Big news, everyone! Second Dinner announced today that they're making some changes to the Featured Locations and Hot Locations of MARVEL SNAP:
Quote From MARVEL SNAP FYI, we're making some changes to Featured/Hot Locations!
Both are now 24 hours and have a 50% chance of appearing.
We're also reducing new locations per season and will start using existing locations beginning today with Nidavellir.
Also, as we make these adjustments, there will NOT be a Hot Location this week.
Featured Location
That being said, we've got a featured location this week and it's Nidavellir! (Yes, we know it says Hot Location)
Nidavellir is an existing location being featured in MARVEL SNAP as part of the March Season: Days of Future Past. Cards there have +5 Power.
Nidavellir is both an arms race and a game of chicken, and it brings to mind a handful of questions: Do you commit your Armor there to protect against Shang-Chi? Do you play Mojo in your deck to benefit from a filled Nidavellir? Do you have a minute to talk about our Lord and Savior, Lockjaw?
However you choose to plan for the featured location, you'd better get used to it; being a featured location means that Nidavellir will have a 50% chance to appear for 24 hours, from 7 PM PT Tuesday night to 7 PM PT Wednesday night (2 AM UTC Wednesday to 2 AM UTC Thursday).
What Are Featured Locations in MARVEL SNAP?
There are two different types of location events in MARVEL SNAP, both of which have a 50% chance of appearing for the next 24 hours.
- Sunday's Hot Location that always pulls from existing locations.
- Wednesday's Featured Location that usually shows off new locations, but will pull from the pool of existing locations from time to time.
This helps pave way for new deckbuilding strategies as you may want to be playing something else should the bonus better benefit cards you aren't playing with. We've seen this previously with the featured location, Monster Island, whose boosted appearances meant many players ran Shang-Chi to destroy the 9 Power Monster.
What do you think of Nidavellir? Have your own ideas for taking advantage of the featured location? Let us know in the comments below!
Comments
In all other card games, the test of your skill is dealing with the variance of your deck, and how it matches up with what your opponent is doing. That's not the case with Snap, since you'll see 75% of your deck in most matches. That's why the random locations are so important in this game: that's where the variance comes into play. It looks like Second Dinner finally realized that removing that variance 3 days out of the week was a bad idea.
I wondered what was going to happen when I noticed this season only had 3 new locations.
I'm glad they finally realized this location stuff is too much. Even if it's because of a "creativity" issue, i.e. not being able to bring new ones every week because there isn't a lot of new stuff to design regarding those, in the long run (without new mechanics developed into the cards).
Still, 50% still seems like too much.