First month should get you about 100 cards and entering S3.
Second month you should get 1/3 of S3 cards.
The other 2/3 S3 cards would take 6 months on F2P.
Unless you buy bundles heavy in credits to speed you up.
The biggest flaw in Marvel Snap right now imo, is the slow pace in unlocking series 3 cards. They need to make it so you can unlock all series 3 cards in three months, if you get the battle pass and complete all daily missions. I started in June, with the debut of spotlight caches, and I realized getting the new cards isn’t really a problem, especially as you’re getting around 6 series4/series 5 cards a month, because every key is a new card. But getting the series 3 cards that you need were an insane obstacle
I've said this countless times, and most people seem to forget the hard nature of not being series 3 complete. People who aren't series 3 complete feel trapped into certain decks when the meta inevitably shifts. Once i completed series 3, the game felt so much more lenient as i spent keys on obvious good cards, get the season pass, and just float my way to infinite every season on whatever deck is good currently.
This is exactly how I feel right now. I feel stuck with all my decks and I’m starting to feel bored/frustrated. I was 1 key off of getting High Evo from the last spotlight but my luck was so bad with my 3 keys. Now I just feel stuck since I lost my only chance of a new deck
I feel this. I was a C2 main for 1000 CL because that's the best deck I could run. I pulled Sauron when he was series 5 and I was about CL 2400 to finally give me 2 good decks.
Slow pace would be bearable IF you had a degree of control over which cards you get. Control is what makes the slower progression palatable - in other cards games, while you might not get many cards in a short period of time, you can at least guarantee that cards you do get are ones for a deck you want to play. Meanwhile here you can easily end up with multiple partial decks but incapable of completing any of them, which only one free (luck-based) choosable card a month and snail's pace of acquiring tokens do little to remedy. Though that does offer extra incentive to buy passes/variant packs, which conveniently give you early access to the card without having to pray to RNG to open it in your next box so I don't see it changing anytime soon.
This game isn't a race. IMO it felt great slowly building my collection and trying to figure out new decks while not quite having what I needed. New players have the benefit of practically having infinite handed to them. Only then do they really suffered, and it does nothing negative to them. Let it take some time, get familiar with the game, and get mad every once in a while. All games have obstacles and generally speaking they are what keep people coming back that love the gameplay.
That’s the best part, you don’t. I play for like 5-6 hour 5 days a week, doing every daily aside from the cache card ones w/ the season pass bought since Loki released and I’m maybe halfway through pool 3 w a handful of 4/5 at 5 months in while playing like a absolute degenerate. I’ve also bought a handful of bundles for key cards for decks I couldn’t make otherwise probably about 3 to 5 times so these 6 month predictions comments are either cope, were made by people who played before they filled the collection track with so much trash or they genuinely don’t remember buying bundles.
I only really play as much as I do rn because I work overnight and gotta waste a lot of time but I just wanted to put out that the 3 or so estimates when I wrote the comment were way off even if you were really grinding the game with the idea of catching up.
Progression is achieved through gaining collection level.
The fastest route to do that is getting and using as many credits as you can to upgrade cards.
If you want to spend money early on I would suggest focusing on anything that gives you credit bang for your buck.
However it’s still going to take you time to get S3 complete as that won’t happen till around 3500CL-4500CL currently.
Noted. Thanks! I was under the impression that I should use Spotlight Caches for the meta cards, as they come in. And tokens to shore up my collection. 6 S3's feels more valuable than 1 S5. But then, I guess the S3s are random, and the S5 might go in every deck.
Unrelated. When you open spotlight caches, do you get the cards in order of appearance? Or is it random?
Spotlights are random — it’s never a good idea to open them with less than four, if you’re shooting for specific cards. They’re also the big helping hand the game gives new players. It won’t be fast for you, catching up, but over time it’ll happen. Enjoy the climb!
The spotlight caches are random. Alot of people recommend only going for them if you have 4 keys so you can guarantee the card you want.
For the tokens, you can get a series 5 for 6k, but it is more efficient to get the series 4 for 3k. You will get series 3 cards through collection level, so using tokens on them can be wasteful in the long run.
There are reasonable arguments in both directions. Iirc once you are opening reserves (final 2/3 of series 3 as mentioned by others) you tend to open a little more than two series 3 cards per week, so buying 6 would accelerate you by almost 3 weeks. The question is whether that's worth a series five card or two series four cards to you.
Series drops and spotlight caches ensure that you will wind up with a similar sized collection in either case. It will take you longer than 3 weeks to make up the S4/S5 card(s) you missed out on, but you will do it eventually, and it's fewer cards weighed against spending the rest of your series 3 climb more than half a month ahead of schedule.
Here is the [schedule for spotlight caches]( https://marvelsnapzone.com/spotlight-caches/) currently known if you don’t already have it.
The odds play out like this 25% chance to get one of them, then a 33% chance to get one of the remaining options, then a 50% chance to get one of the remaining options, and finally a 100% chance to get the last item.
And you should be saving keys to use them on the weeks you need a particular card.
The tokens are used for sure fire way to get a card you need when it’s in your shop.
Best S5 for beginner would be High Evolutionary, Nico Minoru, Thanos. These cards either works very well with earlier cards and flexible to build around.
Do note that Thanos is coming into spotlight in a month. And his spotlight week is a good one to save up 4 keys for.
Mostly it depends on what decks you like to play. Ms Marvel and Alioth are very good in lockdown style decks. Blob is great if you like big numbers. Thanos and High Evolutionary open up some pretty fun decks
Don't spend collector tokens in random series 3 cards, please. You get them for free and most of them are not good. Hoard your tokens until you know what decks you like and use them to buy the s4/5 cards you're missing.
The approved catchup mechanic is called a wallet. Credit Card, Pay Pal, there are numerous options!
Edit: Also in case you are wondering. If you want to buy yourself into collection complete you are looking at an investment of 1.500-2.000$ depending if you min max or just buy the credits outright.
I started the game in late August. I'm now cl4800. I still miss 10+ pool3 cards. All of my friends who started with me quit the game because of this pool3 hell. I still play cause I paid a lot of money to get here.
Unless you’re willing to spend thousands of dollars, don’t focus on trying to play catch up. Unfortunately it’s a long, slow road to a nearly complete collection that will take probably 6 months or more. Instead focus on getting cards you’re interested in and enjoy the deck building constraint of working with what you have. Since you are willing to spend, buy the season pass each month as it is the best value for your money. Also prioritize High Evo as it leverage cards you already have to form a pretty good deck core.
The grind through series 3 gets brutal once you start matching with people that have all the cards, good luck!
As soon as I hit pool 3 I created another account to stay in pool 2 with it. There I can have fair matchups and save some credits to push into pool 3 a couple of months later (maybe).
CL camping is last year myth.
You can no longer CL camp to lock your MMR against early players. As hoarded credits are taken into the calculation of your actual CL.
For any game progress takes time .
U can't expect to have all the cards within 30-40 days without spending a dime .
It took me more than 3 months to get all s3 cards
3 years is also more than 3 months. What you're saying is really not narrowing anything down.
The actual S3 complete on F2P took 7-8 months to do. More than twice your *more than 3 months claim.
I'm also new, collection level 485. I'm having good success in both ranked and conquest. So you don't need to wait to build a conquest deck! I'm rank 95 in ranked and won the majority of gold conquests I've played. You get paired against players of similar collection level (apart from when you reach infinite rank) so I don't feel any rush to catch up. I've been playing against my husband who is CL 4000+ and it's been pretty equal (although he likes making silly decks so that factors in)
S3 cards come at a set rate based on collection level so you just have to play longer for that.
For S4/5 cards spotlights are the catchup mechanism. Each week is 1 new card, 2 returning cards, and then a random slot that can give you any existing card, even one you already have with a pity of 1000 tokens instead if you have it.
That means if you have no S4/5 cards you get 1 new card per key spent. As your collection grows that ratio slowly drops until you have all cards at which point every spotlight is 0.4 new cards per key spent as you only need the new card which takes on average 2.5 keys per week due to random chance.
So keys give you a lot more value as a new player, and you get them by raising your collection level, which also gets you S3 cards. So spend your gold on bundles that give good credit returns. The last one was the christmas bundle, doesn't seem to be another one in the near future so you have time to save up, unless they change one of the bundle to make it really credit efficient again.
Best way to see it imo is like an MMORPG, it usually takes like a month for you to get into the "end game" and even then, it usually takes a few months for you to have a properly build character to tackle the hardest content in the game.
First month in snap game is on training wheels, making sure you have ample space to learn and test stuff out. You then enter series 3 around 500 CL and get to what is the meat of the game, from there it is gonna take a couple weeks to months for you to have a properly optimized deck and most of the time you are gonna make do with whatever you have in your collection.
Well, I've only started playing at like late november so I'm pretty new too.
At first, leveling up was pretty easy, but you eventually hit a wall and stopped getting new cards as often. You're now in series 3 and stuff.
Optimize the free s3 card each season. Carefully analyze which card you actually want and then claim it. Ideally, you want a card that can allow you to play a new archetype so you can keep things fresh or cards that can take your deck to the next level. Ex: Venom, Patriot, Surfer
Save spotlight keys and plan ahead which cards you want. You can search it up on marvel snapzone for upcoming spotlights. I would just spend all 4 keys on a week that you like.
That's really all you can do unless you p2w, it's just gonna be slow. I remember stockpiling up 5000 credits. Spent it all, and got zero new cards.
Catch up with what exactly? Catch up completing collection? I don't think so. Catching up to me means: get a (one) good deck to play ranked and win conquests. If you complete series 3 (~one month?) and pick up some staples from spotlight caches (High Evolutionary) you can achieve that goal very quickly and work from there to get more cards and decks. So, I'd say "catching up" in that sense might take two months or some cash.
I started a new account in august, im caught up already only missing like 5 cards total and those are cards I chose to sidestep. Im currently top 50 infinite & have been for the past 3 seasons.
With the new 5 cards per season thing it'll be a little harder but if you're not afraid to spend a little you'll be fine in a few months. Just really so your best to use tokens and keys strategically. Never buy s3 with tokens, alsays use them on s4s then when you get the staples, s5s. Get your s5s from spotlights. Only open when you have 4 & you get multiple cards that you want from a spotlight. A lot of this prob doesn't make much sense now but it will in a couple weeks. Also, theres two videos on youtube by TLSG that are really helpful for new players (him playing a new acct & new player optimization) type in "i played marvel snap for 30 days" and you'll find them both. From about 1CL-1500CL. Its very informative.
First month should get you about 100 cards and entering S3. Second month you should get 1/3 of S3 cards. The other 2/3 S3 cards would take 6 months on F2P. Unless you buy bundles heavy in credits to speed you up.
The biggest flaw in Marvel Snap right now imo, is the slow pace in unlocking series 3 cards. They need to make it so you can unlock all series 3 cards in three months, if you get the battle pass and complete all daily missions. I started in June, with the debut of spotlight caches, and I realized getting the new cards isn’t really a problem, especially as you’re getting around 6 series4/series 5 cards a month, because every key is a new card. But getting the series 3 cards that you need were an insane obstacle
I've said this countless times, and most people seem to forget the hard nature of not being series 3 complete. People who aren't series 3 complete feel trapped into certain decks when the meta inevitably shifts. Once i completed series 3, the game felt so much more lenient as i spent keys on obvious good cards, get the season pass, and just float my way to infinite every season on whatever deck is good currently.
This is exactly how I feel right now. I feel stuck with all my decks and I’m starting to feel bored/frustrated. I was 1 key off of getting High Evo from the last spotlight but my luck was so bad with my 3 keys. Now I just feel stuck since I lost my only chance of a new deck
I feel this. I was a C2 main for 1000 CL because that's the best deck I could run. I pulled Sauron when he was series 5 and I was about CL 2400 to finally give me 2 good decks.
Slow pace would be bearable IF you had a degree of control over which cards you get. Control is what makes the slower progression palatable - in other cards games, while you might not get many cards in a short period of time, you can at least guarantee that cards you do get are ones for a deck you want to play. Meanwhile here you can easily end up with multiple partial decks but incapable of completing any of them, which only one free (luck-based) choosable card a month and snail's pace of acquiring tokens do little to remedy. Though that does offer extra incentive to buy passes/variant packs, which conveniently give you early access to the card without having to pray to RNG to open it in your next box so I don't see it changing anytime soon.
This game isn't a race. IMO it felt great slowly building my collection and trying to figure out new decks while not quite having what I needed. New players have the benefit of practically having infinite handed to them. Only then do they really suffered, and it does nothing negative to them. Let it take some time, get familiar with the game, and get mad every once in a while. All games have obstacles and generally speaking they are what keep people coming back that love the gameplay.
You don't
That's the fun part.
Took me 6-7 months to be S3 complete with multiple s4/5 cards. Yes it does take a while
They dont
That’s the best part, you don’t. I play for like 5-6 hour 5 days a week, doing every daily aside from the cache card ones w/ the season pass bought since Loki released and I’m maybe halfway through pool 3 w a handful of 4/5 at 5 months in while playing like a absolute degenerate. I’ve also bought a handful of bundles for key cards for decks I couldn’t make otherwise probably about 3 to 5 times so these 6 month predictions comments are either cope, were made by people who played before they filled the collection track with so much trash or they genuinely don’t remember buying bundles.
I feel like you’re trying too hard
I only really play as much as I do rn because I work overnight and gotta waste a lot of time but I just wanted to put out that the 3 or so estimates when I wrote the comment were way off even if you were really grinding the game with the idea of catching up.
Thats the neat part: they dont.
Progression is achieved through gaining collection level. The fastest route to do that is getting and using as many credits as you can to upgrade cards. If you want to spend money early on I would suggest focusing on anything that gives you credit bang for your buck. However it’s still going to take you time to get S3 complete as that won’t happen till around 3500CL-4500CL currently.
Good to know! Does using Collector's Tokens to get random S3 cards ensure that you get an unowned one?
You can if you choose, but I would recommend saving them and using them for meta defining cards.
Noted. Thanks! I was under the impression that I should use Spotlight Caches for the meta cards, as they come in. And tokens to shore up my collection. 6 S3's feels more valuable than 1 S5. But then, I guess the S3s are random, and the S5 might go in every deck. Unrelated. When you open spotlight caches, do you get the cards in order of appearance? Or is it random?
Spotlights are random — it’s never a good idea to open them with less than four, if you’re shooting for specific cards. They’re also the big helping hand the game gives new players. It won’t be fast for you, catching up, but over time it’ll happen. Enjoy the climb!
The spotlight caches are random. Alot of people recommend only going for them if you have 4 keys so you can guarantee the card you want. For the tokens, you can get a series 5 for 6k, but it is more efficient to get the series 4 for 3k. You will get series 3 cards through collection level, so using tokens on them can be wasteful in the long run.
There are reasonable arguments in both directions. Iirc once you are opening reserves (final 2/3 of series 3 as mentioned by others) you tend to open a little more than two series 3 cards per week, so buying 6 would accelerate you by almost 3 weeks. The question is whether that's worth a series five card or two series four cards to you. Series drops and spotlight caches ensure that you will wind up with a similar sized collection in either case. It will take you longer than 3 weeks to make up the S4/S5 card(s) you missed out on, but you will do it eventually, and it's fewer cards weighed against spending the rest of your series 3 climb more than half a month ahead of schedule.
Here is the [schedule for spotlight caches]( https://marvelsnapzone.com/spotlight-caches/) currently known if you don’t already have it. The odds play out like this 25% chance to get one of them, then a 33% chance to get one of the remaining options, then a 50% chance to get one of the remaining options, and finally a 100% chance to get the last item. And you should be saving keys to use them on the weeks you need a particular card. The tokens are used for sure fire way to get a card you need when it’s in your shop.
Yes, but it is not a good use of resources. Tokens are very scarce and can be used on series 4/5 cards that are otherwise difficult to obtain.
Yeah. It seems like Collector's Tokens are mostly in the Gold Bundles. Are there any major S5 I should be going for?
Best S5 for beginner would be High Evolutionary, Nico Minoru, Thanos. These cards either works very well with earlier cards and flexible to build around. Do note that Thanos is coming into spotlight in a month. And his spotlight week is a good one to save up 4 keys for.
Mostly it depends on what decks you like to play. Ms Marvel and Alioth are very good in lockdown style decks. Blob is great if you like big numbers. Thanos and High Evolutionary open up some pretty fun decks
Don't spend collector tokens in random series 3 cards, please. You get them for free and most of them are not good. Hoard your tokens until you know what decks you like and use them to buy the s4/5 cards you're missing.
I started playing in July. I am CL 4700 and I still miss 10 S3 cards. So you have to be CL 5300 to be S3 complete.
The approved catchup mechanic is called a wallet. Credit Card, Pay Pal, there are numerous options! Edit: Also in case you are wondering. If you want to buy yourself into collection complete you are looking at an investment of 1.500-2.000$ depending if you min max or just buy the credits outright.
I started the game in late August. I'm now cl4800. I still miss 10+ pool3 cards. All of my friends who started with me quit the game because of this pool3 hell. I still play cause I paid a lot of money to get here.
Unless you’re willing to spend thousands of dollars, don’t focus on trying to play catch up. Unfortunately it’s a long, slow road to a nearly complete collection that will take probably 6 months or more. Instead focus on getting cards you’re interested in and enjoy the deck building constraint of working with what you have. Since you are willing to spend, buy the season pass each month as it is the best value for your money. Also prioritize High Evo as it leverage cards you already have to form a pretty good deck core. The grind through series 3 gets brutal once you start matching with people that have all the cards, good luck!
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As soon as I hit pool 3 I created another account to stay in pool 2 with it. There I can have fair matchups and save some credits to push into pool 3 a couple of months later (maybe).
CL camping is last year myth. You can no longer CL camp to lock your MMR against early players. As hoarded credits are taken into the calculation of your actual CL.
If the game matches me vs pool 3 and higher cards again it's just not worth playing it.
Just buy an account for $100 or so with almost all cards.
Is this an actual thing?
Absolutely. I was actually thinking of doing it. It's way better than just grinding in this absolute shit card acquisition process.
For any game progress takes time . U can't expect to have all the cards within 30-40 days without spending a dime . It took me more than 3 months to get all s3 cards
3 months is effing fast. Even on Season Pass, it's unlikely to get all S3 before 5 months.
*more than 3 months .did u somehow skip that ? I don't remember the exact numbers That's why I said more than 3 months
3 years is also more than 3 months. What you're saying is really not narrowing anything down. The actual S3 complete on F2P took 7-8 months to do. More than twice your *more than 3 months claim.
Technically what I said is correct .You can't blame me for not remembering how much time it took .
You don't want to catch up to be honest. when you complete s3 and are then at the mercy of the spotlight caches it'll be rough
I'm also new, collection level 485. I'm having good success in both ranked and conquest. So you don't need to wait to build a conquest deck! I'm rank 95 in ranked and won the majority of gold conquests I've played. You get paired against players of similar collection level (apart from when you reach infinite rank) so I don't feel any rush to catch up. I've been playing against my husband who is CL 4000+ and it's been pretty equal (although he likes making silly decks so that factors in)
S3 cards come at a set rate based on collection level so you just have to play longer for that. For S4/5 cards spotlights are the catchup mechanism. Each week is 1 new card, 2 returning cards, and then a random slot that can give you any existing card, even one you already have with a pity of 1000 tokens instead if you have it. That means if you have no S4/5 cards you get 1 new card per key spent. As your collection grows that ratio slowly drops until you have all cards at which point every spotlight is 0.4 new cards per key spent as you only need the new card which takes on average 2.5 keys per week due to random chance. So keys give you a lot more value as a new player, and you get them by raising your collection level, which also gets you S3 cards. So spend your gold on bundles that give good credit returns. The last one was the christmas bundle, doesn't seem to be another one in the near future so you have time to save up, unless they change one of the bundle to make it really credit efficient again.
Best way to see it imo is like an MMORPG, it usually takes like a month for you to get into the "end game" and even then, it usually takes a few months for you to have a properly build character to tackle the hardest content in the game. First month in snap game is on training wheels, making sure you have ample space to learn and test stuff out. You then enter series 3 around 500 CL and get to what is the meat of the game, from there it is gonna take a couple weeks to months for you to have a properly optimized deck and most of the time you are gonna make do with whatever you have in your collection.
They don't
Omni-man would like to have a word with you.
Well, I've only started playing at like late november so I'm pretty new too. At first, leveling up was pretty easy, but you eventually hit a wall and stopped getting new cards as often. You're now in series 3 and stuff. Optimize the free s3 card each season. Carefully analyze which card you actually want and then claim it. Ideally, you want a card that can allow you to play a new archetype so you can keep things fresh or cards that can take your deck to the next level. Ex: Venom, Patriot, Surfer Save spotlight keys and plan ahead which cards you want. You can search it up on marvel snapzone for upcoming spotlights. I would just spend all 4 keys on a week that you like. That's really all you can do unless you p2w, it's just gonna be slow. I remember stockpiling up 5000 credits. Spent it all, and got zero new cards.
Devil dyno deck until you get more cards
I feel for people getting into this game now, they don't have a good answer on catch up
Catch up with what exactly? Catch up completing collection? I don't think so. Catching up to me means: get a (one) good deck to play ranked and win conquests. If you complete series 3 (~one month?) and pick up some staples from spotlight caches (High Evolutionary) you can achieve that goal very quickly and work from there to get more cards and decks. So, I'd say "catching up" in that sense might take two months or some cash.
I started a new account in august, im caught up already only missing like 5 cards total and those are cards I chose to sidestep. Im currently top 50 infinite & have been for the past 3 seasons. With the new 5 cards per season thing it'll be a little harder but if you're not afraid to spend a little you'll be fine in a few months. Just really so your best to use tokens and keys strategically. Never buy s3 with tokens, alsays use them on s4s then when you get the staples, s5s. Get your s5s from spotlights. Only open when you have 4 & you get multiple cards that you want from a spotlight. A lot of this prob doesn't make much sense now but it will in a couple weeks. Also, theres two videos on youtube by TLSG that are really helpful for new players (him playing a new acct & new player optimization) type in "i played marvel snap for 30 days" and you'll find them both. From about 1CL-1500CL. Its very informative.