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Nikumatic
Feb 13, 2012

a fantastic machine made of meat
They're most likely trying to migrate the Vibranium Rewards program to the in-game shop instead of the web shop.

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Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

What is with everyone playing so sweating in the Proving Grounds? I hardly ever get T1 snapbacks anymore. If you want to play more than one round go to Silver!

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



They are probably doing the weekend missions

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

Sure, but you still just snap everything and go again rather than grinding out rounds. It's zero stakes, so fundamentally, more single-round Proving Grounds means more boosters and models for everyone. Snaping on turn 1 is all up-side.

My Second Re-Reg
Aug 31, 2021

Come on down.
Let's make a deal.
I've gotten several people in Proving Grounds lately (A) not snapping and (B) auto retreating as soon as T3 starts playing out, idgi either

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

My Second Re-Reg posted:

(B) auto retreating as soon as T3 starts playing out, idgi either

These are bots. I play a lot late at night and run into them regularly. They all play the same deck of 1-2 drops with Shanna to lock down lanes then retreat the instant their side of T3 resolves. Apparently, they're auto-clickers farming season pass XP. It's 1 XP per turn and 10 XP per winning lane, so they get 23-33 XP per game. Which is 30-40 games per season pass cache.

Not efficient, but I guess it's free credits and gold.

I just retreat whenever I run into one unless I can farm them for the win game/snap missions.

Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Apr 27, 2024

Tunga
May 7, 2004

Grimey Drawer

Skippy McPants posted:

Sure, but you still just snap everything and go again rather than grinding out rounds. It's zero stakes, so fundamentally, more single-round Proving Grounds means more boosters and models for everyone. Snaping on turn 1 is all up-side.
The weekend mission often requires playing with a deck that isn't very good or at least I am not very good with. If I can beat a deck once there's a better than average chance that I can beat it multiple times. So it's more efficient not to snap if my goal is to get those done with limited playtime.

Edit: If I lose once I retreat though, so it's the same difference for anyone who beats me, and if they lose and don't want to retreat that's on them.

Tunga fucked around with this message at 13:05 on Apr 27, 2024

psychopomp
Jan 28, 2011

Veryslightlymad posted:




The name of the game is location control.

Thanks for the write-up! Looks fun. I have everything except RG, so I'll play with it a bit and see if I can figure it out.

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

I fight with
my brain
and with an
underlying
hatred of the
Erebonian
Noble Faction
Lemme know if you come up with anything else that fits really well. I have some thoughts on a few other cards:

I had, at points, used:
Nightcrawler - I tried until I got Snowguard. He was a cheap little insurance policy and compliments the deck well, just not as well.

Captain America - Like Punisher, only bad. I tried while I was still looking for good three drops or ongoings. I replaced him with Dazzler

Goose - Don't bother. Goose looks good on paper for a deck with exactly one card over 3 cost. In practice, his lane is somehow always the lane you need to play her in. Shutting down Crimson Cosmos is hilarious, though.

Rogue - Was excited for her and early returns were going well, but when I grabbed Red Guardian, I considered him a straight upgrade, at least for this deck.

Cards I think offhand would work pretty well, but I haven't tried:

Polaris - My personal pick for the card I'd try next if something on the deck broke. Polaris can pull something out of a location you've filled, or to a location where you think it'll be less dangerous. 3/5 is a powerful stat line.

Mojo - Like a side graded Dazzler. Could be interesting to have both. There are games where you'll fill 3 lanes and games where you'll struggle to fill 1. Having the option to hit both might be good, and it would encourage you to use Bear to Make Dudes. Bear and Mojo on 5 into something like Shadowlands seems kinda strong.

Kingpin - Not a 3 drop, but your biggest enemy is arguably move decks. This would be a straight tech card, but otherwise kinda useless. Still, turn 5 is sometimes awkward, and "just having another card to play" might not be bad.

Devil Dinosaur - Frequently, you'll hold onto a card like Quake because Quake wants to be played at certain times. Snowguard gets played most games she's drawn, if only because Energy on 4 and 5 is a little awkward. Sometimes you just don't draw a turn 1 or 2. Bear can play locations to add more cards to hand. And finally, you can't play with Crimson Cosmos.

EDIT
I don't own Doctor Doom, but Doctor Doom seems like he could go really hard in this.

Veryslightlymad fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Apr 27, 2024

DrBouvenstein
Feb 28, 2007

I think I'm a doctor, but that doesn't make me a doctor. This fancy avatar does.

FlamingLiberal posted:

It's still better than it used to be, but it has problems.

The best card acquisition period was the brief time you could both potentially pull new cards from the collection track, albeit rarely; but the token shop was new and you could get a decent amount of token rewards in the collection track, and they actually did series drops on cards so something 6000 tokens a month ago might only be 3000 now.

godogg
Dec 29, 2008
But that economy couldn't be sustained

DeepDickPizza
Oct 11, 2012

THREE TIME! THREE TIME!

Skippy McPants posted:

These are bots. I play a lot late at night and run into them regularly. They all play the same deck of 1-2 drops with Shanna to lock down lanes then retreat the instant their side of T3 resolves. Apparently, they're auto-clickers farming season pass XP. It's 1 XP per turn and 10 XP per winning lane, so they get 23-33 XP per game. Which is 30-40 games per season pass cache.

Not efficient, but I guess it's free credits and gold.

I just retreat whenever I run into one unless I can farm them for the win game/snap missions.

drat. Just ran into one of these. Incredibly obnoxious.

psychopomp
Jan 28, 2011
Hey, White Widow on Death's Door followed by a turn 6 Galactus works pretty well.

Maneck
Sep 11, 2011
White Widow seems generally good. I had avoided playing her this week because of the amount of destruction right now. Yet doing the weekend missions with her was unusually nice.

psychopomp
Jan 28, 2011

Veryslightlymad posted:

Lemme know if you come up with anything else that fits really well. I have some thoughts on a few other cards:


EDIT
I don't own Doctor Doom, but Doctor Doom seems like he could go really hard in this.

Doom slots in pretty well! I don't have Guardian so I'm trying different alternatives. Just got Legion; will see how that does.

Devo
Jul 9, 2001

:siren:Caught Cubs Posting:siren:
Oh, a variant for logging in today!

Pixel Mojo :geno:

e: Monthly stats recap is up with the usual 100 credit share thing.

Devo fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Apr 28, 2024

Red
Apr 15, 2003

Yeah, great at getting us into Wawa.
Get your free poo poo on: https://pay-va.nvsgames.com/topup/262304/eg-en?tab=purchase

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Thanks, $3 for a PMV and credits was also a good deal

Devo
Jul 9, 2001

:siren:Caught Cubs Posting:siren:

tyvm I'd never find these links if y'all didn't post them

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

I fight with
my brain
and with an
underlying
hatred of the
Erebonian
Noble Faction

FlamingLiberal posted:

Thanks, $3 for a PMV and credits was also a good deal

drat, those things have to be getting artistic if people are actually adding credits to them.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

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I pulled the Super Rare House of X Apoc variant from that PMV, which I had been wanting in the shop.

Kwanzaa Quickie
Nov 4, 2009
Just had someone try to Rogue my Ronan and got their own Widow’s Kiss, losing them the lane. :boom:

canyonero
Aug 3, 2006
I was thinking about if Valentina would be decent, and was leaning towards "yes", but Cozy and Coccia did a tier list of 6 cost cards you get with from her ability, and I'm pretty underwhelmed after seeing it laid out like this. I'm sure she'll be a good Loki card, and she'll be strong-ish in Conquest, but I think I'm passing.

THE AWESOME GHOST
Oct 21, 2005

canyonero posted:

I was thinking about if Valentina would be decent, and was leaning towards "yes", but Cozy and Coccia did a tier list of 6 cost cards you get with from her ability, and I'm pretty underwhelmed after seeing it laid out like this. I'm sure she'll be a good Loki card, and she'll be strong-ish in Conquest, but I think I'm passing.

I haven’t looked at meta stuff in a while is Loki good at the moment ? I still play him a lot but I get the feeling it’s not really a competitive deck

Sandwolf
Jan 23, 2007

i'll be harpo


Loki is still v good. I don’t think Val appreciably improves him, but she is probably a mild improvement over, idk, Nick Fury?

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

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She is better than Fury. Just pair her with Quinjet and Luke Cage and you are getting a 6 cost for 3.

canyonero
Aug 3, 2006
Right, you’re probably already running Quinjet with Loki, and Luke is a good card in the current meta anyway.

uXs
May 3, 2005

Mark it zero!
I already skipped USA gent and Red Guardian. Is there a reason to get White Widow or can I just skip her as well?

Nikumatic
Feb 13, 2012

a fantastic machine made of meat

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

I haven’t looked at meta stuff in a while is Loki good at the moment ? I still play him a lot but I get the feeling it’s not really a competitive deck

I laddered from about 94 to 100 with Loki and finished up today -- it was extremely up and down. Still a fun deck though.

Devo
Jul 9, 2001

:siren:Caught Cubs Posting:siren:

uXs posted:

I already skipped USA gent and Red Guardian. Is there a reason to get White Widow or can I just skip her as well?

She's not meta defining or anything but I think she's just generically kind of decent. My gut says Red Guardian is better if you're comparing the two. US Agent has started to pop up in a couple lists but I think he's still just kind of lovely.

Devo
Jul 9, 2001

:siren:Caught Cubs Posting:siren:
Double posting but I think the 800 gold mystery variant button is weighted towards newer variants. I've never even seen this Ironheart before and that's not the first time this has happened when hitting that button.

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Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

I fight with
my brain
and with an
underlying
hatred of the
Erebonian
Noble Faction

Devo posted:

She's not meta defining or anything but I think she's just generically kind of decent. My gut says Red Guardian is better if you're comparing the two. US Agent has started to pop up in a couple lists but I think he's still just kind of lovely.

I have to assume US Agent is one of the cards that's pretty decent against Hela Discard. Just drop it in the lane that doesn't have anything already in it on the last turn.

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

I haven’t looked at meta stuff in a while is Loki good at the moment ? I still play him a lot but I get the feeling it’s not really a competitive deck

Loki is similar to Destroy in that he's basically always somewhere between good and great. He hasn't ruled the meta since the Collector nerf, but he remains a solid top-5 pick that dodges most tech and has decent matchups into almost everything. And in the current meta, I'd say he's leaning toward the great end of the spectrum now that combo is falling off.

Note, however, that he is one of the harder decks to pilot. Not Phoenix force hard, but playing him well requires a comprehensive knowledge not only of your output but your opponent's as well. A significant number of games with him are won on one or two-point margins, so small mistakes hit a lot harder.

Still think he's a deck worth learning, since between him and Destroy, you'll basically always have a competitive deck to pull out regardless of what the meta is doing at any given time.

Skippy McPants fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Apr 30, 2024

Opopanax
Aug 8, 2007

I HEX YE!!!


Loki's been cleaning up this weekend as everyone is running junk and mill decks

Skippy McPants
Mar 19, 2009

Watching Mill decks futilely nuke my deck while I merrily generate more and more cards is always a blast.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

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I have been running a ton of Mill and I haven't seen Loki at all

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

I fight with
my brain
and with an
underlying
hatred of the
Erebonian
Noble Faction
I was goofing off with a deck that runs, I poo poo you not, Strong Guy and Kang the Conqueror, both of whom get heart eyes from opponents, and neither of whom gives a single poo poo if I get milled. I want to be milled. My whole schtick is dumping my entire hand.

My Second Re-Reg
Aug 31, 2021

Come on down.
Let's make a deal.
post ur deck

Veryslightlymad
Jun 3, 2007

I fight with
my brain
and with an
underlying
hatred of the
Erebonian
Noble Faction
Fine, but keep in mind I didn't say it was good only that it got the elusive sportsmanship like emotes from people and seems to be a good time for all.



Behold in all it's janky, dubious glory. I am running 3 and a fraction movement cards specifically so I can dump Miles Morales from my hand and for no other reason (Cloak has good stats. That's a reason)

I run Swordsmanster because he's ridiculously overstatted (seriously! He's a beneficial effect to his own deck, and he's also beneficial to my performance art deck. Discarding a card isn't nearly enough of a drawback to justify 7 loving power) and helps dump my hand. I run Kang the Conqueror because he self dumps from my hand for free. (And also seemingly takes back opponent snaps, but I dunno if this is Working as Intended or a bug.)

I run Scarlet Witch as an on curve tech card, but part of me wonders if I actually have enough movement to somehow justify Kraven.

Veryslightlymad fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Apr 30, 2024

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My Second Re-Reg
Aug 31, 2021

Come on down.
Let's make a deal.

yknow, I won't lie and say I didn't have questions, but



can't argue with results

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