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I climbed the most I've ever climbed last season (8.2k) and watching it all go down to 7.2k has been disheartening. Thinking I'll take this month off until Miek comes out
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Concurred posted:I climbed the most I've ever climbed last season (8.2k) and watching it all go down to 7.2k has been disheartening. Thinking I'll take this month off until Miek comes out That's a crazy amount of decay. I've been wondering what their formula is. I went from 7.5k to 7.0k for the record.
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Jan 6, 2024 00:22
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Skippy McPants posted:Saying it again, the weekly Win 8 missions for the season pass card loving suck. I don’t like Skaar, I don’t like the kinds of decks he goes in. Don’t make me grind out 8 wins with the shitter. I did those last time by putting the card of the week as a lame duck in an otherwise decent deck
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Jan 6, 2024 00:35
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Don't forget that they justified taking free gold out of reserves since you're getting gold from these extra fun cash-gated missions
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Jan 6, 2024 00:51
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Skippy McPants posted:Of course I’m doing it in conquest, and missions around new cards are fine, 8 wins is just two loving many. Not to make you feel worse, but since he's the season pass card, that also means it's going to be the same objective every weekend this month.
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Jan 6, 2024 01:09
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I personally prefer Skaar to Shaw, so I was luckily able to knock out the missions pretty quick. I find it much easier to do on ladder since we can get some easy wins against bots. Even proving grounds seems to be people playing real decks and not snapping back like maniacs.
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Jan 6, 2024 03:33
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Skaar can be used in a lot of different decks, but Shaw was pretty strongly stuck in the Surfer meta
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Jan 6, 2024 03:36
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Today I learned that if you get Collapsed Mine and Valley of the Hand, the Valley fills with rocks on turn 5. At least my opponent was equally surprised.
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Jan 6, 2024 03:36
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CapnAndy posted:Today I learned that if you get Collapsed Mine and Valley of the Hand, the Valley fills with rocks on turn 5. At least my opponent was equally surprised. This reminds me. I've never had an opportunity to do it before, but I got a middle collapsed mine, skipped turn 2, opponent plays Jeff, I Magik middle, and apparently he didn't have Killmonger. It was an easy win, that they stayed for, so I assumed an idiot bot. I still chuckled regardless.
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Jan 6, 2024 04:59
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Can someone explain to me why this Arnim Zola made 2 copies of the Nimrod at each location? I thought it was meant to make 1.
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Jan 6, 2024 05:35
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CJ posted:Can someone explain to me why this Arnim Zola made 2 copies of the Nimrod at each location? I thought it was meant to make 1. Nimrod makes a copy at each location when it is destroyed. Zola makes a copy at each location of whatever it destroys.
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Jan 6, 2024 05:39
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Yeah that's one of those interactions that isn't always clear. Zola doesn't just make copies, he destroys the original card and then makes 2 copies. Its why he's so good in a Knull deck
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Jan 6, 2024 05:49
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ijyt posted:Help me out goons, you're my only hope Sadly, you do not have the cards to run any version of Loki. You're pretty close to having the core Shaw Surfer deck, but missing Brood and Sera really hurts. Looking over your collection, the best deck I can see is a Wong/Odin On Reveal list. Something like,  The core Wong > Tiger > Odin package is quite strong at your collection level, and you also have an Iron Lad. He's one of the best cards in the game and slots nicely into the list since every card has a useful ability for him to copy. It's a very no-frills, play on curve and hope to outpower the opponent kinda deck. Sorry if that's not your jam, but I can't see any other cohesive builds with your current collection. Edit: also, if you can get more keys before the week is over, do it. High Evo and Nebula are both exceptional cards, and the next two weeks of Spotlights are pretty mediocre. If you can snag High Evo you're only a Magik away from running SheNaut, which is a tier-1 deck, and you can still run a bunch of other decent HE lists while you wait to open her. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Jan 6, 2024 06:16
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Speaking of, for anyone who doesn't keep a close eye out, the next two weeks are a good time to save Spotlight Keys. Coming up, we have, Jan. 9th Hercules: probably bad. Howard Da Duck: in the conversation for worst card in the game. WWBN: still decent, but not worth risking keys on post-nerf. Jan. 16th Miek: a middling addition to a bad deck. Until it gets something to replace the consistency lost to the Chavez nerf, Discrd is a dead deck. Annihilus: heavily nerfed, maybe not terrible, but like WWBN, it's not worth spending keys on him unless the other two pulls are solid. P-Force: archetype defining card for a niche deck.
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Skippy McPants posted:Sadly, you do not have the cards to run any version of Loki. You're pretty close to having the core Shaw Surfer deck, but missing Brood and Sera really hurts. Looking over your collection, the best deck I can see is a Wong/Odin On Reveal list. Something like, This is actually pretty close to a deck I've been running today and it's a joy to use when your opponent doesn't have cosmo, I'll try your variation, thanks! e: first game with it had sinister london, that was fun 
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Jan 6, 2024 06:33
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Skippy McPants posted:Saying it again, the weekly Win 8 missions for the season pass card loving suck. I don’t like Skaar, I don’t like the kinds of decks he goes in. Don’t make me grind out 8 wins with the shitter. Just to throw out an option that I haven't seen much, I swapped him for Death in my Deadpool Destroy (the Zola version) as that seemed similar enough to work and it made no discernible difference to my win rate. If anything I've probably played him more often than Death.
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Finding a deck to put him in isn't the problem, he goes okay in a ton of decks. I just don't like the slam big bois style of deck, so playing him is nothing but a chore. The reason I think 8 wins is too many, is that it forces you into either A) a specific style of deck, or B) putting a bad card in a deck you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the kind of deck that the Season Pass card fits into, the 40 wins you're required to farm over the course of the season is a miserable bore. I'd accept the pain if it was something like play 8 games, so people are forced to experiment with the new card, but wins can turn into a slog real fast if you get even a little unlucky. My last week of Shaw wins took almost two hours because I kept low-rolling Crimson Cosmos. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Jan 6, 2024 06:56
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The evo moon girl she hulk deck pasted earlier is a good one to knock out the weekend quest
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I honestly don’t know why Annihilus is being nerfed. I very rarely see the deck and it has several easy/popular forms of counterplay. It even got inadvertently nerfed when Viper was changed shortly after Havok dropped.
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Firebert posted:I honestly don’t know why Annihilus is being nerfed. I very rarely see the deck and it has several easy/popular forms of counterplay. It even got inadvertently nerfed when Viper was changed shortly after Havok dropped. Statistically, he was a very good card. The basic Anni, Hood, and Sentry package overperformed quite handily. The -2 power hurts that side of his play pattern, but it's confusing why they also nerfed the clutter package with stuff like Debrii since that isn't very powerful. If I had to guess, someone on their design team wants to make 100% sure that clutter decks are never more than a silly meme and never ever approach being good. If so, bless that nameless designer, cause clutter is zero fun to play against.
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Jan 6, 2024 07:13
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Skippy McPants posted:Speaking of, for anyone who doesn't keep a close eye out, the next two weeks are a good time to save Spotlight Keys. Coming up, we have, This is why I didn't feel too bad about throwing 3 cubes away this week to get Caiera.
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Jan 6, 2024 07:17
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Have they ever nerfed high evo?
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Wasp used to hit two targets, thing used to give -3 to any number of targets instead of -1 to 3 targets, hulk used to gain power wherever he was instead of only in hand or on board
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Jan 6, 2024 07:45
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icantfindaname posted:Have they ever nerfed high evo? A loooooooong time ago. Back in July they changed HE Wasp from -1 on two cards to -1 on one, and Hulk to +2 power with unspent energy in hand or play (he used to get the +2 in deck as well). He's probably due for another nerf. Hard to target, though, since the modern HE package is only guaranteed three cards: Misty, Cyclops, and Hulk. Of those, I think Cyclops is maybe the only one you could nerf without nuking the Archetype. Nerfing the Sunspot, She-Hulk duo is another option but I'm not sure what you could do to either card that would leave them in a playable state.
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Top 10 Anime Betrayals. I'd've lost if he didn't play HE Thing and debuff his own clutter before I Annihilus'ed it back over.
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Oh hey I got lucky with keys!   My other key I was able to get and spend nabbed me Nebula. Was really hoping for HE but I certainly won't complain about getting 2 cards for 2 keys based on how I've heard this can typically go for people.
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YoshiOfYellow posted:Was really hoping for HE but I certainly won't complain about getting 2 cards for 2 keys based on how I've heard this can typically go for people. Ehhhh, most of the whining comes from people who're closer to collection complete and hoping to dodge Variants and 1k Token duplicates. If you're missing a lot of S4/5 cards, weeks like this one are great because 3/4 cards are solid-to-amazing, and even the random draw is likely to be something you don't have.
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Skippy McPants posted:A loooooooong time ago. Back in July they changed HE Wasp from -1 on two cards to -1 on one, and Hulk to +2 power with unspent energy in hand or play (he used to get the +2 in deck as well). Removing leech from the game would do a lot
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Skippy McPants posted:Ehhhh, most of the whining comes from people who're closer to collection complete and hoping to dodge Variants and 1k Token duplicates. It's not whining. Getting a key is a considerable investment of time and resources, and watching it get burned on 1000 tokens or one of the increasingly lovely 700G variants that have been put in the Spotlights - Legion, looking at you here - feels very bad. And this is by design: SD want the response to a burned key to be spending money to get another. You shouldn't be criticising people for being negative about it. Now, I am spending keys on Tuesday because while Harold is bad and Herc is fun but no better than mid, I want Bronze Age WWBN. The Annihilus ruination just made it a bit easier, as now I don't want to spend on Miek week at all; Miek is S4 on release so I'll buy him with tokens if he proves decent, and Phoenix Force variants are like Morph variants in that you'll never see them.
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Cruised into infinite with this: Sunspot Electro Caiera Wave Taskmaster Blob She-Hulk Hulk Magneto Giganto Destroyer The Infinaut It plays like an old-style Shuri deck: draw your combo pieces (Blob, Taskmaster, and something to cheat Blob out early), snap, and win. You also need to either get Caiera out, or recognize when your opponent most likely has Shang so you should get out. And either far less people are playing Shang than you'd expect, or I was just lucky.
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Jedit posted:It's not whining. Getting a key is a considerable investment of time and resources, and watching it get burned on 1000 tokens or one of the increasingly lovely 700G variants that have been put in the Spotlights - Legion, looking at you here - feels very bad. And this is by design: SD want the response to a burned key to be spending money to get another. You shouldn't be criticising people for being negative about it. You say it's not whining, but then go on to mention that you're wasting precious keys on purely cosmetic unlocks. I'm sorry, but Spotlight Caches are good. More than that, they're maybe the best thing about Marvel Snap's progression. They allow players to unlock the vast majority of cards for a modest price. Are they perfect? No, but as unlock mechanics in predatory FTP economies go, they are pretty dang mild. If you want to whinge about Snap's lovely economy, then lets talk about the ongoing reduction in value to Gold Bundles, or the horrible S3 grind, which is my pick for the biggest issue with the game's progression. The amount of time new players are forced to sit in the S3 RNG pool, with zero control over their unlocks, is absurd. It can take months to open enough staple cards to play even one good deck. They desperately need a system like Spotlights for S3 unlocks. Like, give players keys that open caches with four S3 cards and put the cache on the 8-hour rotation so they have some ability to target specific cards.
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I had something weird happen with a collapsed mine in a game last night. I skipped turn 2 to get rid of the the rocks from the mine and then I was playing a She Hulk deck so I ended up skipping a later turn as well and it destroyed a bunch of rocks that had been put down by an enemy Debris, only on my side of course, they weren't even in the mine. That seems like it probably shouldn't happen?
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thebardyspoon posted:I had something weird happen with a collapsed mine in a game last night. I skipped turn 2 to get rid of the the rocks from the mine and then I was playing a She Hulk deck so I ended up skipping a later turn as well and it destroyed a bunch of rocks that had been put down by an enemy Debris, only on my side of course, they weren't even in the mine. That seems like it probably shouldn't happen? Working as intended. Collapsed Mine posted:Fill this location with Rocks. Skip a turn to destroy your Rocks. It doesn't say "your Rocks at this location." If Mine is in play, skipping a turn destroys all the Rocks on your side of the board. Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Skippy McPants posted:If you want to whinge about Snap's lovely economy, then lets talk about the ongoing reduction in value to Gold Bundles, or the horrible S3 grind, which is my pick for the biggest issue with the game's progression. The amount of time new players are forced to sit in the S3 RNG pool, with zero control over their unlocks, is absurd. It can take months to open enough staple cards to play even one good deck. They desperately need a system like Spotlights for S3 unlocks. Like, give players keys that open caches with four S3 cards and put the cache on the 8-hour rotation so they have some ability to target specific cards. I'll second this. It was bad that they delayed the drop of so many cards to Pool 3, but what's insane is that they haven't dropped anything to the Pool 2.
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drat I want Caiera but don't want to gamble for her since I have HE and Nebula and esp the Nebula variant looks like poo poo And I don't have enough tokens to buy her 
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Cool. Glad it's working okay for ya.
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Skippy McPants posted:You say it's not whining, but then go on to mention that you're wasting precious keys on purely cosmetic unlocks. I'm sorry, but Spotlight Caches are good. More than that, they're maybe the best thing about Marvel Snap's progression. They allow players to unlock the vast majority of cards for a modest price. Are they perfect? No, but as unlock mechanics in predatory FTP economies go, they are pretty dang mild. Seriously. You can’t gripe about the Spotlight Cache format and then admit to wasting them in a week with bad cards and one variant you want. Insane stuff. I think the problem comes from people who are close to collection complete just wanting an easier path to getting the few cards they’re missing, but the Spotlights unlock so much more than the pure tokens for everyone else. It’s a good trade off for the majority of the user base. ijyt posted:I got my first two gold tickets with this Nice. I didn’t get Wong until pretty late in pool 3, but that combo was beautiful and fun while it lasted.
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Got Lady Deathstrike and High Evo with my keys. A few cards dropping down to 3 today or am I thinking of something else?
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Maneck posted:I'll second this. It was bad that they delayed the drop of so many cards to Pool 3, but what's insane is that they haven't dropped anything to the Pool 2. Pool 2 is intended to be completed within a couple of weeks of regular play and to give enough of the cards to play with several different core themes. Expanding it won't help players get into the game. What is needed is better targeted acquisition of Pool 3 cards, but SD aren't about to do that because it discourages early spending.
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