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Marvel Snap Recon Deck Overview

now listen we all know I'm a Marvel snap genius that's not being called into question that's never ever been up for debate no one has ever claimed otherwise but if you want to be a Marvel snap genius too well I built this deck that's running a bunch of different cards that give you information this is a Recon deck where you're going to learn about the opponent's deck locations their lines of play and so on through your own cards and I'm revisiting this idea CU copycat landed this week and she gives you that great data about what card your opponent is not going to have access to not only is it at the bottom of their deck but also you've stolen its text so if you get that Shan Chi you know they're not going to have that Shan Chi to answer you and uh there's a million other awesome examples as well and it doesn't stop there we've also got stuff in here like Kang this can give you insights into what your opponent is likely to play maybe even where they might want to play things you've got stuff like uatu this one pleasantly surprised me there were numerous games in which having access to that information early allowed me to like play into a sanctum sanctorum to to close to to get advantage in an otherwise closed off spot particularly because this deck actually has a pretty low curve uh you know classic Howard you get information about your top deck we've got White Queen what's the biggest card in my opponent's hand uh you know Mirage what's the lowest card what are they going to play on turn five with Daredevil every single card here in one way or another kind of gives you that information even Professor X by closing off spots limits your opponent's play lines to other spots you get some data about where they're more likely to play and of course leader here the biggest brained card of all guarantees you're going to match that opponent's uh biggest play as well on that final turn and all in all I don't actually know how well this deck performed I played this one on stream and I played it in Deadpool's Diner which untapped doesn't track the data if somebody really wants to go to my stream and track wins and losses you can but I think it felt okay you know it's definitely not going to be like a top tier meta deck because it doesn't really have its own proactive game plan like a lot of these things are just sort of reliant on your opponent's stuff and getting kind of sneaky and smart with it but you don't have ways to like put out a ton of power you can't just develop your own threats so by no means I think this would be a great deck or anything like that but it is very fun deck very interesting deck it allows you to do some sneaky things Kang in particular stole me a ton of wins in Deadpool's Diner because people were scared of the free Kang snap with those bubs at risk uh so I don't know there's something cool here you could probably tweak this to make it a little bit better and you know less Allin on this idea like do you really need Howard I don't know but nonetheless it felt capable and we still won a lot of big surprising games in the deck like this one so one of the more enjoyable ideas I think out there in Marvel step now do keep in mind as we head into the gameplay here this is a live recording from stream which I don't normally do so number one it's going to look a little different today uh cuz I had like a fancy overlay for the conquerors event where I was uh practicing on stream while recording this number two I'll be talking to chat a little more so I see seem more distracted that's uh that's just for this video maybe the next one too if I have a good conqueror uh gameplay video but uh that that's just a little unusual note that's not going to be the new normal just uh a little different today so hopefully still enjoy despite the different look maybe different feel uh but this deck is definitely a little different and a lot of fun so death main we definitely want to get out ahead of this is great uh having a one and a two here is awesome I I feel like we've had some good uatu hits today by the way I I I there's so many negative locations that U is kind of intriguing if you have a low Tempo deck like this that has a lot High Tempo deck but if you have low cost cards for God's sake I think katu's actually been pretty good Angela's not bad at all orcus Forge can fill in the curve a bit too maybe okay Jeff is pretty solid that's a great Mirage card we can move that left actually putting together a decent little Angela package here I think Daredevil Jeff's really cool uh we want to get the Daredevil down probably earlier rather than later right I will say it's not necessarily super advantageous but Professor X uh I got to click this by the way a want to Sure Professor X uh could could be good let's I'm a bit worried about nocturn this is a deck that will definitely have a nocturn that can move into death's domain clearly they have to find it and play it on time but let's see if that happens we could maybe Professor X right then just to go six to five like we know we have well we know they have a Jeff I mean so we know there's at least a Jeff but this one doesn't win it's nocturn that would be big enough to win um got to see there let's see what their devil does spiderham could be disruptive but it's too late to stop a nocturn anyway the nocturn would have to be played this turn to be relevant Right leader probably not good against this deck they always want to play two cards Leader's better against one big guy uh Atlas 9k thinks of the Prime Subs is the Conqueror format known already I think we we just you know there's uh however many creators maybe 12 or something I think we're all going to play basically for two hours and just see how many bubs we can get like total we're starting at some threshold of bubs already on like pre-made accounts or whatever so it's not you know it's not from scratch or anything but do darkhawk uh we have four in deck so he he's 11 right now but he's going to be even smaller we'll have three in deck 19 so Professor X doesn't seal the deal there left is also not sealed either by uh by this it might be hard to beat this uh it's boy we have that leader incoming but this feels like their biggest card right that that's the problem oh no my deck's too small dude no wait this is going to fill hold up hold up I'm an actual genius this is going to stay big enough for the Shang Chi it's it's going to stay big enough cuz I filled my hand with Sentinels I can take zero credit for this but it's actually so insane it's so insane I guess I don't do anything left anyway so we just always move this right don't we it's actually so insane the greatest biggest brain play ever made yes I'm going to pretend that was intentional oh so lucky and so smart that's the way to be in life man oh no don't retreat Victory I guess they knew it was the this though right they knew it was this so soon as they as soon as they saw the White Queen they kind of knew they were cooked they might have had another four but this deck usually runs like two big cards only and a bunch of small boys yeah Howard's great uh opponent emoted on the middle a thing how do they know what it is Kang is op wait wait a minute this is the prophecy foretold are we both going to be playing Kang hey Katie Paige holy crap it's good to see see you Katie Paige I'll be back on Friday as well if you will they like the Howard we got a oh we they're actually playing Kang and we stole their King this is unbelievable this is unheard of the Kang mirror match we're going to play two kangs in one game dude Coulson turned off were they aam I didn't even look yeah they are they are aim yeah arishem oh there's Mrs kilman the the the the devil herself as we speak my camera's messed up my microphone's messed up I told him you back well it's it's you know jostled free making fun of you uh see you thank you love you all right uh yeah I mean I don't know how how big this is going to be so negative Zone seems pretty risky uh we'll save the Kang for later man they'll never expect the double Kang two straight Kang turns I owe you a spectrum variant this sounds familiar but I don't know why but I believe you am I supposed to craft one or what what was the what was the what was the story on this Shard and oh my God are you kidding me that is the worst morph ever played are you serious right now Professor X screws me a little bit right dude there's the second king snap let's play the copycat now oh I love it don't even know I had the two kangs incoming dude these Kang Snaps are just free money Stark Tower early all right let's uh let's wait on the ham I think it's actually usually better a little bit in the mid game gives them time to fors that stronger card to the left like it you filters the hand down to the left basically as small things get played out through the first few turns yeah I mean we're definitely going to go right on this opponent should maybe think they should play right seeing the atatu although Thunderbolts Tower definitely makes sense for the Widow's kiss too Juggernaut whoa okay yeah jugernaut would actually be a pretty fitting card in this deck in some ways I didn't want it to be so much like disruption though as it was like IQ like big brain you know I wanted information more than disruption so I think this fits that model go mid nice snaply zero there for them I mean I'm at negative six so it's it's fair game but we kind of need to wait I trust the cable though we're going to play this rock it's going to get destroyed it's going to use up the danger room for us is my hope I don't really want to win uh but I just need space potentially don't expect the Red Hulk I I think we don't use I think we use leader to get to left potentially later so we're just going to sit for now Iron Man is really nasty right that's very very good in Stark Tower isn't it kind of wish we had that uh that Juggernaut now that would be great to go mid oh baby the darkhawk uh the opponent's second only has three cards so that's not great cable stealing yeah I mean let's see what Kang's about right let's take the Kang snap they just have no idea what I'm about so you know that that Iron Man might feel very exposed to them because of like enchantress or whatever and and bubs you know make uh make people nervous I think Fina and Juggernaut okay so juggernaut's not actually that scary right I mean it does set up of course nicely cuz he's the dude but we could maybe just go Jeff plus copycat I guess um I the leader doesn't feel very good into that what we just saw so I don't think it's well I can't play leader anyway we're on five aren we yeah I I I think it's Jeff into copycat you just get the Jeff buff you take the copycat mid I guess just to contest here what was the other card they played I literally already for forgot I literally already forgot what it was uh oh yeah thetha that's right oh they went with a rock slide this time okay all systems I like it thank you for pivoting sir uh yeah this doesn't really win here is the problem right and it probably doesn't win right because it just matches I think it's this H so they play a big card here like Jeff surpasses theena no he actually well with leader he does yes and then if they play a big card here we actually net more thanks to widow's kiss they play Big card here guess we just lose mid in that case though don't wor we lose a tiebreaker probably don't we I just don't like if they don't if they play medium and medium we we might have a chance but otherwise if they play just one big card we lose the tiebreaker I think they'll play medium and medium because I just don't think they have they want to buff Thea they play a card here and a card here we win mid because we well if the bigger card is here is the problem if the we need the we need the leader to copy mid basically I think is what I'm saying if the leader copies left right we're in trouble I think uh it it copied both they're the same size and the Juggernaut moves it this is this is insanity let's go perfect the plan worked too cuz you know if if this actually wasn't a juggernaut and stuck then we'd win here thanks to the Widow's kiss buff and we'd win here cuz I'd be at three less I'd be at 11 to n yeah uh we got the peak oh that makes Professor X insane on turn three so we let's see what watu turns into here we might want to Professor X this if we get out ahead you know uh we might also just oh my God that's a good one I I kind of want to steal the Professor X if we can though and just rely on the Agatha right so maybe we'll do this Professor X here cuz they may not play here cuz they want to play to kill and then try to win left and right yeah I think that's I think that's reasonable Right leader also insane by the way that might even match them on turn four depending on what they do Kang is also a 05 bro um do I bother with the Kang here I don't think so seven feels sufficient they want to play the kill in anyway I mean it's definitely possible that Peak can give them something huge but let's save the Kang for later just try to lock down right and then Agatha hopefully is big enough to just win right that's the uh why am I using this deck again um I mean I I wanted to play this deck because it's really fun I want to make a video out of it I don't think it's good like I said you know we're not going to play this deck on Friday there's no way like we'll play probably going to play arim honestly because I think that's a little simpler to play you know uh kind of reduces some of the decision making in game and allows you more decision oh bro am I I'm not in the I'm not in Deadpool's Diner what did I do oh oh great hit insane hit surf for gone Luke Cage okay so that's a huge lead mid and with Surfer gone too it might be hard for them to get more power here null null is no good ah we got nocturn dude cool that's nice yeah we'll just go Um cable copycat uh copycat can actually move mid as well if we think that's because right is as far as we know secured especially now uh nocturns out of the equation for the Professor X all decks right now are anti-am I don't think that's totally true exactly oh nice dude yeah cool good wi uh U actually won this game for us by the way like I mean maybe this would have happened kind of organically anyway but it was nice to know to like support the Professor X do you think level rework Kang I I think he's one of the most like well I don't know boring is the right word but one of the least well at least played but just like least interesting is not the right word enjoy Le least functional is not the right word what is the word compelling maybe least compelling like he's interesting the mechanic is different and unique but it's not very compelling you know it doesn't usually do much uh sanctum sanctorum right that is a great heads up to have okay so we'll probably just go mirager in case it hits me a better play than a morph cable can still be good later Mirage though gives you a potentially great oh well no hold up this is the last time I'm playing here no no no hold up it's cable for size then huh never mind it's it's revealing next turn cable for size that's fine oh Magneto okay um yeah morph left is cool Mirage Daredevil after that copy cat captures the Black Knight probably not useful to us but I'm thinking about this morph now like is it going to have discard card in it like I I might play this and then discard Magneto off of like a lady CF or something and then get the get the dude maybe yeah it's kind of safe to play it doesn't hurt anything right now if this deck has Hela we might have problems with sanum sanctorum darkhawk gone and Hela gone okay so now it would take a uh a Ghost Rider to be scary I think I think it's still this we can probably oh they're just down when the hell is gone okay nice dude that was the only way to access S thorm so probably just felt like they didn't have a win condition anymore uh pet Mansion okay it's not really changing much I do like spiderham a little later better I think that remains true we like to hit more medium to high cost thing sometimes that small thing's banking on the left side there yeah try to hit one big guy here maybe uh just watched Deadpool and Wolverine in the cinema and when I return Regis is live dude I haven't been to a movie in forever but I'd like to go I'm jealous man I haven't really heard or seen reviews just yet but um I'm sure it'll be fun either way like I I liked all of the Wolverines and all of the Deadpools frankly so well I don't know about all the Wolverines I think Xmen Origins was really bad right but I liked a lot of the Wolverines anyway o Thea's nasty they only have one space there but they don't really need much the Thea just kind of carries anyway Daredevil would be kind of cool to get down it does give you like maybe some Professor X data I'm a bit worried about Jeff and nocturn though Professor X just does not have the impact he used he used to have I will say to though white Queen's pretty bad like white Queen's so bad it's like I really don't want to put those mid you know I uh I have this problem where if I like win left with Professor X it doesn't really matter CU I can't I can't win mid I don't have a big enough card to win mid anyway Kitty Pride's not such a problem and corg is actually not such a problem so maybe we can steal and and and this is turn five right so if they don't play the move card here exactly this will connect on the Professor X so we'll have we'll have information here from the Daredevil we'll know whether they play a move card or not they can move in time the problem then will be like how do I beat a darkhawk right that's going to be the issue they're snapping prior to the Daredevil okay I mean they're way ahead I can't really blame them my deck is bad uh Elsa and kitty okay so Professor X does win here but how the heck do you win left I can play a leader right am I getting a leader uh no we're getting a morph I me we're ahead a little but Elsa's scale them a bunch could do this instead and then try to win mid but it's the same problem right it's a head-to-head I don't know how to win a head to-head there's just no way to win a head to-head since we're technically tied here I mean we're technically ahead here I guess this prevents the Elsa problem at least but but there's just no way to win this is going to 10 I could maybe fake them into a Shang Chi you know is how do I win even with that even upon that premise maybe they actually have a Shan Chi let's assume they play the kitty there it goes to what seven that's seven and Seven's 14 - 4 is 10 chongi would be 68 I would still actually lose if they played the kitty right I would still lose even if I grabbed a Shan Chi uh I have priority so like I can't rely on a Shan Chi mid it has to be here but they might play kitty here just trying to flip sewer system because they need they actually need to win sewer system too because left is gone I mean I guess they actually might have a Jeff to steal left too for the record Jeff might just beat everything I'm going to try this weird play though let's see if they have a Jeff let's see if they have a Shan Chi let's see if that's a kitty Pride I don't remember what that kitty Pride looked like oh we got a cosmo that's definitely not enough the kitty did go mid Iron Man mid oh my God I could have just beat that on power are you kidding me could have just beat this on numbers I could have just played White Queen and Mirage and won are you serious dude dude white Queen's five that is a six Mirage is one that is seven bro I'm so mad are you kidding me I never dreamed we'd be able to win on numbers yeah Howard can go left Monster Island doesn't really tell us much right now but I like these matching variants by the way both Luca Claret one of my favorite uh Marvel snap artists h I like this style a lot cby gets Iron Man that's so insane that's so good death we could try to steal with Professor XX you know it's exposed to movement cards now so it's definitely not as safe as it used to be but if I don't have anything else happening anyway it might just be worth it could also maybe use it to just protect the monster if we go for like an Iron Man here you know that's a pretty nice play Kang could give us some info on the Professor X I guess I am this Stacks up a ton of power though so there oh okay no worry about Shi anymore I guess yeah or enchantress or Rog it's pretty cool let's go White Queen for now Professor X mid might just seal this game let's see if we see a nocturn or not I guess uh this might be a darkhawk yeah okay uh dark Hawk's not great for either of us to be honest I mean let's go Kang now see what's up snap do the Kang snap the Kang snap does seem very powerful in in Deadpool's Diner because people really worry about their bubs I don't think people really care about their cubes that much to be honest these days I I think people just don't care the Kang snap is just free sometimes dude okay super flow we'll Dodge that for sure New Island kind of kind of pointed that way anyway I like how Tempo this deck is by the way it's like shockingly you get out quick we're going to have an early White Queen next turn so pretty great one two three ghost spider they aish him I hate checking yeah they're aish him I know I can click up here guys but my normal layout has it has it blocked so that's why I clicked that instead yeah let's see what's up with White Queen um opponent Professor X is locking this down might be good I mean they're obviously not really move it's just arish so yeah and Kang we trust for sure dude that's crazy how how often it's stealing games really cool blob is nice ooh Iron Man we got to do some math maybe shoot I wanted to lock that out with Professor X but now it's like they're going to keep scaling every turn especially if they play there I mean I guess if they play there let's K right let's Kang snap snap we steal another game with a Kang snap by the way forget it I can't actually in good conscience recommend Kang in in Deadpool's Diner but at the same time it's like man oh leech okay that is actually really scary that kills my whole hand basically I mean they didn't play it left so you know in theory The Professor X here could connect I am if they play left we're definitely too far behind right but let's do some math right we got to do some math I think let's do some math so we go to 18 which is actually 22 opponent goes to they gain plus two which is actually 14 they basically gain four every turn and I gain four every turn so as long as we're ahead and they don't play if they play we lose it 100% if they don't play it there if they don't play it there this this does stay ahead you know minus outside influence or whatever but movement cards or something but all right let's uh I will say if they're playing leech and I want to get value out of these cards I need to play them now is another another argument right like if the leach still connects I need to play these at this moment you know maybe even here honestly CU I don't really want to deal with my Brin yet ah I just hate that it's hard to win that later I'm going to trust my top deck I'm going to play left they're going to play leech mid again okay we we steal left like this I think cuz we each game like we said four each turn it's just that I need a top deck that's insane like it has to be good I can play cable for tempo Mirage is okay uh it's it's going to be hard to steal this backr I need like a leader or a copycat that's insane okay so right's gone like that's just gone like we're never winning there I hate playing a vibran mines for a tie here dude I desperately need a leader h Mirage is never going to be good there's no way it's good yeah that's terrible copycat top deck into um into shuni course yeah no this can't win it's impossible I mean there's just no way Nine's enough it's just not possible right I got nothing to lose so we we'll try but it just doesn't oh my God wait what's happening victory yeah I mean maybe playing around shanqi but uh are there certain rules for the conquerors or just win as much as you can I mean there were certain rules I I'll have to refresh on the on the rules read the rule book again but you know stuff about like you know not buying in forever and you know don't cheat sort of things like that don't collude uh no collusion those sorts of typical rules and then you know just a little bit of stuff about like bub management and so on how much you're able to buy in and so on I'm sure it'll be explained in like the official kind of documents and streams and so on all right so we're looking at an Aram deck as we know CU they play two cards on turn one oh enchantress is kind of fun do we RI that on quinjet early it doesn't usually disrupt much I am like out of space already man Crimson Cosmos is sort of tough for me I mean this should get me something big often will get arish though unfortunately I don't even know if spiderham is worth playing to be honest it's just it's so iffy cuz it might hit some garbage aam card that's just sitting in hand they're not they're not going to care about oh well not two I guess oh this enchantress is insane do we save it for later for surprise factor I think so right let's get more data first oh wait what victory wait what oh maybe they know well there's no way well no I guess they know I got the enchantress huh is this really the lowest cost I just realized this was the the lowest cost card in their hand by the way what the heck and they stacked him up I don't know if I do wait by the way like Quin killing the quinjet does have upside immediately like this may be wrong I like the surprise Factor too though so they just retreated immediately after playing it I don't know it's funny I I recorded an anti- aam Deck with Cassandra Nova and and and uh darkhawk for today's YouTube video and I saw Zero airos at an hour and a half it's like how does that happen dream Dimension and lamura okay okay spiderham fine there morph and white Queen's a solid curve at least yeah clintar a little bit risky for sure Mirage can go here though this is a fine fine Mirage reg just still streams well not until today crackman thanks for the 32 months dude uh welcome back uh that's very nice of you oh my goodness Maximus early all right I don't mind that uh oh bro I got their Pig of course duh um it was a magic all right man got of be nice to have that magic right now let's go here Maximus makes me think there might be a ronin be a good hit their hand may not stay big but I think ronin's a decent hit yeah White Queen could also find me that Ronin and uh leader could potentially steal that Ronin cuz dream Dimension means ronin's not coming down on five for them oh that's the strong G okay Dr Octopus huh oh I don't know dude it's it's scary right [Music] because I I I I don't think so right I don't it's it's really risky in clintar we don't have a Shan G we KN we know they have a Shan Chi so we want to kind of avoid their Shan Chi potentially too uh like this can go to eight here I guess if I do a White Queen we're not drawing a card but I think our draws kind of suck anyway right I don't think our draws are very good maybe White Queen here just goes to nine next turn what am I playing though just not a good play next turn Pig maybe this depending on what it is I don't know I hate that I hate that dream Dimension I wish we had that magic man Magneto okay they're just dumping the sh Chi for Tempo man this makes the Magneto feel a little safer doesn't it Magneto also moves Juggernaut and we also have leader what a terrible terrible terrible Play It's just so bad killmonger just wiping out that that that ham huh so we're ahead here right if we just dump a leader and they go for Magneto maybe Ronin although this is looking less and less like Ronin to me realistically we just match right is there any world where let's see they move a White Queen they play Magneto here I need space for the White Queen I guess right this is a zero and this is a four so actually this would also move so I guess maybe you just play the leader here since we're already ahead on these and I anticipate them just playing the one card if they play two cards this play is a lot more exposed they know that I know about the Magneto but they don't know about the leader I mean I guess we just Kang right why am I not King every time oh snap let's just Kang and see what they oh oh oh the free Kang snap that'ss it all right [Music]