can you get anywhere without spending money?

[~Sound Sage~]

can you get anywhere without spending any money? or are you forced to pay in order to get things that help you make a good deck?

[Mac Tonight]

In theory, but it would take a lot of time. A LOT. If you're not a youtuber or content creator with time to spare, prepare for a long journey. Your decks will be jank for a long, long time, and while you can sort of get by on jank for a bit, you won't have too many options for experimenting with new concepts.

[kingts]

@Sound Sage
No you don't need to spend. Period. It is all an illusion, Cards are not real, rank, conquest, none of it. That is what they want you to think. I must get this to be competitive.
There are no real OP cards in this game because the dull them all down.

A Good deck? First three things you must learn. 1. Know all the cards, whether you have them or not. The base set is enough to beat many decks. 2. Part of the game is knowing when to snap, when not to snap and escape is your friend. 3. With 6 archetypes and 16 sub archetypes, if you are not aware of ALL the cards, what makes you think having one will be an advantage than not having one. You know why? because you stay within the play level of not just your skill but your collection tree.
Now to be clear. I agree with Mac's thoughts that it is a long grind. If you really are not in competition with anyone, what is the rush?
Let's take one archetype. Destroy, that base set can beat a ton of decks

https://marvelsnapzone.com/cards/destroy/

There are not many cards in this theme that truly put you at a disadvantage, where you cannot beat cards that are upper in series. A Galactus, Nimrod, X-23, Lady Deathstrike, or any upper series card. Do you actually believe that getting a Negasonic or Phoenix Force will suddenly get your to Infinite. Nope and that is just ONE archetype.

There are archetypes stronger than others. So if I am playing Destroy, and I recognize on turn 2-3 a Negate Tech against met with Cosmo and Armor, Not winning that match, so escape. Deck recognition is critical in this game. You are also facing bots, have to know how to play against them.

In time you will get most of the cards, thru, gold cache drops, spotlight caches, and stock piling tokens to get the Battle Pass card or I must get ARISHEM and now I am a god, no such thing.

I have a young teen who is missing 40 plus cards who has a ball, She gets to 50-60 rank and has fun with her Baby Variants. Everyone is different why they play, but the illusion is the illusion.
There is no pay to play structure yet, or pay to win yet.
Learn all the cards, all the archetypes and you will do fine. Peace

[obisearch]

Early on they do a few things to give you a boost like more cards in caches and one free card per season that you don't have, this along with the key was good.
Now I hardly get any new cards except the Cassandra grind nova. Keys have been unkind lately...
I advise at least getting seasonal at least so you get a card and lots of resources that really helps you to get arrows or credits to get two keys in one week.

[BOMBARDIRO CROCODILO]

I really dont think you got to spend any money on this game besides the battle pass which is really worth the value imo. Started playing 2 weeks ago and I already flew through pool 1 and pool 2.

[fistleaf]

I didn't spend any money, and I have all the useful cards for playing various archetypes after 1 year of just completing daily quests. If you want all cards including the useless ones, then you need to spend.

[Si]

You will eventually be series 3 complete as a f2p player. This will likely take over 6 months if you're completelt f2p.

You will get some series 4/5 cards as f2p but not all. So choose wisely.

You can enjoy the game sure and build decent decks but at the higher competitive levels you will be at a disadvantage since you wont have the flexibility in deck building that paid players have

Tl;dr

If you play casually, you will be fine.

If you play extensively and competitively, you will have to hand over $$$ to keep up.

[Surflehrer Udo]

Yes it just takes time, but i loved that aspect about being F2P. If it takes longer to unlock the cool cards, you are even more excited and happy when you get them. You can unlock every card without spending money.

[Zlehtnoba]

I don't think playing this game can be fun without buying the season pass. At least for me.

Other than that, it depends on your goals. If you are content to build a deck or two, you can be competitive as ftp. If you want to experiment and explore, then you will need to spend money to speed up progression, maybe to buy some cards with bundles.

In short, a typical ccg.

[SSOutPhase]

The only money I spend on the game is the season pass. It's a measly $10 and you get the most value out of it all. I have many Series 5 and 4 cards. Not ALL...but just the good ones that I want. You just need to learn when to save your keys and only spend 4 on the week you roll for a card. Don't gamble your resources away if you can't guarantee a card.

You don't need to splurge to become competitive.

[Tiearian]

This is a monthly subscription game, if you want to play it and stay relevant you have to be getting the Season Pass every month. So roughly $15 a month depending on currency.. The Devs choice to always be changing Meta, and the strength of cards(some times to a huge degree) every other update, ensures that for every Season(pass) they release, Winning is always in your favor by building a deck surrounding the cards rewarded in the pass.

I'd only play this game if youre a huge marvel fan, and love card games. Cuz if you don't have those two traits, then this game is not worth it.

[BobbyGun]

You can get much without paying. It takes some time, but as you learn by playing over time, it matches well.

[Koori_89]

The game is based on FOMO , every single mode shop item and UI screams at you to get it. The season pass for 10$ is the most anyone should ever spend. Its the price of 3 coffees.

As for where exactly does spending more will get you. Nowhere , you just makes SD, Disney and Ben Brode, rich. Spending more money and thinking you get more than the rest is 100% an illusion, they are good at that.

[that6guy66]

I've bought 2 season passes for decent variants im 20 cards short of having every card. That said, I play for 10-60 minutes a day, clearing dailies, and I've been playing since release.

You can quickly complete series 1 and 2, and you get a series 3 card free every season. Once you get keys and tokens, don't spend them on anything lower than series 5. New players should be able to complete Series 3 consistently and quickly with consistent play. 4, 5, and 6 are get what you can when you can.

[Pluto]

You might be able to save tokens up each month for a S5 card, but they come out with a new one every week.

[Thunder Buddy]

no. Especially once you hit like card level 3k, you will face people like card level 15k who have like 3-5x as many core cards as you.