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Well the game is now forcing me to update. So all holding out on the update did was lose me 200-800 tokens and not get any extra P3 cards.

I am so pissed about that shop change because I barely care about the P4 cards but I definitely want a lot of P3 cards. I'm CL994 so I'm missing a ton. So now my option is basically to be fucked for ages getting 1 P3 a month that I want and relying on 12 random ones instead of being able to grab multiple. All the whole constantly matching up against decks who have everything at their disposal. The token shop update is absolute balls for anyone who wants P3 cards

I run Prof X and have seen 1 Galactus in like the last 10 days or so. I also have only ever seen 1 Valkyrie played against me period but my deck doesn't encourage Valk to get thrown down. If a situation occurs where Valk is auto-win for them, I absolutely wouldn't see it coming

Sometimes the matchmaking does seem suspicious with what you play against. Like especially when you change something up and then immediately run into something you haven't seen for a while.

foolm0r0n posted...

Wait a sec, if you drop to 69 and then climb back to 70, do you jump to 75 again?

Nope which is why it just feels really bad if you drop too far from where the rank wall pushed you to. It's still clearly way better than the previous system though.

But by season end I'm sure I'll end up playing as many matches in the 70 bracket as probably all the other brackets before it combined.

At one point last night I fell all the way down to 71.0. Managed to get back to 73.0 now. The rank wall changes are fantastic but an unintended downside of them is they are super demoralizing once you drop back from that cushion. Obviously there isn't a fix for that and expecting one would be silly as it would basically half the climb again.

I might be able to make 80 before season ends but anything higher feels like a pipedream now.

I did manage to hit season pass level 50 at least. Last season I only hit like 53 (started with maybe 10 days left in the season)

Because you can only get 1 a month from the free shop.

I have 3000 tokens so I'm hoping to try get at least 1-2 from the store before it forces me to update the app in like a week. The free one will be waiting for me once I update. So I'll effectively get 2-3 S3

I still haven't updated as I'm chasing S3 cards from the old token store. So far all it has done is cost me 200-800 tokens (opened 2x 100 token caches) without any decent P3 cards turning up. I'm now no longer opening caches until I update.

I assume the bear and hawk of snowguard actually do something other than be a vanilla 1/2 and we just don't have that info yet? Otherwise she's a worse Misty Knight?

Played 7 games before my afternoon meeting. All 7 were Shuri decks or looked like Shuri decks. 2 of them didn't play her but the components they did play are all associated with that deck so I assume they didn't draw her or did it late.

Luckily I match up fairly well with Shuri decks but it's kinda predictable it's heading that way after the non changes.

I really think I'm going to have to change up my deck. It used to work fairly well but the meta has shifted in the past week or two to decks that it just has horrible matchups with.

I also like how they specify creating 0 cost cards being an issue but discard decks being able to drop 4+ 0 cost Swarms on T6 is fine. Even with just Modok it's 2 but if they hit Swarm pre-Modok it's a nightmare and it feels like they are at least semi consistently able to do that. Like I know Quinjet is more problematic as it doesn't require extra steps but when Swarms goes off against you it just sucks.

I don't think I have ever faced a Shuri deck that piled 4 cards in a lane. Or if I have it's really rare. All the Shuri decks I've played against have laid down very few cards. Normally protection and then their big endgame plays.

Now granted I'm only in the 70s so maybe that's a lot more common at higher ranks.

changmas posted...

unironically the aero nerf is the biggest nerf to shuri decks (alongside the taskmaster nerf)

i dont think the red skull or she hulk nerfs do too much

I dunno. The Aero nerf also lets a Shuri deck protect the taskmaster by dropping a 1 drop with him

I figured it might work this way but wasn't 100% sure since I assume there is a server ping to get your CL track rewards.

I'm not sure if the token changes were just to reserves or included caches too but I just opened a cache and only got 100 tokens from it. I have not updated yet. I was waiting to update to A. Retain the current token store and B. I was told you only match up with non update people so you increase your chances of bot matches

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Lockjaw doesnt need changed. His power is already RNG-dependent, theres no nerf you could make that wouldnt just make him nonviable, and doing something like changing his power or cost would basically kill Cerebro 2/the only use case for MBaku

Right but there's nothing you can do once Lockjaw is in position. It's kinda like Dracula. Your options to interact with them are really low / niche.

Like you should be able to Enchantress Lockjaw but you can't. Or there should be a reverse Goose to stop them dropping low cost cards in the lane. You're limited to like what? Goblins, Titania, Viper to try steal usable slots? You can technically Storm or Prof X but it's probably a losing move since they likely did something in that lane during the flooding or Prof X drop.

Oh also that Aero nerf, whilst needed, is a buff to Shuri decks since they can actively play around Aero when dropping Taskmaster now.

I'm not a huge fan of those balance changes. Not because of what is included but more because of what isn't. What is included is fine.

How is lockjaw not getting hit in any way (I guess technically quinjet / thanos hits it but not much). And how is leech untouched (Leech on 5 is fine, leech cheated out is BS).

The Thanos changes are pretty much as expected but the stones are all still stupid strong for 1 drops.

And the Red Skull change really isn't that big a deal since 26 is probably still going to win a massive amounts of game especially since his downside is reduced. The Taskmaster change helps somewhat but it should have functioned that way to begin with and most of the time they are dropping the Shuri target behind protection anyway.

Well then, that's weird and falls into I don't know territory. I'm probably misremembering then but it was fairly fresh in my memory at the time.

It stuck out because I didn't remotely expect it and it would have knocked out both my win with 4 cards and win with 20+ missions. I had actively avoided big drops on Nidavellir because bugle gave me their Shang Chi which they never played. And that was where they dropped She-Hulk and Knull T6.

After driving this morning it's basically situational as to whether I do or not. In my neighborhood not so much as it's all single lane stuff until 1 3 lane road where I just turn right onto it and stay in lane until the highway. I did check them but nowhere close to every 2-3 seconds.

Once I got on the highway I did for the most part but did it less often in the middle when there was a large stretch of just cruising and no chance of lane change and it wasn't overly busy.

Once I was getting off the highway onto the 3 busy 3-4 lanes roads I need to take to get to work I checked them all the time even though traffic behind me was way back and light and I usually only have to only make the one lane change.

I'd be more interested in seeing how many accidents people have gotten into. I've never gotten into one but most of the people I know have. I've only been pulled over once and it was for having my high beams on unnecessarily. I drove a 2 seater sports car at the time that I always left auto lights on. I apparently knocked the switch getting into the car with my knee and didn't notice (it was like a 5 minute drive home and my wife was upset about something so I was talking to her and didn't notice)

Lost a 4 cuber this morning because I wasn't familiar with Ebony Maw's aura/glow thing and wrongly assumed it was a bot thinking it was an impossible card combination (i.e. non split card with on reveal aura). Realized it was not a bot when they did the Ms Marvel bad manners and that Maw had that aura for his cannot play beyond X turn / in this lane reasons

I have an issue with never thinking about prio moving last turn. I've lost multiple matches now from not having prio T5 but taking it for T6 so my planned Enchantress or Shang-Chi don't work. Rather than deliberately staying off prio. But I just never think about it until I then have prio T6 and think 'well fuck'

ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Played Nimrod on Altar of Death Turn 5, with destroyer and carnage in hand.

Snap.

Their card flips first, Scarlet Witch turns it to Wakanda.

The odds of that are basically astronomical, I feel like there HAS to be some sort of invisible weighting system

Something kinda like this happened to me earlier. They beat me with a Knull + She-Hulk turn 6 drop after I used Wave T5. They weren't running any sort of destroy deck and their only Knull power came from a T1 Sokovia which hit my She-Hulk and some 1 cost card for them. So they were running Knull purely as a tech choice for opposing destroy decks I guess. But they also knew to withhold energy T5 too

It was probably a real person running a janky deck but it struck me as a hand reading bot with the way stuff happened that game.

Swapped out Enchantress for Absorbing Man so of course the next 2 games I run into are Patriot deck and then massive Morbius.

Tonight's climb is going well. Started at 76.4 and now I'm 73.8. I think I've won a grand total of 2 games across that stretch and 1 of them was a 1 cube retreat

Yeah that's what I edited in after I thought about it but that seems like an oversight and not how it should work.

Presumably it would operate the same with any temporary cost reduction

Why is my She-Hulk 7 cost? Ice box hit Sunspot. Iceman hit She-Hulk but his ability says maximum of 7

Edit: I think the answer is I skipped T1 so she was 5 cost when she got hit so went up to 6 and then after I played the card turn 2 she defaults back to 6 with the plus 1

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Managed to get it with a decent cushion as I won an 8 cuber at 69.7.

So close to rank wall. Keep bouncing between 68.8 and 69.5. I'm at 69.2 now but I want those 500 credits damnit.

She-Hulk is the only one I've split enough. Most stuff I haven't even upgraded past purple. This is my entire list of infinity splits (I'm CL 898)

She-Hulk x4
Dr Doom x2
Jessica Jones x1
Sentinel x1
Agent 13 x1

Oh, I got my first inked card. I probably should have looked up what it would look like beforehand because it looks pretty bad compared to the original card imo

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Man the peak is no fun for my deck as basically nothing benefits it and a lot of my cards actually suffer. But it's especially unfun when the opponent does T3 Leech into T4 Devil Dino on a flooding location.

Denver have 5th hardest remaining SOS and Kings 18th

Lol. Just had someone snap against me and then their turn 6 play was to drop Zola into a lane protected by Armor where even if it wasn't protected they only had a 50/50 chance of hitting the right card.

Wouldn't you also try running Cerebro in that deck too? Or is it too unreliable? I guess you're only getting 1 lane and not everything so probably not great.

I ended up playing more and dropped down to 65.9. I think meta has shifted somewhat and so now my deck isn't as good against what I'm running into.

I don't mind losing skids most of the time, it's when it comes in a chunk like that as you're approaching a rank wall that makes it suck. I was 15 cubes from the wall and now I'm 41 away. All my previous rank up I've bounced around between a small range before going on a run and breaking through to the next rank. That doesn't seem to be happening in the 60s.

I was caught off guard by Prof X being turned into a Symbiote on Klyntar in one of my losses. I figured he would just lockdown and not change.

I was more dumbfounded that someone actually had him in their deck. And it's not like he was white border so they were trying to get boosters or something

Probably time to take a break. Just had a horrendous run of luck drop 14 cubes in less than 30 minutes.

Had someone drop a Cosmo on T6 with prio to block shang chi which is obviously great play by them but I hate Cosmo so much.

Had someone pull Mbaku post game on the only location that it would win them the game on to win by 1 point.

Had a T6 double Death + double She-Hulk dropped on me which I thought could be the case after they skipped T5 (either that or double Infinaut). It was mainly annoying because I had Shang-Chi in hand but I had priority and I was winning by enough that I probably should stick it out in case they didn't have both of the cards.

Then had a T1 Galactus that ended up being a loss that was 100% my fault and should have been a win. I had played goose T2 so we were both limited in what we could play. I withheld a card on T5 which would have filled my side of the board because he had played Daredevil so I figured may as well wait to T6 to drop it. Except I had dropped storm the previous turn and completely forgot about it. So a 100% win turned into a 2 cube retreat because I was stupid.

There were other losses in there (only the Cosmo one was a 4 cuber) but was still a pretty tilting stretch. So had been at 68.5 and not back at 67.1

Was the only card they played that turn which was weird in itself.

Just had someone Jubilee into Magik on bar with no name. It may have been a bot by the name / avatar. And if it was that just makes me think it knew the outcome of what card Jubilee would pull. Because if a normal person did that it was insane since they were definitely already losing one of the locations, they hadn't drawn any extra cards so their odds must have been shit and I had daredevil active that turn.

It was a zero that got doubled so if they had played a Shuri beforehand (I don't think they did but don't remember), it was an incredibly bad follow up to it.

Which actually brought up another question in one of my matches afterwards but I couldn't get the answer because people are jerks and run leech.

If I Aero on deaths domain do the cards that are pulled get destroyed? Since going off the wording and what happened with Shuri's lab they were played before being pulled so probably don't get destroyed?

I have Galactus in my store now but not pinning it.

Also weird interaction I didn't expect. I play Aero and opponent plays a card on Shuri's lab. Aero pulls the card pre-flip since I had prio. Card still flips with doubled power just without the lab animation.

It makes sense from how the cards / location are written, I just didn't expect it.

Wait what? Why? That's so stupid

Those changes are nice but man 30 rank difference is still pretty large. I feel like you should only be able to match with the rank bracket above and below your current rank.

Daredevil feels pretty OP for his cost. I'd definitely still play him at 2/1 or 3/2-3. Even at 2/0 I'd consider it.

Didn't do a bracket but I am heading to the Amway right now for the games there today

Even though she's fairly common, I never expect Aero when she's dropped against me for some reason.

I'm also bad and never pay attention to priority which has led to many facepalm moments where I drop shang chi or enchantress and they don't do what I want

Does daredevil change snap mechanics?

Turn 5 with Daredevil on the board. Guy snaps and makes his play. I see it's Galactus and can throw down Prof X to win the game so counter snap. He retreats before I make the play.

I thought you couldn't retreat on the same turn you snap? I did get 2 cubes from it instead of 1 but the snap occurred turn 5 and not immediately so I don't think he snapped after cards played turn 4.

Ah of course, that makes sense. Still terrible when it happens

Shattered posted...

Getting only 100 collectors tokens from a cache is so much ass. Long-term it's probably better than the credits or gold (but obviously not a card) but it feels worse.

Also boosters as a reward are silly when they are farmable unlike every other reward

It's like it knew I was complaining about it so gave me another 100 collectors tokens in my next cache for back to back tokens. Not possible at higher levels I think? But possible on the 500-1000 stretch

Getting only 100 collectors tokens from a cache is so much ass. Long-term it's probably better than the credits or gold (but obviously not a card) but it feels worse.

Also boosters as a reward are silly when they are farmable unlike every other reward

Yep. 3-0 in the games I played him quickly this morning. Just gotta learn when to snap with him now or if it's just better to take the 2 cubes.