The Snap Chat: Marvel Snap Podcast
The Snap Chat: Marvel Snap Podcast
Moonstone: The Ongoing Queen Could Break Snap | Best & Worst Ongoing Cards | Iron Patriot & Victoria Hand In Review | The Snap Chat Ep. 115
Will Moonstone, the ongoing queen, break Snap? Which iconic heroes deserve to be great? What are Cozy and Alex's final rankings on Iron Patriot & Victoria Hand? Join Cozy Snap and Alexander Coccia as they chat about this and more on this episode of The Snap Chat and every week as they discuss all things Marvel Snap.
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What's going on, guys, and welcome back to the Snapchat. Today is Tuesday, not Monday. Sorry for the 24 hour delay. Had some family involved in the L. A. fires, and I had to take care of family business there, so we do apologize for the delay. But today, we'll be talking about Moonstone. She comes out in just a few hours. An insane ongoing card. We're going to talk a lot about ongoing cards and kind of their place in Snap at the moment. We're also going to be talking about heroes that need to find a new place in this game. Iconic characters in Marvel They've just sucked for way too long. Alex and I have some good conversations involving that. And we're gonna talk about all that on today's episode of the Snapchat. And as always, I am joined by the one and only Mr. Alex Coccia. We are here. It is Tuesday, and it's probably gonna be a little bit of a shorter Snapchat, guys. We had to make this possible. We have not missed a week. I've had some family stuff going on with the LA Fires, as I explained in the intro briefly. But we can't miss a little bit of the Snapchat. So we're here, we're ready to talk a little bit of Snap. And just before we are getting on here, Alex and I had the lovely delight of watching Honestly, you know, they say the, the Mona Lisa is, you know, the best art in the world. You know what's better than the Mona Lisa, Alex Coccia? If you guys have not seen the new Instagram commercials for Marvel Snap with, featuring Ben Brode and an AI voice. Brother, have you seen these? These are the most I can't, like,
Alexander Coccia:woof. it's bad. So, Cozy, I thought that the ads were pretty well done, overall. It's so bad, man, I can't believe it. Like, they couldn't get Ben to just read it? Like, they couldn't find him? They'd be like, yo, can you read this 14 seconds of roll for us, please?
Cozy Snap:I just don't know who approved that. If someone somewhere had been like, yep, that sounds close enough to Ben's voice. Or it's like, Ben, read these lines in the AI thing, we need to be able to make your voice. Or it's not even him. I'm pretty sure it's him in an AI voice. It ain't great guys. It isn't good for marketing. They could have done. I'm pretty sure Alex, me, you, anyone would have probably done those pro bono. It's like what? Three sentences, you know, talking about the season is bad guys. It ain't great. And yeah, I don't know, man. It's, it's something else. But anyway, on a less negative note, I don't even know if that's negative. It's just. Pure comedy. This is stupid. This is stupid, man. It's just like, what are we even doing
Alexander Coccia:anymore, man? I know. It's like, it's like wearing your pants backwards the whole day. It's just kind of, it's on that level of stupidity. Oh my
Cozy Snap:gosh, it's so out of touch, hey. But anyway, we are going to be talking about plenty of good stuff today. Kinda. We got Mootstow coming out. To the game, and Moonstone is getting more and more interesting as we get, well, I was gonna say closer to arrival, it's today, it's in four hours. Different than usual for the Snapchat, you guys typically have a day to decide on last week's, but now it's, it's, you got mere hours to decide on Moonstone. So, we know what we're talking about over here, Alex. What are we talking about on your side of the Snapchat?
Alexander Coccia:Cozy on my side of the Snapchat, we're going to be discussing both Iron Patriot and Victory Hand, both of which came out and were really impressive cards in their own right. We're going to be discussing the best cards for the token shop because, hey, starting this week, we're getting 2, 000 tokens when you get a duplicate in the spotlight caches. And so, hey, you're going to have some tokens there. You're going to want to know how to spend them. And then finally, as always, our Snapchat mailbag.
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Alexander Coccia:I've been loving it, honestly. Legitimately, I've been playing a ton of Marvel Rivals with these on, and I mean, the flippable mic is excellent, very convenient, the sound accuracy is incredible, Cozy, like, I can almost hear, like, people kind of sneaking up and running around the corners and stuff like that. I feel like I'm getting an advantage with these headphones. They're super comfortable, the sound quality and, like, the sound accuracy is phenomenal. They're, like, legit comfortable. They're just legit, very well designed headphones. And I got to tell you, like you mentioned, the battery life has been exquisite as well. I'm coming away super impressed with these headphones.
Cozy Snap:Super comfortable, guys, and it's easy just hearing everything within the game. And you guys can scoop some up yourself and we'll put everything down in the description below. But for a limited edit only, Alex, you can get 10 percent off your entire order with code SNAPCHAT. Very easy code to remember, guys, at TurtleBeach. com. So don't miss out, you can stay warm and level up your game with 10 percent off using code SNAPCHAT. Again, you'll find that down in the description, guys. It's a new year, it's time for some new headphones. Thank you, Turtle Beach, for sponsoring today's episode. Well, Alex, Moonstone. Moonstone is a 4'6 This says 4'5 don't mind that, she's been buffed up to a 4'6 Ongoing. Has the ongoing effects. Of your 1, your 2, and your 3 cost cards here. Alex, pretty interesting. Definitely this is one that we thought was going to be How well could we implement it? You know, is this going to be everywhere? Is this going to be a niche deck or just a fun week? What are your thoughts on Moonstone?
Alexander Coccia:My initial thoughts on Moonstone are that it's a card I definitely want to test before I pass judgment on, like that's 100 percent certain. Whenever you see a card get buffed in advance of its release, that's never a good sign, right? When it goes from a 4 5 to a 4 6, that's not because it was like, oh, we really want this card to break the meta. It was probably because even the Playtesters are like, bro, I didn't even want to play this, right? So that gives me a little bit of pause. You and I came in at threes last week, right? When we discussed the, the kind of like the, the previews and stuff like that. That's probably where I'm gonna, I'm gonna stay. I, I kind of said I saw an upward trajectory of possibly a 3. 5 range. But overall, like, I want to believe in this card, and there's an old saying on the Snapchat, we use it all the time, and it's that there's some cards that are going to age like fine wine. This is one of them, because every single one, two, or three drop that has an ongoing line in it that gets released is technically another addition for the Moonstone arsenal. And so theoretically, despite the fact we might not see the greatest synergies out of the gate, it will age well.
Cozy Snap:You know, people laugh at the phrase that we say that, but to be fair, we've said that about cards like Scar, and that was correct. Clearly obvious has come, you know, it's a full light now that we have plenty of cards that can activate his cost reduction. And yeah, I think that's a good point. I mean, they don't really sell to me like ones, let's say, but twos and threes, especially we get plenty of ongoings and that card only gets better and better, which is cool. And a four six, definitely not a bad value there. I think, honestly, this card has In the decks she will be played in which that's what we'll talk about today. She actually has a chance to be pretty good, like a pretty good game changer. Four is a very awkward spot, very important cost in the game. And so, you know, I never love draw dependent fours, right? So making sure things before that go well. Do you, you know, I guess the good thing about her that I do like is that you can play her as a surprise. Like, you know, typically these activates and sometimes on reveal, you need time to set it up. With the ongoing effect, you're able to have like. Immense power, let's say, on turn five, turn six kind of come out of nowhere that you were prepping for the whole game. And that you can kind of surprise your opponent with. You gave her a three and a half.
Alexander Coccia:I gave her like a three and then I said, I can see three and a half for sure. Yeah.
Cozy Snap:Yeah. I would, I would probably probably going to be on the same lines there. I can imagine a deck that's a really good deck, but as a card, I think three is probably about right. Let's talk about the the ongoing cards though. The ones, the twos and the threes that. Standout, far above the rest. We kind of touched on it last week a little bit. But, should we start with Mystique? I think that's the one where a lot of people need to start with some of their theorycrafting. That's going to be the card that's in all the decks, right? Talk about Mystique and how you think she's going to play a role with Moonstone.
Alexander Coccia:I think Mystique's a perfect starting spot, because she's the cheat. She's the cheat for Moonstone, right, where you're gonna be able to pull in the Onslaughts, or the Iron Men, or whatever it happens to be, and then get that double up ability on the Moonstone, right? There's potential, right, for things like Omega Red, right? A card that honestly is pretty awful right now, despite the fact that it did see a little bit of a rework. But if you're able to Omega Red one location, Mystique another, and then, you know, figure out some magic there, then suddenly you might be able to, like, actually make something kind of interesting happen with these ongoing decks than you consider what Spectrum can do. And so, like, I like Mystique for the fact that it can cheat a lot, and specifically, I was trying to think of lines of how you can play Mystique with Onslaught into a Moonstone lane, which then doubles the effects, right? And I wonder how the effect with Onslaught is. And Moonstone is going to work. Cause it kind of like, it's like a double on the double. Right. And so like, I think there's a potential for these really high end blowout style decks and almost feel like, you know, over the olden days where you used to do like you know, the onslaught Citadel hot locations and everyone would go like Iron Man and like go like the crazy 2 billion power stuff, I feel like that might potentially make a comeback here.
Cozy Snap:So I'm glad you ended on that, because what I was going to say is, I feel like Moonstone's going to be best just kind of played out in a lot of these decks, and with Mystique and co, that's where you can get into some of the fun stuff, right? Kind of reminds me of like the Gambit decks, like where you can get to some crazy wonky stuff going. Not to say it's not just a good synergy. Regardless. But, you know, I think a lot of Moonstone's competitiveness will come just as ordinary play. Mystique, though, copying Moonstone, listen, one thing that excites me about her is that you don't need a lot of cards outside of that. Like, you need a couple activators, but like, you know, we'll go into we'll go into Patriot just because that, to me, is a good starting point. It's like, man, you just play Patriot and you play Moonstone or Patriot somehow. Mystique, Like, just even playing down a couple do playing down Doom and getting a couple bots, or a couple of other Patriot cards, even Squirrel, dumping the Squirrels on the other locations, those are going to be souped up to some pretty crazy good power. Listen, I think Patriot might be a really cool starting spot, and at least it's going to be mine when playtesting the card.
Alexander Coccia:And yeah, what's interesting as well is that with Patriot, like, you don't really need, it doesn't need that much more. It's already a kind of, I think, a little bit of a slept on deck. Don't forget the buff to Ultron's Doom, like, Doombots, I was going to say. The bots from Ultron, they, like, honestly, they put up serious power into locations, you add Patriot in there, you add a Mystique or Moonstone, and then suddenly, yeah, they're reaching Really high, really vertical and really wide. And the thing I like about Moonstone specifically is it gives you a secondary draw condition where you don't have to Patriot and Mystique on, you know, whatever turn you draw them into. You could play on curve, Patriot, Moonstone, and then you could like Mystique to Moonstone.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, and then, at that point, it's literally those three, and obviously, week one, we're gonna have a lot of people just playing Enchantress, whatever, like, you know, Super Scroll, they're gonna mess you up, but it, you know, Ultron does best when he's surprised Ultron, right, so being able to play Patriot, into Moonstone, into Mystique, and then just play Ultron, that right there is almost a win condition in itself, those, those drones are gonna be Dude, they're gonna be poppin Dude, through the roof. I can't even do the math that quickly. What, it's two, four, and then it's double though, so it's eight more on all those drones. So ten, ten a pop? Is that right?
Alexander Coccia:I don't know, you kind of lost me with the math thing. It's a little late here in Canada, but it does seem pretty high.
Cozy Snap:So yeah, Patriot's up there on the win list. I think why I like Patriot more than some other cards, like for instance, I really like Ravonna. Alex, I think Ravonna is one that a lot of people are bringing up.
Alexander Coccia:So the only things, so I did give some thought to Ravonna, and there are a few cards that really do stand out with a Ravonna synergy Iron Man and Mystique, so Iron Man would be a 3 cost, Mystique would be a 1 cost now. That's actually crazy, if you think about the fact that if you Moonstone a Ravonna, Mystique is 1 cost, and that is great because Gore is a 4, Onslaught is a 4, like there's all these super discounted 6 drops and Mystique is 1. So with 5 energy, you can literally play a 6 drop Mystique and still have 1 extra energy. Which is kind of wild, especially when you think about, like, the way you know, ongoing decks tend to have, like, this super combo centric, like, well, now I'm winning by 10, 000 power type play sometimes, right? So I don't think it's, like, not, like, I think that Ravonna is legit. Like, I think it is, but I don't think it's going to be as easy or straightforward, or even potentially as consistent as something like a Patriot.
Cozy Snap:I'm glad that you brought up the, the, cause you you mentioned Iron Man, Mystique, definitely sick. I was thinking the gore, yeah. Playing gore and mystique together is crazy with Moonstone. I mean, you can, one lane's one, right? Whatever the Moonstone, that's a That lane, they're just not beating that lane again, outside of a big tech card there. But yeah, so Ravonna, obviously, is one of the bigger winners, and the reason we're bringing these two up first, I feel like, is these are the two cards that are very distinctly their own decks, right? Like, obviously, we could bring up Ant Man and some of these other strong ongoing cards, but these are deck types. And listen, we're gonna talk about her on your side in the final rankings, but that doesn't mean we can't talk about her here a little bit, bud. Another deck type is Victoria Hand, right? And as an ongoing card, I mean, obviously the synergy was cleared and cut by the devs. They want this interaction to happen. Pretty good. Pretty good. If I, if I would say so myself, I think this is gonna be strong.
Alexander Coccia:It is gonna be strong. And what I think is really interesting as well is that if you think about the curve, right, you have something like Turn 1, Quinjet. Turn 2, Victoria Hand. Turn 3, Coulson. Turn 4, Moonstone onto Quinjet, Victoria Hand. And suddenly, the cards that are generated by Coulson are double discounted and also double buffed. I mean, what's there not to like about that?
Cozy Snap:The double quinjet alone gets me excited enough to pull off something crazy with Victoria Hand. And yeah, you're gonna be able to play him, for sure. Like, you know, one of the tougher parts in why we a lot of cards that typically play into these, like, card creation decks are energy boosters so that you can play the cards that you actually get and this is, like, a whole nother way to do that pretty reliably. That's a deck I definitely see her making her way into. Kinda coped, but I wanna bring it up. One of the stronger ongoing cards, Morbius, Alex. Morbius, strong too. Four, kind of a weird. ish cost for discard. Is there any other ongoings that you can, is there a way you could make Moonstone work in discard? I don't think there is, but I saw somebody mentioned this on, I think it was Twitter, and I was like, Now that's some cope that I'll bring up to Alex.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, it's, it's definitely a little bit of cope. I, so every time we talk about like two power two costed cards, especially when we're discussing new releases and stuff, people always bring up Morbius. And I think it's fair because Morbius like is regularly like 10, 12, 14 power. Stupid how high Morbius gets to the point where like if he was released right now as a spotlight cash Is this not a five star card? Like let's be real this card is insanely good But like I don't know man because the things that are like Morbius is vulnerable to Moonstone's just gonna be also vulnerable to and if they're standing if they're just standing beside each other You're still just gonna get pumped right?
Cozy Snap:That's my point I think people are I want to make sure people understand that Moonstone is just in the location you play her in. It's not like a board wide thing going on. So you can't play Morbius in the left lane, and then Moonstone in the right lane. I maybe that's a misconception. At that point, okay, you know, maybe you've got a conversation there, a couple Morbiuses in different lanes. But when they're all stacked up, like, the overkill doesn't need to happen as much. Probably. iconic heroes that deserve to be great, Mr. Fantastic. If he were to get something strong enough, I think that would be so cool to be. I don't think, I think they showed Mr. Fanta in the trailer. I don't think Moonstone, sadly, is going to bring you know, the man from the first family into the meta.
Alexander Coccia:There's two things I want to say. You just kind of brought it up to my mind. First of all, you're right. A lot of people are reading this like it's a board wide Super Scroll for yourself, which would be absolutely broken. However, that is probably a cool design for a future card. Obviously not as a 4 6, because that's probably too insane that you can control the power of, but anyways, I digress. The other thing I want to mention is, every time you say Moonstone, am I the only one? Tell me in the comments that I think of, like, Clefairy and Clefable. Yeah, every single time. Okay, so I'm not crazy.
Cozy Snap:What, what, did you use it on Clefairy? I never used Moonstone's Uncle Fairy.
Alexander Coccia:I always felt bad with the ethics of using the stones on the Pokemon because there was that episode where, where peak at? You remember when Ash, we was against sergeants and Ash is like, he's a stone He has, yeah, he has the stone. He is gonna give it to peak you. And he slaps it away with his tail and he's like, no, bring me to the water mill.
Cozy Snap:I know. I just, I yeah, I know. I just imagined as like a Pokemon, you just shoving a moon stone down jiggly puff's mouth or whatever. They, I think they just cuddle with it. I don't know. Poke on Lord enough. I gave it to Nido Reno a lot. Is it Nito? Yeah, Nido man. For Mo. Nito King. The coolest looking Pokemon. That wasn't that good.
Alexander Coccia:I'm, I'm trying to remember, you evolved Evie's with stones, right?
Cozy Snap:Yeah. But those were the, those were like the Thunder Stone, Firestone, Waterstone.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah. Well, I mean, Pikachu used the Firestone, but not, yeah. The Moonstone was specifically Firestone, the very type Pokemon.
Cozy Snap:Yeah. Let the thunderstorm, yeah. You said Firestone.
Alexander Coccia:I said Firestone like the tires.
Cozy Snap:Alright buddy, well, so those are, you know, some of the ones I wanted to point out right away. What else you got though for the Moonstone Synergy?
Alexander Coccia:So obviously, we talked about it prior, but possible cope with Mr. Fantastic and Captain America. Two cards that honestly need a little love. I do find space to play Captain America from time to time, I will say. I think Captain's probably, I say slept on because he still kinda sucks, but I think Captain America has a role in ongoing decks, but Mr. Fantastic has no role anywhere and does not deserve to have any role. And it's a shame because like, you play Mr. Fantastic in Rivals and he's absolutely incredible, and you're like, why are all the Rivals characters in Snap so bad? Like, it is literally exactly that. Isn't that crazy cozy?
Cozy Snap:Listen, we're gonna skip ahead to the last subject just for a couple and then we can circle back at the end. That's kind of so it was funny. It was like my brain went to thinking about Mr. Fantastic for this card and then it went to like Why does he still suck in this game? And then I was starting to think about Captain America. And that's why the last subject is what it is. It was like an open discussion about like, I think it's so, give these effects to any other shmojo stupid hero we don't know. Captain America and Mr. Fanta, alongside some others. They deserve to be good. It's crazy that the man, Captain America, is like a niche used maybe car. Like, I feel like if he's an ongoing, and we have this car that copies ongoings, we should be like, Absolutely, man, Steve Rogers. He's elite in this game, and he's not. I mean, it's time to make iconic heroes great, man. I think those two lead the charge.
Alexander Coccia:He always, I've always thought this, Captain America should be a 5'3 like, they should literally swap him and Blue Marvel. Like, he literally raises everyone up. Right, he is absolutely the, the, he's the motivator for everyone in every battle, right, you know what I mean, like, he is the one that raises everyone just a little bit past their potential. I don't know man, like, I've seen people say that him and Patriot should have like, their abilities swapped, I, I kind of agree with that too.
Cozy Snap:Totally agree, and that's what he does in Arrivals, add that, I think also, It's like, I don't know, the new Captain America's coming out as a card, and I think that's just gonna be like strictly better. It just feels weird, and like, Mr. Fantastic is just garbage. Like, he's, like, people were
Alexander Coccia:Actual garbage.
Cozy Snap:In fact, if you look at, like, Google Trends, the Fantastic Four, I think Invisible Woman is 50x on the search rate, which, I mean, kinda Dude, yeah, yeah, you're thinking about the wrong, like, on the search rate, obviously, have you played the game? I'm saying that the first family You know what? Get your mind out of the gutter. No, I'm just saying,
Alexander Coccia:they knew what they were doing when they made a third person game, and they're like, Hmm, how do we make Mrs. Fantastic? I think they knew what was up, and Mrs. Fantastic, I just called her, Invisible Woman. Yeah.
Cozy Snap:Well, either way, the first Firebly is getting more love than they've gotten in a long time, which is cool to see, and then we come over to Snap, and I'm like, Alright, everybody, hold on. Plus two to each side of this card. Not even sometimes it's just one side. Like it just, it, it definitely is a bummer. Maybe they just make it to where the other two lanes get plus two to power every time. I don't know. But even that, it's just weird, man.
Alexander Coccia:He literally sucks. Like, I don't know what else to say other than like, he's actually awful, which is, is kind of our next subject, but I'm not done talking about Moonstone yet. I do think that we need to at least say that like zoo needs a place with Moonstone. When you got like zoo. You got Ant Man, you got the Pym Arrows, you got Dazzler, there's stuff there to be had there. But but yeah, overall, I'm actually kind of excited for Moonstone, but also my expectations are somewhat tempered.
Cozy Snap:I think, too we talk a lot about Mystique, man. I think people, if you're not playing if you're playing against Moonstone and or this week, I think Rogue has a really good place this week, too, because she falls under the same category. Of whatever you take, Moonstones can be able to copy, you can take their Moonstone. And, or people are just going to be playing a lot of ongoing effects, right? So, This, like, to me, you can snipe down the Patriot or whatever that they're about to play Moonstone on. Like, Rogue has a lot of use this week, and I think moving forward as like this kind of offensive tech card that also works with Moonstone in a cool way.
Alexander Coccia:I suspect a lot of people are probably going to run Enchantress, though, like you mentioned prior, because it's like a nice, wide blanket of catch all. And they did buff it, right? Like, they buffed it not so long ago, from 4. 5 to 4. 6. And last time Enchantress was 4. 6, it was legit a meta breaker. And we haven't seen that at all. Like, I guess Power Creep is Power Creep, and so Enchantress 6 isn't as exciting. But there was a time, man, where it was absolutely crushing.
Cozy Snap:Absolutely, man. I mean, if you look at all the 1s through 3s, there's plenty on this list, guys. But nothing stands out that much. I think what was cool, like, there's stuff like loot cage decks with double US agents. You could just destroy a lane. Like, I don't know. There's some interesting, interesting things, obviously, that hurts Moonstone. So you have to make sure you have the loot cage in there. And so, like, some of these other synergies, you have to kind of try too hard to make it work. Which is weird. Double cosmos don't work. Like, it, it just doesn't line up with the synergy for a large majority of the 1 through 3s. For the 1 through 3 costs. But, cards come out in the future, might change.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, as we said before, it just might easily find one.
Cozy Snap:Well, let's talk about the best and the worst ongoings. So, this, one of the things, A, you know, just given a crazy week trying to get this episode out. I was like, what's a cool conversation point? I feel like ongoing cards, in general, since the launch of Snap, has They've always been a little weird, right? Like, they've always been not exactly in the limelight outside of just a few brief metas. I mean, Ms. Marvel obviously we had Living Tribunal metas. There's cards that have been activators for those metas. Patriot's obviously been good, but they've never s They've never stood out, I think, like on reveals and or some of the other cards in the game. But the ones that have, Alex, if you were to talk about some of the greats, you know, I put top five, doesn't have to be five, but some of the best ones in your head, who do we put on this, like, Mountain Rushmore, this top five of ongoing cards?
Alexander Coccia:Are we doing a rank tour or you just want me to start throwing names out?
Cozy Snap:Game start, I mean, just give me, what do you have at 1?
Alexander Coccia:I have 1 is Iron Man.
Cozy Snap:You have 1 is Iron Man, yeah. Is that also just because of the test of time that he's
Alexander Coccia:done? Yeah, like it's a starter card, and if that card came out right now, people would be losing their minds throwing keys at it. It is a fantastic card, it's literally one of the first cards you play in the game in the tutorial. Yeah. And it still has, yeah, it's stood the test of time, never been changed, never been nerfed, never been buffed, it's just Iron Man.
Cozy Snap:How funny is it that one of the newest cards is way up there as well, sorry, one of the oldest cards is way up there, and then one of the newest cards in gore is one of the other ones, like I think it's just, Both of those stand out in such different ways. Gore kind of feels like a cheat ongoing because he's like, he's mainly about on reveal synergy, but he's got that ongoing effect, but you can't not mention him with the strength that he's been carrying behind him a little bit. But I think if you even compare those two, I'd take Iron Man all day.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, I'd take Iron Man too, just because I feel like he can go anywhere. Gore is really good, honestly. And yeah, you're right, he kind of feels like he cheats the rules a little bit, just like, you could almost make the argument that Mystique belongs in this conversation, right? But but not quite. But yeah, Gore's been impressive, and he's actually made a number of different lists lately. He started off in a lot of negative stuff, but it's actually evolved a little bit outside of that. I made the ar I'm willing to make the argument, I should say for Luke Cage being up there too. Like, this has been a card that is being used defensively as a release valve for Toxic, but now it's being used in Toxic decks. Right? To kind of minimize the the, the damage you're doing to yourself, to, to maximize those Hazmat plays, to allow you to play kind of nonchalantly with U. S. Agent and with with Manthing, two other good ongoing cards. So yeah, I think that Luke Cage deserves a kind of spot on Mount Rushmore. I
Cozy Snap:like this call a lot. I do. I feel like outside of the brief, like, two summer months where he was awful, because it was only like a, a single location card, he's, he's also stood the test of time, and it's so crazy that he was used in such a niche way for a while, Before these steel decks became a big thing, and before, like, you know, you could try to make different things work. I feel like, really, when he started to truly shine was, like, the surfer deck with Hazmat, you know, way back when. Like, that was when we were Luke was getting better and better. But even before that, you could have done the Lizard, you could have done the Typhoids. To work with him. But yeah, this is a good point. I actually would put him pretty high on my list as some of the best.
Alexander Coccia:No, he is 100%. And I mean, talking alongside that, too I think it's time we recognize Ajax. Now, I don't know if Ajax goes on the Mount Rushmore, because I still think he has a little bit to prove. But I mean, does he really? I mean, he's been like He's been, at times, one of the, like, the best deck at the game, and he's also been, like, in the periphery of, like, the top five, almost consistently since, like, the last, like, the couple weeks after his release. It took a couple weeks to figure him out, and then he's been very consistently in, like, the top decks, non stop. But he's a very expensive deck with a lot of moving pieces, I feel, and that's why I don't think he gets, like, the meta penetration that he probably deserves. But I think he needs some recognition.
Cozy Snap:I'd give him an honorable mention. Like, someone like Blue Marvel, I would have way above him. I agree. Like, and again, maybe it's because of how long we played with these cards, but like, looking Like, when I think about the slog that Ongoing Cards went through, cards like Blue Marvel always stood out, right? Like, we just talked about Patriot loss, we don't have to mention him in this conversation, but clearly Patriot would be in this. Mount Rushmore 2 stood the test of time. When people used to say Snap was a paid game only, it's like, yeah, dude, play Patriot. You're good to go most of the time. Do you remember, it was like two years straight, Patriot had its form of a meta deck to compete in like every single season. Blue Marvel has been in a deck every single season in the meta. Whether it was Thanos, whether it was Zudex, like he found his way to make sure that Yeah. A plus one board wide effect is too good to not mention up here.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, no, it's been excellent for a long time, and he was actually a 5 2 for the longest time, right? And then he got changed to a 5 3, and when that buff happened, I was actually kind of surprised. I felt like he was already good. That just made him overall better, and he's been a consistent player ever since. Now another card that's kind of an oldie but a goodie is the good boy Cosmo, right? I mean, this little doggie here, I mean, it's, It pisses people off, but I think it has a very important role to play in Marvel Snap. In terms of cube equity, it can be very high if you're the one holding the Cosmo and they're the one snapping on a Wong gambit play or something like that. I think that Cosmo deserves the recognition that that it's, it's been a very good card, but at times it seems to disappear in the meta, so that's something worth considering.
Cozy Snap:I'm gonna give you two names and then I need you to tell me which one you think would make Mount Rushmore. Wong or Cosmo?
Alexander Coccia:Cosmo.
Cozy Snap:Over Wongers?
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, I think, I think you take Cosmo over Wongers, because I think that, like, Wongers represents, like, like greed and overwinning and just, like, Okay, dude, you won more, congrats, here's your one cube retreat, whereas Cosmo's like, oh, you're snapping on me? Okay, oh, you played Wong and you snapped? Here you go. You know what I mean? So I feel like Cosmo always gets the last laugh in that matchup.
Cozy Snap:What about Onslaught or Spectrum?
Alexander Coccia:Ooh, well, I mean, Spectrum's not an ongoing, but I see what you're saying, I see what you're going for. In
Cozy Snap:the ongoing list, yeah.
Alexander Coccia:I would lean towards Onslaught for sure, because it has synergy and stuff like Tribunal and other stuff. Like, you see more Onslaught for sure. Patriot or Ravonna? I would take Ravonna, but I know that that offends you severely, and so I will say Patriot for the sake of you know, this podcast here.
Cozy Snap:It is crazy that Ravonna has survived as long as she has. I remember when Zombo went down, because he would have been on this list, We're like, oh man, Ravonna doesn't have long, like she doesn't have long until she loses her kind of game long reducing effect.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, wasn't she a 2 3 though? Did she get changed to a 2 3 then downed to a 2 2? No, she was
Cozy Snap:like, yeah, she was a 2 3 at one point. I think she was a 2 2 on release. And then 2 3. 3 3
Alexander Coccia:on release, no?
Cozy Snap:Oh yes, it was a 3, dude. Oh my god. 3
Alexander Coccia:3 on release, then 2 3, then 2 2, I think it was.
Cozy Snap:What about Quinjet? Okay. So, Quinjet or Ant Man?
Alexander Coccia:I don't think either make the Mount Rushmore. I think Quinjet's a good conversation, but he's
Cozy Snap:Yeah, that's fair enough. I No, this is a bit of a new Newer one. But another one to throw out there. U. S. Agent or Cerebro?
Alexander Coccia:Oh, I think it's Cerebro for pure, just like, I mean, listen, we gotta, we gotta show Dexter, our boy, some love here, right? One of the true Cerebro believers. Yeah, I would say Cerebro just because of the feels. It feels right to say Cerebro. However in terms of the current meta, US Agent clearly has been better. And isn't it funny to be taught about US Agent in such a positive light? Like that, that Buffet received completely changed his destiny.
Cozy Snap:Oh, no, no question, dude. I, I also, I, I know people are just sitting there and like, why aren't they saying this card? Why aren't they? Clearly, to me, the one that sculpts the mountain is Sarah. I don't care if she's not exactly where she was. When I, when I go back and I think about cars that define Snap, especially in the ongoing department, it's gotta be her.
Alexander Coccia:If they're gonna make any more AI videos, what I wanna see is an AI video of Sarah and Galactic Cat fighting over positions in surfer decks. Can I make that request, please? I shouldn't have said that. Someone's gonna, someone's gonna send that to us for sure. How dare you. But anyways But yeah, like seriously, Sarah got kind of bumped out, like first it was like people saying like, Oh, Gwenpool might be able to replace Sarah in Surfer, and I was like, nah man, it's not gonna. And then when Galactic came out, I'm like, okay guys, I think it's time. I think Surfer's, I think Surfer is, is leaving Sarah behind. And Sarah used to be a 5 5, I think that power can come back. Because you're not even seeing Control Sarah anymore, like you used to see just Tech Sarah. Remember that? When it was like, oh it's Infinity Con remember when people played Conquest, and then people would play like Sarah Control Dex? Remember those days?
Cozy Snap:It's so funny, I feel like we talk about that as if it's like the, 60s. Like, remember when this was a thing, and it was like a year ago, and Conquest, I, funny enough, I do Conquest now just for Certified, like, on Season Reset, like, bro, I'm not, I'm not just digging through the trenches for bots, for, for hours on end, I'm like, at least Conquest has bot protection. That, to me, is the one thing that keeps it, I
Alexander Coccia:got bad news, dude. They've added bots.
Cozy Snap:For sure. For sure. But you can look at profiles and if they're part of an alliance, at least you got that going for you.
Alexander Coccia:I know, but then you're stuck in this bot match with a Conquest gamer for like 10 minutes because they retreat like crazy. I got stuck in the game. I couldn't believe it. It was gold because I got a ticket. I was like, all right, let's go to Conquest. I got a bot. I was shook.
Cozy Snap:It's a good thing. Most people have a million gold tickets from the lovely cash system. Any listen, we talked to some of the best. If there is a garbage Rushmore, the worst cards in the ongoing department. We already talked about Mr. Fantastic. He's clearly,
Alexander Coccia:yeah, he's clearly
Cozy Snap:solid on there. Who else you got?
Alexander Coccia:Okay. We'll talk about bots. You know it's a card that only a bot plays? Forecasted, Warpath, when you see Warpath come down, you know you're playing against a bot, man. That Warpath comes down, you're like, okay, this is that Destroyer deck, and they're gonna screw up the buff. Like, they're gonna play it wrong, and they always do, and you die laughing. There was like, what, like three weeks of time where Warpath was relevant?
Cozy Snap:I'm gonna level with you. And by the way, Knull, Oddslot, good cards, we didn't mention them. I'm gonna level with you. I forgot this card was a card. I, I forgot Warpath. If you were to ask me, you put me in like a white room and you say, all right, name every snap card in the game and you gave me as long as possible. I think I could get all but five. Maybe, maybe all of them too. I might be able to get them all, but Warpath, I'd, I'd be in there forever.
Alexander Coccia:You forgot completely this card exists today. That's hilarious. That's
Cozy Snap:hilarious.
Alexander Coccia:Actually, you know what card we kind of forgot existed for the best? We should mention, I think, Madam Web quick. Because not that she's crushing it, but Madam Web, no, no. But I think what Madam Web does for move. It's like the ongoing move card that I think really helps them. But no, she doesn't deserve to be in the worst angle. She definitely deserves closer to the higher end. But yeah, like, Warpath is so bad. It's, it's remarkably bad in a way that like, it's laughable. Like, when I see Warpath, I'm like, dude. Either this guy is so unbelievably hammed, like so like belligerently unable to hold their phone, stamp, like stumbling around their, their room to play this garbage, or this is a bot.
Cozy Snap:I think in general, there's a couple of cards that we've been like, well, there might be a time and place. It's time to put the, hey, listen, Ghost.
Alexander Coccia:There's no time and place. Yeah.
Cozy Snap:I feel like Ghost has been that card since her release, which was like, January of the first year, there'll be a, there'll be a way to play this card. And then she was a one cost, right? Which was at least kind of cool for Spectrum builds. And then they were like, you know what, we're gonna make her a 3 5 though, don't worry guys. And she was kind of like the first 3 5 that got the buff to 3 5, like that was the new thing. You just never want this effect.
Alexander Coccia:No, it's cause Alioth, like you never want this, because literally Alioth exists. Like, I don't know why you would ever think that a 3 4 that lets your entire deck lose to Alioth on turn 6 is a good idea. Did I say 3 4? It's a 3
Cozy Snap:5. That's how disrespectful I am. She's on screen and Alex still hates her at a 3 4. You might as well be a 3 0, dude. Absolute, absolute garbage tier. Speaking of garbage tier, you know, I wonder with Moonstone, if you play Moonstone down, and then you play Onslaught, right? Okay? And then you play Lizard, and somehow you mystique the Onslaught and make it work. How, how bad can you get that lane, with this piece of, with this piece of garbage?
Alexander Coccia:Like how negative you can get it? So if you onsla if you see, if you, Lizard, Iron Man, and then you Moonstone. No, no, Lizard, Mystique, Moonstone, Iron Man, and then Onslaught your own location. It's, no, it's still positive, isn't it? Yeah, like, no, no, cause Mystique will go negative four.
Cozy Snap:No, dude. If they fill out the no, no. Oh, yeah, Mystique would go down. That's the thing.
Alexander Coccia:And then the Iron Man would double it. And then the Onslaught would, Oh, we got to do this, this cook. But I think it's still positive somehow. Like I still, cause Moonstone's high enough.
Cozy Snap:No, Moonstone goes down twice though. Lizard and Mystique.
Alexander Coccia:That's
Cozy Snap:right.
Alexander Coccia:Oh my gosh. And then it goes down again because
Cozy Snap:of the Onslaught. Yeah. And it doubles down. It's definitely not a we get Onslaught
Alexander Coccia:into that location?
Cozy Snap:We put them down. We gotta figure this
Alexander Coccia:out.
Cozy Snap:Oh, how do we make five colors today? Yeah, we'll figure it out. Don't worry about it. We'll make it happen, guys. Yeah, Lizard who, you know, year one, Mount Rushmore,
Alexander Coccia:year two. You can just play Onslaught in Location. It doesn't matter. Moonstone won't copy the Onslaught, but Onslaught will still double everyone else. We're so crazy. We're thinking of it like it's a goose. We can still play the Onslaught there. Sorry, I'm still fixing it on the Lizard scenario. Well,
Cozy Snap:kind of. We don't have enough software. Space. If we had Iron Man in there, I love how this has gotten like two minutes of this podcast of us trying to decide how to make the most negative location. I need someone to send me a video on Twitter. Please. Thank you. Appreciate it. That'd be awesome. Yeah. So I have, I have them up there. You put in a more as your favorite boss card last, last week.
Alexander Coccia:Okay, so let me explain. Let me explain. I was playing No More.
Cozy Snap:You played Rivals. It wasn't
Alexander Coccia:the dumbest thing, dude. I was crushing in high voltage because I'd often start the game with 4 energy and I would just throw No More into a location and then just not have to deal with it. And then I would just pump it. You realize,
Cozy Snap:like, so in like Rivals, for an example, the Black Widows was just not a good character and people are like, well, I'm good with it. I'm like, if you put that time and energy into anything else, you'd be way better. I feel like with Namor there, if you put your time and energy to another card, Alex, on high voltage, it would have been better.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, probably. But listen, that wasn't the best cards. Those were our favorite cards that we enjoyed playing. And sometimes I like being a contrarian, you know what I mean? I like playing against the curve. I like playing, looking at some variants I don't get to look at. You know what's a card I never look at, though? Like, I know you're like, trying to cook me on this, Namor. Sorry, you just brought up the pixel. It looks like you're preparing to punch me in the throat here.
Cozy Snap:Namor definitely should be on the, on the, Mount Rushmore. The Mount Garbage. Yes. Of none of good. Not the good ones.
Alexander Coccia:So if we have a Mount Rushmore, we should have like a dump. The opposite of Mount Rushmore is like a, like a festering dump.
Cozy Snap:Mount Garbage. Yeah.
Alexander Coccia:Mount Garbage? You call it Mount Garbage?
Cozy Snap:Mount Garbage. I need someone to put that picture together.
Alexander Coccia:Any
Cozy Snap:other cards
Alexander Coccia:to make the worst list before we move on? I mean, Colossus, there was some cope with Colossus and Nomura for a while. But I think there's a real legit garbage tier ongoing that I never want to play. And every time I look at it, I'm like, why would anyone play this card? I've still not even split it to infinity once before. I have a bunch of boosters for it, but I've never split it once. And that's Mojo. Literally, Mojo is such a piece of crap. And you like Mojo? Is that what you just said? He's fine. He has his place. He's not fine. Come on.
Cozy Snap:What was the deck that we were playing with them? The the Jean Grey deck that was popping off. Like, yeah,
Alexander Coccia:the Jean Grey deck that was popping off. Dude, are you absolutely drunk? Do you just hear it? Can you hear yourself? You just said the Jean Grey that was popping off.
Cozy Snap:Was there not a, no, in Clog decks too? Dude, there was a good Mojo deck for a while.
Alexander Coccia:Dude, you're, like, you're mixed up with reality and your fantasies right now. There was no good Jean Grey deck.
Cozy Snap:No, I don't know about Jean Grey, but Mojo was involved. Jean Grey maybe was in that deck, but Mojo, I'm telling you, Mojo, Mojo was involved. Guys, by the way, we needed to make this podcast happen. It's a little late. Maybe you can tell that we don't have any spicy apple juice this time around. Let's bring it, bring it to the end here. We talked about a couple of them. You Rival seems to have a lot of great heroes from this game that are awful, and in this game we talk about Captain America, Mr. Fantastic, and other heroes that just deserve to be much better. We have a patch coming this morning usually it doesn't come with balance, don't expect it to be balanced. Those are in the OTAs. But, when the patch comes, I'm begging rivals. I'm, I'm, I'm begging rivals to see not a 5, still the 2, not an ongoing. I, I, I need Scarlet Witch to be a better card. This is like one of the most powerful beings in Marvel. She literally destroyed mutants by just speaking the word. Why is she the way she is?
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, she sucks so bad. It's actually legitimately crazy how understated she is with like, a Nocturne style effect. It's such a bad card, it's not even worth considering playing. At least give us a card that changes like, all the locations to random stuff. Like, really fully embrace the chaos. I like the, like, the thematic sense of like, you know, she's a little chaotic, she's a little unstable, you know, she's obviously chaos magic, manipulation, stuff like that, but I think they really need to consider what Scarlet Witch is and improve, like, her significantly.
Cozy Snap:I feel like maybe, back in the day, changing one location had some form of a big pivot, right? Like, that was like, ah, gotcha, right? There's so much crap going on now in these games that it's like, This isn't such a little effect, especially when you have Legion doing what he does, right? It's just sad. That's just not great in Rivals either, but at least she's like, wow. You know, she's got some cool like wow ness to her in this game. I just, I would love to see the interactions more. Like, we just mentioned Chaos in America, Mr. Fantastic, Scarlet Witch. We've, we've, we've gone down this road before, but the Guardians, it's not even, You can keep their effect in the game. I wish they would start from scratch on the Guardians. I wish they would just give their effect to some, you know the rangers of the galaxy, whatever, and then just have them completely new cards. They don't even have to work together. I don't care. I just want them to be, you know,
Alexander Coccia:They're absolute garbage, and Mantis is literally like, first phase ban in Rivals, super good, incredible, like, S tier, and then in Marvel Snap, I guarantee you there's a ton of people here in this podcast right now that have no idea what Mantis does, because you've not only not played the card, but you've not seen the card played against you, and it's actually disgusting how bad Mantis is, and they even did a rework on her, and she somehow felt worse? Like, I was like, what? Like, it's It's crazy how bad this card is.
Cozy Snap:My favorite game is to see what they type in the paragraph whenever they give her a buff each time. They're like, Mantis has been below our expectations lately and you know, it's two years means lately. Not a good card, Alex. Not a good card. Any other ones to close it out?
Alexander Coccia:I mean, I want to just give a quick shoutout, I wrote White Queen Lull on my notes here because I feel like we bring her up every single time. I don't know if we actually got to talk about her again. I do have, I do have a couple. I, I, if I could say Wolfsbane, I think probably needs something considering the amount of power creep at the three costs now. Like, Wolfsbane probably Can be better than what she is now. The only way Wolfsbane actually pops off is in like Odin decks, where you play Odin on top of Wolfsbanes, which is kind of cool. Like I had this deck where I did like Medusa, Wolfsbane, and then you would drop like a white tiger and then Odin that, and then send the extra white tiger, and then Medusa and Wolfsbane would re proc, and you get a surprising amount of verticality. But like now it's like that's so much hoop jumping for what like Ajax can just do, you just drop Ajax on five or like Gilgamesh and he's just beggar anyways, it's like damn it what are we doing? And Umbaku man, like what the hell are we doing with Umbaku? Like does this guy like not exist either?
Cozy Snap:Alex's term of iconic heroes is much different than my own. I you know, Wolfsbane, I know every kid Oh, I
Alexander Coccia:kind of forgot the iconic part, to be honest with you. I kind of lost sight of the like, Wolfsbane, who the Like, Wolfsbane was in that movie with Cannonball. I don't remember what it was called. It was with what's her name? It was with the two costs that copies the lowest cost card in here. Why can't I remember the effect and not the name of the card? Is this really what my life is now? I remember the effect. Effect of the card and not the name.
Cozy Snap:Dude, I went to a speak easy Mirage! I went to a speak easy with with Dexter and we were playing heads up and it was Avengers was the list and like, our, both our wives were there and, and Dexter was just shouting at me the effects of the game. Like he wasn't even trying to say the hero. He's like, it's a 2 5 It loses 4 power It was tougher than you think too, like Scorpion. He was trying to describe it. I was like, dude, I can't, I can't think of this at all. Yeah, this guy, his heads is, is in one place.
Alexander Coccia:Cozy, listen, buddy, we're coming in hot on a Tuesday morning, which is I mean, surprise, everybody. We're coming in hot on a Tuesday morning, and you might just have a little bit of a window of time to still pick up Victoria Hand. If you've not yet picked it up. So let's actually do a bit of a discussion of Victoria Hand. Let's start off there. Cozy, I actually really liked Victoria Hand. I came away really impressed with my testing. Now, as of right now, statistically, it's kind of tricky to talk about because you still have people leveling up. We don't have enough people in Infinite for non bot based stats, but if you're including bots from 70 and above, she is running a 56 percent win rate and a 21 percent popularity. She's doing really good, but most importantly, Cozy, how have you felt playing Victoria Hand?
Cozy Snap:It's not even how have I felt playing Victoria Hand, how have I felt playing Aja Colson again, Alex? And the feeling's great. The feeling's fantastic, might I say. People were cracking up, apparently, in the comments last week. It was off screen, too, so I think it was like an impulse reaction to what I said. You said something about Agent Coulson, and I said, watch your mouth. Like, you were talking to a family member of mine, about, like, someone in my family, or something like that. And I didn't even know I said it, but I, I, I suppose I did, and apparently it was zoomed in on you. So, yes, I love Agent Coulson, so I like Victoria Hand, and she's exactly how we thought she would play. Like, she was gonna feel really cool in this deck build, the board wide effect's awesome, In fact, I, we, we gave it what, four and a half, five, and, and, there's still at points, it feels like, I didn't give her enough credit on the way she felt to play. Like, I just enjoyed the experience of playing her having her as a two, playing her late, and bumping up things that you've been building all game. The value you get from those cards, man, I, I enjoyed Victoria Hand a ton.
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Cozy Snap:This headset is, it's bringing me back to, to my glory days, as I said. You know, I don't know about you, but I used to wear Turtle Beach's, Back whenever and it was like crazy like this like wired connection I remember from like my Xbox to my headset and there was like a lot of clunkiness This is pretty much just seamless which it's crazy to see how things have evolved and dude Extremely comfortable. My ears hurt so bad after wearing my white headphones and now they don't hurt, man. They don't hurt. And they have seemed to last forever too in the battery life. I got to agree there. So definitely a solid headset.
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Cozy Snap:I thought you were going to add another word. Yes.
Alexander Coccia:No, that was the joke. It was just so bad that you thought like it wasn't even a joke. You didn't even perceive my dad joke. That's how horrible it
Cozy Snap:was. Yes, I, listen, I thought it was great. I, I want to know more importantly why you just skipped on over Iron Patriot.
Alexander Coccia:I don't know why, because it's like, like the middle of the night here in Canada, and like, for some reason I decided to roll into Victoria Hand as I was talking. We could have went Iron Patriot first, but I just felt the need to talk about Victoria Hand first. Why? Are you, are you upset about that?
Cozy Snap:No, I'm not. I, I just thought Iron Patriot was going to be a card that we'd talk about first.
Alexander Coccia:I mean, we're still going to talk about Iron Patriot. Is that, is that all you've got to say about Victoria Hand? Victoria Hand getting totally dissed already.
Cozy Snap:I need you guys to understand that it is very late for me. But it's even, if it's late for me, Three hours later for Alex Coccia. And we do this to make sure we don't miss a week. LA fires or not, we're here, baby. We're here and we're ready to talk about, not even Iron Patriot, but Victoria Hand. Yes. I thought she was good though. Crest Ward, I thought she was a really good card. This is one that if, again, I think my review stands the same. If you play these style of decks at all, I feel like she, for me, was a must get. But that, I'm very biased on her. And so am I alone here? Would you recommend her?
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, a hundred percent I do. Like, the problem with Victoria Hand is there'll never be a deck That uses these card generative abilities that don't have Victoria Hand. Never. It's like trying to play a Scream deck without Scream. You're never going to be able to play those decks without Victoria Hand. It's really that simple, right? And Iron Patriot, which we're going to get into in a second, is a damn good card. And there's always going to be the potential that Victoria Hand and Iron Patriot are going to go hand in hand. Boom, I did another one. That one's less bad. But seriously, like, I think this card's excellent. And I think it should be in your collection, honestly. Like, I really do. Because I think that You're going to want to future proof yourself against this type of generative ability, because it's just awesome. I really think it is.
Cozy Snap:Marvel Rivals brand new season came out on the exact same day, pretty much, as these cards coming out, and I chose to play Victoria Hand and Iron Patriot a ton. Because I had that much fun with her, like, genuinely that much fun with her as a card. Because it was targeted for me, because this is the style of decks that I, you know, thoroughly enjoy the most. Yeah, good card.
Alexander Coccia:They literally planned it around you. They were like, Glen was like sitting there like, Yo, we gotta hook Cozy back in. Let's absolutely pump all of his favourite things on the Season 1 drop of Marvel Rivals. We gotta give him a Coulson card, so give him Victoria Hand. Secret, we need to do a Secret Patriot or like a Surprise Patriot Ultra on deck. So, like, let's, let's throw out the Patriot for the season pass card, let's line it all up so that he has to play, I was, yeah, it's actually funny, because I, I mean, this, this start of the season is literally perfect for you, right? Yeah. It has to be, because, like, wait, we just finished Tottenham on victory hand, honestly, superstar across the board, and the other thing about what we're saying, though, is that, like, it brings back not just Colson, but it really amplifies Kate Bishop, so I'm glad she's in the spotlight, Cash, too. Maria Hill, all of them are winners. Mirage, a huge winner. Mirage gets the double dip on that buff. Mirage was insane. Yeah, right. It double dips on the buff, but most importantly, Cozy, Iron Patriot also gets the buff as well, works extremely well with Victoria Hand, and this is where, like, I kind of get a little hesitant to say, like, oh, you know, you could probably skip Victoria Hand, I think Iron Patriot is going to be legit for quite a long time, and if Iron Patriot is legit, it feels like Victoria Hand can always kind of be a part of those shells, What has your experience been with Iron Patriot? Because I come away relatively impressed.
Cozy Snap:My, my experience was, it was so easy to win the locations for him. Like, having the control and the driver's seat for that made it extremely easy, like, throughout the week. And then on top of that, like, the card you got, like, I can only count a handful of games where I was like, I, not even a handful, like, one or two where it's like, I don't, I won't play this card. But most of the time, it was like, I had a way to, to make the card work, even with hundreds of possibilities. I got arrowed three times in like a 20 card poll and I was like, that's gotta be insane statistics. That's where I know They're messing with the code in the back to keep me hooked. But yeah, no, I thought Iron Patriot was even with the randomness, just surprisingly good.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, you occasionally got some garbage, and for the record, statistically, once again, using untapped base stats, we are incorporating some bot games here, 70 and above. He's running a 57 percent win rate, so 1 percent higher than Victoria Hand. Much higher popularity, almost 29%. What I will say, though, Is that I liked the mind games element of like playing a one drop and then playing Iron Patriot. And I'm like, I bet you they don't play there. I bet you they're thinking I'm going to play there. And so I'll play somewhere else. And I've been doing that a lot. And I'm often shocked at how often, especially if they're already behind on turn one and two, that they do not try to contest Iron Patriot and they try to win somewhere else. I'm very surprised with how often that's a thing. And I liked those mind games because then like, I know they're sad, and then I snap and they leave. I was literally streaming and I said, Hey guys, I just, I did that exact move, right? I played Iron Patriot behind my, my Hydration Robert or whatever. So Bobbert's sitting there, and then Iron Patriot's there, and I play on the other side with like a, like a, I don't know, whatever it happened to be. I'm like, yo, I'm gonna snap and they're gonna leave. I snap and they left, cause they were just too broken at my mind games. I appreciate a card like that. You know,
Cozy Snap:it was fun too. Whenever someone played like the hood, you could easily just be like, all right, thank you for that location. Appreciate that. I'm gonna put my iron patriot right there. And they nailed the animation for this one. My gosh. It was really cool. They did a good job with, with all that. Yeah, so Iron Patriot definitely feels like you will be good. And, and as I said, I think. I mean, you could just play back or according from last week, we nailed what we said about both these cards and Iron Patriot doesn't have a reason not to be a good plug and play card in tons of decks moving forward.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, no, definitely. And I will say as well, this might be a surprise, but I found myself almost preferring getting four drops because I liked them being free. Yeah. Like, getting a free four drop allowed me to curve really nicely at the game, where sometimes, like, yeah, you get a discount at five or six, that's still sweet, right? But a free card. As we've seen so often in Marvel Snap is a very dangerous card. And so there was a lot of free cards that I was able to get as four drops. So I was like, Oh, this is perfect. Even if it's a free, like I got a free high Evo, like, yeah, okay. That sucks. But it's still just a free power card that I get to drop down, which was awesome. Right. I really liked the card and it feels like it has that that really wide ranged hope summer style. It can kind of go anywhere. They really can. And you see that in like In a lot of the deck archetypes being played, we see it being played with Frigga, which is pretty cool because obviously you get the discounted card, you play it down, you Frigga the discounted card, and you're like, oh, look at the value, right? It's pretty neat. I like that. You're also seeing like Wiccan based shells using it. There's a lot of different decks that are utilizing Iron Patriot. And so like, it, it has this all, this big catch all style play, which I do really appreciate. And as we've said so many times in the past, the Season Pass really does represent the greatest value. In Marvel Snap, from a monetary perspective, like if you can find the ten bucks ten bucks USD to put aside for the season pass, it's gonna be the easiest card you acquire in Snap.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, man. Again, both these cards, luckily this one's available all season, so you guys could You know, make up your mind when to get it. Victoria Hendo, if you're going to plan on getting this one, as Alex said before, you know, Victoria is probably a good addition as well.
Alexander Coccia:Absolutely. And you know, what else is a good addition? Doubling the token acquisition rate. Cozy. The if you're listening to this podcast on the Tuesday, the patch has hopefully come out unless there's some sort of crazy circumstances that happen that we're unaware of in the middle of the night on a Monday, actually, it's pretty much Tuesday right now, but yeah, it is Tuesday. But what I will say though is that we've gone from duplicate cards in the spotlight caches giving you 1, 000 credits to 2, 000 credits. Okay. It's very notable that you have to update the game in the app store or on PC or wherever you play, update the game to get this effect. So if you've been saving your caches for the role, And then you don't update, you're going to get 1, 000. So do the update first before you do anything with your caches. But with that, those extra tokens, Cozy, we've got to talk about some of the best token shop buys, and I think the way that we do this is my, one of my favorite segments we've done is we do it like fantasy football style, where I'm going to put you on the hot seat, sir, and I'm going to quiz you, and I'm just, we're just going to go and riff off of like, you know, what some couple of picks are, we're gonna do some comparisons, and then we're going to do a couple ranked by cost. So we'll get a feel for you, Cozy. First of all, how do you like the the addition of doubling the token acquisition rate for your players?
Cozy Snap:It's good. I mean obviously it's double. That's great too and I think hopefully, what I hope is they, they said that moving forward there's gonna be some more changes coming to the to just card acquisition and I hope they maintain whatever that is. I guess with tokens, right? To make these Double tokens matter more and more, and they definitely are gonna matter now, while while, you know, cards are costing these. So, this, you know, definitely should, should help. Obviously a little late, in my opinion. I wish they would have done this sooner, but definitely nice that they're adding it in now.
Alexander Coccia:Yep. And again, this is step one to kind of reestablishing faith with the community that they're, they're going to start making changes to, to better the card acquisition system. And of course the experience for players, whether they're free to play or what have you. Now let's get started here, Cozy, and we're going to start with some new cards. Pick em Cozy, between these two, if you're spending tokens, you got 6, 000 to spare, Doom 2099 or Gore? Doom 2099 or Gore, ooh
Cozy Snap:that's a good one, I would go Gore there.
Alexander Coccia:You would go Gore there? See it's funny because I feel like Gore is slowly making more decks. There was a moment in time where Doom 2099 felt like it was kind of splashing the meta a little harder. But I think the win rate on Gore, and specifically the Gore decks, are slightly higher. Doom 2099 falling ever so slightly and with the amount of enchantress we're likely to see with Moonstone and stuff, might have a bit of a problem. But yeah, okay, I can feel that pick. Now let's go to the two cost, Cozy. Jeff, the Babyland Shark, or Thena.
Cozy Snap:Jeff or Thena. Hmm, pass and probably save my tokens. I, but if I were to pick one of them. Probably go with Athena.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, I would go Athena too. It's kind of crazy that that Jeff's fallen off as hard as he has, eh? Isn't that insane to think about what, like, I keep using the term power creep, or power escalation. But like, realistically, Jeff is no longer good enough at the two sli Like, what is happening here?
Cozy Snap:I think it's not even power creep, it's just like, what happened to all the stuff that was good with Red Professor X and all that stuff. Yeah, that's true. Like, things have changed a lot, War Machine's a whole card now. Like things have changed dramatically. Madame Webb. Yeah. Yep. I would say War Machine feels like the biggest blow to what he did.
Alexander Coccia:All right. And up to the Chonky boys at Six Cost Cozy. This is a tricky one. Would you rather have Alioth or Eresham?
Cozy Snap:Alioth or Eresham? Yeah, I'm going to go with Alioth.
Alexander Coccia:I would too, man. I thought that was going to kind of trick you out a little bit. Cause Ereshim has fallen off quite a bit, eh? It's a little unfortunate. I feel like Ereshim maybe got hit too hard because like, I think there was a comment. Was it last week or the week prior into the mailbag where someone said, like, it's kind of crazy that Ereshim represents the draft mode that so many people want. And now it doesn't even feel like that anymore. I think it still does. But at the same time, it doesn't feel like it's just, it's so far gone from the power level it had before, which is not necessarily a bad thing considering how like, well, 70 percent Aresham meta share is not good, but yeah, I think that like the Alioth plug and play ability is pretty legit.
Cozy Snap:Do you think they ever bring Aresham back? Kind of like Thandos, how like Thandos takes a break every now and then, cause they want him to, by design. And then they're like, all right, he can come back or plenty of cards like that, right? Angela for a while. Do you think that this is a card that comes back, or with us eventually getting draft mode, does Aarishem stay the same as he is now?
Alexander Coccia:I wonder. I wonder. I'm not sure. It's, it's hard. I think the design landscape for Aeroshome is, like, it's such a wide card, and that's what, it had this catch all capability, where, like, adding random cards wasn't impacting it enough, like, really, you could have just kept adding more cards, and reducing the amount of tech, and then it had the low key problem, and then it had, like, there's all these moving parts to it, right? And then when you low keyed the deck, it actually minimized the effect of, like, the Cassandra Nova player, I You know, the Dark Hawk plays and stuff like that. So it was a really hard card to balance around, but I do, like, I don't want to say I miss Arishem, but I would like a card like that to have a place in the game. You know what I mean? And I think that's a little unfortunate that it's, it's kind of feels a little irrelevant right now, but Hey, maybe someone's going to cook something and talking about cooking Cozy, would you rather spend 6, 000 tokens on Kang or eat your underpants?
Cozy Snap:Ooh, that's, honestly, it is a thinker. I gotta really think on that one. I can't believe that card's truly that much tokens. That's crazy to me. Bro, I bet you this season Kang has been played 12 times. Trust me. All players. No, you don't even play. You can't even have that joke anymore. You don't even play. There's no way you play.
Alexander Coccia:I played him in like one deck, like during like last Twitch Drops, where I told everyone to shout out the worst cards in Snap and let's play it and try to rank up with it. And Kang ended up in it with like Crystal and other stuff. Kang wasn't even the worst card there. It was, he was the worst. Kang was still the worst. So I feel, I take it back.
Cozy Snap:Like who on earth was yes, I would definitely do anything, but buy Kang, uninstall. So you're eating
Alexander Coccia:your underpants. I'd
Cozy Snap:uninstall.
Alexander Coccia:Alright, alright, fair enough. There's your answer. If you're thinking about buying Keng with your 6k tokens, Cozy hopefully has talked you out of it. Now here's an interesting one, talking about the afflictions, Cozy. Red Guardian or U. S. Agent?
Cozy Snap:Red Guardian or U. S. Agent? Ooh, that's a good one. I would say it depends on what time of the year. It depends like Sometimes I play a US Agent a lot more, but I would say Red Guardian is who I've been playing way more in the last six months, so I would go Red Guardian.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, Red Guardian feels like a very safe, like, hey, let's say you're kind of ranking up and you want a good catch all tech piece. That's kind of the thing with token shop buys, right? Like, it's kind of nice to buy a card that you know you can play in many capacities. And US Agent, while good, it fits directly into like that Ajax shell. It's really good there, but that's kind of where it goes, right? Maybe it sees some Moonstone ongoing stuff that we don't know yet. And then it kind of like expands its possibilities, but generally speaking, Red Guardian, what a great tech card. It's just an answer all to, to so many different metas. And now we're going to go to another one. Now Cozy, I'm going to, I'm going to pull at your heartstrings here. These are two cards I know you love. I know you love them, would you rather spend 6k tokens on Malekith or Frigga? I'm gonna say Frigga for me. You're going Frigga? Okay.
Cozy Snap:I'm gonna go Frigga. I like Malekith a ton, but I, as far as like replayability goes, it's gotta be Frigga.
Alexander Coccia:I've been really warming up to Malekith lately. And it's funny, because Malekith was one of those cards, I don't know if you remember, I was like, not low on, but I was like ho hum on. I was like, eh, you know, it's a little random, do you really? And then now that I've been playing him a lot, I'm like, Man, Malekith is so good, has that surprise factor, it's like, you know what it is, it's the X factor, and Frigga's the same, right, except they know what you're copying, and maybe that copy's like that, like, unfair advantage you need to really pump them, but I feel like, oh man, it's so tight, it's a hard choice, you can go either way, Is it crazy for me to lean Malekith there? But Frigga's in more like meta decks right now, isn't she?
Cozy Snap:I think it just depends on the playstyle. For me, Frigga scratches a fun itch that Malekith doesn't exactly. Although I do love Malekith and what he does. That's probably my main reason for Frigga.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, I can feel that. Yeah, I definitely can feel that, especially, like, Frigga's been elevating a couple different archetypes. Now let's go to the battle of the three costs here, Cozy. Sage or Cassandra Nova? Sage. You know what? I like that call, because I agree. Yeah. I like it. Overcast. Well, Kaz was like really good into the Aresha meta really good in like when Darkhawk felt better. Darkhawk kind of fell off by the way, I haven't seen much Darkhawk lately. Yeah, that's true. But like, Cassandra Nova feels riskier, whereas Sage feels like an absolute beauty. But they're played at opposite ends of the game. Sage comes late, Cassandra Nova's better early, right? And it's the opposite for, for Sage, obviously. So like, it's kind of interesting to see how they play out. But yeah, I love Sage, I just, I can't get over playing Sage, and I'm not gonna stop playing Sage.
Cozy Snap:I have a question for you, if you could, you could never play one of these cards again, okay? It's not accessible from your game. Scream or Surfer, who do you pick?
Alexander Coccia:I hate that. I hate that. Cause I was literally gonna ask you about Scream next. I would take Scream out. You can't take Surfer away from me. If you take Surfer away from me, I'm like I'm basically changing my channel to a Club Penguin channel, like I'm not, we're not playing Snap anymore.
Cozy Snap:A rare Club Penguin shoutout in 2025, I love it.
Alexander Coccia:Hey listen, someone's gotta cover that game, it's an absolute beauty. So I'm gonna ask you what I was gonna ask before. 6k tokens, Scream or Agent Venom?
Cozy Snap:Scream for
Alexander Coccia:me. Yeah, I agree. Agent Venom's still fire though, like it's so stupid good. He's super good, yeah. But like, Scream, Scream feels like it really unlocked a new archetype. Agent Venom's probably actually better, I think. Like, it's probably better overall. I would agree, I think we're just both Scream. Scream fans. Did you get the Pandard Studio variant for Scream from the Spotlight?
Cozy Snap:I didn't. No way I did. Did I? No, I did not.
Alexander Coccia:I did. I spent, I think I 8 rolled that week because I liked it so much. I was like, oh man. Yeah, I was like actually excited for that. Here's an interesting one and we've only got a couple more here before we get into the speed round of the costs here. Wiccan or Hope Summers?
Cozy Snap:Wiccan or Hope Summers. Is this what
Alexander Coccia:everyone should get or me? Everyone, like what's the general recommendation?
Cozy Snap:I think nowadays it could be Wiccan, dude. It probably is Wiccan.
Alexander Coccia:Like, it's kind of crazy how, like, I was thinking about this today. We talked about the cards that kind of suck. And never did I even consider, well, I mean, the topics were mainly about ongoing and iconic heroes, but like Quicksilver didn't come to mind. People play Quicksilver now unironically and it's because of Wiccan. Yeah. Right. So like Wiccan, there's something to say about that.
Cozy Snap:Yeah. And I feel like when I'm like deck designing these days, I think about Wiccan. More than Hope Summers, which again is a weird thing to say.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, fair enough. I got one more hard one for you. Then we're going to go with the rankings by cost blink or copycat.
Cozy Snap:I'm going to go. I won't blink there. I think blink. Copycat is the best. I'm just realizing
Alexander Coccia:something blink might be in a spotlight cash coming up soon, isn't it? Isn't she? Yeah, I think so. Yep. So yeah, maybe spend your tokens on a key on blink. Yeah, that's probably the, actually the correct call. A little little typo, not a typo, just kind of an oversight. I'll say, all right, cozy speed around a couple of minutes here. Rank these. So one cost rank these in the order that you think you should unlock them. Hydration, Bobbert.
Cozy Snap:Aranya, and Nico. Is it Bobbert? Have you added a thing to his name now? Wasn't it Robert? What? You've been saying Bobbert. No, I haven't. You said Bobbert. Is it Bobbert or Robert? It's Hydration Robert. Okay, I've heard Bobert. Okay, sorry. Robert and who?
Alexander Coccia:So it's Hydration, Rob, Aranya, Nico.
Cozy Snap:Aranya and Nico. Nico, Bob, and Aranya.
Alexander Coccia:Alright, I agree, I agree. Like, like seeing some love for Bobert there. And then
Cozy Snap:we have I'm telling you, you've said Bobert. I swear. I swear on it. Okay,
Alexander Coccia:and then we have the two cost. Rankum Cozy, U. S. Agent, Thena or Scream?
Cozy Snap:I would say Thena Eh Yeah, Thena or Scream. Just depends if you like Scream. But I would say Thena is Scream Agent.
Alexander Coccia:Okay, yeah, yeah. Generally that's pretty cool. I might go Scream over Thena. But Thena I think is Yeah, just depends. Unreal, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure, three costs, rank them Cozy, this is a hard one for ya, Red Guardian, Rocket and Groot, and Frigga. So Red Guardian, Rocket and Groot, and Frigga. I made this so hard for you, I'm sorry.
Cozy Snap:No, you're good, Rocket and Groot, Red Guardian, then Frigga.
Alexander Coccia:Okay, cool, cool, I like it. Four costs, another hard one, Anti Venom, War Machine, Malekith.
Cozy Snap:Anti Venom, War Machine, Malekith. I would say Malekith, War Machine, Anti Venom.
Alexander Coccia:Okay, I feel that. See, I think Anti Venom is starting to kind of impress in a couple decks here and there. But like Yeah, I feel it. I feel, I like, I like playing Malekith and more. I don't, I feel like I like playing Antivenom more than I like playing War Machine. It's more of a fun card. You know what I mean? I think it's, it's, it's a fun card to play. That's fair.
Cozy Snap:Yeah, yeah, yeah. And War Machine had his time, and you know, they, they've, they've gone after, the Storm thing is crazy to me, still.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah, it's so bad, like, if only Storm got buffed, and then became S tier, is there a game anywhere that buffed Storm? If there's, oh, man, I gotta think, there must be a game somewhere that buffed Storm recently.
Cozy Snap:No, doesn't exist. Doesn't exist, unfortunately.
Alexander Coccia:Five cost, Cozy! I'm gonna pull your heartstrings here. Circe, Ajax, Gilgamesh.
Cozy Snap:Man, you're so crazy about Ajax. I would say probably Gilgamesh, Ajax, and Circe.
Alexander Coccia:Okay. I thought you were gonna, like, pump a little, like, hope into the system here with a higher Circe.
Cozy Snap:I like her, but, like, yeah, when it comes to, like, what other people should unlock, I gotta be fair.
Alexander Coccia:Yeah? Okay. Do you, does Arrow know that you like Circe? I'm tired, Alex. I'm just saying, man, I'm just saying. Six costs, as we close it out. Thanos, Galactus, and just for the spice, Cozy, Emperor Hulkling. Definitely Hulkling.
Cozy Snap:Then Galactus. No, probably Galactus. The Thanos and Hulkling. I don't know, I like the Hulkling and the Thanos these days, bro, I'll be honest.
Alexander Coccia:Actually, it's, it's, it's funny, I, no, I'm not coping on Hulkling. I, I said Hulk, it was originally supposed to be Gore, I was going to put you to the test, and I even have Red Hulk as a backup in case we talked a lot about Gore before. I just threw Hulkling in there just to give you a freebie, because, you know, I still, one of the best intros of your videos of all time, I still watch it for every once in a while. It's so hilarious, that is, it's, honestly, it's Pete Cozy Snap. It's still one of my favorite videos you've done so kudos to you, sir, for having a sense of humor with Emperor Hawkling, who now is, I was gonna say he's good, he's not good. But, yeah, there's maybe, there's maybe some hope that can be had. We're gonna go to the Snapchat mailbag, my friend. And we have, we have four questions here. And I think they're really fun. One of which is a bit of a longer one, but it's a good one. And I think it really captures the spirit of what makes Marvel Snap special. And it comes from BigBetBob. My brother in law and I talk so much Snap, it's to the point that our wives cannot understand how we talk about it as much as they do. So you can't thank Snap enough for that. However, we find ourselves talking more about the negative aspects of Snap lately, especially card acquisition. I know Snap is starting to make some changes. But the answer seems simple to me. Shouldn't the mystery card on the spotlight cash always be a new card you don't have? If players are able to roll for the new card, when you naturally roll four keys for it, knowing that you'll at least get two new cards, I think that would help a lot. What do you guys think?
Cozy Snap:Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think that's a I mean, I think it should always be I think that's probably what I would have wanted over the 2k tokens is just the insurance. There's enough cards in the pool now to where it's like not getting a repeat would make a lot of sense.
Alexander Coccia:I suspect, and I'm not sure, but I feel like I've read, I'm not sure if it's like an official communication or not, that they did the math on if you gave everyone a free card with that duplicate, that it would have been too easy to finish your collection too fast. Oh wow.
Cozy Snap:Voohoo. Yeah. I think it
Alexander Coccia:I think but I'm just saying that's I'm not trying to, like, defend I'm not, like, doing the whole Shield for the Corporate Man thing, I'm just saying that that is, like, I think one of their justifications for it, that you would it's too easy to finish your collection But how, too? If there's only
Cozy Snap:52 weeks in the year, and it's like, dude, there's like a billion cards in Series 5 right now, there's only you know, if you played every week, and you opened all of them, and you always got the duplicate, then maybe, but by then you'd have all the cards anyway.
Alexander Coccia:I'm playing Devil Guy. I actually agree with you. No, I know. It would be way nicer for players now. But I bet you someone did the math and said, you know what? If we give them 2000 tokens, that increases it, but it doesn't actually solve like the problem. I have a question.
Cozy Snap:I have a question. I don't know the name of who this is. Cause I saw it on the comment last week. Don't have it in front of me, but someone asked my channel and it reads, I don't know who, who you are. If you were not a teacher or you weren't doing content creation, what would you be doing right now? First, first answer. First thing that comes to mind,
Alexander Coccia:I would be a writer. Okay. For sure. I've done a whole bunch of writing and like comedy series and stuff like that. We've talked about it on the podcast. I, I co wrote something that it has like 120 million views. It's like a comedic short and stuff like that. Do a bunch of writing. I love writing. I don't know why. I feel like when I sit down in front of a blank piece of paper, I feel like I can make a world out of anything and that's exciting for me. That's
Cozy Snap:awesome.
Alexander Coccia:How about you, dude?
Cozy Snap:If I was not a contribution at all. And, I was doing hotels before this because that was like my whole life. I would be in sports broadcasting. I think that's probably what I would choose to do. Sports coverage or a news anchor. I feel like being a news anchor would be so fun. Like, I would love to be like, Hello America. Not weatherman, but like a news, a news guy,
Alexander Coccia:but not the news dude, I'd be a great weatherman. I'm wrong all the time on all the shit I say, so I could just
Cozy Snap:be a perfect weatherman job in the world is a San Diego weatherman. That's what they always say. It's, it's like, Hey, guess what guys? It's sunny today. It's nice, it's sunny today. You could just AI that guy in. Dude. They could pull up Marvel, snap on him and just, just AI his, his voice in every time.
Alexander Coccia:Alright, next question. That's so funny. Yeah, next question comes from Cyril Mike and it says, Hey guys, love the podcast. I want to hear your take on the idea for SD to show off new cards while letting players try before you buy. Each week they can release a couple of scenarios where you can be given a deck and set a goal to accomplish like total power and etc. This way you can see what the new card is capable of and hyping up the card while giving players a new experience. We've talked about this so many times, the idea of like the trial tickets or something like that where you can kind of test drive The new card or stuff like that. And it hasn't been implemented yet, but there is, I would like to believe that it would be a nice gesture. I don't
Cozy Snap:think it's coming. I think I've told the desert about this and they're like, great idea. We're going to. We're gonna take that idea and we're gonna put it right here. We're gonna, we're gonna put it right here. We might come back to that. I don't know. I don't know. It might happen. I hope it does. I think they've, I'm sure they've talked about it. I'm sure they've talked about it internally.
Alexander Coccia:It's kind of funny. I can picture that conversation. You send this heartfelt message about like, trial tokens and all this stuff or trial tickets and No, no, no, no. They responded. They responded. We hear you, Cozy. And it was like, you'd rather have been left on, like, on read to be honest with you.
Cozy Snap:Oh yeah, just, just copy and paste it right into chat GPT.
Alexander Coccia:This is one of my absolute favorite comments of the week. Alex strikes me as a guy who always hardlocks duelists and rivals, regardless of team comp. Meanwhile, Cozy will swap out his favorite champ mid game to get the team comp right for everyone. You nailed it.
Cozy Snap:You nailed it. Alex has a channel called the Rivals Strategist, and Dexter and I were just talking about this in the speakeasy. We played with him the other day, and he was only playing DPS, and I was like, Yo, are you, am I not playing with the Rivals Strategist? And you're like, I need footage, I'm playing on a GPS. And I was like, what? I felt like the iconic name was a sham.
Alexander Coccia:Okay, the only reason why I was playing Duelist was because I actually legitimately needed footage to make videos and I didn't have any Duelist footage And so I had to capture some but if I'm playing offline or like not like streaming or anything, I'm always playing Support. I'm always playing Stratagist. I play Mantis. I play, you know, Rocket. Honestly, I've always loved Rocket and people used to get mad at me for picking Rocket. Like, Rocket sucks. Why are you picking Rocket? You're throwing noob and I'm like, man, I don't know. No, I'm not. And then they released the stats. Who's doing pretty good. Yeah, it's rocket. All the gamers demanding that I play cloak and dagger. Meanwhile, I'm picking rocket and it's like a 9 percent Delta on the win rate. TY very much, sir. Yeah, I I play whatever the team needs. So, I mean, Loki, Loki is who I love to play a lot, but I'm also, you know, pretty good at DPS, but I'll just play whatever the team needs.
Cozy Snap:So if we need a strange, I'll play that. If we need duelist. Whatever it might be, I try to fill in.
Alexander Coccia:And the last question of the podcast today is one that I don't even know how to answer, but it was too funny to not include today, and it's from David Morris, and it reads, Why is the one dude wearing those Steven Seagal shooting glasses?
Cozy Snap:Listen. Alex is a beautiful man. You watch your mouth, David Morris.
Alexander Coccia:First of all, he commented on my channel, which is kind of funny. Cause like, like you're watching my video, but you also don't know who I
Cozy Snap:am. Bro, I got this, I got this comment on my rival's channel the other day. And it was like, can you get this guy off the screen on my video? And I was like, I was like, bro. Bro, I f I f made this video. Like, f It's like, why is this guy on my screen? And dude, it was cracking me up. It was like, on my video. Man, these people are so out of touch. I love it.
Alexander Coccia:There's some comments we get that are so out of touch with reality. I had one guy just be like, why are you making Snap videos? I'm like, how do I even answer this question? Dude. I understand where he's coming from. Like, he does like, he's mad at Snap, so he doesn't want me to make Snap videos anymore, but I'm still doing it. I would love to read mean comments. He doesn't know how to like, articulate that. I would love to read mean comm I get some Golden, golden ones.
Cozy Snap:This one guy goes, I hope your dog dies. I was like, bro, I don't have a dog. I was like, there's mean, mean people out there. And here's the thing, this is how you know you can do consecration, guys. If everyone knows the secret is if you get offended at anything, don't do it. And if you have a thick skin, do it. I don't think there's a comment that's ever It got into me. Ever. Alex knows this to be true too. I don't think there's ever been where I was like, man, they really, they really cut me up on that one. They, they call me a bleach in sync. I've heard it all before. Anyway, anyway,
Alexander Coccia:it's, it's way, this is a fun pie. I thank you guys so much for joining us this week coming out on Tuesday, but you know what? We don't break the streak. Thanks so much for watching guys. Appreciate each and every one of you. And we also appreciate our sponsor of this video, Turtle Beach. Once again, go to turtlebeach. com use promo code Snapchat to get 10 percent off. We really appreciate you guys sponsoring us. Most importantly, appreciate each one of you for watching. We'll see you on that next one.
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