Back in July when I started rambling to my f🌠riends and coworkers about this free-to-play mobile card game called Marvel Snap, I could tell what they were thinking: “Please shut up about this free-to-play mobile card game.". Now Marvel Snap is out, it’s the number one game on the App Store, and everyone who rolled their eyes at me back then can’t stop playing it. Who’s laughing now? It’s me. I’m the one laughing.
Now that I’m no longer the unofficial Marvel Snap spokesperson at TheGamer office, I’ve fallen into more of a mentor role. When you’re as deep into Snap as I am (CL1,436, no big deal) it’s easy to forget how arcane it can be when you’re just starting out. Marvel Snap does a lot of things differently than other card games. That’s what makes it such a great game, but it’s also what can make it difficult to figure out✃. Since everyone has been asking me the same questions, I thought it’d be best to share my knowledge here. This way other people with the same questions can find the answers, and I can start responding to people’s questions with a link to this article. People love when you do that to them, you should try it sometime.
How Do You Get New Cards In Marvel Snap?
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This question and its variant, “When do I get (my favorite character)?” is what everyone wants to know, but Marvel Snap doesn’t do a good job of explaining the finer details. You’ve probably noticed that after every match you’re shown a card from you🦩r deck and invited to upgrade it. When you do, you earn Collection Levels based on the rarity of your newly upgraded card. New cards are unlocked periodically as you increase your Collection Level. That’s the short answer, but there’s a lot more to it.
Snap doesn’t tell you that there are three separate pools, or buckets of cards to collect. Starting at CL18, you will start to earn Pool One cards in a random order as yo൲u gain more levels. Everyone will take a slightly differen🔯t path through this collection, but by the time you reach CL214 you will have all 46 cards in Pool One. The 25 cards in Pool Two are dispersed between CL222-474, at which point you enter Pool Three. Pool Three is never ending and each new card will be added to this group as the game continues to grow, but currently you can finish the entire collection somewhere around CL3000.
If there’s a specific card you’re after, you need to find out what pool it's in. , which lets you type in a character’s name in the search bar to see which Pool they come from,. is a great resource for this. If you’re very lucky, you’ll get them at the front end of the pool, but there’s a chance the card you want will be the very last card you get from its designated pool. Second Dinner is working on a feature that will help players get specific cards they’re after, but for now, grinding Collection Levels is the only way.
Which Cards Should I Upgrade?
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Upgrading cards costs two resources: Credits and Boosters. Credits are earned for doing challenges and increasing your Collection Level, while boosters are earned by increasing your collection level and playing matches. At the end of 🌄a match you will receive a small portion of boosters for a random card in the deck you just played,ไ regardless of whether you win or lose. You need a certain amount of credits and character-specific boosters to upgrade a card, and the price increases as the rarity increases.
I’ve written at lღength about minmaxing your upgrades, but in short, you have two options: you can upgrade whatever cards you want as you accrue enough currency, or you can focus on upgrading a single card over and over forever. The second opt𝔍ion is the most resource-efficient way to earn Collection Levels, but it will cause you to fill your collection with copies of the same card. It also takes a lot of grinding to maintain enough boosters for a single card, so while it’s technically more efficient, there are some downsides.
At the very least, you should make sure that all your common (white) cards get upgraded t♒o uncommon (green) before upgrading anything else. This ensures you’re𒉰 maximizing how many Collection Levels you earn without wasting any credits.
What Should I Spend Gold On?
You can’t use gold to buy the battle pass, so your only options are variants and credits. If you want to speed up your collection, it’s fine to🐷 buy credits. Just keep in mind that you can earn all the credits you need for free. Personally, I save all my gold to buy variants that catch my eye. There’s no wrong answer here, but I’ll offer one word of warning: Don’t pay for fast upgrades. You are paying a premium for free boosters when you could just go earn the boosters by playing games. Fast upgrades are not a good value for your credits,ꦕ I would avoid them entirely.
If you have any more Marvel Snap qu💦estions, you know where to find ཧme.