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Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


I snapped when they dropped Black Widow, they snapped when they dropped Doc Ock. This loving game. :allears:

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Jokymi
Jan 31, 2003

Sweet Sassy Molassy

Push El Burrito posted:

It doesn't want me to get past 35 this season. I don't really care about ranking up anymore. I figured out last season it's a fool's errand to even try.
I've been stuck in the 30s all season as well. I managed to break 60 for the first time last season and almost got to 70 by the end, so I'm hoping to turn things around soon. Honestly, though, I don't care much about ranking up either. I've been spending more time trying out new fun decks instead of just playing nothing but my Sera control and Lockjaw decks.

flatluigi posted:

i'm not super into marvel but i had a pandemic-induced binge of all the MCU movies a while back & watched noted non-MCU tv shows agents of shield + legion

playing snap has been a journey of finding out who various characters in the movies and tv shows are actually established legacy characters
I'm not much of a Marvel fan either, and I'm having a similar experience playing through Midnight Suns right now. I'm seeing all kinds of characters from Snap that I didn't know anything about beyond their cards. It's also introduced me to some characters I'm hoping to see put into Snap in the future, like Nico.

I also learned that there is both a Sera and a Sara in the Marvel universe and that they're completely different. I was excited at first when I thought my favorite card was going to be a major character in the game, but it turned out that it's some other lady.

Jokymi fucked around with this message at 00:35 on Mar 14, 2023

Ninurta
Sep 19, 2007
What the HELL? That's my cutting board.

Scrap Dragon posted:

My Typhoid Mary story is that before Snap the only place I had seen her was in a mixed group of villains in JLA/Avengers so I spent over a decade thinking she was a DC character

Also, what run is this? I'm absolutely down for Kingpin in Krakoa.

It's in X-Men #20, covered a bit here in the Polygon article. In typical crossover fashion the marriage occurred in an issue of Daredevil, which is fitting.

https://www.polygon.com/2023/3/13/23637570/marvel-x-men-mutants-kingpin-krakoa

Youremother
Dec 26, 2011

MORT

I'm really, really hoping to hit at least 60 this season, because the Mystery Variant is the most valuable reward of the track IMO, but I don't think I'm going to unless I manage to pull a serious killer card soon. I still don't have Aero, but I already do have killers like Wave, She-Hulk and Sera - it just feels like I'm missing other essential gears for my decks.

Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


I've been vibing in the 40's all week. Agatha just got me over 50.

the_american_dream
Apr 12, 2008

GAHDAMN

Bottom Liner posted:

Dracula's strength is in his consistency. In a tuned deck if you get him down it's a guaranteed big lane that beats most others. The accompanying cards are synergistic and usually above curve in their power level to win another. The third lane is for junk or a surprise turn 6 play. You can drop Apoc without Dracula as a backup. My version runs Infi as well so I can cheat it out with Ghost or drop Apoc and get Infi on Drac. And you can always play Drac as a bluff but play Apoc on another lane too.

It's not top tier, but it's very playable because of consistency.

I don't think Modok particularly helps the deck unless you want to do the Swarm version but I think that's weaker.

Which version do you use?

I like the drac version but I don’t always play drac especially if apoc isn’t in hand and it works out usually

Bottom Liner
Feb 15, 2006


a specific vein of lasagna

the_american_dream posted:

Which version do you use?

I like the drac version but I don’t always play drac especially if apoc isn’t in hand and it works out usually






You can go Jubilee/Hela for the more casino version, swapping out Swarm and Wing.

There's also the Zoo dracula/infinaut decks that run no discard, just cheap stuff to have an empty hand on 5 and draw America with Infi left in hand.

Bottom Liner fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Mar 14, 2023

Maneck
Sep 11, 2011

OxMan posted:

95!!! Did not expect to climb this hard this fast (started the season at 20) 85 is definitely a bump up, i have to be a lot smarter about retreats, which is to say retreat if I'm sure I'm going to win. And even then, lots of pocket picks and strong t4/5 cards lose me some 4/8 cube games too. Props to whatever goon offhand mentioned the psylocke on 4 > 6 Shulk/Infinaut, that combo and Aero are where most of my 4/8 cube wins are from. 1600 CL mostly F2P ($3 bux)

Tried your deck out and had a wild time. Favorite was a game with the Quantum Up and Limbo in the right lane. Scarlet Witch was mia the whole game. Turn 6 I dropped Psylock and Rogue into the Quantum Tunnel, turning up Jubilee (into a full lane) and then Psylock coming back. Which added a whopping two power to that lane, but I still one it because the other guy also rolled terrible while filling the lane. And if anyone had been counting (I wasn't), it meant I had 7+2 energy T7. I had Death in hand, in a game with zero killed cards and could play it without Wave. Definitely a first for me.

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.
Is the Token Tuesday bundle worth it? I feel like it is, but maybe not... I'm also at like only 100 tokens so I need some fast.

Quetzadilla
Jun 6, 2005

A PARTICULARLY GHOULISH SHITPOSTER FOR NEOLIBERLISM AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Need a new deck to pilot at cl360 because pool 1 kazoo is getting repeatedly stuffed by kill monger and i don't have any of the cool pool 2 cards yet. Tried a new ongoing deck and game 1 managed to play hobgoblin into my own Cosmo. Galaxy brain play.

Sandwolf
Jan 23, 2007

i'll be harpo


DrBouvenstein posted:

Is the Token Tuesday bundle worth it? I feel like it is, but maybe not... I'm also at like only 100 tokens so I need some fast.

I think there’s something better coming literally tomorrow

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!
Token Tuesday is amazing. The upcoming starting the 16th is called special offer and it is indeed better and it's 700 gold. If you can afford both buy both!

Youremother
Dec 26, 2011

MORT

I have to be very conservative with my gold usage in the next few weeks lest I miss out on the variant Rock bundle.

Pixeltendo
Mar 2, 2012




:getin:

Kooriken
Dec 27, 2012

This thread is beneath my talent, but I....shall elevate it.
Just won a game because the enemy played Kang instead of their winning play T6. I originally Aero'd last turn as you do since I was already winning 2 lanes, he had all his power mid and a ten power Nimrod. I'm thinking it's Galactus, hence the Aero play. Instead he Kangs, we reset the turn, and I play Shang to destroy their Nimrod mid, winning me mid and right and since I had prio, stopping Galactus wherever he was going to be played. Imagine my surprise when its Venom instead, who eats 4 power worth of units instead of 14 and I still win. If they had just Venom'd mid first, they would have won.

What I'm saying is, don't play Kang against Tech decks lol

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat


Good name.

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!

Walla posted:

I've been vibing in the 40's all week. Agatha just got me over 50.

Agatha is great fun and a convenient way to knock out dailies with minimal effort. But unless you get a variant, eventually you will be faced with a terrible choice.



Upgrade the inkify split and ruin it, or stockpile unusable boosters forever?

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

DrBouvenstein posted:

Is the Token Tuesday bundle worth it? I feel like it is, but maybe not... I'm also at like only 100 tokens so I need some fast.

the token tuesdays have always been good thus far and what you should be looking for in terms of gold->token conversion, as it's been (X+50 gold) -> (X tokens + some boosters), for a conversion ratio in the upper 80%'s to mid 90%'s, whereas a lot of historically "good" bundles were more in the 70's (though then you need to account for credits and how much you value variants and blah blah blah)

as noted the upcoming special offer is better overall when you take credits (and maybe the variant) into account, but still not quite as good at pure gold->token conversion (700->600 instead of 650->600), so getting either or both is a very reasonable use of your gold

Mons Hubris
Aug 29, 2004

fanci flup :)


No Wave posted:

Token Tuesday is amazing. The upcoming starting the 16th is called special offer and it is indeed better and it's 700 gold. If you can afford both buy both!

Ugh I just bought Token Tuesday so I could finally get the Aero I’ve had pinned in the shop, they may finally get me to buy the stupid Welcome Bundle.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat
Token Tuesday netted me juuuuust enough tokens to get Kang. Now to build a deck and start climbing. Currently just stuck him in my She-Hulk/Infinaut deck in place of Taskmaster.

Cattail Prophet
Apr 12, 2014

Fun interaction I just discovered: if reality stone turns something into Space Throne, Lockjaw will happily suck it up and not spit anything back out.

quite stretched out
Feb 17, 2011

the chillest
back on my cerebro 2 bullshit and i have discovered a play that rivals zola onto venom on bar sinister - playing goose on turn 2 when the 1st location to reveal was worldship. hard enforced weenie fight

goferchan
Feb 8, 2004

It's 2006. I am taking 276 yeti furs from the goodies hoard.
I think the most "gently caress you" play possible is T2 black widow and then T3 Lamentis reveals

the_american_dream
Apr 12, 2008

GAHDAMN

BGrifter posted:

Agatha is great fun and a convenient way to knock out dailies with minimal effort. But unless you get a variant, eventually you will be faced with a terrible choice.



Upgrade the inkify split and ruin it, or stockpile unusable boosters forever?

Purple border!

Ninurta
Sep 19, 2007
What the HELL? That's my cutting board.

Grinding dailies, using Agatha. Vs. Bot results: Inconclusive, but she fails at a move deck.

Views:



Their MODOK'd Apocalypse was I believe either 24 or 32, but played Jared Leto & Polaris instead on 6 moving Kraven over to the center.

Chainclaw
Feb 14, 2009



The shop had this really cool 3099 Helicarrier variant, so I had to get it and dust off my discard deck which has given me 13 wins so far tonight. This game the Helicarrier gave me a second Dracula, and I drew Hella turn 6, after a turn 5 Modok.

OxMan
May 13, 2006

COME SEE
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Maneck posted:

Tried your deck out and had a wild time. Favorite was a game with the Quantum Up and Limbo in the right lane. Scarlet Witch was mia the whole game. Turn 6 I dropped Psylock and Rogue into the Quantum Tunnel, turning up Jubilee (into a full lane) and then Psylock coming back. Which added a whopping two power to that lane, but I still one it because the other guy also rolled terrible while filling the lane. And if anyone had been counting (I wasn't), it meant I had 7+2 energy T7. I had Death in hand, in a game with zero killed cards and could play it without Wave. Definitely a first for me.

And I just made infinite tonight for the first time at turns out exactly 1500 CL. Got Shuri from the token shop since all the stars were aligning today anyways. I think one of the deck's biggest strengths is all the ways it consistently brings out synergy, it's why i like Maw in there so much, with sunspot or ss+Scwitch they often win a lane with 20+ alone. Privilege check: ran into practically NO killmongers after the 60s or so, i guess he just don't fit in the meta at that level, fair enough. It won me games. It won me games combined with Aero. Aero enables so much. They call the deck Baero for a reason; she's not quite 4/5ths of the package but she enables wins where the rest of the deck would fizzle out on 6.

Basic strats for anyone else that wants to try it:

Always drop maw on 3rd next to sunspot but pref sunspot+scarlet witch because you only use psylocke if you ARE holding jubilee and are NOT holding either Shulk or Infinaut OR wave/death which is the turn 3 you take if you're not holding at least 2 of Psy/Shulk/Infi. Flowcharty AF but it's consistent enough that following that you always have at least one lane with 12ish, one 20ish, and by turns 5/6 can either psylocke 4 into Shulk/Infi 6, or if you already have a limbo or other mana reducing in play you can bait out a shangable target by 3rd turn waving and 4th turn psylocking anyways to give you the max amount of flex on points in lane control (this is where Aero seals the deal.

I am editing for the sole purpose of the shoutout to Rogue here. Rogue shutdown wongs and zabus ALL day. Her impact is hardly ever SEEN but it's MASSIVE in singlehandedly disabling the decks that rely on their ramp power. Bonus: early climbing she's basically a 3 point devil dino/ronan.

The only decks that will gently caress you up are meta Thanos and Taskmaster combos. Taskmaster and Doom account for most of the losses in that deck. You can muscle out galactus easily. Hela is as much of a crapshoot for you as it is for them. Being leeched can be survivable sometimes. I could have retreated way more times than i did but I've won as many 2 cube games by filling up a lane and letting sunspot even out the other to give me the 1 lane win just the same.

OxMan fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Mar 14, 2023

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

No Wave posted:

Token Tuesday is amazing. The upcoming starting the 16th is called special offer and it is indeed better and it's 700 gold. If you can afford both buy both!

That bundle is the chief reason I'm not buying this truly excellent Darkhawk variant in my shop.

Jedit fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Mar 14, 2023

Aramoro
Jun 1, 2012




Been waiting to see who comes up in my token shop but its been Hood for 2 days now. He's not pinned, just not changing.

Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


Ninurta posted:

Grinding dailies, using Agatha. Vs. Bot results: Inconclusive, but she fails at a move deck.

Views:



Their MODOK'd Apocalypse was I believe either 24 or 32, but played Jared Leto & Polaris instead on 6 moving Kraven over to the center.

Here's my current Agatha deck:

# (1) Quicksilver
# (2) Domino
# (3) Wave
# (3) Lady Sif
# (4) Ghost Rider
# (4) Crystal
# (4) Jessica Jones
# (5) Taskmaster
# (5) Captain Marvel
# (5) Aero
# (5) Spider-Woman
# (6) Agatha Harkness
#
eyJDYXJkcyI6W3siQ2FyZERlZklkIjoiV2F2ZSJ9LHsiQ2FyZERlZklkIjoiQ2FwdGFpbk1hcnZlbCJ9LHsiQ2FyZERlZklkIjoiVGFza21hc3RlciJ9LHsiQ2FyZERlZklkIjoiTGFkeVNpZiJ9LHsiQ2FyZERlZklkIjoiR2hvc3RSaWRlciJ9LHsiQ2FyZERlZklkIjoiSmVzc2ljYUpvbmVzIn0seyJDYXJkRGVmSWQiOiJTcGlkZXJXb21hbiJ9LHsiQ2FyZERlZklkIjoiQWVybyJ9LHsiQ2FyZERlZklkIjoiQ3J5c3RhbCJ9LHsiQ2FyZERlZklkIjoiUXVpY2tzaWx2ZXIifSx7IkNhcmREZWZJZCI6IkRvbWlubyJ9LHsiQ2FyZERlZklkIjoiQWdhdGhhSGFya25lc3MifV19
#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and paste it from the deck editing menu in Snap.

I could probably drop Quicksilver or Domino, but dropping both actually lowered my consistency in drawing Sif and Wave.

Crystal is just in there for fun. The idea is she could let me draw into Ghost Rider if I have Sif on 3 but not him. It hasn't happened yet.

If I had Electro I would drop both Sif and Ghost Rider and add in a couple of 6 drops. Doom would be really great here, and so would Odin.

Jessica Jones wants to be Crossbones but I don't have him.

Ideally you get Wave or Sif on 3 so Agatha is out of your hand. Taskmaster can be a second Agatha if played with Wave. Or he can be a second Jessica Jones. He copies her after her ability activates and a 5/8 isn't horrible.

Captain Marvel always goes in your highest lane since she doesn't move for total power.

Aero just wins games.

Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


I really need to put Captain Marvel in more decks. She has won a lot of games with Agatha.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat
Trip report: Kang fuckin rules. I'm having a great time dropping him as soon as the other guy snaps to see if I'm gonna get owned or not. Did one where they snapped, I dropped Kang, figured I might win after so I snapped, and they retreated.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Apparently this is a higher tier meta deck right now? Can’t say I’ve seen this version of a Wave deck before.

https://marvelsnapzone.com/decks/doomwave/

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Push El Burrito posted:

Trip report: Kang fuckin rules. I'm having a great time dropping him as soon as the other guy snaps to see if I'm gonna get owned or not. Did one where they snapped, I dropped Kang, figured I might win after so I snapped, and they retreated.

It's always safe to snap when you play Kang, even if your opponent snaps first. When the turn is rewound all snaps are reverted too.

RevKrule
Jul 9, 2001

Thrilling the forums since 2001

Yesterday a lot of my Kang games were me snapping, dropping Kang, it playing out, opponent sees their best play doesn't even beat what's on the board, they retreat after the time rewind.

I like Kang a lot but man, it's upsetting sometimes when my opponent also uses this information. It's supposed to be for me only!

The most annoying thing is I have Kang in my Thanosjaw deck and when he pops out of Lockjaw early it's a little frustrating.

team overhead smash
Sep 2, 2006

Team-Forest-Tree-Dog:
Smashing your way into our hearts one skylight at a time

Jedit posted:

It's always safe to snap when you play Kang, even if your opponent snaps first. When the turn is rewound all snaps are reverted too.

I think the only thing to worry about is a priority Cosmo or Scarlet Witch getting off a change into Knowwhere. Neither is likely but they are possible.

Hobo Clown
Oct 16, 2012

Here it is, Baby.
Your killer track.




Any good Sera decks? Just drew her from a cache. I have Zabu but not Surfer

the_steve
Nov 9, 2005

We're always hiring!

Ooh hey, just got Shuri.
This means I don't actually have to try to be any good at the game anymore, right? Just mash a few buttons on the screen and collect my cubes?

Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


I just bought She Hulk. She's the second card I brought because she's strong, instead of because she's fun. Hope I don't regret it.

I'm going to give that Doomwave deck a try.

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New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?

the_steve posted:

Ooh hey, just got Shuri.
This means I don't actually have to try to be any good at the game anymore, right? Just mash a few buttons on the screen and collect my cubes?

If it were that easy I wouldn't be floundering so badly..

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