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** The Grandmaster is a bit more unwieldy than other cards that can cheat out On Reveal effects multiple times. He doesn't have Iron Lad's amount of Power, he's not as reliably precise as the Absorbing Man, he doesn't create duplicates like Zola, and he's restricted to moving and triggering his target to the middle location, which means a Cosmo in the middle lane counters most of his effect. However, he has a lower cost than any of his counterparts, and a shrewd player can exploit this to pull off some devious combos such as having Shang-Chi destroy enemy cards in two different locations on the same turn. Or they could play Wave on Turn 5, and space willing, the Grandmaster can do this trick with the Alioth on Turn 6.

* 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]], [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Sokovia]] and [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Vormir]] appearing as locations, with Westview even having the red Hex around it. More subtle things include Agatha Harkness, Korg, and Ebony Maw being in the base set, who are minor at best in the comics but {{Breakout Character}}s for the MCU. Carol Danvers' pet flerken is called [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Goose]], instead of [[ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics Chewie]]. The name "Marvel [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Snap]]" probably isn't a coincidence either [[note]]Although it was how Thanos activated the Infinity Gauntlet in the comics[[/note]]. A more infamous instance of this occurred during the Valentine's Day 2024 week where certain couples got power bonuses if their partner was also in play. Rather than have him get a bonus with his more famous paramour Elektra, Daredevil got one with She-Hulk as a reference to her 2022 live-action show.

** The upcoming Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight have abilities that complement each other -- Corvus discards two random cards in your hand in exchange for giving you +1 Max energy, while Proxima jumps to your lowest-power location (that isn't full) when she's discarded.

* TooDumbToLive: Not only do Ego the Living Planet and Agatha Harkness have very poor strategic AI, but they might do things that are directly harmful to themselves. Ego can place the likes of Scarlet Witch and Rhino on his lane, and Agatha may very well play herself on locations that will outright destroy ala Altar of Death.

** Venom can consume a card with negative Power, typically doing him no favors.

*** Angela gains power for each additional card played in her location. Her lover Sera reduces the cost of cards in the player's hand, making it easier to fill Angela's lane.

*** Red Skull has a negative effect which buffs all enemy cards at the same location. The Soul Stone weakens all enemy cards by -1 power at the same location. In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', the Red Skull became the guardian of the Soul Stone on Vormir.
*** Caiera protects all your 1- and 6-cost cards from destruction. The latter include Hulk and Skaar, respectively Caiera's husband and son in the "Planet Hulk" comic book storyline.

*** Mojoworld gives +100 power to the player with more cards there, encouraging both players to fill the location. Meanwhile, Mojo's power increases by 6 when both players fill the location he's in. Similarly Dazzler (who spent time as an amnesiac in Mojoworld) also benefits from filling locations.

*** Hobgoblin and Green Goblin are negative power cards who switch sides when played. Oscorp Tower flips each card in play there after Turn 3.
*** Death starts as an unplayable 8 energy, 12 power but gets cheaper for each card destroyed during the game. Death's Domain and Death's Altar destroy any cards played there, making it easier to feed characters to her and bring her cost down.
*** Mister Sinister creates a clone of himself when played. Sinister London and Bar Sinister both create clones of any card played there, the former at a random location and the latter filling the lane itself.

*** The Hood was a low-level New York gangster in the comics until he encountered a demon, which is reflected in his -3 power and the 6 power Demon he creates. The two NY bar locations both harmonize with his power: The BadGuyBar "The Bar With No Name" gives the win to the lower power score, which suits The Hood perfectly. Meanwhile "Luke's Bar" allows the player to keep playing The Hood, generating a 1-energy, 6-power Demon over and over, without having to account for the -3 of The Hood himself.
*** Titan makes 6-cost cards cost 1 less, Thanos: the Mad ''Titan'' is a 6-cost card.
*** The Milano, the ship of the Guardians of the Galaxy, only allows cards to be played there on Turn 5 - all but ensuring people will play there as it is their only opportunity. All of the Guardians except Nebula have an On Reveal which triggers when someone plays at the same location on the same turn.
*** Aunt May's house (specifically the line up of suits there highlighted in ''Into the Spiderverse'') will give the first card played there a +3 and then move it. Some of the spider gang introduced in the same season have related powers: Ghost Spider would allow you to pull the moved card to your desired location and Miles Morales gets cheaper if anyone moves.

*** The Great Web pulls a random card to itself each turn if it can. Many of the Spider-Man adjacent cards (Miles Morales, Silk, Ghost Spider, Spiderman 2099, Kingpin) trigger an effect upon their own or another cards movement.

*** You can't play cards in the Sanctum Sanctorum normally, but you can move cards there. Doctor Strange's ability is to move the highest cost card(s) to his location. Strange Academy also moves cards too.

*** New York allows either player to move cards there on Turn 6. Kingpin will give -2 power to any enemy card that moves to his location (he previously destroyed all cards that did so on Turn 6). Kingpin's own Fisk Tower will give -4 to cards that move there at any time. Additionally, most Spider-Verse Spider-men may be in move decks which rely on movement and could be destroyed that way.
*** Knowhere prevents On Reveal effects, but each member of the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Ravagers has an On Reveal effect.

*** Hell's Kitchen pulls a 1-cost card to your hand. Elektra, (who's a 1-cost herself) destroys a 1-cost card on the opponent's side when played.

** Blob ''merges'' with the remainder of your deck, adding the base Power of all cards therein to his own. An unfortunate GameBreakingBug on his release also caused him to try and play any existing Infinity Split Particle Effects of the merged cards all at once.

* 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]], [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron Sokovia]] and [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Vormir]] appearing as locations, with Westview even having the red Hex around it. More subtle things include Agatha Harkness, Korg, and Ebony Maw being in the base set, who are minor at best in the comics but {{Breakout Character}}s for the MCU. Carol Danvers' pet flerken is called [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Goose]], instead of [[ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics Chewie]]. The name "Marvel [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Snap]]" probably isn't a coincidence either [[note]]Although it was how Thanos activated the Infinity Gauntlet in the comics[[/note]].

* GuideDangIt: Whether a card or location effect pertains to a character's base or current Energy cost requires some experimentation.

*** Death starts as an unplayable 9 energy, 12 power but gets cheaper for each card destroyed during the game. Death's Domain and Death's Altar destroy any cards played there, making it easier to feed characters to her and bring her cost down.

** Rocks are 1/0 cards that are either forced into the deck by an opposing Korg or Rockslide, or from locations like Subterranea or Lechuguilla. They can also be added to locations by Debrii.

** Rocks are 1/0 cards that are either forced into the deck by an opposing Korg or Rockslide, or from locations like Subterranea or Lechuguilla. They can also be added to a location by Debrii.

** Angel would fly out onto a location where one of your cards was destroyed, maintaining field presence despite the sacrifice of cards used to play Carnage or Deathlok. Unfortunately, he has to be in your deck for this to happen. So if he's in your hand, then he's just a cheap, weak card taking up a draw that could've been occupied by a more useful character, alternatives Destroy decks have a lot of in Series 2 onward.

''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 Android, [=iOS=], and Windows PC.

** Thor and Beta Ray Bill have a similar dynamic to Captain America and Iron Man. Thor is a 3/4 who shuffles the 0/0 Mjolnir into the deck, and gains +6 power when it is played. Beta Ray Bill is a 4/5 who shuffles the 0/1 Stormbreaker into the deck, and doubles in power when it is played. If both gain the same amount of power and their respective hammers are played after, Beta Ray Bill's power will increase much more compared to Thor, due to being multiplied by 2 instead of having a fixed amount added.

** The Grandmaster is a bit more unwieldy than other cards that can cheat out On Reveal effects multiple times. He doesn't have Iron Lad's amount of Power, he's not as reliably precise as the Absorbing Man, he doesn't create duplicates like Zola, and he's restricted to moving and triggering his target to the middle location. However, he has a lower cost than any of his counterparts, and a shrewd player can exploit this to pull off some devious combos such as having Shang-Chi destroy enemy cards in two different locations on the same turn. Or they could play Wave on Turn 5, and space willing, the Grandmaster can do this trick with the Alioth on Turn 6.

** The Grandmaster is a bit more unwieldy than other cards that can cheat out On Reveal effects multiple times. He doesn't have Iron Lad's amount of Power, he's not as reliably precise as the Absorbing Man, he doesn't create duplicates like Zola, and he's restricted to moving and triggering his target to the middle location. However, he has a lower cost than any of his counterparts, and a shrewd player can exploit this to pull off some devious combos such as having Shang-Chi destroy enemy cards in two different locations on the same turn.

** The upcoming Cull Obsidian is a powerful 4/10 card with an ongoing that prevents him from being destroyed. However, he can only be played in a location with an Infinity Stone, meaning that you either must use a Thanos deck, or one that can cheat him out without playing him (i.e. Jubilee, Lockjaw, Hela). That being said, Second Dinner stated that they're thinking about having infinity stones be given to players by locations and cards that can add cards to your hand.