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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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…😂
Kang redesign: all random targeted effects can now be targeted (ex you can choose which card a gambit destroys or what lane spiderman swings to and which card.) So he can dictate the future
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
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.
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.
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.
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 11 weeks as well) Phastos: didn't return to spotlight caches after release for 24 weeks (and won't for next 10 weeks).
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 😂😂
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!
After playing a bunch of Rivals, they need to add team up effects for Snap. Or just make a seasonal mode that highlights a different team. They did something similar at one point and they need to make it permanent or just bring it back more often. It would help the Guardians cards if they did have it.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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”
*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.
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.
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
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: if you're like me and think you rivals aim sucks, you have to go in appsettings and manually change and turn off Mouse Acceleration what an oversight. Gamechanger
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 🤷🏽♂
Some of these bad cards are very easy to fix. Mr Negative and the guardians just need 1 Power. Lizard could just be reverted, or making him a 3/7 that shrinks to a 3/3. I dont think they will do that honestly. Rhino needs to be a 3/5 so bad... Spider Woman 5/6 but afflicts with -2 Power. Kind of like a reverse Red Skull.
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!
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.
im torn on peni parker, the card seems very verstaile and a good pickup and i dont care for doom next week - but sasquatch and gladiator are so shit (no way im rolling this week)
I understand not rolling this week but Gladiator is not bad at all and Sasquatch is way less good but still isn’t bad, just extremely niche. I guess they’re both bad in the sense that getting them with keys sucks since they’re both Series 4 so you should probably spend tokens for them instead.
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.
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!
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 😮💨
I saw this at 21 seconds ago but wanted to watch it through first. Mantis should be a 1/2 that steals from deck again by now. Mill is a real archetype that they support and I doubt she even makes those decks. It's surely fair by now For spotlight caches, February is amazing except for the best card of Diamondback, who has the fodder of Nimrod and Phoenix Force, which sucks. Could've been Bob but they still clearly don't want us having chunks of good cards, or care about the "feels bad" moments. I'd love a way to experiment with new cards though.
I wish Annihilus was better. Poor guy hasn’t been anywhere near meta in a long while ever since Viper got her buff and Sersi came to the game. Sentry buff could bring him back maybe.
I played lizard in a malekith Luke cage deck and he felt okay being pulled by maliketh or going down with a Luke cage but hydra Bob would be much better in the deck
MAILBAG: I love you guys but HATE Hot locations. They restrict decks and sucks the fun out of those days and I don’t play when it’s a location I don’t like. What are your thoughts ?!
My GF pulled Yellowjacket last night. She asked me what deck uses it. I said none. She asked what deck ever used it... We can replace Yellowjacket with too many cards today, yet they just keep printing more and more
Mayyyybe they’ll buff Mr Fantastic when he releases in Rivals (which who knows might be when the movie drops), but as you said they already have great Rivals characters who are terrible cards lol
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
They can't buff series 1 or 2 cards because you have to think about the precious new player experience..m for all 1 or 2 new players ever two or three months.
Releasing one card per week including one the week of the season pass (which was recovery week for most of us) is insane and not sustainable. Especially if they keep putting trash spotlights of cards that nobody wants. Not everybody is a whale and people can’t keep up, this is affecting even content creators because people are consistently missing 2-3 cards per decks that are meta and not as interested in videos of decks they can’t use. People just quit, they’re not spending $100 on bundles with 2 keys to then get random cards or 1000 tokens and not the card you were actually aiming for.
Why don’t they put a team logo on certain cards and run the Xmen buffs again. Just Replace cyc in evo and now you have a new archetype and it buffs new players cards. X-men/sinster6/youngavengers
Okay hear me out, the guardians of the galaxy should be (Face Off: + X Power.) instead (On Reveal: If your opponent played a card here this turn, + X Power.)
Theres too many cards now... the "this cards suck" segment" will eventually be made up of 99 percents of the cards..... all the good ones will be the ones that came out within the last 2 months smh
What's funny about this statement is that other card games have more cards than marvel Snap has. Hearthstone has over 5k cards, Pokemon Pocket has about 150 less right now but that's only been out for less than 2 months and is about to cut that difference in half.
Daken is awful and he’s in a spotlight with a really desirable card. That feels rude. For Peni, I feel like she needs one more power somewhere, or Sp/dr could cost 2/3. She’s a good card though and very flexible for different decks.
LIZARD is Amazing. TEACHES new players the value of chasing points in a lane vs. Filling up.... This Episode NEEDS to be Called Fuck All New Players...
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.
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)
Alex dropping some Gen-Z slang to reel in those last 500 subs
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
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
Lizard solition, if your opponents side is filled, -4, if your side is filled, +4
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
Mailbag question: What is Cozy's real first name? In my head canon it is Alex as well.
Kang in the Tourney is Alex's version of Al Bundy's 4 touchdowns in a single game
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.
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
Kang redesign: all random targeted effects can now be targeted (ex you can choose which card a gambit destroys or what lane spiderman swings to and which card.) So he can dictate the future
C3 is the only home i've ever had for Rhino.
Rhino card idea. When ge destroys the location, the location sharpnal hits your opponents cards and gives them -1. He could also be activate.
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
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
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”
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
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 11 weeks as well)
Phastos: didn't return to spotlight caches after release for 24 weeks (and won't for next 10 weeks).
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.
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 😂😂
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!
After playing a bunch of Rivals, they need to add team up effects for Snap. Or just make a seasonal mode that highlights a different team. They did something similar at one point and they need to make it permanent or just bring it back more often. It would help the Guardians cards if they did have it.
5:44 that’s hopium lmao we don’t even have character mastery and that was on the coming soon
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
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.
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.
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.
Agony is one of my favorite cards. She's a plus 4 with Sebastian Shaw. Or her into Peni let's me play galacta earlier. Love them
Y’all were talking about different apocalypses. Alex was talking about the biblical Rapture while Cozy was talking about the Mayan calendar.
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)
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.
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.
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”
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.
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
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”
*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.
Peni focused decks are amazing. i love her and the merge deck, esp with symbiot Spider AND moon girl
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.
Its so funny watching this as a brand new player as most of these cards i legit see or use to some extent
Alex should add all the cars Cozy owes him to his Christmas wish list
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
Spider-Woman in a Thena deck. Turn 6, Kitty and Spider-woman.
A 3/4 Mr. Fantastic is pretty strong. Always a 3/4 but regularly a 3/6 and 3/8.
I think the compromise is a 3/3.
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: if you're like me and think you rivals aim sucks, you have to go in appsettings and manually change and turn off Mouse Acceleration what an oversight. Gamechanger
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?
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 🤷🏽♂
Some of these bad cards are very easy to fix. Mr Negative and the guardians just need 1 Power.
Lizard could just be reverted, or making him a 3/7 that shrinks to a 3/3. I dont think they will do that honestly.
Rhino needs to be a 3/5 so bad...
Spider Woman 5/6 but afflicts with -2 Power. Kind of like a reverse Red Skull.
Cyclops should just keep his High Evo ability as his normal text.
rhino: remove the on reveal and make it a card that can destroy any location even deep space or sanctum santorum
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
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
Kang could be a 4/4 with the same effect but as an activate.
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.
Cyclops on Evo decks is a nightmare actually
im torn on peni parker, the card seems very verstaile and a good pickup and i dont care for doom next week - but sasquatch and gladiator are so shit
(no way im rolling this week)
I understand not rolling this week but Gladiator is not bad at all and Sasquatch is way less good but still isn’t bad, just extremely niche. I guess they’re both bad in the sense that getting them with keys sucks since they’re both Series 4 so you should probably spend tokens for them instead.
It took me 4 keys and I had Sasquatch and Gladiator. Peni is solid but the pain of 4 keys is real.
@@MapleYum Same. Funny it takes 3 to 4 keys for the new card every time... It's almost like the odds are not evenly spllit.
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.
Mr fantastic should be a 3/5 that gives +1/+1 to the other lanes
15:26 no no first spotlight was jean gray,knull and living tribunal i got them all
Rhino at a 2/3 would actually be fantastic. Scarlet Witch but cut out the rng. Absolutely that's included.
Yo skibbidi sigma is a complement fam. RIP to your student for paying respect.
19:17 I just recently went against someone playing Lizard lol
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!
spiderwoman to 4-7 is an easy fix honestly. slot her in before the ajax for easy 4-9/10 plus ajax buff
Rhino should have it can't be stopped from being played. Also spiderwoman should steal the power.
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 😮💨
What if fantastic was a 2 cost.
Either that or he gives +3 to adjacent locations.
Used to love him when the game started.
Mailbag: what are your favorite Christmas movies?
PS Alex how can you not like guardians 3??????? Literally the best MCU movie imo
8:55 that variant is awesome????????
Spider woman should be what Laufey was gonna be
Mailbag: which card do you both have the most splits on for when masteries come out? For me I have 22 surfer splits !
They should make Lizard a 2,7 hah
Thatll make Luke Cages Stonk like way greater
I saw this at 21 seconds ago but wanted to watch it through first. Mantis should be a 1/2 that steals from deck again by now. Mill is a real archetype that they support and I doubt she even makes those decks. It's surely fair by now
For spotlight caches, February is amazing except for the best card of Diamondback, who has the fodder of Nimrod and Phoenix Force, which sucks. Could've been Bob but they still clearly don't want us having chunks of good cards, or care about the "feels bad" moments.
I'd love a way to experiment with new cards though.
I wish Annihilus was better. Poor guy hasn’t been anywhere near meta in a long while ever since Viper got her buff and Sersi came to the game. Sentry buff could bring him back maybe.
I played lizard in a malekith Luke cage deck and he felt okay being pulled by maliketh or going down with a Luke cage but hydra Bob would be much better in the deck
Inkpulp Shade!
MAILBAG: I love you guys but HATE Hot locations. They restrict decks and sucks the fun out of those days and I don’t play when it’s a location I don’t like. What are your thoughts ?!
My GF pulled Yellowjacket last night. She asked me what deck uses it. I said none. She asked what deck ever used it...
We can replace Yellowjacket with too many cards today, yet they just keep printing more and more
I use him in my Annti-Going deck (has four series 4, 5 in total)
Guardians 3 slander will NOT be tolerated
16:40 put some respect on rocket and Gamora. Nothing is wrong with those Guardians. 😅
I still have lizard in my sauron deck
Mayyyybe they’ll buff Mr Fantastic when he releases in Rivals (which who knows might be when the movie drops), but as you said they already have great Rivals characters who are terrible cards lol
alex you're so close to 100K subs
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
They can't buff series 1 or 2 cards because you have to think about the precious new player experience..m for all 1 or 2 new players ever two or three months.
Releasing one card per week including one the week of the season pass (which was recovery week for most of us) is insane and not sustainable. Especially if they keep putting trash spotlights of cards that nobody wants. Not everybody is a whale and people can’t keep up, this is affecting even content creators because people are consistently missing 2-3 cards per decks that are meta and not as interested in videos of decks they can’t use. People just quit, they’re not spending $100 on bundles with 2 keys to then get random cards or 1000 tokens and not the card you were actually aiming for.
Why does losing on Rivals not feel as bad? Because there are 5 other people also responsible for the loss. How is that not mentioned.
Lizard 2/5 used to be a great card. But he's been powercrept
Why don’t they put a team logo on certain cards and run the Xmen buffs again. Just Replace cyc in evo and now you have a new archetype and it buffs new players cards. X-men/sinster6/youngavengers
Unfortunately, I do know what mantis does.. 😅
Okay hear me out, the guardians of the galaxy should be (Face Off: + X Power.) instead (On Reveal: If your opponent played a card here this turn, + X Power.)
I cannot tolerate the Inkpulp slander.
Alex Guardians 3 is bad!? How many adult beverages have you had?
Theres too many cards now... the "this cards suck" segment" will eventually be made up of 99 percents of the cards..... all the good ones will be the ones that came out within the last 2 months smh
What's funny about this statement is that other card games have more cards than marvel Snap has. Hearthstone has over 5k cards, Pokemon Pocket has about 150 less right now but that's only been out for less than 2 months and is about to cut that difference in half.
Gotta sell those season passes
Saying a card game has too many cards if a very confusing take.
What a stupid comment
Ah yes. Like how right now everyone is playing... *checks notes* Penni Parker, Luna Snow, King EtrI, Malekith, Fentis Wolf, Frigga and Misery...
Daken is awful and he’s in a spotlight with a really desirable card. That feels rude. For Peni, I feel like she needs one more power somewhere, or Sp/dr could cost 2/3. She’s a good card though and very flexible for different decks.
Change the shard to say “double dakens power, that becomes his base power” immunity to SK and if he gets high enough can be Shang’d
I love gotg 3 so much
LIZARD is Amazing.
TEACHES new players the value of chasing points in a lane vs. Filling up....
This Episode NEEDS to be Called Fuck All New Players...
Glad I'm not the only one who found guardians 3 mid!