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Oh, I'm going to have to actually try for infinite this season for the card back. Son of a...

Also predictably my first match this season at rank 40 was against an infinite card back from last season. Which I guess is technically possible at the within 30 ranks thing but come on man, an infinite card back is resetting to 70 and shouldn't be matching against a 40. I won anyway but that's just bad matchmaking

Shuri would still activate on the next card that is played after her

If she pulls absorbing man he doesn't copy Jubilee because a card doesn't count as played until all the actions relating to it have ended so Jubilee technically hasn't been played until after the cards she pulls have finished going off.

+X power where X is the energy cost of the card shes buffing. Or where X is the energy consumption that turn. Buff Shuri's base stats to be like 4/4 or something to compensate

So she effectively becomes a conditional 4/5-10 which is in line with the other conditional 4 drops. She's just pushing the extra 1-6 power on to a different unit

There's a dude in Magic Twitter arguing with both Cole Anthony's parents that Cole isn't worth $15m a season and should only get $10m a season on renewal. And that they should have Cole call him so he can explain why he's only worth $10m and provide the stats to back it up.

Aside from the ridiculousness of that scenario and what the fuck is wrong with that fan. Cole still has another year on his contract and by the time an extension kicks in, $15m a season is only mid level exception money anyway. Like why the fuck would a player in a prominent role sign an extension for less than MLE money.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

I am officially at level 70 with 1 cube, literally one loss from dropping to 69 (nice), and Id rather sacrifice the last few levels of season pass Id get tomorrow than the 10 rank levels Ill lose on reset if I cant get back out of the 60s.

Isn't the sacrifice the credits from the missions you aren't clearing rather than the season pass stuff.

I got back to 70.0 myself and from I think from this point to reset I have to clear at least 4 missions to not lose out on any. So I guess it would cost 300 credits to idle until season reset?

Matchmaking has been super weird for me though. When I dropped from 77 all the way down to 66 it seemed brutal. It wasn't just that I had an atrocious win percentage, it was also that I was losing lots of close stuff where 1 cubes were turning into 2 and 2 into 4 because I'd be losing by the finest of margins where you don't retreat. Lots of meta decks and infinite backs. Then the climb back has been pretty easy with a high win percentage and less meta decks. It's the same deck but it's like I'm matching against a completely different skill level of player. Not just the deck types but the mistakes I see them make and the retreat patterns.

Had an X-mansion give me Wasp and the opponent Hulk. Thanks RNG!

This was a fun win that happened before I stopped playing, meant to post it but forgot.

T6 play was Dazzler + She-Hulk + Moongirl. I figured he would drop Ultron and it was like the Hangover math scene trying to work out if I'd win with the double Dazzler but losing Devil Dino power knowing Moongirl wouldn't proc.

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I think the game is trolling me with these steampunk variants. So far I've gotten Yellowjacket, Bishop and Shocker plus a title. All I already had the base cards for.

I have not gotten Cerebro or Falcon. Both of which I do not have the base card for.

Debating whether I can be bothered to climb back to 70 just for reset purposes. Fell down to 66.1 last night but have managed to get back to 68.5 this morning. I've cleared all my missions and season pass though. Got to 79 on the season pass, no variants but did get a huge chunk of gold/credits with the last 6 boxes

I watched it late last night with the wife. I really enjoyed it.

And the wait to win all 3 locations at once goes on. So close

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I am not sure why the dude did not storm the middle location given the deck he was running. I don't think it was a bot with the wait times on moves but I guess could have been

When I first saw him I assumed Zlatan. Not just looks but mannerisms too. I immediately told my wife that's who it was likely based off

Just got matched up against an infinity back who snapped and tried to bad manners with the Ms Marvel after the playing Shang Chi plus Death on the final turn except I had Armor in hand and prio to block him.

Like seriously what is the point of snapping and doing bad manners on the final turn when you already have infinity? What are you even getting out of that other than being a dick?

KingButz posted...

Single family homes require publicly subsidized infrastructure that condos generally do not (or do to a much lesser extent). Owners pay property taxes at the same % rate as condo owners do even though they own substantially more land. The value of single family homes is generally higher which makes it easier for owners to use the mortgage interest tax deduction.

These factors all contribute to why single family homes appreciate at a much higher rate than condominiums do.

I always believed it's because of the HOA/Condo fees you're going to pay forever. And they aren't usually insubstantial and are only going to increase.

I know in Orlando at least if you were buying an apartment/condo for like $250k (not super realistic now but was like 4 years ago) then your HOA/Condo fees would have been more than both your monthly principal and interest. That's a tough pill to swallow.

So it's like I could buy a $250k condo or I could buy a $350k house and the monthly expenses is probably the same except on the house it's all going towards the house at least and not fees.

I think I was at 69.9 when I stopped last night. Highest I got this season was 77 I think. Most of my falling has been in huge chunks rather than gradual, it's weird

Was thinking about it and I think the simple solution to rank walls would be to just give you bot matches if you drop below a rank wall. Or at least weight them to occur more frequently or something

skullbone posted...

Magik used to be playable on turn 6. They nerfed her because she was in like every game. Ending your turn and knowing you're only risking 2 cubes (because there's going to be a turn 7) but your opponent thinking that they're risking 4 cubes because they think the game is ending was too annoying.

I don't see the issue with that though because she's such a low power card for her cost.

Like doesn't Kang basically do a similar thing?

All the decks I play really need T5 (for wave or Magik or using reduced energy) so my win rate absolutely plummeted last night. I briefly fell below 70. I wasn't even trying to play a lot, just clear quests.

So basically I hate that location. I also hate Magik not being playable on T6.

guffguy89 posted...

that is called a condo.

Edit: And as a condo owner, the answer is yes I would.

Not all condos are apartments though. The house I gave to my ex wife in the divorce was classed as a condo despite the fact that it was actually a 3 story 3/3 townhouse.

I didn't mind owning a condo and when I bought my house I looked at other condos and apartments too. I've also done the same when thinking about selling and moving. It's just the huge HOA / condo association fees that suck. I've seen ones in Orlando at least where the HOA/Condo fees are $800-1000 per month on top of the mortgage. Most are in the $400-650 range though. And that's a mixed bag, really depends what they cover. Some of them are worth it for the level of home protection coverage, services and additional benefits they provide. Whilst I've seen others that are like $600+ and provide nothing close to that worth a month.

The HOA/condo fees on my last condo were ~$300 a month at the time my divorce (I suspect they are $400+ now) but covered all external issues that required fixing (including the roof) and pipes. So it was definitely worth it since A. Hurricanes and B. This was under a heavily forested area so tree shit causing issues was common

If you see it in your shop first does that count as first time seen?

This was a pretty good Doc Ock. Opponent immediately retreated. That middle lane had been The Raft prior to Scarlet Witch

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Crescent-Moon posted...

See I'm the opposite, I have zero interest whatsoever in a final 4 with all blue bloods. I may actually tune into some of these games. I definitely wouldn't for a second otherwise.

I'm in the same boat. I'd far rather see fresh blood / underdogs winning stuff in any sport over the teams that are always there.

Jakyl25 posted...

LOL I completed the Win 15 Matches mission tonight before the Win All 3 Locations Once mission. Got them all though.

I thought I was definitely going to get the win all 3 missions one. Guy very obviously playing Galactus. Sanctorum in play so only access to 2 locations but The Nexus also in play. He piles up all his cards on the none Nexus location. Meanwhile I had 30+ power on the Nexus entering T6 and am winning all 3 locations. He plays Galactus anyway for the guaranteed loss since no matter how locations were destroyed his Nimrod + Wolverine couldn't possibly beat what I already had in play.

I thought he would retreat giving me the mission clear.

Ah, if I had actually played him then I'd have figured that out then since the other actual playable location was cloning vats. So I guess I would have ended up with 2 illusions back in my hand

What happens if you play Mysterio on Luke's Bar? I assume if you play the real one there he bounces back and illusions stay? And if you play the real one elsewhere then the illusion stays on the bar?

I don't have Mysterio but situation came up as I got him from Agent 13. But I didn't chance playing him even though he was cost reduced from quinjet as one of the locations prevented play on 3/4/5 so I figured whatever I did would telegraph where he really was

They should probably let you pin variants in your shop and also have them refresh every 8 hours instead of 24

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Jakyl25 posted...

Well you are also guaranteed one Series 4 card every set of 40 Reserves

It takes up the spot of the P3 card though I assume? So it's still ~10 cards from CL each season?

I think before finishing pool 3 you get ~11 cards a month. Like 10 from credits plus the free P3. And then you're probably going to end up with ~4k tokens so it depends how you spend those as to whether you get another card.

I don't run Killmonger but I run into a lot of Patriot decks and it's basically the main reason I run enchantress.

A lot of destroy/discard decks just run killmonger anyway

Only today and tomorrow to get your offers in

Played the same guy in back to back games and in both games he cheated out super early Leech off Jubilee with Elysium in play.

Leech being cheated out is so much bullshit.

People who snap turn 6 are the worst for that sort of thing. Like a lot of times I'll play it out and give away the 2 cubes just to see. But if they're going to be greedy and snap then fuck that, I'm out.

At least 2 times confirmed and a third time suspected but never took a test. The first confirmed time was awful. The second (unconfirmed people around me tested positive though) wasn't bad at all. And the third time was positive with basically no symptoms (scratchy throat for like half a day) that I only tested because other around me had.

I'm actually super sick right now with COVID like symptoms but tested negative. As did the wife with the same symptoms. So I assume it's actually the Flu that's been ongoing for a week now.

Yeah I also grabbed the monthly pass since I'm playing enough to justify spending $10. I got

Mister Negative Demon Form - https://marvelsnapzone.com/variants/mister-negative-02/

Blade Boy Thing - https://marvelsnapzone.com/variants/blade-04/

And then the collector pixel which I'm not linking because pixel variants are ass and suck to get.

I also got the Yellowjacket Steam Punk variant from my reserve box. I know my next 2 reserve boxes are either tokens or card

Then like 4 cube losses like this where it's a tossup and I simply played the cards the wrong way around (She-Hulk, Death, Death was my T6). I thought he would drop it on to the side with the weaker lead although I guess I should have anticipated him avoiding the ongoing lane in case of DD

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Followed that up with

4 cube loss
1 cube loss
2 cube loss
2 cube win
2 cube retreat
2 cube loss

Yeah I'm kinda in the middle of a bracket and don't think I'll get to the next worthwhile rank reward (which I feel is 90) so I'm not too fussed about wins/losses now. I dropped from 74.5 when to 72.3 over that stretch. Just sticks out when you go on a big cube loss spree because it's rarer to go on a huge cube win spree

Yeah that's the one. I'm so braindead when posting at work at times.

Not on a good run

Lost 4 cubes
Lost 4 cubes
Won 1 cube
Lost 2 cubes
Lost 4 cubes

Weird part is those back to back 4 cube losses were basically identical situation. Spiderman into my lane with me up 9 in the only playable lane and me gambling on them retreating and not having enough to beat it. Both times they did. Obviously should have done a retreat later instead of being greedy

Third 4 cube loss was a similar situation. I was throwing down something in a lane where they would need 12 to beat it. They had Hulk.

Oh and 2 of the 4 cube losses involved them getting a 6 energy card (Magneto and She-Hulk) off x mansion whilst I got I want to say Thor and something bad. Oh it was Angel.

That's also what my shop rotated to this afternoon

Who would win ? The dreaded Shuri combo or 1 mutant hunting boi (Limbo was the sentinel forge thing)

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I'm pretty sure I had my wife pre-order it for me a long time ago. I basically never check the mailbox so it's very possibly sat in there waiting

Ran out of time thinking here and retreated but I don't think it matters. I don't think there was a root to victory.

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Bought Darkhawk with my 3k tokens. Zero interest in Shuri.

Toyed with the idea of waiting for Kang because of shenanigans but I'll wait on him for now. No interest in Galactus or Thanos and I'm not spending 6k on a card that will drop. I guess I could potentially save for High Evolutionary now. May have 6k by the time he's released

That was the issue with my control deck too. The win percentage wasn't bad but the cube rate was because people would bail once their ability to play had been restricted by Goose / Storm / Prof X or had Enchantress / Shang Chi ruin their plan. I had to start waiting to late turns to do sneaky shit to get more cubes which led to more cubes but a negative win rate as tempo was atrocious and it lacked big plays.

Also people had started changing to decks that didn't care as much about stuff like Goose and Storm

Shattered posted...

I've been running this since I don't care about climbing anymore and it had quite a few white border cards but it actually went +8 cubes and should have been more (I bungled a 4 cube loss, forgetting about prio...again). It's pretty fun, surprising how often Coulson gives you great options.

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Oh, this deck may just be good. Which I guess makes sense since it's just a modified Deathwave deck. Went 4-1 with it this morning. Sadly only for +2 cubes as I lost a 4 cuber by 1 power when debating whether to retreat. I think once I learn snap/retreat patterns it's very climbable since I'm +14 cubes since last night.

I did swap out Collector for Sentinel as Collector felt fairly low impact but I should probably add in something that lets me reach unplayable destinations

Oh I have a really awesome Storm Ultimate Variant in my store which is tempting now they took away P3 but I looked it up to see if it comes with the avatar too and apparently it's really common as it was a giveaway in December. Booo.

Probably for the best, I should be using the tokens on usable cards anyway

This was so satisfying. I wanted to snap but I didn't want him to retreat before I could play it out.

On turn 7 I dropped 2x She-Hulk, 2x Death and 1x Devil Dino. I actually should have dropped America Chavez but I didn't math it out that she would be better than DD after all that dropping because it was so I grained to me of full hand drop DD

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I've been running this since I don't care about climbing anymore and it had quite a few white border cards but it actually went +8 cubes and should have been more (I bungled a 4 cube loss, forgetting about prio...again). It's pretty fun, surprising how often Coulson gives you great options.

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I mean I knew I'd have to update eventually but I was under the impression I'd get a week to fish through the old token store from what people had said about previous updates. They gave like what? 2 days?

I just don't see why they couldn't have left in the option to buy P3 cards too. If they were worried about getting them too fast because of increased token acquisition then just raise their price to 1500 or something. Most of the critical cards are in P3 rather than P4/5 so this just screws over people with lower CLs. It would be less of a problem if their matchmaking wasn't so bad but this just ensure that you're going to have a bad experience for months and months after breaking into P3 because it won't stop you from matching up against people with vastly more resources than you.

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Yeah I get that, but before you arent really getting that many tokens a month, < CL1000.

I have 3000 tokens on hand right now though. It may now take me 3 months to get the 3 cards I was hoping to get with those tokens.

If I was always spending gold/tokens on P3 acquisition, it is physically impossible for me to even stay neutral with the old token store nevermind catch up with the 3 they are now forcing me to miss out on.

Yeah, I got to pick whatever I wanted from the token store.

And from my understanding once I hit Collectors Reserves (which is my very next box) then they are split into pools of 4 with 1 card guaranteed in each pool. So basically 1 card every 48 CL on average. That works out at about 12 or so cards a month? 13 if you include the freebie. And I'm still missing 57 P3 cards.