BLINK

[kingts]

This is to discuss the card, if you will go for her, is she worth your tokens, and what you expect as the BATTLE PASS card for the month of MAY

https://marvelsnapzone.com/cards/blink/

BLINK: Very interesting dynamic here, do they alter those high power cards before her release and is she potent enough for a 1 to 3 turn usage.
We have seen a ton of 5-costs that just don't cut it to compete with the flood of power that is in the game and coming. This will feed into an RNG crazy mode with algorithms going mad. Clearly swapping low cost for something big in your deck can be both beneficial and problematic depending on the archetype your up against. However, it's not just low power for high power. RECRUIT will have a field day with Blink as that archetype took off with Yondu, Gladiator, Zemo, Cable, and others cutting your deck size to nothing. Do they alter that theme prior to Blink's release, because they want sales. What you play leading into this card, could allow some crazy draws if unchecked, like Jubilee, Ironlad, Mr. Negative, or even 3-costs if lowered to duplicate effects of what you played for that switch, do Negasonic, Shuri, Elsa, and others as you switch still gain their ability effects prior to their exchange. You can also lock down against lane stoppers with that switch like Storm.
Her stat line will add not just the Six power to a lane, but potentially a massive power swing to control that one lane for good, but also six to one lane and power to another.
Here is my issue with Blink, like Jubilee, you are roiling the dice if you don't know precisely what is left in your deck which expert players will know exactly what they are pulling.
Don't leave her for chance. Lastly, her power herself like Legion, Annie, Warlock, and others will not save you on curve be a moot point in a lane for that power swing where its the effect not her power stat line that will not save you especially if you must capture 2 lanes at once. Where she cannot make up the 4 or five power swings against the 4-cost and 6-cost meta power monsters.

Have a fun civil discussion gang. Cheers

[Zlehtnoba]

Well, most of us use trackers, so we will know what's left in the deck.

I like her, since this game is only interesting with enough random effects going on, otherwise it becomes boring quickly. Looks abusable, a second Jubilee for the decks that want that effect. Might even be better than Iron Lad for some builds, as sometimes you don't want two copies of a card.

[Lady MacBeth]

I could see her making it into both hela and tribunal builds. Theres probably other things as well but those two are both decks that can want to go fishing deeper into their deck. Turn 4 jubilee, turn 5 Blink on the Jubilee for example.

[Xanontz]

yea, i see her as a decent boost to and decent extra win condition in hela where if luck isnt on your side getting hela down she can help potentially pull her out or just get a decent turn 6 pure power play if nothing seems to be going your way draw wise. it has some some good synergy in there in a lot of situations where turns 4/5 can often be lower powered tech stuff so you can swap out your corvus, sif, jubilee utlities once theyve done their job for power.

there's also decent upside to discarding it as well, pulling it back with ghost rider can swap him to something good but if you've still got death in deck your hela pulling her back on board can get you an extra 6 power swapping hela to death (given you're not playing a deck destroying stuff and reducing death cost under 7 - potentially, feel like that mechanic might be wonky when it's still in deck)

Wont be the center of finishing move power but a good finishing combo and just 2 card turn 5 synergy.

[Taweret]

she looks like thanos card to me.

[kingts]

She can fit into some solid archetypes for sure, especially now that the OTA came out.

[kingts]

I do think spenders will get this card. I will use tokens to try her out.

[Zinkr7x]

Wait holy cow Blink tutors.

There's gotta be a way to use this to surprise out a Galactus or something.

[Lady MacBeth]

Originally posted by Zinkr7x:

Wait holy cow Blink tutors.

There's gotta be a way to use this to surprise out a Galactus or something.

Oh yeah totally, especially with deck trackers. I'm also thinking about maybe ramp style decks. Electro on 3, blink it away on 4. There's probably other applications as well.

[webmetalreese]

Blink is like math hard for me for some reason. Will I be able to say on turn 6, play a 1 cost and Blink would then net that one cost to turn into the last card I have? Is it really that dependable? For some reason I don't think so, maybe I'm wrong. One big issue I have is that by turn 5 you have 1 or 2 cards left so, it's a 50/50 most likely a 0/100 that the last two cards are a 3 cost or a mystique that will do nothing.

Honestly this is the first season pass card that I can't find any decent pro to shell out ten bucks for, even black swan had decent effect at the starting gate. IDK..

[kingts]

Originally posted by webmetalreese:

Blink is like math hard for me for some reason. Will I be able to say on turn 6, play a 1 cost and Blink would then net that one cost to turn into the last card I have? Is it really that dependable? For some reason I don't think so, maybe I'm wrong. One big issue I have is that by turn 5 you have 1 or 2 cards left so, it's a 50/50 most likely a 0/100 that the last two cards are a 3 cost or a mystique that will do nothing.

Honestly this is the first season pass card that I can't find any decent pro to shell out ten bucks for, even black swan had decent effect at the starting gate. IDK..

Part of the issue with Blink is what is coming. This month will be a hard sell. Some of these I am not sure are Meta prevalent. I think like any new card, Blink will be played a lot and players adjust.
Is this a 'must' get Battle pass, well, one I never encourage spending, but to use your tokens on a battle pass card should always be your first option. I don't like that she is 5-cost and I explained that. I think she will have some interesting new deck builds. There is no rush to get any card on day 1.

[Zinkr7x]

Originally posted by Lady Ming:

Originally posted by Zinkr7x:

Wait holy cow Blink tutors.

There's gotta be a way to use this to surprise out a Galactus or something.

Oh yeah totally, especially with deck trackers. I'm also thinking about maybe ramp style decks. Electro on 3, blink it away on 4. There's probably other applications as well.

Electro -> Blink -> Absorbing Man = guaranteed 6 drop, and can be a tutored 6 drop, amidst whatever you pulled for Electro too.

[webmetalreese]

Originally posted by Zinkr7x:

Originally posted by Lady Ming:

Oh yeah totally, especially with deck trackers. I'm also thinking about maybe ramp style decks. Electro on 3, blink it away on 4. There's probably other applications as well.

Electro -> Blink -> Absorbing Man = guaranteed 6 drop, and can be a tutored 6 drop, amidst whatever you pulled for Electro too.

True, or I could simply play Cable, Mirage, Loki, Colson, Fury, Iron Lad, and now Valentina to get the same effect. (Theoretically).
Sorry, a bit of a tangent I'm in as taking a step back to look at the game in a bigger sense it's becoming more clear to me how they are running out of ideas. Cards coming down the line are either the same or similar effect as other cards or effects so extreme they are literally cracked or broken with crazy ideas that, from previous information will be smashed into the ground once the hype dies off.

[Zinkr7x]

Originally posted by webmetalreese:

Blink is like math hard for me for some reason. Will I be able to say on turn 6, play a 1 cost and Blink would then net that one cost to turn into the last card I have? Is it really that dependable? For some reason I don't think so, maybe I'm wrong. One big issue I have is that by turn 5 you have 1 or 2 cards left so, it's a 50/50 most likely a 0/100 that the last two cards are a 3 cost or a mystique that will do nothing.

Honestly this is the first season pass card that I can't find any decent pro to shell out ten bucks for, even black swan had decent effect at the starting gate. IDK..

Well for starters, you are mathing wrong if you have 1 or 2 cards left by turn 5, unless you are the luckiest Nico player on the planet. You'll have 3 cards by turn 6.

At worst, Blink being a last turn lockjaw isn't half bad, especially when you're guaranteed to get something larger and you know what your last remaining cards are if it's worth playing Blink. But Blink is combo bait. Their power is going to depend on if anyone can figure out some super strong combo to tutor out with her.

[Zinkr7x]

Originally posted by webmetalreese:

Originally posted by Zinkr7x:

Electro -> Blink -> Absorbing Man = guaranteed 6 drop, and can be a tutored 6 drop, amidst whatever you pulled for Electro too.

True, or I could simply play Cable, Mirage, Loki, Colson, Fury, Iron Lad, and now Valentina to get the same effect. (Theoretically).
Sorry, a bit of a tangent I'm in as taking a step back to look at the game in a bigger sense it's becoming more clear to me how they are running out of ideas. Cards coming down the line are either the same or similar effect as other cards or effects so extreme they are literally cracked or broken with crazy ideas that, from previous information will be smashed into the ground once the hype dies off.

None of those cards tutor another card, except I guess Iron Lad under technical circumstances, but you have no controlled tutor.

Tutor means you can guarantee pull a specific card you need. The only tutor I can think of is Jane Foster pulling all your 0 cost cards, namely used to tutor your Mr. Negative cards that now cost 0. (Or I guess you could use this for Pixie too, but you don't really know what you're snagging)

If you run just one 6 drop and do not have it in hand, you can guarantee put it in play by playing blink to switch out your 5 cost (or if blink is your only 5 cost, you can switch out a 4 cost for that 6 cost)

A good example of a pull worth tutoring is Galactus. You can leave a 4 drop by itself in one location on turn 4, and then turn 5 can play Blink and pull Galactus and whoops, now that location is destroyed. That specific strat is gunna be cheesy though and easily seen through after like the first day, but it's an example.

[fallenj]

OOOH YEAH! can't wait, one of my fav characters from the comics. Ability wise, ill figure something out.