ANTI VENOM

[kingts]

The last of the Symbiotes is Anti Venom. I may take a step back from doing these since there seems to be no interest in discussing the cards. We will see. Just in time for Halloween the strange Anti Venom chimes in.
OCT 29th-NOV 5th

This is to discuss the cards themselves and I always caution 1-key and to build those keys up to a minimum of 3, 4 or more, and not to go more than 1-key if you can help it. A vital resource to maintain. You decide, no one should be telling you to use this resource. Stick to the discussing the cards and stay on topic.

ANTI VENOM: What exactly is he trying to do. Clearly to garnish a double effect in one turn, but is it worth the effort. Depends what you target, and you may need Howard the Duck to be more precise in your execution. Cards that do not rely on power, but effect will benefit from Anti Man's play. Ironman, Kang, Thena, Bishop, Angela, Iron-heart, or even cards that have small power constructs but vital to your deck execution. The key word is 'Set". not afflict, or reduce, so Cage will probably not undo this, so you must choose wisely here. What I like about the card is it puts cards that have difficult energy cost executions in play for double effects. Cards like Shuri, Phoenix, Task Master, Zola, Blob, White Tiger and on and on, were you want the end result effect, not necessarily its power. To sacrifice a Doom to 0/0 in one lane, but garnish his bots in another free. Board space is still a huge problem in this game. Though I am not crazy about his stat-line, and MMM may negate Anti Venom's set mechanic, would have to see it in play first. Same with Doom. Anti Venom has more potential than the recent 4-costs we have seen enter the game. In extended games, he could be a nightmare. A base entry by Mello and Ryan.

https://marvelsnapzone.com/cards/anti-venom/

Subject to change, but if they stay as is.

GHOST-SPIDER- Keep in mind an OTA is coming, and this has become a fine brand for Marvel, but Ghost Spider always seemed like work that I feel like Iron-fist has been restrained by their cautions development. She truly is boxed into the one archetype and that is unfortunate. Though move got some much welcomed help. Iron-fist and Ghost Spider have kind of been stuck in the twilight zone of triggers, that have been weakened because of Madame Web, Arana, and others, that simply make her useless in your tight deck constructs. Dropping to 178 rank, she has awful stats at 47.8% win-rate, even when used and a negative cube share. She needs a major tweak to me and is lost in translation. She simply is irrelevant. That could change in the future with more new cards, more move or activate changes and she is not awful to try out if you hit on her with a lovely variant by Amanda Conner. Ghost Spider has some of the prettiest variants in the game. Hopefully her usefulness improves.

https://marvelsnapzone.com/variants/ghost-spider-24/

SUPER GIANT- Another idea that kind of got lost in the shuffle. I cannot predict OTAs, but man has she been regulated to a very specific execution in the game and Alioth simply kills her. Another card operating with a lousy win/rate and negative cube share. This was a big miss by SD, but things can change quickly with an OTA. She too needs a buff, for her stat-line, mechanic, and appeal to sub archetypes are non existent. If it wasn't for the GOTG, she would be dead-last in rank, now at 279. Stagnant but colorful new Variant by Seth Adams. Super Giant is screaming for help. If you grab her she could be a fun try to play, but don't risk her in your meta decks. You simply pass on a turn which you should never do in Snap unless your payoffs are deadly and she has her hands tied behind her back. She may just get the help she needs coming.

https://marvelsnapzone.com/variants/supergiant-05/

I do think an OTA is coming prior to this spotlight release and boy this is a weak spotlight as far as must gets. I will try to get Anti Venom for new idea fun, but I am no hurry to grab it. Be careful gang in rushing on this spotlight. I can totally understand the skip or you can take a wait and see approach. YOU do YOU.

Be wise with your keys, enjoy the discussion gang and gaming. My best to you all. Cheers

[Horus]

I'm a big fan of your card analysis and feel its a great contributor to the board! Would suck if you stopped doing these.

Point of the cards though, Anti venom doesn't seem to exciting to me atm. We will have to see how he plays out i suppose. Fun idea but i feel he may be a little tedious to set up properly.

[Zlehtnoba]

Interesting card. Of course, hoping to hit Shuri and hitting Red Skull instead will be bad, so probably works best in a deck with a few great targets and no really bad ones, like I don't know, some obscure deck playing only low-cost reusable cards? Oh wait, that's the best deck in the game right now according to one of the sites.

I would love for this one to introduce Howard the Duck into competitive play. Negative and Tribunal would love some extra energy with no power loss on the last turn.

[kingts]

Appreciated the kind words, we will see. I do this for you all. It is a discussion tread, discuss.
I will do them as long as players engage, not with me, but about the game.

@@Horus-Yeah, board space is a huge issue in this game. Clog is still a problem. So its great to have cards that do multiple things, but space wise, decks need to execute to deadly results, especially up in the ranks.

@Zleght-Hey my brother, yep, I agree, they need to address these bad list of cards. Howard the Duck, Kang, and on and on, and if you don't have plan B plans to alter this cards to be better, then creating cards that utilize them more is always a good thing.

[groovador]

his spotlight variant looks so good holy


not sure what to do with him though, my first thought is a living tribunal deck could probably use him since they won't mind having one of their combo pieces at 0 power if it meant they can play it for free.

[Tray]

Gonna be hard to pass this one up since I want my spotlights healthy for next month, but it fits pretty darn good into decks that play for abilities and not so much for raw stats which are almost every one of the top decks atm.

I'm a Darkhawk enjoyer myself and I don't see a single bad hit in that.

[kingts]

Originally posted by Tray:

Gonna be hard to pass this one up since I want my spotlights healthy for next month, but it fits pretty darn good into decks that play for abilities and not so much for raw stats which are almost every one of the top decks atm.

I'm a Darkhawk enjoyer myself and I don't see a single bad hit in that.

Yeah Tray I hear ya, and this OTA did not help

[Yoki_NL]

still such a weird card to me. It looks cool, but , not sure how to use him? Only card i see having profit from his Ability, is maybe Blob? nothing to discuss untill i understand him better xD

[Ydrisselle]

Originally posted by Yoki_NL:

still such a weird card to me. It looks cool, but , not sure how to use him? Only card i see having profit from his Ability, is maybe Blob? nothing to discuss untill i understand him better xD

Or the Knull-Zola pair.

[Lemurian1972]

Originally posted by Zlehtnoba:

Interesting card. Of course, hoping to hit Shuri and hitting Red Skull instead will be bad,

Hitting Red Skull could be hilarious, if you also have Viper. I'm actually dreaming of ending a game with 0/0 Destroyer dropped into a Viper lane with Misery. I know Regis tried a much harder version of the combo a few months ago, but I think this could actually work.

[Wipkonijntje]

hes gonna make howard the duck MVP.

[D.A.S.H.]

Needs to be 2 or 3 cost. Him being the same cost as Iron Lad and Jubilee makes no sense, too many similar cards with the same cost. It would not hurt at all making him a 2/3 or 3/5 probably.

[deatheos]

A less fun to play Iron Lad, can pop off but just feels clunky and again just not fun.

[unlimitedskyuran]

Seriously? No one wrote about Luke Cage? Or did I not notice?
Tried it a bit in Hela's deck. Now added to Sera's well, there were already Sage and King of Shadow and Valentina to boot.