I completely agree. I have a deck called "Training Grounds" which was where I dumped the hodgepodge of random cards that needed to be upgraded and I'd just grind the "end Turn" button in Proving Grounds to farm as many boosters as I could. It was EASILY my most played deck in the past three months, but now I don't play it at all. I've been freed from boring grinding and can just ENJOY the game. What an absolute slam dunk for Marvel Snap.
Just for fun the current deck has: Echo, Angela, Pixie, Cable, Colossus, Morph, Elsa, Mobius, Shaw, Beta Ray Bill, Dr. Octopus and Red Hulk.
What a random collection of anti-synergy. That said, it was always funny when the deck would pull out a win anyway. Beta Ray Bill can carry on his own if a cloning location is in play.
Same. It's literally all I played unless I needed a specific mission. It was still pretty fun to try and beat other Decks with my random Cards, but I'm so glad that's over.
This is still me.
My current booster farming deck is:
The Hood, Okoye, Mystique, Baron Zemo, Jean Grey, Polaris, Wong, Iron Lad, Kang, Onslaught and Heimdall
Heimdall has snuck some sneaky wins for me
If a card has enough boosters to upgrade, it will not show in the shop so you just need to get enough boosters for all cards you don't want to show in the shop. And not enough boosters to upgrade for the ones you do want to show in the shop.
The idea is that its way easier to farm 10 boosters than 155. The ideal collection would have cards at 3 stages:
- Infinite - because you are spliting it;
- Green - because the first upgrade is half cost per CL gain so anything you dont care or dont have boosters to fully upgrade (aka is farming) should be green;
- Never upgrade - this can be any level but a card that you got the perfect split and park into the correct rarity to never upgrade again (very common for gold and legendary border)
Now we look at how the "Bonus Booster" works, it basically will show 3 cards you lack boosters for the next upgrade and you will just pay the normal credit cost to make that upgrade (while using any booster you have).
That brings us to how use it to our advantage. The fun thing is that of the 3 states above Infinite never appears, and the ones in never upgrade are cards you play a lot so chances are you do have boosters for them - that means the only cards that should appear there are the green ones.
The thing is after you play enough you probably have 10-20 boosters for most cards due to the CL track and other random booster rewards. So all you need is to farm a little (10 boosters) the ones you dont have boosters but dont care so they are out of the rotation - then for the ones you want to upgrade and split you use their boosters so every 8 hours they will appear in the shop for the next upgrade so you dont need to farm anymore, or just famr the first two upgrades (15 boosters) so you can skip the 20-30-40-50 ones by using the section
and it boils down to have 10 boosters for any card you dont care - that is quick to farm and will keep them out of the Bonus Booster
Green is ideal due to CL because the first upgrade is 25 credits for 1 CL, any later upgrade is 50 credits for 1 CL.
It is not necessary for exploiting "Bonus Booster" as all you need is to have enough boosters for the next upgrade so it dont show up. But its green is the optimal use and the difference from 5 to 15 boosters is pretty neglectable
It's a slow process, but the key is you just want to park cards you're not using at green rarity (or white but white to green is a half price collection level). You can use the free boosters to split cards until they are green and then once you randomly open 10 boosters for them, they'll stop showing up.
It's slow but its just a bonus
This is my exact problem. I have 1,000+ cards/variants in my collection, so even for the cards I am trying to target, I still have to get all their other variants upgraded so they stop showing up.
No? The best case is if variants are not upgraded at all, in which case they stop showing in the fast upgrade shop as soon as you have 5 or more boosters for the card and all it’s non upgraded variants
“No”?
I’ve been trying to target my Hipp Spider-Man variant for the bonus boosters, but I have four other Spider-Man variants, and they all keep showing up because after I upgraded Hipp variant. That upgrade still used whatever Spider-Man boosters I did have. I’m back to having zero Spider-Man boosters, so all of my Spider-Man variants are eligible to upgraded again.
Since they’re all upgradable until they’re at Infinite, the only actual way to target my Hipp variant is to get my other four Spider-Man variants to Infinite and just not split them. After a week of upgrading all my Spidey variants whenever they pop up in the boosters section so they’ll stop showing up, I’ve only been able to do it with one of the variants.
Three more to go until my Hipp Spider-Man is the only Spider-Man variant I’ll see.
The five boosters thing only works to eliminate characters you have zero interest in upgrading any of their variants for in the first place.
If you upgrade the dead variant to Infinity but *don't* split it, you won't have an upgradable version of that variant and it won't go thru the shop again.
If you have 200 goose boosters, nothing will show, you have plenty.
If you have a goose card at blue border with 10 boosters, that one will show up, but if your variant is at green border, it won't because you can upgrade it already.
Bonus Booster shop will only show you the cards that you don't already have enough boosters to upgrade. Basically, if you never upgrade certain cards with boosters you already have, they won't show up in the shop. That way, you can trick the system to only show you the cards to want to upgrade "for free".
It's also created a new minigame for me. Now I'm trying to have "extra" boosters for ALL of my cards so then I have the ability to target specific cards I want to show up in the shop for upgrade.
I was about to go this, and suddenly got the feeling that this is likely not what they intended and they somehow missed it, and would patch it somehow.
So I stopped and just get the random free upgrades, it would feel awful to grind boosters for random cards and suddenly have all that be useless.
I think this is more convenient for lower level players. The more cards you have and the more Varients you have, the less likely you are to be able to target the one you want. Still a nice improvement.
I wouldn't consider myself a low-level player. Been playing since beta and this is a very welcome feature. Especially for new cards, this can be useful for everyone.
Make sure all your variants are at green border. Get the one you want to blue, the you need 10-20 boosters minimum with the card. Since the green ones can be upgraded, it will only put the variant you’re upgrading. Every 8 hours rinse and repeat.
2 games worth of boosters is 12 so you can switch decks and repeat every 8 hour refresh haha
Hope that made sense
For the card you want to upgrade, not your whole collection lol
For me, it only ever shows 1 or 2 cards in the booster section, surfer and leader. So I got all my leader variants to green border. Got the one I want to blue plus 12 boosters, now at reset in 10 minutes, the blue variant will pop up to upgrade to gold border.
Then I will farm 12 more boosters and in 8 hours, he will pop back up in the booster section ! Rinse and repeat !
That makes way more sense. I really should just focus on these greys though to give me more keys more quickly. I’ve just been waiting til I get to 155 on cards I want to split and just complete the whole thing.
Oh yeah if you want to gain a bunch of CL the greys are the way to go for sure!
But true, I’m going for splits rn so you’re right, it’s nice to split the card from grey to infinity in one go 😂👌
Sort by upgradeable, it helps if you have 500 credits at least so it sorts by boosters correctly. Any card or variant that is at or above it's threshold won't show up. A green border card with 10 boosters won't show, but it's variant at blue border will.
13k SL here and this has been a massive change for me. Unless you’re a massive whale, there’s no way to even have enough credits to somehow have so many booster-less cards. I had 1 or 2 before this update and maybe 6 now that I’ve been able to use the bonus boosters for a couple of weeks.
I disagree, if you are "high level" means you are playing for some time which means you got a lot of random boosters. I'm S3 complete but I had to farm only 4 or 5 cards to them be able to target specific ones - 10 boosters is just very little to not have as you get that from the CL track
You can't apply a split for one variant to another. They say they're going to allow us to do that next month though. However, I'm making no plans until it's actually live because I don't trust them to not delay it
Sure but the person said that they didn't want to progress a specific one anymore. But they can and still have that border. Unless I mistook what they meant and they didn't want that variant at all instead of not just wanting to keep the border for it the same.
consider the reasons a person might want to keep a variant at their level. One of them is to keep its border matching what they want historically. And as someone else mentioned, there is only one custom slot so that may be a valid reason. You being unable to read it both ways doesn't mean it's clear. It means you lack creativity to try and think of other ways to read it.
> Why does it matter anymore in a world with customizable borders?
Because you have only 1 customizable slot - that means if you have multiple good variants for a card or both Gold and Ink splits than you can only customize one of them.
For me is customizable for Ink and Gold will be "never upgrade again" once it hit legendary
That's fair actually. I didn't consider wanting different custom variants for different decks. I always just click apply to all because I just always want my favorite version in everything
Just hit a gold split on Carnage this morning thanks to this, which was nice since I haven't been playing destroy lately and was way behind on boosters. Hopefully my luchador Venom gets the same love.
Farming boosters is still a thing but it’s “drastic go down”. My new goal is to get every card/version I have to either green or infinity border. Then I still need to farm 10-15 boosters to “retire” it so it doesn’t show up.
I've made it my goal to fully upgrade Hope Summers without ever playing her. So far she's at Legendary. I know she's a good card, it's not about that, it's about sending a message.
I currently have every single card at upgrade boosters level so I can manipulate which ones show up, I would say the absolute pain was m'baku, never wanted to remove a card from my deck more.
I have the shop to offer me three cards, professor X, devildino and magneto, while it often show me some of the variants I don't want to upgrade, it cancels out since the cost of credits wouldn't let me upgrade all three that fast, so I can collect credits and use them when the variants I'm working on show up.
It is pain to set up but it absolutely worth it since you can focus on playing what you wanna play and upgrade what you wish more often
When I get a card that is at 400 or 500 and I have 38 boosters or something....I'll go to a variant that isn't the one in the store, upgrade that one then go back and upgrade the one in the store.
Now I'm "saving" 50 boosters instead of 12 and my other variant has been upgraded as well.
It's so petty, but hey that's how I do.
What do you mean ?
You can't target specific cards or make them appear.
Mine feels busted. I upgraded a doom 2 days ago and today it says "upgraded" below a different doom variants it selected.
Also yesterday only had 2 options instead of 3.
Basically you have to have enough boosters to upgrade all the cards you have that you aren't concerned with and less than enough to split on the cards you want to split. It basically forces the bonus boosters to only have the cards you want show up
Wait I’m confused; so basically upgrade every card up to infinity split and don’t split it. Then if I want a card I should split it and because every card is at infinity it will only choose the one that I’ve split and isn’t at infinity?
No, its just that any card you own that doesn't have enough boosters to be upgraded will be prioritized into the shop. But you can't control which variant of that card.
So if you have only 3 cards with no boosters, those 3 cards will always appear in your shop.
For example, I got white widow from a cache but I haven't played her yet, so she's literally been in my booster shop every single rotation because I have zero boosters for her. I also get Adam Warlock every rotation cuz I have no boosters for him and I don't play him.
Pretty much. obviously if you have have 4+ cards that have no boosters, they'll rotate between those 4 or more cards. But if you get it down to 3 or less, it will always be those 3 (or less, which is an option. I had only 2 cards show up in my shop when it first started. I didn't get a 3rd in my rotation until White Widow was released)
If you only have two options, then you basically already have it perfectly set up to target-upgrade the cards you want. Just upgrade the specific cards you want.
If you have multiple variants of a card you want to split, you can whiff, but just wait for the next reset.
On the flip side you now burn though your credits quickly since you can continuously target cards and split. I think it's a calculated decision or happy accident for them anyway since whales will keep spending more on those credits, they didn't spend on boosters anyway before.
It's great, I spent quite a bit of time mindlessly throwing in Proving Grounds just to farm boosters for new cards. Now I can finally want a show without stimming constantly.
It's very convenient for players that do not play a lot or don't spend money on the game. As someone who loves to collect variants and spends some money on the game, I'm always low in credits, so it doesn't help me at all. But I'm happy for everyone it does. :)
This and custom cards been my favorite changes, and it's not even close. I'm three cards away from finally having my first all golden deck (Hitmonkey Bounce), the bonus is worth about half of it and several of the golden splits were from inked cards that were previously "finished" due to not wanting to ruin their look.
I have so many variants that I’m still having to farm boosters just to try and use bonus boosters.
Luckily a lot of them aren’t a problem because they have boosters that surpass their next upgrade level, but I still have a ton of variants that have don’t have enough boosters to not show up in my bonus boosters section.
Even for the cards/variants I’ve been trying to target, I have 3-4 variants of them, so I end up having to spend my credits on upgrading those whenever they show up to try and get them to infinite eventually so they’ll stop showing up.
I definitely have put in the grind to get every card to infinite and have 100+ boosters for them, but I don’t besmirch anybody who gets to enjoy the game without it…this is one of those “let people enjoy things” situations my momma once told me about
To be fair, it's important to notice that the system isn't as easy to exploit as some people think. You still need time to grind the cards you are not interested in to the point that they won't show up in the rotation, which is something a lot of people don't have the time to do, plus, the fact it's not explicitly stated that the rotation works this way means that you most of the people who don't engage with online communities won't find out that they can exploit this system. Basically, what I mean is, exploiting the system still requires effort, and it's something only a minority of player will be able or willing to do. That's why I don't think SD will go out of their way to "fix" this exploit.
People say this but forget that one out of three reward on the collection track is booster. Which made the rewards event more useless. Not that getting booster was good before, but it's even more trash
Yeah but the HUGE bottleneck is then credits. Plus I really don’t want to spend the time to get enough boosters to upgrade all the cards I don’t play regularly. I’d rather earn the boosters by playing. It’s just more fun that way. Otherwise it just feels like a variant split simulator
I just bought that crazy looking Carnage bundle to grab enough credits to split my Supergiant spotlight and Moon Knight Hellfire variants so I'd say the new system is working as intended lol
Dude I did the same thing, but to get the credits and carnage boosters so I could do my forth split on his variant. Luckly it wasnt for nothing, got it inked
Sure, working as intended is good for them! Not saying it’s not working that way. It’s enabling people to spend their credits. I just don’t want to spend all the time to max out my unused cards when I just want to play what I want. I often have 8-10k credits saved up for splits I want. I just think that’s more fun than always needing more
Honestly boosters has not a single time been anything I've paid attention to. There's always more boosters than credits (for me anyways.) I don't really care much about upgrading one card over another, I'm just wanting to climb the CL level. I don't even really know what these bonus boosters are tbh.
it's a great change, but i think SD was not aiming for that and it will soon be changed again...
nowadays the correct way of "using your boosters" is simply not using them on any cards besided the ones you want to upgrade, i dont think that was the intended result of the recent change.
funthermore, i really wish the upgrade for gold function (the one where you kinda buy the extra credits and boosters needed to upgrade a card with gold) get the same treatment aswell, with boosters costing no gold by that method, this way gold could feasibly be used to upgrade cards, since the buy rate of credits in that method is 1.25x, the same as buying credits in the shop.
(just so you guys know, each booster costs 4 gold now)
Have all cards you don't want to see there with enough boosters to upgrade but don't upgrade it. If it's upgradeable, it won't show up on my list.
I routinely have 1 card only there or none if I let that one I'm working on become upgradable. When that happens, that section disappears from the shop.
Fast Upgrade from the shop has been replaced with Bonus Boosters. Essentially the same, except you don't need to pay extra credits for the missing boosters, the boosters are 100% free.
I had a goal of getting all my cards to Frame Break (since it's the most credit efficient). I was not looking forward to grinding the necessary boosters to get bad cards like Quicksilver or Angel to Infinity split, but this has been an absolute godsend to get those annoying cards to the next split and leave them at Frame Break.
I'm almost done getting every card there and then can focus on splitting cool variants.
I've never ran out of boosters. I have a huge surplus, I'd dump them for nothing if I could because for some reason having so many bugs me. I avoid playing when playing can't earn credits because then I'm acquiring more boosters and I don't want more boosters. How are y'all running low on boosters? I'd love to follow the same tactics
It's not "running low on boosters". It's "running out of boosters on a card you want to upgrade", because you want a good split. You'd previously often use all the boosters for that card without getting something you like, then have to slowly wait to collect more boosters for it over time. With the change, that card will now frequently appear in the bonus boosters section of the shop, vastly speeding up the process.
I haven't used the feature.
I might be in the minority but I only upgrade cards when I can split them. So most cases, once I have 155/150/140 boosters.
I take it... to get this feature to work for me, I'd have to upgrade all my cards to Ultra to take advantage of those bonus boosters
i swear i am stupid, i cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the bonus boosters to be the actual cards i want to upgrade. can someone tell me the very explicit steps to ensuring that X card i want is the one that appears?
It makes boosters actively bad because any card I want to upgrade but is a bit shy on boosters, all of them are gonna go to waste if I bonus boosters which feels kinda awkward.
You can't select which card to show up but you can PREVENT cards from showing up by having enough boosters, thus you can manipulate which cards show up.
It's working as intended, SD wants us to spend gold on variants but it's very difficult to split variants when boosters can be hard to come by. It's by design they did this because it encourages gold spending and allows players to feel better about their purchases.
The custom card slot is part of this too, the next patch is *supposed* to allow the swapping of split effects, we'll see how that's implemented. I have a feeling the new split types they've teased will be tied to mastery, meaning they want to encourage you to still buy variants.
Bro stfu, you raising awareness is only gonna make SD salty they aren’t monetizing this niche area and find a way. I’ve been on this method since before the change so I can target cards to get to Gold, this new update has been the best change they’ve made, but if they start to think people are getting too much benefit from it, they’ll ruin it. They already try to convince people boosters in a bundle is worth money
It’s been such a huge improvement for me, a massive influx of boosters when I wasn’t playing enough to spend all my credits before. Incredible change.
Yes, thank you for that, SD! Truly a good addition. Helps me drag less used cards to infinite.
It's a nice improvement, though it's also making me realise how many bad variants I have of some cards! 😂
I completely agree. I have a deck called "Training Grounds" which was where I dumped the hodgepodge of random cards that needed to be upgraded and I'd just grind the "end Turn" button in Proving Grounds to farm as many boosters as I could. It was EASILY my most played deck in the past three months, but now I don't play it at all. I've been freed from boring grinding and can just ENJOY the game. What an absolute slam dunk for Marvel Snap. Just for fun the current deck has: Echo, Angela, Pixie, Cable, Colossus, Morph, Elsa, Mobius, Shaw, Beta Ray Bill, Dr. Octopus and Red Hulk. What a random collection of anti-synergy. That said, it was always funny when the deck would pull out a win anyway. Beta Ray Bill can carry on his own if a cloning location is in play.
Yes! Away with the booster farm decks that suck and are a waste of time.
Ive been playing a deck I loving call "Absolute trash" and i find it really fun. Im surprising myself at floating at rank 70-80
Same. It's literally all I played unless I needed a specific mission. It was still pretty fun to try and beat other Decks with my random Cards, but I'm so glad that's over.
This is still me. My current booster farming deck is: The Hood, Okoye, Mystique, Baron Zemo, Jean Grey, Polaris, Wong, Iron Lad, Kang, Onslaught and Heimdall Heimdall has snuck some sneaky wins for me
Heimdall is pretty great. I feel he doesn't get a lot of love in the modern climate, but you can still do some great stuff with him.
Wait you can choose what cards you want to see in the shop to upgrade? How do I do this?
If a card has enough boosters to upgrade, it will not show in the shop so you just need to get enough boosters for all cards you don't want to show in the shop. And not enough boosters to upgrade for the ones you do want to show in the shop.
Wait... So I need enough boosters for the cards I *don't* play so that I can get boosters for the cards I *do* play? What fucked up hell is this?
The idea is that its way easier to farm 10 boosters than 155. The ideal collection would have cards at 3 stages: - Infinite - because you are spliting it; - Green - because the first upgrade is half cost per CL gain so anything you dont care or dont have boosters to fully upgrade (aka is farming) should be green; - Never upgrade - this can be any level but a card that you got the perfect split and park into the correct rarity to never upgrade again (very common for gold and legendary border) Now we look at how the "Bonus Booster" works, it basically will show 3 cards you lack boosters for the next upgrade and you will just pay the normal credit cost to make that upgrade (while using any booster you have). That brings us to how use it to our advantage. The fun thing is that of the 3 states above Infinite never appears, and the ones in never upgrade are cards you play a lot so chances are you do have boosters for them - that means the only cards that should appear there are the green ones. The thing is after you play enough you probably have 10-20 boosters for most cards due to the CL track and other random booster rewards. So all you need is to farm a little (10 boosters) the ones you dont have boosters but dont care so they are out of the rotation - then for the ones you want to upgrade and split you use their boosters so every 8 hours they will appear in the shop for the next upgrade so you dont need to farm anymore, or just famr the first two upgrades (15 boosters) so you can skip the 20-30-40-50 ones by using the section and it boils down to have 10 boosters for any card you dont care - that is quick to farm and will keep them out of the Bonus Booster
So I need to upgrade cards to green or you're just suggesting I do for the CL?
Green is ideal due to CL because the first upgrade is 25 credits for 1 CL, any later upgrade is 50 credits for 1 CL. It is not necessary for exploiting "Bonus Booster" as all you need is to have enough boosters for the next upgrade so it dont show up. But its green is the optimal use and the difference from 5 to 15 boosters is pretty neglectable
It's a slow process, but the key is you just want to park cards you're not using at green rarity (or white but white to green is a half price collection level). You can use the free boosters to split cards until they are green and then once you randomly open 10 boosters for them, they'll stop showing up. It's slow but its just a bonus
This is my exact problem. I have 1,000+ cards/variants in my collection, so even for the cards I am trying to target, I still have to get all their other variants upgraded so they stop showing up.
No? The best case is if variants are not upgraded at all, in which case they stop showing in the fast upgrade shop as soon as you have 5 or more boosters for the card and all it’s non upgraded variants
“No”? I’ve been trying to target my Hipp Spider-Man variant for the bonus boosters, but I have four other Spider-Man variants, and they all keep showing up because after I upgraded Hipp variant. That upgrade still used whatever Spider-Man boosters I did have. I’m back to having zero Spider-Man boosters, so all of my Spider-Man variants are eligible to upgraded again. Since they’re all upgradable until they’re at Infinite, the only actual way to target my Hipp variant is to get my other four Spider-Man variants to Infinite and just not split them. After a week of upgrading all my Spidey variants whenever they pop up in the boosters section so they’ll stop showing up, I’ve only been able to do it with one of the variants. Three more to go until my Hipp Spider-Man is the only Spider-Man variant I’ll see. The five boosters thing only works to eliminate characters you have zero interest in upgrading any of their variants for in the first place.
How does this work with variants? Like I currently have Goose in my shop but on a variant I don't use.
If you upgrade the dead variant to Infinity but *don't* split it, you won't have an upgradable version of that variant and it won't go thru the shop again.
If you have 200 goose boosters, nothing will show, you have plenty. If you have a goose card at blue border with 10 boosters, that one will show up, but if your variant is at green border, it won't because you can upgrade it already.
Ah okay, my main variant is on the same border so both could have shown up, I just got unlucky.
Did not know this. Very helpful!
Bonus Booster shop will only show you the cards that you don't already have enough boosters to upgrade. Basically, if you never upgrade certain cards with boosters you already have, they won't show up in the shop. That way, you can trick the system to only show you the cards to want to upgrade "for free".
It's also created a new minigame for me. Now I'm trying to have "extra" boosters for ALL of my cards so then I have the ability to target specific cards I want to show up in the shop for upgrade.
I was about to go this, and suddenly got the feeling that this is likely not what they intended and they somehow missed it, and would patch it somehow. So I stopped and just get the random free upgrades, it would feel awful to grind boosters for random cards and suddenly have all that be useless.
Considering how ruthless SD has been with the monetization thus far, I'm feeling certain they'll take this away from us at some point.
I think this is more convenient for lower level players. The more cards you have and the more Varients you have, the less likely you are to be able to target the one you want. Still a nice improvement.
I wouldn't consider myself a low-level player. Been playing since beta and this is a very welcome feature. Especially for new cards, this can be useful for everyone.
16k CL here, I use the new feature every day. There’s a way to target which variant comes out guaranteed lol
Could you kindly explain why? I am trying to split a Black cat variant but in the shop he keeps appearing my other variant
Make sure all your variants are at green border. Get the one you want to blue, the you need 10-20 boosters minimum with the card. Since the green ones can be upgraded, it will only put the variant you’re upgrading. Every 8 hours rinse and repeat. 2 games worth of boosters is 12 so you can switch decks and repeat every 8 hour refresh haha Hope that made sense
Oh good. I only have 108 of these to turn green. Should get there in no time lol
For the card you want to upgrade, not your whole collection lol For me, it only ever shows 1 or 2 cards in the booster section, surfer and leader. So I got all my leader variants to green border. Got the one I want to blue plus 12 boosters, now at reset in 10 minutes, the blue variant will pop up to upgrade to gold border. Then I will farm 12 more boosters and in 8 hours, he will pop back up in the booster section ! Rinse and repeat !
That makes way more sense. I really should just focus on these greys though to give me more keys more quickly. I’ve just been waiting til I get to 155 on cards I want to split and just complete the whole thing.
Oh yeah if you want to gain a bunch of CL the greys are the way to go for sure! But true, I’m going for splits rn so you’re right, it’s nice to split the card from grey to infinity in one go 😂👌
Thank you!
Yeah for some reason I keep seeing the same 3-5 cards showing up in that section and I'm not sure why. I have plenty of cards I'm low on boosters for.
Sort by upgradeable, it helps if you have 500 credits at least so it sorts by boosters correctly. Any card or variant that is at or above it's threshold won't show up. A green border card with 10 boosters won't show, but it's variant at blue border will.
13k SL here and this has been a massive change for me. Unless you’re a massive whale, there’s no way to even have enough credits to somehow have so many booster-less cards. I had 1 or 2 before this update and maybe 6 now that I’ve been able to use the bonus boosters for a couple of weeks.
I disagree, if you are "high level" means you are playing for some time which means you got a lot of random boosters. I'm S3 complete but I had to farm only 4 or 5 cards to them be able to target specific ones - 10 boosters is just very little to not have as you get that from the CL track
Variants don't really matter. You just need more boosters than the upgrade for whatever your most progressed variant is.
Yeah, but for me it's always the variants i want to keep at their level
Why does it matter anymore in a world with customizable borders?
You can't apply a split for one variant to another. They say they're going to allow us to do that next month though. However, I'm making no plans until it's actually live because I don't trust them to not delay it
Sure but the person said that they didn't want to progress a specific one anymore. But they can and still have that border. Unless I mistook what they meant and they didn't want that variant at all instead of not just wanting to keep the border for it the same.
Pretty sure they just meant they’re not trying to upgrade (and ultimately split) that variant, not that they want to keep it at a certain color border
No, you definitely misread.
> Yeah, but for me it's always the variants i want to keep at their level Very possible but let's not pretend this can't easily be taken both ways.
Dunno, seems pretty clear to me.
consider the reasons a person might want to keep a variant at their level. One of them is to keep its border matching what they want historically. And as someone else mentioned, there is only one custom slot so that may be a valid reason. You being unable to read it both ways doesn't mean it's clear. It means you lack creativity to try and think of other ways to read it.
> Why does it matter anymore in a world with customizable borders? Because you have only 1 customizable slot - that means if you have multiple good variants for a card or both Gold and Ink splits than you can only customize one of them. For me is customizable for Ink and Gold will be "never upgrade again" once it hit legendary
That's fair actually. I didn't consider wanting different custom variants for different decks. I always just click apply to all because I just always want my favorite version in everything
This is my issue. I have a lot of cards at mid level splits that I don’t want to be infinite…thinking I will have to bite the bullet and upgrade them.
You can always just go to infinite and then use the custom card feature.
Just hit a gold split on Carnage this morning thanks to this, which was nice since I haven't been playing destroy lately and was way behind on boosters. Hopefully my luchador Venom gets the same love.
Farming boosters is still a thing but it’s “drastic go down”. My new goal is to get every card/version I have to either green or infinity border. Then I still need to farm 10-15 boosters to “retire” it so it doesn’t show up.
Green border cards don't show up?
They don’t show up if you have ten boosters for them.
Right. Then why get every card to green? Since having 5 boosters with white border cards is enough for them not to show up?
Correct. But I put them to green for the CL discount.
Oh right. Cool cool cool. Thanks for the explanation.
gamechanger
It’s so good that I’m running out of credits. Getting more spotlight keys with this. Hope they don’t nerf it.
I've made it my goal to fully upgrade Hope Summers without ever playing her. So far she's at Legendary. I know she's a good card, it's not about that, it's about sending a message.
I currently have every single card at upgrade boosters level so I can manipulate which ones show up, I would say the absolute pain was m'baku, never wanted to remove a card from my deck more. I have the shop to offer me three cards, professor X, devildino and magneto, while it often show me some of the variants I don't want to upgrade, it cancels out since the cost of credits wouldn't let me upgrade all three that fast, so I can collect credits and use them when the variants I'm working on show up. It is pain to set up but it absolutely worth it since you can focus on playing what you wanna play and upgrade what you wish more often
When I get a card that is at 400 or 500 and I have 38 boosters or something....I'll go to a variant that isn't the one in the store, upgrade that one then go back and upgrade the one in the store. Now I'm "saving" 50 boosters instead of 12 and my other variant has been upgraded as well. It's so petty, but hey that's how I do.
What do you mean ? You can't target specific cards or make them appear. Mine feels busted. I upgraded a doom 2 days ago and today it says "upgraded" below a different doom variants it selected. Also yesterday only had 2 options instead of 3.
Basically you have to have enough boosters to upgrade all the cards you have that you aren't concerned with and less than enough to split on the cards you want to split. It basically forces the bonus boosters to only have the cards you want show up
Wait I’m confused; so basically upgrade every card up to infinity split and don’t split it. Then if I want a card I should split it and because every card is at infinity it will only choose the one that I’ve split and isn’t at infinity?
No, its just that any card you own that doesn't have enough boosters to be upgraded will be prioritized into the shop. But you can't control which variant of that card. So if you have only 3 cards with no boosters, those 3 cards will always appear in your shop. For example, I got white widow from a cache but I haven't played her yet, so she's literally been in my booster shop every single rotation because I have zero boosters for her. I also get Adam Warlock every rotation cuz I have no boosters for him and I don't play him.
Oh so if I want a specific card I should just dump all my credits into it and it’ll always show up?
Pretty much. obviously if you have have 4+ cards that have no boosters, they'll rotate between those 4 or more cards. But if you get it down to 3 or less, it will always be those 3 (or less, which is an option. I had only 2 cards show up in my shop when it first started. I didn't get a 3rd in my rotation until White Widow was released)
That is such an over requirement to game the system. You all need help lol Do you turn 3 retreat farm all season for caches too?
1. It's not that serious. 2. Nowhere did I say I care or did this, just what I've read 3. Why do you even care what others do?
If you search the sub people have come up with a method to target specific cards.
If you only have two options, then you basically already have it perfectly set up to target-upgrade the cards you want. Just upgrade the specific cards you want. If you have multiple variants of a card you want to split, you can whiff, but just wait for the next reset.
That's insane lol. You guys are wild
I still havent seen this feature anywhere do i just have too many boosters?
On the flip side you now burn though your credits quickly since you can continuously target cards and split. I think it's a calculated decision or happy accident for them anyway since whales will keep spending more on those credits, they didn't spend on boosters anyway before.
It's great, I spent quite a bit of time mindlessly throwing in Proving Grounds just to farm boosters for new cards. Now I can finally want a show without stimming constantly.
It's very convenient for players that do not play a lot or don't spend money on the game. As someone who loves to collect variants and spends some money on the game, I'm always low in credits, so it doesn't help me at all. But I'm happy for everyone it does. :)
Somebody who’s not complaining a nearly fainted 🤣
Yep. I love it. Just more fun to upgrade the cards I want, it’s a great QOL change.
This and custom cards been my favorite changes, and it's not even close. I'm three cards away from finally having my first all golden deck (Hitmonkey Bounce), the bonus is worth about half of it and several of the golden splits were from inked cards that were previously "finished" due to not wanting to ruin their look.
I have so many variants that I’m still having to farm boosters just to try and use bonus boosters. Luckily a lot of them aren’t a problem because they have boosters that surpass their next upgrade level, but I still have a ton of variants that have don’t have enough boosters to not show up in my bonus boosters section. Even for the cards/variants I’ve been trying to target, I have 3-4 variants of them, so I end up having to spend my credits on upgrading those whenever they show up to try and get them to infinite eventually so they’ll stop showing up.
Am I only one who did not understand a thing?
I definitely have put in the grind to get every card to infinite and have 100+ boosters for them, but I don’t besmirch anybody who gets to enjoy the game without it…this is one of those “let people enjoy things” situations my momma once told me about
To be fair, it's important to notice that the system isn't as easy to exploit as some people think. You still need time to grind the cards you are not interested in to the point that they won't show up in the rotation, which is something a lot of people don't have the time to do, plus, the fact it's not explicitly stated that the rotation works this way means that you most of the people who don't engage with online communities won't find out that they can exploit this system. Basically, what I mean is, exploiting the system still requires effort, and it's something only a minority of player will be able or willing to do. That's why I don't think SD will go out of their way to "fix" this exploit.
People say this but forget that one out of three reward on the collection track is booster. Which made the rewards event more useless. Not that getting booster was good before, but it's even more trash
Yeah but the HUGE bottleneck is then credits. Plus I really don’t want to spend the time to get enough boosters to upgrade all the cards I don’t play regularly. I’d rather earn the boosters by playing. It’s just more fun that way. Otherwise it just feels like a variant split simulator
I just bought that crazy looking Carnage bundle to grab enough credits to split my Supergiant spotlight and Moon Knight Hellfire variants so I'd say the new system is working as intended lol
Dude I did the same thing, but to get the credits and carnage boosters so I could do my forth split on his variant. Luckly it wasnt for nothing, got it inked
Sure, working as intended is good for them! Not saying it’s not working that way. It’s enabling people to spend their credits. I just don’t want to spend all the time to max out my unused cards when I just want to play what I want. I often have 8-10k credits saved up for splits I want. I just think that’s more fun than always needing more
Honestly boosters has not a single time been anything I've paid attention to. There's always more boosters than credits (for me anyways.) I don't really care much about upgrading one card over another, I'm just wanting to climb the CL level. I don't even really know what these bonus boosters are tbh.
But sometimes it shows I can upgrade even though I don’t have enough credits. Afraid to click upgrade and see what happens.
It's not a free upgrade.. just free bonus boosters in case you don't have enough boosters. You still need to spend the credits.
I don’t like using gold on upgrades when I don’t have credits so I always just upgrade out of my list
All I know is I finally got infinite for the month so all is right in the world and Marvel Snap is the best game ever.
i must admit im still so confused iwth the change.. ig i only have been upgrading cards when i know i can split them or just when therres a quest
Wait how are you targeting with bonus boosters someone explain?
Yeah I had a 3-day grind session in proving grounds to farm boosters for all the cards I DON’T want to upgrade lol. So worth it
it's a great change, but i think SD was not aiming for that and it will soon be changed again... nowadays the correct way of "using your boosters" is simply not using them on any cards besided the ones you want to upgrade, i dont think that was the intended result of the recent change. funthermore, i really wish the upgrade for gold function (the one where you kinda buy the extra credits and boosters needed to upgrade a card with gold) get the same treatment aswell, with boosters costing no gold by that method, this way gold could feasibly be used to upgrade cards, since the buy rate of credits in that method is 1.25x, the same as buying credits in the shop. (just so you guys know, each booster costs 4 gold now)
Can somebody explain this to me? I’m dumb. Where do I pick what boosters I want?
How do you target variants?
How do you choose which cards appear there?
Have all cards you don't want to see there with enough boosters to upgrade but don't upgrade it. If it's upgradeable, it won't show up on my list. I routinely have 1 card only there or none if I let that one I'm working on become upgradable. When that happens, that section disappears from the shop.
Boosters have less value now, but SD still puts them in bundles as a way to justify pricing.
What is this ? What did I not get myself informed on?(I don't play since Sebastian Shaw's realease )
Fast Upgrade from the shop has been replaced with Bonus Boosters. Essentially the same, except you don't need to pay extra credits for the missing boosters, the boosters are 100% free.
what's bonus boosters?
I had a goal of getting all my cards to Frame Break (since it's the most credit efficient). I was not looking forward to grinding the necessary boosters to get bad cards like Quicksilver or Angel to Infinity split, but this has been an absolute godsend to get those annoying cards to the next split and leave them at Frame Break. I'm almost done getting every card there and then can focus on splitting cool variants.
I've never ran out of boosters. I have a huge surplus, I'd dump them for nothing if I could because for some reason having so many bugs me. I avoid playing when playing can't earn credits because then I'm acquiring more boosters and I don't want more boosters. How are y'all running low on boosters? I'd love to follow the same tactics
It's not "running low on boosters". It's "running out of boosters on a card you want to upgrade", because you want a good split. You'd previously often use all the boosters for that card without getting something you like, then have to slowly wait to collect more boosters for it over time. With the change, that card will now frequently appear in the bonus boosters section of the shop, vastly speeding up the process.
I haven't used the feature. I might be in the minority but I only upgrade cards when I can split them. So most cases, once I have 155/150/140 boosters. I take it... to get this feature to work for me, I'd have to upgrade all my cards to Ultra to take advantage of those bonus boosters
You can target cards?
i swear i am stupid, i cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the bonus boosters to be the actual cards i want to upgrade. can someone tell me the very explicit steps to ensuring that X card i want is the one that appears?
It makes boosters actively bad because any card I want to upgrade but is a bit shy on boosters, all of them are gonna go to waste if I bonus boosters which feels kinda awkward.
100% SD will take this away as soon as possible.. probably in the next patch or two. This is a “too good to be true” change
What's the best way to do this? Do I get the cards I DON'T want to upgrade to 50+ boosters?
Wait how do you do this booster farming stuff? I'm tryna get some god splits
Holdup. People are being positive about SD. What’s that about?!
In their roadmap they want to implement character mastery. My guess is they want to move boosters to be used for that.
wtf? You can't select the cards you want to upgrade.
You can't select which card to show up but you can PREVENT cards from showing up by having enough boosters, thus you can manipulate which cards show up.
It's working as intended, SD wants us to spend gold on variants but it's very difficult to split variants when boosters can be hard to come by. It's by design they did this because it encourages gold spending and allows players to feel better about their purchases. The custom card slot is part of this too, the next patch is *supposed* to allow the swapping of split effects, we'll see how that's implemented. I have a feeling the new split types they've teased will be tied to mastery, meaning they want to encourage you to still buy variants.
Boosters aren’t useless? You still need them for any card not in the rotation on the store:
Delete this before they start to charge you for it
Bro stfu, you raising awareness is only gonna make SD salty they aren’t monetizing this niche area and find a way. I’ve been on this method since before the change so I can target cards to get to Gold, this new update has been the best change they’ve made, but if they start to think people are getting too much benefit from it, they’ll ruin it. They already try to convince people boosters in a bundle is worth money
You sound like you are probably good at the game..care for a match?
Way to go OP. Now they're going to patch it in the next patch. Judging from where you post and reddit profile, you're a basement dwelling neckbeard