History VideoGame / MarvelSnap

* DeathByOriginStory: Referenced with the Uncle Ban card. When Uncle Ben is destroyed, he adds a copy of Spider-Man to your hand.

* AdaptationDistillation: Although the game is primarily based on the comics, more than a few elements from the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse have made their way into the game. One of the most obvious things is [[Series/WandaVision Westview]] and [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Sokovia]] appearing as locations, with Westview even having the red Hex around it. More subtle things include Agatha Harkness and Korg being in the base set, who are minor at best in the comics but {{Breakout Character}}s for the MCU. Even the CanonForeigner [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Goose]] gets his own card. The name "Marvel [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Snap]]" probably isn't a coincidence either.

* CCGImportanceDissonance: Some of Marvel's most famous heroes are... not actually great cards. Captain America's effect is too minor, Spider-Man's effect is too niche, the Hulk is too inflexible, ect. Many top-tier decks are built around more obscure characters like Angela, Devil Dinosaur, and Dracula.

* DeathByOriginStory: When Uncle Ben is destroyed, he adds a copy of Spider-Man to your hand.

* DifficultButAwesome: Black Panther is a 5 Energy, 4 Power card that doubles its strength on reveal. Which means that, if you can give it some bonuses (say, by playing Okoye while BP is still in your deck and/or Nakia when it's in your hand), it can get to ''ridiculous'' levels of strength(following up with the example, that would be 14 Power, ''higher than the Hulk''). It does require setup and some luck of the draw, though.

** Korg shuffles a rock into the opponent's deck, which is a 1 cost card with 0 Power.

** Ultron fills each location he's not in with 1-power Drones.

* PersonOfMassDestruction: The Destroyer destroys all other friendly characters when he comes into play. This is normally pretty terrible, but you can mitigate it with Armor to protect one of your locations from his effect or remove his effect entirely with Zero.

* VanillaUnit: Misty Knight, Shocker, Cyclops, Thing, Abomination, and Hulk are pure stat plays with no special ability. Some cards (Squirrel Girl, Mister Sinister, Brood) and locations (Central Park, Savage Land, Monster Island, Shadowland) also generate tokens without card text. This can be important if the Washington D.C. location appears, which grants +3 Power to any vanilla cards stationed there. Although the game is mostly about combos rather than basic stats, Hulk stands out as being quite playable because his 12 Power with no requirement is better than most other 6-Energy cards that missed their combo.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Downplayed compared to most mobile games -- most of the purchases are cosmetic. Upgrading cards doesn't make them more powerful, it just unlocks better art. However, it also increase your collection level, which unlocks more cards at certain points. You can speed this along somewhat by purchasing card upgrades (but there's daily purchase limits) or buying a season pass, which lets you unlock additional upgrades as you play.

* BribingYourWayToVictory: Downplayed compared to most mobile games -- most of the purchases are cosmetic. Upgrading cards doesn't make them more powerful, it just unlocks better art. However, it also increase your collection level, which unlocks more cards at certain points. You can speed this along somewhat by purchasing card upgrades, but you're limited to three per day, so you can't progress too much faster than a free player.

** In marked contrast to situations like those described in RivalsTeamUp below, the [[ComicBook/MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur]] cards synergize ''perfectly'' (Devil Dinosaur gets more powerful the more cards the player has in their hand while Moon Girl doubles ''every'' card in their hand.

* BoringButPractical: The {{Vanilla Unit}}s (e.g. Cyclops, The Thing, Hulk) have no special abilities, but have good stats for their cost, making them easy to slot into a deck and play.

* VanillaUnit: Misty Knight, Shocker, Cyclops, Thing, Abomination, and Hulk are pure stat plays with no special ability. Some cards (Squirrel Girl, Mister Sinister) locations (Central Park, Savage Land, Monster Island, Shadowland) also generate tokens without card text. This can be important if the Washington D.C. location appears, which grants +3 Power to any vanilla cards stationed there. Although the game is mostly about combos rather than basic stats, Hulk stands out as being quite playable because his 12 Power with no requirement is better than most other 6-Energy cards that missed their combo.

** America Chavez is in your deck, she is always drawn on the 6th and (typically) final turn.

** Similarly, if America Chavez is in your deck, she is always drawn on the 6th and (typically) final turn.

* MechaMooks: Sentinel will add another Sentinel to your hand when played, allowing you to keep piling on an endless army of robots. Doctor Doom also comes into play by putting a Doombot in another location.

* AwesomeButImpractical:
** The Infinaut is a monstrous 20 Power card for 6, but he has the downside where he can't be played if you played a card last turn. This means you'll have to give up your entire turn 5 just to get him in play, and 5 + 6 can often get more than 20 total Power.
** Agatha Harkness has a somewhat impressive 14 Power for 6... but has the ''horrendous'' downside where she starts in your opening hand and plays the game for you. Complete with ArtificialStupidity that's deliberately worse than the actual in-game bots.

** In marked contrast to situations like those described in RivalsTeamUp below, the [[MoonGirlAndDevilDinosaur Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur]] cards synergize ''perfectly'' (Devil Dinosaur gets more powerful the more cards the player has in their hand while Moon Girl doubles ''every'' card in their hand.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Several cards have effects that relate to their abilities, e.g. the speedy Quicksilver always appearing in your starting hand, or Wolverine and Deadpool coming back after being destroyed due to their HealingFactor.

* VanillaUnit:
** Any of the generic "good stats for the cost" cards with no effect. The Hulk is probably the most major one, being a 12 Power body for 6 Energy. That's the most efficient stats-to-cost in the game, but there are cards that can combo to get bigger than that or do more to disrupt the opponent.
** Several cards have basically plain stats but always appear in your hand on the turn when you have the Energy to play them, no sooner or no later. They're just underpowered vanillas on the board, but they ensure you'll have something to do. These include [[SuperSpeed Quicksilver]], [[BornLucky Domino]], and [[DimensionalTraveller America Chavez]].

* ExcusePlot: Dimensional rifts are opening all over the universe this game takes place in, bending locations together. So now... Bucky Barnes, Carnage, and the Enchantress have to team up to fight for Cosmic Cubes? Don't think about it too hard.

* BigDamnHeroes: At the end of the game, Captain Marvel goes to another location as long as her being there would be enough to win, emulating her swooping in to save the day at the last minute.

** Morbius (a vampire) gets stronger when you discard cards. Blade (a half-vampire and vampire hunter, who ''hates'' vampires) discards a random card from your hand when he's revealed. You do the math.

* RivalsTeamUp: Ironically, the way some cards work make some characters, who would normally be rivals or even ''enemies'', work pretty well with each other. Examples inclued:

''MARVEL SNAP'' is a free-to-play online CardBattleGame developed by Second Dinner (a company largely made of former ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'' developers) and published by Nuverse, based on the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. It was first released on October 18th, 2022, and is available on Andriod, [=iOS=], and Windows PC.

The game focuses on heavily streamlined, fast, and flashy gameplay. Players build decks consisting of 12 different characters from across Marvel's roster, ranging from the most famous characters to CListFodder. Characters have an Energy cost to play and add Power to their location through their Power stat and special abilities. Players face off in 1v1 matches to control the most locations. Each game has three random locations that are revealed to players on turns one, two, and three respectively. Each location has its own special effect, often a game-warping one, ensuring every match will always be different. Whoever has the most combined Power at a location wins it, but locations can only fit four friendly characters. Games last six rounds and turns are taken simultaneously, with all actions made by both players revealed at the end of each round. Whoever controls the most locations at the end of the game is the winner.

The game focuses on heavily streamlined, fast, and flashy gameplay. Players build decks consisting of 12 different characters from across Marvel's roster, ranging from the most famous characters to CListFodder. Characters have an Energy cost to play and add Power to their location through their Power stat and special abilities. Players face off in 1v1 matches to control the most locations. Each game has three random locations that are revealed to players on turns one, two, and three respectively. Each location has its own special effect, often a game-warping one, ensuring every match will always be different. Whoever has the most combined Power at a location wins it, but locations can only fit four friendly characters. Games last six rounds and turns are taken simultaneously, with all actions made by both players revealed at the end of each round. Whoever controls at least two locations at the end of the game is the winner.

The game focuses on heavily streamlined. fast, and flashy gameplay. Players build decks consisting of 12 different characters from across Marvel's roster, ranging from the most famous characters to CListFodder. Characters have an Energy cost to play and add Power to their location through their Power stat and special abilities. Players face off in 1v1 matches to control the most locations. Each game has three random locations that are revealed to players on turns one, two, and three respectively. Each location has its own special effect, often a game-warping one, ensuring every match will always be different. Whoever has the most combined Power at a location wins it, but locations can only fit four friendly characters. Games last six rounds and turns are taken simultaneously, with all actions made by both players revealed at the end of each round. Whoever controls at least two locations at the end of the game is the winner.

* MechaMooks: Sentinel will add another Sentinel to your hand when played, allowing you to keep piling on an endless army of robots.

* RealityWarper: When Scarlet Witch enters play, she transforms the location she's placed in into another random location.