Marvel Snap is a collectible and playing card video game and therefore necessarily contains… cards! In this article, we take stock of the collection system and the indications that are displayed on the cards.
To know the rules of the game, we invite you to visit this article.
Note: This article was made during the beta of Marvel Snap only available on mobile, then still in English.
Your collection
If you don't know where to find your collection, we refer you to our article on the game interface. On this screen, you will find several things that we will detail below.
All the cards you own are exposed here in this interface. You can see your collection, the rarity level of your cards, which cards can increase in rarity, etc. You have two buttons. At the bottom left you can classify your cards, at the bottom right search for them.
If you click on a card, you will see several information that we detail just below. At the top of this interface, you have the choice of your decks or to create new ones.
The cards
When you click on a card in your collection, you can enlarge it and find several information:
– The artwork of the map
– The energy cost (in blue)
– Power (in orange)
– The name of the card
- The border
– The ability if it has one, otherwise a brief description of the hero/villain.
Sunspot is a card that costs 1 energy, has 1 power and has the effect “At the end of each turn, for every unused energy, power +1. The frame also shows that it has reached the "Infinity" level, the highest level of rarity in the game.
How to collect cards in Marvel Snap?
Once the tutorial passed, the game will give a base deck containing 12 cards (Plus a Sentinel card). With this basic deck you can already play quite a few games. The cards really aren't very good played together, but Iron-Man doubling your power points on a location can stall games.
Each card has a rarity. The rarity is defined by several criteria such as the outline or the artwork which changes as it evolves.
By playing, at the end of each game, you will get boosters allowing you to upgrade your cards and therefore increase your collection level. If you don't know how to evolve cards, we refer you to our dedicated article.
The level of collection
Leveling up allows you to unlock various content such as credits, boosters or boxes that can contain random cards or currency.
The scale of the level of collection evolves in several stages which we discuss in our article dedicated to card pools. Indeed, when you unlock a card during a level up, the card obtained is not entirely random (Hey yes).
Rest assured, in the first stages, the game will quickly give you a good range of cards to vary your decks. On the other hand, the more you level up, the more you will use your luck to obtain cards.
Variants: map skins
The economic model of Marvel Snap is based, for the moment, on cosmetics and a Battle Pass. Cosmetics now include card backs, avatars but also card skins called variants.
Each card in the game has at least 1 variant. Some may have 4 or more.
These variants are either purchasable in the shop for gold, or obtainable via the Battle Pass, or higher in the collection, past level 1000 randomly inside certain boxes.
As we explain in our card leveling article, variant cards are different cards from the original, you can level them up independently, but they count as the same card in a deck.
For example you cannot have original Iron-man and an Iron-Man variant in the same deck, although in your collection the two cards are separate.
So much for our complete guide to the rules of Marvel Snap. We have tried to cover the basic mechanical aspects of the game in the hope that it will be useful to you. You can find all our guides to get started in Marvel Snap as well as all the news of the game on this site.
