In Second Dinner’s cellular card recreation Marvel Snap, one card appears to attract curiosity greater than another: Agatha Harkness. A part of this can be as a result of character’s development in recognition stemming from her function within the Disney Plus sequence WandaVision, which led to the creation of spin-off sequence Agatha: Coven of Chaos, set to launch in winter of this yr. Nevertheless, it’s much more seemingly as a result of her card’s loopy distinctive potential that sees her play your playing cards for you.
Marvel Snap creator Ben Brode is aware of how particular the Agatha Harkness card is, too, going as far as to say the crew was “terrified for years of this card.” However that uncertainty and instability is definitely the whole level. Brode spoke to Eurogamer in regards to the want for collectible card video games to keep away from making gamers feeling like they’ve seen all of it earlier than.
“You want one thing that blows their thoughts and makes them assume: ‘Maintain on! Something may occur on this recreation! I don’t know what to anticipate! What else do these playing cards do? I’ve to see all of those playing cards now! That is wild!’” Brode informed Eurogamer.
Those that have been enjoying Marvel Snap for the reason that recreation launched in October 2022 have seemingly had that unbelievable second the place they first encounter this card’s potential and understand what’s taking place. What could be extra shocking, although, is that Brode truly doesn’t need you to play the Agatha Harkness card, and the rationale lies in how the witch works.
It seems, Agatha Harkness solely has one factor on her thoughts: enjoying herself. If there’s sufficient Vitality to play her 6-cost card, she’ll play herself. Nevertheless, that sometimes doesn’t occur till the very finish of the sport. Within the meantime, she’ll play the sport for you solely randomly. That’s proper. There’s nothing else to it however full randomization. This information shocked Eurogamer’s Christian Donlan, who requested Brode to make clear.
“Fully randomly,” Brode responded. “She’s going to take a random card, play it to a random location and do it once more and do it once more till she’s out of mana. That’s it.”
Donlan confessed that he tried making use of extra logic to the Harkness card than the cardboard itself was using, a mistake he’s seemingly not alone in making.
“So one in all my theories has been that there’s a quirk together with her as a result of she doesn’t know the right way to play Medusa, who solely is smart should you play her within the center location,” Donlan informed Brode. “Agatha performs Medusa everywhere. Nevertheless it seems I’m studying completely every thing into that? Was that the plan from the phrase go? Full randomness?”
Brode’s recommendation? Don’t depend on Agatha in any respect. However should you do put your religion in her, possibly don’t pair her and Medusa up in the identical deck.
So should you’re not supposed to truly play Agatha, it’s possible you’ll be questioning, why have her in any respect? It’s all a part of that central aim of protecting the collectible card recreation distinctive.
“I’d relatively you don’t play Agatha, truly. I’d relatively you be making laborious selections and attempt to puzzle out the proper play. However we wish there to be this actually distinctive factor within the recreation,” Brode defined to Eurogamer.
And the true magic of the cardboard comes from being on the opposing facet of her, discovering on the finish of a match that it was Agatha you have been enjoying in opposition to all alongside.
“So this card was not Agatha to start with,” Brode reveals. “It was Adam Warlock as soon as upon a time. […] However then WandaVision got here out. And there’s a second—it is a spoiler, I’m sorry. However there’s a second in WandaVision, the place there’s a personality who out of the blue reveals that she was the unhealthy man all alongside.”
And, properly, you in all probability know the way the track goes.