Marvel Snap Patch Notes (August 2023): All Updates, Buffs, Nerfs Listed

GENERAL UPDATES

• New Feature – Multi-Upgrade: If you have enough resources, Multi-Upgrade allows you to select the Quality you’d like to target and tap the upgrade button once to directly skip to that Quality level! Save your thumbs and save some time!
• New Feature – Upgrade with Gold: If you are short on Credits and/or Boosters but still want to upgrade a card, you can now upgrade your cards with Gold (up to a limit each day).
• Improved Avatar Selection Flow: Tapping on the Avatar on the Main Menu will now bring up the Avatar Select screen, allowing you to change the current deck’s avatar quickly.
• When you view an upgradeable card in your Collection, and choose not to upgrade it, it will be “marked as read” and will no longer increase the red-dot notification count. Note: This went live in our last patch, but we forgot to put it in the patch notes.

BALANCE UPDATES

CARD UPDATES

• Cable
• [Old] 2/2 – On Reveal: Put the bottom card of your opponent’s deck into your hand.
• [New] 2/2 – On Reveal: Draw the top card of your opponent’s deck.

Developer Note: The change to America Chavez starting on the bottom of the deck was predictably damaging to Cable, as drawing your opponent’s Chavez was usually good for them, not you. We didn’t value that too highly because Cable’s play rate was already low, but that was a mistake on our part. Conquest has shown that players really enjoy playing with cards that can give them an information advantage against their opponents. This is a simple enough change, just going to the other end of the deck, but we’ve also gone ahead and updated the template to reflect the action Cable is actually taking, which is drawing a card.

• Magik
• [Old] 3/2 – You can’t play this on turn 6. On Reveal: Change this location to ‘Limbo’.
• [New] 3/2 – On Reveal: Replace this location with ‘Limbo’. Doesn’t work after turn 5.

Developer Note: Our OTA on 7/20 mentioned this was coming, and here it is! This isn’t a large change to Magik, mostly just making her a legal card to play on turn 6. However, it’s worth noting that the VFX behavior has changed a little bit. She used to light up with fire on the last turn you could play her, but now that corona will indicate whether or not you’ll be able to create Limbo based on the turn count.

• Mister Negative
• [Old] 4/-1 – On Reveal: Swap the Power and Cost of all cards in your deck.
• [New] Gameplay Change: Caps Costs at a maximum of 6. (no text change)

Developer Note: This is a minor change to improve players’ quality of life by adding consistency to in-game interactions. The Peak location has this cap, which it needs because otherwise many cards would become literally impossible to play when the location appears. Mister Negative doesn’t expressly need it, because his decks are built to minimize Power in-deck. However, it’s intuitive for that location and this card to function the same, so we’re lining them up. Plus, it makes Jane Foster shells a little less risky.

• Rogue
• [Old] 3/2 – On Reveal: Steal an Ongoing ability from a random enemy card at this location.
• [New] Gameplay Change: Now triggers On Reveals if the copied Ongoing card had one. (no text change)

Developer Note: As mentioned when we changed Mystique in the previous patch, Rogue is receiving an update to bring players’ expectation around copying card text via On Reveal in line with the outcome. Moving forward, we expect cards that copy text when they Reveal to consistently trigger the On Reveals of cards they copy.

• Spider-Man
• [Old] 5/4 – On Reveal: Your opponent can’t play cards at this location next turn.
• [New] 3/5 – On Reveal: Move to another location and pull an enemy card from here to there.

Developer Note: All right, this is a big one. Let’s start on the mechanical angle: the previous Spider-Man incarnation was a polarizing card. It prevented your opponent from playing cards at a location, a frustrating experience. It was most popular following Wave into Galactus or in “lockdown” decks, which are both decks that use combinations of cards to reduce the total play space of the game for your opponent. We want some of that–the game needs a variety of strategies. But we don’t want those decks or even one of those cards to be the best in the game. Our best cards should be cool and awesome.

But you know who’s cool and awesome? Spider-Man!

There’s an irreconcilable dissonance in having one of the most popular characters in the Marvel canon attached to an effect we don’t want to be popular. Discovering Spider-Man in our game should be a great experience. Since launch, we’ve also added more Spider-Verse to the game and seen players enjoy the theme of movement for those cards. So we’re making a change and bringing Peter in line with the rest with a new ability. Will we return the old ability to the game on a new card? Maybe, but for now let’s go with no–it’s not been adding much fun.

We don’t take this kind of rework to a card lightly, so we’re happy to hear your feedback through all the usual channels. We don’t intend to start suddenly remaking tons of cards, but understanding your feelings may help us better understand the appropriate thresholds for this action in the future.

• “Evolved” The Thing
• [Old] 4/6 – On Reveal: Afflict a random enemy card here with -1 Power. Repeat this twice more
• [New] 4/6 – On Reveal: Afflict 3 random enemy cards here with -1 Power.

Developer Note: High Evolutionary has mostly landed in a healthy spot since we made the tweaks to Hulk and Wasp during the last patch, but this is one more small twist of the dial. Cyclops has been really strong still, but we like keeping him strong in High Evolutionary shells based on ensuring a character with his popularity has a solid and satisfying home. The Thing has actually outperformed Scott a bit lately, and this change also makes the afflict curve from Wasp into Cyclops into Thing more elegant, distributing -1 Power to one more card at each stop. It’s a slight buff to Abomination, but a slight nerf to The Thing’s strength as a single card attacking a location.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug that would cause Mirror Dimension to repeatedly morph into another Mirror Dimension in a loop.
• Fixed a bug that would cause players to get stuck on an old Season Pass season.
• Performance improvements and UI/UX bug fixes.

KNOWN ISSUE LIST

• For Windows: Controller and Arrow Keys are unsupported. This may impact Steam Deck usability as it will only be usable with touch controls.
• Using Multi-Upgrade only counts as 1 Upgrade for the “Upgrade a Card” Mission.

PATCH HIGHLIGHT

• New Feature: Spotlight Cache
• Spotlight Cache is a brand new way to acquire newly released cards, Series 4 cards, and Series 5 cards. Spotlight Cache system will appear after you’ve passed Collection Level (CL) 500. A Spotlight Cache will replace Collector’s Caches and Collector’s Reserves every 120CL. This means that one in every 10 Collector’s Reserves are becoming Spotlight Caches. Read more in the Spotlight Cache blog.

GENERAL UPDATES

• Premium Mystery Variants: A new Mystery Variant type that only offers Rare or Super Rare Variants, and cannot contain Pixel Variants. Now available in the Daily Offer section in the Shop for 800 Gold.
• Daily Offer Rewards: When you make 10 purchases in the Daily Offer Shop, you’re now rewarded with a bonus 2000 Collector's Tokens and one Premium Mystery Variant. (Claimable once per week).

AUDIO & ART

New visual and sound effects for the following cards:

• Shuri
• Infinaut
• Sabretooth
• Agent 13

BALANCE UPDATES

Other than High Evolutionary over-performing and being a bit too popular for its own good, we don't have a lot of pressing issues to address in the metagame at this time. Many of these changes are to improve clarity and expectations surrounding cards that can have unusual interactions.

CARD UPDATES

High Evolutionary

For the last month, High Evolutionary has proven itself strong enough to support three distinct decks within the metagame. Some are better than others, and none of the three are explicitly problematic in Ranked play on any of our metrics, but we think there's still room to improve diversity at the top of the metagame. Even if each High Evolutionary deck is different, it can feel monotonous to get paired against them in succession. To that end, we're shaving some Power off the two most-played cards in the kit.

• "Evolved" Wasp
• [Old] 0/1 - On Reveal: Afflict 2 random enemy cards here with -1 Power.
• [New] 0/1 - On Reveal: Afflict a random enemy card here with -1 Power.

Developer Note: Pretty simple–Wasp is too good. Wasp is specifically fantastic in conjunction with Lockjaw and Jane Foster, playing a more like a +4 bonus on two Lockjaw rolls than just an 0/3. However, she's also winning more cubes overall than any other High Evolutionary card, so we're weakening her to meaningfully impact all of these decks.

• "Evolved" Hulk
• [Old] 6/12 - Ongoing: +2 Power for each turn you ended with unspent Energy.
• [New] 6/12 - When you end a turn with unspent Energy, +2 Power. (if in hand or in play)

Developer Note: Similarly, Hulk appears in every High Evolutionary shell we've been monitoring, and Hulk strongest there is–even given the unfortunate bug that doesn't count the last turn of the game, should you happen to have an Energy to spare. This adjustment will remove that issue and also reduce the average Power of Hulk, especially in Lockjaw shells where players could often accumulate Energy without ever drawing Hulk at all.

We recognize these adjustments may not be as harsh as some players expected, and we'll continue keeping a close eye on High Evolutionary in the weeks to come.

Gambit

• [Old] 3/1 - On Reveal: Discard a card from your hand. Destroy a random enemy card.
• [New] 3/3 - On Reveal: Discard a card from your hand. Destroy a random enemy card.
• Now must discard a card to destroy anything (no text change)

Developer Note: For some time now, players have noted a confusing dissonance between Gambit's effect destroying cards whether you discard a card or not, while Arnim Zola must destroy his target in order to create copies of it. In addition to being inconsistent, Gambit's creative concept is "throwing" cards at your enemies–if you have no cards to throw, why would it work? Since this is a nerf, and Gambit's not a highly-played card, we're compensating him for that loss with +2 Power. The Wong combo decks will suffer a bit, and perhaps need to start including something like Apocalypse or Swarm if they want to blow up the board. However, using Gambit in more traditional decks might be an interesting option.

Mystique

• [New] Gameplay Change: Now triggers On Reveals if the copied Ongoing card had one (no text change).

Developer Note: Similarly, this is a change to better line up players' intuitions with outcomes. Whenever a card in our game copies an ability, it implicitly copies the whole text box. When Absorbing Man copies a card with an On Reveal and an Ongoing ability, like Soul Stone or Electro, he gets both, immediately. But when Mystique does, she gets the On Reveal ability without triggering it–even though she was just played, like Absorbing Man. This doesn't come up often, but we consider it a quality of life improvement. We'll also make this adjustment to Rogue, just trying it here first.

Nakia

• [Old] 3/2 - On Reveal: Give the 2 leftmost cards in your hand +2 Power.
• [New] 3/3 - On Reveal: Give all cards in your hand +1 Power.

Developer Note: Nakia has been underperforming for a while now, a far cry from her days of dominance during the game's beta period. In addition, her affect was a little complex, especially for a card debuting in Series 2. We're trying to address both of those issues with this change, making Nakia a stronger, simpler card to play with. Maybe she finds a new home in the competitive metagame, maybe not–time will tell.

• Text-Only Updates

The below adjustments are just to improve how a few cards are worded, to better align with our learnings around what makes SNAP cards clear, consistent, and easy to read. We'll continue making updates in this vein over time.

Black Bolt

• [Old] On Reveal: Your opponent must discard the lowest-Cost card in their hand.
• [New] On Reveal: Discard the lowest-cost card from your opponent's hand.

Developer Note: There is an unresolved inconsistency present in this text regarding the capitalization of the word "Cost." We're continuing to look into that for other cards.

Black Cat

• [Old] If this is in your hand at the end of your turn, discard it.
• [New] If you end the turn with this in your hand, discard it.

Bucky Barnes

• [Old] When this is destroyed, create the Winter Soldier in its place.
• [New] When this is destroyed, replace it with the Winter Soldier.

Cerebro

• [Old] Ongoing: Your highest Power cards get +2 Power.
• [New] Ongoing: Your highest-Power cards have +2 Power.

Developer Note: This is standard language for passive Power increases.

Doctor Strange

• [Old] On Reveal: Move your highest Power cards to this location.
• [New] On Reveal: Move your highest-Power card(s) to this location.

Kraven

• [Old] When a card moves here, this gets +2 Power.
• [New] When a card moves here, this gains +2 Power.

Developer Note: This is standard language for triggered Power increases.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that was causing matchmaking queue times for the last rounds of Conquests to be excessive.
• Fixed a number of Conquest UI/UX issues and performance.
• Fixed an issue that allowed the Weekly Spotlight card to be purchased more than once.
• Fixed an issue with Mystery Series 3 Card purchases if you have collected all Series 3 cards.
• Fixed an issue that would see some cards target a specific card in hand/deck rather than at random.
• Fixed an issue that could cause a crash when Kang interacted with the Atlantis location.
• Removed a very unexpected third hand from one of Spider-Man's variants.
• Fixed an issue that prevented new users from getting 3 bonus ranks upon hitting level 10 for the first time.
• Fixed an issue where Living Tribunal would mishandle the max power cap and show locations with negative power causing the player to lose.
• Fixed an issue that was causing Living Tribunal to take effect before the card was revealed.
• Fixed an issue that was causing Black Bolt to always discard the leftmost card in the event that several cards of the same cost were targets.
• When an opponent's Maria Hill draws a card it now correctly has a card back.
• Updated Nebula's VFX to trigger before cards are revealed rather than after.
• Fixed an issue with Lockjaw overlapping with Ongoing cards.

PATCH HIGHLIGHT

New Game Mode: Conquest

• With this patch, we are excited to release a new game mode: Conquest. Found in the “Game Modes” section of the bottom Bar, players can enter Conquests of varying difficulty, earn Medals by playing games, and get exclusive rewards in the Shop.
• Conquest is unlocked after completing the Recruit Season Pass.
• Check out the Conquest blog post for more information!

GENERAL UPDATES

New to the Token Shop – Mystery Series 3!

• Open Mystery Series 3 cards for 1,000 Tokens to gain an unowned Series 3 card for your collection

Weekend Missions

- Weekend Missions offer more goals and rewards for players, beyond their current Daily Missions and Weekly Missions. With the initial release of this feature, each weekend will have three Weekend Missions:

• Win Games to Earn Credits
• Win Games with Season Pass Card to Earn Gold
• Win Games with Newly Released Card to Earn Tokens

- Each of these reward amounts will vary depending on the difficulty of the mission. There will be Weekly Missions available for each new card release. Weekly Missions for a Newly Released Card are a great way to earn back Tokens with your new cards – essentially reducing the overall Token cost!

Series Drop Updates: Some cards have dropped to a lower series.

- Cards dropping from Series 5 to Series 4:

• Snowguard
• Stegron

- Cards dropping from Series 4 to Series 3:

• Shanna

BALANCE UPDATES

We’ve got one major change this week, and two smaller adjustments we anticipate will make some of our lesser-played cards a lot more fun. We know this patch is coming a couple weeks after High Evolutionary’s release, but bear in mind we implemented these changes well in advance of his release, so we’ll be using OTAs and our next patch to address changes that may be related to that card’s impact on the metagame.

CARD UPDATES

- Galactus:

• [Old] 6/2 – On Reveal: If this is your only card here, destroy all other locations.
• [New] 6/7 – On Reveal: If you’re winning this location and this is your only card here, destroy all other locations.

Galactus is a card we’ve kept a close eye on since release. His ability warps the game, changing the goal for both players from claiming two locations to waging war around cards that “counter” him/his finishers and priority. We don’t mind mixing things up a bit from time to time in that regard, but Galactus’s play rate was moving past the thresholds we set to determine both competitive diversity and also how frequently the game gets reduced to that state. Because Galactus is inherently counterable, we waited to see if the metagame could sort itself out, but it hasn’t. Galactus’s popularity has increased, his winrate has only grown, and many players don’t even enjoy beating him–these are problems worth solving.

The original design for Galactus is difficult to rebalance, because it has essentially one value we can adjust: Power. However, lower Power can mean that Galactus always loses priority, making post-Galactus counters like Shang-Chi or Enchantress difficult to play. Meanwhile, increases may let you beat these cards more naturally, especially Professor X. Either way, it’s still all about the counters. We considered making him the first true 7-Cost card, but that was just less fun and weaker with the same issues. We also considered full redesigns for Galactus but didn’t find anything that cleared our bar, which is very high.

Ultimately, we decided to make Power a functional way for us to tune Galactus, which led us to this additional “winning” restriction. Caring about winning this way lets players contest Galactus within the core fun of SNAP–using Power to challenge for locations. Relying exclusively on counters is frustrating because neither player has much control over their appearance, but every deck should have the ability to muster 7 Power. We expect he’ll be stronger in decks that play him on turn 6 after Hobgoblin or Nimrod, but worse in the stronger, more popular Galactus archetypes. If this change proves too much or too little, it’s also given us the ability to tune him further via OTA and find the healthiest spot.

- Maria Hill:

• [Old] 2/3 – On Reveal: Add a random 1-Cost card to your hand.
• [New] 2/3 – On Reveal: Add a random 1 or 2-Cost card to your hand.

We’re giving Maria Hill the ability to roll a 2-Cost card primarily to make her a better thematic parallel to Agent Coulson. We expect this to be a slight buff as you’ll occasionally get a better card from her, and half the time your Quinjet will provide a discount in those scenarios too. Not a huge mover, but a more enjoyable card.

- Dazzler:

• [Old] 4/4 – Ongoing: If you have 4 cards at each location, +6 Power.
• [New] 3/2 – Ongoing: +2 Power for each location that’s full on your side.

Dazzler’s old ability didn’t give enough of a boost to reflect the level of investment that filling your board demands, and never really found a home competing against many of our strongest 4-Cost cards. We decided to give her more incremental boosts as you fill locations, which also lets her benefit from Space Throne, and shifted her rate to 3-Cost. In addition to changing up the competition, she may have a home alongside Brood with Silver Surfer, in Patriot with Ultron, or other shells.

BUG FIXES

• Fixed an issue that caused the Choose Your Card section to appear to be claimable after it’s already been claimed.
• Fixed an issue with Moon Girl and Miles Morales that caused incorrect costs being displayed.
• Fixed an issue with Jessica Jones’ VFX that caused it to appear in the wrong location.
• Added Snowguard’s artist information to each card version.
• Adjusted how Klyntar’s symbiote handles ongoing cards with modified power to be more intuitive and retain the adjusted values
• Sliding off a purchase button without releasing should now cancel the purchase confirmation
• Iron Lad boosters should no longer be missing their art asset.
• Fixed an issue where Crystal’s ink mod could display incorrectly in some views.
• Fixed an issue that would occasionally softlock players when swapping avatars.
• Fixed an issue where your selected deck would unexpectedly change away from your last selected one.
• Variant rarity labels should now be properly localized.
• Players are no longer prompted to swap in variants if all of their decks with that card already use that variant.
• Fixed an issue that occasionally prevented SFX from playing when claiming a new card.
• Upgrade particles should no longer remain visible when you’ve filtered those cards out of the collection view.
• Fixed issues with some text and assets appearing incorrectly.

KNOWN ISSUES LIST

• The Mystery Series 3 section in the Token Shop can continue to appear purchasable after you’ve become Series 3 complete and will display an error if you try to purchase.
• The Mystery Series 3 option in the Token Shop may not initially be available when upgrading to the newest patch until after the next 8 hour shop refresh.
• The Pinned Card button in the Token Shop has a visual-only bug that persists after you’ve claimed that card but does not function.
• In rare circumstances the Weekly Spotlight card can be purchased more than once.
• The Pinned Card UI can sometimes disappear when scrolling through the Token Shop.
• Intro animations can overlap between Thanos and High Evolutionary.
• Hulks generated by Gamma Lab show VFX for High Evolutionary but do not receive the updated ability.
• VFX associated with High Evolutionary’s evolved cards can occasionally persist after the card or location has been destroyed.
• Evolved Shocker’s VFX initially has incorrect targeting.
• High Evolutionary’s VFX will persist after Attilan activates.
• Friendly battle’s victory/defeat screen is missing it’s banners
• Missions may not visually update properly when on the missions screen as the timer rolls over
• The name of your chosen deck is no longer displaying during the matchmaking screen
• Can navigate between menus when the settings window is open
• Hard restarting your app in the middle of a Fast Upgrade can cause an error to occur after you’ve restarted necessitating another restart to fix it.
• SFX do not play when retreating on Turn 1.
• It can be difficult to interact with the emotes in-match on some devices.
• If you have the Series 3 card focused when the shop rolls, the screen will be blank for a moment.
• Banner VFX displays the wrong turn timer when Kang rewinds time.
• It can be hard to add or delete letters in the deck name on Android.
• Reconnecting text doesn’t show all the time when Reconnecting to a Friendly battle.
• Sandman and Electro may not visually show the power on a location if the location is locked down.
• After the shop rolls over, some assets might be missing (should be resolved after playing a match).
• Spamming the Pin button on items in the Token Shop may cause an Aw Snap error.
• Mission reward icons may be missing.
• Ongoing abilities delay the merge VFX for Klyntar.
• Mysterio’s token doesn’t update appropriately in all views when a using a variant.
• Cards that changed abilities such as Mystique may not show the updated ability text if returned to hand.
• Spectrum’s VFX for indicating which cards will be impacted by her ability aren’t always displaying
• When played on Sinister London, Omega Red’s copy plays its VFX multiple times.
• Cards in the Fast Upgrade section occasionally show the incorrect art.
• Quantum Realm doesn’t reduce the power of cards that have their cost and power swapped.
• Some item names in bundles have too-small fonts or can be cut off in some languages.
• Series 3 Token shop may show duplicate items before it’s rolled through each card..
• New Release cards don’t show your available tokens in the Shop UI.
• Token Shop doesn’t always snap to the currently-focused card.
• Time Stone doesn’t visually grant energy on the orb.
• Can edit a deck’s name from the wrong UI if simultaneously pressing both Set Card Back and Edit Deck Name
• Some elements of the splash screen may be visible across adjacent screens
• The “Next” button in Friendly Battle may be missing its asset on some iOS devices
• The carousel UI may not fully extend vertically to the top of the screen for some devices
• Kang’s Rewind button no longer completely covers the End Turn button visually
• If the Nexus’ power level hits the power cap, upon sharing to other locations with 1 or more power it can overflow and wrap around to a negative value
• If you own all Series 4 and 5 cards as well as all Ultimate variants then the token shop will become inaccessible for Series 3 cards as well
• Notification pips can sometimes be visible beneath the card detail view
• Logging out and attempting to sign in via a different method can result in a hang on the Assembling splash
• When Scarlet Witch or Reality Stone changes a location to Project Pegasus or Tinkerer’s Workshop, this location can trigger two turns.
• The red pip for daily credits isn’t always visible
• Corners of cards can appear cut off when tilted during the card detail view
• Colleen Wing’s VFX play more than once when discarding a card
• A long delay can occur an indestructible card such as colossus is played on Murderworld
• Gold and Season XP assets are missing in the expanded mission details view
• Snowguard’s VFX can persist to the reward collection screen
• Infinity Stone card descriptions overlap the art assets in Korean
• The Spanish language option displays incorrectly in language selection
• Collection Level Trophy Road assets are occasionally slow to load
• The position of the Series Label and Nameplate adjusts slightly when viewing Artist Details
• Player and Opponent text emotes occasionally overlap on some devices
• Upgrade button not greyed out when the player doesn’t have enough credits
• [PC] Navigation buttons may disappear if redirected to the browser via carousel links
• [PC] The Carousel can be hard to scroll.
• [PC] Switching languages after switching between Windowed and Windowed Fullscreen can cause text elements to disappear in the UI.
• [PC] Certain SFX continue to play when the game is no longer in focus.
• [Conquest][PC] The continue/next buttons after conceding are partially obscured
• [Conquest][PC] The matchmaking screen will frequently flicker
• [Conquest] In rare circumstances, the server may not update conquest progress immediately and an error will display which requires a restart to resolve.
• [Conquest] Repeatedly tapping on screen as you exit Conquest may cause the UI to break and require a restart to fix
• [Conquest] If viewing reward items as the conquest timer rolls over the medal conversion screen won’t display
• [Conquest] Occasionally the exclusive card progress bar doesn’t update until you’ve switched screens
• [Conquest] Some oddities can be seen with asset layering
• [Conquest] The infinity tower’s VFX glow can persist to other screens
• [Conquest] The conquest reward assets may not display correctly in all languages
• [Conquest] Scrolling between conquest towers in some languages may cause a hitch to occur
• [Conquest] Sometimes when entering the conquest menu the UI isn’t centered
• [Conquest] “NEW” isn’t properly localized for non-English
• [Conquest] In some languages the titles of items in the Medal Shop can overlap their assets

The next patch for Marvel Snap is likely dropping next week, sometime around 13 June.

As well as making plenty more changes, we suspect a large portion of the update and patch notes could focus on the new Conquest mode, which for now you can learn more about on the below video.

PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

Kitty Pryde Returns

• Kitty Pryde returns to MARVEL SNAP with a brand new ability. We will grant Kitty Pryde base card to ALL players. For new accounts created after today’s patch, Kitty Pryde will be available in Series 5.

New Feature: Deck Cosmetics Customization

• Cosmetic customizations by deck (card back, title, avatar): Avatars and Titles can now be applied to each deck separately!
• Please Note: The first time you login this patch, your active deck will be changed to the first deck in your list. We apologize for this inconvenience!

Seasonal Series Drop: Some cards have dropped down to a lower series!

Cards dropping from Series 5 to Series 4:

• Master Mold
• Negasonic
• Nimrod

Series 4 to 3:

• Sentry
• Silver Surfer
• Dazzler
• Shadow King
• Sauron
• Ghost

Cards staying in Series 4:

• Darkhawk
• Knull

GENERAL UPDATES

Ranked Mode

• The number of Cubes required to Rank Up have decreased from 10 Cubes to 7 Cubes.
• The number of Bonus Ranks gained when Tiering up has been reduced from 5 Ranks to 3 Ranks. (Example: When ranking up from rank 29, a player will go to Rank 33 instead of Rank 35.)

Developer Note: We’re continuing to make adjustments to Ranked Mode that will improve the overall experience for players. The changes coming with this patch feature some adjustments to the matchmaking algorithm and updates to the number of Cubes/Ranks while progressing through the season. There are more changes planned for future patches!

When purchasing an item from the shop, you must now Press and Hold the button to confirm your purchase. This should help reduce/remove any accidental purchases!

Added Series 1 and Series 2 labels to cards from those series

AUDIO

Voice Over Updates

• Indonesian VO mixed & mastered
• Thanos VO added for Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese & Korean

General Updates

• Fixed bug which would over trigger card flare SFX in collection screen and in-game

BALANCE UPDATES

This is a light week relative to the excitement of recent patches. The metagame as April ended featured a diverse metagame with healthy win rates and cube gain rates, and only a couple small popularity outliers. We’ll have more news for you soon on the future of our OTA balance patches, but today is mostly just a couple card reworks.

CARD UPDATES

Kitty Pryde – Released with new design!

• [Old] 1/0 – You can return this to your hand to gain +2 Power.
• [New] 1/0 – When this returns to your hand, +2 Power. Returns at the start of each turn.

As we previously announced, Kitty Pryde will be returning to the game this week with her new ability. She’ll be Series 5 and awarded to all active accounts today.

Crystal

• [Old] 4/4 – On Reveal: If this is at the middle location, shuffle your hand into your deck and draw 3 cards.
• [New] 4/4 – On Reveal: Each player draws a card.

Crystal has been one of a handful of cards seeing incredibly low play and win rates for quite some time now, and an obvious buff candidate. We debated maintaining the direction of the current effect by removing the middle restriction, increasing the cards drawn, etc. But the tricky thing is that we don’t want an effect like Crystal’s to be strong. SNAP decks are only 12 cards and we don’t want those cards to play out the same every time, so we’re very careful about letting players draw cards. This rework aimed to make a simple, appropriate Crystal that could be fun alongside a variety of cards.

Wave

• [Old] 3/3 – On Reveal: Next turn, cards in both players’ hands cost 4.
• [New] 3/3 – On Reveal: All cards cost 4 until the end of next turn.

Wave’s cost reduction occurs after other effects that reduce card costs. In addition to a text update that clarifies when Wave’s effect begins, we’ve also made a rather large adjustment “under the hood.” Wave will now begin to apply after effects that reduce card costs, rather than before. That means She-Hulk, Death, etc. will always cost 4 while Wave is in effect. We don’t take lightly that this change kills a few decks, but Wave has been far too constraining on our ability to use cost reduction as a synergy reward in future designs. Leaning on Wave is just always better than dedicating your deck to the actual synergy–we’ve seen that with Death since both cards went live, and we’ll continue seeing it without this action.

Death

• [Old] 9/12 – Costs 1 less for each card destroyed this game.
• [New] 8/12 – Costs 1 less for each card destroyed this game.

As Death’s current performance is essentially dependent on Wave and Galactus, we wanted to improve her playability in other decks now that the interaction with Wave has changed. This may not be enough, and if we see Death take a huge dive we’ll come back and look at how these values can be adjusted further to ensure Death remains a meaningful card for dedicated Destroy decks.

White Queen (Text-only change)

• [Old text] 4/6 – On Reveal: Draw a copy of the highest-Cost card in your opponent’s hand.
• [New text] 4/6 – On Reveal: Copy the highest-Cost card in your opponent’s hand into your hand.

This is just a text revision to resolve some ongoing confusion about what White Queen exactly does and how it interacts with cards like Widow’s Bite. In the future, we may pursue establishing some kind of shorthand for copying a card into your hand, but for now we’re just going with the clearest expression of the card’s function.

BUG FIXES

• Retreating while Kang is rewinding should no longer cause an Aw Snap error.
• Quake’s shuffling of locations should no longer prevent Shuri’s buff from being applied.
• “Rare” and “Super Rare” labels on cards should now be properly translated.
• Energy UI assets should no longer overlap when gaining extra energy.
• Speech bubble UI should no longer be hidden by cards in hand.
• Sandman and Electro should no longer show their VFX if they’ve been morphed into another card.
• Playing Hulk Buster on Iron Fist should now correctly show the merged card move.
• The “Set as Favorite” text should no longer overlap with the star UI icon in most languages.
• Snowguard (Hawk) should no longer cause an Aw Snap to occur when played on Knowhere with other On Reveal cards.
• Knowhere’s VFX for On Reveal cards should no longer display when the location is disabled by Snowguard (Hawk).
• Unseen cards with reference cards (such as Snowguard) should now show their reference cards when viewed for the first time in the Token Shop.
• Many localization adjustments to the size of text in Thai.
• She-Hulk adjusted so her fist no longer obscures her power.
• Spaces should be better handled by card search in the collection.
• Cards that have had their power altered by other cards should show the proper adjustments in the card detail view.
• The Season pass should now include the Mystery Variant reward on the Free Track.
• The Weekly Spotlight should now update appropriately when new cards are released and previous cards move into the S4/S5 slot.
• Player’s Token balance should be visible while viewing a card in the Token Shop.
• Jeff should be able to move where he pleases after being returned to hand by Beast
• [PC] Playing Sentry should no longer cause an Aw Snap error.

KNOWN ISSUES LIST

• It can be difficult to interact with the emotes in-match on some devices.
• The Season Pass spotlight card text is too large in some languages.
• Set as Favorite icon overlaps with the text icon in some languages.
• If you have the Series 3 card focused when the shop rolls, the screen will be blank for a moment.
• Banner VFX displays the wrong turn timer when Kang rewinds time.
• It can be hard to add or delete letters in the deck name on Android.
• Reconnecting text doesn’t show all the time when Reconnecting to a Friendly battle.
• Two players snapping on the same turn can cause the displayed energy pips to be incorrect.
• Sandman and Electro may not visually show the power on a location if the location is locked down.
• After the shop rolls over, some assets might be missing (should be resolved after playing a match).
• The new player flow can be bypassed in some situations and cause the client to break until restarting.
• Spamming the Pin button on items in the Token Shop may cause an Aw Snap error.
• Scrolling through the Shop can conflict with the newly added horizontal scrolling of the Token Shop.
• Claimed Series 3 Cards in the Token Shop can appear to remain claimable until you’ve exited and returned to the shop.
• Mission reward icons may be missing.
• Ongoing abilities delay the merge VFX for Klyntar.
• Mysterio’s token doesn’t update appropriately in all views when using a variant.
• Cards that changed abilities such as Mystique may not show the updated ability text if returned to hand.
• Spectrum’s VFX for indicating which cards will be impacted by her ability aren’t always displayed.
• When played on Sinister London, Omega Red’s copy plays its VFX multiple times.
• Cards in the Fast Upgrade section occasionally show the incorrect art.
• Quantum Realm doesn’t reduce the power of cards that have their cost and power swapped.
• Some item names in bundles have too-small fonts or can be cut off in some languages.
• Series 3 Token shop may show duplicate items before it’s rolled through each card..
• New Release cards don’t show your available tokens in the Shop UI.
• Token Shop doesn’t snap to the currently-focused card.
• Several currency/cache icons do not display in front of the UI/background when focused.
• Some variants have artist/variant name text that clips out of the nameplate.
• There can be a visual blip in the shop page.
• Time Stone doesn’t visually grant energy on the orb.
• Snowguard’s Artist Info is missing for its token cards.
• Can edit a deck’s name from the wrong UI if simultaneously pressing both Set Card Back and Edit Deck Name
• Carousel images are occasionally not sized appropriately to the screen’s resolution
• Some elements of the splash screen may be visible across adjacent screens
• The “Next” button in Friendly Battle may be missing its asset on some iOS devices
• Entering long character Deck names can cause some UI elements to be misaligned and overlap
• The carousel UI may not fully extend vertically to the top of the screen for some devices
• The Deck icon shifts when transitioning between the Collection and the Card Selection screens
• Kang’s Rewind button no longer completely covers the End Turn button visually
• If the Nexus’ power level hits the power cap, upon sharing to other locations with 1 or more power it can overflow and wrap around to a negative value
• If you own all Series 4 and 5 cards as well as all Ultimate variants then the token shop will become inaccessible for Series 3 cards as well
• Notification pips can sometimes be visible beneath the card detail view
• Sometimes bundle assets can overlap each other
• Logging out and attempting to sign in via a different method can result in a hang on the Assembling splash
• When Scarlet Witch or Reality Stone changes a location to Project Pegasus or Tinkerer’s Workshop, this location can trigger two turns.
• The red pip for daily credits isn’t always visible
• Corners of cards can appear cut off when tilted during the card detail view
• Colleen Wing’s VFX play more than once when discarding a card
• A long delay can occur an indestructible card such as colossus is played on Murderworld
• Gold and Season XP assets are missing in the expanded mission details view
• Snowguard’s VFX can persist to the reward collection screen
• Infinity Stone card descriptions overlap the art assets in Korean
• The Spanish language option displays incorrectly in language selection
• Collection Level Trophy Road assets are occasionally slow to load
• The position of the Series Label and Nameplate adjusts slightly when viewing Artist Details
• Player and Opponent text emotes occasionally overlap on some devices
• Upgrade button not greyed out when the player doesn’t have enough credits
• The Free Series 3 Card in the token shop appears to be claimable again for a short time after claiming it
• [PC] Avatar selection for PC users may be misaligned
• [PC] Navigation buttons may disappear if redirected to the browser via carousel links
• [PC] The Carousel can be hard to scroll.
• [PC] Switching languages after switching between Windowed and Windowed Fullscreen can cause text elements to disappear in the UI.
• [PC] Certain SFX continue to play when the game is no longer in focus.

PATCH HIGHLIGHTS

- Token Shop Updates

• Weekly Spotlight: When a new Series 5 card is released, it will be immediately featured in its own section for its first week in MARVEL SNAP. Once you buy the Weekly Spotlight card, this section will be hidden until the next new card is released. If you want the newest cards at release, here’s what you’ve been waiting for!

• Ultimate Variants are some of the most epic variants in the game. We felt they deserved their own section too! We’re moving Ultimate Variants out of the way of seeing Series 4 and 5 cards and into their own rotation for those of you who want to make your decks that much cooler.

• Series 4 & Series 5: This section functions nearly the same as previously, but only features Series 4 and Series 5 cards. This section will feature a card you don’t own from all currently available Series 4/5 cards and rotates every 8 hours. Series 5 cards will be added to this section once they leave the Weekly Spotlight.

- Game Board Update

• We made some updates to our game board! Check out the new art and FX!

- Seasonal Series Drop: Some cards have dropped down to a lower series!

• Cards dropping from Series 5 to Series 4:

- Ghost

- Stature

- M.O.D.O.K.

• Series 4 to 3:

- Shuri

- Bast

- Valkyrie

- Super Skrull

- Black Panther

GENERAL UPDATES

• Players that reach Infinite Rank will only match against other Infinite Rank players.

• When you tap on a card for more details in the Shop or Collection, the Card Detail screen now features Artist Credits, Card Series Label (ex: Series 3, Series 4, or Series 5), and Variant Rarity Label (ex: Rare, Super Rare or Ultimate).

• When inspecting cards in-game, you can now “flip” them to see the Card Back in full detail. We’ve also updated other areas of viewing Card Backs to show their 3D details.

• After roughly 10 hours of gameplay in a day, players will stop earning Season Pass XP from gameplay for the remainder of the day.

• Collection Level Track has been extended.

AUDIO

• New card sounds for Squirrel Girl (Drag)

• New Location Sounds for Camp Lehigh

• Added VO support for Thai and Indonesian

BALANCE UPDATES

In the wake of our last balance change, we saw the metagame settle into a much healthier shape than it had been before. However, we were too shallow with our adjustments to the Shuri-Taskmaster decks, and Lockjaw-Leech shells (both with and without Thanos) have remained solid contenders. Today’s changes aim to push both of those decks off their clear top spots. Outside of Shuri-Taskmaster, the metagame is looking healthy on our internal metrics.

CARD UPDATES

- Shuri:

• [Previous] 4/2 – On Reveal: Double the Power of the next card you play.

• [Update] 4/2 – On Reveal: If you play your next card here, double its Power.

Developer Comments: We considered a number of changes to Shuri, but they all tended to ruin her current decks. Some even theoretically risked making a new monster with different parts–that’s not a great risk to run when balancing a problematically strong card. The change we’re making today may seem small and subtle, but we expect it to be impactful and retain the same flow of play for her existing decks, which is a consistent goal in our balance philosophy. This nerf removes Cosmo’s protective capacity for her target, makes single-card answers like Valkyrie easier to aim, and indirectly buffs lane control elements like Professor X. We’re taking a risk here in that this nerf could leave Shuri still a strength outlier–if so, we’ll react quickly.

- Leech:

• [Previous] 5/3 – On Reveal: Remove the abilities from all cards in your opponent’s hand.

• [Update] 5/3 – At the start of turn 6, remove all abilities from cards in your opponent’s hand.

Developer Comments: It’s never been our goal for Leech to be a heavily-played card, and we understand that’s been a frustration lately. When it’s happening, it usually means a finisher is generically strong against pure Power (like Leech-Leader) and/or a deck can play Leech earlier than turn 5 too often (like Lockjaw-Thanos). We’ve tried in the past to weaken the stronger cards in those decks, but it’s been a balance and design obstacle. Thus, we’ve decided to remove the “early Leech” from the equation. Leech is designed to counter some powerful endgame cards and combinations from a unique angle without any setup, which is important to have around in the event those decks begin to overperform. This change should let him fulfill that role when necessary without ever making him a foundational piece of the metagame.

- Lockjaw:

• [Previous] 3/2 – After you play a card here, swap it with a card in your deck.

• [Update] 3/2 – After you play a card here, swap it with a card in your deck. (once per turn)

Developer Comments: Lockjaw’s a fun and exciting card, but each trigger of this good boy basically draws a card and “generates” up to 6 Energy at random. That’s a lot of variance to have in multiple competitive decks! As we add cards, new and improved ways to sidestep Lockjaw’s risks will also become available. Since we believe the most powerful and frustrating use of Lockjaw is triggering him multiple times in a turn, often with a snap along the way, we’re changing that. Limiting Lockjaw to one swap each turn forces the player to develop their board without letting them sprint ahead or spring a late surprise. This will make Lockjaw simpler to play against and less potent in decks incidentally playing lots of cheap cards, like Thanos.

- America Chavez:

• [Previous] 6/9 – You always draw this card on turn 6, and not before

• [Update] 6/9 – Starts on the bottom of your deck. Draw this on turn 6.

Developer Comments: Previously, if you were about to draw America Chavez, you would just draw your next card instead. This means that over the course of the game, she’s a lot more likely to be the top card of your deck. Thus far this has been largely unimportant outside of Yondu, but it does restrict our ability to print cards that interact with the top of your deck. We expect this update to have little impact on America Chavez’s functionality overall.

- Jubilee:

• [Previous] 4/1 – On Reveal: Add a card from your deck to this location.

• [Update] 4/1 – On Reveal: Add the top card of your deck to this location.

Developer Comments: Some of our players may remember a time where Jubilee had this ability! Back then, Jubilee would often be a 4/10 as she’d pull America Chavez very consistently. We decided at the time to change Jubilee’s effect instead of America Chavez’s, as the former was a much simpler change to communicate. However, we’re looking to design cards that interact with the top of your deck in the future, so we’re bringing this design back too! We expect this update to have little impact on Jubilee for the time being.

- Leader:

• [Previous] 6/7 – On Reveal: Copy all cards your opponent played to the location right of here, but on your side.

• [Update] 6/2 – On Reveal: Copy the enemy card(s) with the highest Power played this turn, but on your side.

Developer Comments: We were clearly too harsh on Leader with his previous nerf, and we’re dismayed that action became a go-to example for how ruinous a nerf can be. Our balance philosophy is to preserve as much playability as we reasonably can when weakening cards, and we didn’t succeed here previously. With this change, we’re aiming to bring his strength back up to a playable spot for a 6-Cost card, but still avoid the oppressive impact his original form had. We have erred on the cautious side with his Power for now because some previous defenses against the original Leader, such as playing weaker cards before a strong one, no longer apply.

BUG FIXES

• The game no longer crashes on some Android devices when switching languages.

• There is no longer an infinite loop if Morph spawns randomly (eg: via X-Mansion) and copies Kang.

• The Series 3 Token Shop should now display properly when you have collected all Series 3 cards.

• Tapping duplicate Kang’s in play while the turn is rewinding should no longer cause that card to disappear.

• Spotlight cards in the Season Pass UI can now be focused by tapping anywhere on the card.

• Credit/Gold deep linking should now navigate to the shop from the Reward/Mission detail view.

• UI elements such as the avatar menu and emojis should no longer be clickable when viewing a card’s details in-game.

• Moving a card in the details view and releasing should no longer close the details view.

• Fixed an issue that could cause games to Aw Snap when certain card/location combinations were played with Galactus.

• Fixed an issue that allowed you to use characters in deck names that should be blocked.

• Fixed some issues that would cause Sandman’s VFX to play in situations where it should not.

• Cards added to hand by Camp Lehigh no longer overlap other cards in-hand.

• The Navigation bar doesn’t stay up when going to News items and then back to the main game.

• Kang should no longer cause the in-game music to be caught in a loop

• Snapping after Kang’s been played should no longer result in overlapping UI

• Claiming Collectors Reserve after upgrading a card should no longer fail

• Variant cards in the shop should no longer display the wrong card art when the shop refreshes

• The Raft’s VFX should no longer be missing when your opponent triggers the effect

• Sort and Filter UI elements should no longer remain open in the Collection tab when navigating to other screens

• Non-functional full-screen option should no longer be visible for iOS

• Fixed Camp Lehigh’s VFX

• [PC] UI elements should be properly anti-aliased on high settings

• [PC] Limbo should now display properly

KNOWN ISSUES LIST

• It can be difficult to interact with the emotes in-match on some devices.

• The Season Pass spotlight card text is too large in some languages.

• The Season Pass does not include 1 Mystery Variant in the Free track.

• Set as Favorite icon overlaps with the text icon in some languages.

• If you have the Series 3 card focused when the shop rolls, the screen will be blank for a moment.

• Banner VFX displays the wrong turn timer when Kang rewinds time.

• It can be hard to add or delete letters in the deck name on Android.

• Reconnecting text doesn’t show all the time when Reconnecting to a Friendly battle.

• Two players snapping on the same turn can cause the displayed energy pips to be incorrect.

• Sandman and Electro may not visually show the power on a location if the location is locked down.

• Retreating while Kang is rewinding can cause an Aw Snap error.

• After the shop rolls over, some assets might be missing (should be resolved after playing a match).

• The new player flow can be bypassed in some situations and cause the client to break until restarting.

• Quake’s shuffling of locations can prevent Shuri’s buff from being applied.

• Spamming the Pin button on items in the Token Shop may cause an Aw Snap error.

• Scrolling through the Shop can conflict with the newly added horizontal scrolling of the Token Shop.

• Claimed Series 3 Cards in the Token Shop can appear to remain claimable until you’ve exited and returned to the shop.

• Mission reward icons may be missing.

• “Rare” and “Super Rare” labels on cards are not always translated.

• Ongoing abilities delay the merge VFX for Klyntar.

• Mysterio’s token doesn’t update appropriately in all views when a using a variant.

• Cards that changed abilities such as Mystique may not show the updated ability text if returned to hand.

• Spectrum’s VFX for indicating which cards will be impacted by her ability aren’t always displaying

• When played on Sinister London, Omega Red’s copy plays its VFX multiple times.

• Cards in the Fast Upgrade section occasionally show the incorrect art.

• Quantum Realm doesn’t reduce the power of cards that have their cost and power swapped.

• Some item names in bundles have too-small fonts or can be cut off in some languages.

• Series 3 Token shop may show duplicate items before it’s rolled through each card..

• New Release cards don’t show your available tokens in the Shop UI.

• Token Shop doesn’t snap to the currently-focused card.

• Several currency/cache icons do not display in front of the UI/background when focused.

• Some variants have artist/variant name text that clips out of the nameplate.

• There can be a visual blip in the shop page.

• Time Stone doesn’t visually grant energy on the orb.

• [PC] The Carousel can be hard to scroll.

• [PC] Switching languages after switching between Windowed and Windowed Fullscreen can cause text elements to disappear in the UI.

• [PC] Playing Sentry can cause an Aw Snap error.

• [PC] Certain SFX continue to play when the game is no longer in focus