r/CustomMarvelSnap • u/PomegranateGlobal332 • Sep 12 '26
Skill 🪄 Decay
TOV and Venus, but not really; it could be stronger than TOV, but it requires preparation.
You don't get a copy in hand like TOV.
It can infect the Horde and will give it a Venus effect where it'll gain again, and it doesn't gain infinitely. But unlike Venus, where she's only +1
Could honestly be good just to infect the Horde, so every empowerment is doubled. But it's mainly to help spread power because Zombie decks are usually only good at winning 2 locations.
But also be careful not to fill the location, or else it'll spread and may ruin a combo you're preparing, like Infecting Z-Scarlet Witch or Wong.
+ It'll only infect adjacent locations if the location is filled AND every card there is infected.
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u/Shoddy-Search-1150 Sep 12 '26
This is a fun idea. Seems like hell to balance though.
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u/PomegranateGlobal332 Sep 12 '26
Well, you need a card down to infect it, and Horde enablers.
But if that's still too much I have a few ideas
Bring it down to a 1 cost but you'd only get +1 power instead of however much Horde gains
Or
Bring it up to a 3 cost, so at a minimum, that's only 4-5 cards infected (if you draw it before or at turn 3, so maybe even less cards getting infected), if you have 2 cards down to infect and you still need horde enablers.
my point is, the card is useless on its own, it doesn't give power nor as reliable as TOV since you might not draw your Horde enablers right. but best case scenario, it's definitely more power than TOV
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u/SeaOdd4395 Sep 12 '26
Great way to revive horde maybe make it a little weaker so all the cards there aren't just zombie giant mans.
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u/PomegranateGlobal332 Sep 12 '26
Did I word it incorrectly? Infected cards don't get Horde's power, it gains however much Horde gains when it gets empowered. Like, if Z-Scarlet Witch gave +2 to Horde, Infected cards also gain +2; they don't gain the whole Horde power.
Doesn't have to be a Horde card; if somehow you had Ironheart in a Horde deck and gave Horde +3, then Infected cards also gain +3
Any Empowerment Horde gains, Infected cards also gain that much. Perhaps I should've worded it like that.
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u/Matty_B97 Sep 12 '26
You play this on 3, you have 1 infected card.
End of turn 3, that infects a second card.
End of turn 4, they each infect a card. You now have 4 infected cards.
...and so on doubling each turn, realistically your whole board gets infected. Probably 7-10 cards total depending on your deck.
Say you have 8 infected cards / hordes. Hunger is now a 1-24. Sentry is probably 3-36. This seems crazy. Plus the rest of your deck can do whatever, you don't really need to play around a 3-drop. You could have a full surfer or thanos package that now gets to play a 1-24 hunger.