Marvel Snap

Hey y'all, its a new season, which means a new complete fuckery to everything we know as meta. This time the particular brand of fuckery will be Cost related, with several of the season's cards altering or preventing alteration from how much you need to pay to play a card. But let's see those beauties up close.

First, the new offerings:

(Going to be honest, it feels like they're struggling a bit with new characters when they draw from a TV show like this, but maybe I know less about comics than I thought)

As said before, the offering mostly focuses on Cost play, aside from Alioth which is a big destroying monster. Feels like a feral variant of Leader, and I wonder if it'll have the same impact.

Now for the Spotlight Cache offerings, starting wit this week's:

A strong opening. Knull is both a crucial play in almost every Destroy deck, as well as a possible counter for those, depending on your composition. Jeff is the anti-Xavier, and Gwen is one of the newest Move components.

Now this feels...lackluster. Hit-monkey is nothing to sneeze at, and Alioth can potentially be a deadly foe, but Snowguard as an offering is just sad. Its a Control card that never found a proper use, aside from maybe a Kazoo filler, but even then you have better options.

What follows up is an interesting offer. I can see Ravonna being an excellent pair with high-cost cards like Iron Man and Hobgoblin, especially if paired with another amplifier (though that might have diminishing returns). Zabu itself falls into that scope, and Jean Grey is an annoying card that's nothing to sneeze at.

Finally, the last offer and perhaps the weirdest. Only two cards, and one of them is, well, very situational. Kang by himself is not particularly bad, but there's two options when played, you either realize how badly you were going to lose or you try to come up with a last-minute plan.

(There's the 3rd option where you play him on a Cosmo but I've only made that cruel outcome happen once against a poor sod.)

While Mobius is a counter to cost increase and an offensive against cost decrease, somewhat like a reverse Luke Cage, which again, can be interesting in the right hands, but I'll leave the smart players to figure that out.

As for the rest, we have this seasons' variants, starring Loki from the TV show Loki

And a couple of new locations,

Time Theater seems a promising bother to deck drawing, joining the ranks of Weirdworld, while Vesuvius feels like the ultimate Snap bait to all greedy and eager players.

So that's what awaits us, in this green future. Thoughts?