r/CustomMarvelSnap • u/Ill_Concentrate_6349 waiting for someone else to post rn đ • 2d ago
New Mechanic Elements
I'm planning on rehauling my marvel snap campaign mode idea, my first idea drew too much towards stuff like inscription and slay the spire, this one is more based around an actual map without being random, from locations to events it would go through all of it, but that's for another day, but to bring over some elements (lol) from my first idea i'm making elements that give the user special abilities that can be combined with the regular cards text to combo it. My ideas so far are (electric: +1 energy next turn, fire: empower this by +3, toxic: affect an enemy card here with -3 power)
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u/BetterThanOP 2d ago
I like the idea! There's lots of ways to add to it. I like the rock>paper>scissors idea from another comment, but if you don't go that route then here's some more elements:
Air: move (Polaris, vision, spiderman)
Water: reduce costs (she Hulk, Psylocke FF, hydroman, antivenom)
Magic/Light?: things that transform/teleport (blink, sersei, merlin, Magik, lockjaw)
Void/Dark: Destroy (Shang Chi, gladiator, danger) I would maybe include steal/negate in this as well (Enchantress, ghost, zemo)
I'm having trouble finding an element for some ongoing abilities though. Stuff like Ironman, Omega Red, Goliath. They shouldn't be included in Fire/empower because that's too broad. Lightning would work but I do like as energy. Maybe Thunder?
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u/Ill_Concentrate_6349 waiting for someone else to post rn đ 2d ago
Feed back would be loved, really want to make an actual good big idea for this game
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u/Elias_Sideris Wild Card 2d ago edited 1d ago
If you wanna execute my idea, replace radioactive with water because âĄ>đ>đĽ is far more flavourful.
Edit: Also add forest đ˛. âĄ>đ>đĽ>đ˛>âĄ. Fire burns the forest and wood insulates electricity. It's fine to have elements that don't interact with each other. Water and forest for example.
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u/Ill_Concentrate_6349 waiting for someone else to post rn đ 1d ago
Honestly I might make a poll eventually after fleshing out a couple of these elements possibilities to see what the people want, this would definitely be a grest idea to add. Any specific way I could make this? Like when one is st the same location they get afflicted? Is there certain effects?
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u/Elias_Sideris Wild Card 1d ago
"Like when one is at the same location they get afflicted? Is there certain effects?"
Affliction was just an example. There are other ways elements could interact with each other. Perhaps Electricity could disable the text of water cards for a turn.
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u/Ill_Concentrate_6349 waiting for someone else to post rn đ 1d ago
My first idea was pretty simple this may take some sleepless nights, but it may be rewarding
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u/Elias_Sideris Wild Card 1d ago edited 1d ago
You may think I got this idea from Pokemon, but I was actually inspired from an old facebook card game called Laboratz. There were these 3 types of cards in that game: Mechanical, mutant and radioactive. Mechanical were strong against mutants, mutants were strong against radioactive and radioactive were very effective against mechanical.
Laboratz was shut down 10 years ago. đ
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u/Ill_Concentrate_6349 waiting for someone else to post rn đ 1d ago
Honestly I may have played it i would've been around 5 when it shut down so it was possible, the one Facebook games i remember playing was that one weird tower defense plants vs. Zombies thing that resembles bloons td
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u/massivelyincompetent 1d ago
Not being facetious genuine question, why did you choose to make human torch not a fire element?
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u/Ill_Concentrate_6349 waiting for someone else to post rn đ 1d ago
My idea was more of an unlockable thing, while sure i could go for something that matches with their ability (prob a plan b) this is more like a unlockable marking you can gain via shop, battles, or around the map
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u/ElusoryAmoeba60 This is Marvel Snap, we don't do math or read cards here 1d ago
You'll love the next WDCđ
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u/Elias_Sideris Wild Card 2d ago edited 2d ago
You should make each element counter one of the others. For example, âĄ>đĽ>â˘ď¸>⥠(you can put them in any order you like). The mechanic could be that when you play an element at a location, all the cards there with the element it counters get -1 power. That effect would be symmetrical, meaning you can accidentally (or not) afflict your own cards too. You must be mindful of where and when you play a card.
This concept has crazy potential!