I WON THE $5000 MARVEL SNAP TOURNAMENT!
Winning my first major tournament and it being the biggest one so far in Snap's history has left me with plenty of emotions. Certainly had an awesome weekend - S/Os to meeting so many amazing people!
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The Top 8 Decklists + Stats from the
@SnapDotFan
World Championship. From a tournament with 64 of the best players in the world, these are the decks that will be playing for $3000 tomorrow.
Leaks from SD's test build?
Alioth is a 6/4
Black Widow's Widow's Bite is a -1
White Tiger spawns an 8 power Tiger
Forge is a 1/1, unknown text box (presumably gives +2 instead of +3)
Ravonna is no longer a 3/3 (new statline still unknown but she's not seen in the collection)
I was hoping that the MMR reset would do something, but I guess my MMR is so high that even after losing a few 4 or 8 cube games against bots, I still don't get knocked out of bot MMR.
Day 1 Infinite, 66 games, just 3 human games (and they were against the same dude 3x in a row)
If you are saving your Gold purely for progression, the datamines from the latest patch have revealed the next bundles that are must-buys in October and November - with 9000 Tokens on offer for 11000 Gold over 2 big bundles, for MUCH better value than Token Tuesdays.
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Farmed the hot location to hit Rank 1 - can finally cross this off the bucketlist. Thanos Lockjaw has truly been one of my favorite decks to play.
Shoutouts to the
@LambySeriesGG
Discord VC for keeping me company.
I've settled on my preferred build of the Standard Thanos Lockjaw after days of running this deck through the ladder. Caiera is so good for the deck that we can drop the KM+Death stuff, and Skaar opens new alternate playlines in a useful way.
#MARVELSNAP
Top 3 with the "villain" deck. I've seen claims this meta is one of the worst because nonmeta struggles against Go-Tall decks, like the Shuri meta before. Many claim Silk Move was the best meta, which was smaller.
Is it inevitable the game is worse when efficient stats is meta?
Top 4 Decklists from the $5000 ER Marvel Snappers Assemble Tournament in Hong Kong!
Semi Finals are
justinflying vs JakeDoan
C.Kiu vs Torikun
I'll be flying out to Hong Kong myself later, can't wait to meet old friends, new competitors, and play the biggest games of my life.
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Summer Games Fest gave us all the items in the
#MarvelSnap
Conquest shop, so I estimated how much you need to grind to get everything. Assume every run starts at Proving Grounds and goes on until you lose.
TLDR: If you don't pay gold, prepare to GRIND
When Spider-Ham was supposed to release I opened 160 reserves and pulled the remaining 4 S4s I was missing instead of Ham because of the bug. So imagine my surprise when I opened my inbox and saw this. Anyone else received this 3000 Token compensation?
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Top 8 + Swiss Stats from Season 14 Battle Arena 1! As the first major open Snap fan World Championship event since the July patch, the meta has predictably shifted a bit. Bounce still topped the Swiss at 7-0, but everything around it looks very different.
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I've been the
#1
ranked player on my matchmaking server of Asia for a while now (蝠式呼吸 or YoungWave plays on the NA server), but I waited to post only after I hit the clear milestone of 9800 SP.
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Inspired by the success of Thanos Control in the
@Impulse_fl
Pro Series, felt like actually grinding ladder for a bit with ol' reliable, now with Elsa and Alioth. The deck has 2 flex slots here IMO - MMM and Cosmo.
Climbed from Rank 170 -> 95 in just 2 hours, gaining ~140 SP.
Finished the Infinite climb today with an old favorite of mine - High Evo Moon Girl. Strangely, I entered Infinite at a higher SP than where I finished last season (9006 SP). Seeing the same names again on the LB, guess this means everyone's SP wasn't reset at all this season?
Haven't posted in a while - really have just been a Daily Andy when it comes to Snap. I have to thank
@kx4n_L
for their awesome deck though, for being so fun and strong. I was inspired to grind some ladder for once - this was all done today.
Rank ~240 -> Top 100
~8550 -> 8922SP
From 400 players in
@EREsportsHK
's Snappers Assemble tournament, just 8 remain.
Simplypie vs JakeDoan
Jieen vs justinflying
Torikun vs Kingkong
C.Kiu vs ShangHighHs
4 players will advance to the offline round in Hong Kong for the chance to win a share of the $5000 prize pool.
STEGRON IS A TOURNAMENT CHAMPION. This is not a drill. For the first time, we have a Move deck winning a major open tournament, against HE Lockjaw in the final no less. Congrats to JungCAT for winning the $600 Snap fan June Open and qualifying for the Snap fan World Championship!
Top 8 Decklists and Stats following the Swiss rounds in the
@SnapDotFan
July Open! Thanos Control has been dethroned! Darkhawk and Moon Girl have risen! What else stands out to you here?
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Stats and Top 8 Decklists from Season 13 Battle Arena
#2
. Probably one of the most surprising top cuts I've ever laid eyes on so far, if I'm being honest.
Two Negative decks? No High Evolutionary in Top 8? What else catches your eye?
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Is this the biggest cosmetics flex combo possible?
Infinite Wave Avatar: Infinite in Beta Season 1 + Infinity Conquest beaten
Exclusive Title for Top 10 Nian Challenge
Current Season Infinite cardback
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Got Infinite already done. Took me 88 games, 72.7% WR, 2.28 CR, and a bot rate of 64.7%(!!). While it's probably not that much of an accomplishment given the matchmaking, I'm kinda glad to get my first Day 1 Infinite on my Snap CV.
@SnapDecks
@snaptournaments
@MarvelSnapZone
Even with Fogwell's Gym, it took me 6-7 hours for me to hit the Booster cap. Went from Rank 178 -> 205 during that session. IDK how people play so much that they hit the limit regularly man.
PS: Bot rates at the very top of the MMR ladder are still just wild
Haven't had much time to grind Conquest recently, but I still squeezed out my first Infinity Ticket today with
@aniOmalY_MS
's Thanos Control. This deck has been gaining traction recently; first used to win the latest Rally Cry, it also just won the most recent Card Thwips too.
Remember how Shadow King used to a be 3/3 and had to get a further -1 cost buff to see play? A 1 cost nerf is MASSIVE and there are costs to adding 3/3 MMM to your deck now. For example, I'm not sure Thanos has space for Mobius given how 3 costs are awkward with the Ramp plans.
Think I now can post this:
I'M GOING TO HONG KONG!
Played lights out and drew absolute filth (Chavez IS GOOD). I'm still not guaranteed any money (4th gets $0), but flying out to HK and getting to meet awesome people means I'm already a winner.
Thank you for all the support.
Exciting news! Quarterfinalists are in!
Congrats to these talented players who have made it this far. Matches will be BO3 single elimination with two decks submitted by each player, no duplicates allowed!
Stream links & schedule will be announced at 16:00 Aug 12th (GMT+8)
Nerfing Elsa while she's still buyable for $10 is a wild move I didn't think SD had the balls to make. I hope setting the precedent of nerfing active BP cards doesn't hurt SD later in the long-term, as it's probably bad business practice in mobile games to nerf current offers.
Decided to spend this month's Infinite climb trying out
@XxWhatAmIxX
's "busted" Sera-less Sera deck. 62 games.
Impressions:
- Deck has a great matchup spread. Good into Bounce.
- Weak to Negative and MODOK Discard.
- Quite a few bots still; I don't see changes until global MM.
I'm hearing Spider-Ham CANNOT be found in Collector Reserves? SD, has any of your releases not been broken?
At least I pulled this beauty from the 160 reserves I opened today. (still have 36 left over) Guess I'll soon be S4 complete as well, for the first time.
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Finished Runner Up (again lol) in the $600
@SnapDotFan
May Open - the biggest prize pool in a
@MARVELSNAP
open so far. Stature is just absolutely cracked right now.
The tournament isn't over yet for me though - stay tuned for my Tournament Report in the coming few days.
There's a Draft Mode in
@MARVELSNAP
which more people should know about.
@Kai_World_T
has created a Sealed Format with lots of depth. Also thanks to
@RavenCasts
for having me on stream today.
Give it a try here:
Video Guide:
Pet peeve of mine: people goading the devs into making more perma S5s. IMO the community has an unhealthy obsession with the "Big Bad" title - people were MAD that Knull wasn't permaed, and I felt that Kang made a perma S5 by the community.
Shouldn't we want less perma S5s???
I haven't farmed very many Infinity Tickets for myself this season, so getting a Infinity Conquest win first try allows me to continue the streak of at least one completion per season. Mobius definitely helped for one of Loki's "bad" matchups, HE Wave.
Apparently, the MARVELSNAPSEA Facebook page is doing a giveaway for 250 Credits in my honor for representing a Southeast Asian country in international competition.
You can join this giveaway by giving that post a Like, Share, and Comment.
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Decklist Stats from today's Season 14 Battle Arena 2! Given the huge shakeups we had with the OTA 2 days ago, is it surprising that people gravitated towards something more predictable and proven like Thanos Control?
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This tourney format is my favorite - closed decklists+free switches between rounds. For most of the tournament, I played a Thanos deck which I took from the showmatch I played with
@twitchirimmm
, and I also played the two other linked decklists at points during the tourney. 2/2
Won Card Thwips! Issue
#3
- my first cash tournament post-patch
I can confirm that Shuri is definitely a cut above everything else in the meta and cannot wait for SD to apply the OTA nerf hitting the Shuri deck again.
Thanks to
@CGaming_SEA
for hosting the tournament!
Funny how the ranking system is basically the same game of grinding net cubes but instead of grinding to Rank 1000 we grind to Rank 1, and it's somehow more motivating. Psychology is weird man.
Nice PB for me though - Thanos still so so fun to play.
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Can anyone tell me why my Darkhawk bundle costs more than the Bring the Pain bundle, despite both bundles supposedly being worth $30?
@seconddinner
I'm not amused. 3x value my ass
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After trying out the deck for a bit, can confirm - this deck literally slaps. Got a quick Infinity ticket with it too. I also just had an interview with JungCAT, the deck's creator, and should have something up soon for those interested in learning about this deck.
#MarvelSnap
STEGRON IS A TOURNAMENT CHAMPION. This is not a drill. For the first time, we have a Move deck winning a major open tournament, against HE Lockjaw in the final no less. Congrats to JungCAT for winning the $600 Snap fan June Open and qualifying for the Snap fan World Championship!
8-0 with Destroy on the final day. Shoutouts to
@BraudeSnap
for picking my Infinity border for me and Jeeeeet,
@luv_otion
and
@kx4n_L
for keeping me company in VC.
Got some fun Nebula decklists which I used during my run in
@CGaming_LatAm
's cash tournament, where I finished 2nd. GGs to
@BraudeSnap
for a close final, which came down to a 50/50 at the very end.
Nebula is definitely the best Season Pass card to release in a while.
Starting the New Year right with this season's Infinity border, with a stock Lockdown Loki list. IMO the X/Alioth package helps against decks that play Sera on 5 or Sentry/Annihilus, from my experience running the deck so far.
My hot streak continues!
I've opened 5 Spotlights in total - opened new cards from every single one lol
Jean Grey/TLT
Lady Deathstrike
X-23/Silk
Spotlights best system no cap
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Entered my first Marvel Snap cash tournament today - came home with the title! In the tournament's Limited Format (S1/2/3 only), Deathwave is indeed the deck to beat. Thank you so much to
@TeamElderBlood
for hosting this tournament - I had a blast participating.
Today is Ms Marvel day! My thoughts on:
The card: Solid body that gives some decks more power. Might be worse than Tier 1 decks like Loki so Lockdown fit makes sense.
The movie: Short, fun, sweet; intriguing future plot hooks too. Felt like a Phase 1 film. Kamala is a joy here.
First time I've guested on a Snap Podcast! Thanks to
@KMBestMS
and
@BrendanAPG
for having me after I peaked Rank 1 on ladder earlier.
Oh, and in case you missed the mention in the podcast. The SFWC is happening next month! More info to come later, but I can share this at least.
Episode 58 just dropped!
This week KM and Brendan are joined by
@TorikunSnaps
to talk about the mental side of Marvel Snap.
We also follow our end of season tradition and give our predications for all of the Marvel Snap cards releasing in February.
If you play on mobile and haven't updated, you are in luck because Spotlights are in fixed locations; you can maximize opening old Reserves. The extra min-maxy thing to do is to remain on the old patch for as long as possible to open as many old reserves as you can!
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With Doom being played *this* much, a nerf was probably deserved. I don't think it will even force the decks running him to stop running him either.
Stats are from this week's Card Thwips!
#14
, a tournament held by
@CGaming_SEA
on
@CommunityGaming
last Wednesday with 64 players.
I've been grinding away my final remaining tickets for the season and this is definitely the sickest soul read I've had for this session, after my opponent snapped me back on Turn 4.
Truly a 200 IQ play here.
#MARVELSNAP
Battle Mode tip from a tournament pro: there are situations where it's mathematically correct to snap 100% of the time.
Example, if you are up 4-3 in High Stakes, you MUST snap T1 because there's no difference in taking 2 or 3 damage and you put your opponent all-in.
#MarvelSnap
Thoughts on first Leagues implementation. Generally, I think Snap's community is much less receptive to standard mobile predatory practices than other communities in this space, so it'll be interesting to see how Leagues is received, especially in the wake of Nexus Events.
Finally hit the big 10000. Some numbers.
Account Age: 425 days (June Philippines Beta)
Total Spent: $123 (I've won WAAAY more from tournaments than I've spent)
Collection: 224/226
Satisfaction: Over 3000 - I love this game man, here's to hopefully more years of fun!
Ahead of my Top Cut casting role - here's the Swiss stats from this weekend's Battle Arena! Darkhawk is most popular, but there are plenty of other options that saw success. Catch me as I break down and cast the rest of the games in the Battle Arena Twitch channel!
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@HsPigpen
I wanna disagree on the bit where Patriot decks aren't good - they are quite solid right now IMO and Gunny won a tournament with Patriot. (which Ultron variant is best is a matter of opinion)
Season 13 Battle Arena 1 is currently ongoing, and here are all the cards that had an appearance rate above 10% amongst all the 128 decks in the tournament.
Watch here:
3rd Swiss Top Cut in a row
Second Place in the biggest
#MarvelSnap
Open yet
@Snapxfan
Invitational spot secured
Thanos, we've accomplished a lot together, but it's time for you to go now. I'll miss you someday.
Congrats to
@twitchirimmm
for winning the March Snap Fan Open
Lineup stats from
@fionashadestory
's charity event! The 39 players here were tasked to bring 3 decklists with no dupes, so percentages here reflect the full lineups. Plenty of unique one-off decklists here!
Full spreadsheet and Twitch link in replies
I have reached the finals of the biggest tournament in Marvel Snap!
Finals are scheduled for 6 pm GMT+8 later.
Watch it on or alternatively, on Kawa's channel.
Second Dinner has previously announced more splits and effects in the works for
#MarvelSnap
. Did you know that
@SnapDotFan
previously datamined one of them - the Space split?
What do you think about this look?
I've been tallying up results for the Snapfan World Championship and these are the players with the most Top Cuts in the Snapfan Opens, Battle Arenas, and Snap Clash Opens. In my opinion, these are some of the best players the game has to offer.
Do you recognize any of them?
Another 2nd Place, lost to a Shuri after being up 10-3 - I might be cursed KEKW
This result was still my biggest payday and takes my total Snap tourney winnings over $500. ...1/2
Finished inside the Top 10 for the season. After the patch which buffed Loki decks, my motivation to grind higher decreased a lot. Congrats to players like
@LambySeriesGG
and
@TIZS_hs
who finished above me on APAC - those were insane runs in the last week.
New update for Snap today, seemingly with no changes. However, as someone near the top MMR ranking in my region who usually faces 90% bots, I can tell something changed in the MM so bots are showing up less in general. Queues are a bit longer, but not too bad - good change SD.
Post-LAN tournament haul: won everything here + the ire of the Filipino Snap community LOL. Thanks again to
@excelsorph
and
@CGaming_SEA
for hosting tourneys this week. All in all, it wasn't a bad way to spend my birthday today; games are always more fun when playing with others.
His record shows 9 wins, 2 draws, 0 losses, but the draws were in fact wins that were cut off due to the round timer. So technically*, I guess Lamby achieved the 3rd SF Open 11-0?
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I don't believe Werewolf By Night will be the same card after the next week ends, so here's my record for the highest WWBN number I've ever had.
Overstatted + the ability to position a double digit power unit on the final turn wherever you want = Broken IMO
Oh hey, it's a free 1/10 progress towards the Premium Mystery Variant.
Make sure to tune into the Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023 for the Marvel Snap Twitch Drops!
And for the record, the devs were 100% correct on this balance patch and it's the right move for the health of the game. The business guys on the team probably wanna strangle the game design team though.
Up 120SP after Agatha day. As someone who enjoys occasional chaos, success with Agatha during White Palace day boils down almost entirely to proper Snapping and Retreating. Even Agatha/Ego randomness has skill expression due to Snap's betting system.
So SD has stated that the OTA cadence will be Patch - OTA - No OTA - OTA - Patch from now on. Knowing that the next OTA is on 6/8,
5/16: May Patch + Kitty/Howard
5/23: HE
5/25: OTA
5/30: TLT
6/1: No OTA
6/6: June Pass
6/8: OTA
6/13: June Patch?
Conquest Mode releases June 13???
@DeraJN
IMO the worst con you missed here was that it's now impossible to plan around Series Drops. It seems the devs REALLY want to incentivize buying cards Week 1 instead of waiting for Series Drops.
Domino's Draw is OUT on the Nuverse Webshop in certain regions - your first pull is FREE. Game says this reward was 2.3% - I think I'm gonna take it and stop here hahaha. What did you guys get?
Conquest Mode is out - here's how much you need to grind. Assume each run starts at the given tier and goes on until you lose. Playing exclusively at higher tiers also increases medal gain rates massively. Good luck!
#MarvelSnap
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Obviously, assumptions were made given a lack of information how medals are awarded as you get wins. For my methodology, I've linked my spreadsheet here - I'll update it with the actual numbers when Conquest Mode finally launches.
Super happy for my fellow Filipino Snap gamer Jeeeeet. I thought this archetype should have beat the Thanos Control last weekend in that Battle Arena final and am pleased that Jeeeeet managed to back up that strong performance with something even more insane.
#MarvelSnap
Competitor of the Year! 🏆
This category was extremely competitive and we have an amazing competitive scene and community! These individuals demonstrate skill and sportsmanship at the highest level! Congratulations to our nominees for Competitor of the Year!
Nominees:
@BraudeSnap
This one in particular is kinda baffling to me, because I can't imagine what her new change could be given her textbox and status in Series 1. She's also not in the 2/2 or 2/3 section either.
My newest Tournament article is out on
@SnapDotFan
, covering
@SNAPBattleArena
's most recent tournament last weekend. How did Phoenix Force and Jean Grey do? Which decks performed? All that and more in this week's Battle Breakdown!
Link in replies.
When qualifying for the Top 8 automatically qualifies you to the Snap fan World Championship (due to 4/8 players already being qualified). Also stats as per usual from the SF August Open!
(3/3)
Obviously, assumptions were made given a lack of information how medals are awarded as you get wins. For my methodology, I've linked my spreadsheet here - I'll update it with the actual numbers when Conquest Mode finally launches.
@DeraJN
As much as the added diversity was cool, I personally didn't enjoy the event mostly because the Snap UI doesn't support tribes so it falls on you to memorize a list of 60+ cards to properly play around the buffs.
Happy to announce that I'll be reporting on the tournaments leading up to
@SnapDotFan
's World Championship, first with
@SNAPBattleArena
's tournament last weekend. There's not a lot of content on
@MARVELSNAP
's tourney scene - I hope to change that a little.
Well I did it - after falling short of making the money losing at the QFs of the last event, I did a bit better finishing 2nd in the latest Battle Arena. Happy with B2B Top Cuts even without the Gold I guess. GGs to
@Moyen_HS
for a good final - give them a follow on Twitch.
Another
@SnapDotFan
World Championship event is in the books - congrats to
@RabbitSweetHS
for securing their qualification! From asking around, both finalists from this event said they faced very little HE and Bounce - seems like people prefer bringing comfort decks over meta.
I won BattleArenaLCQ June!
Thank you very much to everyone involved in this competition. Words cannot express how happy I am!
I switched to a Dinosaur deck only for the second match of the Grand Finals, but I basically used Patriot.
See you at the World Championships!