching you guys do. Can you do that on the fly or is that all done post edit?
In post! I don't usually include much of it, I kinda like having both of us on screen, but sometimes I switch it up lol
@AlexanderCoccia wow! That seems like a lot of work. I guess that's how you get compelling videos like this. I'm just used to watching people stare in the camera and talk.
I say a free key every week for all players. Put it in the weekend missions maybe. That way we all get a chance to gamble on the new card and if we miss so be it
i got mal and val with my keys. malekith has proved fun and interesting to play with. one time i won a match against discard because my red guardian from malekith flipped over before the opponent's dracula could trigger. i have speed, quake, and juggernaut, and those have been cool with mal as well. i put sera and spider-woman in the deck for control, maximus, quicksilver, and lizard for tempo and efficient malekith usage, and super-skrull and u. s. agent as tech cards. however, i'm most certainly going to remove u. s. agent because i don't have luke cage, surtur has been going down, spider-woman still combats skaar, and you really have to draw agent at a super-specific time to be able to play it late but not pull it with mal. overall, i'm surprised at how much fun i've been having while playing a deck with quicksilver, lizard, and speed in it. 9/10 great card; would recommend.
tl;dr my malekith deck is quicksilver, quake, u.s.agent (tbd), lizard, maximus, juggernaut, red guardian, speed, super-skrull, malekith, sera, and spider-woman. surprisingly enjoyable and competitive. 9/10 great card; would recommend.
Here they talk about Tech cards, but the amount of tech being seen played is absurd. Killmonger in Destroy Thanos, Luke in Ajax and Anti-Venom, Shadow King, Shang-Chi and Red Guardian everywhere. It's absurd how much tech is played in the meta right now. Not to win, but to prevent your opponent from winning.
What is that thumbnail? Might be my best one yet!
Regarding tech cards, here’s a question that may have already been asked (sorry). How viable would a deck be that runs nothing but tech cards?