Board 8 > Marvel Snap Topic 21: Meta Pixie Dream Girl

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Are these devs ever going to learn that cost reduction and extra energy are too strong of effects? Hope having vanilla stats and giving 1-3 extra energy a turn is insane. Did they forget you can move cards out of her lane or something?

I'm so confused how this card got released compared to other energy giving cards like Electro.

Main benefit to doing Shuri I can see is doing

Hope -> Shuri -> Magneto (which loads their guys against big Magneto) > Taskmaster

If you're just using Shuri on vision I don't see what Hope is actually adding

Similar to our notes around Luke Cage last month, we've decided we took the wrong tactic with Elsa Bloodstone. Our rebalance to keep this effect local aimed to maintain Elsa's strength as a 2-Cost build-around, but the numbers necessary to make that work don't line up with our goals. So we're shifting Elsa up in Cost to 3/3 and widening the effect to all locations once again. We're also restoring the previous functionality, so that Elsa applies the Power buff before On Reveals resolve, rather than after. We've decided to accept that both versions have some potential to be confusing, but the original execution seems to have more clearly lined up with players' expectations and existing content than our revision. Elsa will once more be able to buff cards like Beast (and unable to buff Brood).

The general direction of Miek was on the right track, but our execution fell short. In particular, interactions with Invisible Woman, Dracula, and Black Cat crossed our bar for frustrating and non-intuitive for many players. Miek still gains just as much Power, counting cards discarded one at a time or in bulk, but that Power will now be added immediately. We've also removed the randomization from Miek's move, giving players the option to make a move during the following turn if any cards were discarded. Overall, it should be a sizable buff to the bug.

Our efforts to differentiate low-Cost card generation have mostly gone well, but Mantis and Cable both came up quite short. We've waited to adjust them further, because ultimately we felt Mantis simply needed a rework in order to find a functional home. This design shifts Mantis's thievery from the deck to copying cards at a location. That can be a lot more powerful if you time it right, because the copy will retain any buffsVenom in particular comes to mind as a very powerful card to copy! We'll keep an eye on the strength of this effect to ensure it finds the right balance point.

With Mantis changing to no longer copy from the deck, that creates room for Cable to move back down to 2-Cost, with a buff from his original 2/2 to boot.

Thanos has proven that combining the "toolbox" abilities of the Infinity Stones with a potent set of endgame cards consistently creates a powerful deck. After "Blob winter" we started looking more closely into exactly how the deck ticks and which parts of it are concerning. Time Stone really stood out as a warping presence in the deck with its ability to often capitalize on strong 5 and 6-Cost plays. We've decided to weaken that angle considerably in the interest of future-facing metagame diversity, so that Thanos isn't the default best way to ramp out those kinds of cards. This change is expected to do some damage to Thanos, but the last few seasons were very good for the Mad Titan so a little break isn't so bad. Once we see how this change affects Thanos decks, we'll look for the right spot to add back some of the strength we took away in previous balance patches. Perhaps Soul Stone took the heat for Time Stone too early?

M'Baku has always been more meme than dream, which is a fine position for some cards to maintainit's pretty fun to watch M'Baku do the thing. However, it's been clear for a while that M'Baku's strength was languishing. We decided to give the jump trigger the same targeting effect seen on Proxima Midnight, aiming for a location where you're more likely to need help. There will always be corner-cases with cards triggering in the endgame, such as Dracula and Captain Marvel, but we believe this is overall a positive. However, M'Baku may be found drinking at the Bar with No Name a bit more often.

Back in the old days, Yondu was a frequent player in Destroy decks thanks to this trigger helping to discount Death while powering up Knull and providing some information. However, recent competition has almost universally left Yondu on the outside looking in as players grow their collection to include stronger synergy elements. This small change aims to give Yondu some new potential to function with cards like Cable and others in the near future that aim to steal cards from your opponent's deck, improving the quality of cards stolen by destroying the "duds" ahead of time. Given the existing effect was already insufficient for Knull to notice, this potential outweighed that consideration.

• Did you look away for a second when your opponent played Turn 1 Yondu?
• Dont you wish you could see what card was destroyed?
• Now you can!
• While in a match, tap your Player Avatar which can be found in the top left corner of the screen. A menu with your emotes will appear.
• At the bottom of that menu, tap on the word Destroyed or Discarded to see cards that have been Destroyed... Or, you guessed it, Discarded! This also works if you tap on your opponent's Player Avatar.
• Note that cards like Wolverine, Sabertooth, and Deadpool wont appear here - theyve been destroyed, but they are not destroyed. Healing factor, what are you going to do?

• As long as your opponent hasnt ended their turn, you can go back to the staging step.

• Custom Border allows you to combine your favorite owned variant art, any border rarity, and a finish/flare combo you own for that variant to make the most stylish card.
• Custom Border appears at the top of your Card Variant list. Add them to your deck and set them as your Favorite to add to future decks easily.
• Complete three total Infinity Splits to unlock the Custom Border feature. After that, any Card with at least 1 Infinity Split has the feature available.
• Stay tuned for more updates to this feature in the future!

No, those cards are not being used much. I think it's not worth getting 1 cube out of Destroy matchups to put those cards in your deck that don't really work against the rest of the meta.

Also wow originally they said that card effects would be tied to the border but that's not the case. So they said if you wanted a custom card to be 3D it would need to have the green border, for example.

But custom cards actually have all of the effects with any border so all of my white border inked cards have full animations and 3D now, very cool.

It's a bummer you can't turn off the card effects though, it says you need to unlock "none" with an inked split but I didn't think that was a possibility.

Well she counts enemies so she COULD get +14 but yeah that seems pretty unlikely.

I mean yeah you can easily build a deck to counter Destroy. The issue is that when you do that you're suddenly going to stop running into destroy decks lol.

There's a reason that Destroy has consistently been one of the top decks in the game since basically day 1 despite having 1000 counters.

Argh they put the Ms Marvel variant I don't want back and removed the Ghost Spider one I did

Where does the Ghost Spider go