Marvel Snap’s Worst Card Gets a Much-Needed Rework in Latest Patch

No doubt, Snowguard was considered absolutely the worst card in all of Marvel Snap. Its location-affecting talents had been method too clunky and ineffectual, making it a reasonably terrible card to play. With Snowguard getting rotated into the Spotlight Caches this season, it was crucial that Second Dinner make some essential modifications to it earlier than the group began lamenting having wasted their Caches on such a really, horrible card.

Properly, Second Dinner was on the ball with this one, as Snowguard lastly will get a correct rework this patch. Listed below are the entire card steadiness modifications:

Blade

• [Old] 1/3 – On Reveal: Discard a card out of your hand.
• [New] 1/3 – On Reveal: Discard the rightmost card out of your hand.

Developer Observe: A strong card in early discard methods, Blade has dropped off in each reputation and win share. As we examined weaker playing cards that would use just a little love, we’d additionally been interested by methods we may give just a little push to some discard synergy playing cards, like Hela, Ghost Rider, Swarm, and naturally Apocalypse. As a result of Blade is a card gamers purchase early on, a change carrying out each of those targets wanted to be clear and easy, and we expect this matches the invoice. It may not be sufficient to breathe new life into the daywalker, however we like to search out alternatives for small modifications with the potential to make some attention-grabbing waves.

Soul Stone

• [Old] 1/1 – On Reveal: Draw a card. Ongoing: Enemy playing cards right here have -1 Energy.
• [New] 1/1 – Ongoing: Enemy playing cards right here have -1 Energy.

Developer Observe: It took gamers just a few months to totally grasp the would possibly of Thanos, however since then he’s been a metagame mainstay with a number of stints on the high of the heap. We love Thanos, however his mixture of flexibility and highly effective synergy enablers has confirmed to be a bit harmful over time. We determined we wished to shave a bit of power out of the package, and determined to hit two birds with one stone by simplifying the one card within the package with two talents. We perceive this can be a bit ironic, contemplating the current modifications to Mystique and Rogue to repeat the Soul Stone’s draw impact, however oh effectively. Whereas a significant lack of Energy, we don’t anticipate Thanos to fall out of favor as soon as the mud settles.

Spider-Ham

• [Old] 2/2 – On Reveal: Rework the highest-Price card in your opponent’s hand right into a Pig, conserving its Energy and Price.
• [New] 2/2 – On Reveal: Rework the leftmost card in your opponent’s hand right into a Pig, conserving its Energy and Price.

Developer Observe: As we talked about within the OTA that adjusted Spider-Ham from 1/1 to 2/2, we weren’t pleased with how damaging his impact was to some of our cooler 6-Price playing cards, particularly Apocalypse. Nonetheless, we preferred that Spider-Ham hit a strong candy spot of disruption with out absolutely denying you the cardboard, and even had some danger resulting from Destroyer and Infinaut. This transformation goals to retain these constructive components with out making use of it solely to higher-Price playing cards, and in addition makes the impact rather a lot simpler to mess around in case you suspect Peter Porker is likely to be paying you a go to. The set off will nonetheless hit 6-Price playing cards barely extra usually, since they’ll are inclined to migrate leftward in your hand as you wait to play them, however Apocalypse will safely disguise on the suitable in case you can preserve discarding him.

Snowguard

• [Old] 1/2 – Whereas in your hand, this transforms every flip right into a Hawk or a Bear.
• [Old] Hawk: 1/2 – On Reveal: Ignore all location talents subsequent flip.
• [Old] Bear: 1/2 – On Reveal: Set off the impact of this location.
• [New] 1/2 – On Reveal: Add the Hawk and Bear auroras to your hand.
• [New] Hawk: 2/3 – On Reveal: Ignore all location talents till the top of subsequent flip (or the sport).
• [New] Bear: 2/3 – On Reveal: Set off the impact of this location.

Developer Observe: It appears like each patch contains not less than one wacky, sudden card change today, so right here’s one for at this time! Snowguard has turned out to be a largely unsatisfying card for gamers, posting poor stats on each reputation and precise wins. Our targets for Snowguard had been to create a novel device for Scorching and Featured places which may additionally see some play in Conquest decks seeking to shock the enemy, however we fell quick. In revising the design, we aimed to:

1. Make her stronger. Granting each the Hawk and the Bear is extra whole Energy on-curve, and reduces the variance round whether or not both is helpful.

2. Give her deckbuilding identification. Just a few decks (and extra to come back) already care about including materials from exterior your beginning deck to your hand.

3. Scale back confusion. Outcomes weren’t matching instinct across the Hawk, so we prolonged the window to begin after it resolves. We additionally added textual content clarifying the impact received’t final by way of the top of the sport, even in case you Hawk on the ultimate flip.

4. If attainable, let her variants keep in play. Leaning into summoning as a substitute of remodeling cleanly solved this.

Absorbing Man

• [Old] 4/5 – On Reveal: If the final card you performed has an On Reveal, copy its textual content. (if it’s in play)
• [Change] 4/5 -> 4/4

Developer Observe: What is that this, an OTA patch? After final week’s steadiness updates had been locked, however earlier than they went reside, we noticed an enormous surge within the power and recognition of decks primarily based on the Forge + Brood + Absorbing Man curve. We knew our modifications weakened different high decks, and that the brand new child was already changing into a Huge Deal in ranked and Conquest. We’re usually blissful to let issues breathe for a minute when a brand new deck seems, however this case was distinctive as a result of it risked an particularly boring metagame to let it experience till our subsequent OTA. We determined to make a change now, and we’ll consider it once more with the information gathered from the latest weekend post-OTA.

With the change to Snowguard, Marvel Snap gamers will now have much more management over which turns they wish to truly play out her location results. She’s actually not a strong card by any stretch of the creativeness, however this makes her playable on the very least and she or he ought to begin discovering a house in additional decks going ahead.

Along with the cardboard modifications, Marvel Snap now additionally has leaderboard rankings for Infinite gamers, and the Conquest UX expertise has been streamlined, chopping out loads of the additional screens and faucets in-between matches.

Marvel Snap is now out there on PC and cell gadgets.