Marvel Snap is announced with a trailer and gameplay reveal

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Announced earlier today, Marvel Snap is a fast-paced collectible card game for PC by developer Second Dinner studios. If that name doesn’t sound familiar to you, the man behind it might if you have been in the digital card game community for a while. This studio is led by Ben Brode, former director of Hearthstone, and this is his studio’s first big project. The team clearly has a lot of passion for the project, which we can see in the first Marvel Snap trailer and gameplay walkthrough that dropped today.

Marvel Snap gameplay is focused on speed. Instead of the traditional alternating-turn structure of most card games, Marvel Snap features simultaneous turns like Teppen. This makes sure that both players are always in on the action. An even more unique feature is deckbuilding. Each deck only has 12 cards in it, and only one copy of each. It sounds crazy at first, but each game only lasts a maximum of three minutes. Matches end automatically after the sixth turn.

In ranked mode, players wager Cosmic Cubes. You start each game by drawing three cards and begin the first turn with one energy. Each turn gives you one extra energy to work with, ensuring that the mana curve stays balanced. A lot of recent games have been adopting this method. As long as ramp or cards that ignore the curve don’t become too prevalent, it makes sure the game has a consistent level of escalation. Each character has an energy cost represented by a number on the top right.

The game is won by taking over two out of three locations, which are chosen randomly at the start of the game and not part of either player’s deck. These locations represent various places in the Marvel universe like Xavier’s Mansion, Knowhere, and The Daily Bugle. The first