Glenn Jones Leaves Second Dinner | The New Best Season Pass Card? | The Snap Chat Ep. 176

This week, Alex is joined by Golden Gauntlet organizer and pillar of the Marvel Snap community: Super Tech God! The duo kicks things off with a recap of their adventures at PAX East, trading Marvel Snap for the Pokémon TCG, and discussing the massive growth of the competitive Snap scene.

Then, it's time for new card reviews! Alex and Super Tech God break down the latest additions to the game:

• Strife: Why this 4-Cost Objective card is a perfectly balanced "5 out of 5" star release that brings the Black Panther/Arnim Zola meta back to life.
• Techno Organic Virus: Alex's favorite card of the week! They discuss why this 1-Cost skill is a sleeper hit in Sauron and Pixie decks.
• Wolverine (Horseman of War): With a shockingly low 1.3% play rate, the hosts debate what went wrong with this 4-Cost flop.
• Archangel: Why this 2-Cost resurrect card is too awkward to find a permanent home in Destroy decks.

In Snap news, the hosts discuss the departure of lead designer Glenn Jones from Second Dinner and what it means for the future of OTA updates and game balance.

Finally, they open the Mailbag for some X-Men lore corrections, a shoutout to Dungeon Crawler Carl, and a hilarious tangent about the absolute chaos of drive-through safaris.

Join Alex Coccia and special guest Super Tech God as they chat about this and more on this episode of The Snap Chat—and catch Cozy and Alex every week as they discuss all things Marvel Snap.

You’ve been listening to The Snap Chat. Keep the conversation going on x.com/ACozyGamer and x.com/AlexanderCoccia. Until next time, happy snapping!

Transcript

Alex 0:00

Hey everyone, and welcome to the next edition of the Snapchat. Today I'm joined by a recurring guest, one of my absolute favorite people in Marvel Snap, someone who I've had the pleasure of spending a lot of time with in person. It is super tech. God, my man. We just spent a lot of time together at PAX East and uh, every moment was. Fantastic. We had so much fun. How are you today, my man?

SuperTechGod 0:22

I'm fantastic. It's always great to be here, as always, and always great to hang out with you in person. Um, we did have a blast. We ate some great food together. As always. You did cover me one time. I was very shocked that you beat me to it this time, but it's all right. Nonetheless. We did play some Pokemon, which we had a great time doing that too. I dunno how much fun you had, but nonetheless, we met some amazing people. Hung out with phenomenal individuals, and I'm glad to always hang out and be in your presence.

Alex 0:44

So just for like context. Okay. Just so everyone understands why, uh, super Tech just said exactly what he said. So basically, every single time I've ever had dinner with Super Tech, God, this is how it goes. The, uh, the server comes over and says, okay, how would you guys like your bills? Everyone's like, all right, yeah, we'll do separate bills, whatever. Right? And then all of a sudden separate bills don't show up. Super Tech Cod somehow ends up with all of them and pays everything off. Like every single time. Super Tech Cod finds a way to pay the entire tab. And last time we were at, uh, was it legal seafood in Boston, I believe. I'm like, no, it's not happening. I've seen this game before. I know Super Tech's game. The man is way too generous. So I got in ahead of it and made sure that I got his, uh, his tab. But uh, yeah, super tech generous in both Marvel Snap, but in real life as well. Man, the guy just can't stop giving.

SuperTechGod 1:29

Yeah, man, come on now. You know that it was always a good time. I always wanna give back and have fun, so it was an honor. So fun times we had food was great, too. Great choice by the way.

Alex 1:37

Yeah, I, okay. Okay. I don't know much about cuisine. I don't think that's a shock to anyone here. Um, I'm a chicken nuggies guy, that's, everyone knows this. The reason why I love chicken nuggies, by the way, it's actually pretty straightforward because I get to dip them in all the different sauces I have. That's the fun. They're like the canvas I get to, you know, incorporate all my sauces into. That's why chicken nuggies are the best. But if you're in Boston, you don't go to get chicken nuggets. If you're in Boston, gotta get some seafood, you gotta get some good stuff, right? Yes. And so I tried to kind of think outside the box a little bit. Just like in San Diego I tried to get like some actual like real tacos with Dexter and stuff. So yeah, the, the food was great. We had a lot of fish and I think that's what Boston's known for, right?

SuperTechGod 2:15

Yeah, correct. And um, I have a shellfish allergy, so my concern was around that, but we're able to get some amazing salmon some amazing cods. So, you know what, shout out to Boston. Always helping out making do what they do. And I had a blast. I had some great food. And you mentioned sauce. I mean, they had some amazing sauce at that fish restaurant that I was able to dip my salmon in. Did you try that?

Alex 2:36

I, I don't even remember. I was so just trying to like, figure out like, what is this fish I got like, I think I had caught one time I had salmon the other time. I sound like such a clown man. It's like, I don't even know this fisher,

SuperTechGod 2:46

come on. It's not,

Alex 2:47

it's

SuperTechGod 2:47

like not a clown at all.

Alex 2:48

Yeah. So, uh, but one of my favorite things, I will say, at restaurants, what I always do is I always ask the server, I'm like, I always go to a new restaurant. I'm always like, what's the thing that you think is the best here? Like, what is like the signature dish? Dish that if you're like, Hey, you gotta try this, that's what I always end up ordering. I often don't even really look at the menu. I just ask them to surprise me with something.

SuperTechGod 3:09

No, I remember that. And they brought you something good that time too. I don't recall. Was it, it was salmon. It was at that other restaurant. Yeah, it salmon

Alex 3:15

that time. Yeah.

SuperTechGod 3:15

Yeah, yeah. But either way it was still good. But yeah, no, I totally agree. And shout out to Boston. It was a great time, especially the, uh. The party we went to. Right. That was a great time too. Yeah. We got to hang out and talk and, and see all the awesome things happen. The music snla, that was the best part of it.

Alex 3:32

So

SuperTechGod 3:32

yeah,

Alex 3:32

we had SLAs ripping up the dance floor. That's right.

SuperTechGod 3:34

Yeah. Yeah. That was some good

Alex 3:35

stuff. I wish I had footage of this to overlay. I don't. Uh, before we get into like the actual Marvel Snap discussion though, last thing I wanna bring up. So you and I had a chance to play Pokemon Champions. We played it together, uh, from the show floor. The lineup was insane to play it like it was literally like a four hour week. Four hour. Yeah. Actually on the Snapchat clip, you literally said like, get here ASAP if you want to play something like this, right?

SuperTechGod 3:56

That's right.

Alex 3:56

And, um, have you had a chance to actually play it? Because I have played it, uh, since it released this week. And you're shaking your head, you didn't get a shot yet.

SuperTechGod 4:03

I didn't get a chance to know. I did not. So I've been under the weather, so I've been sick, so I haven't done anything much, but I want to play it, so I will download it. And when you're ready for rematch, you let me know.

Alex 4:15

So buddy. Okay. So it's really, really cool because my kids all love Pokemon, but like the regular Pokemon games have way too much reading in them. So like, my kids are too young. Well, my daughter can, but the, the boys like, they're just a little too young, right? And so this game now it's. It's become like their favorite thing.'cause they take turns playing in ranked by, believe it or not. And that's fine because they, they just, you know, they throw games when they get some easy matches, stuff like that. I'm pretty sure there's bots in there too. But you know, I'm not telling them that I'm letting them kinda live the glory. But long story short, they've been playing it and having so much fun and like they don't even necessarily like read the words all the time.'cause there's a lot. Symbols and like icons that tell them like exactly, you know, what things do and if it's gonna be effective or not. Like they did a really good job of making it accessible for the kids. And as a result, my kids have been playing it nonstop since release. That's amazing. And it's great. Like, I don't even really understand Pokemon, like, I'm trying to like find out like, okay, how does this actually work? Like obviously I understand like the rocks, paper, scissors element

SuperTechGod 5:12

Right.

Alex 5:12

Of it. But like. I don't actually know the meta. I don't know who's a good Pokemon, like some of these Pokemon, by the way, some of these new ones, man, like talking about like they're bizarre. Like they look like, I don't wanna say it, I don't wanna get anyone angry, but they almost, they almost look like AI generated before AI generation exists. Some of these Pokemons, I'm like so wild. The original 1, 5, 1 are my cup of tea, but man,

SuperTechGod 5:35

that's the best.

Alex 5:36

The game's so good. The kids are having a blast.

SuperTechGod 5:38

Yeah, I love to hear that because yes, when we played it, we, I definitely saw that, right? Like not knowing what the Pokemon does or what they actually do, but seeing next to the ability super effective or effective really helps. So if you don't understand Pokemon, but you know, you're trying to go in and win as long as you know if it's super effective or not effective. And also against yourself, right? Because when you do the dual Pokemons, you wanna make sure that you're. Your teammate doesn't get affected by it. It's, it does a great way of showing that before you actually pick the play and actually attack. So I totally agree with you on that. So that's pretty awesome that it helps, especially anyone who hasn't been playing Pokemon or haven't been keeping up that wanna get in and have some fun, the ability to do so.

Alex 6:16

Yeah, and my kids have been playing the one V one mode the most, but apparently actual competitive Pokemon is done two V two. That's like the standard format for competitive Pokemon. So now like I'm starting to like kind of get into a little bit, and like it sounds incredibly intense, like people really min max every single conceivable dial that are on their team. And then like when you, when you start the match and you see like the six Pokemon that your opponent has and you, they see what you have and you gotta pick like the four you want to bring in, there's like a mind game elements of like, okay, they have a OSes, maybe I won't use my char art. And like, or maybe they think I'm not gonna bring in my char art even though they have OSes. I'll bring'em in anyways. Like it's kind of really cool. Right? So. This is a Marvel Snap podcast, so maybe we should have our first Marvel Snap discussion here, which is gonna be honestly about, I wanna, I wanna just, you do something phenomenal that I don't think a lot of people realize. Super deck God, you are one of the people behind the Golden Gauntlet, and so when we have these opportunities to chat. I'd like to ask, how important to you is the competitive Marvel Snap scene because it is coming to fruition because of the work that you and your team are doing, and do you see it like getting bigger in the future? Like kind of, uh, you know, how's it been growing since your first iterations of the Golden Gauntlet?

SuperTechGod 7:31

It's been growing very well, so. We always knew competitive Snap was out there. Back in when we did the first crater clash, me, um, KWA, shout out to Kwa, got to see him, Matt Pax and um, LUT. Muer came together and we saw all of you creators come in and actually make it seem more competitive than it was. Have an ordinary Harry win with that list. We always knew there was a competitive space out there. You know, hosting tournaments at Brooklyn, et cetera, et cetera. And then coming down to the golden gauntlet, that first year, last year was huge. The turnout of players, the decks that won all from cars that were, early series three card decks, all the way to current series four and series five cards, right? And seeing the players coming in and actually. Being competitive, not just saying, Hey, I wanna build a deck that does fun things, but build a deck that actually goes out and win. Win five in a row, win six in a row. That is huge. And I see the space only getting better and better, and I'm happy I'm here for it because it gives all players something to look forward to. If you wanna be casual and we'll play the casual way. Go ahead. If you wanna get really competitive and have a blast and show off your skills. They have that avenue for that now too, with the golden garlic. So I think it's here to stay for a while, and I can't wait to see the next step of what players do, the next step of competitive players that come into the game and actually bring something new to the table.

Alex 8:52

I do think that like this type of aspirational content is so important, right? Like the ability for a player to like fully invest in the game, get really into it, and then like have a target that they can reach for, a goal that they could try to achieve. Whether it's like, oh, I'm actually gonna win the golden gauntlet, or, you know what, I just want to get outta my comfort zone and compete at all and see break top 50, right? Top 50%. Cool. Make top cutter, right, whatever, right? Like everyone can have different goals. Not always about winning, there's great players who win, right? That's, there's no doubt about that. But there's also great players who just have their goals being reached, like they're meeting their, their goals and like, I think that propels them forward in the game. If you don't have that aspirational content, sometimes it can be hard to stay motivated when it seems like. Everything else is just trying to push you away. Like sometimes you know, you don't have the right cards or you don't have enough tokens and there's all these reasons to stop playing and I feel like the competitive side gives you a reason to keep playing. And what we saw in one of the prior Golden Gauntlets was like, it wasn't a series five laden season pass, super premium season passing that won. Heck no. It was like an almost entirely budget friendly series three deck that took the whole damn thing. And I love that for the game. I think that's so important.

SuperTechGod 10:06

Yeah, it's huge because again, it shows people you can play with any deck that you feel confident with, you feel comfortable playing. You feel great bringing to the tournament and actually win, right? That's the biggest thing that the Golden Garden has shown a ton of people. You know, of course people say it's pay to win, and we say, no, it's not. People don't want to hear that. They don't believe it, and then these tournaments happen. Again, these budget friendly lists end up making the top four or taking it all the way. So I totally agree with that. And yeah, it's a great thing to see that people have different aspirations when it comes to what they wanna do with Snap. And if you're a content creator as well, and your whole thing is you wanna be competitive, you join these tournaments, you show off what you need to do, and that's more content for you to bring to the masses.

Alex 10:48

There have been people who have gotten extremely amazing results and then seen these results and been like. Maybe I should turn on the camera. Maybe I should get involved in the greater content creator community. And it serves as almost like a, an opportunity for them to launch their platform and launch their careers, which I think is incredible. Right. And, um, you know, we're gonna, I actually, I would like to feature more, uh. Golden gauntlet competitors on the Snapchat moving forward, right? Maybe even next week. Who knows? Maybe I already know who the next week guest is and maybe we talk about the golden gauntlet success, right? So I love to hint out there, but, um, but long story short, I think that what you guys are doing is phenomenal. It took a long time to get competitive Marvel Snap off the ground, and so just wanna say thank you and I can't wait to see what comes next in the competitive scene of Marvel Snap, super Tech, God, it's time we talk about strife, the four six that reads objective. Play three on reveal cards, and when you do that, you get to use the highest cost on reveal in your hand, the highest cost on reveal. So it has that targeting style mechanic, which I think is really, really good. This card. It's a card that's, there's no doubt about that. And before I give you my perspective, I would love to hear what you think.

SuperTechGod 12:05

All right, so this card to me the objective card, the fact that the objective is easy to meet is huge. The stats on this card, it being a four six, is huge, right? This is two plus for these cards right here. What I like about this card the most is we're seeing the Panther Zola Meta come back, right? Panther Zola is one of the first lists that I enjoy playing. If anybody looks up any videos of Mr. Co. Chi's first interaction with me, he had me on his show, on his channel, and we were talking about Panther Zola. So the fact that this card is bringing that back excites me. This card also gives me that style, that reminder of drag dump, right? Because in drag dump you keep either the big finite in your hand or the gto. Play everything out and then Dracula takes one of those cards. In this case, same thing. You either have the Fing Fang Fu in your hand that you keep there, or you have the Zola that you keep in the hand and you just have Stripe does one of those other honor reveals, which is pretty good. So to me, I think Stripe is a great card. It's not op like the other season pass cards we've had so far, and I think it's a fear card. It does deserve a five out of five. Granted, if you guys watch the Pax. Demo of Alex and Dexter showing off the card. You might think this card was a two, you know, love to them, but they were just having a blast. Okay, guys, they did that on purpose, all right? And not gonna tell you that, but they did that on purpose. Making the card look like a two. So you guys don't get too excited. But yes, this card definitely deserve a five to five. Is it, is what Snap needs to be always, which is fair. Fun. And this card does both of those perfectly. It's not op, it's fair, and you can bring any type of list you want, but more so we're seeing the Fing, Fang f the Zola's, and some other crazy things out there happening. And I think this is great. Unlike the card that came out last season, which, um, Tutt, which was like, yeah, we're just doing this for clips. This car here can actually help you win games again with that targeted, big six cost card or biggest card in your hand. And I think for. A hundred percent is get deserves a five out five.

Alex 14:05

But I can't even be mad. I deserve the roast. Like Dexter and I threw eight cubes in front of a live audience on the stage against the bot at rank two, like rank two, not too infinite. Like Like your third game ever. Yeah, it was, it was something, right. But we, we were trying, we were trying to force feed to play with this, the card in particular. But whatever I, this, it's just pure cope. I, I do agree. I think the card's phenomenal. I think it's very, very good. It seems like it could potentially start to hit that upper side of like, what's acceptable. It doesn't stand out as being egregious though, like some other ones we've had like, like Sha Lao was like, I still think it's stupid. Like, I still think that card is probably one of the best cards, if not the best card in the game that no one talks about. Not no one. There's people talking about shellow being silly, but it's, it's insanely good. It's ridiculously good, right? Uh, I don't think strife hits that level. I think it's better than Oppa. There's no question about that. Yeah. Um. Like I gotta tell you. So right now we're seeing a lot of play with like the Black Panther Zola stuff, but like it can do anything because if in Marvel Snap you have so many on reveals and an effect like this, it craves interactions with like Dr. Dooms, Fang F oh we needed a buff fing Fang F. Here it is strife, right? Like it's kind of crazy what this card can do. But like, I just feel like this card can kind of do anything because it is positioned in a way where you can reach into your hand and get that effective on reveal without even having to play the card, while still keeping the card in your hand. So

SuperTechGod 15:38

right,

Alex 15:39

you pull the Dr. Doom effect right on turn five, and then you play DR two on turn six. You don't need Wong. This is like an inverse Wong and better stats, less susceptible to disruption.

SuperTechGod 15:51

No, you're right. And I agree with that. I mean, it's a four cost. That could be a six cost card, right? Because again, those Dr. Dooms, those big cards, you can play this card on turn four or if you have Zbu early enough on turn three and do the thing. So I think I agree with you on that, and that's the reason why I agree with you too. This definitely deserves a five out of five.

Alex 16:09

So a couple things that stand out from an untapped based statistics metric, checking out stats from ranks 80 to rank one infinite. So 80 being like the regular ranked prior infinite to rank. One infinite. It's running a 53.5% win rate and a 14% popularity, which is significantly lower. Than some other season pass cards. Yeah. It doesn't look like it's sold as well as perhaps some others might have. Like we often see season pass cards hitting like that 25, 30 3% range. Um, right. This was also taken just prior to us recording, so we're recording on Sunday evening. So the weekend missions would've been in full for. Fact. Right. But partial, what I will say though, impacting these stats is going to be the fact that a lot of people are in Deadpools Diner, as they rightfully should be. Um, yes. So the stats, I think we're gonna have to wait till the second week to get much more of an accurate indication of how it's doing.'cause the sample sizes are much lower and the. The sample, like the sample of Deadpool designers, kind of like, it's just a little different, right. Uh, but yeah. Deadpool's Diner, by the way. Fantastic. I'm glad they brought it back. They, they dialed back the rewards a little bit, but still those nachos are for chomping on lots of nachos available there, my man. So, exactly. Yeah, so for me, I think strife, if you're interested in purchasing a season pass, it strikes me as a very solid season pass card. I think it's gonna be good decks are, you know, again, we do have some bot inflation here, but you're looking at 59, 57, 50 8% win rates across the board and different archetypes, right? Uh, shall allow being a. Major contributor to that. Right. And I actually had the chance to feature a deck in the game. I had never had that opportunity before. I was so stressed out, dude. Oh my gosh. So, uh, Brady, who, what a blessing Brady is. Brady Brady on second inter team is absolutely remarkable. And he's like, Hey Alex, like, do you wanna put a deck in the game? And at first, Ken, I was like, I was like, can I not? Like that's a lot of pressure.

SuperTechGod 17:54

Can I not?

Alex 17:54

Yeah.

SuperTechGod 17:55

Okay.

Alex 17:56

And he's like, come on dude. He's like, make something fun, right? Just make something fun. That's what he told me. Just make something fun. So I was like, I can do that. And I thought to myself, what are some cards not being played as much and what are some cards I really like? So I really like Dragon Lord. I feel like the new hunches not being played very much. So I, I built a deck for strife based on that with like a wicked backup shell in it. And I knew I had to have F fang F in it and stuff like that. Deck's doing pretty good. It's not like the top win rate, but it's doing very well. It's doing very well. Absolutely positive cubes, amazing win rate. It's doing excellent. So I'm, I'm really glad to see that. But, uh, it's such a fun deck and I'm glad that everyone enjoyed it, by the way, because it was in, it's in the client and that's not something I ever expected to see, to see my name in Marvel Snap that way.

SuperTechGod 18:39

No, I agree. I I get it. I know that feeling.'cause same thing when I had drax. And they had that there, the deck list. And I was like, that's super awesome. Right? It's a great feeling to see that. But um, no, your list is pretty much fun. It is super fun. We did play it on stream. We had a blast with it. And of course you had the honor and the pleasure to actually do the interview with, um, that gentleman. I watched the, the whole video and I was like, wow, this is amazing. Some great insight on the way they choose the cards and the, the way they choose the, the way the card plays is pretty good, so especially the objectives. So, no, I, I agree. Your deck list is super fun and I'm glad that you went with it and actually. Put that deck in the game. So shout out to you for that.

Alex 19:15

Yeah, the, uh, the interview was, was fun to do, but also it's like, it had to go through a lot of like approval processes. Like when it's an official Marvel interview, like we, we had to like, it's a very different style and I actually tried to bring my own. Kind of flare to it a little bit because I actually repeatedly went off script on intentionally to try to like loosen it up a little bit. And um, but it's one of those things where like even when you do that, you have to like then seek additional rep approval and stuff like that. Like, you know how it works, right? Like you submit these like weeks in advance. Yeah. And it's, uh, yeah, it's, but it was a lot of fun and it's, it's incredible. The thing that really stood out to me that doesn't come through on the actual video was when I was talking to Jason and I was asking him questions. There were times where he's like, I'm like, I'm like, okay, how do you see this card? Like, what's the best deck for this card? And he's thinking, he goes, he goes, wait. And he's like, I gotta remember what's out right now, because I, he has a catalog of cards we've never even heard of yet. And he knows what's coming for these new cards and like how they can interact in new archetypes and all these new ideas. And it it struck me that they are so far in advance of the development cycle that they almost have to remind themselves what the cards coming out now are going to do. And that is actually not, that's not like. Unique to Marvel Snap.'cause I actually, so when I was at Pax, I, well if you guys don't, you guys all know this. I play lots of riff bound and Ken, I played riff bound with two different designers from the riff bound team, and they were telling me like, we're playing set two, they're working on set seven. It's like. Almo like a year and a half, two years out. Like that's the set they're working on right now. And so these are cards that were printed before the game even released. And so like they had to rere remind themselves like what? Like what this meta looks like.'cause they're playing a whole different game. And so like, I'm not a game dev, but like that type of insight, it really occurred to me over the last couple of weeks that like, especially in that interview and stuff that like they're so far in advance that. I'm glad that they took steps to like with Glen, who Oh, we should almost talk about that. That's another thing. Yeah. Yeah. With Glen, he set up more of like a testing team and a testing environment to try to make sure that the ker met is being looked after, because it is very easy to lose sight of that, considering how far in advance the development team's going.

SuperTechGod 21:33

No, I agree. And the shout out to them because yeah, they're way ahead of what we even see right now. What we think about is coming, so they have to make sure they stay on that. That path of, wait a minute, I gotta make sure this card is not spoken about. This, that, and the third. And that's pretty good because to have cards out there and trying to make sure you remember not to involve it with what's currently out there is a pretty big deal for them. So I'm happy that they're actually doing that.

Alex 21:58

We should take a second to actually talk about Glen. We didn't intend to bring it up right now. It's actually something that just came top of mind as we were discussing, uh, strife and everything. With Glen. So Glen Jones, who was one of the, like the, the top game designers on Snap his, I mean, I don't remember his final title. It seemed like his title changed multiple times, but he, he seemed like a very front facing, uh, you know, person. Did a ton of work in the community section, answering questions and stuff like that. Instrumental in the design of the game, uh, has moved on to other endeavors. He's tremendously talented. I thought he was an absolute massive asset to Snap. Yes. And I remember about a year ago, I said, if we lose Glen, I think we're in trouble. And now we've lost Glen. Do you think we're in trouble?

SuperTechGod 22:40

They made it their duty to make sure they let us know that they're not in trouble. And when things like that happen most of the time and most. Places I've ever been. Um, that means, we are a juggle, but I do, I have faith in the second to the team that they took the proper precautions they had to do prior to him leaving, made sure they had the offloading of knowledge, transfer of knowledge done. And I'm sure he had. A ton of things up until when he left, so I'm sure they've been taking things off his plate months ago. So if that's the case, then I think yes, we're okay. But if it's not the case. Then, yeah, I, I, I see the concern everywhere, including, my community that's the first thing they brought up while we're at PAX and they saw the tweet, they were like tech, you see what's going on? Are you, you guys okay? I'm like, yeah, yeah, we're, we're fine. We're fine. Right. Like that picture with the burning house and the we're fine. I think it's okay, but in, yeah, in all honesty. Yeah, I, I said I do have faith in the second dinner, and I think they took the proper precautions before he left to get that transfer of knowledge and to make sure that months ago, I guess when this was coming up, that they took the. Steps to make sure they have everything they need in place, especially going forward as well.

Alex 23:51

Yeah, and I had the opportunity to meet Glen multiple times and he struck me as like an absolute true professional. Like there's no way he's leaving secondary hanging. Like for sure he would've made sure that like there was a proper procedure in place to transfer that knowledge. As you said, he's definitely passing the torch. It wasn't one of those things where they're, he's leaving'em high and dry type thing. Absolutely not. So yeah, at the end of the day. We've, we, I say we, like, I have anything to do with it. Uh, the Marvel Snap community, has watched this game develop so much over the last couple years, and they've been listening to our feedback in many different ways. And so, uh, it gives me hope that, like, how do I explain this? How do I explain this? Do you know when, like you have a really good head coach on a football team, right? And, you know, the coach is fine, but sometimes the, the team changes coaches. It's like, it's just you change, you change the, you change the room a little bit. You change the tone of the organization. Right. And I wonder, I wonder if with Glen leaving, if it's gonna have an opportunity for someone to come in, who's going to open things up a little bit? Or is it gonna be the opposite? Where we're gonna have a stricter monetization schedule. Like things can change, right. But I think they're very hyperfocused on the player experience. There's no doubt about that. But I do wonder,'cause we got so used to like the barometer that was Glen Jones and how he managed the equilibrium of a lot of things. Now that Glen is gone, there could be a shift to either side, uh, maybe a more free to play friendly player acquisition oriented approach. Get people into the ecosystem or. The other side, which is a little maybe problematic,

SuperTechGod 25:30

right? The scary side. Yeah, and I think it can go either way. You're absolutely right. But I think their goal before he left, months before he left was to focus more on the player experience. So I don't think they will make that switch anytime soon. Um, I think they still gonna stick to their guns and their goal and try to go forward with the play experience. The, the biggest thing we're gonna lose out of, of course, is the card. The card changes the OTAs, right. Because he was ahead, he was in charge of those changes as well. So I'm waiting to see what happens. I'm sure he left some OTAs up until, like I said, when he left, or even in the next month or so. I wanna see what happens after the fact. Right. You think about the changing of the guard, right? Just like you mentioned, when the team loses their coach. The team is good. Sometimes what happens, the team go on next year and they win the championship, right? And then what happens in some cases, the teams doesn't win the championship. So I I, I hoping in this case we get to see some different things happen. More for the better than the worse, right? So for example, maybe we get in infant not to get buff. Now I know Glen was against it for not getting buffed. So let's see what happens, right? Like these are the kind of things I'm talking about. So I'm hoping it goes in a good, you know, good direction and in a bad direction.

Alex 26:39

You know infant on's Not bad. Eh? You got that warmer sheet deck bud.

SuperTechGod 26:43

Come on. Yes, but 20

Alex 26:44

power. I know, I know, I know. He's been power cre so bad, man.

SuperTechGod 26:49

Exactly. They give power everybody else.

Alex 26:51

Big fake.

SuperTechGod 26:51

Yes you

Alex 26:52

can. Just regular hal.

SuperTechGod 26:54

Yeah. And gala is first steps. These cards are just 22 plus doing nothing. So it is what it's, I digress.

Alex 27:02

You're, you're right, buddy. Yeah, I definitely could use a buff. We, we gotta get some finite love out there. And, uh, do you still rock the, uh, Flavio finite, uh, variant? I haven't seen it, yes, a hundred percent

SuperTechGod 27:11

yet. Flavia and the, uh, Maria Wolf.

Alex 27:13

There we go. Oh, Maria Wolf. Yeah, that's, that's a very, that's, yeah, that's, I obviously I don't have, I might have a fly. Okay, hold on. What do I have for Infin? What's my infin uh, oh, body. Look at this.

SuperTechGod 27:23

Yeah,

Alex 27:24

it is the Flavio.

SuperTechGod 27:25

That's Flavio. Look at that wonderful split too.

Alex 27:28

I gotta put a proper border on this though.

SuperTechGod 27:30

Yes.

Alex 27:31

Okay. What do you want? What border do you want? Do this live? Gotta,

SuperTechGod 27:34

we gotta do either the white neon, the blue neon, or the blue fire.

Alex 27:38

Alright. It's a wrapping paper.

SuperTechGod 27:40

Yeah, even better.

Alex 27:44

This one was just for you bud.

SuperTechGod 27:45

He better to go with the green. It's a Christmas present. I love it. If that

Alex 27:49

gets

SuperTechGod 27:49

him off now

Alex 27:49

that Super Tech, God's custom Infin, Flavio wrapping paper, that's for you buddy. That's right. Alright. That's not all. As they say. The techno organic virus did come out here and, uh, this is a very interesting card, my man. This was my five star of the month I actually ranked. The techno organic virus over strife, strife in my preview. Now, I'll tell you, I think I'm wrong. I think strife is probably a better card than techno organic virus, but I'll tell you also that I like techno organic virus a lot. I think this is a really, really cool, super premium season pass card because if it's gonna be a little less powerful than the. The season pass card, but it has like this whole deck building dynamic where it's like it's this puzzle that you have to solve to like crack the code on this deck, which still has not been cracked by the way. I am all in for it. I've been playing so much technical, organic virus when I'm not playing Zombie galactic, which I'm addicted to right now as well, but. Dude, over the last week or two I've been playing so much Marvel, Snap, Deadpool's, diner, techno organic virus. Like I'm actually excited to play the game, man. I'm excited. And techno organic virus is a huge part of that. I love the card even if it's not like good yet, if we haven't figured it out. I love the design. I think it's really cool.

SuperTechGod 29:07

I agree a hundred percent. I have here, this is my favorite card of the week, and that is the truth. I use this card to climb from 70 to 83 because the list I ran, of course was the Soran list, right? So Soran, pixie, Mobius, the Mobius, those cards alone, if you play those cards, turn one, turn two, turn three. You might as well Snap at that point, the Mobius giving you the ability to have the. Tech. Tech, yes. Organic virus come back to your hand as a one. Cost always is huge, right? Then of course the soran turning off the negative ongoings, but even if it does not, you have pixie that can maybe give you a zero cost red skull, which I've got plenty of times, and we have Moon Girl on the deck to give you. Two of those and use organic virus. Tech. Tech, yes. Organic virus all over the place. Buffing all different types of, of the locations. It is some of the most fun I've had in Snap and yeah, I've had a blast with it. Like I said, it got me to 83 while I was sick. By the way, this is a good thing about Snap, right? You can play this anywhere you want, guys, any place you wanna be, especially if you're in bed trying to get over a cold. This is the most fun I've had, and this is my favorite card this week, but I cannot give it a higher rating in strife. So. If we could do the point, the decimals here, it gets a four and a half, but if we can't, it definitely gets a four right below strife for me.

Alex 30:21

Yeah, I would say strife's definitely like a solid four, maybe even 4.5. And I feel like organic virus is like 3.5 to four in terms of its power level. Right. That's where I get the feeling of it. But I think if someone really cracks the code on this. This is solid. I it's really good. I should actually read it out by the way, for those listening. Listening, yes. The technical organic virus is a one cost skill on reveal. Copy this to your hand with plus two cost and infect your other cards here, replacing their text. And then the replacement text reads ongoing plus one power for each techno organic virus you've played. I've even tried to do some fun stuff where like, you copy it with Nico. You copy it with Moon Girl, like I've tried to copy it, which I think is kind of fun because then like it, you get copied at one and then when you play it, you still have a one cost copy and you get to just play it, and it's kind of cool. But then it's so greedy and you don't have cards on the actual field to play. So that's, you know, I'm just experimenting still.

SuperTechGod 31:15

Right.

Alex 31:15

But yeah. Terms of play rate, according to Untapped, it ranks 80 to rank one Infinite. Uh, you're looking at 4.5%. So very low play rate, 52.6% win rate. Not great. The stats don't show like a run out and go fomo into this type thing, which is good. We don't want that from the super premium season pass card. And oh, by the way, I did not realize this. I had, I saw some reports of this and I think, do you know if this is confirmed or not, that the super premium season pass card is no longer available for tokens? Day one?

SuperTechGod 31:47

I don't think that's, I haven't heard that and I'm not sure either, but it, no, I haven't heard that. Did people say it? It wasn't, yeah.

Alex 31:53

I don't know.'cause like we're in a situation where we often just, we just buy it because we make the content. Right. Like just buy it. I, whatever. Right. But I, I thought the whole point of the super premium season pass card was that it was supposed to be like you could get it in the token shop for your six K tokens on day one, and the people are saying they can't do that. And it's like a consistent message I'm seeing. I don't know if like other creators realize that, you know what I mean?

SuperTechGod 32:15

I don't think so because yeah, I, I'm sure my community would've been in the uproar. I mean somebody, somebody that came in to chat like, Hey tech, this happened.'cause no one has told me this yet. It's the first one I'm hearing is from you. So I'm not sure, maybe there was an issue or a glitch. I should

Alex 32:28

ask

SuperTechGod 32:29

someone,

Alex 32:29

I should ask someone that we should ask someone like official, because I was always under the impression that it was supposed to be in the Snap packs day one.

SuperTechGod 32:36

Yes. Yes.

Alex 32:38

Okay. So I'm not crazy, but people are telling me like, I'm not just one or two. I'm, I've got like 15, 20 messages of people saying that it's not in the shop for them.

SuperTechGod 32:46

That's interesting.

Alex 32:47

Maybe they're, are they confusing the shop with the token? Like the packs, like it doesn't, does it, it doesn't rotate through the shop, right? No, but it'll be available in the packs.

SuperTechGod 32:54

In the packs, correct. Day one. Or you could spend extra$10 to get it from the, um, the shop.

Alex 33:01

Okay. But regardless, let us know in the comments what you're experiencing. Tech. You gotta read through the comments too now.

SuperTechGod 33:05

Yeah,

Alex 33:05

I'll maybe I'm not hallucinating this, I'm telling you. A lot of people have been talking about it, but, uh,

SuperTechGod 33:09

we'll find out

Alex 33:09

anyways. Yeah. I, for what it's worth, I've been playing a lot of this. I have been playing it in like the pixie stuff, which I think is a lot of fun. Pixie can be frustrating in her own right, but still, whatever. I really like this in just straight up zoo, by the way. Oh, okay. It just fits into zoo so nicely. And like you play things like, you know, uh, squirrel Girl, then you play, uh, Keith Bishop and then Keith Bishop, like she's just sitting there. If you just skate here with the techno organic virus, like it's you're kind of like, I, I got rid of Kza, or No, I ended up cut cutting larva, kept the KR because then I could sneak it out on turn five with Mob. With Mobius or Mobius? Mobius. Mobius. Yeah. I, I'm still trying to figure it out, but it's actually pretty solid. And if you have, uh, Mobius and Mobius out, if turn six could be, uh, Gilgamesh with the techno organic bars. With

SuperTechGod 33:53

the techno virus. I like

Alex 33:54

that. Right. And also they're green text. Yes. So he, so he gets a buff. Yes. So I think there's something there, buddy. I think there's something there. Yeah, exactly. Techno organic virus. Definitely a good card. And, uh, that's gonna take us to our next card. This is one that like, I don't think anyone gives a cry. Like when I say no one gives a hoot about this card.

SuperTechGod 34:12

Yeah.

Alex 34:12

Nobody gives a hoot about this card. Uh, Ken.

SuperTechGod 34:15

Yeah, no, I agree. And I can't wait to tell you what I have to say about it.'cause that's exactly how I feel.

Alex 34:20

Wolverine, the horseman of war, the four three that reads objective, this has five or more power that allows you to give one of your cards at each location. Plus three power that actually includes itself, by the way.

SuperTechGod 34:33

Yeah. Definitely the least favorite card of the week. I, yeah, you can play it in the, a aurora deck. You could play it with Akia, iron Hart, you know, cards to buff this up. But the objective here is pretty difficult to do for the outcome that you're gonna get plus three power for one of your cards at each location. Yeah, I prefer, I prefer just to play Aurora on Wong versus playing this card, to be honest with you. And sadly. I played, like I said, in bed, and I played the stream I had a couple nights ago, and I've yet to see anyone bring this card against me. I haven't seen anyone this season yet bring this card in the deck, so I'm not sure. I, I can't wait to hear what you say about the stats on the, on the play rate, because I'm telling you, I played a ton of Snap sick. I played a ton of Snap streaming, and not one time did I see this horseman of war show up in any of my matches. So yeah, for me, this card definitely gets a two out of five.

Alex 35:29

Okay, let's play a little game.

SuperTechGod 35:30

Yes.

Alex 35:31

Let's do over or under, I'm gonna give you a percentage and you guess over or under.

SuperTechGod 35:35

Okay.

Alex 35:35

Wolverine, horseman of war popularity play rate according to untapped a statistics. 2%. Higher or lower?

SuperTechGod 35:43

Higher.

Alex 35:44

You are wrong, sir. 1.3%. I picked the number. I'm like, there's no way less than two percent's crazy percent. 1.3%. 1.3.

SuperTechGod 35:55

Yeah. You know what? There it is. There it is. It's accurate.

Alex 35:59

50.5% win rate. So barely positive cube rate is sus It's not good. But you know what's crazy is like I, you didn't play against me'cause I actually tried. I'm like that 1.3%. Okay. You know why? Yeah. Okay. Forget this. I'll, I forget this card here. I'll tell you the card that I was trying so hard with. All right.

SuperTechGod 36:15

Okay.

Alex 36:15

I actually, apparently I can't spell, I legit tried to rip some nomura. I figured like, you know what, if I can get some Frankie Ray in there and I can get some nomura, it should work in Nomura. Like it should,

SuperTechGod 36:27

right.

Alex 36:28

I felt like I never played it ever. Like I felt like I never needed it. I just never ever needed it. And Frankie RA smashed it in power. Even having a Jeff in a location was just better. Like there was never a time playing Nomura where I felt like I needed it. And I felt like that was like the one cope deck where it made a lot of sense. I was even pointing like this COPE version of Surfer with ZA and a bunch of forecasts. Wow. With abs man and everything. This wasn't worth it, man. It wasn't worth it. By the way, I just got this was the, the gold

SuperTechGod 36:57

bundle. Yeah. I'm just loving this right now. What a phenomenal split. You have the water finish with the neon blue border. This looks amazing. This bundle was great, and this noura is top-notch. This is probably the second best noura variant that is out there. Second, yes. I had this

Alex 37:17

one before.

SuperTechGod 37:18

That one was good too. But there is one. Be one before that that I like more.

Alex 37:23

This

SuperTechGod 37:23

one I'm, see if you, that's the one right there. Yes. I like this one a

37:26

lot.

Alex 37:26

I'm a Nomura fan. I wish I had more opportunities to play Nomura.'cause I absolutely love, love the card. I, I think it's such a cool design. I'm gonna flash this one for now'cause it's new. And I, I always playing naura and I, I hoped, man, I was like if Wolverine's gonna make an impact here, it has to be on Naura. And it wasn't, it just, it wasn't good enough.

SuperTechGod 37:46

Yeah, the Horseman of War fell short. I think this card, and I definitely believe it will be the first card to be adjusted in the OTA. It just has to, I

Alex 37:54

wonder if they just leave it and they forget about it.

SuperTechGod 37:58

What can they do to make it better? Make it less than five, make it four, one more. You know, like what can they do to make it better? That's the problem here. The plus three I think is not enough

Alex 38:09

from a pure stats standpoint. I don't think it's bad. Like it's basically a four 12.

SuperTechGod 38:15

Yes.

Alex 38:16

Well, not even, because it'll be a five power then it floats. Floats out nine.

SuperTechGod 38:20

Right.

Alex 38:21

Thats why it's good. It's not bad. It's just like doesn't objective doesn't feel great.

SuperTechGod 38:27

Nah. Yeah I think they have to probably lower it down to four or something. Yeah. One hit, one tap. Yeah. Yeah, because I don't know, I don't know. We'll see if they leave it the way it is. That's fine. I mean, until maybe other cards in the future come out that show this card more love than maybe, but right now, definitely a two out of five.

Alex 38:47

Alright.

SuperTechGod 38:48

And matter of fact, 1.3 out of five, excuse me,

Alex 38:51

1.3 out of five.

SuperTechGod 38:53

Yes.

Alex 38:53

And that takes us to Archangel A two three. This is the new card coming out in Marvel Snap on Tuesday. A two three that reads objective. Your cards are destroyed four times. Then you get to resurrect one here with plus four power. I'll give you the floor.

SuperTechGod 39:10

So this card, um, is definitely going to be in a destroy deck. We all know that the home for it's gonna be the anything with X 23, the dead pools being able to destroy, bring those cards back if you want to target the card that you want to come back with. The plus four. The issue with that is, well, not the issue. What I think is the card that see the most synergy with it is going to be those cards of misery. Venom and carnage, right? Even dead deadlock. All the cars that can destroy the car that you wanna target the issue with this is the st. The stats are great. Two, three is a phenomenal stat. I just think the issue with this is right now, in this day and age, or this metal right now, I. What deck or what car can you destroy besides Ironman that you could bring back with extra four power That's gonna be like, yes, I got this lane. And that's the tough part because in my mind, first thing I'm thinking about is playing a typical destroy. Have a zero 12 death, play to death. Play with Zola, bring back a a, what's it called, or play with venom or carnage and bring back a 16. 16 power death in another lane. So to me it's like, is that enough in this meta? I don't know if it is with the Fang Fs out there and everything else. I don't know if it's enough. And it just sucks because the archangel here, the variants are. Gonna be epic that are coming out and I'm like, here we go again. Another archangel card. That is very meh and it sucks to see that because I really like the card, the lore. Everything about Archangel is so good. And the second iteration of this card is also meh. Again, the only thing going good for it is that it's a two, three.

Alex 40:50

I love the idea that you go right to the variance too. Yes. Like you're just like, you can't let it go.

SuperTechGod 40:54

No,

Alex 40:54

and I actually had this idea that, like, I thought that we saw this with Sam Wilson. We see it with Archangel. There's a few examples of this. If you have an angel variant and it's actually Archangel, it should be a variant that now is applied to Archangel, when that comes out,

SuperTechGod 41:11

agreed.

Alex 41:11

Just like, right. Like I'll show you right now. I brought, I think I brought this up last week, but literally this is Captain America. Sam Wilson,

SuperTechGod 41:20

it

Alex 41:20

not Falcon,

SuperTechGod 41:21

right? Agreed.

Alex 41:22

So this should be a variant. As soon as Sam Wilson comes out, this variant should go over to that card. In my opinion, it might be a little complicated, but like this is not the Falcon, this is Sam Wilson.

SuperTechGod 41:32

The issue becomes, if you didn't pick up the Sam Wilson card, that means you automatically get Sam Wilson, and that might be the problem.

Alex 41:39

Free to play games, baby.

SuperTechGod 41:41

I hear you. For the people, but for second 10, they're gonna be like, wait a minute. Granted it should be. Once you get the card, then this should switch over to the variant. Then I'm on pa. I'm on pa I'm, I'm on page for that. Okay. But yeah, I think people like it this way because they can confuse their opponents. Like there's a ton of variants out there that look like other cards because they probably have both of them on there and it's not. So I get it. But I totally agree with you, that card, Archangel variant, they should, once you get the card, that variant should be belong with the actual card. So I totally agree. But yeah, the variances look good for this card. The variances definitely get a five, but the card itself for me is definitely a one.

Alex 42:18

You are the only one I think that could like try to be like, yo, play variants that confuse your opponent.

SuperTechGod 42:27

The truth.

Alex 42:29

You know what? You're right,

SuperTechGod 42:30

you're right. You gonna think that about because of Sam Wilson and you're like, oh wait. Where's the shield? I don't see the shield. That's not

Alex 42:38

it. That's hilarious, man. That's hilarious. I would never have thought that like, that the variance themselves are like, playing mind games with people. But uh, with Archangel, the one card that really comes to mind, and honestly I think this card sucks. Like maximum two, maybe 1.5. It's not garbage. Like Moira. Not Moira, sorry. Moira is something you can destroy right martyr. Release is a one four, that's a one star card. That's just trash. Like why even play it?

SuperTechGod 43:04

That's year. That's year.

Alex 43:05

They did Buff Wade Wilson, though Wade Wilson did get buffed. It's now a two two when destroyed. Replace this with a one cost card from your hand or deck with plus two power. That could pull more. It can pull Deadpool. It can come back as a two six.

SuperTechGod 43:19

Okay.

Alex 43:19

And I don't know, but if you destroy it again, will it pull another one? Drop. Just throwing it out there. I don't know. I've never tried it, but like, find out, can you chain this together to bring head pool out and like, like I'm just thinking like maybe in a Wade Wilson head pool deck with Deadpool, Moira, you can get some archangel stuff happening where like, you literally just want things getting destroyed. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Just get, and like you're pulling things out, your deck in your hand boom, boom. You get that wheel going, Archangel brings it back. You blow it up again. Boom. Boom. Right? I just want you to saying boom. But long story short, like I think that there could be this engine with that deck, a Wade Wilson deck that's the cope that I have that like, yes, that could take this from a one to a three star card.'cause like Moira's amazing head pool's amazing. Deadpool's amazing. Destroy is amazing,

SuperTechGod 44:07

right?

Alex 44:08

But does Archangel get you there.

SuperTechGod 44:09

The only problem that may, may come up is your, is your draws, right? Because you gotta draw four, four cards to bring that card back. So you're gonna have to play X 23. That card you just showed, Wade Wilson, another card, and another card, destroy them, then play this. So it's like, it's gonna be very interesting to pull off what you're coping in over there. But I mean, if it does work, if it does work, then yes, then I think everything's gonna work out in your, in your favor. But yeah, I don't know. This card is still a one to me. I'm so sorry. Okay. One and a half. You're right.'cause Martyr was. Marta's Great in the techno virus deck. Now I play Marta in my, my techno virus deck. So you know, I mean, especially the techno virus in the last turn as a five, you play with the Marr. There you go. You got a nice free card that sits there. But yeah, techno virus aside, Wade Wilson gets a one and a half. Let sorry. All right. Not Wade Wilson. Archangel.

Alex 45:02

Yeah, Archangel. I think that, well first of all, Wade Wilson also got like a one and a half. Yeah, for sure. He needed a media buff. The car was totally sus. Yeah. But yeah, Archangel to me. It's by far the weakest of the season. I think this is like an absolute, I dunno, maybe I'm wrong, man. I love destroy, like, destroy iss an archetype. I enjoy playing. I really do. I just don't see it. But if Wade Wilson can make it happen, then I, I'll give it a shot. But like, I'm not, uh, hoping for high results on Archangel. Like, it, it'll be less play rate than Wolverine. I bet you.

SuperTechGod 45:32

But I just don't know why they can't make this car better. Why? Why do we give archangels such a, such a, I don't know, such a, such an objective? Could you not switch this with somebody else?

Alex 45:41

It's not even that bad though, because like if you think about two threes on rate, it goes, give plus fours, now you're two seven. Like, really? You're two seven.

SuperTechGod 45:49

Okay.

Alex 45:49

If it brings back the problem, the problem for destroy is like, what are the things that enter the destroy pool? Like theoretically, if you time it just perfectly, I should have brought this up before. If you time it just perfectly that the fourth card you destroy is Nimrod. Nimrod goes to the destroy pile, will come back with plus four power for turn six. If you do like a Surey kiddo, play destroy the Nimrod while archangels on the field to play. Right. It sets up a crazy turn six. Right. That's fair. So maybe like that. I should have mentioned that. Like I, why I have that in my notes. I don't even mention it. Like Nimron obviously is a beneficiary here.

SuperTechGod 46:28

Okay, that's fair. I, I forgot all about that too. You know what, this list, this card might end up being good in a list that doesn't need to be a destroy only list. Maybe like using Kid Omega destroying something else and then bringing back this. It has to have, of course you have to destroy three other cards. So you kind of have to have that hybrid, but something to think about.

Alex 46:49

Yeah, and I think the awkward part is that like so many Destroy cards don't go into the Destroy pool, and so like you're never able to bring back X 23, you're never able to bring back Wolverine, you're never able to bring back, et cetera, et cetera. Right? So it's kind of awkward from that standpoint

SuperTechGod 47:02

but yeah, if you play Squirrel Girl. And something else, Killmonger, then you're looking at, you could destroy your next card. You want play that? Yeah. I mean, maybe. Maybe.

Alex 47:14

Are you telling me that you want to hurt? Poor little squirrel.

SuperTechGod 47:17

I, of course then I love that variant too. Love you

Alex 47:20

like to say love variant too. I know you're gonna like that one.

SuperTechGod 47:22

I love

Alex 47:22

golden and blue always goes nice together.

SuperTechGod 47:24

Yes. This is so beautiful. This is,

Alex 47:25

I should have you one more. Dexter was like roasting my variances. He said that my variants are all trash.

SuperTechGod 47:30

I remember

Alex 47:30

that he said that my variance

SuperTechGod 47:31

dinner and he said the same thing.

Alex 47:34

Yeah. Oh yeah. The post we had, the post literal had dinner. Yes. We, we had dinner together. Me, me, uh, Ken Husky and Dex and Dexter was actively roasting my variants. And then, uh, he made a, uh, an expost comparing our two variants. It was so funny. People would being like, yeah. Like whose phone is whose Alex's or Ken's based off of, like, which variant people were like, well, Ken looks like the kind of guy that would use a phone without a case. So with no case. Yeah, that was my favorite comment.

SuperTechGod 48:01

Yeah, that was great. Shout out to them for that. But the squirrel girl is phenomenal. I love this, this is my favorite variant too. I love the split. I have the gold. With the, uh,

Alex 48:10

yeah,

SuperTechGod 48:11

With the white back, with the white neon. But I love this, this squirrel

Alex 48:14

and this changed the token as well, right? It's one of the few cards where the token changes, by the way.

SuperTechGod 48:20

But yeah,

Alex 48:20

my man,

SuperTechGod 48:20

definitely gonna have to destroy those squirrels if you wanna please something different. Yes.

Alex 48:24

We gotta talk about a couple questions for the Snapchat mailbag. Of course. And I mean, those aren't necessarily questions, but like. So we are at pax. There was a display for dungeon crawler, Carl? Yes. And I feel, do you know anything about dungeon crawler Carl? No. Okay, so maybe this is not the best, uh, okay. I'll ask. Okay. So Mr. Perfectly fine, longtime supporter of, uh, the content by the way, said dungeon crawler. Carl mentioned on the Snapchat, life has peaked. People are obsessed with dungeon crawler. Carl, I feel like I don't even know what it is. Yeah. So I definitely gotta get into this here. Um, so please tell us in the comments whether or not, like, do super protect God and I do. We have to like really start diving into super, uh, dungeon Carl or Carl.'cause we are, we're both out in the blue here. I don't know what's going on.

SuperTechGod 49:09

Yeah, I guess we have to, don't roast us too bad, but let us know in the comments where we need to go to look at this. I, I'm intrigued. I'm very intrigued now.

Alex 49:16

Yeah, we're sensitive guys. Come on. Next one from Ka muse, mj. Excellent episode. Loved the trip. Highlights. Oh, talking about the PACS trip and you were in that clip. We did that Pokemon clip together. Yes. One note, I love these by the way, and people like correct the, uh, like the Lord. Yes. Mother Ani is not the mother of esk son. They're essentially brother and sister. Eska son is actually a younger cable child of Cyclops and an alternate Jean Gray. Mother Eska is an older version of Rachel Summers, daughter of alternate versions of Cyclops and Jean Gray.

SuperTechGod 49:54

Gray.

Alex 49:55

I am sorry for making that mistake, but damn, it's confusing. Yeah,

SuperTechGod 49:58

Mother Ani and Ani, you would think that is the mother of Ani, so I totally understand that and no, thank you. I mean that's great for letting us know the lore behind it and we've all watched X-Men, right. The 97 and the one that came out in the year 97.

Alex 50:13

I'm not finished it yet, bro. I'm on like the second last episode.

SuperTechGod 50:16

Okay, then we're not gonna talk about that on this right now, so yeah. Listen, mother Esk is the sister and sibling of Esk. Thank you so much for that. We really appreciate. Yeah. The Lord note.

Alex 50:26

Damn. I just realized we didn't really review a SK son. I didn't get a chance to play him too much. I have him unlocked. I did play him a bunch. Honestly. Maybe what we'll do is we'll, we'll wait till next. Oh, you guys can't see it? Yeah. We'll wait till next week to talk about esk son. I do have him unlocked. I don't know. I don't think he's great, to be honest with you. But yeah,

SuperTechGod 50:40

it's all right.

Alex 50:41

Last question of the episode here. It's not even a question, it's a statement. So Ken, you're a family man. Let's see if you've ever experienced this. Once again, Liz says, great episode. I went on a self-drive safari park like 20 years ago in England, and we had the exact same monkey experience. We tried to get them off the windshield, but they just started drinking the water, like watching cockatoos rip apart a car. Funny, as long as it's not happening to you. What I was describing. Okay. Was that, so Dexter didn't know this, but there are like safaris where you can go with your family in your own vehicle and drive through the safari and the rhinos will like walk by in front of your car and stuff like that. And Dexter didn't believe me that you can do this. They're like, he's like, don't you just get on a bus and see the safari?

SuperTechGod 51:25

You can do that

Alex 51:26

too. No, man, you drive through and I was saying how like the one that's near Toronto has this like. Monkey bypass lane where you can skip the monkeys.'cause when you drive through the monkeys, they're known to like jump on the windshield, rip off your windshield wipers, and then just like poo all over the windshield and like smear it everywhere. And then I saw someone, like with our kids, not our kids, but someone was like feeding popcorn to a giraffe and the draft stuck its head into the window of the car, but the window wasn't all the way down and it shattered the glass like in like into the car. I'm like, bro, like, and then like there's like security driving around, yelling at everybody. Have you ever been to one of those?

SuperTechGod 52:01

I've been, when I was younger with my family, when I was younger, and my father and mom and them, we drove through a safari and that was pretty fun. It was very, very scary too. Right? Because again, everything that happens that can happen will happen at that moment. And it's just like, you're in the car, you're like, what is going on? And you see these animals start doing things and you, you assume that first, right? Going into it. Aren't we gonna go into one of those other pe, you know, the cars that they have provided for us? No, no, no. We drive our own car through it. Oh. Okay, so let's go. And it's a good experience. I think you all should try it.

Alex 52:32

Got

SuperTechGod 52:32

bro, especially Uter,

Alex 52:33

bro. You made it sound like a case. You made it sound like anything can happen. The Fri lion's not gonna attack your car. He's just chilling there, chomping a steak,

SuperTechGod 52:42

right? I don't mean that can happen, but as far as the monkeys, the giraffe, the rhinos passing by, they're not gonna harm you. They're not gonna harm your car as long as you don't bother them. As

Alex 52:53

long as you don't bother. That's the key thing. You just,

SuperTechGod 52:55

yes,

Alex 52:55

you rolled down the window, you talk some smack to that rhino. He's literally good luck. Capable of throwing your vehicle.

SuperTechGod 53:00

Yes.

Alex 53:00

Good

SuperTechGod 53:00

luck. Um,

Alex 53:01

there's one animal though that I, I asked this about this before, right? I think I mentioned this to Cozy years ago. The hippopotamus, I. It's never just wandering because it is so aggressive that they have them in like these massive pits where they can't get out because apparently they are psychotic and they will attack you. Like the hippopotamus is no joke. It looks funny, but it is an absolutely ruthless, ruthless beast. Uh, apparently one of the most aggressive animals on the planet.

SuperTechGod 53:31

I believe it. Your favorite animal, however, is the elephant. My bad. That's right, the elephant.

Alex 53:36

I'm a known Elephant Enjoyer.

SuperTechGod 53:38

Yes,

Alex 53:38

indeed. Ken, thank you so much for joining us this week on the podcast, my man. It's always great to have you. We'll definitely have you back. Thank you. You know that. Thank you for all the hard work that you do in the Marvel Snap community. Where can we find you on the great worldwide interwebs?

SuperTechGod 53:51

Everywhere at Super Tech God.

Alex 53:54

The Super Tech God, very easy to find. Awesome. We'll have all the links down below guys. Support this man. He's an absolute beauty. He's a gentleman. Thank you. Through and through one of my absolute favorite people that I've ever met, and uh, I was lucky. I was lucky to be able to sneak and, uh, buy his dinner for him on that. Oh, oh my gosh. I'm gonna get you back on that evening. I know he's gonna get, that's the problem. He's gonna get me back now. It's gonna be a rai I'm gonna, I'm gonna pay for his meal before it even comes out to make sure that you can't even, that's gonna be funny. So he can't even beat me. But anyways, guys, I love you all. Thank you so much for all your support, and we'll see you on that next one.