Great podcast as always guys. As a dad myself I appreciate the sacrifices you guys make to keep us up to date with everything Snap 😅

@aaronwatts12

2 ай бұрын

Same here

@AchimaelProductions

2 ай бұрын

Member of the dad club and I definitely agree.

@Ejs1ng

2 ай бұрын

Same here! Also! A card game i can play quickly on the fly... God sent! 😂

@shrugsclips1418

2 ай бұрын

This game is tailored for the dads with new borns, as a former competitive pokemon tcg player, this is a addictive substitute for me while holding my new born. 😊

It's not Monday without Alex and Cozy Snap dream team

Doesn’t really feel like a great time for Marvel Snap, but I’m still here to listen to the show. I think that really speaks to the quality of what you two do!

Red Hulk's haircut is a military style cut. That's why it sucks balls 😂

Best way to use USAgent is with Doc Oc. You always pull Shang and another 4-6 drop so he is at least 6 power and protects your 10 power play.

Really trying to come up with an ice cream pun for “Cold Stone Steve Austin”….

@brandaohimself

2 ай бұрын

Cake batter 3 : 16

So I stopped the video before the honorable mentions were made and this is the list I came up with for the best plug-&-play cards: 1.) Shang-Chi 2.) Dr. Doom 3.) Jeff 4.) Nico Minoru 5.) Cable (can't believe it myself) 6.) Nebula 7.) Red Hulk 8.) Cull Obsidian 9.) Iron Lad 10.) Magneto I consider Loki, Annihilus & Sera as needing too much build around to really work in any deck, so they didn't get on my list at all. Vision, Legion, Hope Summers all would have been honorable mentions for me. I can't believe Dr. Doom & Nico Minoru didn't make the list!

@batmanwins5701

2 ай бұрын

Everytime I get beat or win with some tricky magneto shenanigans, I just marvel at how great his design is.

Alex and cozy are the best Marvel snap couple that we need!

I've got a gold split w/ blue krackle Silver Surfer - the Dan Hipp variant. Its my top 3 fav splits for sure, your time will come Alex, we believe in you! Love the content, keep it coming you guys.

I think with cerebo it should nullify locations from manipulating an breaking your cerebo for sure

I think USAgent is massively underrated in junk decks, I’ve been using a junk USAgent deck and I’m making my way to infinite rank pretty quickly using that deck. The Void and Hobgoblin allow you to play him to a lane and practically win it by himself because either they have to play a bunch of low costs or he gets even more value with a high cost card that they have to devote to an otherwise lost lane. I like him a lot and hold out hope that he can get a buff so more people can see how he’s not too bad

@stephenbradford8524

2 ай бұрын

Agent + Hobgoblin is pretty spicy tech.

@gamersableye7396

2 ай бұрын

@@stephenbradford8524 plug the opponent’s lanes with high cost low power cards to get hella value from an otherwise unassuming card is my new favourite thing, I went like 10-2 last night with my version of this deck. White Widow only makes it better so I’m hyped for that

For the ramp counter. It could be an ongoing effect that you have the same energy as your opponent at the start of each turn or something similar.

I did a lot of testing with US Agent and the only archetype that I found worked well with him was a toxic Sera Control. I have about a 60% winrate out of 20 something games. It is 100% an awkward card to play with, but I think he is useable in a competitive manner. This testing was done in my push from 93 to infinite and I'm at 4k+ collection level.

I really wanted U.S Agent but got royally screwed by caches and the bugs. Now I’m only going for White Widow because of the Cannonball synergy

Red hulk just feels like a better blob now. Despite it giving the info of the power scaling to the opponent, its still a bigger 6 stat stick then most other 6 drops. Agatha 14 with jank builds, Orka by himself is 16 power, and destroyer at 16. Its going to trigger often twice because some decks pass t1 or have mana leftover on turns

Card idea regarding extra energy! Ongoing: neither player's energy can exceed the current round # (Idk how best to word it) So they can't ramp at all, but if there's a Limbo both players still get 7 energy on turn 7

@berandomisme

2 ай бұрын

You normally have 7 energy on turn 7

@justBri123

2 ай бұрын

@@berandomisme yea, I was just clarifying you could still get to 7 energy, but ONLY on turn 7 Shuts down cards like Hope Summers completely though, but it would be a cool tech card

@trustmeeyelie2665

2 ай бұрын

I kinda liked where cozy was going with this. I think it'd be cool if there was a card that let you steal your opponent's unused energy. Probably would've made more sense for Dracula than his current ability.

Thanks guys, my war machine lockdown deck has been winning a little too much. Nice to see everyone on the planet started playing vision all of a sudden, my win ratio needed an ego check.

I have an idea for cerebro and I’d love to hear your thoughts. Cerebro should buff cards with the highest BASE power. It would change some interactions between cards like blue marvel in C2, but significantly help how cerebro functions in specific locations. They could also add a card that has the effect “on reveal: destroy your cards here with greater than 0 power.” This could help with locations like x mansion and monster island, but not destroy the green goblin your opponent sent over.

Great episode!

Red Hulk's cut is the classic military cut in the comics.

That Dazzler variant was awesome lol.

Just now during the ad break, I got an ad for the Spiderverse season. Great video fellas!

I love the Snap Chat so much, it's always such a chill listening experience and something that makes Mondays better. I've got a question for next week's mailbag. So in addition to being an avid Marvel Snap player (I've bought every season pass since Black Panther), I am also an avid baseball card collector; the Snap Chat is actually one of my go-to listening options when I'm organizing my collection. So my question is: what physical or digital card games did you guys play before Marvel Snap? So you still play any of them? And, are either of you collectors of any sort?

31:18 I agree with the fun/synergies point. I don’t run Shang because I would rather do something that furthers my game plan. If the opponent has Shang then 🤷‍♂️. Almost feels like the Chavez deck building problem where every deck runs x card and becomes bland and less fun.

I love Cerebro style decks though! That said, I still don't know what could be done to help Cerebro out with a lot of those locations that hurt it.

@ethanmontgomery6132

2 ай бұрын

Could change it to affect the highest BASE power cards, but then that might give ZERO counterplay to it.

27:39 the way Alex was talking here made me think he was gonna joke and troll us all and say a card like Angel 😂

I remember a meta time when Shang was not being seen that much, around the silkysmove meta where even croossbones at 4/8 was played in. That says, Shang is a necessity to put in check to all tall decks.

@rafk2976

2 ай бұрын

The trouble became that those midrange Shang dodging decks were too small to beat the ever increasing beefy dudes of Thanos, Hela etc. At least after original Elsa was nerfed.

Thanks for the video.

Great show gents!

24:59 (Captain America voice) “I understood that reference!”

Mailbag: What do you guys think about a playground type mode. Like trying to learn a deck or just messing around to get a ton of power or even choosing certain locations.

@Kibernizzle

2 ай бұрын

Proving ground is almost a "free" playground, but I like the idea of choosing locations. Each player picks one and third is random maybe.

I opened my Jeff this week. Got very lucky 😃

6 turns without spending the energy, Red Hulk will get +24 extra power. So, he has the total power of 35.

Red Hulk is a lifelong military man. That's why he has that hair cut

For the Cerebro deck question. What if there was a Tribunal style card that distributed card power instead of location power.

As for Cerebro, I’d just make it so that its buff is for the most common power you have. That way you could run some better tech cards and Monster Island and the like won’t ruin you.

Git that new jeff inked with rainbow kirby. Straight fire. Can swap between mygold with white kirby chibi jeff and the new one.

My fav 2 Medusa

Nice to see Havok get some love. He is so underrated.

@user-ht9vj9yn5x

2 ай бұрын

I love havoc. Play him turn 5 on a magic game and it's perfect. Been using him a lot this season as well, with zemo being everywhere he destroys most of their game plan when he locks them into 3 energy per turn.

@JamestheXennial

2 ай бұрын

@@user-ht9vj9yn5x He is god-tier with Hope Summers.

Since you asked, I think there’s something to the location the makes draw random cards every time I’m trying out a new deck. It happens every damn time.

I think a buff for man things and us agent would be to only affect the opponent side1

I think the game needs a draft mode! Love the content guys

I think USAgent should synergize w Cap. Cap gives your cards at that location +1, and USAgent should give enemy cards at that location -1.

USAgent as a 3/5 (or a 3/4?) in Surfer would be cracked. That turn 6 Sera swing would be awesome with perfect information

Mailbag: What you think about the idea of add .5 power to the game (as a buff not probably a solid starting number) . It seems the difference of +1 power or +2 can make or break some cards. So why not meet in the middle. Random example is Angela gaining 1.5 power instead of 1 power or 2 and werewolf by night 1.5 instead of 2 and lower his cost back . Or dark hawk/blob/knull gets .5 power per _______. Not saying all of these need that but it's an example of balancing some of these cards that literally 1 power means the difference between a underperformed card, and a broken card.

Ha! 33.33 repeating of course! Classic.😂

My list of top 12 generically good cards (2 for each cost) would be: 6: Red Hulk, Doom 5: Vision, Legion 4: Shang, Iron Lad 3: Hope, Gladiator 2: Jeff, Armor 1: Nebula, Iceman

Thinking about that las topic with Cerebro rework, what if it buffed cards with the same base power?? Locations would affect him greatly and it would open the floor to multiple combinations. Yes, it would affect C-3 but other than that I feel it would work wonders

Red Hulk is a military man-monster 😂 got to be high and tight on the haircut

Annihilus is one of the cards that make it hard to believe there is not decl based matchmaking. I hardly see it, until I play it🤷

Deck-based matchmaking is just a stupid concept but I don't see how anyone can argue that Conquest location batching is not true. There's just no way that rare locations would come up in every single round. Kamar-Taj in round 1? You betcher ass it'll be in the next 5 rounds, too.

@jelly2882

2 ай бұрын

I actually thought location batching was intended with how often it happens lmao. Sometimes i just retreat when i get a Destroy opponent in round 1 with deaths domain since I know it'll come back again 2 rounds from now

Red hulk has a military haircut!

Man, Genji is even catching strays in Marvel Snap

Mailbag: what can we do for move 😭 could kraven be ongoing +2 for every card that moved this game or a knull type of card that has combined power of all cards moved this game? Maybe a new card that’s like heimdall but to the right? “Moves the cards at this location one location to the right”. Move is my favorite archetype and regardless I have the most fun playing it every season (even tho it’s painful at times). Low key sandman 5 heimdall 6 has been an awesome play recently 🤯

Snap Chat Mailbag: Choose 1 Waffles or Pancakes and why? I prefer pancakes only cause growing up my family never had waffles outside of going to a restaurant. We didn’t own a waffle maker. It’s one of those you think people are rich if they have an ice cube maker/water dispenser in the fridge, etc.

Mailbag: Music time! We know that Alex really loves Dream Theater (so do I 🤘), but what other genre in Metal are you into? And what about Cozy, what music do you like? I'm really into Metalcore and Deathcore.

What are you thoughts on Mill decks? With SD protecting card draw as much as they do, there’s a strange irony in an entire archetype designed to delete your opponent’s deck within a few turns. I think there’s some easy reworks (such as Yondu afflicting negative power to the lowest power card) that could lesson the toxicity of the archetype.

Imo we need a practice mode to test weird interactions

Alex somehow made usagent entertaining to watch but that’s just cause he’s entertaining

Alex, can you do a video on your surfer list? Or at least post the deck code? I’m a big surfer fan, and would love to see your take on the list.

18:11 I was just telling my husband how you can’t be mad at Magneto, it’s just such a good card! And also when me and my husband play against each other he moves my venom with it every time 🤣 funny you mentioned that

@lukejackson4756

2 ай бұрын

How do you play against your husband? The matchmaking is random I thought?

I lost a game to a bot because they went hope for more energy - nico +jubilee to copy which pulled doctor doom and then jubilee to pull infinaut. I was stunned

Alex, other than not sleeping, how do you balance your Snap life and the rest of your life? Like how are you even home on Tuesdays for card release? Does school get out early enough you get to run home?

Got very nostalgic about Havok. Second Dinner need to bring Dark Hawk back so Havok is playable again.

Nobody ever talks about how perfect of a card mystique is. She doesn’t need any nerfs or changes but she does her thing and does it well and nobody is ever like Nerf Mystique!

His haircut is like that because general Ross has a military haircut

I’ve got a question for the mailbag: What are your thoughts/ do you think snap would make a feature where you could friendly battle against your friends? I think this would be a great addition and I would love to watch some Alex and Cosy 1v1s. Love the content as always, it’s the highlight of my Monday’s.

@AlexanderCoccia

2 ай бұрын

Battle mode already in the game!

c3 can put up 2 lanes with 30 and 40 power.

I skipped last week's spotlight for this week's and the card from the random slot I got was red hulk🤣🤣

Cold Stone Steve Austin makes delicious icecream.

The Shang chi "nerf" wasn't a nerf. When they changed him they bumped a lot of others to still be able to get hit by him so there wasn't actually a change. They need to increase his cost or something to actually get his pay rate down. 5 cost 3 power and hits 12 plus power or something. So many decks you have to make chi proof even though they aren't shitting out power like an Evo hulk, red hulk, ect.

@Trocify225

2 ай бұрын

This sounds like I just wanna play big cards without any risk tbh

@user-ht9vj9yn5x

2 ай бұрын

@@Trocify225 not really. The biggest cards I play are maybe sentry or magneto in certain decks. I'm guessing you're someone that can only win with chi though.

@antoniogomez3353

2 ай бұрын

Stop crying

@user-ht9vj9yn5x

2 ай бұрын

@antoniogomez3353 🤣 🤣 🤣 man, people get upset when talking about changing their only win condition. 10 power cards aren't an issue for a decent deck. It's the red hulks, Evo hulks, and infinauts. That's the only time chi should have to be used. Otherwise, you need to tweak your deck.

@user-ht9vj9yn5x

2 ай бұрын

If any other card had the cube rate and meta share like chi, it would be nerfed into the ground. He's a crutch that people rely on to often. If he was nerfed other cards would get more play, take his place, and mix up the meta more. Valk is a great counter for these massive cards that get dropped. Use goose and mobious to prevent these big cards from being dropped. There are other options. Just use your head. It's time he was nerfed. Literally the most over played card.

Great video! As a new player I love the information! I have a question someone fill me in. I started played one day before the last season ended and I had no idea hope summer was locked to the battle pass I would have bought it. Do battle pass locked cards ever become available again?

Marvel Snap! More like Marvel *Snap*tastic! Can't wait to hear Cozy spill the tea on the best cards!

MAILBAG question, I’m not card complete there’s a few cards I’m missing that I don’t want to use resources on (Howard as as example) when using spotlight light keys and your unlucky enough to get the random card and its one you already own is there a worse feeling? Why can’t you at least get a card you don’t own yes it might suck but it gets people closer to being card complete. What do you think can be improved to get more cards?

You say location batching doesn't exist but every time I friendly queue with my friend it happens!!

Mailbag: As a dad myself (have a 11 month old son), I love hearing the Snapdad podcast. Do you guys still look at your kids and think "How the Hell did I help make this?" Also, how do you guys manage KZread and parenting? I'm a small content creator and I've been struggling a lot to make more than a video a month since he was born.

Thanks to usa agent, I can finally save my spotlight key

Mailbag!!! What if we reworked warpath, orca, and Namor to lose power when another card is played there so they have this lizard style text to work with luke cage.

What do u think about a hela rework?: this card can't be discarded. On reveal: summon 1 discarded unit to every location (if possible)

Mailbag: does Alex know what cheek-clapping means

Very surprised Doom missed the cut on the top 10

I didn't think Anni would be near top 5 because he needs his package, he's not good standalone. I think about it as "what cards do I most want to see in a District X game". I figured your top 5 would be in some order Red Hulk, Hope, Shang, Jeff and Dr Doom with an outside chance of Killmonger. Ms Marvel and Angela definitely should be in top 10. I wouldn't have Iron Lad which is definitely deck dependent, or Magneto which is good but can still backfire and is mostly highly played at the moment because it is good to bring back with Hela.

Thoughts on adding the MvC2 art as variants in Marvel Snap?

Clapping cheeks has nothing to do with hands 😂

I have a question: What do you guys think about having a side deck in conquest? (Side deck, like in yugioh, allows you to have a small pool of extra cards that you can switch out in the event that it will help you if you're being hard countered. In yugioh, it's 15 cards.) So for snap, how would you feel about, let's say, a 3-5 card side deck for conquest mode? So that you could switch out tech cards

Mailbag: What do you think if Kang was changed to: Trigger all end of game abilities?

Think I need to start a counter for the phrases “clap your cheeks” and “copium” each week lmao

Mailbag: For Cozy: as a fellow Pats fan, Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels or something else

I think an unexpected Heimdall should be in the top 10 😂

I think White Queen should be reversed iron lad, snag the ability of your opponents top card in their deck. Also, I think Psylock should be a 2/2 that gives you +1 energy when your opponent gets +1 energy.

5:50 Cold stone steve austin 💀🍦🍦💀

What y'all think about Shang chi being a 5/3? That way he's still doing the same toxic action, just not as polarizing in the sense that it can be played with other cards on turn 6. I straight up hated the card forever but at 5 cost it really makes the player think about if its worth playing or not. 5 cost tech cards are just the perfect awkward moment such powerful effects.

Without Zabu 2x 4 cards and Alioth Turn 6 is so important now you should make a video about it. Maybe talk about Ghost a little

Thing is I really wanted us agent spent 2 caches And got galactus and a Jeff skin Jeff skin 💯

My comfort deck is this toxic deck but I’m always tryna go for the onslaught mystique wong hazmat 💀

Yeah i had 6k tokens and tried to figure out who they wouldnt nerf soon ans i ended on Iron Lad

My comfort deck used to be beta ray bill decks cuz I love him sm but they nuked them all :(

Dope fix by SD. Got Jeff, Mirage and 2000 tokens free and my keys back.

33.33 repeating of course

27:19 that’s what I’m worried about SD seems to nerf cards when nobody is complaining about them ie darkhawk and zabu