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• Elsa Bloodstone
• [Old] 2/2 If you play another card to fill a location, give it +3 Power.
• [Change] +3 Power -> +2 Power

Elsa landed and took the metagame by storm almost immediately. We certainly intended to make a strong card, but a few factors led us to risk too much with Elsa, and were aiming to learn from those in the future. One of them was that Elsa and Loki were developed more separately than many of our season pass cards, owing to some unusual scheduling conflicts on other work. We underestimated how resilient each card would prove, and how much they would warp the meta as a pair. Our current set of 2-Cost cards can too easily lock specific enemy strategies and counterplay away, with Elsa making up for any Power inefficiencies they might have. That package has appeared in multiple top-performing decks! Were only shaving a little Power hereits still Elsas season, and we want her to shinebut it should contribute to a more balanced field of play.

• Loki
• [Old] 3/5 On Reveal: Replace your hand with cards from your opponents starting deck. Give them -1 cost.
• [Change] 3/5 -> 4/5

Lokis been a tricky card for us. Our internal Loki decks werent as boldly aggressive as a lot of the top ones proved to be, and there were so many different versions after release that we wanted to better understand his core strengths out in the wild before making any adjustments. And yes, having Loki be a top card for Loki season was also a goal for gameplay, the same way we wanted Move to matter during Spider-Versus and Destroy for Big In Japan. Lokis strength seemed best realized at the top of the ladderhes a card that really lets players leverage their skill, with more average performance at lower ranks. When all was said and done, we determined that Loki was offering a lot of freedom and adaptability as a 3-Cost card with high Power, as that let him compete for priority especially well. Were hoping this change leads to Loki decks that care a lot more about which cards they get and how to play them, as opposed to slamming raw Power at an efficient Cost.

• The Collector
• [Old] 2/0 When a card enters your hand from anywhere (except your deck), +1 Power.
• [Change] 2/0 -> 2/2

We made the previous Collector nerf with the express goal of weakening Loki-based decks while we determined the best course of action for the once and future king of Asgard. Given the above, its appropriate we return Collector to his former stats.

• Angela
• [Old] 2/0 After you play a card here, +2 Power
• [New] 2/2 After you play a card here, +1 Power.

Weve actually been avoiding this change for a while, with many other adjustments trying to rein in the Angela package and provide more diverse ways to build early Power while retaining this lynchpin card for some decks. However, those efforts have only dragged other cards down as Angela continued to soar, culminating in a week with Angela in four of our Top 5 decks. Its time to see how SNAP looks without Angela as a massive Power source. Were sure this change will reverberate through the metagame in ways we cant yet predict, so were avoiding any nerfs or buffs trying to compensate for it and just going to wait and see what the future holds.

• Sauron
• [Old] 3/3 On Reveal: Remove the abilities from all Ongoing cards in your hand and deck.
• [Change] 3/3 -> 3/2

This change might seem surprising, but Sauron has quietly been one of the strongest cards in the game for quite a while. Sauron decks are almost never outside the Top 10 and often in the Top 5, while Sauron himself is often our highest winrate card. There are other elements at play here, as Sauron doesnt see play in other decks which does inflate his metrics, but the deck has finally crossed a line for us. Dont worry though, Sauron fanswe have some potential new tools planned for him in the future.

• Uatu
• [Old] 1/1 At the start of the game, shows the right location to you.
• [Change] 1/1 -> 1/2

When we made the Uatu rework on our last patch, we promised we were shooting low on Power to make sure wed correctly gauged the effect. Now that we know we have, were restoring him to 1/2. Were also pleasantly surprised to see a few archetypes trying him out in decks that are very particular about which cards sit at which locations, like Armor and Galactus.

• Hellcow
• [Old] 4/6 On Reveal: Discard 2 cards from your hand.
• [Change] 4/6 -> 4/8

Our adjustments to a variety of discard effects have worked well, with at least three distinct archetypes performing well enough to be interesting. One of the weaker discard cards has been Hellcow, who combined inefficient stats with randomized discarding in a way that made it hard for her to compete with the likes of Silver Samurai and even Swordmaster. This buff gives Hellcow a more distinct identity as a high-Power card for decks doing less targeted discarding, and hopefully it leads to a continued widening of the discard space for different rewards.

• Spectrum
• [Old] 6/5 On Reveal: Give your Ongoing cards +2 Power.
• [Change] 6/5 -> 6/7

Spectrum has languished for a while. Among new players, she tends to get abandoned relatively quickly for Odin and Heimdall, who work with a more potent set of cards. Among competitive players, she can often feel like a conditional Doctor Doom. This is just a straightforward bump for herhigher, further, faster!

The actual title I would have gone with is

Fugaza

Seanchan posted...

After one about "handiwork", I was trying to figure out an amusing topic title with "Johnson" in it but couldn't figure a good enough one out.

Boebert Pleased as Johnson Rises

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/1/8/AAAOt_AAE-Vu.jpg

LMAO

On the flip side, every team that has eliminated the Marlins in the Playoffs has failed to make it to the World Series

All 2 of them

I know they were tossing around ending the Gaetz rule of 1 person being able to call for removing the Speaker, is that baked in at this point or are they still stuck with that no matter who they eventually go with?

Had 2 Caches, got Phoenix Force and Nico. Exactly what I wanted.

Got my total number of unowned cards back down to 10 (not counting Elsa)

A really goofy but sometimes brilliant play is to send Ebony Maw over to the other side with Viper

Then you just need 5 more by power to win the lane assuming they cant move cards into there (they probably can)

RuneterranSnap posted...

I haven't played in months so idk

Fun fact: in two months not a single card has dropped down to the monthly free card level

Unless I happened to have them already which is possible I guess, all I know is I've NEVER gotten a free card from shop

Trust us, we know there havent been any Series drops

RuneterranSnap posted...

I'm still upset that they removed my C3 turn one play literally right after I discovered it

I found the only possible good use of Hawkeye, and he's STILL bad

Hawkeye is so great in Bounce!

(Also sometimes I like a Hawkeye->Adam Warlock combo)

WazzupGenius00 posted...

perhaps a sign that the game continues to get a decent number of new players, since she does see use in series 1/2 play

Using that logic it really demonstrates how bad Angel is, lol

Howard has an obvious barrier to entry reason for being slept on at least

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/4/4/AAAOt_AAE9Xo.jpg

Kingpin really being slept on

What would change on 1/3? Its not an election year

So whats the real scoop on Swamp Thing and Man-Thing? What exactly happened there?

Yeah I think overall this makes Forge better, just worse in specifically the Boosted Patriot deck

I wonder how many trolls will be Storming the location

It shouldnt require a whole extra coaching position to tell someone to call a kneeldown when you have the ability to end the game

Best Man-Thing combo Ive seen so far is to use Zabu to play him into a Goose lane

Yeah they moved everything FORWARD 16 hours, not back 8

Level 4: Eagles/Rams -5
Packers/Raiders -5

BONUS: Cowboys

Maniac64 posted...

Oh damn, Iowa actually gets all three trophy games protected.

Given we have more trophy games than any other Big 10 team I did not think we would be able to keep them all. That's cool.

Michigan has 2 trophy games in addition to the OSU rivalry which technically isnt a trophy game but come on

And they could not get the trophy game with Minnesota protected

Making real progress with a Mobius/Wave twist on the Alioth Lockdown deck

Even with subbing out Nebula for Nightcrawler to complete the mission lol

swordz9 posted...

Some of these characters sure dont show up hardly at all in Spotlights so far too. Iron Lad in particular, but also Darkhawk and Stegron

Stegron is coming in a December Spotlight Week with Blob and Jeff

No Darkhawk or Iron Lad or Howard through the end of the year though

Is it like Blob eats every card left in your deck and has their combined power?

Yikes thats a big boy

I dont really understand Blobs On Reveal

LMAO that Uatu needed his power nerfed just to get that ability boost

He would have been a real threat at 1/2 with this insane power!!!

Oh Cozy was just wrong then, lol

Theres a weird inconsistency where Elsa considers 1 card played into Space Throne to be filling a location, but Dazzler doesnt.

Saw a new hilarious bot play

They played Magik on Mount Vesuvius with TVA on the board

Big brain plays

DoorDash

Level 4
49ers/Cardinals 10+
Chiefs/Jets 10+

Bonus: 49ers

Howd he play Jubilee on Turn 1?

I still love imagining some of these godlike characters falling to their death from too many people on a Rickety Bridge

With next Tuesdays patch, theyre changing the daily reset +16 hours, to be alongside the afternoon Mission Refresh instead of the evening one.

So like right now the Daily Reset is at 11PM for me, itll move to 3PM

skullbone posted...

Seems like it lets you destroy as many as you can but it only works for the turn it flips. So if it flips on turn 3 I guess you could destroy 3-4 cards.

But that won't really matter unless you're running a death deck or your opponent is trying to do some turn 7 combo.

No, if you play multiple cards on it the turn it flips it still only destroys one from their deck

Just once

But of course the Snowguard Bear can proc it again

Werewolf By Night is gonna make those Kraven decks even tougher

I hope the paragraph about the Squirrel Girl buff is actually alluding to the Zombie Squirrels being used for Central Park all next season

skullbone posted...

Both, but I think releasing cards slowly is their way of getting around that eventually they're going to run out of important Marvel characters (if you don't think they already have) and to prolong not running out of card ideas.

I think eventually they're going to need to double start double dipping on characters like other gacha games. But that's going to be tough with the variants already kinda filling that space.

I mean the success of the game at this point probably isn't tied to how popular the Marvel characters are that are getting put into the game but IDK.

Besides the obvious choice of Ms Marvel, coming soon, who is the most significant character still not in the game? Gwenpool?

(Not counting civilians like Spider-Mans non-powered cast)

Golf at least should be more enjoyable. It created the golf swing mechanic games still use today!

One per week is too slow? Or do you mean it takes too long for new cards to filter into the wider ecosystem since theyre tougher to get?

Maniac64 posted...

When do I get him? I just got Odin.

How do I tell what series the cards I'm getting are?

All the cards will be Series 1 until you get them all (see the link in the previous post). Then all the cards will be Series 2 until you collect all of those. Then Series 3 after that.

Series 4 and 5 you have to get in different ways that wont really be relevant for awhile for you

The advice is: play a Kazar deck until you hit Series 2

Technically theres a daily booster limit too but has literally anyone ever hit it?

Hit Rank 90 for the first time ever. Gimme that Gold!

Why wouldnt they be? Youre one score away from winning or losing or tying

Level 3:
Chargers + 1.5
Eagles -4.5

Bonus: Jalen Hurts

Gonna need one more push from Taylor Swift against Blackburn to keep turning the tide

That Infinite Loki card back is the best card back in the entire game IMO