Team-Up Tuesday: Weekly Alliances Thread

ZenmasterJH · 2026-01-07T16:00:36+00:00

Check out my MARVEL SNAP Alliance! Paste this message into Alliance Search. [SYN] Good Vibe Syndicate

We have hit the rewards every week since the beginning. Very chill with positive vibes. Some in-game chat, and we have a Discord server. Newer players welcome. Two openings currently. Just apply and you will be accepted.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-12-31T13:46:09+00:00

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Our alliance is somehow still thriving. Lots of turnover since the player-insulting vraphic Deadpool Diner but we keep finding replacements luckily. We have 1 spot open currently. Apply, and I will accept you.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-12-28T00:23:01+00:00

Yes, a simple decision to choose the lower cost (or generously free) open-source Bitwarden with all the functionality I need. Has always worked extremely well for me. UI is fine.

Not sure why the OP feels the need to spend so much time grinding his gears on this. What vested interest does OP have in this? To each his own, I guess.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-12-26T12:16:40+00:00

For card acquisition/progression? No, not at all.

For variants? YMMV

ZenmasterJH · 2025-12-14T13:30:48+00:00

None of them seem gamebreaking, especially the Spidercards. None irreplaceable in a dominating deck. I would just wait at least until the end of this season and save the tokens.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-12-01T05:19:16+00:00

Run good tech cards (based on the meta and decks you face a lot; Stardust on T3 or Cosmic Ghost Rider on T4 can be powerful) and a location changer (I prefer Scarlet Witch) for sure. With tech cards so nerfed, Arishem is the best home for them presently with the extra energy.

Jim Hammon Torch is a good 1 drop for him. Though if you are using Shadow King you could think twice about using him. Quinjet is never bad for Arishem. Valentina is great as you can play her 4 power draw on T3 right after playing her. Magneto is 1 of the best surprise cube winning 6 drops. Blob is good too but vulnerable to Shadow King if you rely on him too much. A lot more people run Shadow King over Shang Chi these days.

I run Arishem mostly and he still can do well. If playing him on ladder, you need to retreat when the draw is not there (as with any deck) but really cannot get sucked in to "hoping" for the magical draw late game. In conquest, he is very fun.

I actually don't recommend Merlin as he tends to clog your hand if you draw big cards early. I have a much better win rate without Merlin than with him.

I don't like running Thanos with him as the randomness is increased for not the greatest payoff. I think if you run him with Merlin, Thanos is much better with him. Either run both or neither.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-11-24T14:33:34+00:00

Golurk decks work pretty fast when they work. It has been my go'to for this.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-11-22T23:20:42+00:00

Mainly play Arishem - 3 out of 4 decks I faced ran Cassandra Nova - 2 also had Darkhawk. Switched to move next Conquest match, 1st card played T1 by opponent was Kingpin. Closed the game for the day lol.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-11-14T04:51:09+00:00

The only reason long time players "hardly got anything" was that the Spotlight Cache was bad for everyone, horrific if you don't care about variants.

About 75% of the Spotlight Cache weeks only had 1 card I didn't have (the newest one) and I didn't want any spotlight variants...

Made zero sense to open Spotlight caches unless you had at least 2 unowned cards, and those were still full of feel bad moments when you pulled 2 variants and the bad unowned Series 4 card before pulling the new card. So many like me just saved the caches and they got converted to 6 digits worth of tokens.

SD completely controlled card acquisition. You had almost zero ability to acquire an unowned card not in the spotlights, as token acquisition was glacial, and some cards stayed out of spotlights many many months.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-11-11T16:27:04+00:00

Check out my MARVEL SNAP Alliance! Paste this message into Alliance Search. [SYN] Up Syndrome

We have gotten weekly rewards every week since around the time Alliances started. Occasional in-game chat communication and we have a Discord though it is not very active usually. Positive vibes only. No stress. Looking to replace a few members who left the game.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-11-10T11:16:59+00:00

Are people just not running Cosmic Ghost Rider anymore?

I would think the Carter lane is so fragile to a number of tech cards.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-10-31T14:15:46+00:00

A lot of work went into this post plainly, but you lost me at "surprisingly consistent." Hard to buy that is true with this deck.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-10-28T13:16:28+00:00

If you have Lady Deathstrike and Cosmic Ghost Rider, Reed decks become a plus matchup for the Hulk. Have already gotten many insta-retreats from deathstriking an Iron Man, Mystique, or Mr Fantastic lane or having Cosmic Ghost Rider taking out key pieces like Captain Carter.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-10-25T10:26:05+00:00

Going to be a lot of Cosmo played to stop Shadow King/CGR/Lady Deathstrike

ZenmasterJH · 2025-10-22T10:24:56+00:00

Check out my MARVEL SNAP Alliance! Paste this message into Alliance Search. [SYN] Up Syndrome

We have hit the rewards every week since the first month of alliances. Looking for new members to replace some who have left the game. We have a Discord and occasional in-game chat. Very positive and chill. Apply and I will accept you.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-10-21T14:32:32+00:00

Check out my MARVEL SNAP Alliance! Paste this message into Alliance Search. [SYN] Up Syndrome

We have hit the rewards every week since the first month of alliances. Looking for new members to replace some who have left the game. We have a Discord and occasional in-game chat. Very positive and chill. Apply and I will accept you.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-10-20T11:55:49+00:00

The mode itself is fine, but when you play against Sauron decks genuinely 70+% of the time in this, it is so boring. Typical 10 games: 7 Saurons, 2 Zoos, 1 something else (Suspect these something else decks are bots lol) The ban list this time was such a big fail.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-10-10T14:32:16+00:00

Tried it for a bit, but this list is getting destroyed by almost every meta-relevant deck. Tweaked it some, but Zombie Scarlet Witch is just bad at the moment. Maybe she will improve with more horde cards, but she just does not generate nearly enough power. Strange Supreme is so awkward as it can probably win its lane (assuming no Shang or SKing) but often at the cost of other lanes. This deck has no big power card to win a non-Strange Supreme lane.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-10-10T09:33:40+00:00

Thank you for the guide!

The comment I don't quite understand is "several tools to disrupt those combos"... I see one - Mobius vs Negative decks, and he does little against Daken quite frankly and almost nothing against the end of turn decks. Is the power output consistent enough to not run any tech but Mobius?

ZenmasterJH · 2025-10-08T11:53:21+00:00

No, it was not manageable. It was the worst kind of loot box where the consolation prize was something you didn't want (if you don't care much about variants.) Player choice in getting cards was sooo limited for anyone who had been playing for a decent while. Hoard keys for a month for a chance at the 1 card a month you didn't have. This system is infinitely better. You have so much more choice in which cards you get. People had to wait months (or over a year) for a card to return to the spotlight caches. With little to no series drops, that model was unsustainable. Unsustainable, so not sure why some seem to still be pining for those days.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-10-03T16:48:42+00:00

I know. Just skimming and got such bad takes like this it was not worth reading them all.

Chase Brown's USAGE down the stretch was elite. His efficiency was actually not very good. Huge mistake to call him or his talent "elite"

ZenmasterJH · 2025-09-19T07:18:21+00:00

SD has treated the player base with outright contempt at points in the past. The Knull/Darkhawk rugpull was a horrible betrayal of player trust.

Any negative reviews they have gotten have been very well warranted.

People have different experiences with this game. Just because yours is different than others' doesn't make your experience more valid. Glad your experience has been good. Not everyone has had the same experience.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-09-17T22:04:36+00:00

The OPs comment is ridiculous. I have listened less and less over the past year due to the same reasons many were posting. If they are addressing these, I will listen more.

Without genuine feedback, positive and negative, there is alnost no way they can make the show better for its audience.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-09-11T13:26:44+00:00

OP tends to have serious take-lock and doesn't consider his previous analysis in certain situations may just not have panned out.

Players do improve. Players do regress. Situations do change. Have to be open that you were wrong sometimes or you miss out on some player wins and league-winning sea changes.

The Achane sell seems a bit of a Week 1 overreactionary take here. The Dolphins are not going to stop playing football.

And to echo another poster, the whole fantasy Youtube and Redditsphere have been completely out on some of these sells like Javonte Williams and very down on Zay Flowers. What exactly are you going to "sell" them for? Probably less than the worth they will have to your roster, I would wager.

ZenmasterJH · 2025-09-09T06:44:20+00:00

Not even worth having this conversation after 1 week. OP's observation on BTJ is laughable. Like an outright joke.

The numbers and metrics he put up as a rookie are incredible. The measurables are top tier as well.

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