Marvel snapThe boss of , Ben Brode, recently sat down and talked shop about the popular free-to-play card game. He revealed a few decks he’s currently playing – one of which is a nasty piece of work that’s likely to annoy many players – and said who his favorite character in the game is. It’s Mysterio aka Jake Gyllenhaal in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Movie, Spider-Man: Far From Home. Look, I said I’d explain.
Marvel snap seems to be everywhere these days, with almost every site covering the best and worst cards, strategy, and more. Many igamesnews Staff are playing it right now. My friends play it. Random people I follow on Twitter play it. And I understand! The game is great, change some of the old ways Card games normally work, while loot boxes and pay-to-win elements that so many F2P card games suffer from on mobile are jettisoned. So it makes sense that in the current environment everyone is craving it Marvel snap Contents, Ben Brode sat down IGN and shared his favorite decks, how they work, and why Mysterio of all things is his favorite. (Spoilers: It doesn’t seem to have anything to do with movie star Jake”chesty jake” Gyllenhaal.)
Speak with IGNBrode revealed three decks, he is cjust playing along. The first was what he called the “Omega Red Deck,” built around Iron Man, Onslaught, and Omega Red.
“With that combo,” Brode explained, “you just have a tremendous amount of power in one place, because Omega Red has five times the power, Iron Man doubles it, and then Onslaught doubles it again.” Since Omega Red other zones additional Adding power when placed in a zone where you lead with 10+ power will definitely put the card in a good position to win the match. And Brode uses Invisible Woman to hide all of this until the very last round, keeping your opponent in the dark.
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The second deck he demonstrated was originally called the “Dickwad” deck, but Brode says his son made him change the name to the “Butthead” deck. As the names imply, this deck is all about being super shitty on your opponent, using pesky cards to piss them off and cause problems.
“There’s a lot of really, really mean cards,” Brode admits. “So I play The Hood and then I give you The Hood. It plays Debris, so it fills the board with stones. It plays Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, and Polaris, so I’m basically trying to lock you out of a few locations. And then it plays a bunch of cards like Spider-Woman, Hazmat, and Black Widow to clog up your board and then give all your cards negative power. That’s kind of the shtick.”
I have a deck similar to this one and I feel bad about it, but hey, a win is a win. Speaking of which, this reminds me of a deck our own John Walker has started using lately…
Finally the third deck he talked about IGN was “The Beast” Deck. This is an odd creation, with Brode even admitting he’s not sure how good it could actually be. The deck is filled with almost every low cost card, in fact there isn’t a single four, five or six cost card in the whole thing. The idea was to build a deck around Beast and Falcon.
“So Beast returns your other cards to your hand and they cost one less, so you can make a free card that way,” Brode said. “Then Falcon will give them back and they’re still free. So you can play them multiple times. I play Iceman. i play korg I play Electra. i play hood And The Collector, because I’m throwing the cards back into my hand all the time.” Of all his creations, this one intrigued me the most. Unfortunately I don’t have all the cards needed to run it, but I could make it if I do.
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As for his favorite Mysterio map, Brode said it was one of the earliest maps that the Second Dinner folks started working on Marvel snap Development started more than four years ago. And Brode says it became apparent very early on what was really fun snap: the mind games.
“If you’re playing Mysterio, he’s a five-power card for two energy. Very powerful,” Brode explained. “But he disguises himself and plays two more disguises to the other locations, so your opponent doesn’t know where you played Mysterio. You only see three Mysterio question mark cards. And they have to guess like, “Where would he have played that real Mysterio?”
This creates a very tense situation where your opponent is trying to figure out where is the best zone to play Mysterio in this match. But then they also have to ask themselves: are you playing it somewhere else on purpose, maybe even in a bad position, just to avoid the opponent guessing and countering correctly? Or maybe you build up to put him in a bad position but then put him in a good position, assuming the other player will reconsider your moves? Or maybe… well, you see how that goes.
“So there’s some really interesting mind games with this card,” Brode said. “I just find it fascinating.” See, even Marvel snapThe creator of plays the game like a complete idiot. sorry asshole
