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36: The Leopard Print of Marvel Snap
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🦏 Does the new Rhino rock? Yes, technically, yes. 🪨
(Disclaimer: The Snap On This!! cohosts are neither biologists nor geologists and cannot attest to the veracity of these claims)
For our esteemed listeners’ consideration:
- High Voltage+ ⚡ Weeks in Snap
- 💿 Toxie Doxie 🌯 Strange Supreme 🚍 Speed 😎 USAgent
- SD gets in on visible mending with this week’s OTA 👖🪡🧵
- Secret Homework 🤫: Design a ⭕ cost card
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- Cover art by Lauren
- Snap On This!! Theme by Ben
- YouTube thumbnail by Lauren’s kid, Reggi
Timestamps:
- 0:00:00 Intro / Our Week in Snap
- 0:28:16 Toxie Doxie
- 0:36:00 Strange Supreme
- 0:56:24 OTA Discussion
- 1:17:19 Secret Homework: Boss Heroes Cost Zero
- 1:27:18 Next Week's Secret Homework
- 1:28:28 Housekeeping / Closing Remarks
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Transcript
Introduction to Snap on This
00:00:01
Speaker
Hello, and welcome to episode 36 of Snap on This, a Marvel Snap podcast. I'm your host, Lauren Whadevs, here with my usual amazing co-hosts. First up, even-numbered episode, throw it to Ben.
Ben's High Voltage Frustrations
00:00:14
Speaker
Ben, how was your week in Snap? And keep it snappy. My week in Snap? ah I guess it should be pretty easy to keep snappy, because most of it was just high voltage.
00:00:27
Speaker
And the thing about high voltage is that... um You know, last time High Voltage came around, you know, like two weeks ago or whatever, I said something on the podcast about how, like, my my trick to not having a bad time is to not try to have a good time. And I'm just going to try to get through it and do the things and not try to, like, put any of myself into it at all.
00:00:49
Speaker
And, like... That sort of worked. But then it came back so soon. And I'm just like, I can't I can't suppress my personhood that much that often. Like, it's just ah kind of sucks.
00:01:03
Speaker
um So I didn't really have time to play regular Marvel Snap because I was too busy choreing in high voltage. Um, but it means that I don't have very much to talk about because I was just playing a big pile of five and six cost cards and making the missions go away.
00:01:20
Speaker
And it still took a very long time. And I had to check in at three different times of day. i wasn't allowed to sleep for more than, you know, eight hours or whatever, you know, generously speaking, um, really seems like kind of a dick move.
00:01:38
Speaker
I'm not a fan of the mode as, uh, you know, like, especially not coming back with this frequency. And, uh, that, that was pretty much my marble snap time. I did eventually get Toxidoxy. I spent 500 gold on mission refreshes.
00:01:52
Speaker
Um, so since finishing high voltage, I have played Toxidoxy cause I was excited about the card. Uh, I think we're going to talk about her later. So I won't get too deep into that now.
00:02:03
Speaker
But I haven't built any exciting decks because I already deleted the pile of five and six cost cards. There was also, i i did try like i did try to make the best of it.
00:02:15
Speaker
I tried to play unfamiliar five and six cost cards that like I don't like know super well. And I also played a couple of other cheap cards to you know fill things out. ah you know make lanes that went up to 20 and stuff. that That sort of thing. um But I got to to practice with some cards I don't usually play.
00:02:32
Speaker
i played Black Cat. That was my random two-cost card in the deck. ah was That was fun. It's good to you know get a feel for these cards. and you know yeah and You learn things by having them in your hand. and Even when you're not trying to like win a game or do anything meaningful with them.
00:02:48
Speaker
It's just ah building familiarity with the tools. so That's cool. played Nomura, I played ah you know a lot of cards I don't play.
00:02:59
Speaker
And that that was... i can't I can't say it was nice. I can't say I had fun in high voltage playing these unfamiliar... I mean, like, I'm i'm i'm giving you the most silver lining silver lining there is. And it's like, it's so narrow. This lining is truly a lining.
Personal Anecdotes and Critiques
00:03:17
Speaker
The bulk of the content is ah discontent, I will say. Yeah. so that was Snap. Other than that, you know, I've got other things going on in my life. I traveled...
00:03:30
Speaker
I got with family and stuff. ah Got real sick. That's I don't know if you can hear it, but I'm real sick right now. ah Trying not to let it make me extra grumpy about high voltage. These are these are separate things. I can be grumpy about both of them independently.
00:03:48
Speaker
but the pod must go on. Yeah. um Other than that, you know, played other games that were more fun. Because high voltage is not really a game.
00:03:58
Speaker
It's a chore. i mean, you can't you can't treat it as a game. You can try to win. And you can like put an effort in. And like you will probably get 20 volts more often than if you weren't trying to win.
00:04:10
Speaker
Those 20 volts. You're right, but what's 20 compared to 875 for your missions? So i'm I'm not saying there's no way to treat high voltage as a game. You can treat it as a game if that's what you're trying to do. And I hope that you enjoyed it if you did that.
00:04:26
Speaker
yeah And I hope that it doesn't come back very soon. It's got some upsides. Like... You can play some cards that aren't normally. did that. i like yeah That's kind of cool, I guess.
00:04:38
Speaker
But then it ends up being everybody doing the same. Like everybody's playing Ebony Maw whatever.
00:04:45
Speaker
Anyway, i'm I'm obviously very much on the record as thinking high voltage is not a very good game mode. but Also, the balance patch that I was very happy about with the Bizarre last week, I'm not as happy about it. It's not aged well. I think a lot of the cards that were that were bad are still bad, and a lot of the stuff that... I don't know. Maybe I'm just salty because...
00:05:04
Speaker
yep yep i think i think they'll they'll they'll fix it again but yo they don't do patch notes it's nuts it's not really yeah it's a bizarre choice no pun intended that time nope nope nope that time it was just weird like honestly like what are you doing not doing patch you gotta do patch notes and like they apparently put out incomplete patch notes through like some third-party website that they partner with but like They don't give full... it's It's so strange. And it, like, this decision is so baffling and indefensible that, like...
00:05:36
Speaker
It has shaken my confidence that like this game could be like a long-term cool thing to to play. I'm like, they they have a weird principled stance against releasing like detailed patch notes for balance updates.
00:05:51
Speaker
I don't know if I can live here in this in this environment. No, that's so weird. What other weird decisions are they about to make if they think that's a good one? like I
Re's Deck Strategies and Insights
00:06:01
Speaker
don't trust their judgment now. I'm like, I'm shook.
00:06:04
Speaker
i'm I'm thrown. Yeah, I don't know. So anywho, luckily, i love all the games still. Still love Snap. It's still the the card game that, you know, I'm sure things will get better and worse and better and worse. And, you know, I don't that i have i have a card game in my life. So if the bazaar doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. But.
00:06:25
Speaker
It's working out all right. I am a little bit angry that they just nerfed Mac into the gosh dang ground. Calcinators busted the Philosopher's Stone. you really You really got to get it early if you want to if you want to get the value now.
00:06:37
Speaker
they It's hard to become unkillably regenerative. Now you explore new strategies. No, it's true. It's true. I've branched out. But yeah, that's that's my We Can Snap and Snap adjacent stuff.
00:06:49
Speaker
you it's fun to hear about i tried the bizarre this week and i'll talk about that more in my week in snap i'm gonna throw it to re heads up if you're listening and not watching my dog decided now to be nut so i'm gonna go give him food and see if that helps um i'll be i'll be listening okay take it away re how was your weekend snap Okay. um So I feel like I've been on a bit of a like commercial break with the show that is Snap for me, I guess. And we're back.
00:07:30
Speaker
I got pulled again friend Frank. last shot. Because, well, because the start is like, oh, won't grind high voltage.
00:07:42
Speaker
It's not fun. Right. But I didn't want miss Taxi-Daxi. So he's like, okay, just put together, just put Luna Psylocke in a deck and in a bunch of fives.
00:07:59
Speaker
And... Yeah, that is what I played. That and a Living Tribunal deck. I didn't even build like a deck specifically for High Voltage. Well, I guess the fives deck was, but was more about the fives. yeah and um Yeah.
00:08:12
Speaker
So that, yeah, High Voltage was fun. Now it's a grind that I have to worry about whether I'm going to like have to pay gold to refresh shit at the last minute. Took all the fun out of it.
00:08:24
Speaker
Yeah. So, but then it was kind of like getting back into lot of conquest on these hot location days because it's just like, you know, just not feeling hot locations lately. It's like, let me just play. I just want to play. I want to play.
00:08:39
Speaker
um And it was like, it's like if you, you know, when you go into your snap decks, like going into your closet and you're like, okay. I got 20 decks and nothing to wear.
00:08:52
Speaker
don't like any of these. I don't want to delete any of them, but none of them are fun. I want to play none of them right now. And that's how I felt about like everything in my lineup.
00:09:05
Speaker
And um once again, my friend Frank to the rescue. And here's the problem, though, is that... Frank is his number one deck, his like blinged out deck, you know, the old golden ink days um is Mr. Negative deck.
00:09:23
Speaker
And I've expressed my feelings heretofore about Mr. Negative. um And it's like taste thing. Because it's like, you know, the villain dude who's like, you know, who play Ravonna in Mr. Negative and I play Ravonna in Surf and Meme Decks. We are not the same. Yeah.
00:09:45
Speaker
Tug your tie. and And, you know, I thought about it. And it's like, because I have tried. It's like, I'm usually not so, like, I like a lot of different styles. Like, I'll dress goth. Like, I'll dress prep. Like, whatever. i like I like to, you know, I like to play around. like to try new things.
00:10:02
Speaker
And, but... Mr. Negative for me, it's like the leopard print like of Marvel Snap because I'm just not into it. It's fun, silly thing.
00:10:15
Speaker
Why don't you want to try it? I don't know. Just subjectively, don't care for it. um You know, just animal prints just aren't me. Except for maybe like zebra prints, but that's only because and they're mostly black and white stripes and hide you from predators.
00:10:33
Speaker
Or confused predators? There are a lot of you. i don't and remember how that worked. Yeah, they don't show you where one zebra starts and then the other ends. Yeah. yeah Sorry, just imagining me being a bunch of clones and like zebra stripes. I can't see us.
00:10:46
Speaker
Okay. So, but, okay, so skeptical, right? So Frank's always sending me ducks like, here, try this deck. And I'm just like, are you like negative?
00:10:58
Speaker
a It like ruins everything he touches. It's not like Lauren where it's like, but you know, Lauren also like clip hunts, which is like too insane for me.
00:11:10
Speaker
So like, um but this deck, okay. It's like, you know, it's like he came and said, okay, re but check out this outfit. What if it a big red cape like a warlock and fairy wings and not just a crown, the crown of a space emperor? And I saw this deck and was like, okay, try it.
00:11:35
Speaker
It was so much fun.
00:11:39
Speaker
This deck is so good. It's a high Evo deck, and I have not had this much fun with high Evo since like Spider Bay was in like full-blown business. um So this deck, he called it Manic Pixie.
00:11:54
Speaker
I've extended it to Manic Pixie Dream Emperor because I feel like that's an important part of the fantasy. um But it does have all these cards like I've wanted to play more and yet just haven't.
00:12:05
Speaker
Adam Warlock, Pixie, and Emperor Hulkling. um For the high Evo, there is a Hulk and Wasp. Obviously, a... ah um A target for Pixie.
00:12:23
Speaker
But also very useful because there's a hope in this deck. And a lot of times, if you pull her early and you're not using her to do shenanigans, um it's really fun to ding a little Daken. Just like, hee hee.
00:12:37
Speaker
There's two power from you um when you double up. okay But if you save it till three, right? Like a hope wasp is real fun. I haven't played, probably Lauren knows all about that. haven't played as much wasp.
00:12:49
Speaker
And a lot of what Hope is there for, too. I mean, you can do all kinds of things fun things with Hope, obviously. But even she's worth it just for um to be able to turn five, play Hulk, turn six, play Red Hulk, or vice versa, or whatever, right? Just for that extra play a six cost on five.
00:13:11
Speaker
I never think, because usually when thinking hope, I'm thinking kiddie pride and like just shenanigans, shenanigans. And it's like, nah, just being able to play out like two sixes without Wiccan bullshit and stuff is is a good time.
00:13:26
Speaker
So Emperor Hulkling. Oh my gosh. Okay. Emperor, I won this one game. Right at the beginning of the game, Emperor Hulkling is in my hand a Galactus.
00:13:38
Speaker
And I knew, okay, I'm playing a fucking discard deck, an apocalypse discard deck. Middle location is Warrior Falls. um Warrior Falls is location where every turn the weakest card gets destroyed, if there's more than one.
00:13:53
Speaker
And I know, so I already know they're not going to play there much, you know what i mean? all. They don't what it takes to be the the Black Panther. Right. And it was so beautiful right at the end.
00:14:06
Speaker
They snapped me. don't even snap him back. I'm just like, I'm just some fool who like is stupid should be retreating. But no, oh, they had a giant ass apocalypse. They threw down right. They were winning left and right so hard.
00:14:28
Speaker
Emperor Hulkling Galactus. That's how you fucking win a game with Galactus, if you were wondering. Anyway, but so like, it was so glorious. Very practical. Kind of fun. But like, this is the promise of like Emperor Hulkling fans out there. Oh, yeah.
00:14:45
Speaker
Emperor Hulkling is not short on promise. Right? The delivery that I'm a little worried about Okay, you know, he's an infinite sometimes, but he's an impery. He has fickle moods, and we all must just abide by those whims, like the powerless source we are.
00:15:01
Speaker
And, um okay, so you should get on with the rest of the deck and stop, like, just, like, you know. Hyping for Emperor Hulkling. Luna Snow is your other... Like, another, you know... and Energy juicer.
00:15:16
Speaker
um Honestly, like, I hated giving them an advantage. But almost always can you use that advantage better than they can. um And a lot of times you can use it
Lauren's Marvel Snap Experiences
00:15:27
Speaker
to mess them up. And if you play it... ah Right, you can use it from blocking... Playing them from blocking turn... Blocking spot at a location for them on turn six.
00:15:38
Speaker
If you play her a bit late. So she has been enjoyable. Cyclops. I forgot about him. He's so he's one of the most fun things about high evil. And I feel really bad about forgetting about him.
00:15:51
Speaker
and Do you? OK. OK. No, you do. You would know if you feel that. OK. used to diss. I used to always diss on Cyclops because I thought he was boring and i just wasn't into him. But I've been reading this X-Men run where he's just like a bitter old millennial. And like, I can relate. i don't know.
00:16:10
Speaker
So like, so, so me and Cyclops, like, we've come to an understanding. Okay, but Mobius, once again, I always forget because I haven't been playing so much Pixie.
00:16:23
Speaker
Mobius is great, obviously, with Pixie because you get to keep your lower costs, you know, on your cards when you switch them all around with Pixie. Oh my gosh, having like it's such a good time.
00:16:39
Speaker
This is one of those decks where you just steal wins, you know, you just and they fear the pixie so much. They run away, as they should from deals with fairies.
00:16:51
Speaker
um The last card, oh, Adam Warlock. He's so essential. Honestly, the only problem I would say with this deck is it's not flexible if you want to swap it out for the meta. Like, I would have loved to put a Luke Cage when I was running into Affliction, but it's like, you need Adam Warlock. If you Pixied and you're drawing all those cards, you know, a lot of times you just, like, you need him out there. The final card, of course, Sunspot.
00:17:16
Speaker
um You know? just Who just works how he always has. Soaking up that energy so you feel like you didn't waste the day by doing nothing. There's no Mobius, huh?
00:17:28
Speaker
No, Mobius is here. Oh, you said it. Yeah, yeah, with Pixie, right? Because, yeah, he keeps the lower cuffs. It's like one of the best things about Pixie is that she can relax with Mobius.
00:17:40
Speaker
Yeah, like, I almost feel like Mobius is like, you kind of got to include with Pixie unless you're doing something. Yeah, you don't. You can play Mobius without Pixie, but the other around. I don't know, I don't play a lot of Pixie. Yeah.
00:17:52
Speaker
So has been lot of fun. I got an in infinite ticket with it. I beat out a bullseye deck. A... What was the other one? was some other meta deck.
00:18:03
Speaker
That's going around. And then the middle one was like a Khonshu deck. So like, you know. You know, they were just trying things out too. But yeah, I was like, it's so fun to beat out like...
00:18:18
Speaker
bullseye and stuff under bullshit. Okay, anyway. so Beating an ever-present meta deck with something else? Right? With fucking Pixie and Emperor Hulkling?
00:18:31
Speaker
Like, right? It's like, you should positive emote me. Like, yeah. Emote me. I don't know. In a good way, though, because um i don't know.
00:18:43
Speaker
It made me feel baller to be like beating all these decks with my fairy. it That was my week in Snap. How was your week? Lauren, the third co-host.
00:18:57
Speaker
It was good. You are correct. I've played a lot of Wasp, but not a lot of Evolved Wasp. um I also played a lot of High Voltage, pretty much kept it to a fives and sixes negative deck, and then also a Tribunal deck, because every now and then you've got to win all three locations.
00:19:12
Speaker
and I never had that one this time. That that was alright. Oh, really? i had it like twice. um And negative is okay at it if it pops off, but I feel like Tribunal's better at it if it pops off. um Anyway, so it was fine. i i hope that they have a third one in rotation soon, because it seems like Sanctum Showdown is not one that they want to repeat two months in a row.
00:19:36
Speaker
It's a bummer, because it's the one I like the best. Yeah, and I could i could do with... Less high voltage. um Agreed. i don't know. It wouldn't be so bad if they put it, if they just made it less grind. You put the card lower on the track, as we've said before.
00:19:54
Speaker
and don't care if like, if like people, that means people get real done early and there has to be a bunch of bots in the mode. The people playing then at the end of the week probably don't really care if they're playing bots. You know what I mean?
00:20:06
Speaker
Like, they're not there. It's not about the opponent for them. You know what i mean? They're having their own fun on their own side of the board. but People who keep playing it because they like it. Like, it's fine. Yeah.
00:20:17
Speaker
Yeah, exactly. So it's just like, take it. But once it became, because for me it was fun, but once it became this stress of like, like will I get enough, you know, like refreshes? Do I have to spend gold? Like, just took all the fun out and joy out of it for me. I just don't understand why they can't carry over at all. Why do you need to make people check in three times a day? yeah even Even if it's just for like 20 minutes, that's like just 20 minutes three times a day?
00:20:45
Speaker
an hour a day? That's a whole lifestyle change for you. you know like That's a whole different thing. That's what I had to miss. You've got a weird habit now. like right For a lot of us, we're around sometimes. It's 11pm to 7am for me. it's like yeah It's like...
Exploring New Cards and Strategies
00:21:06
Speaker
It's basically two-thirds of the missions you need to accomplish and in order to get the card.
00:21:11
Speaker
So if you consistently miss one of the reset windows, you have to get every single other one. it is just like and that's so deliberately burdensome. burdensome! and it's yeah so Yeah. yeah like that they're They're doing it on purpose. like that that's Oh, absolutely.
00:21:30
Speaker
It's intentionally abusive. you know like I don't dig it. It's not not ah not a fun... not a Not a good look, Marvel Snap. Do better. feel like part of it is just to keep the mode populated. And it's like, fuck that.
00:21:44
Speaker
Why? Maybe make it more fun. If you...
00:21:50
Speaker
Well, here's the thing. I harp on high voltage and it has some problems with the actual core gameplay, but mostly I think it's all the systems around it. It's missions that don't stack. It's missions that are worth so much more than winning, um which I know some people appreciate that it's a more casual mode, but I don't know. I'm glad I didn't have to win.
00:22:10
Speaker
Even though it's a casual mode, I see so many people being sweaty in it. Right! It's like, I'm just out here fives! people, like, emoting, like, they, like, outwitted you somehow when, like, I'm just playing five-cost cards, bruv.
00:22:24
Speaker
Like, calm down. I gave you a 0-5 hobgoblin. I wasn't serious. Like, spammy the sassy Deadpool baby! Oh my lord.
00:22:38
Speaker
People like humans are just ah wow I'm yeah I don't know i don't know sometimes. know I've been a real mute first ask questions later.
00:22:49
Speaker
gets muted right away. I'm like yeah no. Like why do these people need it like that? It's like very sad. yeah i i I didn't get a ton of Toxic Emotors, but I definitely got some, and I have made extensive use of my eye roll Iron Man and my... I don't respond at all. It's not worth it, but like... but just it's It's kind of like a bummer that...
00:23:17
Speaker
it the that it just like seemed like, yeah, that it it was like it was worth it to me. to like Who thinks, i don't know. like yeah Find something more fulfilling, like better.
00:23:30
Speaker
I don't know. i don't Just be better. Yeah, to there are other ways to find joy. And they'll probably like be more fulfilling for you. Yeah. You'll probably like live longer if you take joy in healthier things. That's just a, that's, that's a theory on my part. I can't prove it. But like, I think that people who find joy in healthier places probably just do better overall. So if mean emoting is how you get your kicks, maybe just like, I don't know, reconsider for your own benefit. That's, that's my hope for you. ah It's a weird hobby.
00:24:03
Speaker
I enjoy mean emoting, but only if somebody does it to me first.
00:24:09
Speaker
I'm into trash talking in board games. What is that? I feel like that's different because it's people I know. Yeah, and especially if, like, everybody knows it's a magic circle, like, within this, like, range, like, the trash talk is for fun. Yeah, I'll definitely talk. It's the equivalent of yelling out of a car at somebody as, as like,
00:24:27
Speaker
at At a pedestrian, right? like you're You're not actually having a meaningful communication of any kind. You're just like, I bet they'll be uncomfortable if I do this. like i'll I'll cause them a little bit of psychic damage.
00:24:40
Speaker
I don't know. Who is emoting in high voltage? We're not even playing a game right now. You're just like being rude to be rude. Like... This is like if every time you walked past another like person on the street, you said, oh, go fuck yourself.
00:24:55
Speaker
you know like what like That was just like your reflexive thing. like Honestly.
00:25:02
Speaker
I don't know. That's the ending. I don't get mad. I just get exasperated with this sampling of humanity that I'm being presented with. What it says about humans. Yeah, I'm like, oh, you're a bummer.
00:25:16
Speaker
That sucks. Sorry. I hope it gets better for all of us. um I'll keep it short and sweet, but also this week, I feel like it should be brought up on the pod because we talked about crocheting last week.
00:25:29
Speaker
Hell yeah. And I got... I got a box in the mail and I've hinted at it before. i'm getting married in early June and re-sent me my wedding gift. And it's two... If you want to go to the YouTube, you can see them all. I'm going to put them in front of my face because of how narrowly we crop the cameras.
00:25:46
Speaker
There's two bears, one of them with the trans flag colors, one of them with bi flag colors. My fiance is bi. um And they're wearing each other's scarf and they have magnets to hold hands and the scarves have little L's and J's on them. It's just so stinking cute and impressive.
00:26:02
Speaker
She said as her second, her second crochet project ever. Like I can't believe it. And it also, there's a little bonus frog for my kid who makes our YouTube thumbnails. um So yes, it's darling. I, Reggie has already put it up in his bed. So yeah.
00:26:19
Speaker
Yeah. he had it He had to run upstairs and throw it to me. Also, if you're watching this and you're like, why was Ben's reaction so tame? It's because I already knew about these.
00:26:30
Speaker
if I were seeing them for the first time, I would be freaking the fuck out right now. They're so cool. those They were mind-blowing. Dramatic reenact, Ms. Mike. I felt like a real piece of shit friend and co-host.
00:26:45
Speaker
You're absolutely darling. Thank you very much. I'm so impressed. um Yeah, the rest of my... Oh, I played Bazaar. I tried it. It was really fun.
00:26:56
Speaker
um I haven't played it enough to say much more than that. i Like, my my initial reaction is, like, I kind of like Backpack Battle's more spatial inventory better than it just being Nope, 1D.
00:27:11
Speaker
nope one Interesting. i know i was like I was wondering how you would come down on that. Yeah. yeah the And Bazaar has a one-dimensional, like, adjacency does matter. If it's left or right, it does matter.
00:27:25
Speaker
But there's... i don't know. It's different. there's There's only the X-axis. There's not the Y. So far, that feels less interesting. But also, I'm sure it's balanced around that. So, like... um But yeah, I will play it more. It's free.
00:27:38
Speaker
And it's free. It's a little too slow for my taste. I wish I could double the speed of the game. um Anyway.
00:27:48
Speaker
I'm saying that even though I'm still learning the game. um I don't know. I'm somebody who listens to podcasts at two times speed. So, you know, take that for what you will.
00:27:58
Speaker
ah Only 1.5 for audiobooks, though, because I find those are... ah focus i only listen to podcasts where the voices are soothing and relaxing
00:28:17
Speaker
let's talk about let's talk about toxy doxy i think we kind of talked about her last week but now we've actually played her um i played her only a little bit i did play her with mysterio and that was very fun uh you two I also have played her a little bit, and while I'm still very fond of the card, and I'm rooting for it, and I like the effect, and I think the effect is a cool thing that like would be good under different circumstances, I don't think the numbers work out, folks. I don't i don't think that this 2-1 that gives two things plus two in your hand and has that restriction, I don't think those numbers, like
Game Balance and Card Updates
00:28:55
Speaker
it's just not there.
00:28:56
Speaker
strength is not there. They are kind disappointing. like the this is a good ah Like, this is one buff away from being a really good card. Like, I don't know, make her a 2-3, make the buff plus 3, change something about this, and the math will be acceptable. But the math is not acceptable. Like, it is not even if you're, like, playing her in Surfer, where, like, there are a million good targets to soak things up.
00:29:18
Speaker
I actually got to briefly... ah With the OTA, I, you know, I jammed Captain Carter in a surfer deck, of course. And and with Toxie Doxie, I was like, this this has got to be, like, the best way to, like, I am giving Toxie Doxie every opportunity to shine, but the numbers were not getting there.
00:29:36
Speaker
even Even, like, when you got to, like, play this, like... go Gwenpool is ah I want more Gwenpool. I always want more Gwenpool. This is not more Gwenpool in like a functional way. Like ah the similarities there, the resemblance, but like it's not it doesn't give you the same thing.
00:29:57
Speaker
It's also a huge downside. Like you have to play her on turn four or you won't be able to play the cards. that Yeah. I was bumping up against that all the time. It was making me yeah miss out on what would have been better plays on those turns and stuff. Like I, I think if her numbers get a little more supportive, like, i like I think it's a very cool ability and like ah a smart design.
00:30:21
Speaker
And I think it makes you worry about good stuff to worry about, but it's not worth it right now. which stinks because I was very excited about the card and I still am, but just not excited to keep playing it right now.
00:30:35
Speaker
Unfortunately. Okay. got so got some Um, uh, I got an infinity ticket with her. So, you know,
00:30:49
Speaker
planers and some of us are winners. Just saying. No, I'm just teasing.
00:30:55
Speaker
No, I was casting about... really still want to like do some Ravonna memeing with her, but I was playing too much Hulkling and Pixie to try and build that this week.
00:31:06
Speaker
So I was casting about for ideas, and I think the first thing I ran into was my goal had put her in Flex Tape Safety's deck. And did the same. i don't know what he put her in for, but I put her in for Iron Patriot.
00:31:22
Speaker
My fellow's like, you know, Iron Patriot's just a good card. But, you know, so lot of cards. So that's what I put her in for. And, like, one, her animation is super – it's so giant. Very Her animation is just, like – Toxic everywhere! It can only be improved if like Britney Spears' Toxic came on you know like while was playing everything.
00:31:46
Speaker
I would love that. That's what want. That's the variant I want for Taxi Docky. She's already a character that was made up in the games originally somewhere. She's from the comics.
00:32:00
Speaker
Oh, she's from the... I'm not familiar with her, to be honest, but I would... She's Dark Avengers kind of person, I think. Okay. I did some research. I would totally Because I was like, who the... Who is Toxie Doxie? And I looked it up...
00:32:15
Speaker
And, uh, yeah, did to I think maybe sometimes she, I don't want to, I don't want to misremember some things, but she's had some, she's occasionally assumed other aliases.
00:32:27
Speaker
i think she was one of those dark Avengers version of of some other Avenger. Maybe it was Scarlet Witch or something. I'm i'm probably getting that wrong. So don't, don't come for me. But yeah, you she's she's from the comics and she has a real goofy name.
00:32:42
Speaker
I still haven't. I'm still on the fence as to like, am I a fan of her real goofy name? i i think so. I think I'm here for it. I think i'm I'm pro-Toxy Doxy all the way down.
00:32:55
Speaker
and Yeah. No, I love her vibe. As I was saying, I would really enjoy ah Britney Spears. It's like, because that's just just how I grew up. Okay. So, um...
00:33:08
Speaker
I did make the mistake of playing in turn five and locking 110 Kitty Pryde in my hand to not play it.
00:33:19
Speaker
I was so, I was like, how did I, there's a pain in your soul when you cannot play a 110 Kitty Pryde. They can not be. I did it to myself. I knew. knew her. I thought I could fix her.
00:33:33
Speaker
But I played anyway. No. um I did that. the so It was so bad that I like forgot. i just didn't even retreat because I was so stupefied. I just panicked, finished the turn.
00:33:45
Speaker
Yeah. And I lost. But, you know, I won the war. didn't matter. Yeah. I lost that battle in four cubes, but we came back and won it all. Yeah. So, you know, like what she is good for in in Flex Tape is one, if you can get her early, obviously, you know, if you hit her on two and you're hitting your Captain Carter um that you were only going to plan for anyway or Galacta or whatever. Happy days. Right.
00:34:17
Speaker
um Still worthwhile usually to play on a three. You know what I mean? Because you just play the other stuff in your hand that she didn't hit. um And usually, like I said, I try and like on a three is usually when I've got a kitty too. and then she doesn't hit the kitty, which you don't want.
00:34:35
Speaker
um And late, right? Sometimes you just threw out because you didn't have that many cards left in your hand and she got the huge Gwenpool buff. And they weren't expecting that anyway. So like she filled in in with Elsa.
00:34:48
Speaker
Oh, man, stacking Galacta and Elsa buffs. Anytime you run into Sinister London, you've just got Elsa's, Galacta's. And people don't see that stuff. They're putting out, they're like, oh, I got two bullseyes and stuff. And it's like, oh, yeah.
00:35:01
Speaker
Oh, yeah. I've been just like juicing up this kitty all game. And like that final fit. I'm slamming a 115 kitty down. That's going to get hit by two Galactas and two Elsas. And you think you think a couple of times? Okay. So this is how I have fun and snap.
00:35:19
Speaker
So, yeah. Toxie Doxie. I had more fun with her in this deck than Iron Patriot. So that's what was important to me. and then But I can see where people ah don't like the toxicity. It's reasonable. I don't know what other people... I only know what I think.
00:35:37
Speaker
but um Oh, but I did look it up. She was indeed the Dark Adventures Scarlet Witch. Well, saw that on Reddit people were like, this card is trash. Just get it so you don't have to roll it. I've never really dipped toe into the Reddit.
00:35:53
Speaker
I occasionally see stuff in between other stuff. I'm not like a regular peruser.
00:36:00
Speaker
right. And our other card that was not an event card, just a regular old spotlight card might be the last spotlight card, depending on when you update your game on Tuesday. i Strange Supreme, a two two that gains plus two power from merging.
00:36:18
Speaker
And also, at the end of turn, merges created card from somewhere on your side of the board into himself. Did you get him? What do you think? Re first.
00:36:30
Speaker
Okay, yes. um I did, and it was actually like a baller week for me because I didn't have speed. And I got speed and then strange in that order, so I only spent two keys.
00:36:42
Speaker
Wouldn't even mind at the US Agent variant, to be honest, because don't have one. Um... and what, you don't like the... No, I also wouldn't have minded the US agent variant, but didn't happen to open that one, which kind of disappointed me, but i'm not going to throw extra keys at it. And also I'm like, that reminded me of a thing where I'm like, yes, last last week i I made it sound like I don't have enough resources to be collection complete right now, but I totally could have if that seemed like a thing that would be like long-term smart. But okay, anyway, point is, was just like... Oh, yeah, and I meant to correct myself. The way I made it seem last week, blah, blah, blah. But that's not that the point.
00:37:20
Speaker
The point is, how are you feeling about Strange Supreme? Keep going. ah I just rolled the auto deck because, like I said, i was I had my time co-opted by high voltage. What did it mean? This...
00:37:33
Speaker
Pixie deck. It put together an all-in Strange Supreme deck. Basically, had Mysterio, Squirrel Girl, Mockingbird, Sasquatch. So you're kind of all-in on Jenning... Where I want to long-term put Strange would be Clog. It's like you're not trying to juice up the biggest Strange Supreme ever. It's like half-utility. But um And I started putting that together, but, like, it wasn't done.
00:38:05
Speaker
So I played with this auto. And people did miscalculate, like, how fucking big Strange Supreme can get. and And it is fun. Like, um like I said with the clog, like, debris is in the stack. And debris is just a great tool when she works for you and not...
00:38:24
Speaker
and against them. um It's so good. Oh my God. Strange Supreme eats the most powerful beings. And the Marvel Snap Universe squirrels from Central Park, gobbles them right up. And I'm like, oh,
00:38:39
Speaker
ah Normally I'd have to be playing a destroy deck or something to get rid of these fucking squirrels. So um ah I slurped some up. it was It happened and I was like, really?
00:38:50
Speaker
Really? Yes! Yay, Strange Supreme. He's really fun too. It's a different way to think about the game and what it's doing. We just haven't seen a mechanic like this.
00:39:02
Speaker
um ah he He's really good and a joy. um dies to shang of course like anything but uh guess real big first yeah i i don't think that's a good reason to hold that against yeah big cards are big and it's good we like them for their bigness even even when they die to the martial arts man yeah I like it's funny how we're like with the you know the biggest threats in the whole Marvel universe.
00:39:34
Speaker
It's like, well, ten rings were created. You know? It just all its all comes back to Lord of the Rings in the end, in my opinion. and
00:39:44
Speaker
You know, different wielders. Okay. ah That was did a strange. you have more to say, Lauren, about what you did with them? Oh, you throw it to me. I'm just going to jumble this order.
00:39:58
Speaker
I'll say. we we we know I love it. I want to know what Lauren thinks about Strange Supreme. I two-keyed Speed and then Strange Supreme. great Great way to go out with a bang on Spotlight.
00:40:11
Speaker
Spotlight twins, same thing. yeah ah Sounds like all three of us did that, right? Really? Yeah. yeah Although you you didn't get Spotlight Speed, did you? And I'm the only one who got spotlight speed.
00:40:24
Speaker
Oh, I got the card speed. you got the variant. got the card. Which I believe I got randomly. No, I think I dropped tokens on it. Okay. I thought maybe it was one of my fourth prizes, but I think I actually acquired that one on purpose with tokens.
00:40:40
Speaker
um I think is a super fun card. Like if you like fun cards, you should get this card. It's also strong. i am sure people are overestimating how strong it is um because I've seen people saying it's a 219. And like, yes, I think it's part of the design, how the design works so well is he feels like a 219, but really it's,
00:40:59
Speaker
but really you paid for all the things he ate. So he's like a 619, which is fine. Like, that's still a good stat line. um And his utility is definitely there. I have loved, like, filling up a lane and then knowing that there's a good chance that he can clear it again for me.
00:41:17
Speaker
um You know, the kind of strength that, like, a moving card has. ah Also a card I played a lot with, Mysterio. I think it's great that, like, there is that Mysterio Mockingbird Sasquatch package.
00:41:28
Speaker
But he sucks up the Mysterio too. Yeah. Yes, if he eats the Mysterio that is the real Mysterio, he doesn't get the four power. ah So that's like... I know. It's a trade-off. But he still gets... I was wondering. I'm like, well, maybe he won't because, you know, it's really Mysterio. But no no, it's all the same to Supreme. but i So one thing I tried him in was a Bast deck so that all the Mysterios would be three power.
00:41:50
Speaker
that was um That was fun, but I'm not going to share it yet because it needs some work. you don't You don't want to hit Mockingbird with Bast. Yeah.
00:42:00
Speaker
um And maybe maybe it ends up just being like a Havoc Thena deck. But then like Thena's a little tricky because Mockingbird is three cards. So it needs a little bit of work, but it was super fun. um And there are lots of cards that Strange Supreme plays nice with that like Bast. Say Hood, for example.
00:42:17
Speaker
um Another thing I did with Strange Supreme is played with Supergiant and Arnim Zola. Because then Arnim Zola goes off at the end of the game and my clone Strange Supremes don't eat each other.
00:42:30
Speaker
It was mostly just... Mostly just... done Okay. Yeah, mostly, to look what I can do! ah More than a real deck. That is fun. think there might be something real there. ah I got Strange huge a couple times.
00:42:44
Speaker
ah But this was like an all-in Strange deck. I played... I played against... ah like a Shuri Red Skull, no, a Sauron deck. And like, I played leader and got their, uh, I got their Ares and their Scar at the same time. it's like, okay, there's just tons of targets for Strange Supreme to just get, uh, he had over 50 power by the end of that game.
00:43:08
Speaker
Um, but I lost cause I didn't draw Zola. Anyway. Um, I love this card. Super duper fun. Highly recommend. Ben. Hmm. Well,
00:43:20
Speaker
I have only played against this card because I got done with high voltage, you know, pretty late in the process. So really, like, the only real Marvel snap I've played was, like, today before the podcast. And I was doing Toxidoxy things. I realized I was only going to have time to, like, think about one of these cards meaningfully.
00:43:37
Speaker
And I decided that Toxidoxy was, you know, more likely to be receiving less attention if I if i were to guess. And I i think I guessed right. Yeah. So that's what I did. But having played against some strange Supreme, ah yeah, he gets pretty big, huh?
00:43:53
Speaker
Wow. ah Yeah, i I think that the people calling him a 219 are they're closer to right than I think calling him a 619 maybe.
00:44:06
Speaker
I think that like the the things that he gets to eat Like, it's so, you can, he's a cheap date for, like, it for for feeding this fella. eats squirrels.
00:44:21
Speaker
Yeah, he eats squirrels. He literally, like, he'll... He eats rocks. Like, this this guy is eating things that, like, you didn't really pay for. Not not really. You know, like... e Oh, that's true.
00:44:36
Speaker
I mean, like, this is a lot of value on ah on a two-cost... Like, this is, like, this is, like, Elsa level. Like, like this is, like, two-cost Elsa level value. Well, let's be clear. 219... the 19 power, like, eight of it is his.
00:44:53
Speaker
so yes he's he's bigger than two two Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the 19 number, I'm not sure how we got there. I think that was like largely pulled. That was my example. the Yeah, I don't know.
00:45:07
Speaker
like I just, I think he gets, so like, all right, you you get like five turns in theory in a six turn game. If like somehow there's always something for him to eat from like his, his first drop onto the board.
00:45:24
Speaker
So, I mean, that would make him a 212, right? Yeah. Yeah. yeah And so let's say you don't get it the first time, but he's eating every turn after that, right? So, like, let's say you missed your Squirrel Girl. You missed Squirrel Girl, but he's always eating, like, turn three and after, right? you're keeping him You're keeping him in rocks and squirrels and whatever else he's into, you know? Like, it's...
00:45:48
Speaker
It's a 210. that's so they They haven't printed one of those, honestly. i think there may be a reason for that. ah So, I don't know. I think it's a very powerful card, and I thought it would be, and I like playing against it not very much.
00:46:05
Speaker
is ah I mean, like i i'm I'm hopeful that I'm going to discover that I absolutely love playing it myself, but I'm honestly a little skeptical of that. I don't know if I am going to love playing it myself.
00:46:15
Speaker
I don't think it's actually as interesting a card as I hoped it would be. or maybe maybe its interestingness is overshadowed by the sheer bulk of stats that it's making there. He's got real drawbacks, though. Maybe there's an interesting card in here that's been drowned under the just the weight of its beefiness.
00:46:33
Speaker
don't know. got real drawbacks he he has you deck building restrictions and also i mean i don't think these these drawbacks that you don't know where which card he's gonna eat that's true don't think i don't think that that proved to be as big of a downside uh it's not a very big dog i think it's very minimal and just like the fact that he lets you play debris and like clean up your own rocks and like This is just like you're getting them coming and going like too many different ways.
00:47:03
Speaker
i I think this is a card that could see it. I mean, this is just like based on a few games I played against it this afternoon. i really don't know. But like this feels like a card that I would nerf if I were them.
00:47:16
Speaker
It's interesting The most part of him is that he's fun. And we all know that it doesn't matter. You know what i mean? Like, cards like our cards that are fun, like, it doesn't matter if they're even, like, fair. if You know, once the play rate is too high, it's just frustrating.
00:47:32
Speaker
And he's fun and powerful, so, you know. Do you mean if it's fun, they're less likely to nerf it? No, mean... If it's fun, people are more likely to latch onto it, and it's going to become widely adopted as like yeah a very popular deck.
00:47:48
Speaker
So he's extra dangerous because on top of just being powerful, it's like, because there cards that are powerful but boring, you know? And he's relatively idiot-proof, right? Like, you don't know which one of the rocks he's going to eat, but he's going to eat one of the rocks, and it's going to be fine.
00:48:02
Speaker
I did the first. There's still a learning curve. Like, I forgot the first time he would eat his own clone. I'm like, oh, oh, there goes. Goodbye, other lane winner. Forgot about that one.
00:48:14
Speaker
like that that's That's a day one thing that you you would make that mistake like once. I wouldn't make it again. Correct. and I had him in my starting hand once and Collapsed Mind showed up, but it was turn one. I was like, oh, that would be such a fun game. Collapsed Mind game where you don't have to skip anything. did that!
00:48:32
Speaker
That happened for me already! It was so exciting! I was like, woo! Woo! it so fun? Yeah, there's so many good locations for him. Dang.
00:48:42
Speaker
I know, right? This is what I'm saying with squirrels and stuff. it's like It's like how they underestimated the effect of Legion. It's like your ability to deal with locations, you know, to minimize those impacts on your game, huge.
00:49:00
Speaker
yeah I don't know. if if if Even if he's not a 212 as the true prompt, I mean, like, he could be a 214 with magic under the perfect circumstances, right? You know, like, if if you get the squirrel girl down on one and your magic and somehow you keep him fed all seven turns of the, well, all six of the seven turns that he's on the, I i don't know.
00:49:21
Speaker
I'm just saying, like, even if he's just a 210, just a 210 is too big, is my feeling.
00:49:30
Speaker
Um, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if he took a nerf of like one or two base power. Um, that feels more realistic. which Which is interesting. I had, it was actually Strange Supreme that gave me the thought like, oh, I should start, like, I know deck building is the best way to rank cards, but I'm not going to build decks for every single upcoming card ah before they release. That's, that's too much for me.
00:49:57
Speaker
But I had the thought, what if I considered how likely a card is to get buffed or nerfed? If I had done that, I would have correctly put Strange Supreme above Kohori.
00:50:08
Speaker
um Because i I think it's more likely that he he's going to nerf. I would have thought that. Before they released, I thought, oh, you know, 2-2 plus 2 is probably stronger than Kohori.
00:50:19
Speaker
Anyway, that's something I will keep in mind with with our next week's rankings of the ah new X-Men cards. Okay, so Strange Supreme Spotlight, friends. Speed, 3-3 ongoing, gets plus one power for every turn that you consumed all your energy.
00:50:36
Speaker
and then think they should make him a 3-4. Okay, You he's too small? Yep, i think I think he's one too small. That's what I think. Huh. He's got to be one of the biggest threes, though, right?
00:50:49
Speaker
and i with no He's got a 3-9 ceiling. But again, like that's assuming you really you hit your mark and all that. And I don't think you do most of the time. I think most of the time he's a 3-8, 3-7.
00:51:01
Speaker
not But isn't that fine? like Gladiator's a 3-8 with downside. no he's a 3-8 with upside. like you're You're playing him in mill, right? Or like something like that. like you're You're not playing Gladiator naked. Maybe he has upside in mill, but...
00:51:18
Speaker
yeah But you you don't play him anywhere else, do you? Well, not now that there's speed, but he did used to get played for just being a big card.
00:51:28
Speaker
Yeah. In the old days, when he was a big card. I think people were wrong to do that then. I don't... I think the speed is like not quite big enough. That's how it seems to me.
00:51:41
Speaker
And I've been playing him kind of a lot, honestly. I'm rooting for this card. I think he's just one too small. It always cracks me up when you say you're rooting for a girl.
00:51:52
Speaker
yeah Well, I often am. There are cards I'm rooting against and I'll tell you about it. Doom 2099. I don't care that he's not a problem right now. i'm not That doesn't make him some hero. Okay, maybe I'm mistaken. is Sometimes, and not case with don't remember what he's done.
00:52:07
Speaker
Not the case of Speed, but definitely for some other cards. When you say I'm rooting for this card, it sounds like you're saying, bless his heart. I mean, I kind of am. Yeah. Uh... ah ah Rhi, did you have something else?
00:52:21
Speaker
Yeah, I am excited to play Speed because, like, I haven't gotten him. He's one I've wanted, so I was excited to be like, ooh, finally. Because I like, I love playing ongoing any time except for when it's what a lot of people are playing, which is most usually not the case, right?
00:52:37
Speaker
a lot of times it's safe to, like, be an ongoing um player. And, um And also Wiccan shenanigans, two things I like. So I'm hyped to have.
00:52:50
Speaker
kind of, I would defer to Ben, who has also played, and I kind of agree. I've never kind of seen speed as a huge threat on the other side. ah You know, usually Red Guardian's just fine.
00:53:02
Speaker
Yeah. um uh and other stuff so and because he's not like surfer card you know what i mean like when you're playing speed i tried him in my my ongoing goliath surfer that i built a couple weeks ago for you know goliath and he didn't even feel like that good there. And that deck, like that had like Captain America to like, yeah like everything was designed to like, it was kind of like this, this was speed's big moment to prove himself in, in one of my surfer ideas. And it just wasn't, yeah all he proved was that he's a little too small.
00:53:38
Speaker
i don't know. Go with like Moonstone. right Which it's like, um, you know, Lots good stuff. So I'm excited to try things. But yeah, I tend to agree that i don't see him that much and I'm not that afraid of him. Ergo, probably an extra point of power is warranted.
00:53:59
Speaker
It's worth saying, too, that his power is pretty predictable. Like his range, right? Some of the cards, part of their strength is that they are surprising how big they can get or you know how influential they can be. Speed's just like...
00:54:13
Speaker
The most surprising thing you can do with him is play him on six. That's all you can yeah Right. But yeah, when he comes down early, i I feel like I can easily figure out or estimate how big I need to get that lane to compete.
00:54:26
Speaker
um At least to compete with speed. US Agent also in the spotlight. A two three that gives minus three power to four, five, and six cost cards. ah Great card.
00:54:38
Speaker
I don't think there's a lot more to say about it. um Definitely great in like the ongoing package that runs Luke. um Also, anything that runs Ajax. Yep. Okay.
00:54:50
Speaker
A lot of people playing 4-5-6s, you know? So, yeah. Cerebro 3, great there. ah oh wow. I suppose so. Yeah. um Anyway, ah also a card that I see in like Bast Havoc decks because you're not going to hurt yourself with that card. um ah Someone's name was like Hebrew Lives and was like, nah, get out of here.
00:55:17
Speaker
but But it's not in a bless your heart way with U.S. Agent. I just like what he does, and I've liked it from the beginning, and I believed in him before anybody else there's There's an episode of Snap Decisions that I was on before we before we even had this podcast, and I really went to bat for U.S. Agent, and I got the feeling that nobody nobody believed me or...
00:55:38
Speaker
Yeah. yeah I don't know. It seemed, it seemed like all of my urging fell upon deaf ears. Cause no, nobody even seemed to think that anyone had said anything nice about us agent. And I was shouting it from the goddamn rooftops.
00:55:52
Speaker
I had, what was that? You're saying before he came out. Yeah. Yup. I, uh, i was yeah I went on Joe's show and I was like, hey, everybody, I know expectations are low for US Agent, but he does a cool thing. And if you're on if you're on Team Small Cards with me, get US s Agent. He's great. He's going to do great things. He's got a good effect that you should want to do in a game of Marvel Snap. like These are like exactly the words I said. And yeah, I still feel that way about him.
00:56:19
Speaker
Still rooting for that card, even after he got popular. He never forgot where he came from. ah We had an OTA this week. Bunch of changes. Bigger than last week's OTA.
00:56:31
Speaker
Not that that's a very high bar to clear. ah First up, a couple that are, I think, related. Sam Wilson, Captain America, goes from 2-3 to 2-2.
00:56:42
Speaker
And Scream goes two two to 2-1.
00:56:46
Speaker
I agreed with what they said about Sam. um They kind of said, like, Sam is so great because he's so versatile. He works in so many decks. And love that in a card. There's so many cards that are pigeonholed into just, like, one or two exact decks. And that's beautiful about Sam Wilson. But he is kind of in danger of just being best in slot two, goes with, like...
00:57:11
Speaker
you know synergizes too much. And they got rid of some of that with dropping the shield out of one, but um you know it is.
00:57:22
Speaker
think, I mean, and it's a very light touch you know to 2-2. This is still going to get played, for sure. yeah um not going anywhere.
00:57:35
Speaker
can't remember if it was in the patch notes or if I saw other people talking about it, but I saw people talking about touching this are affecting lowering the power of the shield, and I'm like, I don't want them to do that. no If it goes to zero power, it doesn't get to reach into Death's Domain or Rickety Bridge or you know whatever other location anymore. and that's like That's something that's fun about the card, is that the moving piece has even just the tiniest bit of power.
00:57:59
Speaker
Yeah, I think this change makes a lot of sense, and may not be enough we'll see definitely just a generically good card yeah was saying this 2-1 drop makes me like scream better because I was just thinking like I'll put her with Taxi Daxi in my Ravonna deck it's gonna be toxic cards that hate each other and themselves and the other side of the board a 4 point swing every time she procs like you don't have to go very deep on scream to make her worth it
00:58:37
Speaker
no No, you don't. I'm still going to be playing Scream. I'm not i'm not dropping the card on this account, no. I still don't have her. um But hey, maybe I'll get her next week if i go in on Snap Packs. I don't know if I'm going to. now that I have Speed, I think she's the only card I'm missing that I really want to do something with.
00:58:59
Speaker
Maybe Proxima Midnight, but I'm not going to do a ton with her. Anyway, Captain Carter, I'm surprised by this change. to 3-2.
00:59:08
Speaker
Way, way, way more playable. Way better. Yes. We'll see about this. i had i had some worries and I still have some. I mean, like, I got to play one game with her in the 3-2 form. So, like, i don't i don't know how don't I don't know how she's really going to land.
00:59:27
Speaker
But i my my yeah my concern was that she'd be too good at 3. Yeah, um we'd said that before. yeah Yeah. I still feel that way.
00:59:38
Speaker
It really changes so much because like not just getting to play her early, but when you have to play her that late, the thing that gets awkward for me is a lot of times she's no longer worth it because it's too hard for me to get her in a front row. you know And when she's just buffing one other card, it's not worth it compared to usually what else you've got in your hand.
00:59:58
Speaker
And like this just makes it so much easier to squeak her in somewhere. Because there's so many rocks, swirls, things that just junk up your board. um Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if this is if like, I mean, we haven't seen what all is out there. But like, the biggest flaw for Captain Carter to me, though, is her whole lane dies to Shang. She dies, the card she's buffing dies, and you've got your one like hope there or something.
01:00:28
Speaker
um That has happened to me more than once. So we'll see, but yeah, wouldn't be surprised if this is, this is something they have to nerf later because she spends it being that good. It's just such a, such a tricky card to tune because of how much her power can scale.
01:00:45
Speaker
Um, I'm glad they're taking a big swing, right? like Yeah. i want I want to see them take swings every now and then. This is a season pass card that was very hard to play. This makes it way easier to get in the front row.
01:00:58
Speaker
This might be just fine, is is my feeling. I'm glad we're trying it at least, you know? Like, if it turns out to be too good, that's that's fine. But let's let's find out. But just like Carter into Brood, that seems pretty big.
01:01:10
Speaker
Yeah. i Carter into Moonstone also seems fucking ridiculous. Oh, yeah, she's safer now. Yeah, I forgot about the surfer of it. Yeah, I mean, she already was a very surfer friendly like card like that's a that's a thing that goes well with surfer stuff because surfer does hand buff stuff and she does, you know, she reacts well to that. She responds well to the hand buff.
01:01:33
Speaker
The timing is just so much easier now. I'm excited to play with this card. Infinity Ultron, we got teased this a few days early, but goes from 5.6 to 5.8. Makes sense to me. I think they were super cautious with Infinity Ultron.
01:01:48
Speaker
ae And they also said in their notes that this is just where they're starting because the stones seem a lot harder. The stones are, yeah, they're going to...
01:01:58
Speaker
This is when I ended up skipping because I was just like, hey, I'm just getting back into Snap. I have plenty of new toys. I'll get it in Snap packs. Because i'm actually to the point now where I'm only missing, i think, less than five cards maybe. So, like, you know, pick them up in Snap packs. Because that's what I was literally looking at it. And I'm like, okay, he's like...
01:02:18
Speaker
you know, 5,800, what was it, 200 tokens for the weekend missions, you know, i can spend on this or I can spend like 5k spend less on them.
01:02:29
Speaker
Yeah, that makes sense. don't
01:02:34
Speaker
know. It's fine. i I don't usually do the numbers, Lauren. resented it.
01:02:41
Speaker
ah Sorry, that's a very good call on your part. i Infinity Ultron, I still think it's just he's got very awkward tempo. Yeah, i'm not I'm not about to start playing this card because they gave him a couple of points of power. oh my gosh. I'll play him.
01:02:57
Speaker
Right. Kind of fun, but not very good. I mean, like, how do you plan around? Like, what but what what's an Infinity Ultron deck look like? what's what's the what's How do you win? like but I don't see it. I just don't see It's like Agamotto vibes, you know?
01:03:13
Speaker
You're just vibing. i mean, some of the things you can do are it's like Quinjet or Arashem. Ramp. Yeah, Arashem has already surrendered the the game plan thing. Like, Arashem is already letting go and let God, but like...
01:03:27
Speaker
But he actually fits in there because you can play him a turn early and that deck naturally runs Quinjet, which the stones take advantage of But under what other circumstances should you be playing Infinity Ultron? Like if you're into like winning games or whatever. Yeah, I agree. He's a weird card. And like two of the stones don't even like really, they don't synergize with anything.
01:03:46
Speaker
Yeah, the move stone, the Polaris stone or what? Like what the hell is that? Yeah. He's like, look at my rocks. you're like, what the fuck are those? Get out of here. much
01:04:02
Speaker
I'll play with... I'm excited. He seems fun, and his ceilings are decently high. He's just an awkward card, and i think that's probably okay. um Toxin goes from two one to 2-2.
01:04:16
Speaker
Kind of surprising, but they were they were saying that... I don't know. They wanted Bounce to have more presence in the meta. They want to make sure that every archetype's playable. I would give Toxin an extra point. don't think that's dangerous.
01:04:31
Speaker
I think I got him in Sanctum and totally forgot. I haven't even played him once. You're not Toxin? I mean, if you're not a bounce player, then there's nothing to with it. think that like Toxin is a good card to give a point to. Not that like Toxin was unplayable before, but this is like... It doesn't go with Robona now.
01:04:51
Speaker
Sometimes when they give a card a point, I'm like, what was the point of this point? But like I see it with Toxin. I'm like, yeah, all right. You've got a little more weight to you. thats That's nice. I'm more likely to be excited about playing Toxin.
01:05:05
Speaker
I see it differently. I'm like, you are not invited to my Ravonna Taxi Daxi party. We're all having fun with Scream. Not you, Taxi.
01:05:16
Speaker
Taxi Daxi is like the least bounce-friendly card like yeah ever. I put that on Taxi's fault. It doesn't play with Ravonna. It's going to be a girl gang. Fair enough.
01:05:31
Speaker
Penny Parker's Spider goes from 3-3 to 3-4. their wo There was a leaked OTA that was fake, ah but it put Penny to one cost and Spider to two. I'd be way more into that.
01:05:45
Speaker
I mean, yeah, because that would be like way too good. I don't think it would be too good if you had adjusted the power accordingly. oh what What would Psylocke do ever again?
01:05:57
Speaker
Would she work? I don't think she would. i i think that if we had this one cost Penny Parker, I mean, no, I guess Psylocke would still be Psylocke for like, I guess, I guess negative would still play Psylocke. But like, honestly,
01:06:12
Speaker
I don't know. that's That seems to encroaching on other cards' territory. Psylocke. But I think when I play Penny, want to do shenanigans with her mood merge and stuff. That's what I care about way more than the power.
01:06:25
Speaker
would much rather have her be cheaper. Yeah. I would play her way more if she was cheaper. But, yeah, I mean, this...
01:06:34
Speaker
makes sense to me. Like there were there have been I don't I haven't played a ton of Penny, but there have been times where I'm holding spider in hand and I just never play it because it's just not the best thing to do. And I think that's that's a weird.
01:06:50
Speaker
Or you never play Spider on Penny because, like, you know, you're playing it on a Scarlet Spider or something. And it's like, what's Penny's point besides Spider? Oh, I usually play Spider on Penny because I like energy.
01:07:03
Speaker
ah yeah I mean, I'm saying it depends on the deck that you have put Penny in. um But also I feel, it's like, did I just do a whole thing where like, hey, cards are cheaper.
01:07:17
Speaker
That's fine.
01:07:20
Speaker
It's literally every card in the game. Okay. Sorry. I guess not like Danila Hulk. Tune down in power. You're not excited.
01:07:37
Speaker
ah Fastest. 3-3 to 3-4. Yep.
01:07:41
Speaker
yeah I kind of suspect this isn't enough. I kind of think he needs to be 3-5. Really? it yup you you know um He does have an awkward ability in that need to play it early.
01:07:56
Speaker
have to play it early for it to be worthwhile.
01:08:00
Speaker
I faces. And even then, sometimes it's like not even the right like kind of acceleration. like kind of like Sometimes you're like, ooh, but I should probably play Luna Snow or Hope or whatever my other accelerator is instead of Fastos. Because like I can see a clear play line in front of me that like i i can't I can't work with Fastos. He's unpredictable and difficult. He never comes out of his trailer.
01:08:20
Speaker
you know like i don't know. i don't know. I'm not sure Fastos works at 3.4.
01:08:28
Speaker
He's one of those cards you just always want to play more. Like, I like this card. I'm always happy when I play it, but I'm not playing It's just usually for a reason.
01:08:40
Speaker
Maybe one extra power is enough. let us Let us know. I hope so. I mean, I'll keep trying. I've been trying with 3-3 Fastos. i'm I'm not, like, disincentivized to keep throwing myself at it, but...
01:08:52
Speaker
I don't have high expectations. like were saying, Lauren, he's a surprise card because people like forget to expect that you may play a way cheaper brood, you know? where He does make for unusual game states. Which is a winning factor in and of itself.
01:09:08
Speaker
Yeah, and it's a lot of like information imbalance. I've played very little Pastos since. But, like, that that sort of thing has to come, like, if it if that comes with too much unwieldiness as it has with, for instance, Toxie Doxie, like, I don't know. Like, you allow yourself to create, like, surprising threats, but if you box yourself into unexpected corners, that's also bad.
01:09:33
Speaker
I don't know. Yeah. I got an Infinity Ticket with Hulkwing and Pixie this weekend. Come at me. No, about eure I Rhi. I... it's It's noted.
01:09:43
Speaker
I think it's clear if we look at a bunch of ah ah bunch of cards that three is an awkward setup cost. like That's the threshold where a setup card gets awkward. You could look at Luna Snow, who they had to buff.
01:09:57
Speaker
Did they buff her by one or two? They had buff her power because... they thought she'd be strong enough but like and part of it is she has that big downside but i don't know i just think i think a card that is setting up is is awkward when you're yeah you make it too expensive um especially a card like fastest or luna snow where the more the earlier you get them the more valuable they are which also means if you draw them late they're kind of useless um you There are certainly exceptions.
01:10:25
Speaker
um ah Sarah and Wong come to mind. Wong is awkward, but it's worth it if you're being greedy.
01:10:34
Speaker
um Before we go to the last change, I forgot there was something I wanted to call out about in the Infinity Ultron section, they mentioned that they know that there's like this imbalance with fives being awkward. also took note that.
01:10:47
Speaker
Relative to fours and sixes, and they like said, we are going to work on this, and I love that. Yes, we need fives to be better. um And then the final change, Rhino, i completely reworked, goes to a 3-6 on reveal, add a rock to your side of this location.
01:11:09
Speaker
I think it's a great change. Absolutely. 100%. It's fun card. ah fun card Definitely more playable. And like the Infinity Ultron thing, they had an extra note in this section where it's like they're going to be reworking cards, old cards more often.
01:11:25
Speaker
Also something that I love. Yes. Also, I've got a theory. i think the timing of this buff is related. to the popularity on Netflix of Kraven the Hunter.
01:11:39
Speaker
That's what I think.
Rhino in Film and Game
01:11:40
Speaker
but now I think that it's really put the spotlight on Rhino, and ah that's that's why we're finally fixing him. For those who don't know, Rhino is one of many minor Spider-Man villains who appears in the film Kraven the Hunter.
01:11:56
Speaker
I had no idea. He's he's actually... ah A secondary antagonist to the film. One of the more primary secondary antagonists. ah so in In fact, you might you might even be tricked into thinking he is the primary antagonist to the film.
01:12:12
Speaker
Oh, but it's a trick. Okay, well, I won't fall for it now. Whenever I get to Kraven. um Yeah, I mean, don't know what I'm going to do with this, but it's way more interesting.
01:12:24
Speaker
His power is that he wears a backpack, by the way. In the movie, that's his power? Yes. Yes, he has a backpack. And it keeps him from transforming into the rhino. Oh, I see. So they don't have to this. He's got little porty. And yeah, it's a whole choice.
01:12:40
Speaker
sounds' kindney One of many. One of many. Countless choices were made and in the and the production of this film.
01:12:49
Speaker
um I kind of wish he still ruined the location. Right? Created ruins and popped the rock out. he could do both. He could do both. ah Also, I like that he makes it ruins and like, or he made it ruins rather. And that's like, you know, you're not Scarlet Witch might do something.
01:13:08
Speaker
But like Rhino never did something, you know, like he never TVA'd you. Nobody played Rhino. Maybe Cerebro 3 sometimes, but nobody played Rhino.
01:13:19
Speaker
No, so but I mean, that's their fault for making him a three three that that was but like this one that makes a rock. I wish it also did the location thing still. yeah yeah Best of both worlds, that's my feeling.
01:13:33
Speaker
anyway But this making a rock business is very cool. I love it. I think it's very fun and funny. I think less power and ruining the location would be better. Yeah, like would take that trade-off.
01:13:47
Speaker
um I wouldn't play that. I think he needs to be 3-6 to, you know... Really? 3-6 is high to remove a location... I think that's... agree. No, but I think he should still do the Rhino. I'm really committed that like the best possible version of Rhino has the old text and the new text.
01:14:04
Speaker
Yeah, I think that that would be more fun. Thematically appropriate. And I think that the old text on Rhino is indeed, as you're saying, kind of bad and like not really worth playing about, even if it did have like decent stats, like 3-5 or something. I still don't think... like I don't know.
01:14:21
Speaker
Like, consider that we used to have 3-5 Nocturne, and although it's been decided that we can't have that anymore, like, that was... Yeah. Reliability is big. Nocturne loses people games. Scarlet Witch loses people games.
01:14:36
Speaker
And movement is a huge ability. I think 3-5 Rhino would be played a lot, actually. Yeah. Old Rhino. Old Rhino at 3-5? You think so? I think that would be played a lot. Well, yeah consider that 3-3 used to be what 3-4 is now, and nobody played Rhino then either. Yeah.
01:14:53
Speaker
Like 3-3 didn't, it's like 3-3 used to, like three three now is not what 3-3 used to mean. But look, we used to have Storm. We used to have Storm at 3. why would you not, if you, you know i mean? Like why would you not play Storm back then over Rhino?
01:15:10
Speaker
I miss 3-cost Storm Soulbass. That's what I'm saying. He's always been – great to make something reliable. That's why pick Legion or that's why Scarlet Witch isn't played way more because reliability is key. But you think that we made him 3-5 – Nocturne's ability to move offsets the drawbacks.
01:15:27
Speaker
She might lose you the game when she moves. She might win it for you, but she very much... And she has lost me games. So, like, the problem with Rhino is just he wasn't worth it. And in back in the day, if you were playing Surfer, you were going to play ah Storm, and then you were going to play Legion, and then you were going to play... You know, there's just always a better location changer. But reliability is huge in changing locations.
01:15:51
Speaker
I wouldn't discount it. Wow. Wow. If you would play three five Rhino, tell us so in the comments. yeah um I'm just curious, what are you doing with new Rhino if you're playing it? Like, um, Discounts Mockingbird? mean, Supreme. Or you're running Patriot ors or Supreme?
01:16:14
Speaker
Because 3-6 is just a big card if you miss, right? um yeah Yeah. Like, this just keeps the big stats thing going. Like, we're just playing exclusively overstatted stuff that, yeah. and Also, downsideed downside doesn't apply if he's the fourth card at his location.
01:16:32
Speaker
True. Okay. This is, like, such a... The downside is, like, so nothing. Yeah. Well... A rock on your side of location is a pretty big downside, I think.
01:16:46
Speaker
um Only if you're not planning for it, though. And, like, you're gonna be playing this with, like, Viper and stuff. like the Viper is another good one, yeah. um Okay. There was actually one more change. Toxidoxi originally targeted skills. She wasn't supposed to, which makes sense because she works so much like Gwenpool.
01:17:04
Speaker
um So she won't hit skills anymore. But her card still says cards, even though Gwenpool's text says skills.
01:17:12
Speaker
Love the consistency. i hope that that gets changed as soon as possible. Okay.
Creative Card Design Exercise
01:17:20
Speaker
On to our side quests. First up, secret homework. I assigned it this week.
01:17:24
Speaker
The secret homework was to design zero-cost card. Yeah. There's a bunch in the game, but there's only two that you can put into your deck at the start of the game, Yellowjacket and Wasp. And I think there's room for one or two more um before Jane becomes completely busted.
01:17:41
Speaker
i So, mine. I was looking for another character who could shrink, you know, to be in that, like, Ant-Man, Wasp, Yellowjacket range. And my goodness, there aren't any. i mean, there are, but they're so rare.
01:17:57
Speaker
Almost every single one I found was, like... a different ant-man a different wasp a different yellow jacket or there's also ant-man's daughter stature who's already in the game like um this is very hard to find other shrinking characters uh one that i found was the mighty destroyer apparently stanley's first superhero ever and this like forced to look like a vampire creep because it would be more threatening to the bad guys she seemed like a very funny character um And it's like heavily implied he can shrink, but it's an ability that he keeps secret.
01:18:33
Speaker
Um, what I ended up going with was, um, black ant who is a life model decoy of the irredeemable ant man.
01:18:44
Speaker
I hadn't learned about the irredeemable ant man before, but he's like a shield agent who steals the ant man suit and he's kind of morally gray and he seemed like a really fun character. um I'm interested in reading those comics, uh, now, but he dies and is replaced with an evil, uh,
01:19:00
Speaker
LMD called Black Ant. And this is my card. 0-0. at the end of your turn or At the end of turn, if your side of this location is full, switch sides.
01:19:13
Speaker
ah So a zero-cost clog card, but kind of an awkward one. And he would switch back, too, if you didn't, like, next turn do something about it. i Accidentally, this wasn't intentional in the design, but I like this about the card.
01:19:29
Speaker
is a Valk card that lets you play Valk on five. Like if you played Black Ant Valk, it would go over to their side. And if they played anything there, then he switches back on the last turn. um So yeah, that's my that's my zero cost card.
01:19:43
Speaker
Rhea's assigning next week's homework. So Ben, what's your zero cost card? All right. Well, that's a pretty cool one to follow. All right. Those who listened last week may recall that like two seconds after the homework was assigned, I announced that I already had it and it was good.
01:20:02
Speaker
ah but True. okay And you know what? I stand by that. It was pretty good. And it's exactly, it is exactly what I thought it would be last week when I said that.
01:20:16
Speaker
you just had it ready to go. I did adjust. I thought, I said, I thought I might have to make it zero minus one. I've decided to go zero minus two.
01:20:28
Speaker
there There were some other things that like are a little up in the air, and i'm I'm going to tell you about all the ways I thought about doing it differently. But um here's what I ended up with. Techno Organic Virus, 0 minus 2. On reveal, transform your highest cost card here into a random card that costs one more, if possible.
01:20:48
Speaker
I thought about maybe making it Warlock instead of the Techno Organic Virus. I thought about making this a merge card. i thought I thought about like making the text be like, transform your highest card here into a random card that costs one more and then merge with it.
01:21:02
Speaker
But I didn't do that because I like taking up space. Also, I'm always thinking about the Void. I'm always thinking about the Void. And I think that like this would be a great thing to do with the Void, obviously. Absolutely. But then...
01:21:13
Speaker
You're playing the void in some deck with a Nihilus and Viper in it. You should probably make sure you still have something with negative power to throw over to the other side, right? I mean, sure, transform the void into some five cost card, but like, leave yourself something to clog them with, honestly.
01:21:28
Speaker
Call of a play to be able to do sentry and this on the same turn at the end of the game. Uh-huh. Yep. No, it's it's, like, probably too good.
01:21:39
Speaker
I also considered making it sort of more, like, equal, you know, like, ah make make it a symmetrical thing. Also transform your opponent's highest cost card there. But that, I think, would be, like, that would not temper it. That would just make it more too good. ah that That would, like...
01:21:59
Speaker
just double down on the being too good thing. But yeah, I just thought that like, we need an evolve card at zero. And like, I like that this one, you know, it requires a little bit of space and it will, you know, the, that that was my reason for like not making it emerge thing.
01:22:16
Speaker
But like, I thought maybe it would be cool to make it warlock. Cause like warlock, like resurrected cypher and it's the whole thing. i don't want to you know, Stuff that I read like when I was a kid, but like do I remember anything in great detail? Great enough to speak on it? a whole bunch. But I don't know. there there there was a There was a part of me that wanted to make this card Warlock, just because Warlock is one of the coolest looking characters ever. He's got to be coming eventually. Yeah, and there would be like so many dope variants, because Warlock is just so But...
01:22:46
Speaker
um but Yeah, I just went with the techno-organic virus. it You know, it got some shine on it recently in X-Men 97. You know, little baby's got it.
01:22:57
Speaker
Little baby Nathan. He's got an illness. um i'm I'm ill. He's ill. Makes him relatable. Yeah. yeah Okay. Yeah. Techno organic virus. I think I told you all the things I needed to tell you about it and the thought that went into it.
01:23:16
Speaker
And I did not. I did not tell you about mine. I just want to be real quick. So black ant changes sides multiple times. And so that like he's a backstabber and a betrayer. So switching sides made sense. i have me Also, he triggers on when the lane is full, just like Ant-Man there.
01:23:31
Speaker
That's no, I like that. That's very good. See, it's great. Yeah. re Tell me about your zero cost. All right. I'm starting with my inspiration first. Thank you for sharing. Having learned from the previous two narratives. already thought it was cool.
01:23:47
Speaker
um My idea was inspired by Cyclops. I was talking about earlier, actually. um The X-Men are all either hunting or aiding and abetting ah Charles Xavier, who's on the run.
01:24:07
Speaker
Because they think he killed a bunch of people, he didn't actually. you know It's like the X-Men. If you start explaining any reason why things are the way they are currently, it just evolves. into five different rabbit holes. Okay.
01:24:21
Speaker
So, but um Quentin Quire, who I'm excited for is a future card. I love this little punk ass. Bitch of a kid. Psychic genius.
01:24:33
Speaker
um ah He goes up against Charles, right? and Charles is just, like, picturing him you know, they're having this mental battle.
01:24:45
Speaker
And, you know, Charles has put Quentin as this, like, student position with the millions, like, Xaviers being like, You know, well, it's if when you're of two equal power, you know, what's going to come into play? It's experience and, um you know, all of this stuff. And he's hammering and he's hammering. And it's like Quentin can't win.
01:25:08
Speaker
um And let me say, skipping ahead when he walks out of this, Quentin is like, hey, ah to Juggernaut, I think, who is he talking to? Maybe Magic. And he's like, I beat Charles.
01:25:20
Speaker
He's like, oh, right on. Dirty tricks? Quentin's like, yeah, of course. ah Because what happens then is Charles is like, wait a minute, what's this? Quentin's like, oh, yeah.
01:25:32
Speaker
Like, did you say I knew I couldn't beat you. So I stole a trick. from someone better than both of us. And then it's a little psychic trap I just like copied over into my own brain.
01:25:44
Speaker
And then coming up from Charles, Cassandra Nova, she's like, hello, Charles. Does your little like creepy finger or thing. And then the next time you see Charles, he's like, books everywhere.
01:25:56
Speaker
It was like Quentin Quire just yoinked a psychic trap. From Cassandra Nova to stick in his brain just to, like, fuck over another psychic. Okay. so um ah So this card is actually going to be ah the first zero-cost standalone skill.
01:26:16
Speaker
It's called Psychic Trap. All right? And it's it's a zero zero, obviously, because skills don't have power. And it says, when your opponent would gain an extra energy, absorb it.
01:26:30
Speaker
and then banish this. It's a little, you know, little trick. have to catch it on the same turn? No, it will stick around on the board until an energy is absorbed and gets banished. can only do it once.
01:26:44
Speaker
Oh. So instead of banishing on play, it banishes when it triggers. Yes. Sorry. That's a fun idea for a card type. Yeah.
01:26:54
Speaker
I guess it's a lot of new things. I just really wanted to make sense of card. That's fine. wanted to understand it. That's very fun. Yeah. Okay. um So, that'll be interesting.
01:27:09
Speaker
I don't know, actually, how much I'm going to like skills or not when they come out as standalone cards you can put in decks. We'll see. We'll see how that goes. I agree. um Okay, so next week's homework um is, you know, I happen to follow the lines of just, you know, things, re-likes, likes to talk about. So I want for next week, ah give me...
01:27:34
Speaker
Give me your your favorite or some cool video game related music. That's a video game soundtrack or like some kind of fan piece, whatever.
01:27:44
Speaker
Whatever. It's got to be music. It's got to be related to video games. Because I do love that Marvel Snap is paying musicians um and music season. I think it's just music every one guy.
01:27:57
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that's, you know, that's how roll. puts bangers. but I know, we would like them to pay multiple people for sure, but like, you know. um I like it when artists and musicians are employed, especially over robots. It's really cool that they're paying for a different song every season.
01:28:13
Speaker
That's cool. Yeah. So, yeah. i That's my way to tie it into Marvel's step. Limited relevance to secret homework. Okay. ah That's our homework for next week.
01:28:25
Speaker
Back to you, Lauren. Wonderful. Thank you. Well, listener, if you liked what you heard today, ah like, comment, subscribe, review on iTunes, maybe on Spotify. I don't know how that works. I don't listen to podcasts on Spotify.
01:28:39
Speaker
But if you leave a comment there, because rechecks every now and then it shares with us. um Or you could come. I apologize. thing And like, you know, doing things.
01:28:53
Speaker
It's true. If you want to come chat with us, we ah have our own little corner of the Snap Judgments League Discord called the Speakeasy.
Ree's Comics Corner and Personal Stories
01:29:02
Speaker
ah And in there is Ree's Comics Corner, where she has been sharing a different comic recommendation every day for the past week-ish. I think there's still a couple more days until we get the full week.
01:29:14
Speaker
But... ah If you want to come. Today's last one. Okay. Today's the last one. oh They come with darling art. um They're really great. You should really check them out. Thank you. so I promised it would be like five minutes and I really spend more like 20.
01:29:32
Speaker
I'm sure. I know what that's like to spend over an hour for a quick little cute piece of art. um Anyway, if you would like to join, there are instructions in the podcast notes or in the video description.
01:29:45
Speaker
You have to get to the Snap Judgments League Discord, and then there's a button you have to press there to get into our little secret corner. um But it's fun, and and we have a lot of listeners who play along with the secret homework. I think there were like five or six good zero-cost designs ah this week from listeners, and I appreciate you all.
01:30:03
Speaker
i If you want, next week is going to be both a patch, which means we're going to be previewing July cards, I think, um and also ah ranking the May card season.
01:30:18
Speaker
So it's going to be a big episode. If you want to catch that, tune in next week. Same Snap time, same Snap channel.
01:30:29
Speaker
Should have like a kazoo something. No, we're in the guitars. Sorry. It's just like we don't hear the guitars when we're recording, so it's sad for us. It's true. Sometimes I start to dance to them as though I know when they came in, I don't.
01:30:44
Speaker
I mean, they always come in right as I'm saying, channel!
01:30:49
Speaker
I mean, like, more or less, but, like, you know. It's true. I fiddle with it a little bit. The rhythm is particular. That's fair. So, yeah. That was fun.
01:31:01
Speaker
Thanks. Anybody have any parting thoughts? Parting wisdom? Oh, gosh. Sure. Probably. don't know. Okay. Drink without muting because we're in after show.
01:31:13
Speaker
ah Oh, I should be embarrassed to admit this. I don't know why this popped into my head. The coolest thing. I glared at a child today. I feel kind of bad about it. No, they need to understand that not everyone is there for their bullshit.
01:31:29
Speaker
What were the circumstances? Here's the thing. I was raised, I was always super ah polite in public. And ah people would comment to my parents about how respectful and polite we were in public. and I don't speak to my parents anymore, so I'm not going to criticize other people's parenting choices.
01:31:49
Speaker
But, no, it was like, okay, so I'm at the lake. And this maybe the last time the lake because it gets too hot. I don't exercise outside and above 80 degrees because I have choices. So, yeah.
01:32:01
Speaker
I was going and it made me sad because there's this song on my workout mix when I'm like power walking. That's called Crazy Fucking Robot Body. and it's like, I don't if you ever like to pretend that you're like one of those like anime battle dolls, you know, where you're just like, okay, power walking now. Because the song was like, I could destroy you with my crazy fucking robot body.
01:32:21
Speaker
And i just like to pretend it's like, okay, what if I just, you know, right now out of my arms, you know, like, Like fighting, like my, you know, maybe you could lean forward and your thrusters would engage.
01:32:33
Speaker
Right? Rockets would come up. I would fly out into the middle of the lake. I would, like, be, I don't know, I'd be fighting some sort of evil. But then I would stop and I would save one of the cute little bunny rabbits that sometimes hops out on a trail, you know, just to show that even though I am, a you know, a force of destruction. Oh, we love to see a big robot save a little squirrel or something.
01:32:54
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not that big of a robot, to be honest. I'm rather small. But yes, anyway, so it's camera watching. make up for it with deadliness, right? Living in my fantasy, and this, like, child who was, like, old enough to know, like, steps out right in front of me, like, in a way, like, to make me stop.
01:33:14
Speaker
Because he to me or something. I don't know. And I'm just like power walking. And it was just like – and it's like his whole family is there. And I just like didn't even know what to do because like honestly like I'm kind of sensitive to like people. Like I've had like – I had someone drunk follow me home like a stranger from the street once. So it's like I never knew when – I mean, I get this as a child, but I was taken aback and I like just kind of gave him semi-mean look.
01:33:42
Speaker
And then he like hopped back out of the way and and continued my walk. But it stuck with me because I'm like, did you glare at a child? Yes. I mean, I wasn't there, so don't know what this facial expression was, but do you really think it was a full-fledged glare?
01:33:58
Speaker
Do you think you released into the... don't what my face looks like. You think you gave him a glare? almost... Maybe, I mean, that's what going for. Are sure it wasn't just like a stern, no-nonsense look?
01:34:09
Speaker
Like, you are in my path, you know? I don't know what it was. It sounds warranted. Yeah, it was for the moment. Whatever it was, you were in the right. It also sounds like it worked.
01:34:22
Speaker
Yeah, I heard you get results. That's what I heard. That's the moral the story to me. No!