Board 8 > Marvel Snap Topic 3: Is Cosmo really best boy?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Finally got my first title, "The one and only" I'm happy with it.

So when your opponent plays Heimdall, whats the priority for cards to move?

I thought it was the same as on your side, top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right?

No its bottom right, bottom left, top right, top left because they're playing the same sides as you but on the opposite side of the board.

Aw shit, well I just lost by not realizing the Hobgoblin I gave them wasnt moving to the middle, oops!

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/1/8/AAGQPmAAEAIe.jpg

Look at this incredible win though, lol.

Cant imagine a way to win with less cards against an opponent actually playing.

How?

Nvm you played infinaut then giganto

White Queen should've tipped them off to what was coming, lol

actually wait, if their Rocket only has 4 power then you must have played Giganto on turn 5 when they played Rocket, and then they played Odin and SG next turn? Either that was a bot or somebody who can't count

Dr Octopus for tokens

VERY tempted. Think I'll pass though. But man he's such a fun effect. I'm just wondering how many deck ideas I really have for him.

Here's a fun question

If you Doc Ock someone on say Death's Domain what happens. Are the other player's cards considered played there and die?

no, they are not considered played. Nor moved, so Fisk tower won't work either. As far as I know "played" exclusively means the player chose to place the card from their hand into a location.

If you use Psylocke on turn 2 you could play him at Murderworld on turn 3 and kill four of their cards though!

You need to Psylocke turn 3 to play him turn 4 unless the -1 cost terrain is out but yeah

There are cool things to do with him even without abusing suicide terrains was just curious on mechanics

Oops, for some reason I thought he was 4-cost

Woo, finally got Brood. Destroy Deck is finally online.

Having a lot of fun with this deck which seems to be working. Dug out from rank 50 to rank 60 with this. I finally figured out a use for Spider-Man. Which was also the use for Omega Red so it's cool

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/9/AAAlMSAAEARZ.jpg

Basically Professor X (and Psylocke-- mana curve is junky without her) is the work horse here. I lock down a lane as early as possible. With the combo of Onslaught + Iron Man or Cosmo + Destroyer it tends to be easy to actually win a lane by 10, which then spills into Xavier's lane to win it as well.

Psylocke + Titania turn 3 into Xavier tends to win a lane without Omega Red too. And then if I just yomi Professor X into an empty lane of course. But yeah it's fun. Really good with the featured terrain too. Still think Omega Red is a bit weak it's hard to win a lane by 10 but yeah if you trigger it it's a lot of power.

Finally got someone to retreat because they played morbius then lady sif and discarded hela so I snapped.

Tony style win

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/6/1/AAAlMSAAEAVp.jpg

Not sure why he kept playing against my Destroyer with Demon on the throne (I had an ant-man trapped there but he was killed by Destroyer on turn 5)

Im on like a 10 game losing streak. Feels bad

I love when the opponent plays something to disturb your side of the location but it actually ends up helping out instead, or you coincidentally played Beast there that turn without even anticipating their play

Luke Cage in the shop. Negative deck is one I really wanted to try.

2200 tokens

Do I pin him. Or can I just run the deck idea without Luke Cage. I feel like he's not entirely needed and you can get away with Goblins and Colossus.

Are we talking like a Hazmat/Debrii type deck? Carnage could work to clean up some of your side and helps out if you ever have a misplay with the goblins

Right yeah. I have all the pieces and it looks fun.

Carnage is a good idea. Maybe I'll just use him as placeholder for Cage and run it.

Oh hey that's a question I have

If you play Mr Negative, do the Goblins actually have negative cost (like you get energy for playing them) or do they just cost 0?

They cost 0 with the Peak. Can't speak for Negative but I imagine it's the same.

Someone just played Storm to fill their lane and they had 3 total power. I waved the turn before and there wasn't really a way I could win it seemed so I just decided to play Galactus in the middle lane for a tie.

Then the guy retreated in the middle of the Galactus animation! I wouldn't have been able to play more cards the next turn and we were tied. Maybe the first time I've seen someone retreat during a guaranteed tie.

skullbone posted...

Someone just played Storm to fill their lane and they had 3 total power. I waved the turn before and there wasn't really a way I could win it seemed so I just decided to play Galactus in the middle lane for a tie.

Then the guy retreated in the middle of the Galactus animation! I wouldn't have been able to play more cards the next turn and we were tied. Maybe the first time I've seen someone retreat during a guaranteed tie.

Clearly they were playing around M'baku.

Galactus is probably the one deck MBaku has a place in

I guess Lockjaw too

I started last week at 52

now Im 45

was hoping Id be able to reach 60 this season but that seems unlikely unless I get something really good soon

WazzupGenius00 posted...

I started last week at 52

now Im 45

I went from 45 to 32, lol.

Legitimately havent won a match higher than a 1 cube retreat in 4 or 5 days.

Finally hit 1000! First collectors reserve got me Jane Foster

Any reason not to just spam Fast Upgrades every chance you get?

It has the normal credit upgrade cost you would have to spend anyways so it doesn't seem like I'm actually spending much extra credits, and pushing through collection level seems good.

Also anyone know an easy way to find what cards are available for upgrade in your collection? As my collection grows, scrolling through it to see the one or two cards with that barely visible sparkle to it is just awful. That makes me want to quit playing the game more than anything else.

My counter deck has worked really well since I unlocked Destroyer recently and realized it's a natural fit. I usually end up with Daredevil and/or Spider-Man leading into a low-strength Professor X victory, and then Destroyer can usually drop either alone or preferably with Cosmo to take another lane. And I have Rogue, Armor, Shang-Chi, Green Goblin, and Aero picking up a lot of the slack when the key cards don't show up. Managed to shoot up from like 60 to 80 over the last week.

CoolCly posted...

Any reason not to just spam Fast Upgrades every chance you get?

It has the normal credit upgrade cost you would have to spend anyways so it doesn't seem like I'm actually spending much extra credits, and pushing through collection level seems good.

Also anyone know an easy way to find what cards are available for upgrade in your collection? As my collection grows, scrolling through it to see the one or two cards with that barely visible sparkle to it is just awful. That makes me want to quit playing the game more than anything else.

Fast Upgrade does not have the same normal credit upgrade cost, it also costs 5 credits per booster you don't have. Credits are much harder to come by than boosters are (since you can only earn as many credits as you have missions, while boosters are awarded for every game you play) so you should literally never do the Fast Upgrades.

On the Collection screen, at the bottom right you can change how the cards are sorted, one of the options is "Upgradeable"

Counterpoint

I've had around 5000 credits pretty much all the time with upgrading whenever I have the option to, and have often used fast upgrades just to keep myself below the 5000 credit limit (which is thankfully not there anymore)

I think it largely depends on how much you play in one sitting. If you play for like 40 minutes at a time to get through the daily challenges, you'll have much more credits than boosters, but if you're playing for several hours straight you'll likely have more boosters

Johnbobb posted...

Counterpoint

I've had around 5000 credits pretty much all the time with upgrading whenever I have the option to, and have often used fast upgrades just to keep myself below the 5000 credit limit (which is thankfully not there anymore)

I think it largely depends on how much you play in one sitting. If you play for like 40 minutes at a time to get through the daily challenges, you'll have much more credits than boosters, but if you're playing for several hours straight you'll likely have more boosters

Counter counter point

When you start going further up the collector level track you start getting boosters for leveling up

You play the game long term you should pretty much always have more boosters than credits I think. If nothing else you should stop spending gold on credits before you start buying fast upgrades

I have shitloads more Boosters than Credits

Not sure how to classify how often I play. I do every mission and am currently on Season Pass level 41, at the halfway point of the season. Not sure if thats high or low or average or what

You play quite a bit considering my Season Pass is only at 36 and I play well over the minimum to get missions.

But yeah still. Always favor spending more of the grindable currency if nothing else.

Johnbobb posted...

Counterpoint

I've had around 5000 credits pretty much all the time with upgrading whenever I have the option to, and have often used fast upgrades just to keep myself below the 5000 credit limit (which is thankfully not there anymore)

I think it largely depends on how much you play in one sitting. If you play for like 40 minutes at a time to get through the daily challenges, you'll have much more credits than boosters, but if you're playing for several hours straight you'll likely have more boosters

This blows my mind, I do exactly that and never have enough credits to upgrade more than 1 or 2 cards a day. I'd love to know how you end up with so many credits because I got so many boosters I cannot use.

rogue is op

Also I just reached a full 10k credits

I guess it's time to delve into series 3

WazzupGenius00 posted...

Fast Upgrade does not have the same normal credit upgrade cost, it also costs 5 credits per booster you don't have. Credits are much harder to come by than boosters are (since you can only earn as many credits as you have missions, while boosters are awarded for every game you play) so you should literally never do the Fast Upgrades.

On the Collection screen, at the bottom right you can change how the cards are sorted, one of the options is "Upgradeable"

Before making that post I googled my question first and I saw some kind of article stating exactly what you just said here but the logic just doesn't check out for me

Every now and then I'm like "ok i only have 300-500 credits maybe I should chill on the fast upgrades so I can upgrade whatever I get boosters for" but then I end up at 1200-1500 credits with nothing to spend it on so I just dump em.

Checking out the prices, I was like "ok am I just wasting 350 credits to upgrade this guy?" so i went to check that card in my collection and it'll cost 300 to upgrade even when i get the boosters, so the amount I'm paying now is marginal + I get to move up collection level and probably recover that extra amount back as those 50 credit tiers,

If I'm ever sitting with a ton of boosters and no credits to upgrade I can just stop fast upgrading for awhile to catch them up, doesn't seem that tough though. The game throws tons of credits at you every day if you do your quests.

I've basically bought out the fast upgrade shop every day i've logged in to play since I started playing about a month ago. I'm sitting at literally 0 credits right now so that's why I was curious what everyone else does =)

foolm0r0n posted...

Also I just reached a full 10k credits

I guess it's time to delve into series 3

this man is handicapping himself ~for the experience~

I wish I was making credits the same way you guys seem to. Are you guys buying the pass?

I feel like people who have credits and no boosters just aren't swapping decks enough. I'm almost CL 4000 and I only remember like 3 times where I didn't have enough boosters to upgrade any cards but I have leftover credits.

So then I just built a deck with all of my common cards and played a few games and voila.

Or maybe people refuse to upgrade some cards they aren't going to use or something? Like IDC if I'm never going to use a card, upgrading it is the only way to get new cards so of course I'm going to upgrade it.

And yeah it's been said but buying the fast level up is bad. Boosters are much easier to get than credits. The cap on credits in a day is 450 or 600 or whatever and the cap on boosters is 1000 (basically impossible unless you're playing for 10 hours straight or something). I'm sure most of you didn't even know there WAS a daily cap on boosters!

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It takes 500 credits to raise a card from ultra to infinite and it takes 50 boosters. That's 10 levels on the CL track. So in one day you could potentially get enough credits for 10 levels on the track with credits and 200 levels on the track worth of boosters. Sure that would take all day but that's letting you know how much value the developers are putting on boosters.

I swear if I see Angela in my variant shop one more time I'm gonna SUE

skullbone posted...

I feel like people who have credits and no boosters just aren't swapping decks enough.

This smooths itself out pretty quickly though. Over the course of like 2 weeks you'll spend the same amount of credits and gain the same amount of levels.

I'll see what happens when I cash in my 10k credits. I'm pretty sure I'll run out before my boosters are done.

Zigzagoon posted...

I swear if I see Angela in my variant shop one more time I'm gonna SUE

funny enough the variant I always see is Cosmo

Sweet. Finally hit rank 70 thanks to my Omega Destroyer deck.

I opened a Green Goblin avatar today. I dig it.

Cosmo continues to be best boy.