Marvel Snap is a wonderful marriage of simplicity and complexity. It’s easy in that profitable is only a matter of a getting massive numbers. It’s advanced due to the incalculable quantity doable combos between all the sport’s playing cards and areas. For instance, take the match beneath, during which I got here up quick by 689,754 energy.
Sure, 689,754.
This absurd result’s due to the exponential interactions of the Odin, Wong, Black Panther, and Ironheart playing cards alongside the Onslaught’s Citadel location. Marvel Snap’s math could be onerous to parse when card combos like this appear to soften the sport’s calculations (and take roughly 5 years), however right here’s my finest recollection of what occurred.
Upon taking part in Odin on their closing flip, every of their playing cards in that location with “on reveal” talents reactivated, which incorporates Black Panther’s skill to double his present energy and Ironheart’s energy buff to random teammates. Then, due to Wong, on reveal talents occur twice, so Black Panther and Iron Coronary heart activate once more. Then, due to Onslaught’s Citadel, which causes ongoing results like Wong’s to be doubled, Black Panther and Iron Coronary heart every reactivate twice extra. In different phrases, a single use of Odin’s skill really impacts Black Panther 4 instances due to Wong and Onslaught’s Citadel.
However that’s not all!
Odin’s skill additionally happens on reveal, so Wong’s energy (which continues to be boosted by Onslaught’s Citadel) applies to him as nicely. That implies that Odin does his factor a complete of 4 instances, and every of these reactivations of Black Panther and Iron Coronary heart is multiplied 4 instances.
It took a very very long time for Marvel Snap to determine all this math, and at a sure level the sport appeared to surrender on calculating Black Panther’s true energy. His energy ultimately seems to be 689,730, however gears have been nonetheless turning and the numbers began to blur. However, it doesn’t matter what actually occurred, the very fact is I used to be fully and completely defeated on this match — which is why it was additionally one in all my favourite matches. These kinds of untamed interactions are precisely what makes each match in Marvel Snap so unpredictable and thrilling.