History VideoGame / MarvelSnap

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Red Hulk is a 6/11 card that gains a whopping 4 extra power in your hand or on the field if your opponent has leftover energy at the end of a turn. As an interesting drawback, if he's in your hand and his effect activates, your opponent will be presented with a special animation where the Red Hulk will appear on their screen and gain power, alerting them to his presence and allowing them to plan counter plays or simply start spending energy less frugally so as not to juice him up further.

** Man-Thing is technically not inherently immune to his own location debuff. It's just that it misses him due to his being a 4-cost card. Should a Mystique copy his Ongoing effect for whatever reason, she will immediately be struck with -2 Power due to being in the range of what it can affect (1, 2, and 3-Cost). Inversely, if Super-Skrull copies U.S.Agent's effect (which debuffs 4, 5, and 6-Cost cards with -3 Power), he will be similarly afflicted with -3 Power so long as he imitates the ongoing.

** Unrevealed cards are normally invulnerable to being destroyed, with a few exceptions. Alioth can destroy unrevealed cards played on the same turn on their location, and Galactus/Worldship destroying an unrevealed card's location will destroy them.

** Alioth's on reveal ability destroys all enemy unrevealed cards at its location on the turn it's played.

** Alioth's ability invokes this. When revealed, Alioth will destroy all opposing face-down cards in their lane. Barring special cases like Invisible Woman, Ghost, or Dark Dimension, the only way for opposing cards to be face-down when Alioth reveals is for their player to be winning. This allows Alioth to destroy potential comebacks the opponent tried to play in the final turns of the game.

** After a balance patch, the 6-Energy cost Alioth has become this. It can destroy an opponent's unrevealed cards played in the location it's played at that turn, but now that it only has 2-Power (formerly 5) and requires priority to actually work.

** For the purposes of the game, "playing" a card means the player specifically drags the card from their hand and places it in that location. Meaning the player can get around the restrictions of something like Death's Domain (Destroys any card you play there) by ''moving'' cards there via Iron Fist or Heimdall, or even by playing Bucky Barnes (since the Winter Soldier card is ''created'' when Bucky is destroyed, not played). When destroyed, Wolverine "Regenerates" at a random location, including Death's Domain. Jubilee will also "Add" a card from your deck, and since ''you'' only played Jubilee, only she gets destroyed.[[note]]Originally, Wolverine and Jubilee's effects read "Play" instead of "Regenerate" and "Add", but even then, Wolverine played itself, and Jubilee played a card for you, so they still got around "Play" restrictions[[/note]].

** If an ability doesn't say "Ongoing" or "On Reveal", then it doesn't count as either, even if the effects behave like one or the other.

** Iron Lad copies the text of the top card of a player's deck. Even after Sauron removes the ongoing abilities of all cards in the player's hand and deck, Iron Lad will still gain the card's ongoing ability as it copied the ''text'', not the nullified ongoing ability.
** Sauron removes the abilities from all Ongoing cards in your hand and deck. Cards that have both an Ongoing and On Reveal ability count as both types of cards, causing Sauron to remove all their abilities, so an Electro affected by him will do nothing once played, neither giving extra energy nor restricting how many cards his user can play on a turn.
** The Hulkbuster card can be used to boost cards (in locations) that only gain a bonus if they are the only card in the space. The Hulkbuster card combines/forms around other cards, so technically the end result is a character ''wearing'' it, and thus the game consideres the original card to still be alone.

** Man-Thing is technically not inherently immune to his own location debuff. It's just that it misses him due to his being a 4-cost card. Should a Mystique copy his Ongoing effect for whatever reason, she will immediately be struck with -2 Power due to being in the range of what it can affect (1, 2, and 3-Cost).

* DirtyCoward: Crossbones is an 8 power card, with the limitation that he can ''only'' be played on a space where his side is currently winning.

** This can also be seen with cards of similar use, such as Crossbones (a 4-cost, 8-power card that requires you to be winning a location to play him) compared to Cull Obsidian (a 4-cost, ''10''-power card that requires you to have a 1-cost card in a location to play him).

** Locations like Luke's Bar and Death's Altar will bounce back or destroy cards played on them. But cards brought in by say Mister Sinister or Jubilee will stick around as they don't count as being played.

* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Kang the Conqueror functions more like a one-use action than a proper character, since he [[TimeRewindMechanic resets the turn]] (but without him in your hand) when he is revealed.

* ScrewTheRulesTheyreNotReal: So long as there's a location to go to, Jeff the Baby Land Shark can be played or moved into it. This includes bucking a Sandman or Electro's restrictive "only play 1 card a turn" ongoings, allowing his user to play him and another card during the same turn provided they have enough energy. He can also move into and out of locations where cards can't be added nor removed, such as the locations where Prof. X is.

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* The Hulks interact with energy in some form (Evolved Hulk, She-Hulk, and Red Hulk).

* MyRulesAreNotYourRules: So long as there's a location to go to, Jeff the Baby Land Shark can be played or moved into it. This includes bucking a Sandman or Electro's restrictive "only play 1 card a turn" ongoings, allowing his user to play him and another card during the same turn provided they have enough energy. He can also move into and out of locations where cards can't be added nor removed, such as the locations where Prof. X is.

* NeverTrustATrailer:
** Some of the variants featured in the animated trailers did not exist in the game when they were shown.
** WebVideo/ProZD's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh47iBu9ckA sponsored parody promo]] for the game has him perform a move that's mostly accurate to what happens when Mister Sinister is played on a location like Death's Domain or Altar of Death (being destroyed from being placed there while his duplicate is exempt due to a loophole), but its expy leaves behind two clones of itself instead of one. Brood does do that, but it only appeared in the game almost a year after this video.

** Nico Minoru cycles through seven spells she has in her repitoire, all relying on a card played after her.

** Booster farming. Usually, each card has an equal chance of getting boosters at the end of a match, but there are hidden modifiers that lean hard into this trope. On the more fair side of the process, cards that are of lower rarities and need just a few more boosters to upgrade have a slightly higher chance of gaining them at the end of a game. However, Infinity rarity variants (and Custom Cards) are given double weight with these chances, a quirk programmed under the assumption that a player wants more boosters to create more Infinity splits with a card they liked enough to fully upgrade. This can be guarded against by putting a lower rarity variant of the same card or a recent Infinity split of the same in place of the Infinity border or custom card version. None of this is communicated in-game.