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1: That Edge That Drax Has (Snap Judgments Takeover)
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PulseGlazer is on vacation, so the brand-new Snap On This!! podcast steals the keys to Snap Judgments for a joyride. 🤫🤭
For our esteemed listeners' consideration:
- We all agree on Speed
- We all disagree on Hulkling
- We have thoughts and feelings about the August 2024 patch
- Ben activates movie trailer voice for The Great Maybe Snap Review Game: Are They Gruntled 'Bout Dis?
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Transcript
Exploring Alternate Realities
00:00:00
Speaker
Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's a prism of endless possibility. Where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities. Creating alternate worlds from the ones you know.
Introduction to Snap Judgments
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Speaker
I am the Watcher.
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I am your guide through these vast new realities. Follow me and ponder the question, what if Glazer missed an episode of Snap Judgments? Indeed, welcome to Episode 64 of all new Snap Judgments.
00:00:46
Speaker
It's a takeover.
Meet the New Hosts
00:00:48
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With our brand new podcast, Snap on This, I am Lauren Whatevs, and with me today, I have fellow co-host Ben Roller. How was your week in Snap?
00:01:00
Speaker
Uh, it's been a pretty good week. I'm gonna try to keep it snappy, so I'll just say last week I climbed quite a bit, did a lot of bounties, scored a lot of points for the alliance. I am absolutely gonna coast on that this week. Y'all are gonna carry my ass.
00:01:17
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And I think it's time to start building some new decks. I feel like the decks that were working last week aren't working as well this week. And it's just, I got some new ideas that I'm eager to look into. See if there's anything there, you never know. I feel that and I look forward to seeing what you come up with.
Gaming Experiences and Metas
00:01:39
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And also another permanent co-host, Ree, how was your weekend snap?
00:01:45
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Uh, the worst, to be honest. So, like, I used to be so chill. Like, Galactus, everyone was angry. Like, all of it was good. The only time I've tilted before was... Remember the two-month Shuri meta? It was before we had OTAs. They could only do balance updates.
00:02:04
Speaker
Yes, I do. And Shuri Red School was rampant for months. For months, it was like the top meta deck by far. And that was like the first time I ever was just like, maybe, you know, uninstall the game. And ever since then, though, I've been cool.
00:02:27
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But this week, I was just having a bad day. I logged in five games in a row against Loki or Loki Irishman. And the last one, it just drops down. It's got a fucking green cosmic border, an art term Loki. You know what I mean? Like a gold split. And turn fucking two.
00:02:52
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Sorry, I can't. Can we not swear? That's going to be hard. You can. Yeah. OK. Who knows? On turn two. They drop.
00:03:05
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lowkey. And it's just like, and they steal all of my, like, I'm just playing my comfort deck, like a discard. It's called meek-ocalypse. Because if it's if meek caused, you know, the apocalypse, and both of those cards are in the deck. But, um,
00:03:27
Speaker
So that's my comfort deck. And I'm just like, it's Leena, I just want to escape into the world of Snap. But no, Loki on turn two in an Arsham deck, and they have all of my cards, you know what I mean? And they played magic. OK, then they played magic. So it's like just more turns to get more of my cards for cheaper. And then they played Adam Warlock. And Leena, I wasn't going to be able to win for a couple of days. The nerve.
00:03:53
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And I was just like, I almost never do this before like turn five. I retreated. Like I just was like, fuck this. I'm not staying to turn seven. And I just like was, and it's like, I've just been doing it. It's like, that's what I've been playing. I know that's my pocket man. It sounds like not everybody's only facing some version of Loki and or Loki Arisham.
00:04:17
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But like, I hate it. It's the most I've tilted since I did a drive-by in my Discord, like a drive-by gift for you. It's just like, swear word, swear word, angry gift, angry gift. And then, like, sorry, this is I don't take.
00:04:35
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too long. Here's what happened. And I'm like, Loki, I'm so angry. And it's just like, how dare you use my own Dracula against me. And then, um, one of my friends just replies. And it's just that gift of Loki going, like, just turning slightly to the side, just like arms out, you know, and I was just like, God,
00:04:58
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Anyway, so that's my weak say. It's so rough. Yeah, I feel that I really do. And I've been playing comfort decks to kind of combine what you two have said, I've been playing comfort decks, and they are not doing as well as they used to do. Oh, I'm sorry. Just I'm just
00:05:18
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struggling. But I ended up falling back on spectrum affliction. And it took me straight from 88 to 100 in a few hours. So I finally have that like, pressure to hit infinite off my off of my shoulders. And it's like, it's really amazing how big of a sigh of relief that is. But yeah, I'm looking I'm hoping for meta shake up soon.
Launching Snap on This
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I want to play silly fun decks.
00:05:51
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We'll move on. We're starting a new podcast, Snap on This. We did not intend for our first full-length episode to be a takeover of Snap judgments, but we have had various delays, mostly my fault, and then technical difficulties after that.
00:06:11
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Here we are, we're starting a podcast. The trailer's already available, we'll tell you about that at the end. And episode one will launch next week. But for now, today, we're Snap Judgments. Okay, we're gonna move on to Speed, which was this week's new card.
New Cards Overview
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He's a 3-3, ongoing plus one power for each turn in which you spent all your energy. Thoughts? Did either of you get Speed?
00:06:41
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I personally did not. I mean, sometimes it'll be a 3-9 and that's cool, but he doesn't do anything. I'm just not that impressed. I kind of think that if, I don't know, I'm more excited about cards that do things. Call me old fashioned. Yeah, that's fair. I didn't get them either.
00:07:10
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He's like the quicksilver of ongoing cards. Like it's just like, like you can see where the power comes. It's like, where is he gonna go outside of this spectrum? What is he, it's like, he doesn't, it's like, you know, it's the old poke it with the stick, like do something fun, you know, like. And then it's like. I'd rather play Polaris in like any deck. Just like a card that does something is also kind of big, you know, and you don't have to do any homework. Yeah.
00:07:39
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Yeah, it feels like Speed kind of exists to help make Quicksilver and Domino more playable. I mean, it's very thematically cute. Flavorful. Top down. Lovely.
00:07:56
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I think it's really interesting. It's like quicksilver and the wickin' tie-in and the, you know, you can do the... We're like, look at us with this little, like, speed echo chamber. Like, someone out there loves speed and they... I feel like they should be... Oh, no. Well... I can't do it. You should tune into a different podcast if you want this kind of pro-speed narrative push. Sorry. We speak from the heart here and we're just not feeling it. But also, if you love speed, live your truth.
00:08:23
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Oh, no, no, we're not. Yeah, come on. However, if you love Loki and Arisham. Yeah, get out of here. That's that's that's just Lauren. I think. Go with go with whatever you like. Tastes go with a tasmic, bearded, ancient Loki. Get out of here. I skipped. I think you're having fun. Do you?
00:08:49
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I skipped Speed 2. I was actually quite tempted, because like I said, I've been playing Spectrum, and I got him twice during that run from Camp Lehigh, and both times he was huge, like 3-10. But even so, you have to cut something from the deck, and you have to cut something that does something. I really think he goes in where Gladiator goes, kind of.
00:09:18
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if you play Gladiator. But that's exactly it. He's Gladiator stats without a downside, which is huge, but Gladiator is not really played right now. And also sometimes he's just Swordmaster stats. Yeah. Well, Swordmaster with no downside, 3-7 is still pretty nice. Okay. It's not enough. It's like Baron Zemo stats. There you go. Yeah.
00:09:48
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I think, I don't think Swordmaster deserves as much disrespect to be honest. Yeah, Swordmaster got the reputation Swordmaster got for a reason. Swordmaster's a meagocalypse.
00:10:00
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You know what? And everyone keeps saying, put Lady Sif in. Why not Lady Sif when they see the deck? And here's why. Because Strong Guy is in the deck, and you don't always want to discard Apocalypse for like the fourth time. Sometimes you need to get rid of the other card in your hand so that Strong Guy gets his proc, so that Dracula will discard, then discard Apocalypse appropriately. So like, Swordmaster has his place.
00:10:26
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Let him have it. No, that was a very effective defense of Swordmaster. That's a use case. I see it. I was out of pocket. This is Speeds Week and we're talking about Swordmaster. That's how I feel about speed, to be honest. That says a lot. At next week's card is Emperor Hulkling, 611.
00:10:56
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A 6-11 with the text, at the start of the game, copy the text of a random 6-cost card. Let's just go in the same order. Thoughts on Hulkling.
00:11:06
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I still can't believe this card is being released like this. I think this is maybe the worst card ever. I don't know. It's real bad. Your opinion all along that you expected this card to get changed and that like it came out in the trailer and you're still like they're definitely changing it before.
00:11:26
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It has tickled me so much. I mean, you'll feel lucky when he's just bad magneto. It's ridiculous. Like, this card is like the single most compelling piece of evidence I have that they're actually working on draft mode. Because that's the only circumstance in which I would consider playing this card. This is a limited card. Only for limited formats. You would not play this in Constructed. It's hot garbage. I don't know what else to call it.
00:12:01
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Incorrect. No. Come on. All right. I wasn't this passionate about how I felt until I had to listen to all of that all the way through, but one, you can put them in a deck with a wiccan and that's adorable. Have you seen those two together in the comics? They're super cute.
00:12:21
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Don't spend tokens on this card.
00:12:26
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And two, you put in, okay, already in a deck, right? You can put in Ember, Hulkling, and Agatha, and Quicksilver, and Domino. And that's just like, how hilarious is that? Like, you could have two Agasas in your starting hand, right? You know, you're right. The comedic potential is there.
00:12:47
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Agatha and worse Agatha. This is one of the funniest cards ever.
00:13:02
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It could be fun, is all I'm saying. He might be the thing that makes Wiccan click for me. Like, you know, I think you're being too down on him. And now, and now when I get him, I can't get him this time because I have this very specific spotlight plan that means that I won't get him unless FOMO gets me next week. Unless FOMO gets me, I'm not getting him. But, uh,
00:13:27
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But when I do, like... In his next spotlight. Yeah, I'm gonna make a deck that will make you, you know, that'll make you eat your words better. Hey, when it works, it's really gonna work. In six months, you can get him again.
00:13:47
Speaker
When it becomes Null and your opponent is playing Destroy, it'll feel great, but you know what else does that? Copycat. When you get Copycat and you steal their Null, that's great, but Copycat is an independently good card, whereas Emperor Hulkling is probably bad most of the time.
00:14:04
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That's what, okay, but right, that's why you run Martyr. You see nothing? Twice I got my Martyr copycatted and it won me the game and copycat flew over at the end of the round with a little thigh power.
00:14:20
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That's incredible. That's just another reason why Martyr is awesome. Is that the stated... Our podcast has a consensus that Martyr is sick, right? We all love Martyr here. I'm pro-Martyr. I have like gone on a very lengthy monologues about how I love the soul of the card. You probably both heard it at least once. If I hadn't, I just sort of assumed you would because you've got taste like that. All right.
00:14:47
Speaker
Martyr, fan cast number one, snap on this. Okay, here's my thoughts on Hulkling. I'm between you two, which isn't shocking given the extremes we just heard. He does not work in a game where Winray is king.
00:15:07
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However, in Snap, cube rate is king. Smart retreating, smart snapping, it means a deck that doesn't win over half the time can still be positive on cubes. I don't think that's a very compelling argument for the card, but I think it means that he can work.
00:15:27
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I kind of evaluated all of his possible hits and I determined there are four that are almost always great and two that you always play. I think that's Leader and Doom. Great ones are like Zola Blob. I don't remember it. But anyway, I broke it down and it's like 20% are like great hits or better. And that's just
00:15:55
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That's not good. Those are worse percentages than your odds of hitting Wiccan on turn 4. Those are worse odds than your chance of hitting negative. If you're going to play a deck that is that swingy, play something that's good at it. Yeah. It could be fun. Yeah, I don't think the cube equity, that is a point in its favor, but it doesn't get it there.
00:16:23
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It's a counter argument. Games are for fun. No true. He's the opposite of speed. I don't know. I was a bit on him until y'all beat up on him so much. I just want to defend him. It's very noble of you. Let's briefly also talk about his spotlight. His friends are Cannonball and Nimrod. It's a bad week. Yeah. Right?
00:16:52
Speaker
Like, Cannonball is still playable, but nowhere near as good as he was since Professor X got changed. I was just reminiscing. I mean, I do like Cannonball. I still play Cannonball. He's a cool card. But it's not. But remember the old days when you slammed cards into Professor X? That was so fun. I never did. We all missed that. But I do remember having people do it to me. Yeah. OK, well, you don't even know the joy of it. You've only been on the receiving end.
00:17:22
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I know about cannonballing cards into kingpin. That's more my style. That's what tickles me. I can 100% see that. Yeah. But into the solid ball. I was just like, okay, you're the kind of one that wants to see your enemy suffer. I'm just... Yeah, that's right. I would rather break your card than turn it into a rock. Okay. What? Okay, yes.
00:17:53
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I think he should not, I think it's that thing where he's not, he's still not bad, but people just stopped playing him because you couldn't do the professional stuff. He doesn't have a deck right now. Yeah.
00:18:03
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Yeah. Nimrod's a little bit that way too. Nimrod has a deck, like one, maybe two, if you do Shuri and Phoenix Force. But what if Cannonball gets arrowed? What if it's that like, but it's still okay, right? But is it though? It's better than arrow. Actually, the deck where I play Cannonball right now, it was originally arrow, but it just wasn't working. So I switched to Cannonball. And neither one of them has been really a standout performer, but you know, whatever, they're fine.
00:18:33
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That's like, Cannonball has fallen. It used to be like, oh, this is a great card to, like, better than Arrow, you know? Hey, that's not a bad place to be. He's fine. Arrow is still totally a lane winner. It's just so much harder to make sure you still won the other lane. It could be like a Valk backup, you know? Like, you didn't get your Valk. Very similar function, as I believe we discussed in the trailer. Your Cannonball and your One Drop.
00:19:02
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Yep. Nimrod. Shuri Nimrod is fun. It's fun. It does one thing. It does it well when you pull it off. There are a lot of decks that struggle to deal with that. But that's what I feel like. So Nimrod is like kind of either in Shuri Nimrod or in like Galactus decks. And he's not like an all-purpose destroy card. It doesn't feel like.
00:19:29
Speaker
I don't even think he's in Galactus anymore because you have to pull off Galactus on turn six. Well, if you're doing goblins like Galactus deck. You're right. If you were going to, that would be the way to do it. The most obvious way to see. If you like to announce your arrival with mailers ahead of time, then you do goblins. They are the heralds of Galactus. That's when it's the most fun to play, though, to be honest.
00:19:59
Speaker
Oh my gosh, felking a hobgoblin. Are we about done with Spotlight, friends? Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, onto the patch.
Game Updates and Features
00:20:09
Speaker
We had a patch this week, Tuesday, came with some new features and some balance changes.
00:20:16
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And then, of course, data mines, which is the most fun part of any patch, if you ask me. Let's start with the headliners, like the cosmetic changes. We have big changes to the way Prism looks. Also, I don't think it was in the notes, but they changed the way that, what is it called? Starburst? What's the... Yeah, the star flare. Stardust. Yeah, the stardust. Yeah, that flare is sparklier, bigger, more starry.
00:20:47
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Yeah. Prismatic, I, I don't, it's better.
00:20:53
Speaker
I like it on very specific cards. But here's what I think... Yeah, I think it's fine. Here's what I think what I'm seeing behind it, though, is that no longer, like when they drop all of these, is I think no longer will rolling prism mean just that prism, it'll be the color blast. So that'll be one of numerous like red prism, blue prism, you know what I mean?
00:21:17
Speaker
You think you'll get them all? Look how they phrased it. I copied this specifically because they phrased it. Prism finishes, not just Prism, you know, like that could be a plural type, now have a color-blasted prismatic theme. So this is the color-blasted prismatic theme, but you've seen the pictures. There's like red stuff and
00:21:40
Speaker
Yeah, there's other flavors of prism to believe that they're going to invent I know Ben is so like To get your cosmetics, but I'm sorry. I didn't like be that hurt. I'm too good cosmetics just
00:21:58
Speaker
I meant it to me fondly. They're just not the part that interests me. But this is a game. This is huge. We're getting a whole bunch of it. We're going from you get a foil or a prism, or you get a gold, or you get an ink, to you get one of 10, 15 things. If you had all late at night pull up your phone and you're too sleepy to play Snap, you just want to look at your cards.
00:22:25
Speaker
fiddle with your collection. You just want to see them sparkle. Look at all the extra finishes you have. No, more variety is cool. The decks you can plan out. You could do alternating banana.
00:22:40
Speaker
Wolverine I don't know whatever and but like you'd have your day. I don't know Okay, I'm sold I I love prism finishes joy in your card I do I do I don't know if it's okay for me to say but I mean I
00:22:59
Speaker
For colorblind players, I think having lots of many options for lots of many. It is a little bit annoying when I have to check, like, did I get a blue thing or a purple thing? Because I hope I got a blue thing, so it goes with the other shit, but I can't really tell at first glance. You don't get to benefit from that, even if you're helping other players. It's a little bit of a pain. Yeah, so I can see that.
00:23:21
Speaker
I mean, there are a lot of reasons why I'm curmudgeonly about cosmetics. They're just not for me at the end of the day for a variety of reasons. OK, so as we've hinted at in the data mines, there are many new surface effects, many new flares. Re, I think your argument about prism unlocking multiple colors would be more compelling if we didn't already have flares come in eight colors and you only unlock one at a time.
00:23:50
Speaker
But I am hopeful that if we get to the point where there are tons of different surface finishes and tons of different flares, that they will finally let us mix and match. That's the only world where I can see them letting us mix and match is when there's just tons of them. I think they would love to get to that point. Yeah. That would be super cool.
00:24:10
Speaker
Wait, so an even huge, another huge game changer for people who love their cards is- I love my cards, honestly. It's okay, all loves are valid. I'm not-
00:24:23
Speaker
It's okay the way you love your cards. But the- Love those sweet, sweet text boxes at the bottom. That you can add flares to the base finishes now, so you can have the background. You can have those beautiful Rhian Gonzales colorful backgrounds with like, with Kirby now. I love the illustrations too. That changes the game, like-
00:24:48
Speaker
I've been loving this. I am somebody who keeps most of my cards at base, even when I have split them many times, just because I like them to be colorful. And even the gold flare, which keeps the foreground colorful, it's still the background is just... The background is usually more interesting on the regular art. It's true. This has changed all my credit spending priorities. Before I was like, okay, we go in this, this, this, and now it's like, oh, these cards are all in play now.
00:25:18
Speaker
I feel that, yeah. There are other people out there who are like, this is this react to their world. And I think I just want to acknowledge that I just I like that we all have a different perspective. I'm so glad that it's all it's all good that we're all different. I think that all kinds of snap players will feel their views represented.
00:25:43
Speaker
Okay, I know, I'm just, you know, I love the game too. I just, you know. You can also now do flareless gold and flareless ink, which is kind of cool. Especially if you care a lot about making your deck consistent. It's a lot easier to do that if you just turn off flares. I know, but like that's living life without flare. It wants to be bad. All right, but have we, at least for this week, have we concluded cosmetics corner? Yes, sorry.
00:26:18
Speaker
We're done talking about cosmetics now in your alliance when you get innate cuber it shows your cosmetics
00:26:30
Speaker
Oh, that's cool. It shows your variance, at least. I haven't paid attention. That is, like, cool. I want y'all to know that I put my money where my pixelated mouth is, and I'm rocking them all over the place, usually with sick grail splits, baby.
00:26:45
Speaker
Okay. I won't lie. So like all of, okay. If we just, can we just read out, let me just read out the Alliance stuff real fast. There's the new deck share button in the Alliance chat. That seems good. Play variants are now shown as, as Lauren just said. Um, Oh, this is okay. We'll pause there. Cause the next one's actually huge.
00:27:04
Speaker
But those two things, I won't lie, I never remember to look at the chat. I don't know if you guys do. I already have too many others. I do. I check in. I like to see what people are playing. Oh, you guys do? Okay, just me? I mostly look in to see where I'm at compared to everyone else and how much we've contributed. I'm like maybe once every day or two, but yeah, there's no like red dot or anything that tell me, hey, new chats.
00:27:26
Speaker
Oh yeah, I don't ever expect to see chats there. Sometimes I notice them, but mostly I'm just like, who's winning eight cubes today? What's going on? It might be bigger for people who aren't, like, as tied into the, like, more external community, you know what I mean? Also, I just want to know what my friends are playing, you know?
00:27:46
Speaker
I can confirm this is actually, it's better implemented than I thought. You can see when it posts the eight cubers from somebody, you can see all their variants and the cosmetics and everything. And you can tap on them to fully expand them. This is somebody else's storm. And I can just tap on it in their list and see their beautiful storm.
00:28:08
Speaker
I just found a new hobby for my late night insomnia. Y'all should be jealous. Chase is in my alliance. Just saying. Well, I don't have to be jealous because I am too.
00:28:23
Speaker
My alliance has a lot of heart. Okay, but the next alliance thing is actually huge. It's that the bounty board will be limited to three bounties of the same type. That's so huge. Everyone- The screenshots where there's like seven of the same one.
00:28:43
Speaker
Yeah, I feel really bad because like my three bounties are clogged up with like I've got a legendary thing with Jeff and some card that doesn't go with Jeff and Like I've got to do that Leaving all these sevens on the vine and like my my alliance is counting on me to do these move sevens in a game and like I'm busy holding on to this Stupid Jeff quest that's gonna be worth 625 or whatever the number is No, you can't just say that and not say what card doesn't go with Jeff
00:29:13
Speaker
We're pausing, we're pausing. Okay, it's a pretty easy card to make go with things. It's Sarah, but Jeff and Sarah are not really like- Oh no, how dare you? How dare you? I mean, I get that it's Jeff week and you're maybe tired of it, you know? But like, how dare you say Jeff doesn't come with Sarah?
00:29:31
Speaker
Two costs are literally the best cards to work with, Sarah. I made a deck. It's fine. It's fun. I'm just saying, I didn't already have one that had those two cards. And so I did feel a bit imposed upon. It's annoying. It's a little bit of a bother. Because I like both of those cards independently, but they're not chocolate and peanut butter. Let's be real.
00:30:00
Speaker
I skimmed through the emblems. Most of the new ones I noticed were all art from Deadpool's diner. So now like all the different food levels you can choose, you can have the fiery pizza as your team logo. Um, they're kind of fun if you're into that, you know, cranny art style. Um, you know, yeah, pussy, didn't really see any new ones that spoke to my heart. But you know,
00:30:27
Speaker
I imagine we will continuously get new ones. Yeah, I think so. Probably not much to, yeah. So that was all the Alliance's stuff, right? Yeah. Audio. We got some new voice lines. That's hot. I'm curious what Killmonger says. Yeah, I haven't heard them yet. I think I heard Dr. Strange say something about being the Sorcerer Supreme or something. I think Ghost Rider says something about vengeance.
00:30:55
Speaker
I don't know. I might have those details wrong. I'm just going off memory from stuff I noticed since the patch. However long it takes, I'm always excited when I hear a new voice line for the first time. It's always very cool. For me, sometimes it's weeks. We are the future.
00:31:12
Speaker
Magneto used to be silent, but now I hear we are the future several times a day. I never saw them put this in the patch notes, but they finally made Venom use the plural. We are Venom, yes. Beautiful. I was impressed that they turned that around so quickly, but it was kind of a goofy thing to get wrong. Yeah. Anywho, balance changes.
00:31:39
Speaker
Go for it. Oh, me? Oh, cool. Yeah, we got some cards. Text updates. Only to Shadow King, Moon Knight, and Baron Zemo. No functional changes. They still work the same. They've just cleaned up the language. Clarity. It's good stuff. There's nothing to explain because they are still the same cards. No comment.
00:32:00
Speaker
locations. Lamentis 1 and a peak. They're out. They're going to be retooled. Maybe they'll be back in the future. Maybe they won't. Maybe they'll become legendary things of an earlier era. That could be fun. We can reminisce about them someday. District X, it's only for the noobs. True lead pro gamers like us will never see District X again. No, it was interesting because they said, like,
00:32:26
Speaker
A lot of people really hated it later on. Newer players liked it because it let them see cards they didn't have access to yet. It's really fun and exciting to see new cards. I liked it when I was a new player too.
00:32:44
Speaker
I played a lot of Agent 13 in my first couple months just because seeing new cards was fun. Yeah, it's very exciting. And you find out about them, and then the other cards you already know make a little bit more sense. And you're like, oh, that's supposed to go with this later on. And that keeps you invested and excited for what's next. And to be honest, I didn't. I missed that phase of the game. I didn't hate the peek or Lamentous as much. They didn't appear for me that much today. Oh, I like Lamentous a lot. Yeah, I'm surprised they're gone.
00:33:15
Speaker
Yeah. I like both of those locations. As somebody who plays negative semi-frequently, I love the peak. Oh, really? I'm not a negative player. It kind of makes me sad. I love to play three cost cards with power more than three. So like I am just getting the only other cooler thing than that is like silk to five that becomes a five two. Yeah. My cards do not like the peak. No.
00:33:45
Speaker
I didn't hate the weird world change, sorry, should we not move on? Oh no, yeah, weird world. Let's talk about it. It used to be that both players draw from their opponent's decks. Now, you each draw two cards from the opponent's deck, so its main effect is that it fills up your hand and makes you unable to draw cool things. That's my feeling. I mean, it also tells you what your opponent is playing, blah blah blah. I don't know.
00:34:07
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I read it wrong the first
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00:34:08
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time I read it. I didn't realize until you said it. I was thinking you were like, for the next two turns you would draw from your concept. It's immediately... It's like, is it Olympia? Or one of those... That's only one card, huh?
00:34:24
Speaker
I think you're right. I think I prefer Old Weird World because now I'll be like, oh, they're going to have the two things I really want. And I won't even know. I think Old Weird World is like interesting in skill testing. This one is just like, hey, how about Loki?
00:34:42
Speaker
I like it. And the other location to change is Sandbar. It's old text, if anyone even remembers, is cards with abilities can't be played here. It's new text is cards that didn't start in your deck cost one more. I'm a huge fan of this location. I wish it showed up in every game. I think it's cool. I don't know that I love it that much, but I like the change.
00:35:09
Speaker
Oh yeah, at the very least it's a good change. I don't know if I actually want to see it every game. That's maybe an overreaction. But yeah, good change. I think it's positive. Lauren, what's your... Yeah, I hear a lot of... Oh, well I think I can hear you taping. Yes, you can. I'm sorry. My fiancé Jess took over my AirPods when she's trying to connect hers to the TV so as not to disturb the podcast.
00:35:39
Speaker
Oh, that's cute. It's fine. We'll get it taken care of. Did you figure it out? I'm going to have to step away for a second to help with that. Okay. New Sandbar I like. I agree that Old Sandbar didn't interact with enough decks. Whereas New Sandbar does, especially with the meta that we're in right now. Yup. It feels very, very irrelevant.
00:36:08
Speaker
Cool cool. Talk about Fogwell's gym. No don't intro it like that. You're just like cool cool Okay, like but do a good one for this because everyone's notable fixes only one Fogwell's gym it now stacks with itself and provides many boosters if copied by an effect such as Legion so if you really want to be cooperative and help out your opponent and yourself and you know get those boosters of flowing and
00:36:33
Speaker
if they're really the limiting reactant for you, if that's where your bottleneck is. Alright, this, no! Ben, this is, the mistake was having you, because we can detect no genuine joy, the way you're announcing this. I love getting boosters. For lovers of fun, like, yes, you could lead you to Fogwell's gym now, and it'll like stack up the boosting. No, I agree, it's cool. I, this is a positive change. I, I think it's good.
00:36:59
Speaker
This is the true separator of heroes and villains in Snap. Are you the kind of person that would storm a fog well's gym for your own gain? I don't know. Anyway, I'm just saying it's exciting and a lot of people are excited about it.
00:37:23
Speaker
No, I'm excited for it too. I think it's positive. Anywho. Okay, now we're to the part you're excited about. New stuff. So with the new patch, of course, come new data mines. So what's the new stuff? New cards, new ones. Interesting. Should we wait for Lauren? I don't know if I should be digging into new stuff.
00:37:47
Speaker
Welcome, Lauren. I was just waiting for you to mention me. Lauren, would you like to take over talking about these new cards? I feel bad. Like, I'm just not excited enough about Agony and I'm not selling it very hard. Do you have anything cool to say about Agony? Part of talking about these cards, these next? Well, okay.
00:38:12
Speaker
Some of these cards, I think, also means that we need to talk about the datamined thing about Snap packs. Oh, yeah, sure. Because I think it's very likely that that's how these cards are going to be distributed because they're, especially Agony and Uncle Ben are not super exciting or interesting cards.
00:38:34
Speaker
I think it's really cool. You don't think Uncle Ben is an interesting car? I disagree. Yeah, I want to do it immediately. Now hold on, Lauren. Okay, I'm not saying the very...
00:38:45
Speaker
They're weird cards, they're very niche cards, and I love that actually. I love that they're finding a way to distribute, like I could see Martyr being a card, the type of card that they would have distributed this way, where instead of taking up an entire spotlight and attracting enough players to buy it, they're just gonna give us a way to get them. I think Snap Pack sounds like it's gonna be free Series Five cards, but like weird ones. And I love that they're implementing a new system to add weird cards to the game.
00:39:14
Speaker
What what how are snap packs okay wait before we get into and I do have things to say about agony But we will return we will return to her. Let us clarify What we know about snap packs. It's just a little bit further down in the anything else
00:39:32
Speaker
What we know here is that there's going to be a Snap Paks event, because this is data mines, right? So this is just, they found some random stuff. They found something that said, win games to open packs. Guaranteed series five card. Snap.fan.
00:39:49
Speaker
I've got a fan for this information. Yes. We are loosely tangentially affiliated with Marvel Snap Zone, I think. Snap judgments is the official podcast of Marvel Snap Zone. We're going outside the family for this one. And I write for Snap Zone, yeah. Yeah. But credit where credit is due, they do great work over there. That's my feeling. Yeah. Yeah. So they got mining for sure. It's the place. It's the only place to get them to be honest.
00:40:20
Speaker
a guaranteed series 5 card I guess they found and also a mention of like a pity counter and perhaps as a variable so that's what we know and that's what that's everything we have to speculate on pretty much it says win games to turn energy into packs yes win games to open packs these phrases
00:40:40
Speaker
Sounds to me like you could do it for free. What's the grind going to be like? I'm not sure. But my grind tolerance is pretty good. It's not, you know, not infinite, but I like to play this game. So if by playing this, you got Cassandra Nova cards, I'm excited. Yeah, I got Cassandra Nova for my spouse, too. Yeah, I got Cassandra Nova a couple of times. That's 100 percent more than I did.
00:41:11
Speaker
Well, it wasn't hard. I learned a lot of lessons the first time. It's true. I did it in one sitting the second time. It was very easy once you understand what's going on. But this feels like it's going to be monetized. There's going to be a way to buy probably extra chances.
00:41:29
Speaker
Yeah, I could totally see them monetizing this. And so that's part of the question, like, is it going to be four cards available in a series? And so if you really need all four right away, you might be encouraged to spend.
00:41:43
Speaker
I don't know, but to me, I'm reading this as a way to get more cards for free. Yeah, you're right. Then I'm excited about it. If it does turn out like that, which I hope is true, yes. Sounds like a thing I'm excited about, depending on the implementation and the specifics. I think it's kind of contrary to the sales pitch of Snap if there are cards that you can only get with money.
00:42:11
Speaker
I know. Just because it's contrary to their stated goals in the beginning does not mean it's not going to happen. They are absolutely allowed to change their minds. I don't see it going over well if they make a card truly paid only.
00:42:26
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But here's my guess, is that if they're doing like releasing a couple in these snap packs at once, maybe through playing for free, you are guaranteed to get one of those.
00:42:42
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for free, right? But if you're someone who wants all of them to get, and maybe you could do that for free by grinding enough, but like they didn't guarantee it, there may be a way to lay down money to ensure just the way like you can buy tokens and stuff. You know what I mean? Just to make sure you get all those cards. And, but they're like maybe one of the three. So that would be my guess. Okay. So having spoken about that acquisition method, we can talk about
00:43:09
Speaker
these weird cards. You guys already read Agony's text? Yes, but I do think so. Read out Agony, it's one, two after you play a card here, merge this with it. But like, Nomura though. I'm so excited to get the card for me. No, that's where this card goes, for sure. Absolutely. Also a one cost that can dodge Killmonger. Right? Nomura's so good. It's more on Killmonger in a second.
00:43:34
Speaker
Does it take up an entire deck slot? I don't know. See, that's the part that I'm not sure about. I just don't know what it does for you. Kind of an anti-quag card. If you're going all in on like, decan deck, you know, like those kind of cards. Where it could be okay, you could play Iron Fist into Human Torch on an agony lane. And like, that's kind of key. Okay.
00:44:00
Speaker
Wait, or Agony? That would be a neat turn two play. Like turn one, Agony, turn two, Iron Fist and Human Torch. And then later you do whatever else you're doing. Bounce stuff. I don't know. That's basically the coolest thing I can think of off the top of my head to do with Agony. And I just don't know what else it's good for. But that's what's good because we're like the opposites in this way. It's like moving bounce.
00:44:26
Speaker
And then I'm on the other side and I'm like, okay, but what if I like agony into like an abs man? Maybe I can even get an extra agony with Nico or something and then agony abs man. And then I don't know something like, uh, like Black Panther. You know what I mean? You could just have some real fun. I kind of think maybe this card should be like one, three. If it, if it's supposed to matter enough to take a deck slot, I kind of feel like one, two doesn't quite
00:44:55
Speaker
get there. I can't come up with something cute enough to do with it. It's not heavy enough. Maybe I just haven't come up with it yet. I was going to say, I have dedicated very little thought to this card so far. We should probably be evaluating in some kind of medicines. How much fun will I have with this card? Right now, this is a card that is below my interest.
00:45:26
Speaker
But we said that it probably needs to be a 1-3 to justify a deck slot. Yep. And I could totally see them changing it before release. Before release, yep. And then I would start paying attention. This is the first time... At present, it is not appealing. This card has gotten text and stats, and they do often change them before release, so...
00:45:46
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Speaking of things that I think are going to change before release, Fenriswolf, 2-3, activate, resurrect the highest power discarded or destroyed enemy card to your side of the location. I don't see this card releasing with that text and that cost. I think that would be way too powerful. It is super cool text.
00:46:11
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I think everybody was immediately like, oh, Shang and Fenris Wolf. I think that Fenris Wolf, more than any other card we've seen so far, gives us a really good clue about how Activate works. You can't play him on turn 6 and use the ability.
00:46:29
Speaker
Can you play Shang on turn 6 and then activate Fenris Wolf if he's already on the board? Does the activation happen after your On Reveal? So you're wondering if its sequence is in among the On Reveals. You stage a card, you activate, you stage a second card, and it goes staged card 1, activated ability staged card 2.
00:46:52
Speaker
I really hope you can sequence, but the thing that just happened with move getting reworked, so all the moves happen first before cards are revealed. Very annoying, really stupid choice in my opinion. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that change. I agree, it makes the game more intuitive, but it makes it a lot less interesting.
00:47:12
Speaker
That's also true. The old way was pretty intuitive in my opinion. Yeah, it's true in a sense of if you're the one who's doing the moving, you're like, wait, what? I played this card before I moved Nightcrawler.
00:47:23
Speaker
Okay, another interesting part of this though, hearing you guys talk about this is like, Snap has always prided itself in its simplicity and the, you know, it's readability of text. It's not any layers. And now the questions you guys are asking, we're getting into like magic, the gathering levels of like order of attack, where you need to know the order of attack.
00:47:44
Speaker
to layer things correctly, which we used to have with move, right? Remember, before they changed how move worked, you would layer move a bit and they tried to simplify that, you know what I mean, I think. Well, they've changed it multiple times. To simplify, because now it always goes first now, which is simpler than layering your move into. Right. So do all activations happen first? Do they all happen at the end of the turn?
00:48:13
Speaker
Or can you sequence them? If you can sequence them, I'm much more interested in the activate cards. Yeah, but the thing about Fenris Wolf is I feel like no matter how activate actually works, like in specifics, any version that we've discussed of activate is like, this is a broken card, right?
00:48:32
Speaker
Just like two energy to get whatever the biggest thing you can snipe out of their hand is or like off the board. And two energy you don't have to hold. You can play it on turn two. This is just a ridiculous amount of power you could get for two energy. It's just, it won't always be ridiculous. But I mean, if the floor is two, three, that's like already acceptable stats. I mean, it's not great, but it can only go up from there.
00:49:02
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And if you're looking at like a 2.14 or something, or even just a 2.7, we get excited about 2.7s in my house. I don't know. Oh, speaking of 2.7s.
00:49:17
Speaker
I've been playing US Agent, and gosh, that guy gets big. All right. Yeah, he's a great card. Also, he's on my team. I'm on team small cards, and the rest of the world feels like they're on team big cards. And so US Agent and I, we are, our philosophies are in alignment. Simpatico. Who wants to take Tombstone?
00:49:41
Speaker
It's a pretty exciting card. I'll hop on it if nobody beats me to it. It's a 4-6. Classic B-level Spider-Man villain. Costs one if an enemy card was destroyed last turn. Yeah, it's Miles. Very Miles Morales-y, stature-esque even. Which one seems like a Spider-Villain?
00:50:01
Speaker
Yeah, I think this is a very cool card. There are lots of ways to guarantee that an enemy card will be destroyed, or you can hope that they'll do it for you, and they often do. It just seems like strong, cheap stats. Hard to go wrong. That'd be good in, like, pretty much any destroy. Even think on, like, Phoenix Force, if you need to drop it. You don't have it on 4 and you drop it in 5, you know? Then maybe now you have a little tombstone you can drop with it.
00:50:29
Speaker
Yeah, I could see squeezing this in at all different parts of the game. Yeah, just very convenient, easy to use. Lauren, do you have any thoughts? I'm just thinking about sharing something on turn five and then on turn six you activate your Fenris Wolf and you get your one cost Tombstone and you still have five energy to go. Goodness. Synthesizing.
00:50:57
Speaker
for playing Shang, the most played card in the game. Well, for y'all, I never even think about putting Shang-Chi in my decks. I had put together that, yes, Shang-Chi does go with Fenris Wolf. I'd put that part together. But like, you know, I had not considered that Tombstone and Fenris Wolf are maybe, you know, of a kind. They are to be played together. I don't know. That could be neat.
00:51:26
Speaker
I mean, it's just, it's easier to destroy a big card than it is to discard a big card from your blood. No, that's true. Yes, much easier. No, I think it would be a great card. I want him.
00:51:57
Speaker
I mean, I do love targeted discard, though. So does everyone. I loved Moon Knight being different. He always discarded a card from your opponent's hand before. And now sometimes he disappoints. Sometimes he's nothing. It is disappointing. I do agree. Like sometimes I'm counting on that statue discount and it's not there. And I'm like, Moon Knight, you had one job.
00:52:00
Speaker
Moon Knight is your best chance at discarding something big from your opponent's hand.
00:52:20
Speaker
One job! I'm just sorry, like, to derail that. I'm, like, still upset. No, I'm, like, right there with you. I don't even know where we targeted Discord. People are just throwing him in decks. Like, he's Colleen Wing. He used to be special. Anyway. I know, he was yours. Anyway, Flash. Okay. Okay. No, I'm sorry, I have stats. I'm not seeing them in the show notes. No. Not yet. No. No stats yet. That's why they're not there. So, I think it was just an activate effect. Activate. Afflict an enemy card here with negative power equal to this card's power.
00:52:50
Speaker
So depending on what this card costs and how large it is, this could be a very good or very bad card. It goes with agony. I like it. It'll go with Gwenpool. Yes, it does go with agony. I love Gwenpool. Yeah, clearly. That's what I'm going with. I'm a big fan. It's like, hey, make me big, and I want something right here. I play Bastion Shaw all day long. I do either of these things that want to be loved. Oh, I would go with my Akia and Akia deck. I wish.
00:53:19
Speaker
I wish there was better hand buffing. One of my favorite combos right now is Gwenpool into Mysterio. It is extremely fun to pull off in 218. It's bigger than that. It's 222. If you get... Yup.
00:53:35
Speaker
It does happen? Yes. I never play Mysterio because it's always like, eh, it connects up my core. No, no, Lauren got me on the Mysterio train with that very pitch. Wait, you can go with Mysterio? Yeah, you can. So I have a really silly deck. It feels good. I need to show you this deck. You will like this deck. I really can. I already win. You dump as much of your hand as you can so that Gwen hits Mysterio all three times. Oh, so much Harry's in it. Yes!
00:54:02
Speaker
And then you have a 222. I had six key tokens and I spent them all on Makari. I could have bought Ajax instead. No. And I regret nothing. I regret nothing. Wow, she's amazing. And every time she gets, she's like zip, zip, zip, zip, zip, zip. And then like right into the, it's great. I love it. So worth it. All right. I feel like both of you are better red than I am. What is, is Lasher?
00:54:27
Speaker
How does Lasher connect to Marvel? I've got no idea who Lasher is. I don't exactly know, but my guess is Lasher and Agony. It looks like they're putting in a bunch of the Spawn Universe characters that came over into Marvel. Oh, like Angela? So Angela did a long time ago, but there's a lot of, I think Agony looks like she's from the Spawn Universe. I think Misery is. That feels about right.
00:54:56
Speaker
Live fact checking, I googled Blasher. It's a symbiote. And you said Tombstone was a Spider-Man character, so I think we're getting two of these cards each season because Uncle Ben and Tombstone. And then in October we'll get Agony and Blasher. And my beautiful dog. All right, so do we have anything else interesting to say about Blasher other than that it loves being hand buffed and it hangs out with Agony?
00:55:24
Speaker
Well, and it'll hang out, obviously, with like the negative, you know, like Ajax, all the cards that, you know, do negative things, like High Evo, you know, all of those things. Oh, yeah, it goes into Flix index. For a second, I thought you were saying it went with negative, and I'm like, not unless its stats are really weird. No. Okay. All right.
00:55:43
Speaker
I think it seems like a really fun mission card. How can I do this cool puzzle to make Lasher solo a lane? I'm going to make a giant Lasher. I'm sure Lauren will have some fascinating screenshots for us. You make a giant Lasher, and then you get your Emperor Hulkling, who is an Arnim Zola. Sounds like a dream team. And two other lanes.
00:56:12
Speaker
But you have to have magic up so that you can activate them both. And Wiccan. Okay, anyway. Okay. Shall we move on to Aronya? Yes, I know. Move cards. All right. The previous version was 2-2 activate. Give the last card you play plus 2 power and move it to the right. Now it's just a 1-1 activate. Give the next card you play plus 2 power and move it to the right. So it used to be last card. Now it's next card. That's an important change. So it's just real good.
00:56:39
Speaker
It's just better eye interest, right? Yeah, you don't even have to play it right before the thing you want to play. It's a very, very strong card. And the plus two? If you move stuff. I mean, yeah, it goes great with Human Torch because you're giving it more to double. This is just overpowered a little bit. Our creep in action. I mean, I am complaining, but I will play it. So that's my read.
00:57:09
Speaker
I don't think it's the right card for the moment, but it's a card that will win games. I think it's worth mentioning a one-cost activate is a pretty interesting card because you can have it sitting on the board, but the whole time it's there and you're not using the power, it's vulnerable to Killmonger. It's true. And one of these other cards I think is going to bring an increase in Killmonger is what I think.
00:57:34
Speaker
but we'll get to Uncle Ben in a minute. That's true. And you can't play activates probably if you play them on turn six is what we're speculating. Yeah, that seems like a safe chance. It seems likely to me. So like, you know, I honestly don't play Jessica Jones specifically because she won't be good on turn six. She won't do anything on turn six. It's a very big stumbling block for me, to be honest. Yeah, that's the edge that Jaraxx has on Rescue and Jessica.
00:58:04
Speaker
that hedge that Drax has. Anyway, Surtur. Previously, for anyone who was aware of Surtur, he had a weird ability referencing human torch, much like Cull Obsidian's old Infinity Stone ability. A goofy thing that could not see print, or digital print, in my opinion. Based on their design philosophies and stuff, they don't really do that.
00:58:28
Speaker
So it no longer requires you to be playing Human Torch, and now, after you play a card with 10 plus power, this gains plus 4 power. So that's pretty cool.
00:58:38
Speaker
You know, the aforementioned Cull Obsidian, you curb into that with Surtur, the turn before, and then Surtur's a 3-7. So like a Thanos. And that's speed stats that we get excited about sometimes, I guess. And, you know, if you take it up to 11, as you probably will, if not 15, you know, this seems like a very good card to me. It turns your 10s into 14s. Notably, if you proc him twice,
00:59:07
Speaker
Then he's also above 10, which makes him a Scar friend. He feels like he's just a Thanos card to me, right? Because there's a 10 cost you're always going to have that you can maybe play early from getting Timestone. You're already playing probably Cole Obsidian in Thanos and Scar. I think that's where he finds a home in Prabiki. If you proc it just twice, it's so good. It's like hella overstated. This is an exciting card for people who like that stuff.
00:59:35
Speaker
High Evo with magic, right? Will be the other place, big place, I think.
00:59:40
Speaker
Oh, true. Yeah, that's a great thing. Hyevo with magic. With all those end pluses. She hopes. All of that stuff. I think those are the two big homes for this card. I mean, and then there's all the interesting stuff that Ben would make maybe or something. But as far as... Maybe. I don't think so. There is a Ben card. Okay. Well, I mean, you know what I mean. People will make fun of this. No, someone equally resistant to doing things the boring way. Yeah. But I think the big meta plays are going to be in Hyevo.
01:00:11
Speaker
magic-y things and then Thanos, right? And not the boring way, just whatever the obviously good way is. I didn't mean to impugn people who like obviously good things. I think you're right. I get it. I like obviously good things sometimes too, just not this one.
01:00:28
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not going to play this because I don't play cards with 10 plus power. Yeah, exactly. I'm just I'm on team small cards and this this guy is playing for the other team, even though he is himself a small. No, he makes me want to go to the other team because like.
01:00:41
Speaker
disgusting. It could be fun. I'm still friends. I got Thanos super late and I still haven't played him a bunch. I have the birthday balloon variant one. It's baby Thanos, right?
01:01:00
Speaker
Yes now that Santa okay, okay No, I think he's just holding a balloon, but I call it birthday Thanos cuz I got it around my birthday No, it's just like now that Thanos is like not super meta like he used to be is more interesting
01:01:21
Speaker
And, like, think how much fun it could be. Like, you play them early, and now it makes all those cards that were boring more fun. Because it's like, oh, you play Cool Obsidian. And then, like, all right. I think it could be more fun for me now. I like it. All right. Sorry. Let's move on to more now. Oh, it's all good. Gore! Used to be a 0-0 on Reveal Destroy all six cards, all six cost cards, wherever they are. So that's...
01:01:49
Speaker
kind of not a real card. But now it seems to have an energy cost and a negative power stat. So that's cool. It's a six minus three with ongoing plus two power for each on reveal card in play, yours and your opponents. They're, you know, it's the most common keyword ability. So that's a good thing to be scaling with.
01:02:14
Speaker
Definitely a negative card. Yeah. Replaces null and negative, I think. I think so too. People are gonna like, video cap so many rogues. Like, playing an on-reveal deck, you know? And then they're like, ha! Look, it's my god! Oh, it's gonna feel great. And then someone's just like, boink! Now it mine, though.
01:02:36
Speaker
So it's like a meta-dependent card. It's like super slow. I have no idea. It's very hard for me to imagine exactly what the landscape is going to be when this card comes out. And if it's going to even release with this particular stat line, which is exactly the kind of stat line I could see them tweaking before release. This is a November card, right? Just to help us with that context.
01:02:59
Speaker
It does read to me like Ajax, where it's both players cards. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, there's no way it doesn't. And it's a plus two, like this thing is getting big sometimes. I think like that could be a lot of fun, because right on reveal decks are fun. And then at the end, you just slam down the gore.
01:03:20
Speaker
And you can count on your opponent to be playing some on-reveals. Nobody's playing no on-reveals. Even if you're playing an ongoing deck, you're playing on-reveals in there. Playing Spectrum. Yeah. I don't find Gilgamesh fun, though, so I don't know. We see. We see. Yeah, I also don't find Gilgamesh fun, so Gore is definitely not a meat card. But for those who enjoy it, I'm sure that'll be cool. They'll be butchering gods all day long.
01:03:44
Speaker
Uncle Ben, the reason for the season. In my opinion, I am very pro Uncle Ben. Always have been, always will be with great power. There probably ought to come a certain amount, proportional even, of responsibility. Great. Yes.
01:04:02
Speaker
Okay, so the old version of this card has been, this was datamined like ages and ages and ages ago, probably more than a year, if I recall correctly. When this card is destroyed, add Spider-Man to your hand, it's a one-two, it's still a one-two. Now, when this card is destroyed, replace it with Spider-Man.
01:04:18
Speaker
Are we playing Nova and Uncle Ben and Killmonger much? I think we are. Oh heck yeah. Yeah, Killmonger is going to be everywhere is my opinion. That's that's my prediction. I don't know. And I think that when Killmonger is everywhere, that's a good place for the game.
01:04:36
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But also, Kaira has, so I've been playing Killmonger, and there's plenty of times where Kaira has stayed my hand, and it's like, well fine, I'll just kill my own one drop, so then I want it to anyway, but... Well that's the thing, because then it's now the best one drop you can kill in mine.
01:04:54
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It's really changed Killmonger. I used to hate playing Zudex or One Drops because of Killmonger, because it used to be you just hold your Killmonger. The silly players would play their Killmonger three whatever, and someone would just play all their One Drops after that.
01:05:09
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dangerous. Yes! And before you just hold it, guaranteed to always be a one-drop deck. You just lost Prio, dropped it. That's why they were doing the silly kitty shenanigans right behind Invisible Woman, where you'd actually put your kitty after your Killmonger behind Invisible Woman anyway. So like, but now, but now you can't, like, if you hold it, then maybe they get their Kyair. It's a totally different, like, you know,
01:05:36
Speaker
It's good tension. Yeah, the game has changed for the better in that way, I think. Nova is still the best one card to destroy, right? Yeah, I mean, situationally. It's pretty easy for Nova to get you buying power.
01:05:53
Speaker
And like that- Oh, for what purpose? But it's like Nova isn't a lie. Like the base Destroy Deck does not have no, like the best like classic, you know, generic destroy. Now it's like, it's Nikko X-23 Deadpool, like, you know. X-23 and Deadpool, yeah. Yeah.
01:06:11
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I think Uncle Ben is a very exciting card. But Uncle Ben's a surfer card. That's why Ben's excited. I think Uncle Ben is an everything card. For me, I'm going to be playing this card a lot of places. Okay, let me see how it is. There's not a name bias going on.
01:06:34
Speaker
That's got nothing to do with it. This could be Uncle John of Bathroom Reader fame, and I'd be happy that this card was in Marvel Snap. Can we skip one ahead to Misery? Because Misery goes with Uncle Ben? Yes. It sure... Yeah, I think so. I suppose. Maybe. I don't actually understand her... I was thinking that she destroys everything there, but maybe...
01:07:04
Speaker
I don't think... Does she only destroy your on reveals? That's my read. She's a targeted destroy card? It's the first time I've realized that. Huh. I think so, but I could be wrong. That's the way I know. Yeah, that's how I'm reading it now too. Anyway. Or I could also see the reading be, you check every card here, and you do its on reveal if it has one, and then destroy them.
01:07:32
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I have to find out I wonder I haven't any pay more attention. That's a really good question. I could absolutely see the intent being either thing. Okay of your other cards here.
01:07:47
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Okay, now on a second reading, I think it destroys everything. Yeah, I think it destroys everything. Like, that's my best guess, but a reasonable person could conclude the other thing. We haven't read her text yet. We haven't read her text yet. Probably, right? Like, when it's snapped, they always want to choose whatever seems more intuitive. And I think the simpler thing would be, it destroys everything here, like every other symbiote thing does, you know.
01:08:08
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Will you formally read her stat changes? Oh, but then she wouldn't get... Oh, yeah, for sure. Misery went from 5'10 to 4'7, so it also just occupies a different spot on your curve. You're living a different life. I love this change. Yeah, I think it's a much better card now. I thought it was pretty good before.
01:08:25
Speaker
But here's the thing, they might make it targeted just so it doesn't hit things like Nimrod. Or maybe it is supposed to, so it makes those cards better. Interesting. Anyway. Yeah, I kind of feel like it's supposed to act like Venom and Carnage. Yeah. I just like when I find that Ironheart is a very handy card for card evaluation for like a variety of things. If you just like want to imagine how good something that lets you double down on reveals is, just like think about Ironheart a little bit.
01:08:54
Speaker
And so you just play Ironheart on three, Misery on four, and Prophet, you know? It's pretty cool. When I was coming out of like- At 719? Yeah, that's- Series three. I had an Ironheart deck. I'm into it. Yeah, Ironheart does a very cool card. I think it's just solid. It's interesting when you talk about it.
01:09:14
Speaker
I'm sorry, I derailed us again. We still didn't read Misery's text. Just in case anybody doesn't know her. Shoot. Oh my gosh. We really need to edit this episode. Anyway. Do you want to read it fresh? On reveal. Repeat the on reveal abilities of your other cards here, then destroy them. So kind of like Odin, kind of like Deathlock.
01:09:42
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But like, here's the deal. So these cards, misery, madamwebs, screen, text, and they've all been, this isn't new text. The only thing that's changed for these cards is stats. Sometimes that's a huge change. Yeah. And I think that's the case with misery. Or seven is a big deal. I mean, they made madamwebs smaller. That's the breaking news on madamwebs. Scream, they gave an extra point of power. Ridiculous. That card is already too good. So we've discussed misery at length now.
01:10:13
Speaker
Does anyone else have anything to say about Madam Web or Scream and those stat changes? Because they seem kind of irrelevant. I just wanted to briefly touch on Scream being Banana Cams. They're both still going to be good. Yeah. And all of these things could change further. You know what I mean? It's fun to speculate, but it's like, you know. I would not be surprised if Scream got honed down to steal one power or something similar because right now it's very good.
01:10:44
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At least it looks very good to me, and I play a lot of move stuff. You're the pro. It's going to be very good. Okay. Are we ready to learn about toxin? Are we ready to talk toxin? Okay, good, yeah. Three, two, to two, one. And in case anyone has forgotten, toxin is the card that will, on reveal, return your other cards here to your hand, plus two power for each returned. So it's sort of like beast and carnage. This is another huge one. Like the energy change?
01:11:13
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Yeah, I already thought this card was fine. This card's a lot better now. Yeah, this card seems just ridiculous right now. I kind of hope it doesn't release like this. I don't really care for bounce stuff. I probably won't get it unless it's like a two card week for me.
01:11:34
Speaker
at a certain point. I mean, but like I can play, I'd rather play counter. I completely understand. But yeah, this is a card that we're all gonna have to think about and deal with. Fair enough. I hope it's more fun than I think it's going to be. Any more thoughts on these cards that have had stat changes or any of the changed cards or the new cards before we move on?
01:12:03
Speaker
No. And I was going to enter a next thing because I did the show. So I kind of pulled out what I thought was important from the new variants. Yeah, do it. I'm sorry for taking over. No, no. That's why I was just, that's why I was pulling in because I was like, you're going to read the show notes and you're going to be like, what? So we were just looking at what the new variants were and obviously like we can't talk a ton about them because
01:12:26
Speaker
We don't have them visually represented. But the one thing I pulled out, and I noticed because we had talked previously that Lauren had noticed it too, there's like 14 total variants, I counted them, that are all data mined to an incoming new snap artist that hasn't been there before. An Italian artist
01:12:48
Speaker
Someone say the name better, and I'll say it. Oh, you're not going to go for it? Vincenzo Riccardi, I think. Close enough, right? But they're Italian because I just, like, looked them up. They're from Milan. And they just have this really cool, like, explosion of color style that it just, like, stood out. There's a couple other new artists.
01:13:12
Speaker
that there were data mines for, but they only had like two or three. So for me, that's what I pulled out. It's like a very explosion of color painterly style that looks like it'll be cool. I bet it'll look good split. Yeah. They remind me a lot of Maria Wolfs, who is my favorite artist in the game, where they're very detailed on the line work and just gorgeous colors.
01:13:37
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not sure this is great podcast content. So yeah, it's awesome. One of them while we're talking. Yeah, there'll be some very pretty variants. I agree they are quite beautiful. Okay. I was very excited to see this artist coming. Yeah, it looks cool.
01:14:01
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But, so that's why we pulled out from that. I mean, I also am excited about, I guess we had talked about this, we already talked about the new split effects earlier. Those are all coming out. Snap packs. Yeah. And then a couple new albums.
01:14:19
Speaker
Sorry, you
Art Enthusiasm and Jeff Bounties
01:14:20
Speaker
were saying. All right. I will say, the Nikola album, I like Nikola's art a lot. I will have like six or seven of those as soon as the album launches, and it'll be the first album like that for me. That's my craven of choice right there. I look at that illustration a lot. It's a great craven. I would buy it if it ever showed up in my shop. Oh, really? Interesting. It's only 700 gold, I believe.
01:14:49
Speaker
I think it's one of the variants that I actually bought. Maybe. I might have opened it randomly. I don't know. Anywho, shall we talk about the Jeff stuff? I think we can at least briefly mention it. You already talked about an absolutely atrocious alliance bounty in Sarah and Jeff combined.
01:15:14
Speaker
I've seen screenshots of people who have tons of Jeff bounties, and what if you're in an alliance with newer players who don't have Jeff? I think it's a cute idea. This whole Jeffery thing is just really goofy for that very reason. Why are you punishing players for not having one of the most expensive cards in the game? Yeah, it's a really cute idea.
01:15:39
Speaker
I don't know. I mean, at least he's available by spotlights this week. If a newer player really wanted him, they could have saved for him. You know what would have been a cool thing for Jeff week, given everybody Jeff. I think that that would have been incredible. I mean, I spent the 6,000 tokens, but I think it would be like, I think it would make it a lot more fun for the overall player base if they had the card in question. Imagine the goodwill that would have bought. Yup. Yeah. The problem is like the casual player who's not like,
01:16:09
Speaker
flotting out their spotlight keys the way I do. Recalibrating clans are just going week to week. And now there's a whole week they don't have keys enough keys to even try and get Jeff or you know, they only have one and they don't get them. And then yeah, everything seemed around it. So I get it. It's a bummer. Yeah, just weird and exclusionary and stupid, to be honest. That's my feeling.
01:16:35
Speaker
Any other thoughts on the Jeff stuff? I mean, it's nice to get a bunch of Jeff variants, I know. Just for fans of Jeff. It's cute. It's just inconsiderate. Yes. All right. Shall we move on to the co-host topics? I think we save those, maybe, for our next pick we want. We've gone over an hour.
01:17:01
Speaker
We're at an hour 20. I think we do our review game. All righty then. So for those who don't know.
The Great Maybe Snap Review Game
01:17:13
Speaker
I have devised a pretty cool game with a pretty cool name. It's called the Great Maybe Snap Review Game. Are they gruntled about this? And in case you couldn't tell from the self-explanatory title, I source reviews from the Google Play Store, Steam,
01:17:35
Speaker
I don't have any Apple devices, but if you would like to submit some to our email address, if you see some interesting reviews for Marvel Snap on Apple App Store or whatever, maybe that could be a fun way to participate. Engage in a parasocial relationship with me. Do it. I dare ya.
01:17:55
Speaker
before we play. What I do. Oh, sorry. Continue, Lauren. No, I thought you were going to plow into it. And I was like, we've played this a couple of times and the rules have devolved quickly and it's our fault. So I just want to make sure we're clear on the rules before we start. All right. Yeah. I am counting on the competitors to keep track of their own score because I simply can't be bothered. And the premise of the game is this. I read a review.
01:18:20
Speaker
Sometimes I lightly edit the reviews to remove specific references to Marvel Snap things or to generalize. Sometimes I'll keep specific references in, and I just won't edit it. But anyway, I read a review, I maybe give any other relevant details like the name of the reviewer, and then
01:18:41
Speaker
They take turns guessing if that review was about Marvel Snap or not, my two co-hosts. And if it is about Marvel Snap, hooray, you win. You get to feel smart. You have a point if you feel like keeping track of that. And if you lose and you guess it's Marvel Snap, but it's not Marvel Snap, the other player gets to have a guess at what game it might possibly be. And in that way, they can, in theory, steal a point for those who care about such things.
01:19:11
Speaker
So, the great maybe snap review game, Are They Gruntled About This begins now, now, now, now. All right. The hardest part for me is remembering when it's my turn so I don't yell out in Lauren's turn. Reed, you spoke first, so you get to go first. That's not always gonna be the rule, but it is today. This is a positive review from Steam, 3.2 hours on record.
01:19:39
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from August 21st. Love this game. I joined on mobile right as it came out, and I'm glad to see it's still going strong. Love collecting cards and destroying my opponent's lol. Rhee, what do you think? Are they talking about Marvel Snap? Are they gruntled about this? So I think they are talking about Marvel Snap. Point for Rhee. They were talking about Marvel Snap. Yay! Lauren.
01:20:08
Speaker
This username is unpronounceable to me and it's a negative review. They've logged 366.7 hours on whatever this game is. This is from August 22nd. Terrible RNG. Game devs promote toxicity and screw over certain players every single match. Literally can go a full 24 hours without winning a single game due to bad luck and no amount of skill can overcome these crap days.
01:20:34
Speaker
Literally, it's coded in and designed to screw over players that do not hit infinite every single season. Do not play! All capitals, all capitals, this. They went lowercase for this, but do not play. So new people found that helpful. After 366 hours, they were quite around again. Do not play. Do you think they were talking about Marvel Snap?
01:21:00
Speaker
Well, I was already leaning yes, but then you mentioned hitting infinite, so yes. Arvel Snap. Yes, I should have scrubbed that, sorry. Well, point for Lauren. Even I know it's a tie, because we're still in the early game. Alright. Round 3. Turee. This is from user Australian. Still from Steam. Positive review. 36.2 hours. Good game. Fun, but a little grindy.
01:21:27
Speaker
I don't think this is about Snap, because you can pretty much just stop playing it. Is that your guess? It's not about Snap? Correct. Oh, yeah, that's the point. That's your guess? Yes. You're right. It's not about Snap. Would either player like to hazard a guess as to what game it is about? I have a guess, but I don't... Do I get to go even if we got it right? Yes, Lauren, go ahead. We're in bonus time. My guess is your favorite Hades, too.
01:21:57
Speaker
Nope. You will be shocked to learn. This is actually Stardew Valley. What? Okay, yeah. But a little grindy. That's where I start playing. And in all of our practice rounds of this game, I've used glowing reviews of Stardew Valley because people love that game. That was like the most mixed thing I'd ever seen about it. Anywho, I bet that was hard to find.
01:22:21
Speaker
Here we are, Lauren, to you. Round four, not recommended. This comes from someone called Nipple Torture. They've put 791.9 hours into whatever game this is. They had 748.7 hours at review time, and this is from August 4th.
01:22:39
Speaker
I realized that they need to make money to continue developing, supporting, and hosting servers for the game, but the amount of money you have to flush down the Toiler to be competitive is absurd. I don't have experience with gacha games. This is the only one I ever played, but I can't imagine that this is normal. Also, I don't know if Toiler was a typo or some fun slang that I've never heard, but I dig it. Okay, so were they talking about Snap? Okay. It could be Snap, but I don't think so. No.
01:23:10
Speaker
You're correct. Would anyone like to guess what game it was? You're not going to get it. I would guess Genshin Impact. That would have been mine as the low hanging gacha, but then he said we won't get it. This one's a little bit... I'm trying to think of all the elements. No. This one's a little bit janky. It's Yu-Gi-Oh! Dual Wings, the Yu-Gi-Oh! Oh, okay.
01:23:31
Speaker
Okay, maybe Lauren would have guessed that. I hate to take it away from you. I've got 20 of these, so I just want to burn through them. I was only considering it because it came up several times the last time we played this. All right. I forgot. I forgot about you. Three to you. We've got one from the Android App Store. It's a four-star review from the sixth.
01:23:55
Speaker
This is my favorite Android game, exceptionally good design, also exceptionally bad coding. I've edited this review a lot. At one point it was two stars because the crashes were so frequent I couldn't climb the ladder until I moved to PC. There's been a coding update. This game crashes after every 10 games now and usually crashes changing menus now and less often mid-game. That still sucks, but I can live with it. I'll give back the fifth star if these guys stop the crashes altogether. 26 people found this helpful.
01:24:23
Speaker
Where are they talking about Marvel Snap? Okay, now I'm torn because you said ladder, which is a very snap term, but it's also- A lot of games have ladders. Yes, a lot of other games do. And the PC, like for a long time, the client, you know, the PC client was just the mobile client. So it's weird that it would- We just hit the one year anniversary. Yeah, you're right. Okay, I'm going to say this.
01:24:53
Speaker
It is Marvel Snap, you are correct. Yay! OK, sorry. Celebrate. Oh, good job. Lauren, no one has rated this review as helpful yet. It comes from Steam, a recommended review, 4.8 hours on record from August 22nd, product received for free. It's a fun card game. Matches go quickly. There's real time betting and pretty cool music. I mean, Snap hits all those for sure.
01:25:22
Speaker
People, are you really snapped? Yes, it's snapped. It is snap, you're correct. Oh, good job. Okay. I don't know what the real-time betting thing. That's the thing, I mean, snaps. It's just a confusing way to describe the snap mechanic. Real-time bet, okay. But a lot of people who are really in the game will talk about that being poker, but that's usually not the random review you're gonna read where someone is making that. Yeah.
01:25:46
Speaker
Anyway. Yeah, that is a strange thing to focus on. So here's one that 758 people found helpful. 172 people found this review funny. People gave it a ribbon. Well, on Steam you can. 66.8 hours on record recommended. Hosted March 17th. I wiped out the entire Roman Empire for my dog's brain surgery.
01:26:14
Speaker
Okay, so a game? Okay, it's not about Snap. It's what I was going to say. We've had some weird ones that were about Snap in the past. No, I'm going to say it's not. All right. Am I right?
01:26:33
Speaker
You're correct, it's not. Yes, okay, I knew it. Okay, I'm trying to think what it is where it's somewhere where someone is going to sell, can sell. I wiped out the entire Roman Empire for my dog's brain surgery. I know, so I want to say games like Civilization or Age of Empires or that kind of thing, but it's pretty. I see why you would go that way. So I can see, but it's somewhere that they need to be able to sell, yeah, where they'd sell like gold like you would in World of Warcraft or something.
01:27:02
Speaker
To pay for something. I will tell you, I know the context. It's not about money. Oh, in game! What?! That's not the reason. This person didn't wipe out the entire Roman Empire for money for their dog's brain surgery. Wait, is the dog's brain surgery in game? They wiped out the entire Roman Empire to source something for this surgery.
01:27:29
Speaker
I'm taking too long. I'm sorry. It's Fall Out New Vegas.
01:27:34
Speaker
Oh, because one of the dogs that you can get a brain for the, you know, one of them, you have to go to the Caesars Legion camp and murder lies.
01:28:04
Speaker
I mean, I did, I did eventually- No, I totally get you. Okay, why- You're like, that bear doesn't have the right number of heads on it. I have to admit, I just now, I didn't immediately realize someone pointed out to me, like, fairly quickly. All right, well, sorry. I think, I think I took, I let you dangle too long on that one. Sorry, that was far too biggest. No! I'm just excited. I enjoyed being dumbfounded.
01:28:27
Speaker
Ah, that was so, I was so, I was so into the mystery. Like, is the dog in real life in the game? The second time I've pulled that train. Okay, ah, that was, sorry. All right, this one's a little easier, whether or not it's Snap. This one's easier.
01:28:42
Speaker
Overall, the core of the game is good. It's the three-star review, by the way, from the App Store. The devs are willing to actively rebalance cards, and there's a lot of fun designs alongside an easy-to-understand core game. Card acquisition is kinda mixed. The free cards will go a long way towards helping new players, but veteran players struggle to finish collections, marking down to three stars because the game is terribly optimized and laggy.
01:29:04
Speaker
It abruptly hangs during play, presumably while trying to live render gorgeous particle effects on cards. 47 people found this helpful. As a player who has to play on low quality, I'm going to say yes, it's Marvel Snap. You are correct. All right. This one might be kind of hard. Or it might be kind of easy.
01:29:33
Speaker
122 people found this review helpful. It comes from Steam. 11.3 hours on record. It's recommended. The review reads as follows.
01:29:44
Speaker
Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. All right, I got it. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. All right, I got it. All right, I got it. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge.
01:30:10
Speaker
So it's time to read this all out. Yeah, do you know what that was? It's time to read it out loud. Okay, I'm wondering if this was about how on the collection track you used to be able to get series five? No, you're not going to get this one. I'm sorry. I'm like, how can I remember, how can I, my brain can definitely make this a metaphor for Marvel Snap in some way.
01:30:31
Speaker
Well, you know, it's not right. You are correct. It's not marbles. That was a review for Catherine Classic on Steam. Oh, you know, you know, I wish you. But if you play that game, you hear the word edge a lot whenever you totally forgot. It's it's a whole thing that game. And I totally forgot.
01:30:56
Speaker
Well, I'm sure I will end up talking about that game at some point in the future on this podcast. Aren't you like a world class Catherine player? Yeah, if we had an Olympic team, I would I would definitely be on it. Is this way you put in a Catherine review? Yeah. Who are we on? Is it Lauren? Yes, is it?
01:31:18
Speaker
Okay. The last one was Catherine and re-guessed that one and now it's Lauren. So it's a three star review from the Android Google Play Store thing. You know how it is. Um, great concept, fun gameplay, but this game wants you to spend money so bad. It's almost gross. I understand the game is free and they have to make money somehow, but try to make some things reasonably obtainable to get your favorite character or team leaves you with two ridiculous options. One.
01:31:46
Speaker
Eat, sleep, and breathe this game, and in a few months you might get it. Two, pay a bunch of money. Your grind is too demanding for most normal people and money doesn't grow on trees. 11 people found this helpful. Were they talking about Marvel Snap? I mean, obviously the nature of the game, it could be, but I'm gonna say no. I don't think Snap's acquisition system is that egregious. You are correct. Also, this one I feel like is unlikely to be guessed.
01:32:16
Speaker
They reference characters in teams. Is it like Marvel's strike force? Whatever that is. Oh, reef for the bonus points. Yeah, I schooled by some ads. I'm telling you.
01:32:30
Speaker
Hell yeah. Nice. All right. Good job. That's great. I like when people can guess. I'm succeeding at life now. Okay. Lauren, to you. This is a positive review from Steam. This is the person's only review. Their name is Sean the Editor. They put in 16.3 hours, 15 hours at review time, and this is from August 20th.
01:32:51
Speaker
the distillation of the card battler into its chest-like essence. Easy to jump in and compete right off the bat. Simple enough to learn yet with enough strategic depth that outfoxing your opponent feels like a real achievement.
Network Expansion and Wrap-up
01:33:08
Speaker
Also generous with the freebies. Haven't put a dime into it yet, but likely will just to reward the incredible effort. So, was this glowing review about Snap?
01:33:20
Speaker
I just want to clarify. It was my turn last. So should this. Oh shit. OK. That's right. You got the bonus point for those who care about points. OK. Yeah. What do you think they talk about snap? They gruntable about this. No.
01:33:38
Speaker
Oh, I'm sorry, they were talking about Snap. Okay. I thought it was Lauren. Sorry. I was laughing at the game. No, I know. We were all off our rhythm there. It was a tough one. That was a tough one. All right, Lauren. I love this game. I have it phone and in the computer. That's 5.6 hours on record. It's on Steam from August 23rd.
01:34:06
Speaker
I have it phoned. Talking about Snap. They grunt about this. They say yes. And I'm saying it based on the 5.6 hours because it is the kind of game that you would play more on phones. You would feel, yep. Uh-huh. And then you'd get it on the computer and review after five, yep. That all tracks. Unfortunately, it's Stardew Valley. All right, we're getting towards the end here.
01:34:30
Speaker
This is a recommended review, 130 hours on record, 130.1 if you want to get real, but 99.4 at review time. And that's a great game. Enjoy it every day. Play about two hours every day. Can't get enough, haha. But sometimes the meta of the game sucks, but overall fun game. Probably the best game out there ever. And there was the name of an intellectual property.
01:34:57
Speaker
After best, but oh Okay, that changes it. I'm like cuz I don't think many people are going to pick Marvel snap is the best game ever the best game ever But they might pick it. They might be my Marvel game. Yes, or the best card. Oh, you said it was where they talking about something else I'm gonna say something else though
01:35:19
Speaker
You are correct. Yeah. And I don't think it's reasonable to ask anybody to guess based on that review, but it was Yu-Gi-Oh Master Duel. Oh, okay. Yeah, I wasn't gonna guess that. I was like, wait, no, maybe? And then no. I'm sorry. All right, here we go. We're really getting down there.
01:35:35
Speaker
One Star in the Google Play Store from 82024. The game would be okay, not great if the performance was cared about at all. Me and many others I've seen can't play multiple matches without crashing fully. Sometimes it crashes before getting into one match, but at least then we don't waste our time joining a match just to lose. Literally just tweak the game's performance a small bit or give a performance mode.
01:36:01
Speaker
They've fixed very few performance-related issues and just rarely introduce new things. Gameplay is alright. The people are just lazy. One person found this review helpful. I could see somebody interpreting Snap as being rarely getting new things. Even though it has a new card every single week, it doesn't get a lot of new... Mother stuff. I'm gonna... I'm gonna say no. It's not Snap.
01:36:29
Speaker
It was Snap, I'm sorry. Oh, really? Wow. Yeah, I was- Re-wins! Or at least takes the lead. Oh, good. How, cause I, I forgot. I was gonna guess- Oh, you have been keeping track. Okay, excellent. I didn't, I didn't track bonus points, but in raw points, I have higher. Alright, well, who cares? If one of you believes that you're the winner, you're the winner. I was guessing seven, so I was close.
01:36:51
Speaker
So here we are. We've got a positive review from Steam. 115.1 hours from August 23rd. I expletive love gambling. The expletive was all hearted out and everything else is in capital letters. There are four exclamation points at the end. I, presumably fucking, I fucking love gambling is the review.
01:37:24
Speaker
I think not. I feel like I would say not snap and I would be wrong. So I'm gonna reverse. Is that what you'd like to do? No, I'm gonna reverse and say it is about snap. It's a good thing you thought it through because that's exactly what was going on. That was a review about snap. Yes!
01:37:39
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I call it the trick. For one's big, their opinion of the draw of snap is that, yeah, I fucking love gambling, bro. Hello, Admiral Ackbar. He was right. And somebody who spends their keys as soon as they have them. Oh, yup. They don't know what it's like to have four. It's not about winning. All right, now here, I think we are now, these are the last three, so I think that means it's Lauren's turn.
01:38:09
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Yeah, my turn. 72.1 hours on record. 373 people found this review helpful. 77 people found this review funny. Recommended from July 7th. I like the muscular women. Me too.
01:38:31
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Were they talking about Snap? There are some muscular women in Snap. Almost everybody in Snap is muscular. It's amazing how few aren't. Not a lot of body diversity, is there? No. I'm going to say yes. It's Snap. It's not Snap. Yeah, I think it's not. I bet you can guess what it is, though. Dead or alive. No, I like the muscular women.
01:39:00
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Is it Hades? You fucking know it's Hades too, baby. They're talking about Hecate with that six-pack. Oh, she is beefy. She jacks as hell. Also, well, Meg from the original too. I mean, they just, they got some strength. Oh, no, Meg could, she could snap a demigod. Oh, also, like, yeah. Yeah, there's some beefy women. Oh, yeah, oh, dude. I played me some beefy. Stephanie, it looks like she could rip you apart.
01:39:29
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Anywho, I knew somebody would get that one. I knew I would have mentioned it. All right, Ree, this one is actually yours. Two-star review from the Google Play Store from July 17th. Bugs, bugs, and more bugs. With each update comes a higher frequency. If you play on any device other than PC, do not spend money! Exclamation point, all caps, obviously. The minimum requirements are constantly
01:39:57
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raised, making only the very newest phones and tablets able to run this game. The game needs a strategic view option to be compatible with more devices, but they will never implement one for the same reason the minimum requirements rise. They wish to sell pointless cosmetics with fancy animations rather than fix their game. 122 people found this helpful. Were they talking about Snap? Are they gruntled about this? Are you thinking?
01:40:22
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Not until now. I mean, they have been selling a lot more cosmetic stuff recently, so I'm going to say yes. It certainly does sound like they could be talking about stuff. But it was rough. Nah, it's Hearthstone, baby. Oh, it's high school. They're beating the sins of the past. I haven't played it in so long. That's just what happens with these mobile art games. They need to put more animations and goobery stuff in. It's better than charging away for the cutscenes.
01:40:50
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Well, sometimes you can do both, turns out. Yeah, that's true. Cool. Anywho. Wow, there was actually a review that I thought I would have in here. Was it the one that I skipped? Oh, man. I think, all right, I'll save that one for next time. I will come back and, okay. I've got a really good one for the next time we play this game. Lauren, to you, is the final review that may or may not be about Snap.
01:41:20
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It's from Steam. It's positive 115.4 hours from August 23rd. Good for Marvel fans with nothing to do. No new Marvel game is coming out so far. I played this because I am still waiting for a good X-Men team game. Please, Insomniac, make X-Men Legends 3 for the love of God. Thank you. Also, it is predatory. Watch out for microtransactions.
01:41:45
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Were they talking about Snap? Are. No. They. Gruntled. About. Is. He said no. They are gruntled. Are.
01:41:55
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incorrect they were talking about snap because yes please insomniac make x-men legends three for the love of god i would oh my god i love the x-men legends games marvel ultimate alliance one and two even though one really is the the best of the bunch x-men legends two and marvel ultimate alliance are
01:42:16
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some of the best uh best beat em up rpg action games of their their generation those gauntlet style you know you know the ones the co-op friendly yeah yeah they're amazing i've never played one
01:42:31
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Oh my gosh, my PS4 crapped out. You can't get them on PS4, really, unless you buy a code on Amazon or something. The hoops you have to jump through to play those games are intense, but my PS4 crapped out, so I haven't played in about a year. You're Johnson. Johnson for six. I really love those games. Anywho, that's been the great maybe snap review game. Are they gruntled about this?
01:42:56
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They mostly were. Thank you for playing. I apologize for any stumbles and hiccups. I hope we are heavily editing this episode. And yeah. We will not be. It needs to ship tomorrow.
01:43:10
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I feel so terrible about the length and some things that went long and we dwelt too long in the wrong spots and I feel very silly. We still have some stuff before we're done now. That's true. That's true. Let's finish it up. Let's take her home.
01:43:28
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I don't know. Maybe I didn't mention this. There's a whole snap judgments network. This is the announcement right now. It includes the podcast, the daily show that Glazer does, the snap judgments league, where all the tournaments happen. It also includes a couple new podcasts, a few
01:43:49
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I said new podcasts. We're the only new podcasts, but we're bringing in two others into the fold. So there will be Snap Judgment Networks podcasts that you can listen to many times a week. On Sundays, there's How Can She Snap? from No Big Deal on the Kid, which is very fun. Have either of you listened to it? It's okay. I am a huge fan. I've appeared on that podcast, and I would gladly appear on it again. They are so nice and fun, and I really liked hanging out with them.
01:44:18
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I'm a big fan of How Can She Snap? The energy is wonderful. I think it's probably the most generally positive snap podcast that I listen to. They're really funny. Yeah.
01:44:32
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On Tuesdays, we have Snap Decisions from Joe, which is another one that's very casual, friendly, and very approachable. He also does Monday-ish episodes with guests that are fabulous. I think all three of us have been on there. His radio DJ experience, I think, really shines when he's interviewing somebody.
01:44:56
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And then, and it's just very approachable. And it also he will also do ad hoc coverage of things like OTAs or other big announcements. There's our our podcast, it's just the three of us snap on this, that'll be on Fridays. And then on Saturdays, the snap judgments that you all know and love and listen to, presumably, you're here now. Um,
01:45:22
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So there will be, you know, I expect this to just be the beginning of something exciting and that the network will grow. But definitely give all those a listen if you aren't already. See which ones click for you. It's okay if it's not ours. Indeed. Yeah, we should have links in all the show notes to everything. Oh, yeah.
01:45:48
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We will. And now there's Patreon thanks. I split these into three because I have heard this many more times than I've ever said it, just like most of you listeners. Who wants to take the first? Go. I don't know how to pronounce this person's last name, but I'll give it a shot. Would y'all mind if I just tried to rip through these?
01:46:15
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Go for it. You want to do the whole sack? Yeah. Yeah, go for it. All right, we got Abigail Geaslin. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Whoever, however it's pronounced, Abigail, we're grateful to you. We got mandatory burnout support and cables.
01:46:30
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Probably Cable's Dums, if I were to speculate. I think that's the person. Matt H. Irregardless. Not a word, but I think they know that and that's why they've chosen it as their handle. David G. Wingfield. Direwolf. L.A.B. Fothor Newman. We know who that is. Good Dog Gamer. Dave's Vault. Ink. I. Am. Frostman. Jay Navarette. Quarren. Primed Ryan. Caratix Lee. Quare.
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Puriforos. The Goat Seeker. Denman Falcon. Quid Projo. Dokti. Fat Nick. Ginger Prime. Philip Bratkovic. Haplo. Kenny Loggins. Rob Silverman. The Bizzer. X-Force V. Skippy G. Tommy Nyquist. King of Rose. Black Dahlia. The Great Kazoo. Jessica Gamble.
01:47:28
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Ryan Wood, Kevciota, Luna Chris, Quantum Quinn, John Q, Clam, Aidsage, Models, Darth Tater, Raima, Sitala, I tried, Ryan, Justin H. Martin, Jason B, JD, McDonaldino,
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Fuzzy Don Lop, Spectrumix, Hoot, Matt H, Mikey Hijinks, NoFlex, Ocularis, Craig Stary, Seamus, Spike Jones, TwoTies, Lauren Whatevs, oh, I know her, Tucker, Minh Nguyen, and Gunny T, where the T stands for, um, open to much speculation.
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01:48:15
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01:48:18
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01:48:33
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01:48:57
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It is, yeah. That's wild. OK, well, fascinating. Thanks to Adam Starr, a.k.a. Marvel Snap Lore, a.k.a. at MelodramaKitch1 on Twitter for the idea. And just just a. Not just me, dammit. A great human being. I think we're all huge fans. He accepted us. You're not following. I mean, with the show, Graham, he's a.
01:49:24
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What are you thinking? Anyway, also thanks to Chase Pitzer for donating some sweet recording hardware. And thank you to Pulse Glazer for believing in us and just holding the Marvel Snap community together, much like Atlas with the world upon his shoulders. Please check out one of the other great shows on the Snap judgments network. Like the ones that we just told you about, we are not going to insult your short-term memory by dropping them one mo-gan.
01:49:52
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Is there anything else we need to hit before we say adieu? I'm satisfied with my care. Oh, right. Thank you so much for listening. You're all bright stars in the dark night sky. Keep it filthy. Take the world by storm. Don't let the RNG get you down. Bye bye. Oh, wait.
01:50:12
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Don't forget to happy snapping or whatever the stuff. I think Troy says something. Keep on snapping. What we mean is that's all folks, like Spider-Ham or something. Sure. Like whoosh. The end. That's a great idea. Will you put it together in unity? I'm a lazy impression. I could actually. That sounds like another good way to do it. That's all folks. Everybody's in LA.
01:51:12
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I can turn it off we're done now.