The Snap Chat: Marvel Snap Podcast
New Season: Avengers vs X-Men | Ranking Every New Card | February Cards In Review | The Snap Chat Ep. 70
How good is the new upcoming season? What are the top 10 cards you sould be spending your tokens on? What are Cozy and Alex's final rankings on the cards that came out in February? Join Cozy Snap and Alexander Coccia as they chat about this and more on this episode of The Snap Chat and every week as they discuss all things Marvel Snap.
How good is the new upcoming season? What are the top 10 cards you sould be spending your tokens on? What are Cozy and Alex's final rankings on the cards that came out in February? Join Cozy Snap and Alexander Coccia as they chat about this and more on this episode of The Snap Chat and every week as they discuss all things Marvel Snap.
What's going on guys and welcome back. We hit the month of March and we have the Avengers versus X Men and probably one of the craziest months when you look at cards, abilities, and them being extremely plug and playable. Every card seems awesome. But on top of that, we have two cards coming out Tuesday. They're going to dramatically. Shift deck building and the meta with Pixie and Hope Summers. We have the iconic War Machine coming out. And today, Alex and I are going to give our rankings on all the cards, breakdown synergies, and what you need to know heading into this new season. We're going to talk about that all today and more on this episode of the Snapchat. And as always, I am joined by Mr. Alex Coccia. We've got our brand new month of March, man. A brand new season. The end of Infinity Conquest this season. How was the February season? The sunset of it? And how are you doing, bud?
Alexander Coccia:I'm doing great, Cozy, and man, this past season, we got a lot to talk about. It was a wild one in a way that, like, I think there was some unexpected performers, and some other cards did not perform quite as expected. But overall, like, I actually enjoyed the past season. I did. And you know, I found a rekindling of love for, for Loki and Galactus, which I know sounds crazy, and I'm already tilting people out listening, but those are cards that, like, Cozy, I don't know about you, but, like, I often felt bad playing, and I almost never played when they were actually legitimately over tuned and powerful. Because, like, no one wants to watch us play that, right? We always had to brew other stuff, but now that they've kind of fallen off on popularity, I'm like, You know what? I'm gonna play some Loki. I'm gonna rip some Galactus. I've been having fun.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, I haven't played, a lot of those cards. Like, Loki, I just haven't played in forever, but And that's because, yeah, once we've done, like, the video to highlight him They don't change, and especially decks like that, right? It's kind of the same with High Evo. It's like, they don't really change what they do, and so it's kind of the same video or whatever. So yeah, I haven't done Loki in forever, man. I went into Infinity Conquest, my friend, and I beat the game. I can retire happy. Not only did I feel like I beat the game when I got Pixel Coulson just from a cash. I was like Over the moon, but now he's got the shoes on he's got the infinity border. So I've done I'm sun setting I think I might just retire here. You know?
Alexander Coccia:That's beautiful. Like when I first of all amazing video I watched it and I was like, I okay I was like he's probably gonna get the infinity conquest when he has to he's not gonna take us all the way to round five And then lose and miss out on this beautiful close and then when it was up on the screen I was so I'm like, I gotta get it. I gotta get it. Like I have to as well. So It's my next one. I'm targeting that Agent Coulson as well. We can be brothers in Coulson.
Cozy Snap:Oh, dude. We love it, man. Well, we've got, listen, I feel like we say it all the time, but can we, can we agree this season that we have to talk about here, the card potential is absolutely bonkers. I mean, like last season, we had things like kind of targeted toward discard and some Thanos love the season before that kind of all over the place, very mixed bag for archetypes. This season is the season of plug and play fantastic cards. Like, it is so many cards, back after back, that are going to work in a lot of decks. I was doing my star ratings, and I had to, like, hold myself back on some of these. Because they all seem kind of cracked in their own way. And quite honestly, can't remember a season like this since maybe the High Evil one back in the day, bud. But super excited to talk about that on this side. We have a long conversation, usually my favorite video. But what are we talking about? On your side of the Snapchat.
Alexander Coccia:Cozy will be giving our final rankings for the cards of February, 2024. It was a banger month with a lot of surprises. And when we're giving our final thoughts, we'll be talking about the top 10 token shop buys for those that are still looking to get the best value for their tokens and Marvel snap buying competitive cards that can help you rank up and find success. And then finally, as always, our Snapchat mailbag.
Cozy Snap:Well, Alex you know, I felt like I've been doing pretty good lately in life, like, I've been trying to get a little healthier, you know, the new year happened, I was trying to get a bit, a bit healthier, been running a tad more, right, been maybe going to the gym here and there, and then, I got knocked down a peg a couple days ago because, Because of this, man. Did you, did you see this variant? Have you seen this absolute 20 pack Chad Killmonger? And not only that, we have not had a good Killmonger variant, really, at all. And then we get this. What is, what am I supposed to do with this?
Alexander Coccia:I mean, honestly, it looks exactly like me. I almost sued Second Dinner for like like taking my likeness and using it in their product without recognition of it. I was on stream and I was like, do I buy this? I was like, yeah, I buy it. I'm like, I can't, it's so intimidating. I can't, I'll, I'll never look like this. And I was like, no, no. No, no, I'm getting the fantasy one that's coming out. Everyone's like boo. I'm like, no, I'm gonna get the fantasy ultimate. I'm not gonna spend the 1200. Everyone's like boo. It's saucy. It's definitely a fan favorite. I gotta tell you.
Cozy Snap:Art Germ is a great artist and he also makes the, the, the sauciest variants is the best way to put it. A lot of great ones came out during that drop and we got a good season, man. We got a good season. We did not see any new features or anything in the dev video. Hoping that that was just kind of like we, we didn't have anything planned for that at the time being. However, I had the fortunate opportunity to be featured in there, and I was, like, looking at the script, I'm like, Oh! I don't have any lines on anything new coming on, on that. But either way, man, it's gonna be a fantastic season. There's so many places to start, and we gotta start with the, the season pass card. Alex, dare I say, Hope Summers. We've seen changes on just about every card this month. This is the one we have to start with, obviously, though. We've Hope Summers is a three cost, four power card now. Few changes there. The ability, after you play a card where she is played, you get plus one energy on your next turn. Obviously, if you play multiple cards, you're gonna have multiple energy stacking on each other to play for the next turn. This is gonna be a fun, final rankings between us two, especially next month when we look back, cause this is gonna be tough. But we start with the Season Pass card. Hit me with the early impression star rating.
Alexander Coccia:I'm so nervous because everything I've started in the last two months has been literally the polar opposite, right? Like it's so like, for me, I look at this and I'm like, this has to be, and I know I said this in the past, but this, this cannot not be a five star card, right? Like, there's no way this is not a five star card. This is basically legitimate, insane power creep over the nerfed Elsa Bloodstone. And it's like, it's so unbelievably good. There's no way it's not five stars.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, so okay When I was going through all the cards and giving my star ratings, like, I was giving out a couple fives, and I'm like, Oh man, I gotta, so I have her at 4. 5. I have her right, right there. Just a, just a half a star off from giving her the perfect rating for, like, one or two small, small reasons. But my god, this is a card that, like, even if you don't typically get season passes, like, you would get this one and feel good about it moving forward. Almost reminds me a lot of something like Ms. Marvel, where she just goes into the deck. No one's really gonna do that role. I mean, you have, like, you know, whatever, Electro, things like that, but no one does that role. She superfies an archetype, even more so, and she is just truly, insanely plug and playable. So, I agree, buddy. We gotta start here, season pass card. Feels good to have a solid one after Black Swan and Scar. Where do we start here, man? Where do we start with the synergies? Where do you like Hope Summer's the best? There's a lot to kind of break down here.
Alexander Coccia:First off, I want to make a statement. I don't think Koji should be allowed to give 5 anymore. Like, you should be going 4, you should be going 5. I need you to stick to your guns, sir. No. You want this to be a 5 star car. I know you do. You don't want to see 5.
Cozy Snap:You know what? You're welcome to come to this side. You can come to the light side and do the half stars. They feel good. And you can kind of like, if you're not sure, you can just go in the middle. I know you're usually like, you're a 5 star, 1 star kind of guy. But Alex, go ahead and tell me on it. Why do you like her at the 5 stars? What do you think about Synergy?
Alexander Coccia:I just think Synergistically, I mean, she's gonna do everything that It's, I just don't see how this cardcould be bad. Like, when I was thinking about this cardand trying to come up with, like, deck designs in advance, I was like, this is very Like, analogous to the original Alice in Bloodstone. The kind of cards that can be played there, moved, pumped up, right? Like, the Jeffs, the Nightcrawlers, the Visions, right? Silk. The kind of cards that will get in there, get out, and allow you to repeatedly force this effect. It's like having Corvus, that you can proc at will, but not actually discarding cards. It's like having Electro, where you can play into it, and maybe even not just burst by one energy, but by two energy! Like, you can burst by multiple energies. We haven't had that before, right? It's like, you're cheating two men. Like it's crazy. You'd have to like have multiple time stones in your hand somehow to be able to do that or whatever. Right. So I think the potential for this card is absolutely massive. And I'm going to lead our conversation with, I think the mobile cards, like the silky smooth style decks, the ones that have those, the mobility, I think it will be the ones to obviously benefit.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, and I think there's a reason that we haven't seen an Elsa buff is that I think not only she really won't need one a ton after being in this kind of archetype because it fits so well, but we still want her to get one, and I think it'll happen when we get the monthly reset. That's going to be my, my prediction here. No question, that playstyle is super fun, and it's just, it flows well. There's a lot of options. So, right off the bat, for sure, man, like Nightcrawler Jeff, as you've said, Those are just going to work with Elsa Bloodstone and Hope Summers. Ones that you want to play all in the one location and continue to get the effect. Kitty Pride obviously being probably one of the better synergized cards, because what's really cool is you essentially, you're using that cost to guarantee that you get to always play Kitty the next turn. For free, which is, even just that alone is gonna be amazing, especially if Elsa's on the board. You can stack that up, get her really high, and, and, who knows, man, the return of the Shuri Kitty Taskmaster deck, I think, is gonna come full force with this, no question. What's really cool is Hope Summers is, is, is really powerful in Marvel. Really powerful, and we've got her, we've got War Machine this month, we have a lot of iconic Kind of cards and characters. I think people have asked me before which ones I'm waiting for. And I had War Machine on there a good chunk of the time. Just pumped to see all these cards coming to the game, buddy. But yeah, no question, really good synergy there. That is going to be where I think a lot of people are going to lean into for Hope Summers whenever she comes out. It's gonna be a really cool week because there's gonna be so many decks to try, right? Like, she's gonna elevate archetypes, and then she's going to open up her own buddy. What I see is what we've leaned into a bit, and that is just Just the ramp option of having the sixes do their thing, right? We got to remember she's a three cost card, which is why I have her at 4. 5. So you're only going to get a couple of turns here where you can really take advantage of that energy. But man, we've seen it before playing sixes and playing those those fives even early. It is a massive, massive swing. Talk about some of those cards that in that category that you're just like, you're pumped to include with Hope.
Alexander Coccia:Buddy, the first deck that I have designed that I can't wait to showcase on Tuesday, the core focus of it is Hope Summer's On 3 Rescue. On four, into Doctor Doom Odin, like it's, it's actually incredible because you got that verticality of the the, the rescue while also going extremely wide. And it's like, and you're just playing on top of the Hope Summers anyway with rescue, right? It's a little predictable, sure. But ain't nobody gonna be expecting rescue, and I think that this card is gonna bring out some of that. The opportunity to have these high impact four, like, four cost plays. Like, if you think about what traditional ramp was doing, like Electro, you often didn't even put four costs in your deck. It's You often try to skip it, skip to the vision, skip to the whatever. But with Hope Summers, you want a high impact 4, so you can skip 5. It's a different kind of ramp. So I really like that, and I was leaning towards a rescue combination to get some verticality.
Cozy Snap:First I commend you for avoiding to say the word foreplay. I can't tell you how many times that has happened. There's a lot of dangerous words. Just dark, hawk, alone. The amount of times I have to really make sure I nail that pronunciation. Yeah dude. You hit it on the head. I used to say that all the time. You hit the nail on the head there, though. In general, I feel like what's cool about her is that if you put her into a deck, there's only 12, you know, cards in there, it's like, even, it doesn't, there's a lot of decks that if you draw Hope, it's like, fantastic. Like, you, you are making up ground with her anyway if you didn't get one of your other cards, because maybe if you couldn't play a card on three you know, you have a lot of high cost cards in the hand, right? That's when you can drop the Dooms and whatnot. I agree, love that, love that spot for her. Bro, I think also, the people that love the tried and true decks of, and I know you were a big fan for a very long time of this, but the Infinite She Hulk decks, I mean, the fact that we can now remove magic From not the deck, but the equation of the must have, to where we can reliably skip turn six, she completely takes over the, the versions of the deck that had Psylocke in there, right? And now you can full float that She Hulk, play Infi Naut down, same turn, that's awesome alone. You can't play Infi Naut down on five, right? Because obviously, to ramp into that, you'd need to play something down, you know, on four, so that wouldn't work with Infi Naut's kit, necessarily. But it just, I feel like it adds a lot of fuel to sunspot and skipping turns with energy so that your other guys pop off like Cyclops. The High Evo Infanon deck I think is a natural home for Hulk.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, anytime you can really take advantage of that extra energy, then absolutely, you want it. And the other thing that I think gets missed about the High Evo style decks, is that the turn six skip is actually when you're most vulnerable. And if you can avoid that, if you can cut that, like, that negative component of that deck out completely, and allowing you to do what you want to do in six turns, Then you're not getting caught off guard with the Snowguard Hawk or the Reality Stone or a Legion or whatever, right? So, yeah, absolutely cozy. There's a lot of potential there.
Cozy Snap:And especially because of, you know, just Hela and things like that out there. And now, like, just having Infinite Shield, these big, big power cards to really compete is awesome. And dude, you can even maybe, maybe get Shuri into the mix. I mean, there's Having that one extra energy is going to really start to build up over time. And another, you know, avenue, actually I can give you the floor real quick. Anywhere else for you before I kind of finish off with the last couple synergies. I have two more archetypes I love.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, I don't want to steal the thunder because I'm sure you might end up talking about Destroy. I think Destroy could actually take advantage of this to some degree. Although they have Energy Ramp in X23, I think that what you might see is like an opportunity to use Hope Summers. Build up additional power, but then as you play cards into Hope Summers, like you can play Hope Summers, Deadpool, Venom, and now all of a sudden you have all that extra energy. You can play Zola out early, not Zola, sorry. You probably play your Gnoll out early to allow for a later Zola. You get a more reliable capability of getting Deadpool out. Cause like, listen, you want to destroy that X 23, but that bounce on X 23 could be a little bit of a betrayal at times. Right? So I do think that that there could be some potential there because the three, four stat line feeds the Venom enough. And then that extra energy, I feel like Destroy does make good use of it.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, I was thinking about Destroy, and then I was like, well, you don't want to kill Hope Summers, but then I was thinking about some other things that you could do in there for sure. Like, also combining them two is also correct. Like, if you have X23 down, you play Killmonger in the Hope Summers lane. Hey, fantastic. You just got plus two energy on that. Where I love to see it the most, or where I can see Destroy working out, to your point there, is Nimrod decks, man. Like, Nimrod loves Psylocke, but where this has the advantage is, you don't really destroy a lot till turn six. Like, you're kind of just trying to get the Nimrod out there, and that's where I think you can really pop off with Hope Summers, right? Because you can just immediately get the, the Nimrod out early, very dependably, and then kind of go from there. So yeah, I do like Destroy there. I want to see if it can stack up. And again, work its way into a slot now. I think Destroy and Discard, we can both agree, are probably the most tight list these days. So definitely be interesting in there. Bro, I think, just bottom line, I mean, how have we not talked about? I, I've been doing a lot more than lately, Surfer, Surfer, Surfer. Is this going to cut Sarah from Surfer Dex, or is it just going to be an awesome replacement? But if you don't get Sarah, great. You have another chance to be able to play multiple cards on turn six. You know how big that is, man. This is massive now that we can do that reliably and fix a core issue. But never mind that in Surferdex. She's also a three cost, right? So it's two birds, one stone.
Alexander Coccia:I actually had given some thought about Surfer, and I haven't quite figured that list out yet. Because, if you think about it, Serah's a discount of 3 energy on turn 6, right? What do you play on turn 5 that essentially provides you with 3 energy? And I couldn't figure that out, because you're playing a 3 drop and a 2 drop, or a 3 drop and 2 1s to get to that. Because with Serah, you're playing 3 3 drops, right? So that's 3 net energy saved. And so like, I haven't figured that deck out yet, but maybe with Kitty Pride With, with Elsa, with something else, with a different, complete style of surfer deck, you can generate enough value to make it worthwhile. Because she's also like, playing Sarah is, it's, it's great for turn six, but it's actually a really weak body on turn five. Yep. And I think that like surfer, any deck likes to put up power. And there's actually been a lot of people, including myself, who have tried to take Sarah out of surfer as a whole and play more high impact five drops, even arrows or spider a woman's based on the meta with Thanos. And so like, Sarah has had these moments of being replaceable, so I'm not quite there yet deck building wise, Cozy, but I think you might be on to something.
Cozy Snap:I mean, essentially, gone are the days of the pure surfer decks. Like, they work, they can, you know, you still got the rogues, you have counters, they can pop off. But I do agree for me, my thought was like, you know, I just did this Patriot Surfer deck where it's like, man, even 7 energy on there where you can get the lat off with a 3 cost, can feel really strong, there's a couple 2s in there. The Sinister and stuff like that. I'm going to talk about that deck more when we get to some other cards here. But yeah, just her being a three cost kind of fits right in there. We could have another Mobius situation where it's like, do you even, you know, it's a three cost, but kind of, it's just going to work as a plug and play card in other decks. But naturally wanted to bring that up. And then for me, man, as I started to think about some other options. You know, we lost, we took a big hit with Darkhawk, obviously, which you guys, you can see on our topics, we actually don't have the OTA review, so we can, you know, kind of quickly go through a couple things here. But Darkhawk taking that massive hit also, in turn, kind of hurt Ravonna in some of her more core builds, I would say. And so, I kind of look forward to seeing if we can get back what this old style discount disrupt deck that I used to have that was using Green Goblin and Hobgoblin with Ravonna with Energy Cheating. And I love the idea of popping down Green Goblin on top of your Hope, getting the bonus, junking their side, next turn that gives you an Energy so you can play Hobgoblin. into her lane, and then you get another energy the next turn, all while killing a lane completely. I think it's a really cool idea.
Alexander Coccia:That's cool. I like that idea of using the goblins to basically keep that space open for Hope Summers, while also impacting your opponent's board. It's basically like what the movement style cards like Vision and Nightcrawler and Jeff do. They get out of the way, except you're going on the other side of the board, right? Which is kind of interesting, right? Keeping that space open, I think, is valuable for someone like Hope Summers. On the note of Ravonna though, it's funny you mention that because the Galactus deck that I worked on, I just released a video on, it was a deck that I was like, I could cut Ravonna from this deck and I was like, I was wondering why I'm like, you know what, no, I'm keeping it for the goblins and what I did is this with Ravonna, I added Daredevil. And the reason why I did this was because if I can, if I get Ravonna out early as a 2 3 body, that's great. That allows me to play Hob on turn 4. But if I don't get Ravonna out, I probably got Daredevil out. Which is nice, because then I can guarantee my, my Hobgoblin hit on turn 5. And so if I couldn't get it out early, I can get it out reliably with the, the Daredevil. And that's kind of the, the copium that I went through with Ravonna. But you're right, she's, getting that Darkhawk nerf did impact Ravonna quite significantly.
Cozy Snap:I mean, to your point though It's a great point at that. Really, Galactus decks, right? Like Electro is, is always the core, because it's like, hey, I'm gonna take that energy. Wave is great, but then we always have to remember, right? Like, you're giving them the option to wave out too, so they can do the Doom, they can do whatever to just stop your Galactus. I feel like Hope is Exactly what Galactus wants, right? Because Galactus can have Wolverine, it can have the goblins, it has that synergy package already. And what do you want to do with Galactus? You want to play him on another lane anyway. So playing into Hope's lane, it's like, hey, sign me up. You don't really care about filling up the lane that you're already trying to do, and you can get Galactus out. So I do see Galactus also getting some love anytime we get Ramp with Hope Summers.
Alexander Coccia:That's fair, absolutely fair. He loves ramp and the other thing that Galactus loves is coming by surprise. And I think that Hope Summers doesn't necessarily like sell a Galactus deck. Like you used to see like, Oh, Wolverine into Wave. You know, you know, what's up, you know, what's up every single time. Right. Hope Summers though, especially since Hope Summer is going to have like very, very like a wide applicable play, right? Like it's going to go in so many different archetypes. It's very hard to see Hope Summers say. That's a Galactus player. You just, you just can't.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, and that's a, that's really a great point, because honestly, that's one of the biggest things around her, is she is gonna be like Wave in that instance, like, but even, even more different, right? Because like Wave, you really play like a lot of high cost cards, and you can kind of deduce like, okay, Galactus is an option. Hope kind of likes cheap cards in a way, too, because you can, you know, you want to fill her lane out. So I would say this is a great disguise for not only Galactus, but then all these other decks that we just kind of talked about. Which is where I see, like, these kind of six drop bombs being really helpful, because they're not going to know what you could have in the deck. Could you pop out the Doom early and get priority, and then all of a sudden you can just easy Alioth, right? Do you then play Doom on that, or Odin on that? Do you blob? Do you There's just a lot there. And I truly think it's going to take, I don't need to know if you should get her, you definitely should get her, but to see the best decks, it's probably going to be the course of the season as we flavor up some new builds, and I'm telling you now, she's going to be very important in Marvel Snap moving forward.
Alexander Coccia:Oh, absolutely. Like I, again, I'm going to say it again. And I'm just going to curse this card even more. There's no way this card is not fantastic. There's just no way because it's, it has such a wide range of decks and honestly, the effect is so unbelievably powerful and we have a lot of tools already in Marvel snap that we can use to activate this effect to good effectiveness, which is kind of a funny sentence to say, but you guys know what I mean, right? You guys know what I mean? This card is going to slap.
Cozy Snap:Yep. No question, man. So Hope Summers is the season pass card, but. Tuesdays now are absolutely crazy at the start of the season because we have not one, we got two cards, Alex, coming out, we have a ton of cards coming out this week and so that takes us to our next card in the conversation, also coming out on Tuesday, I've seen a lot of mixed opinions, I think people are going to have continue to have mixed opinions on it, but if you don't know, Pixie is a two cost, one power card, she has the ability of on reveal, shuffle the costs, Of all the cards in your deck, that started there, and Alex, I am, I am pumped to talk about Pixie. I'm gonna, I'm gonna open the floor. Don't say anything except the rating. What do you give Pixie?
Alexander Coccia:Oh man, I wanna just say the number, but here's the problem. I literally wrote down in my notes, impossible to star rate. That's what I wrote. I don't know, man. I don't know. Like, I honestly, I'll give a five, I'll take a chance on a five star, I'll take a chance on a one star. I am not the kind of person that'll shy away from an opinion. Dude, I don't know. This is one of those cards, I'm like, I have no idea how it's going to shake up in the meta like it could be five it could be one and nowhere in between i have no idea.
Cozy Snap:We've only had a couple cards like that and most of them tend towards the higher end right i think have it kind of went through the lower end after some while but yeah nico was a big one in that right Here's the deal. Agreed. My notes, I have 3 star, 5 star, nothing else. Like, it's either one of those. So, and I'll tell you kind of the argument for both and why I see her being either the next Loki, which is the title, legit the next Loki, or not that great, or at least the 3 cost card with like a really fun new archetype. Let's start here, guys. Pixie is going to open up some fun in Marvel Snap. I mean, if you like to have chaos, if you like to enjoy a deck style that does not exist, And you want to make a new archetype of a deck, Pixie is going to be the card for you, I can tell you that, no question. Even more so than Hope Summers, which is kind of crazy. I thought maybe they should even space these two cards out because they're both doing something so dramatically insane. But, let's go in and break down her synergies and where we see her fit. So, let's start with the argument for 3 and 5. So, for the 3 side of things She's shuffling the cost. I want people to know that, right? So, you need to not get too greedy in your deck design, and if players can do that, I think they're going to access a much better Pixie, right? Because if you put all these six costs, and then Wasp and Yellowjacket, and they're shuffling around, your Infinite's going to trade with your Dr. Doom, and your Dr. Doom's going to trade with your, you know, Ultra, whatever the heck, right? And then it's just still six costs, and then maybe your Wasp and your Yellowjacket swap. That's where I see people kind of going too far into it, if that makes sense. But then, Alex, on the other side of things, right, if you can just create a value list where you've got Dr. Doom and Alioth, maybe in like a lockdown deck, and you can throw in a Wasp, you can throw in a couple 1 cost Nightcrawlers, Jeffs. And then a couple Synergy cards we'll talk about. Hey, a 2 cost Dr. Doom, that's a game winner. That's a game winner. You playing all these on turn 6, turn 5, they don't know it, game winner. You're snapping alone, I'm telling you, the reason she's gonna be so good, especially in Conquest, but in just general play, is that she's gonna be great at playing her. And then Bluff Snapping. People are not going to know. It's like the peak all over again. I think that's going to be her best trait.
Alexander Coccia:It's a good point. The ability to snap with, like, you can't snap before you play Pixie. But when you snap after, your opponent is shaking in their boots, right? It's like, oh, they're going to turn 3 Galactus me, right? It's like, it's kind of crazy what you can do. But yeah, this card has so much potential, but it's so completely wild. Just wild. And I got a point though. And you're sipping a little bit of grape juice over there. Cause if you think that people aren't going to be greedy when they make their first X with Pixie, that's exactly what's going to happen, right? Like that, you know, what's going to happen, right? But the thing that I had this, I had this thought, I was like, you know what? I'm going to go. I have a colleague that I work with who is like a like a former professor of statistics. And I almost wanted to take them pixie and show them a bunch of cards and snap be like, what would be the actual proper like parabola? I'm not a math guy. That would be like the ideal, like a number of low cost cards and high cost cards to increase to have the maximum chances of doing appropriate swaps to make you win. Like, have the most reliable effect possible. Like, I almost want an actual mathematician to do that work.
Cozy Snap:Cause I ain't doing it. I mean, dude, we've, we've seen that with like Blob and stuff, right? We're like, Oh, he's okay. He's a pretty good card. He'll get big or whatever. And then we saw over time, like, Oh man, he gets really big. Right. With Pixie, yes, there's the randomness, and to your point, you're gonna have to have that, like, formula. Like, we're gonna know off the top of our heads in a month, like, two fours, one three, whatever, right? but Alex Coccia, what has me giving her I'm leaning more towards the five star, kind of top in, 4. 5, four star. What's leaning me towards that direction? And she reminds me so much of Loki, but also, let's just quickly talk about two cards that I think synergistically are going to be busted. Now we've already kind of hinted at this, I believe, before when we talked about this card. I don't know when we talked about this card before in the Snapchat, but I know we did. Obviously Bring the Jet Ski up, let's go. Yeah, where's he up? Where's the Where's my Jet Ski? I can't find it. Mobius, in Mobius, is going to be essential in decks for a while. You shut down what Pixie does, which is awesome. I mean, obviously, very important that Mobius is going to do that. But on top of that, if you have that in your Pixie deck, what's great is, it's offensive, hardcore. If you change your Nightcrawler to a Dr. Doom, hey, no worries. It's still a Nightcrawler. And that's where I think things like Control decks, where you have a couple great 6 costs. And then you have all these low one cost cards is awesome. I mean, you're looking at a one cost Professor X. It's gonna be wild and having Mobius in there is one of the reasons. But then, Alex, this is where I'm like, okay, that maybe bumps her up a little bit more. But what goes with Mobius, what goes with Pixie, hear me out. I just talked about them. This could be dangerous, and let me tell you why. You have Loki, you have Mobius, you have Pixie. What happens here is, you Pixie out! And then if you don't like what happened, and maybe you don't have Mobius, you just Loki your hand. You just, you just restart the hand, right? Like, you have three chances between Mobius, Loki, and Pixie to have some pop off. It's true. You do. Crazy.
Alexander Coccia:You definitely do. Yeah, it's kind of crazy, but like, the thing that kind of keeps it in check is like, they kind of have to be in your hand. Like, if, if Mobius gets swapped, and then like, cause Mobius is kind of a safety, like, catch all. He's like a safety blanket for it. So if you Pixie on two, and Mobius is in your hand, and you're like, whoa, I just Everything I'm drawing sucks, you can Mobius on three and make sure that there's no, there's no negative impact, right? However, if he's in the deck, he might have been swapped to six power, right? So, like, you don't know.
Cozy Snap:Yes, but I feel like if you have, like, let's say, Snow Guard Maria Hill, like, some one drops, right? All the six drops, and then all of a sudden you just have Pixie, Loki, Mobius. I feel like that's three different options to really make sure you can at least get a winnable play line for sure. But yes, typically you'll need one of those in your hand, right? Like to really feel confident in that. I just, I can't stop thinking about how many times I've lost to the peak. And how many times, having that advantage over my opponent, having to ramp the Raph card, they don't know what it is. I just can see a lot of people losing to, to, to Dr. Dooms, that are 2 cost, followed by an Arnim Zola that's a 3 cost, both on turn 5, putting 2 more Dooms out and filling the board. Like, there's just a lot of crazy things that can happen with Pixie, and that's what has me nervous, and kind of being on the over hype train, because why not?
Alexander Coccia:I love that call, and it actually reminded me, like, I don't know if you saw, but on Twitter, Glenn put out a negative deck that actually I was playing was a ton of fun, and it had Loki as, like, this emergency parachute of, like, Well, everything's going bad, I never drew Mr. Negative. Boom, Loki! Right? And it worked, and I played him, like, man, Loki's actually pretty good here, because if you don't get, like, the nut draw, you do have your backup plan, and sometimes, honestly, in Snap, having a good backup plan is enough to get those cubes, right? And so, yeah, Pixie's pretty wild, and I think a good point of conversation here is to talk about, I think there's three cards that are actually synergistic in a fun way, naturally, a lot of talk around yellow jacket and wasp for obvious greedy reasons, but can I throw like, if you're going to use those two. Is there a chance that Jane Foster could actually make an appearance here?
Cozy Snap:Yeah, I had that on my notes. I had Jane Foster here, because I'm like, Hey, you know, she's already a five, right? So if she goes to a six, it's like, ah, bummer. But if she goes anything cheaper, you're like, you have the chance to, you know, get her out on three or some BS. And then you pull whatever Wasp and Yellowjacket ended up switching with. I want to see the play line. Like, I want to see how many times I end up with one of these. I think at the end of the day, I feel like you only have Wasp or Yellowjacket because then it's like, I don't know, you, they could swap too. It has been nervous. I, we're gonna have to see how the, the, the shuffling goes into your point, like the statistics, right? Like we can't get five, six costs because you know they're gonna swap with each other too often. But yes, I understand your point. I totally think there could be a deck there where you could get something rolling, maybe even with Thor there to get even more synergy. Lockjaw we know has changed. Janejaw is probably dead a little bit, but this could restore some of that, some more, because now we have even more synergistic. Plays into Six Cost, right? Like, you get the Six Cost coming out of Lockjaw, but then you have Wasp in there. Definitely could see some synergy in the re emergence of Lockjaw with Jane.
Alexander Coccia:This is one of those cards as well, I just want to throw out that I feel like I would have liked this one to be a Season 4 Series 4 card. Because I think that it has enough fun potential that I would like to see it in the hands of more players. Even if it like, completely shatters the meta, becomes like the most powerful deck archetype in Marvel Snap and has to get tuned down or whatever, okay? Like, fine. But I don't know if it'll do that. I think it'll be good. I think there's gonna be some really good combinations. But at the very least, I think it's a super fun card. I would've liked to have seen it been a little more accessible.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, just on that note, we need to just address, it's just disappointing to see that we don't have any series 4. Like, I feel like having Having a Series 4 at the minimum, right? It just, it makes everything better in this season, and it's not really a loss on them. And you typically can do it towards a card like this, right, where it's like, it's more of a fun card to give access to everybody. We had it for a while, and it felt really good. So, you know, dev team, if you guys are listening, I really think that you guys should bring back Series 4, at least for one card, no question. We don't need to see all Series 5, especially in a month like this. Where they're all great, and it just makes it difficult to decide.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, this month is actually a banger, and like, it's the one thing that holds it back a bit, is I feel like there's gonna be a lot of weeks, where a lot of the cards are gonna be hyped. Every Tuesday, everyone's YouTube feed is gonna be a bunch of hyped videos, because these cards are super awesome, right? And like, it's just hard. It is so hard to have enough resources to participate each week. Like, a free to play player, like, I don't know how you guys do it. You can't. You just can't, right? My heart actually aches for you guys. It really does, because this month is going to be one of those months where I think that, like, the inaccessibility of cards might come up. But we know Spotlight Caches are getting, like, Spotlights are getting more cards into the hands of players. We know that, right? That has been confirmed by the dev team. But still, especially since now we have an added launch the first week of every single season, it's tough.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, no question about it. Hopefully the feedback is loud and clear on their end. But we got a lot more cards to talk about, so we'll move on from Pixie. Obviously, we could save more Synergy cards, like any of the six costs, right? We could just start naming those off. But let's go ahead and move on. To another very appetizing card, one of the best base variants I've seen in Marvel Snap, and that is Mockingbird, and oh boy guys, Mockingbird, she is a 5 cost, 9 power card, 9 power Alex, costs 1 less for each card you have in play that didn't start in your deck. Alex Coccia, saying nothing but the star rating. What do you got?
Alexander Coccia:I have four, but I was close to dropping another five banger. I was close. This is, if I can say the cozy four and a half, I'd even go as close as 4. 7.
Cozy Snap:Oh, he's coming, he's coming to the light side. Guys, we've done did it. This looks like literally a light side, like Star Wars character card with the background and everything. So I guess it's fitting. Yeah, dude, 4. 5 is what I did have too. So I had 4. 5. Whew, let's break it down. I think this is what everybody needs to understand before we go into the synergistic plays, Alex, and why we're both so obviously high on this card. Oh, guys Brood, Mr. Sinister, Dr. Doom, Squirrel Girl, the Raptors, all of these count. All of these count for Mockingbird, so right off the bat, Brood is taking Mockingbird down to a three cost card. Just that sentence alone is so funny to me, playing Brood into Absorbing Man. If you guys haven't seen it, my favorite deck the last two seasons, no question about it, has been a Patriot deck. I just did a video on it, and that deck is going to welcome Mockingbird perfectly into it. There's no I think she is a massive card for Patriot, but that one core aspect, Alex, of having the benefit of multiple token cards. Game changer.
Alexander Coccia:Buddy, my notes literally say in caps, Ideal Patriot card. Ideal. Like, honestly, it is. And and it really just, it's so much value. It's crazy. And the thing about Patriot is you have all these cards that like, tend to go really wide. Like you have Sinister, you've got Squirrel Girl, you've got Brood, as you've mentioned. If you want to go to the Abs Man, like, kind of full Mysterio. Agreed. And like, yeah, exactly. Right? But you don't have a lot of that, like, just single file vertical threats. You just don't. But Mockingbird represents that. Like, you're able to say, Okay, hold on, hold on. We got a lot of power here. We got a lot of power there. But I just need, like, a little chunk right somewhere, right? Right in that, that brood lane. We need a little bit of chalkiness. Boom. Right? There's a good chance that she's free. There's literally a good chance that she's free on a regular basis.
Cozy Snap:A great chance. A great chance she's free. And it's just Again, it's just like Corvus and Discard. It's just, the deck is doing what it's already doing, and then you have this card at access. And there's so, guys, I've been playing Patriot so much that I can tell you firmly, confidently, there are so many different turns that you'll, you want to play Patriot. But it's like turn five and you're like, I don't, I don't know, do I like, do I just play this down though to set up my turn six? But now it's like, you're going to have this as this nice little filler card that can kind of fit in there. And not to mention, I, I, well, we'll have to see because again, I'm playing that Surfer Patriot kind of mixed breed of a deck. The thing about it is like, even just general Surfer at this point, right? Surfer's the same story. You want to have a card you can kind of just like, shove in there sometimes. And even just the access of something like Brood is going to be cool. This is, the next card I'm going to bring up is not one you would play in Surfer. But, her possibilities go as far as something even like Shauna. Shauna's pumping down three cards at once, instantaneously giving you a two cost, nine power card.
Alexander Coccia:It's crazy, and then like, I mean, even it was in the developer video. I think Ben Brode shouted out Sean. I think he said Sheena, by the way. I was like, wait a minute, what? But, what are we doing here? But I do agree 100 percent and like, I've been looking for a reason to play this card. Cause like, I don't know about you, I always go through my list. I'm like, what are cards no one's playing that I can deck build around? You know, get a little spicy thumbnail, get people excited. I look at Sean like, literally twice, maybe twice, three times a month. And I'm just like No, no, I'm not doing this again. Like it's like, you know, I'm not going down that road, but maybe finally we have a reason. And Cozy, I liked that you bring up Surfer too, cause one of my early lists with this card actually has a combination of running like your, your Nova Killmonger style deck where you can like, you know, buff across the board. But if you run Mr. Sinister and Brood, and you might be able to bring down Mockingbird enough, we're on turn five. Right. Just maybe you might be able to sneak out like, you know, Mockingbird and a two or a three or something, right? Where that turn five play is kind of awkward. I'm still working on the lines, but I think that it could potentially work there as a really big power play.
Cozy Snap:And so if you, if you guys didn't get the chance to watch the video, the, the reason I'm so sold on this and why I've been playing Patriot in the deck that I've been playing is first of all, bring dead easy deck. If you have brooded and you have absorbed, man, you can feel confident and snap on that Alex. But the other thing that deck does better than any deck I have played, and why I played it so much towards the top, is that it is insane at early priority. And what does Mockingbird do? She instantly gives you more power to establish that priority, and alone, Alioth mixed into that deck. Is gonna just be awesome, because you have Brood, Absorbing Man, Big Power, Mr. Sinister, Patriot, to add to that, whatever you need to do there. And now, you have Mockingbird, to throw on to ensure that turn six, you already know what you need to do, right? So absolutely, this is gonna be one of the only times that I do like a direct deck guide, not long after. One that I just put out, because it's gonna be perfect there. Alex, a lot more synergy. You saw me going over Moon Girl. Obviously, we know. I think you caught it the last time, we're always doing double up decks. I mean, come on though, this is definitely very much a deck that's gonna like Moongirl and having free cards there. I think there are better methods, but I think this is a deck you could pull off.
Alexander Coccia:I like that you bring that up because like, it's like, hey, for real this time, Moongirl, actually a thing. My Moongirl, Corvus, sorry, my Moongirl Proxima Midnight deck, I was, I was so disappointed. I was so disappointed with it too, yeah, it didn't work, didn't work, yeah, yeah. I tried, I gave it the try, but what I'll say is that, like, yes, I had this, like, kind of, like, pen and paper design with, like, Quinjet, Moongirl, like, we get, like, some actual, like, cards down on the board, not just, like, the zoo, like, Shauna or anything like that, not Squirrel Girl, the shield, the shield deck, but it felt so much slower. Then just like, if I just play Squirrel Girl, like, it's just so much easier, right? And if I don't draw into Quinjet, then everything's so much harder. Cause like, in theory, like, Coulson should be a beneficiary of this card. Like, it's, like, I kind of see this as being analogous to, like, what Stature is. Like, can I get it cheap enough that even on turn six, it's a surprise to drop on nine power? You know what I mean? Like, it's nice to play it out early, but if it's just free Then you can just slam it in there with a Devil Dinosaur or whatever else you might have.
Cozy Snap:It actually reminds me like, I got a lot of comments like Rox is, Rox and Hawks is dead whenever Darkhawk got his thing. And, and you know what? This though reminds me of the, that the early builds of Rox and Hawks I used to do where I had She Hulk, Devil Dinosaur, Moon Girl, and Coulson with Coin Jet. And then what you can do there is, the She Hulk's great, because it's cheap, right, and it just is going into the Devil You know, as well as anyone, if you get the She Hulk left side of your hand, you're feeling like a million bucks, right? Because you can copy that, and then you have the Quinjet down. Coulson also is going to be able to provide that. You got the Devil Dinosaur as a backup. And then you can throw in Mockingbird for that, again, extra little bit of quick power. That, may I remind you, if you get two copies of Mockingbird, have a good time. That's going to be Oh, that's gonna be insane. And she's nine power bro. She's nine power. That's under Shung Chi Mockingbird is gonna be an insanely good card man. Any other synergies before we move on?
Alexander Coccia:And a keynote note there is that you can actually like Moon Grill Mockingbird and then Play a Mockingbird to discount the Mockingbird that's still in your hand.'cause it didn't start in your deck. So like, that's kind of cool, right? But obviously there's a synergy with Thanos. Yeah. Like the Thanos stones don't start in the deck, but like, I had this thought, I was like, man, does Mockingbird even need. Thanos, like, do we, does Thanos need Mockingbird? Like, are we actually doing this now?
Cozy Snap:Is this, is this the path we're taking? Sadly, yeah. I was actually sad when they called that out. I like, I'm like, come on, read the audience, guys. Like, Thanos is everywhere now. Like, do we need, we just had a whole season for the guy. Like, do we want to highlight that on the video? Yes, because in my opinion, right? I think Hope Summers will fit in there, but also, you're already, you just, Thanos ramps all the time. It has a lot of energy to spare. You're already trying to do the stuff with the stones. Of course, you're trying to play the stones. Mind Stone opening on Thanos is a snap because it's so strong, and now it's a super snap. It's like a done deal if you have Mocky Bird. And as we know, Thanos and the fives just go together, like that's just, that's what they're meant to do. And so this is going to be a massive, massive Thanos card.
Alexander Coccia:I know this is a bit random, but I have two more things I want to say before we move on to the next card. One I can't believe you already have a red Kirby Crackle split on this card. Fantastic. Two, this, this card reminds me of the art. You brought up the art before. Tell me if I'm wrong, but anybody that knows Half Life And like Half Life 2. This looks like, like is it City 18? Oh, I can't remember the name of the city!
Cozy Snap:Oh, it's been a minute.
Alexander Coccia:I'm gonna get roasted in the comments.
Cozy Snap:Great game, great game, but yeah, I haven't played it in ages.
Alexander Coccia:Mockingbird looks like, like, some sort of boss that works there. Like the actual, like like the the foreman of the, the soldiers of the city.
Cozy Snap:When you played Half Life, did you get the orange box or did you just get the game separately?
Alexander Coccia:I had bought it separately originally, but then I also bought the orange box. Oh, that's so good. I've always liked Half Life, but like, there's like the buggy section in the middle, where it's like two hours of driving a buggy around. And every time I get there, I'm like, nah, I can't do this anymore, man. I just can't.
Cozy Snap:It's rough. The orange box is like one of the greatest maps. Like, Portal, man. Oh, there's just so, so many, what is your like we, we've talked before about like N64 and stuff, but more like of that age, right? Like Orange Box, kind of like early 2000s and moving forward, like what were some like key staple next gen games for you?
Alexander Coccia:Oh man, that my gaming career started with Warcraft 3. I played Warcraft 3 like, like really, really competitively Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne. I was in high school at the time I was in the top 50. In the world or in any, not the world in any. And and it was like, it was what I played. Like I used to like literally train, like I would get a custom game. That was like a micromanagement trainer and I would have like hockey set up on my keyboard. And like, I would practice micromanaging as fast as I could, because at the time, anybody that's like old, like me would know that like APM actions per minute was how you flexed. Right? What's your APM, bro? Like, that's what people ask.
Cozy Snap:Oh, all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alexander Coccia:I literally worked on improving my APM. Maybe that's why my hands don't work anymore.
Cozy Snap:Dude, I, funny enough, so I had like a bunch of different stages of like my gaming. And I feel like everyone had, people that call themselves gamers had like a competitive edge of gaming. And it was either like MOBAs, like there's different games that you could go into. And for me I was, I was a cod boy back in the day. Like, I went full on it. I actually paid I got a new Ford back, alright, kind of like in my college days, but I just completely paid for most of that through Major League Gaming. Matchups, Search and Destroy. We had a team that was like, the, I mean, I was an absolute. Monster in the old days of that and moved to kind of overwatch But I always had like competitive games Alex and then I had like these single player games I could get lost into right like little big planet. I play a lot of Zelda a lot of obviously Oblivion Skyrim So outside of Warcraft, what was like a single player game you would entrench yourself in?
Alexander Coccia:Oh man, it would be Mass Effect. It would have to be Mass Effect. The Mass Effect trilogy. The whole trilogy. Like, I love the story. I've read the books. I have, I have books about Mass Effect somewhere behind me. Like, I love the art of Mass Effect. I was so invested in that, that that game. Like, I remember, like, it was the first game that I would play. I remember number three, like, I actually Like cried. I was like, I was like in like university and I'm crying watching like a video game cinematic. Cause like, it's, I'm talking about Thane, by the way, anybody that's wondering about Mass Effect, the, the, the Thane scene. You brought me back. You brought me back. Right? I'm like, no, right? It's like, it was just unbelievable. That was the single player game that really shaped my career.
Cozy Snap:Mass Effect 2 was like Probably, oh man, right up there with KOTOR, Knights of the Old Republic. Like those two games just like blew me away, man. And Witcher 3, if you haven't done Witcher 3, you would very much enjoy it. You, okay. Hey, another like, just chef's kiss, chef's kiss again.
Alexander Coccia:I read all the books too. I read all the books.
Cozy Snap:Oh, who'd you pick on the Witcher? Who was your gal?
Alexander Coccia:I was always on the side of, I can't remember her name now. Oh my gosh. A redhead, the redhead one.
Cozy Snap:Come on. You got it.
Alexander Coccia:No, I can't remember. Don't put me on the spot. I was not a Yennefer gamer.
Cozy Snap:I'll tell you that. Isn't it Trish? Is it Trish?
Alexander Coccia:Oh, it's Trish Marigold. Yes, Trish Marigold.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, I was like, I was Trish too. So yeah, I remember there was an opening scene that I I unfortunately had, like my, like, wife, like, walk in, and it was on the cutscene. I was like, Oh, nothing, nothing to see here. But yeah, there was, Witcher was a fantastic game. But anyway, man, we digress. Mocky Burt, gonna be a really good card. A lot of cards that work with it. Clearly Thanos, Brewer, Patriot. That's what's gonna be the best. Excited to see where that comes in. And I would say this, very much so. Hope Summers and her are just core cards moving forward into a lot of decks. Pixie has the chance to be, like, a big boom card of her own archetype, in a sense. So, kind of different strokes for different folks as they say. But definitely, very strong card. We both love Mockingbird. We got a couple more cards left, though, Alex, to talk about. Next is Cannonball. And Cannonball, a lot of people have been waiting for Cannonball to come out. He's a 5 cost, 8 power card. Just got updated. He's the blob killer, guys. Blob killer. On reveal, move the highest powered enemy card at that location. If Cannonball cannot move it, he destroys it with a rock. My god, it's gonna be awesome, man. What do we think of star ratings for Cannonball?
Alexander Coccia:I started at three, and I've talked myself up to four, but this is one of the ones I'm less sure about how it actually plays. This card, first of all, the buff, I think, actually makes a difference, and I think this is a major change, the ability to have, like, a semi, a semi targeted effect is really important, because we didn't have that before. That's a significant text change, right? So, yeah, that's Riley and Cozy. I'm not sure about this one, I'm not as hot. I think the other cards Are better, but this still has the chance to be legit.
Cozy Snap:Yeah. So it's one of those effects that are insanely strong and it is tough to evaluate. I had him at a 3. 5. I was right there with the four or two. Like it was close. The reason I'm going more towards the mid route, even with the update and it's great, it's really good. Don't get me wrong guys. That's a correct ability. But he's very meta dependent, right? Like, if we have this Kitty Pryde, a lot of cheap one cost cards, like, he does lose his sting a ton, right? Like, obviously, in in in Thanos deck, even it could be tough. We we've seen that before. Like, if Kaiera comes out, like, good luck. He's gonna be a Gambit who doesn't do anything. But then he's awesome against the Blob, right? But then people have Kaiera in those decks. So, that's where he's meta dependent. But then, if it is obviously, like, a Devil Dinosaur, something like that, I really like it. Strong effect. People I've seen compared him to Legion, I think that's not a great take, because Legion can literally change everything at once, whereas this is more linear. He's 5 cost, which we know is tough. I'm not sure. I'm not sure, I'm not saying he's bad, I'm not saying he's gonna be correct. I just think he is gonna be interesting to play around with. Right away for me, synergistically, I kinda like the idea of doing something like Grandmaster for the cheap, and having the ability to activate such a strong ability twice.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, but like, okay, so the old, there was the old text that if he, when he did move them, they always had a rock, but on this one, they have to be destroyed to put a rock there, correct?
Cozy Snap:Yes, but he would, it was a random card. This is the highest powered card, which to the point. That I said earlier, like, there's just gonna be so many different cards and it's on turn 5, so they maybe don't have the 6 cost out yet. That's what's gonna be weird for me. Sure, but is this like a kingpin card?
Alexander Coccia:Like, why are you moving the card? You know what I mean? Like, sure, it's disruptive, but it's not like the old kingpin where you move a card and it gets blown up. Like, it's still on the board.
Cozy Snap:Exactly, and, like, let's be honest, kingpin was a lot of fun, but moving cards can win you games, but it can also lose you games, right? Like, you The Devil Dinosaur all of a sudden that you didn't want is going to shift. Now, it's a bit more targeted. Maybe this is more of a turn six card, because then you get a bit more of an idea of where things are going to play, or maybe they haven't played in the lane, right? And then you can easily just win a lane with Cannonball if you go second. He's got a lot of potential, but I just compared to all the other cards and all the plug and play potential, I see more there than with Cannonball, and I want to be proven wrong with him, right?
Alexander Coccia:100 percent I agree, like this is the one I'm most hesitant on like the next one's absolute fire, but before we move on to the next one, there is a card that came to mind, specifically, when I was looking at Cannonball, especially the new text, and I was like, this text has to be applied to Spider Man 2099 next patch, right? Like, are we calling this right now that Spider Man 2999 is going to destroy the highest power card once it moves?
Cozy Snap:I hope so, right? Like, that definitely feels I mean, if they're up to code and they do their one move update per OTA or card back, there's always, like, one in there nowadays. You know, we got the Vulture now. I could see that. That's actually man, if we get Elsa in 2099, both getting that. A little bit of love, definitely cards that could need it. But yeah, listen, I think Cannonball could be cool. I think he could definitely be cool. He has a lot of playlines that are possible with him, but we'll have to see if he's going to be in Junk. And where exactly is his home going to be? Kind of reminds me of Arrow. Great card, but where do you put it? That's the main thing, right? Now we go to our last card, and this is the one where I was giving out a lot of 5 cost cards. I didn't know what to do, so I'll just kick us off, buddy. This is a 5 star card, no question. It's War Machine, and I couldn't be more excited for a iconic character. Not to have, really have an ability that has anything to do with him in my mind, but be an iconic card in Snap. War Machine is the card of the month for me, personally. We've seen Jeff, and here we go, he's a 4 cost, 6 power card. On reveal until the end of your next turn, nothing can stop you from playing cards anywhere, Alex. Alex, what is your star rating on this one?
Alexander Coccia:I leaned towards 4. But like If I could have done a 4. 5, I would have. For me, I was not, I wasn't brazen enough to go 5 on this one. But, I can see why. I, like, listen, this card, this effect is unbelievably powerful. If you think about it, Jeff is a 2 3 that just does this. And it's like one of the best cards in the game. Right? Like, honestly, it is. This card definitely has incredible potential.
Cozy Snap:So I haven't given out a five. I had Pixie as a possible like five star potential just with the pop off of Loki or whatever. This is, this is my five. This is the one that I'll die on the hill. I think everybody should get this card. Is my, is going to be probably my opinion. It reminds me of not only like Iron Lad and stuff like that, but just has that ability that no one else has. And there's so many different things you can do with this. It's stat line is insane. It having six power just to me is silly. Truly kind of crazy. It's going to want to be in a lot of decks. So much synergy to break down. So let's go to get right to it guys. But this is my card of the month. And, and Listen, Alex and I, I think we were pretty fair. We will definitely jump on cards if we think they suck. We've had a couple months now where we've been pretty low on a couple cards coming out. This month was a tough one. There was a lot of great cards coming out and synergistically, Alex. Oh, man. Guys, Infinite can be played anytime on turn six, even if you skip with War Machine if he's played earlier out. You can also do things like Giganto. You can play Ebony Maw. These cards that have since been locked can now be played. Hey, how about Century? You can play him wherever you want to now. It's massive. It's massive, bro. It's massive.
Alexander Coccia:Buddy, you play War Machine on top of Hope Summers, and you play Infinite. Yeah, it's beautiful.
Cozy Snap:It's a match made in heaven. Hey, how about Hope Summers on three, War Machine on four, Infinon on five, Taskmaster Arnim Zola on six, GG gamers. I mean, that, but that is one play line, just one. That's cracked by just one play line of many that War Machine's gonna open. Guys, you can play in any location, Crimson Cosmos, Big House, doesn't matter, St. Timson Tor, throw a Galactus on there. They didn't play a card, you know they didn't play a card. Like, this is gonna be insane. You're turning all of your cards into Jeff. Which, sadly, is going to take Jeff's cost down, because you immediately have a card that can play into Professor X, play into Flooded Lanes, do that kind of thing. War Machine is just going to be incredible, man. In Zabu, out of Zabu. What else do you love with him?
Alexander Coccia:It's funny because, like, when we were originally talking about Hope Summers, like, I wanted to bring up War Machine because, like, I was going through all the fours, like, which are the ones? That you just want to play on turn four. That'll have an immense impact for that six drop that wants to go anywhere, or whatever, right? And it's War Machine, right? Another card is, and I'm not even sure of this interaction. So correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that Ebony Maw might be playable with War Machine.
Cozy Snap:So, yeah, I just I opened up with that. Yeah. So Infinite and Ebony Maw together can be, they can both be played wherever. And Giganto. I gotta listen better, obviously. No, you're good. And Giganto and Sentry. These cards that have been, hey, Crossbones, Crossbones. You don't have to win location. Could Crossbones actually be playable?
Alexander Coccia:Maybe! Oh, I didn't even think of Crossbones. This is an actual Crossbones buff?
Cozy Snap:Yep, literally, dude. Any, I feel like any of those lockdown harder restriction cards are all of a sudden feeling great. And you, again, you're getting six power with it. He, to me, is the biggest candidate on the list to get nerfed. So that's the only thing I'm scared about. I think Hope Summers has that opportunity, potentially, like if we want to talk about it in the future. But War Machine just has me nervous. He could suck! I don't know. Forecast is a lot. I get it, guys. But I just, I don't see it. I don't see it. And then like, here's some other, here's the Think about restriction cards, okay? That's where I went first. How about Electro? What can Jeff do with Sandman? Both those cards. Know that? Yeah. Hey, War Machine is going to instantly turn every Your Electro is Fine, you can play as many cards as you want to with Electro now. Doesn't matter, if you have War Machine.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, but like, but he's a four cost. So like, you're actually giving up a little bit of tempo to do that. But you're right, because if you Sandman, right? And then, I was like, okay, so you Electro, you Sandman. And then on the next turn, you War Machine Jeff. Because you can play both at once. And then you can just dump your hand. But, I mean, would you even do that? Because your hand's probably just six drops anyway. Like, what are you actually holding?
Cozy Snap:Yeah, it's probably like, it's it'll probably either be with Hope Summers once again, oh my gosh, it'd be like, what? Three different cards in one deck. But, or just like the either or scenario. Once again, like, if you don't get one, you could play the other. Feel good about a deck that does two things. You know, potentially. I'm just looking at restriction cards and saying, immediately, you brought up like, Hope Summers. My head goes to, okay, if you don't get her, let's go Jean Grey. Your opponent's stuck playing there. You don't have to.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah. And what about like, okay, here's another thought. Do you think they buff Professor X in advance of this card coming out? Because you might think to some degree, oh, this counters Professor X, but I actually would dare to say that maybe this can be used offensively with Professor X too, because if you ramp out Professor X and sneak it out with Psylocke or something like that, and you whiff on it, you can war machine, you can get in there and they can't. And you can easily get in there. It's like, Oh, Oh no, I lost the pro X lane. You can't play there, but Oh, here comes crossbones. It's like, so I think there's something notable there.
Cozy Snap:Yeah. Pro X definitely. And for me I'm happy that Jean Grey will have the opportunity to maybe get more play with Hope Summers and with that. I also think, man we talked about Pro X, and you've mentioned, or you've heard me mention Control a good amount this this, this cast here. I think if you put it all together, and you have this offensive Professor X deck, You can finally do, which is one of my favorite playlines that people just don't play that often, but it's cracked, but you need the right card draw, which is why people don't play it. You have Storm, which we just got this awesome new variant. We've got Storm here, that you play on, usually turn 4, to Legion on 5. But now, Alex, you can Storm on 3, War Machine on 4, play your Legion on 5, and you don't need to have that in order, you lock down all the locations.
Alexander Coccia:Oh, that is absolutely disgusting. Yeah, that is a beautiful con. Like I had not, had not thought of that. It's, it's cozy just You just got war machine's getting nerfed cozy. Just did it. Yeah. It's not being released the way it's designed.
Cozy Snap:I'm sure to job goes. You, I'm, you ruined. I I have'em at five star for a reason, man. I, truly think this is the card of the month and it comes out last, which is a bummer, but definitely no question. Part of the month guys. And those are just kinda the tip of the iceberg, I feel like on like what we can do with war machine. And clearly Zabu Zabu and he's gonna help him out, but yeah. What card's gonna whiff? Outside of maybe Pixie, that's on the downside. And Cannonball's a little suspect, but man, everything else seems absolute fire. As always, let's go ahead and, you know, rank them in order. I think I love doing this to close it out, man. For you, who do you have as the best card of the month?
Alexander Coccia:My ordering would have Hope Summers number one.
Cozy Snap:Okay, so I've got War Machine number one, who do you have at number two? War Machine. And then, yeah, I would probably join you with with Hope Summers. Okay, number three? Mockingbird.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, I know this one. I almost said it like like what was the guy's name from Breaking Bad? Heisenberg? I want to say like Mockingbird? I don't know what I said.
Cozy Snap:Oh my god. Yeah, three, I would probably go Mockingbird as well, and I think it's funny because Pixie could be one, and like, so it's tough to like, play, but I think then we both go Pixie Cannibal. I agree, yep. I think there's going to be a lot of cannonball lovers out there that are going to defend it. I think it definitely has a chance to be a better card, but we're going to have to see. So guys, insane month ahead. Cannot wait. As always, we have just a really cool cards that are going to bring fun, bring some spice, open up just more archetypes in general and bring some back.
Alexander Coccia:Cozy, crazy month, crazy month. And we've got a lot of cards to go through with our newest and final rankings with all the cards and we know we're super hyped for the upcoming month, but it's good in retrospect to take a look at what we gave the cards in the prior month and where they finally land today. So today we're going to get started cozy with Black Swan. Black Swan was a season pass card and right off the top you had given it a 3. 5. And I came in cozy, I came in hot, I came in at a 5 star rating. Cozy, I'm giving you the floor here, I'm ready, I I've taken some liquid courage, I'm prepared for what is going to be coming my way.
Cozy Snap:But first I want to say it might be my favorite topic we do, because it holds us accountable. Like, I'll get comments like, they, they, you know, they chat up cards so much. I'm like, look at the, look at the tape, guys. We actually, we actually are pretty fair. However, this is what holds us accountable right here. This is what makes us not just be like, five star, five star, whatever. We gotta look back at Alex. This, I get it, though. I get it because of it being the first three costs with a positive effect. Like, I understand, Where you had it in your head that it was going to be a 5 star. And I think whenever I gave it a 3. 5, my opening words were, You either need a lot of 1s, which makes it bad and you rely on Hitmonkey, Or it's just an awkward play and you can't capitalize on it. And that's what it ended up being, man. And that's why I gave it that 3. 5. I'm not going to give you too much crap. Even though I know you would be burying me right now if it was me. But Alex, where do you land as your final ranking for her after, you know playing her? Which, I'm gonna be honest, man, I kinda only played her that first week and maybe a little bit after that.
Alexander Coccia:You know what? Honestly, she plays like a 2 star, but ultimately I think she's gonna be a 3 star moving forward because the change to Lockjaw has made her much more important in those Thanos Lockjaw based lists. Because if you Black Swan on turn 3, you can Lockjaw into Stone on turn 5 4. Which is important, because if you can't do that, the whole deck's just dead.
Cozy Snap:She's got to be a 3 star just for the, for the stat line, like, just like what she kind of brings. I think we're seeing now a common, I think we're seeing 3s go up. I think they've identified as an awkward cost, right? So like, I don't know how much longer we've got. 3. 5 is so great when, you know, even 7 now. Like, obviously or, yeah, whatever. Everything's getting increased, right? Same here. I have her as a 3. Just kind of nailed down there. Because she's kind of pigeonholed, too, into a couple of deck types. Even though she's got the good stat line. She kinda is only in a few decks, and that's, you know, I haven't seen much of her at all, I'll be honest in ladder and competitive play, but what, you know, where are you playing her, I guess, you know, just Thanos Bounce?
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, basically Thanos exclusively is where I've been playing her any of the the Zeus style decks I had originally designed just didn't pan out. Just didn't feel right. It just didn't like you're putting too much ones in the decks. It just didn't feel gross. Like, yeah. So in Thanos, I think it still makes quite a bit of sense, but like, honestly, it still holds 15 percent of the meta, like in terms of the most recent patch, and that's because it's holding Thanos together, Thanos lockjaw together. I think people that like old habits die hard for instance, right. The win rates are down on aggregate. It actually has just barely a 50 percent win rate. So, and that's, that's post infinite, right? So, I mean, it's not great. It's not great. It's the numbers are not kind of showcasing it as a five star card. So I definitely missed the mark on this one.
Cozy Snap:You know, what I want to see with this is I think she could get a small play too with Pixie potentially, right? So if you have all these one costs, all these six costs, and it happens to screw you, I think it's going to count where you could then play those ones that got screwed for free. Like I potentially might be in there and like Kim to that note, right? Like. It's all one cost cards moving forward, so we know Blockswan is going to continue to have some relevancy. There's a card every month that buffs Thanos for whatever reason. So clearly, you know, you have Black Swan, you put all your stones out, and then you have Mockingbird for free, right? Like, there's gonna be, it's just gonna continue to go up in value as Thanos stays dominant. Snap. So no question there, buddy. But yeah, final rankings, I land One point five down from my original ranking.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, that's fair. Absolutely fair. And that takes us to Supergiant supergiants win rate currently at forty five percent a post infinite now I actually came in at three and you came in at four codes You're a little higher on supergiant at the time. So I'll give you the floor here three percent of the meta supergiant.
Cozy Snap:I still am and I'm fine being one of the only ones in this I ever had a four star that's no question. I actually love Supergiant, and she's going to continue to get better as she goes away from being released. This card's just not played enough, in my opinion. You have a card that if you can work it out offensively in your deck, it's just a great way to have a lot of cool playlines that your opponent has no idea what to do with. Again, I brought it up before, but I was in a tournament and I was going against the second best guy in Europe or whatever. Insane Loki matchup, and the Supergiant comes out, and they just don't really know what's about to happen. There's so much with Absorbing Man there too, that I love with the Doctor Doom play, and the Patriots, I had that obviously on a video. But even if you're not doing that, you got an Iron Man you play down because you don't really care and you're countering Jane Foster, Sarah, Loki, Leech. There's a lot of counter potential within Supergiant, right? So I'm gonna stay at my ranking. I think she's a great tech card. But I do think she's hard to play, which is why the win rate is going to be lower than you think.
Alexander Coccia:I love what you said, because my actual notes say it plays like a 2 star, but for me it's definitely 3 or 4 still. Like, I think that there's so much untapped potential here. I think it's one of those cards that after that launch week, people just kind of gave up on it. I don't think you've seen the last of Supergiant. Like, I just don't think so. It has it takes some, like, some nuance to play. And there's going to be a deck at some point where Supergiant is going to be a key component of it, and it's going to be irreplaceable.
Cozy Snap:I mean, the Patriot deck that I've brought up too many times, the reason though is, what did I say on my side, is it's so good at getting priority, and that's what you need with Supergiant, desperately, you need that priority. And what's cool about it is if you're player on turn 4 and you're up, you're up the rest of the game, right? So like, you're guaranteed to have Alioth, there's a lot of cool playlines there. With Brood, with the Patriot Package, with maybe Mockingbird, that deck to me, with having the ability to play Doom on six, the Absorbing Man that was played on five, does two of them, Surfer on six, the Absorbing Man on at the end of the game, does another Surfer round. Or just to Alioth. It's got a lot of potential.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, I agree, and honestly, it's funny, because I don't think we're just coping here. I really don't think so, because statistically, 45 horrible. Like, it's horrible, right? And I just don't think that we have cracked the code on Supergiant yet, so I still think there's a bright future ahead for this card, so I'm glad that you didn't just be like, No, you know, it's a one star card, and I'm glad you stuck to your guns a bit, because I do think this card does have some potential moving forward. And that takes us to Call Obsidian! Cull Obsidian. Now this has been an absolute banger. 10 percent of the meta. We both came in at 4. We both came in at 4 stars here, which I think took a lot of people by surprise. Comment section was like, really? Cull Obsidian's the one you're excited for? And we kind of said, hey, it's dumb power. It's straight up dumb power. This, this effect does not seem hard to to actually pull off. And, spoiler alert, it is not hard to pull off. Cozy, what do you give Cull Obsidian?
Cozy Snap:Man, with War Machine 2? Ho ho! Yeah, I would give Cull Obsidian the exact same. I'm not gonna give him a 5. I think he's just the 4 star that we thought he would be. Dumb easy power. Man, like, I don't know about you, but having that guy slam down on a lane, he's like, Welp, I can't win that lane anymore that I thought I was gonna win. And it just adds that much. Zabu is Zabu. For a reason, having the ability to play two things at once. So, Cole and Sheng, there's just a lot of great things you can do. I have about four. How about you?
Alexander Coccia:I suck at 4 2, I agree, for all the reasons why you just said, and honestly, there were situations where he was getting shunchied, and I'm like, bro, I get to play double dinosaur now, like, I, I, you just used your card to flip the, like, you used it on Cull Obsidian, I, he, he took, did it, he did his job, like, as far as I'm concerned, right, and I also really enjoyed following him up, I, I played him so much with With Nightcrawler, and I loved playing him as a follow up to Storm, so they could not shanshi him. Cause the, the lane's just done. Like, they can't do anything there. Now, War Machine's gonna come out and ruin it for everybody. But, at the end of the day, I really do like Cult Obsidian, and I think the statistics do showcase that. Ironically, running a 52 percent win rate, which is lower than you would expect, but that's across a wide range of different decks, and 10 percent of the meta. So, the people agree. Like, he's amongst the more popular this month.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, really good card. Black Knight, I love that with Century too. Like there's just, he works, he just works into so many decks and definitely I think he's going to be one that's going to continue to have his weight moving forward. Definitely the card. That you can feel best about, probably, for the month in the month, but What is our next card, Alex?
Alexander Coccia:Our next card is Corvus Gleave. But before we get to that, when you talk about, like, kind of like The resistance to being nerfed, how you can feel good about it What do they do to nerf this card? Do they make him a 4 9? And then he can't be shot and cheat anymore? Right? Like, it's like, he kind of feels resilient from that standpoint. So I wanted to mention that before we dive into Corvus Gleave. Corvus Gleave! A 52% win, very similar to coal obsidian. However, 17% of the meta a massive, massive swing in terms of meta relevance. And I gave this card a two star.
Cozy Snap:So this one I'm gonna be harder on for you than ho or than than the original Black swan because this was the biggest scare on my side to go high on. Remember like it was, I remember being like nervous people were kind of called me out of it. Like, that was the scariest card to go high on because of the potential to flop and I try so hard not to flop with these cards, right? I really know that people take the advice from both of us. They want to get the right cards with the tokens that are scarce. And then when you went 2 and rated them the worst card of the month, it was a bullet to me! He did exactly what I thought. He plays right into the decks, I thought. Even the Copium Agatha has worked with him. But he also came out at the right time. He came out when Hela was booming. Black Knight, booming. Ramps, booming. He does two different archetypes. He's more flexible than we thought. Six cost cards are better than ever, so independently playing them is great. Corvus Glaive is going to be a core staple moving forward. However, Hope Summers does hurt his stock a little bit in the role that he was playing in Ramp somewhat. I think you probably would rather hurt some stakes because it's way less, you know, against you than Corvus. But man, this card in Hela is gonna have this card forever.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, and you know what, I gotta be honest with you, like, I still don't like him that much. Like, I know this is crazy, and like, against all the stats, like, For me, he's a 4 star card. He's definitely a 4 star card, there's no question about that. Me, as a player, I like him 2 stars. You know what I mean? Like, I just, I actually don't like him that much. And I don't know if it's because, like, oh, I don't, I don't, like, I've not been playing as much, like, the Hela and that stuff. But even in Ramp, I was like, eh. Eh, I could live without him. Like, I could live without him and Ramp. I don't think he, he helped in a couple of Ramp decks, but Ramp was just never good enough. Like, Ramp never, even with him, I think Ramp's not good enough. So it's like, he didn't elevate that archetype, and like, so I was like, Ah, you know what, I get it. People got hyped up for him, but like, I was still a little hesitant on him. But I will admit, you were definitely closer to the mark. A hundred percent. And you took a risk. Cause it is hard when your co host is saying two star this card's poo poo. And you come on and say, no, I think this cardis way better. But it also makes this, these discussions really fun.
Cozy Snap:Well, yeah, especially like, like if we just went three 33 on all these, it's like, that's the safest Avenue. If it whiffs, like, Hey, I wasn't too far off. Right. The fives and the twos, we don't do too much ones unless it's like a martyr, but the fives and the two, you're like. Man, I'm gonna look like a dumbass if I miss this one, you know? And so, like, that, that, you know, I was getting my dunce cap or hat ready. Do, do people even know what dunce caps are anymore? I barely that's, that's an outdated term. But anyway yeah, Corvus, fun card. What about his wife? Proxima.
Alexander Coccia:Just for the record, as a teacher, I'll tell you that it's frowned upon to do the whole hat thing in the corner. I don't think we do that anymore.
Cozy Snap:Oh, no, that's, yeah, I hope not. That's that would be that's not a coach, that's not a coach a classic. You don't do that to your kids?
Alexander Coccia:No, we tend to shy away from that, if possible. Okay, that's good for you. That might be frowned upon, we'll say. Proxima Midnight. The the relationship goals as Ben Brode once said 52 percent win rate, just in line with Corvus Glaive, 15 percent of the meta, just in line with Corvus Glaive. To to say that these cards went together like peanut and butter would be exactly correct. I came in at 3, you came in at 4 stars cozy, and I'll give you the floor. What do you think it is?
Cozy Snap:Yeah, I like her, man. I mean kind of a worthless card outside of discard, definitely. Like, we tried the Moon Girl stuff, didn't work. But man, oh man. You're not gonna not play her in Discard moving forward. Period. No reason why. Love the stat boost. Love her power. Like she just feels awesome. Awesome around the board. Discard is an absolute deck that demands respect now. No question about it. Discard is good. She did exactly kind of what I was thinking she would do to that point, and I love her. I think she's a really fun card.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, so for me, I end up on three stars. I actually don't go as high. Sounds like you're leaning four?
Cozy Snap:3. 54. Really, the problem is, is that she's only discard. So you just, I just have to like Three, like a 3. 5 as far as like overall value, but like, because she's so pigeonholed, it's just not, you know, it's just so tough. She was a tough one to rank for that. Corvus, you can use other places. Proxima, there's just not a lot of reason to.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah I totally get that, but at the same time, I was like, well, there she goes to my Dracula lean again, where I don't need her, right? And it's like one of those things where like, I felt the lack of control was somewhat problematic at times, but you can't argue a 0. 7, right? With an activator, of course, a 0. 7, like it's, it's great. It's great. It is pigeonholed. But for the archetype, it feels like one of those cards, like, well, like, you know, High Evo has Cyclops, like a really, really good piece that you don't get anywhere else. Proxima Midnight is a really good piece you don't get anywhere else, but I still think, like, Dracula is more important to the archetype. I think that, even to some degree, like, I think Corvus might be more important because of the, what, it's Displaced Hellcow to some degree. But still, Corvus feels even better when you hit that Proxima. Right? Like it feels like free real estate essentially, right? So the two went together. I think we actually said this when we were rating Corvus, like, Hey, the card really shines when Proxima becomes available. And I think it did. It definitely felt much better with Proxima. So yeah, I think we're good to go. You know, I'm, I'm landing on the three star final 3. 54 from Cozy. So yeah, it's definitely a good card. And that actually takes us to the end of February's final ranking. So what we're going to do Cozy, we're going to rank them top to bottom. What do you put at number one?
Cozy Snap:Number one, I probably have, dude, for me, right? Probably, probably Supergiant. For me, like just how I would, how I would rank her. She's my favorite card that came out this month.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, I would go Cull Obsidian at number one. What would you take number two?
Cozy Snap:Number two, I would probably go with Corvus, yeah.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, for me, that's where I would go Supergiant. Okay.
Cozy Snap:Number three. Yeah, Cull, to finish off, yeah, I would go then Cull, Proxima, and Black Swan.
Alexander Coccia:That's probably about what I would do except Corvus Proxmo, BlackSwan. It's crazy BlackSwan ends up at the bottom. But like, I mean, so many people, we complain about like season pass cards, pay to win, blah, blah, blah. And now here we are, season pass card that's not nearly as good as we thought it was going to be. And oh man, totally different conversation, but.
Cozy Snap:We talked about on my side where we said, like, when something's meta, we don't play it that much after we've done the video. And, like, Thanos has been that late. Like, I just can't do Thanos anymore because of where he's at, and it's just, so, like, I just, why would I play Black Swan then, you know, at that point? So that's, for me, it's probably because of that. Other people might be enjoying it more, but yeah, definitely towards the bottom there.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, and that takes us to our next topic, which is the Top 10 Token Shop Purchases. For I will say this month at least for February 2024 and we haven't done this topic in a while So I thought it'd been fun to revisit it because we know there's a lot of people out there still building your collection Believe it or not cozy a lot of people listen to the snapchat and a lot of people are first time listeners new players During twitch drops a lot of people say we're saying hey I'm new to the game came across the snapchat with cozy snap and this is a great great Podcast so much. Like what do I buy with my tokens? A very common question we were getting, so let's talk about it, Cozy.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, my heart pours out for new players, because I always want to do content that kind of goes and dates back. It's just very hard to do in Marvel Snap, and then even more so because of the daily OTAs. Old videos can be outdated, so it can be tough. I'm glad we're updating this, if you will. Definitely more towards Series 4 and 5. Pool 3 cards. You just get, get, get ones that work with the archetypes that you like. But this was tough, because I feel like anything in the Top 5 honorable mention is easily, easily welcomed. Into the top 10, and then the top 10 is also just fantastic and hard to rank within it, right? So archetypes matter, meta matter. This was a hard list, but a fun one, buddy. I'm excited to talk about it.
Alexander Coccia:So why don't you hit us with a, like a honorable mention or two. Let's get a couple of those out of the way.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, but honorable mention for me, one that didn't quite make it, but because of, you know, having series four to the name, right? I had to bring up Legion. I think Legion is this game winning card that can fit into every deck design. Really works. Never feels bad to draw. You're like, okay, this can open up some kind of crazy play lines for turn six. Legion to me, especially because he's S4. It is a fantastic card worth an honorable mention.
Alexander Coccia:And another one that might be similar would be Kaira, has very universal appeal, a lot of decks, doesn't make the top 10, but has been a staple in, like, High Evo, in Thanos, and in other places, right, and if Zoo makes a comeback with some of the new cards we're getting coming out soon, right, Kaira might be a major component of that as well, so that's another one that was just outside, and it's worth noting, it's worth noting as well, I'm gonna say that we kept Darkhawk, as an honorable mention here not because we don't believe in Darkhawk, but because it just had a very significant change. It's much more analogous now, it's no longer a Zabu card, it's much more analogous to Ronin and Devil Dinosaur now. And so, we need some more time to do some experimentation before we can put it on the ranked list where we'd want it.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, agreed, and not just like, there's so many cards that like, if there's a cost change, it's big, but this is such a big one because Mystique, and then the Zabu Synergy, and Ravonna. Like, a lot around Darkhawk changed, not just him. The way you play him changed. He was the most plug and play card, and it's just a lot different now. So yeah, we can hold off on him, no problem there. Not at all. Do we want to jump into that top 10? Do we have more honorable mentions? What do we want to do?
Alexander Coccia:There's only one more honorable mention we should really talk about, and that's probably Blob. Blob ends up being our 11th on our list and we, Cozy and I were like, are we actually doing this? Are we putting Blob 11? But it's where he landed.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, that was tough. That one I hate, I hate having him out. It just feels weird. Obviously, he's, Blob is Blob. He's fantastic, guys. That's where I was talking about. He fits in the top 10, like, you know, it works. It's a two parter almost. He's a great card. And but we have ones a little bit higher just for their application and overall what we see from them in the future there. And that does kick us off at number 10, bud.
Alexander Coccia:Number 10, as decided by both Cozy and Alex, is Nico Monoru. Cozy, I know you absolutely love Nico. In fact, this is one of those cards that, like, again, I was sheepishly kind of, you know, I wasn't low on. I was originally just hesitant on it because it was such a wild effect. And you were like, you know what, I think I believe. I think I believe in Nico. It is a Series 5 card. However I think it's definitely worth it for its ability to be played in so many different archetypes.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, for a couple of reasons. I mean, even people that I respect a ton towards the very top end of competitive play said she'll be too random to play, right? Like, Nico and Legion share the commonality that there wasn't a lot of people big on either of them. They blew up. Funny enough, Alex was Legion fan, I was Nico fan, it kind of worked out. But, what I like about her is, when you're getting cards, like this, and you're a newer player, like, Destroy is such a great archetype to lean heavy into, and Nico just works there, but then you have this card that didn't, like, pigeonhole you into only play like, if you get Null, it's like, cool, you're playing Destroy, like, that's what you're doing. Nico, it's like, hey, you can do Destroy, but you can also test out these other decks that she works in well, and obviously, it's just a good one drop. Copying cards, drawing cards, all feel great.
Alexander Coccia:It kind of felt like when Iceman was the card you just threw into any deck when you're deck building, Nico can literally go into any deck while you're deck building. Like, it goes in balance, it goes in destroy, it goes everywhere, right? It always feels like it's a playable card. So Series 5, number 10, that takes us to number 4! A former Season Pass card at Series 5, and that's Ms. Marvel. You can't argue with the power output here. It has seen a recent nerf. This is one of the absolute best cards in Snap for the longest time. The nerf has brought it down quite significantly, but still from a power perspective and a play perspective, still one of the best cards in the game.
Cozy Snap:And not just the nerf too, but you also have Omega Red who just has now all, you know, kind of offered this really nice alternative. That isn't that hard to contend with. It's not as much power, but it's way less separable to be you know, countered and just easier to get out in different lanes. You don't have to play it in the middle. So I think that also affected my ranking for Ms. Marvel, but also Ms. Marvel is one of the most universal cards. So I could also skyrocket her towards the top five instead of number nine.
Alexander Coccia:The question I had was like, with the change to Darkhawk and like Zabu obviously losing some stock because of the change to Darkhawk. Does Zaboo Miss Marvel lose some stock as well? Because like, listen, Dark Hawk was being played with Miss Marvel very frequently because like that Zaboo package is just so strong. It's free real estate. So that kind of did give me some hesitation on putting Miss Marvel higher. But ultimately still an absolutely remarkable card. And that takes us to number eight cozy and it's everyone's favorite. Shark. It's Jeff, the baby land shark. And it's funny because we originally had Jeff way higher. And then while we were discussing this list, we actually brought him down over and over and over again. And you know what? It's because of what we talked about on Cozy's side of the Snapchat. There's a new card coming out Cozy that steps on Jeff's toes.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, War Machine obviously is huge. The Professor X going down because of everything that happened there. And then also just like, yeah, you have a universal card that is legit great to play in every deck. But it's, there are just more important ones if you're looking at buying these cards. War Machine is Series 5, Jeff is Series 5, unless they drop him to S4. That's where it's like, I just see you probably playing War Machine more often than him. Great, great card. I mean, we're not crapping on Jeff. Just compared to some of the other ones, I feel like those lists open up kind of your new player experience a bit more.
Alexander Coccia:I just, I laugh at the hopium of you mentioning Jeff dropping to Series 4. That has been a conversation for what, like, since Jeff released? Like five months after Jeff's release, like this card's coming down to series four, right? It has to, and it's like been the one that's dodged it every single time. Coming up in a spotlight cash though. So if you don't have Jeff, you're gonna get another shot at him, right? So unless things change, of course. But as of now, I think you might get a shot at Jeff, the baby land shark. And that takes us to number seven. Some contention here. Cozy wanted him a little higher. One of my absolute favorite cards in Snap. One of the best cards in Snap. And that is Annihilus. Annihilus is truly remarkable archetype defining clearly near the top of the win rate charts in so many different ways finding homes for just like it's, it's package of just hood century. Annihilus is good. It's like a three card insane package and snap. I love it. It's a little dependent on one particular archetype. Yes. but does this thing slot.
Cozy Snap:I think this, after Darkhawk moving, this is the best package in the game, because it, we're even seeing this in Black Knight decks. Now, the, the thing is, is the threat. It's the threat of him. Like, having a sentry play out and that Void's over there, like, you don't have a choice but to alter all of your game plan and move cards to the right and work on that right side. You don't even know if they're gonna play that. We've seen it work in Galactus like I just said, Black Knight. But also, like, if you're a new player and you have Hood and Sentry unlocked as Series 3, if you have those guys done, this is the no brainer card. Because all of a sudden, you now have this Core 3 that can work in every single deck in Snap. Annihilus doesn't get the respect he deserves. It's funny that he got nerfed. It didn't matter, right? Like, just so good. The Hood having the Demon, having the Void Swap. Massive card. Fantastic.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah. It's absolutely one of my favorite cards in Marvel snap right now. And I don't see that changing for a while. It takes us to number six, another series five card and it's the big purple toot. It's Alioth. This card feels like it can go absolutely everywhere, and I think it's almost best in decks where people are not expecting it. Lockdown might not be as popular as it once was with War Machine coming out, but honestly, even without Lockdown, like, I'm able to play Alioth with some pretty decent confidence very frequently. I've been using him in Galactus based decks, in Junk based decks, because if I clog one location, well, I know where you're probably going the next time, right? And so, Alioth is a very, very strong finisher comes in at number six.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, there's a couple things to say here. First of all, like, yeah, I definitely don't hate Alioth like I used to. I play enough of him to know there's so many times you can lose, and you also have to meet a tougher win condition to have it happen. He's great, obviously. He wins you a lot of games. The biggest thing I like about him for new players is, to your point, talk about a card that just goes in every deck. You could just have him in any deck. But I love what it would teach somebody new about priority. In fact, it almost teaches you to be fearful of Alioth, because you need to start, he forces you, he's one of the only ones, to force you to look at the glowing around your name and look at priority and planning for priority. So just that alone, kind of like Sarah Control used to teach you so many things about that too. Alioth kind of fits that spot.
Alexander Coccia:I love that you mentioned that. Cause while you were talking, I'm thinking to myself, like, we should probably mention that priority goes by who's winning the game at that given point in time, like if the game were to end at that moment, who would win? And that is who has priority and it's indicated by the glowing border around the person's name. And you know, what's funny about that? There's more than one person who did not know that. That's listening to this podcast right now. So we helped someone out there cozy, but yeah, Alioth at number six, definitely worth it. That takes us to number five. We're in the top five here, another series five card. And it's one that cozy. I know it's one of your absolute favorite cards in the game and cozy wanted it higher, and I'm the one that dragged it down to five and it's iron lad. So cozy. I'll give you the floor here.
Cozy Snap:Yeah. It's like, just talk about the card that he's in my list. He's an old. He, no one does what he does, and we say that all the time, but truly, so many lists just work with him. And, and the, the synergy this guy has with Doom, and any ongoing card, but obviously Iron Man, Blue Marvel. It all feels great. Giving your opponent, like, an advantage of seeing what card is coming up, and who cares? Like, getting multiple plays of so many, we, we love Moongirl for getting multiple copies of cards. That, that is this, right? He's 4 cost 2, dude. He's 4 cost 2, so Zabu, 6 power. I can't believe he's stayed at this now going on almost a year. I think Ironlad's one of the best cards in the game, still.
Alexander Coccia:One of my favorite things to do with Ironlad is actually to run him with like Jubilee when I really need to pull something on turn 6 and be like, Hey! I'll Jubilee first, and if I don't hit it, if I don't hit the hell or whatever, we'll, we'll Iron Lad and let's see what happens. Oh, well, that's right. I'm gonna hit that, that hell or I'm gonna hit the Tribunal or whatever it is, right? And I think that the ability to reach, it's like a free draw. It's like a cheated draw to some degree. That ability to reach into your deck and take a shot does a lot of like Really hype moments in Snap that I appreciate. So I really do like I do like Iron Lad, but I did drag him down slightly cozy, but we got some bangers coming up.
Cozy Snap:And the last comment on him is I also love that he ages like wine in late turns, like I love him on turn six. You can see you have two cars left in the deck. It's like, Hey, great. 50 50, or they're both good. Right. And like, that is key to how you play them as well. A little bit of risk there, but just not enough to knock them down too much. But yes, man, let's move on to our next one here.
Alexander Coccia:Number four is a absolutely phenomenal card, especially if you're a relatively new player to Marvel snap and it's Loki. How do you not love Loki? Well, I know you don't love Loki. It's because it takes your whole deck, does it cheaper and then pounds you with it. So you maybe hate Loki, but if you actually appreciate what this card's doing, truly remarkable card. And I was going to bring it up. So number seven was Annihilus. And what Loki does is so important to like keeping some Dex like Annihilus in balance, because Annihilus, if you Loki, and you get their Annihilus. Suddenly, that Annihilus player is like, wait a minute, this game plan isn't so simple. And Loki very specifically can do that where other cards can't. And if you're relatively new to the game and you don't have a large collection, Loki lets you experiment with your opponent's cards. It lets you play with collections you might not otherwise have. And a lot of the core cards that, like, exist in Loki decks Our cards you probably have, Agent 13's, Devil Dinosaurs, Coulson's. It's a relatively inexpensive deck. I love Loki, and it comes in at number 4 for us.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, to add to that, I would say I don't have a problem with Loki, like other people do. I don't think the deck is that hard to beat. But I also don't think it's hard to retreat from, like if you don't have the right play lines. There are decks that, if you get too greedy, he's kind of the release valve for that. Like he just, you know you're gonna get completely torched if he gets the right cards. Loki, you're going to see from our list here why some of these are ranked even higher. Is that Annihilus, we love him. He's amazing. Hoods, Sentry are important. Loki, you just need him. You just need Loki, and then you have Devil, Dinosaur, and all that goodness, and then you're good to go. You have Sentinel, you have all the cards that already work with him. So cards that you want to buy that give you access to not only a full deck, but a competitive one, is what gives us, you know, giving him a little bit higher ranking.
Alexander Coccia:Absolutely. I agree. And that takes us into our top three, Cozy. These are absolute bangers. And honestly, Cozy and I, we could have debated this top three forever. So I'd love to hear your thoughts down below on this top three, because Cozy and I had some some hot takes that we had to decide finally on this this ordering and we do go at number three. Series 5, High Evolutionary. High Evolutionary, for much of the same reason as Loki, if you're someone who is relatively new to the game, building your collection, this is like an automatic winner. Like, you, you buy this card for your tokens, and you have everything you need. Like, it's literally right there. Some risk. There's some risk with Red Hulk coming out in the future. But overall, High Evo's pretty solid.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, if you're gonna get High Evo, get him as soon as you can, cause him with Hope Summers is gonna be CORRECT! And then he's going to come down, because, and that might indicate what Glenn has seen. He might be like, well, High Evo is about to rule the month of March. That's why we have Red Hulk coming in to tame it down a little bit, right? We, we see that all the time with different things that come out in games. They, they kind of plan that ahead sometimes. Red Hulk is going to be adding to that, but also just put Red Hulk into your High Evo, and then you have a whole I don't know. I think, I think it'll add a nice counter to the deck, but still It's going to do what it does well.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah. No kidding. I think that it's a definite, like you want to buy it. You want to have high evolutionary in your collection. It's that good. And that takes us to number two and it's the king of the castle in the current meta. It's Thanos. Now, the reason why I think Thanos is an absolute must have, forget about the win rates, forget about the meta efficiency and meta relevance. You don't get an experience like playing Thanos. It is a complete archetype defining card, a whole new way to play Marvel Snap. Thanos has to be in your collection. It's without question.
Cozy Snap:Yep. I mean, 100%. And if you don't Listen, if you watch the MCU at all, like, you get to play with Thanos, THE Thanos, and he lives up to the hype. And he lets you experiment with decks and teaches you really good card mechanics too. I love him. He's a great card. Yeah. Obviously. Number two with high Evo, both those just giving you access to these decks.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah. And honestly, like, again, you will not regret getting Thanos. Even there's been times where like, Oh, Thanos is dead. He always comes back. He'll always have a presence and Marvel snap. And honestly, Marvel snaps a better game for it because he is. Just he's the king. He's the titan. He's the mad titan and that takes us to number one cozy It's a series four card Finally a series four card number one and it gained some points for that reason and it's everyone's favorite cat. It's not goose It's Zabu. Zabu comes in at number one and this was a bit tentative like we were like Do we really give Zabu number one? It is a series four card and it did just lose Darkhawk, but it's getting war machine It's gonna get every other series, every other story 4 drop that ever comes out unless they nerf the crap out of it. How do you not love Zabu?
Cozy Snap:Yeah, this was the one I wanted to just skyrocket up there. I just, you know, the more I think about it guys, truly the best thing you can do in the game is being able to play probably the best valued cost at 4 and playing 2 of those cars on turn 6. That, the access to that And that he's Series 4, so it's not a huge token buy either. Having the ability to play Shang Chi and Enchantress, Shang and Cool Obsidian, whatever you want to do. It's just what, it's what is dominating Snap, right? Like, when Darkhawk got nerfed, I even said like, I didn't realize this guy was even a problem right now. It's certainly not this saber toothed cat that nobody knew who it was before Marvel Snap. No, Zabu is clearly the issue. And I think, though, that they're so far in to boosting up 3 costs and like, moving things out of 4. Zabu is probably not going to get touched because of that. Like, they've kind of already, like, adapted to this game plan. But he's, he's just going to be a problem moving forward because it's like, that 4 cost slot, you always have to be careful. Right? Of that, you have War Machine. Zabu is such, you're just not mad if you get Zabu. No question, as your, your number one. Our voted number one token shop by.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, you are right. He does somewhat limit to spot design space. Doesn't he? Like he definitely makes four cost cards tricky to deal with because the ability to play two on turn six. And of course, just to play one on turn three, like they're statted in a way where they are like formidable. They should be four cost cards should be a formidable presence. But you're able to play Shang Chi and call Obsidian on turn six? That's not insignificant. So really good call there, Kozy. And Zabu does take our number one. Series four, which is notable. If it was series five, I think that it would drop below Thanos and below High Evo, potentially. But as a series four card, you're paying half the cost for one of the best and most meta relevant cards in Marvel Snap. And Cozy? That takes us to one of our absolute favorite topics every single week. And it's the Snapchat mailbag. We've got a few questions here from our wonderful community. If you'd like to ask a question, ask it down below. And while you're there, don't forget to leave a review for this podcast. It helps us tremendously guys, as we move on to question number one. And it is from Dana Arker. And it reads, The other week you guys were talking about iconic characters deserve to be good and mentioned Quicksilver needed to be changed. What do you think about him or a different card having the ability to make the game only 5 turns? So like, the opposite of magic. What if Quicksilver made the game only 5 turns? Cozy, what do you think?
Cozy Snap:Oh boy, that's crazy. Yeah, I mean it's like a, like a pocket TVA in a sense, but does 5. I mean, I'm here for it. I like the ability. I don't know if Quicksilver would be the one to get it, but I'm all in for that. I don't even know how you stat that card. I'll be honest, it'll fry my brain. But I love the element that magic brings. Love it to death. And I think it'd be really cool if that was a I mean, we kind of have that with, like, Storm Legion. It's like, oh, hey, it's done on five. But to have that as like a forecast card would be cool. Cause then they, they have that one turn. It's like, Hey, here it is. Or whatever that might be. Like it's, I think that'd be a cool way to get it out.
Alexander Coccia:What's interesting though, is I actually don't like playing TVA games. Like TVA actually kind of bothers me. So I wonder if this card would be like really frustrating, but in theory. It seems like it could be potentially interesting and potentially cool. So I liked the idea, maybe Quicksilver. Cause like, you know, the game's quicker. I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there.
Cozy Snap:They would have to do so like magic. If you look at her restrictions, essentially you would have to be, you would have to play this card by turn three. You'd have to give your opponent enough time to know that there's two more turns until the game ends, and that's kind of what Magic does, too. Like, five is the last turn you can do it. That would make sense, and yeah. The reason I don't like TVA is It's like, okay, did they play on one? Okay, you probably lost, and then if they, you know, have Zabu down, you probably lost. There's a lot of ways you can just lose that, you know, no question. But yeah. That'd be a fun design, I like it.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, it definitely does rip the agency out of the play experience quite a bit. There's very few TVA games where both players are playing out turn four. Feels like someone just retreats because it looks, it's apparently obvious who's going to win. Yeah. Right. Definitely a challenge. And that takes us to our next question. And it reads from DarkCrystalFerret. Now that Marvel Snap has been on the air for over a year, in that time, a lot of variants have been on sale for the, in the shop, cards that you only get one chance to buy, and therefore you lose the opportunity for new players to acquire and albums you cannot complete. Do you think there's a chance that variants will be resold at some point? And what is your opinion on this one chance exclusive style variant?
Cozy Snap:Oh, man. Tale as old as time, guys. Skins and games, man. Skins and games. I will always be for the camp of Exclusive. That's just What I've grown up with, right? Like, I think skins and games, like, you can get them at events, and that's it. Every now and then, I'm okay with them maybe, you know, having a couple of those in there, but there's something really cool about only being able to have you know, the Dan Hipp Hulk, and Iron Man, if you played at launch with the beta. All, like, there, there's some that just should be in there for that. With that being said, there's some awesome art, right? Like, someone has their, whatever, Dan Hipp, Max Gregg collection so close. And they're not going to have the opportunity to get one of those cards because they were only in the thing. So, I definitely see that and this is like, this is in every game with skins, right?
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, it is. It is in every single game because of the FOMO element. Yeah. When you know that thing's going away, they can charge more money. You get a little, you know, a little itchy. You're like, oh no, if I don't buy it right now, it's gone. You end up spending money you didn't intend on spending before. Because if it's coming back, you're gonna say, I'll buy it next time. I'll see you next time if I'm feeling it or whatever. Maybe I'll get some gold. I'll save up some gold or whatever. They always end up I think they'll stay exclusive with the albums. You are right. They'll probably have to bundle. I don't know how they'll do all this. Maybe they just try not to put them in albums for the longest time. Like they must have to, or maybe those albums, like there's going to be 12 slots, but there's 20 cards that you can use to complete the album or something to get the reward. It'll be hard to say, but I think that it also is like kind of like a scouts badge to be like, yeah, I was here on the launch day. Right. I mean, like I was here that Max Greck you know, Hulk. Yeah. I w I was doing the work. On day one. And I think it's cool from that perspective, but I totally get it. Like there are games that I play outside of the launch window that I love. And I'm like, I would have, I didn't even hear about the game prior. Yeah. I would have loved to have played on launch or whatever, but I mean, Marvel snap won so many awards. I'm sure you'd heard of it. Should've been there. Should've been there, but I totally get the the idea here, but it's exactly that it's FOMO and I think they prey on that feeling slightly, and that takes us to the next question here from J M E and it reads. How many dex slots do you guys want to have in the game? I need a million myself.
Cozy Snap:Two million. Can I say three? Of course he needs two million. Yeah, dude, I'm deleting dex on the daily all the time. I've got a big old, like, created dex thing that I can go back to as an archive, but yeah, I don't know why. I don't know why they haven't done that yet. It's crazy to me. Every game kind of offers a way to do it, even if it's monetized. But at the very least, it's been too long now. I think it's like, let's just bump it up. I don't know if it's like a server capacity thing or what, but this has got to be bumped up.
Alexander Coccia:It's funny, you mentioned having like an, like, I have a Google Doc with all these decks that I have to delete, but I don't want to lose. And I do the exact same thing, because that's so funny. We've never talked about that before. Hilarious. Yeah, I would take as many as they would give me. And I almost don't want to say it out loud, but I would pay for it. Like I would pay for it, you know what I don't want to just give them ideas. But at the same time, if I got to pay for more deck slots, I will pay for more deck slots.
Cozy Snap:It would be cool if they integrated that into the teams or the alliances or whatever it is coming out. Because by the way, what are you for teams or alliance? What do you like more?
Alexander Coccia:Alliance teams like Microsoft, like,
Cozy Snap:yeah, dude, exactly, like corporate speak, you know, I got, 100 percent like SWATs, like strength, weaknesses, no, I don't want more of that but it would be cool if they integrated that into that, right? Like if your, you know, Alliance did X, you guys all get five more, you know, that'd be cool. I would incorporate a lot of teamwork and, and, you know, whatnot, but anyway yeah, definitely more deck space.
Alexander Coccia:Next question comes from Caleb and it reads, How do you decide to use credits towards all your different new cards and variants? I like to keep things organized and use resources efficiently. I'd love to hear your thoughts about a quick idea of how you do this in your collection.
Cozy Snap:I swipe a credit card a lot. I I mean that's number one. But no, number two is If it's a card I use a lot like Xabu, Killmonger, those kind of things like I usually will upgrade them, you know, because you know you're gonna get, like, a lot of value. Like, I got this awesome Black Bolt, but I only get a seed every now and then, right? So I go that route, and then if you're just going for, like, getting the caches, and, like, trying to get that off, like, it's that formula of, how much do I play this? Do I want to split this card? Because you don't just want to split cards to get up caches, even if it's like a red border. If you're not going to play that card. So, it's, that's what I look at.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, I'm kind of the same way. I tend to like, I tend to upgrade everything. Like my whole collection, I don't have, I have a few exceptions. I have cards that are like heavily upgraded. But generally speaking, I have like a bunch of upgrades on almost all the cards in the game. Yeah. Except for like Mojo. I think my brother's the only one that has like a golden and an inked mojo. I'm like, who, who plays this card? He's like, this card's good. I'm like, man, I don't know. I think that's a hot take, dude. And that brings us to our last question and it's Andrew didn't even ask a question. It just is a statement and it reads Chavez needs to be brought back.
Cozy Snap:No, it doesn't, but I appreciate the fight. I don't think it ever will. I just, I did. You got to let it die. You got to let it die. Andrew, I commend you. I do, I just, once she got brought down to 1, Alex, I was like, okay, she's done. She's like, there's no shot. She goes back up. It does show, though, that, like, they, the new job has sucked, right? Little awkward at 1. I don't hate her there as much as most people do, but You're just probably playing other cards. Yeah.
Alexander Coccia:I want my old Chavez back so bad. I need it. I'm so upset. Cozy. I've not gotten over it, but you know what? Maybe one day I will. Thank you guys so much for listening to this week's episode of the Snapchat. We appreciate you guys. We appreciate your viewership. And honestly, you guys are the most wonderful community in the world.
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