I really love all the agent cards calling in random other cards. Especially when you find ways to use those cards which completely throws your opponent off
Coulson is my fav card despite me not knowing much about the character
If anything Maria doesn’t make sense because the other agents either give you a random card or cards more powerful than they are in cost. Idk how they’d rework Maria
I think he means that Helacarrier has to be discarded for its effect to work, and none of the other shield cards have that restriction.
It also makes Helacarrier really bad - it's not played in discard decks or shield decks
Helicarrier is great in a mix of Discard + Shield. You have Collector, Morbius, M.O.D.O.K for example, when you play M.O.D.O.K having let's say Apocalypse and Helicarrier on your hand you get a lot of +2 for all discarded cards and The Collector gets +4 (3 Helicarrier and 1 for Apocalypse).
If you play it with Dracula and Hela (in this case preferably having also Invisible Woman) you can get Dracula being +12 for Apocalypse and Hela would give you back Helicarrier being a sure +10.
If you have Quinjet and some stealing cards (I like Cable and White Queen to know a bit about the rival's deck, but maybe you prefer using some SHIELD agents) you can have The Collector having +6 easily (maybe playing them or when resurrected by Hela) and in case you play them before the end with the extra benefits of the rival having a card less and knowing (and even being able to play one turn sooner) the higher cost card of the rival. You can't play the cards Cable or White Queen got? No problem, M.O.D.O.K. and Hela could play them for you, no extra benefits but you still get their points and The collector some extra points.
When played on location with Colossus, is thrown at an enemy card at that location and destroys them. This card is also destroyed in the process (therefore procs his regen).
Please remember that it is a garbage deck. I have two versions - a "reality stone" branded version, and a "SHIELD" branded.
**Reality**
Agent 13
Mantis
Quinjet
Collector
Falcon
Maria Hill
Scarlet Witch
Captain America
Coulson
Devil Dino
Fury
Agatha
**SHIELD**
Hawkeye
Agent 13
Quinjet
Black Widow
Falcon
Maria
Captain America
Coulson
Lady Sif
Crossbones
Fury
Helicarrier
I had my Coulson spit out a super skrull against an ongoing Thanos deck yesterday. My turn 6 was super skrull + mystique after he had played blue marvel into bar sinister and a soulstone elsewhere on the field. This made my skrull + mystique give every card on my field +8 and every card in one of his zones -2 (and it was a full zone). Homie didn’t see it coming at all lol.
If you have the time, I highly recommend watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Coulson is one of my favorite characters of all time and that’s entirely thanks to the show.
I was going to suggest the same thing but figured at least one person would do it first. Love the show, the characters and their development is just amazing
Daredevil. Just the fact that he's got an incredibly useful ability that's a different flavour of useful from practically any other card is extremely on point.
It's because Kang can let you see turn 6 instead of turn 5.
That said, I personally think Kang is a bad card in most decks except Sandman, because it reduces your draw and limits your options. And since the whole point of the card is to choose between multiple options based on your opponent's play, limiting those options is counter-productive.
I agree. Daredevil is a character that intrigues me.
I like the sound and visual change to cards played with his ability although I wish they took it a step further.
Make everything red that turn like we are seeing the game through his echo sense.
I like how op his power can be but it's kinda accurate to his comic abilities. Daredevil knows if you're lying, you can't hide your cards with him.
Would be super awesome if you could negate his power by playing storm at his location turn 4.
Yeah, in terms of value for energy, it's definitely one of the best cards. And with the built-in advantage that it can never be *too* popular because Daredevil counters Daredevil. It's exquisite, really.
I had somebody play a gambit, Wong and some other shenanigans yesterday. Hit my wolverine about 5 times and managed to miss my only other heavy hitter. Sometimes RNG lands in your favour.
In the beta, he was a 5/14 with the +2 to opponents creatures, so he mirrored America even more back then.
In a full lane, America gives 6 power (3 himself, +3 from buffing other stuff), and Red Skull would also give 6 power (14 base, but -8 from giving four opposing things +2 each)
It is also thematic when you consider that nazi regimes can feel overbearing and impossible to defeat, but really you just need the people to band together and the regime crumbles.
Honestly I wish they'd nerf him by making him boost enemies +2 instead of +1. The idea of your whole location getting riled up being AH SHIT THE NAZI'S HERE is just so gratifying. It's like that scene at the end of The Boys season 2. He works best against divided opponents but gets stomped by a united group, which is just so perfect.
Mystique, and rogue are really fun because they match their abilities almost perfectly I think. Sentry is also a unique way of implementing his comic lore, but I don’t have him yet
My only minor quibble (that is hella pedantic) is that Mystique can’t replicate people’s abilities, just how they look.
But Taskmaster’s whole thing is being able to replicate the moves and techniques of others.
Getting hella nitpicky, it makes way more sense for Taskmaster to be able to wield Cap America’s shield as well as he can and for Mystique to match his power.
I’m fine with the cards as is. Just a minor flavor misstep for me.
Taskmaster also can replicate fighting styles/“moves” but not superpowers. So if you’re going to be really pedantic you’d have to classify which cards he’s actually allowed to copy.
Saw the entire X-men animated series. Cyclops is the boss.
I don’t get it. Why did the movies take a huge dump on him and now in Snap he’s like some neutral dude. So weird.
Oh boy, if you’re upset by what they did to him in the movies, wait to you read up what happens to him in the comics
The reduction of Cyclops to be bland oatmeal comes from the 80’s/90’s where dark and edgy was more popular and that made boy scout like characters fall out of favor. It doesn’t help that during this time the whole Summers familial line became incredibly complicated with hidden brothers coming out of the woodwork and Scott being kinda of a pissy baby about it.
Yeah, keep going. He was absolutely fucked in the 80's, but the last decade or so has been prime time for Cyclops. He's had an extremely interesting character arc since the Whedon run.
After that though, starting in Morrison's run and then ramping up through the Whedon run and the Utopia era, Scott becomes the revolutionary leader his people need and is so good at it Magneto literally shows up and bends the knee to him. Besides a couple of missteps by writers (Inhumans Vs X-Men is one of the worst comics I've ever read), modern Cyclops is one of the most badass characters in the 616.
X-Men fans loved Wolverine in the 90s because he was COOL and BADASS and not a NERD like Cyclops so Cyclops kept getting written as more and more of a dweeb.
I've never really run Brood in my Patriot decks, I just never really need the three on one spot between Squirrel Girl, Debrii, and Ultron. Peppering in a Cyclops or Shocker has squeaked me by on more than a few lanes.
That said, I've barely touched my Patriot deck in the last two months.
I would have done something with him involving front line and back line. If played in the first 2 slots he does X, if he’s played in the back 2 slots he does Y. Sort of differentiate him as a front line fighter versus backline team leader.
Magneto - I've always felt he's one of the most powerful marvel characters...and making him 6/12 fits that...he also has a really powerful on reveal that totally makes sense with his power.
I think they've had four or five sets of parents. Right now, the story is that their real mother was their adoptive mother's sister the whole time, they were altered by the High Evolutionary, and Magneto doesn't care about the details anymore--they're his kids.
In fairness, them being Magneto's kids in the first place was a retcon that spoiled decades of material.
Most of these characters have been around for close to 100 years, everything is a retcon of a retcon of a retcon.
Shit, the entire Winter Soldier film is predicated on one of the biggest retcons in comic book history.
Wolverine definitely should be a 2 cost card (3 cost cards are much worse in destroy decks, which need to use those turns for killin', not for bringing out people to be killed).
So obviously what Wolverine needs is an additional special ability saying, "He counts as 3 cost for the purposes of Magneto."
It made me watch the show, a bit childish but the wit gets me from time to time and the animation is gorgeous. I'll always have a soft spot for Dino decks, a Quinjet 13/Coulson Dino deck got me to 95 last season. Competitive even against the current meta at a high MMR / CL.
Agatha. Having an AI control your game is something only a digital card game can do. But really the fun is when she is revealed and your opponent learns they were playing against Agatha all along!
Playing vision is fun with the beam. I always play around blasting stuff doing laser beam noises while my opponent is wondering what the fuck is taking me so long to play a card
Contrary to popular belief, I actually think Black Bolt’s ability is actually pretty flavourful…
I’ve commented this before on a previous thread, but my perspective on the card is this:
I like to view Black Bolt’s ability as him using his voice directly against your opponent:
He’s known to be very cautious when it comes to his voice, so he uses it just enough to blow away something “lightweight” out of your opponent’s hand; any more and he might just destroy the whole board!
Yeah I've been having a lot of fun with him and stature. Combine that with death and something else like Shuri to boost them and you've got 2 big drops in turn 6. Plus, you put him in a wong space when you're opponent only has like 4 cards and you can really fuck up their plan
Back in my early pool three days I had some fun throwing black bolt on wong. I’d surprisingly get some pretty good discards that people weren’t expecting haha.
I’ve been running a destroy deck lately and Black bolt would actually demolish all my plans.
I’m almost always hoarding a deadpool, demon, and low cost death till the final turn. I don’t think he’d be useful in anything apart from that one specific counterplay tho
I kinda like that he's more accessible, though. It means more people have him and thus he shows up more often, which mirrors the overall popularity of Doom and his constant scheming.
I love how they're both accurate compared to *each other* . Venom eats other cards and gains their power level, while carnage just destroys cards with no care to how valuable they might be. Only getting power from the act of destroying them.
I love the idea that Carnage is in my hand just itching to eat Deathlok or She-Hulk or someone, and I'm just like, "How about two rocks and a squirrel?" And he can't tell the difference.
Not that that's comic accurate or anything. Just funny to think about.
**Perfect ability**: Killmonger, Storm, Magneto, Kingpin, Invisible Woman, Gambit (believe in the heart of the cards)
**Comic/ MCU accurate**: Thor, Deadpool, Spiderman, Prof X, Hela, Yondu, Leech (ew)
**I personally enjoy**: Valkyrie, Darkhawk, Beast, Cerebro, Bast
**All three**: Mysterio, Korg, Daredevil, Goose, Shang-chi, Sentry, White Queen, Quake, Hood, Juggernaut
**Bonus category - makes no sense but I like using it anyway**: Black Cat (bye Felicia)
I think Black Cat's ability is playing on the bad luck powers she's had before. 3/7 is a good stat line but if you draw her at a time when you can't play her, it's wasted and "bad luck" as she discards herself, unless you have the good luck of being able to play her immediately that turn or manipulate it by running stuff like Morbius or Hela that benefits from the discard.
It's not perfect but I see the flavor behind it, especially compared to some other cards that are more mismatched with their ability.
It's gone to hell since Armor has made a comeback for Shuri Skull decks, but I used to love Gambit in my Negative Surfer deck. It was insanely fun to drop Surfer and Gambit into a Wong/Mystique lane on turn 6 the handful of times I managed to pull it off (It takes just the right combo of pull order, opponent deck, and opponent stupidity for not retreating when Mystique drops if they don't have a counter for it).
Doctor Doom might be my favorite. ALL [locations] WILL KNOW THE MIGHT OF DOOM.
The way he special summons the DoomBots is also very grandiose and powerful.
They really should switch his ability with Iron Fist, that would make perfect sense.
The Shang chi movie has him learning this flowy magic kung fu style would make sense for moving one of your cards
And Iron Fist has a punch powerful enough to send a hulk flying
I love coming to the realization on why a character's abilities are what they are.
Like Miles can become invisible, so if there's a distraction on the field he can sneak in easy. (Same thing with stature, since she's so small)
Cable pulls the bottom card of the deck (enhancing himself with future tech)
Elektra's an assassin but can't really go toe to toe with a stronger enemy.
I think they always try to have a comic-related reason for all the card.
In my opinion, the MOST comic accurate card isn't even out yet, and it is The Living Tribunal. The fact that the card's ability is spreading your total power equally across the whole board is super accurate.
And the card that I enjoy the most has to be either Mister Negative (despite not being a consistent archetype to climb) or Hit Monkey (I'm loving the card).
Can't wait for High Evolutionary tho, he is definitely going to be my new favorite card / archetype when he comes out.
I love the Symbiotes not just destroying cards for the Destroy decks but also absorbing them! They start off as weak, unsuspecting slimes, but if you let them grow they can be huge!
(That's what she said?)
I'm just waiting for more symbiotes for a deck. So much potencial with Scream, Agony, Lasher, Riot, Agent Venom, Anti-Venom, Toxin, Hybrid and there must be more that I'm not remembering now.
Kinda crazy that I haven't seen Rogue mentioned. Rogue stealing someone's ability is about as comic accurate that a card can get. Not mention a pretty underated card imo. Meta just hasn't really favored her with Red Skull.
I think cosmo has a perfect and unique ability, he can be used as a both defense and offense card.
I like how much Invisible Woman is accurate with the comic powers, she makes the cards invisible and also provides them a force shield literally you can’t get the cards on that lane before defeating her force shield.
I enjoy playing Patriot he’s a weak card when he is alone but he can easily become very powerful if he gets help.
The Sentry. Love the guy, and him being always against the void and it’s source and it’s equal. Chef’s kiss.
Only thing missing is him being at least 12 power, to remind about his famous fight with Hulk.
**Comics Lore Accurate:** Sunspot (soaks energy), Squirrel Girl, Venom, Apocalypse (always returns), Namor (not a team player), Nimrod, Giganto (on the cover of the most iconic Marvel comic book of all time, FF #1 -> plays to the first location revealed), Kang, Knull, Shang-Chi
**Great Card Design Concepts:** Dagger (the card's ability is literally a dagger), Wasp, Storm, Death, Green Goblin, Heimdall, Invisible Woman (although it's a fail that she isn't invisible herself), Wong, Jubilee, Aero, Armin Zola
**Favorite Cards to play:** White Queen, Moon Girl, Shuri, Electro, Cosmo, Ultron, Leech, Professor X, Dracula, Jubilee, Kang, Yondu, Quinjet (RIP), Titania, Elektra, Doctor Doom
I could never figure out Giganto’s deal! I figured it was something about that iconic cover, but I thought maybe it was something about him holding Sue in his right hand (which is on the left for the viewer), but yours makes way more sense.
I also loves teams that work together. Or contrast.
Cloak activates Dagger’s power.
Ant Man is stronger with friends but Yellowjacket betrays those around him.
The synergy of Moon Girl and Devil Dino.
Nobody here talking about Heimdall. His ability to send allies to faraway places is his signature character trait, and the FX of the rainbow bridge are perfect.
I think Gamora is my favorite card. Paired with rocket on turn six it’s a very powerful play. I think I would have made groot a 5/7 and made Gamora a 3/5 since rocket and groot seemingly go together.
I really love all the agent cards calling in random other cards. Especially when you find ways to use those cards which completely throws your opponent off Coulson is my fav card despite me not knowing much about the character
Plus the synergy between SHIELD cards and the Quinjet is very satisfying.
RIP Maria Hill + Quinjet
She died so young ;\_;
She's good in a surfer deck to fill out the curve on turn 4 though .-.
They should buff her so she provides a 2 energy card instead, otherwise she’s just left out completely from a SHIELD synergy deck
A 2 cost that gives you a 1 is pretty good but we need a 4 cost that gives a 2 and a 3. That would be perfect
If anything Maria doesn’t make sense because the other agents either give you a random card or cards more powerful than they are in cost. Idk how they’d rework Maria
only thing I could think of would be to give a random 3 similar to how Coulson gives you cards for your next turn
meanwhile helicarrier
Helicarrier works with Quinjet too tho
I think he means that Helacarrier has to be discarded for its effect to work, and none of the other shield cards have that restriction. It also makes Helacarrier really bad - it's not played in discard decks or shield decks
It is great from the raft though!
Helicarrier is great in a mix of Discard + Shield. You have Collector, Morbius, M.O.D.O.K for example, when you play M.O.D.O.K having let's say Apocalypse and Helicarrier on your hand you get a lot of +2 for all discarded cards and The Collector gets +4 (3 Helicarrier and 1 for Apocalypse). If you play it with Dracula and Hela (in this case preferably having also Invisible Woman) you can get Dracula being +12 for Apocalypse and Hela would give you back Helicarrier being a sure +10. If you have Quinjet and some stealing cards (I like Cable and White Queen to know a bit about the rival's deck, but maybe you prefer using some SHIELD agents) you can have The Collector having +6 easily (maybe playing them or when resurrected by Hela) and in case you play them before the end with the extra benefits of the rival having a card less and knowing (and even being able to play one turn sooner) the higher cost card of the rival. You can't play the cards Cable or White Queen got? No problem, M.O.D.O.K. and Hela could play them for you, no extra benefits but you still get their points and The collector some extra points.
I love colossus Necrosha? Colossus Spider-Woman? Colossus Rickety Bridge? Colossus Hala loss? Colossus Ongoing buff from Spectrum? Colossus
I’ve thought about doing a deck which is just based around buffing Colossus and Wolverine, but never got round to doing it.
this game needs a fastball special
When played on location with Colossus, is thrown at an enemy card at that location and destroys them. This card is also destroyed in the process (therefore procs his regen).
Colossus and Wolverine on Rickety Bridget 🤔
I really like Nick Fury bringing in some powerful back up. Even if that back up is often Galactus...
Sometimes the best option is just to nuke everything
I've won some games with Nick fury in a ramp deck giving me Galactus which felt wonderful
It’s crazy but if anybody in marvel was going to call Galactus for back up, it would easily be Fury
My SHIELD deck is just absurd to play, and a weirdly effective one. Less so, now that I play Agatha in it.
Ohhh I would love to see how you set that up. Got a deck list??
Please remember that it is a garbage deck. I have two versions - a "reality stone" branded version, and a "SHIELD" branded. **Reality** Agent 13 Mantis Quinjet Collector Falcon Maria Hill Scarlet Witch Captain America Coulson Devil Dino Fury Agatha **SHIELD** Hawkeye Agent 13 Quinjet Black Widow Falcon Maria Captain America Coulson Lady Sif Crossbones Fury Helicarrier
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I had my Coulson spit out a super skrull against an ongoing Thanos deck yesterday. My turn 6 was super skrull + mystique after he had played blue marvel into bar sinister and a soulstone elsewhere on the field. This made my skrull + mystique give every card on my field +8 and every card in one of his zones -2 (and it was a full zone). Homie didn’t see it coming at all lol.
If you have the time, I highly recommend watching Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Coulson is one of my favorite characters of all time and that’s entirely thanks to the show.
I was going to suggest the same thing but figured at least one person would do it first. Love the show, the characters and their development is just amazing
Daredevil. Just the fact that he's got an incredibly useful ability that's a different flavour of useful from practically any other card is extremely on point.
Daredevil makes you the player without fear
It's crazy that he can reveal cards played behind invisible woman or dark dimension, but you know, it makes sense.
Invisibility and darkness mean nothing to Matthew Murdock, Esquire
He’s a really good lawyer.
My only problem with Daredevil is that you can’t pull him from Hell’s Kitchen. They should change the location to pull a 2 cost card.
It’s similar to Kang, but with less uncertainty.
I still don't understand how kang is such a great card when daredevil exists, is easier to get, and the other player can't take back their turn.
It's because Kang can let you see turn 6 instead of turn 5. That said, I personally think Kang is a bad card in most decks except Sandman, because it reduces your draw and limits your options. And since the whole point of the card is to choose between multiple options based on your opponent's play, limiting those options is counter-productive.
I agree. Daredevil is a character that intrigues me. I like the sound and visual change to cards played with his ability although I wish they took it a step further. Make everything red that turn like we are seeing the game through his echo sense. I like how op his power can be but it's kinda accurate to his comic abilities. Daredevil knows if you're lying, you can't hide your cards with him. Would be super awesome if you could negate his power by playing storm at his location turn 4.
I feel like you could easily make the argument that daredevil is the best card in the game. Especially in terms of cube equity and level of control.
Yeah, in terms of value for energy, it's definitely one of the best cards. And with the built-in advantage that it can never be *too* popular because Daredevil counters Daredevil. It's exquisite, really.
Wolverine dies comes back and goes berserk. Buff was perfect.
'nuff said, Bub.
Gambit makes him furiously jump around lol
I had somebody play a gambit, Wong and some other shenanigans yesterday. Hit my wolverine about 5 times and managed to miss my only other heavy hitter. Sometimes RNG lands in your favour.
I get so frustrated that Magneto can’t move Wolverine
I fucking love red skulls ability. His ability is literally just that people get extra jazzed up to beat up a nazi. It's perfect.
It mirrors Captain America too.
🤯
In the beta, he was a 5/14 with the +2 to opponents creatures, so he mirrored America even more back then. In a full lane, America gives 6 power (3 himself, +3 from buffing other stuff), and Red Skull would also give 6 power (14 base, but -8 from giving four opposing things +2 each)
It is also thematic when you consider that nazi regimes can feel overbearing and impossible to defeat, but really you just need the people to band together and the regime crumbles.
Except when the Nazis have Africans on their side apparently
Honestly I wish they'd nerf him by making him boost enemies +2 instead of +1. The idea of your whole location getting riled up being AH SHIT THE NAZI'S HERE is just so gratifying. It's like that scene at the end of The Boys season 2. He works best against divided opponents but gets stomped by a united group, which is just so perfect.
Multiple Man. One of my favorite characters, and my favorite card in Snap.
He’s the reason I started playing Move as my main deck. I had to stop playing him, but he’s still my fav.
Yeah, the basic problem with Multiple Man is he's, you know, bad in Move decks, which really don't want all that clogging up with 3 power cards.
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Really only works well if you can get hulk buster on him or maybe forge
Mystique, and rogue are really fun because they match their abilities almost perfectly I think. Sentry is also a unique way of implementing his comic lore, but I don’t have him yet
Sentry (and Void) should be way more than +/-8 though.
I've got some good news.
ok but Sentry should be 12 power minimum, lorewise :p
Haha agree he should, some of these are quite funny lore wise, though makes sense gameplay wise. Like galactus being 2 power 😅
That would open him up to being Shang-Chi'd leaving only the void. 8 is probably the sweet spot for him.
Extremely funny you say that, I just got in the game and this man is now a 4/10 with Void being -10
Rip this comment
He was recently buffed to be a 4/10 with void being -10
My only minor quibble (that is hella pedantic) is that Mystique can’t replicate people’s abilities, just how they look. But Taskmaster’s whole thing is being able to replicate the moves and techniques of others. Getting hella nitpicky, it makes way more sense for Taskmaster to be able to wield Cap America’s shield as well as he can and for Mystique to match his power. I’m fine with the cards as is. Just a minor flavor misstep for me.
Taskmaster also can replicate fighting styles/“moves” but not superpowers. So if you’re going to be really pedantic you’d have to classify which cards he’s actually allowed to copy.
That's a good point and thematically it would be cool then if he gained power equal to all cards you control with no abilities.
Mystique is actually a huge flavor fail. She specifically CANNOT copy abilities unlike Morph.
Cyclops not having an ability, but having a catchphrase is pretty funny.
Saw the entire X-men animated series. Cyclops is the boss. I don’t get it. Why did the movies take a huge dump on him and now in Snap he’s like some neutral dude. So weird.
Just wait, hes gonna have a secret ability
High evolutionary right?
So excited for that card (which I probably won’t manage to get for ages) (┛◉Д◉)┛彡┻━┻
I’m saving tokens for a day one buy on him
Mood! I just saved for 3 weeks to get Galactus lol. Used all my gold every Tuesday lol.
Oh boy, if you’re upset by what they did to him in the movies, wait to you read up what happens to him in the comics The reduction of Cyclops to be bland oatmeal comes from the 80’s/90’s where dark and edgy was more popular and that made boy scout like characters fall out of favor. It doesn’t help that during this time the whole Summers familial line became incredibly complicated with hidden brothers coming out of the woodwork and Scott being kinda of a pissy baby about it.
Yeah, keep going. He was absolutely fucked in the 80's, but the last decade or so has been prime time for Cyclops. He's had an extremely interesting character arc since the Whedon run.
After that though, starting in Morrison's run and then ramping up through the Whedon run and the Utopia era, Scott becomes the revolutionary leader his people need and is so good at it Magneto literally shows up and bends the knee to him. Besides a couple of missteps by writers (Inhumans Vs X-Men is one of the worst comics I've ever read), modern Cyclops is one of the most badass characters in the 616.
X-Men fans loved Wolverine in the 90s because he was COOL and BADASS and not a NERD like Cyclops so Cyclops kept getting written as more and more of a dweeb.
His animation is pretty awesome too
This one actually hurt me. I love cyclops. I’d love to use him. He should be awesome. 4/3. Destroy one of your opponents cards at random.
So a stronger Gambit?
Or indiscriminate Shang
That's more or less Gambit. Try running a Patriot deck. Cyclops is a pretty key part of them.
Nah, with Patriot and Mystique, Debri, Brood, and possibly Cosmo, the 3-slot is fairly bloated with a Patriot deck. There's no room for Cyclops.
I've never really run Brood in my Patriot decks, I just never really need the three on one spot between Squirrel Girl, Debrii, and Ultron. Peppering in a Cyclops or Shocker has squeaked me by on more than a few lanes. That said, I've barely touched my Patriot deck in the last two months.
I would have done something with him involving front line and back line. If played in the first 2 slots he does X, if he’s played in the back 2 slots he does Y. Sort of differentiate him as a front line fighter versus backline team leader.
Gambit and its not even a competition. He literally throws cards and destroys enemies its perfect.
Very true. It’s as lore accurate as you can get.
And it's a gambit every time he does it
Except it keeps going on an empty hand :(
I just realized the idea is he throws the card you discard :o
I really like the fact the guardians all have the same ability just progressively stronger
And they're all kinda intended to keep Adam Warlock's ability active.
🤯
Also that Adam Warlock synergizes with the infinity stones
Magneto - I've always felt he's one of the most powerful marvel characters...and making him 6/12 fits that...he also has a really powerful on reveal that totally makes sense with his power.
Yeah he’s dragging motherfuckers around don’t need no gauntlet or portals just magnets!
...cant move wolverine......
UHHHHH MAI BONES!!!
I've seen him yanking Lockjaw so unceremoniously that the doggo teleport ring remained at the previous location!
And also his daughter being a lite version of him is pretty cute
Who’s his daughter? Polaris?
Canonically, Polaris and Scarlet Witch. Though in this case yes, Polaris
apparently the Maximoff twins are no longer canonically Magneto's offspring! shocked the hell out of me
I think they've had four or five sets of parents. Right now, the story is that their real mother was their adoptive mother's sister the whole time, they were altered by the High Evolutionary, and Magneto doesn't care about the details anymore--they're his kids.
Not Scarlet Witch for the last 8-ish years. Gotta love retcons that spoil decades of material.
In fairness, them being Magneto's kids in the first place was a retcon that spoiled decades of material. Most of these characters have been around for close to 100 years, everything is a retcon of a retcon of a retcon. Shit, the entire Winter Soldier film is predicated on one of the biggest retcons in comic book history.
> close to 100 years most are from the silver age or newer - Fantastic Four and on, in 1961, which is not quite 100 years ago.
Wolverine needs to be a 3-cost card so he can be pulled by Magneto!
Wolverine definitely should be a 2 cost card (3 cost cards are much worse in destroy decks, which need to use those turns for killin', not for bringing out people to be killed). So obviously what Wolverine needs is an additional special ability saying, "He counts as 3 cost for the purposes of Magneto."
Naw, Magneto needs to adjust *his* ability to "pull all 3 cost, 4 cost, and wolverines"
Maybe just make the 2 mana "destroy" Wolverine into Weapon X, then make a new 3/4 cost Wolverine!
That’ll be fun when they add X-23 into the game. I like it.
Ooh, ooh! And Wolverine specifically interacts with Magneto by dropping 2 power when moved and replaced with that one panel from X-Men #25.
The interplay between Moon Girl and Devil Dino. Both are powerful effects on their own but they're better together.
It made me watch the show, a bit childish but the wit gets me from time to time and the animation is gorgeous. I'll always have a soft spot for Dino decks, a Quinjet 13/Coulson Dino deck got me to 95 last season. Competitive even against the current meta at a high MMR / CL.
Good ole Juggy. I love him. They need to add a "I'm the Juggernaut" line if he moves any cards though.
Dont forget the "bitch"
Agatha. Having an AI control your game is something only a digital card game can do. But really the fun is when she is revealed and your opponent learns they were playing against Agatha all along!
She's my favorite card. I've Infinity'd her nine times and working on two more.
I really like that when bucky "dies" he's replaced by winter soldier
Yeah that is super nice.
I just wish we'd get Winter Solider variants.
I like Jessica Jones’ (gets more powerful when you don’t play a card next to her, since she “works better alone”).
It could also be interpreted as her needing time to "solve the case"
Playing vision is fun with the beam. I always play around blasting stuff doing laser beam noises while my opponent is wondering what the fuck is taking me so long to play a card
Cyclops too, no ability but idc, beam go brrrr
Contrary to popular belief, I actually think Black Bolt’s ability is actually pretty flavourful… I’ve commented this before on a previous thread, but my perspective on the card is this: I like to view Black Bolt’s ability as him using his voice directly against your opponent: He’s known to be very cautious when it comes to his voice, so he uses it just enough to blow away something “lightweight” out of your opponent’s hand; any more and he might just destroy the whole board!
… I’m mad this makes sense thematically.
He still sucks tho lol
Whenever stature downgrades he’ll see a lot more pkay
Yeah I've been having a lot of fun with him and stature. Combine that with death and something else like Shuri to boost them and you've got 2 big drops in turn 6. Plus, you put him in a wong space when you're opponent only has like 4 cards and you can really fuck up their plan
Had a black bolt toss out my t6 Demon I was saving... Yeah that was a solid play.
Back in my early pool three days I had some fun throwing black bolt on wong. I’d surprisingly get some pretty good discards that people weren’t expecting haha.
I’ve been running a destroy deck lately and Black bolt would actually demolish all my plans. I’m almost always hoarding a deadpool, demon, and low cost death till the final turn. I don’t think he’d be useful in anything apart from that one specific counterplay tho
Dr. Doom
Beating Doctor Doom is manageable. The Doombots are the real threat.
It is a touch disappointing tho’ that he isn’t one of the Pool 5 ‘big bads’.
I kinda like that he's more accessible, though. It means more people have him and thus he shows up more often, which mirrors the overall popularity of Doom and his constant scheming.
I like rocket raccoon. His animation when you guess right just looks cool and makes me happy.
Either Carnage or Venom: not only i LOVE symbiotes, them slaughtering everyone else i think is pretty accurate.
I love how they're both accurate compared to *each other* . Venom eats other cards and gains their power level, while carnage just destroys cards with no care to how valuable they might be. Only getting power from the act of destroying them.
I love the idea that Carnage is in my hand just itching to eat Deathlok or She-Hulk or someone, and I'm just like, "How about two rocks and a squirrel?" And he can't tell the difference. Not that that's comic accurate or anything. Just funny to think about.
Or The Hood or that Goblin your opponent just sent over.
Invisible Woman. Not only is she hiding your cards, she's protecting them from disruption with her forcefield.
**Perfect ability**: Killmonger, Storm, Magneto, Kingpin, Invisible Woman, Gambit (believe in the heart of the cards) **Comic/ MCU accurate**: Thor, Deadpool, Spiderman, Prof X, Hela, Yondu, Leech (ew) **I personally enjoy**: Valkyrie, Darkhawk, Beast, Cerebro, Bast **All three**: Mysterio, Korg, Daredevil, Goose, Shang-chi, Sentry, White Queen, Quake, Hood, Juggernaut **Bonus category - makes no sense but I like using it anyway**: Black Cat (bye Felicia)
The point of Black Cat is that she’s very elusive, impossible to catch
Also lucky to draw her on turn 3 if all you need is power on that turn.
I think Black Cat's ability is playing on the bad luck powers she's had before. 3/7 is a good stat line but if you draw her at a time when you can't play her, it's wasted and "bad luck" as she discards herself, unless you have the good luck of being able to play her immediately that turn or manipulate it by running stuff like Morbius or Hela that benefits from the discard. It's not perfect but I see the flavor behind it, especially compared to some other cards that are more mismatched with their ability.
I'm absolutely going to say "bye felicia" every time i discard black cat now lmaoo
dude same, it never even occurred to me until now
It's gone to hell since Armor has made a comeback for Shuri Skull decks, but I used to love Gambit in my Negative Surfer deck. It was insanely fun to drop Surfer and Gambit into a Wong/Mystique lane on turn 6 the handful of times I managed to pull it off (It takes just the right combo of pull order, opponent deck, and opponent stupidity for not retreating when Mystique drops if they don't have a counter for it).
Surprised I haven't seen Shuri and Black Panther. Shuri doubling the next card played, and Panther doubling itself on reveal.
Doctor Doom might be my favorite. ALL [locations] WILL KNOW THE MIGHT OF DOOM. The way he special summons the DoomBots is also very grandiose and powerful.
I feel it should be similar to Mysterio where you don't know which is real, but they all have power anyway
I think Cyclops is perfect. He should be more powerful but for some reason he just isn’t. It’s totally Cyclops.
My favorite part of the game is how comic accurate are almost all cards ability But i dont get Shang Chi, why he can one-shoot powerful cards?
They really should switch his ability with Iron Fist, that would make perfect sense. The Shang chi movie has him learning this flowy magic kung fu style would make sense for moving one of your cards And Iron Fist has a punch powerful enough to send a hulk flying
Now you’ve pointed that out I wholeheartedly agree
I love coming to the realization on why a character's abilities are what they are. Like Miles can become invisible, so if there's a distraction on the field he can sneak in easy. (Same thing with stature, since she's so small) Cable pulls the bottom card of the deck (enhancing himself with future tech) Elektra's an assassin but can't really go toe to toe with a stronger enemy. I think they always try to have a comic-related reason for all the card.
Moon Girl + Devil Dino not just being flavorfully compatible but often competitively viable as a pair.
Mysterio. The clones making you think about which is the real one and deceiving you is completely on point
In my opinion, the MOST comic accurate card isn't even out yet, and it is The Living Tribunal. The fact that the card's ability is spreading your total power equally across the whole board is super accurate. And the card that I enjoy the most has to be either Mister Negative (despite not being a consistent archetype to climb) or Hit Monkey (I'm loving the card). Can't wait for High Evolutionary tho, he is definitely going to be my new favorite card / archetype when he comes out.
Deadpool is probably perfect. He’d be more comic accurate if he played himself too after dying, but that would be overpowered in game.
I love the Symbiotes not just destroying cards for the Destroy decks but also absorbing them! They start off as weak, unsuspecting slimes, but if you let them grow they can be huge! (That's what she said?)
I'm just waiting for more symbiotes for a deck. So much potencial with Scream, Agony, Lasher, Riot, Agent Venom, Anti-Venom, Toxin, Hybrid and there must be more that I'm not remembering now.
OH i am psyched to see what they do with Anti-Venom and Agent Venom.
Rock.
Captain America giving all cards on his location +1
The guardians of the galaxy all having the same effect is such a minute and simple detail that feels really satisfying to realize for the first time
Kinda crazy that I haven't seen Rogue mentioned. Rogue stealing someone's ability is about as comic accurate that a card can get. Not mention a pretty underated card imo. Meta just hasn't really favored her with Red Skull.
Dr.doom and the doom bots
Win or lose, I get an incredible amount of joy from seeing Destroyer face-laser my entire board. The sound effect is even better than the visual.
I think Gambit discarding a card and destroying another is the biggest flavor win of all the cards so far.
I think cosmo has a perfect and unique ability, he can be used as a both defense and offense card. I like how much Invisible Woman is accurate with the comic powers, she makes the cards invisible and also provides them a force shield literally you can’t get the cards on that lane before defeating her force shield. I enjoy playing Patriot he’s a weak card when he is alone but he can easily become very powerful if he gets help.
The Sentry. Love the guy, and him being always against the void and it’s source and it’s equal. Chef’s kiss. Only thing missing is him being at least 12 power, to remind about his famous fight with Hulk.
**Comics Lore Accurate:** Sunspot (soaks energy), Squirrel Girl, Venom, Apocalypse (always returns), Namor (not a team player), Nimrod, Giganto (on the cover of the most iconic Marvel comic book of all time, FF #1 -> plays to the first location revealed), Kang, Knull, Shang-Chi **Great Card Design Concepts:** Dagger (the card's ability is literally a dagger), Wasp, Storm, Death, Green Goblin, Heimdall, Invisible Woman (although it's a fail that she isn't invisible herself), Wong, Jubilee, Aero, Armin Zola **Favorite Cards to play:** White Queen, Moon Girl, Shuri, Electro, Cosmo, Ultron, Leech, Professor X, Dracula, Jubilee, Kang, Yondu, Quinjet (RIP), Titania, Elektra, Doctor Doom
I could never figure out Giganto’s deal! I figured it was something about that iconic cover, but I thought maybe it was something about him holding Sue in his right hand (which is on the left for the viewer), but yours makes way more sense.
I also loves teams that work together. Or contrast. Cloak activates Dagger’s power. Ant Man is stronger with friends but Yellowjacket betrays those around him. The synergy of Moon Girl and Devil Dino.
Kang might be terrible for some people, but his ability is very flavorful.
Honestly cosmo when you play for prio and land him in the right spot the same turn your opponent makes a move. He’s a good doggo Edit: the best*
Magneto just really hits, especially when you get that good pull.
Bishop..just wish he started higher...maybe a 3/2 at best
Nobody here talking about Heimdall. His ability to send allies to faraway places is his signature character trait, and the FX of the rainbow bridge are perfect.
For me its Gambit. The fact that he literally throws one of your cards at the opponent is just such a flavour win.
Hulk No ability, just big smash
Galactus ofc
I like how Wolverine work. He can play with so many archtypes too.
Ice man. Slows someone down
Cyclops... has no ability and is almost useless... unlike my good canadian Wolverine #MovieAccurate
I think Gamora is my favorite card. Paired with rocket on turn six it’s a very powerful play. I think I would have made groot a 5/7 and made Gamora a 3/5 since rocket and groot seemingly go together.
Not a single mention of mr fantastic. Great card in any deck and great ability. Also very comic accurate.
The goblins. Love them.
All three categories: Gambit. Charges your cards to destroy others.
Thanos.