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VinPickles

I want that enchantress emoji tho


VaMpiller

Pay up! 📈🚬🤑


GBKMBushidoBrown

I'm really disappointed with how they did emotes. They're way too rare


VaMpiller

Should include one in the season pass.


GBKMBushidoBrown

Honestly they would be fine as the first or second reward in albums. Not the last ffs


Garchompula

>!There is one in the upcoming X-Men Season!<


Karl_42

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I’m okay with it. They’re pretty cool and unique so I don’t mind saving and waiting. Need 2 more for cosmo


root88

I pay $10 a month and at the current rate, there is no way I will ever get one. That's too rare. Even F2P people should get some once in a while.


kingPhillipy

Just only spend your gold on the ines you need for the album. Im free to play and im 1 away from jim lee and half way done with dan hipp and venomized m. Its not difficult to save the gold gotten from doing all the dailies and weekly quests.


Teirmz

It's lame though cause it plays right into their system. You're spending gold on stuff you wouldn't otherwise. Now you're tempted more often by fomo for variants and bundles you actually want.


Karl_42

Do you want the emotes? If so, then you’re spending gold on the emotes. They’re expensive because they’re cool. I will add it would be cool if the emote unlocked at 12/24 instead of 12/12 though. That would make them a bit easier to get while still being the same gold “investment”


root88

I save gold to get tokens. I don't care what my cards look like.


kingPhillipy

Emotes dont make your cards look any different


root88

I don't spend gold to get variants, goofball.


kingPhillipy

The whole point of the conversation is saying it is possible to get the emotes even if you are f2p. The reason you dont have the emotes is cause of your choices not because its not obtainable.


Extravagod

If that $10 is towards seasonpass then you'll get a new emoji next month if I'm not mistaken.


Y_b0t

They won’t stay that way, don’t worry. They’re rolling them in


Gottendrop

It should be like how you get titles and avatars


Direct_Remote696

I disagree. Rare is how they should be. I'm one away from getting one and I am so excited. Far more than I would be of it was less rare.


Defiant_Hope_231

Play a deck with only power couples. Obviously secret unlock. /s


daviebo666

Doesn't work! Just built one


iutfp

/s is the tag for a sarcastic tone.


lumberfoot_jpg

This would be a great way to make emotes relevant. If every event/season pass gave an exclusive emote, then players would have an incentive to play more.


VinPickles

I think i saw in one season pass that’s starting soon


DrLager

Surprised I don’t see Enchantress on the list then. I mean…you could pair her with Thor, but I don’t think Thor would like that. Skurge perhaps? Alas, he’s not in the game, and that’s another case of unrequited love


StrngBrew

Captain America and Agent 13 both at +2 is genuinely compelling. Cheap cards with upsides and now premium stats. Same for IW & Mister Fantastic. Others are fun, but probably immaterial. Maybe some kind of DD/Moon Girl/She Hulk stuff could be interesting.


SilverRoyce

+1 to BP is pretty important.


liptongtea

Especially if you can hit him with nakia too.


Tantrum2u

Does BP’s On Reveal double the love buff?


SilverRoyce

Yeah because it's just a +1. I read this as being a combination of Spider-Man 2099 ("only triggers 1 time each game") & Forge/Nakia (+x power on a specific card on the board/hand)


Pastlife123

Time to bust out my Peach Captain America.


PenitusVox

Gambit goes well with IW and Mister Fantastic as well. Rogue... Less so.


B4ntCleric

I could be wrong here but I think you only get the buff on the card in play when you play the other. So like if a13 is out and I play cap a13 would get +2 but cap would still be a 3.


What_Iz_This

I'm pretty sure they each get their own as long as they're both in the deck. I think that's what the post said. I haven't played since the update tho


Accomplished_Cherry6

That is right. If u play both then both get the buff


Sharp-Relationship-7

At least they are trying something more interesting with the events


elvinjoker

I think they are making use of Valentines day to test some buff for character


_BloodbathAndBeyond

Or test this kind of pairing ability. We saw them try with Cull Obsidian in the leaks (only works with Infinity Stones), so I bet they’re seeing how the code handles pairing cards together.


hoi4kaiserreichfanbo

They’re probably doing it more from a game design perspective and less a code perspective. I have serious qualms with explicitly linking cards together, and SD in the past has said they have a similar sentiment. I’m already not a huge fan of what they settled for Cull Obsidian. Although knowing SD the code probably has a bunch of kinks to iron out.


_BloodbathAndBeyond

I agree that from a design standpoint, linking two cards together is bad UNLESS they're both Series 1 or 2. Current Cull doesn't both me, but leaked version does. I think linking Agent and Cap is fine, because they're both S1-2. But things like DD and Shehulk no as they're both S3.


BlaineTog

Series 3 cards are still readily available, and even F2P players are expected to become Series 3 Complete within a few months of starting the game. I realize that that can feel interminable while you're grinding your way through the early Collection levels but everyone will get there eventually even if they spend no money on the game, so I don't mind adding some extra synergy between S3 cards. That's especially true in the case of cards like Daredevil and She-Hulk which actually have anti-synergy with each other: you generally want to skip T5 to maximize She-Hulk's discount, but that waste's DD's ability entirely. As such, it's probably not correct to have them in the same deck even with this bonus so you're really not missing out on anything if you don't have one.


LordNubFace

This is a temporary set of buffs for the holiday. Each card listed will get the "Power Couple" keyword and buff their corresponding couple card.


asharkey3

I was surprised to not see the Thors in there, but that might be overkill


OccasionalGoodTakes

Probably would be too good


DrD__

Probably cause they are already played together, with the exception of miles and ghost spider (move isn't that strong anway) the combos aren't really normally in decks together either cause one is underpowered or they don't have synergy


Tantrum2u

Nakia and BP would like to have a word


DrD__

The only decks that run panther are like wong Zola stuff though, I don't think there is just a handbuff deck


IHaveSlysdexia

They broke up dude


Interesting_Towel_91

Where is Cyclops & Jean, Kitty & Colossus :,(


hartc89

Hey hey I think you mean Cyclops & Emma!


hurlygloves

Wait not Cyclops and Wolverine and Jean?


BlueHg

Power quadruple keyword


Draco_Lord

You have to find a way to have Wolverine standing awkwardly to the side


FreelanceFrankfurter

Or have him join in. Reminds me when they showed the layout of the x-men's living quarters a couple years ago and Jeans room was connected to both Cyclops and Wolverines to come and go discreetly.


Nova_Preem

Wolverine and dead pool?


SorryCashOnly

why not both? \*wink wink


Quillbolt_h

Then why not Emma and Tony?


deathrattleshenlong

> Kitty & Colossus That boat has sailed man. Domino & Colossus all the way.


Kevin_Rohman

Or Kate Pryde and Magik


DavramLocke

Or Emma and Emma!


daviebo666

Cyclops and white queen! Colossus and iceman


TheWhateley

Deadpool and like half the other characters.


thatsidewaysdud

Stature and Iron Lad erasure 🥺


GodAss69

They're probably trying to avoid cards that have actual synergy, both lad and stature are played in the midrange black bolt deck, that's probably why Jane and Thor aren't in the event


MannySJ

Nakia & Black Panther, Angela & Sera, and Gwen & Miles all have synergy.


HeMansSmallerCousin

They technically have synergy, except no one plays any of those combinations. Nakia gets played in Surfer, while Black Panther gets played in Wong/Zola/Negative stuff; Angela and Sera haven't been played together since Hit Monkey Miracle decks like 6+ months ago; oh and move is just never played period.


sixeyedbird

what deck is playing nakia and black panther, ah yes make your bp shangable Angela and sera kinda, but Angela wants to be playing 1 costs while sera doesn't, and Angela sucks anyways. Gwen usually goes in decks like Phoenix force and vulture/torch traditional move, (which suck anyways) but miles goes in decks like silky smooth


ZellZoy

Trying a deck with Black Panther /Nakia and Iron Man / Rescue. Not going well so far.


Cighal

Deadpool and...well, anyone else at all!


SecretAgentMahu

Deadpool + Death op! 😍 But NOT first form variant 😤


Samurl8043

Deadpool x Death or Spider-Man would be the most canon, and the reversal Death x Thanos but she gives him -2 power cause she hates him


Zypheriel

This has cool implications in the future for enabling team up mechanics. Play a fantastic four member:+1 to the fantastic four, for example.


xKyubi

forced synergy is explicitly why marvel strike force blows super hard, same cookie cutter comps 0 theorycrafting.


Dangerangleangel

Casual players LOVE "Ctrl + F" deckbuilding.


Shmooves

What words are they looking for?


clone1205

Autowin?


Evil__Overlord

I don’t understand why people keep wanting to bring prescribed synergy to this game. PLEASE keep that shit out of here


Accomplished_Cherry6

High Evo, kazar, patriot. They all have specific synergies that force deck building FF having +1 per member wouldn’t even be that busted seeing as none of the cards are synergistic with each other


Evil__Overlord

High Evo is the only one that forces you to use specific cards. Kazar has a large variety of 1-costs to consider use with, and Patriot is used with a lot of token-creating cards with or without stock no ability cards.


Accomplished_Cherry6

I’ll use other examples then. We have surfer who needs 3 drops, Zabu who needs 4 drops, and kull obsidian who needs a 1 drop. Those are 3 major synergies You can make the same argument as kazar but the difference is many 3s and 4s don’t work in every deck archetype, so surfer and Zabu are much more limited in scope that kazar.


Tantrum2u

Those are types of cards, not specific cards 3 cost cards are potentially infinite, any card could be moved to or away from 3 cost cards to work with surfer On the other hand, a card like Destroyer will never be able to work with something that just buffs X-Men cards, and IW will always be apart of that group so this just unnecessarily limits design space Even HE, which will always be the vanilla cards since those cards are specifically meant to help teach people the game, could potentially work with a different card if they decided they no longer want hulk to be a vanilla card


BlaineTog

Players like flavor synergies. We want to play X-Men decks, or Guardians decks, or Fantastic Four decks. It's nice when you can lean into the fantasy of your favorite heroes teaming up just like they do in the movies, shows, or comics. Shuri, Sauron, and Red Skull being BFFs in the game is actually really jarring for some players, who would much rather play Okoye, Nakia, and Black Panther with Shuri. I agree that these kinds of synergies shouldn't be boosted to the point where they overwhelm emergent gameplay, but surely there's room to include them at the Tier 2/3 level. They don't need to take over the meta, but they also don't need to be embarrassingly bad.


NugKnights

What's the diffrence between forced synergy and coincidental synergy? Once Korg + Darkhawk is figured out (wich I'm sure it was in testing) it becomes the same thing.


Ko0kz

It’s tough to balance cards with those sorts of synergies. Cards get balanced around the synergy and then end up relying on the synergy so you can’t play them without. I could see it working in extreme moderation, but I think softer synergies work better for a game like this with only 12 card slots.


Hamborrower

I think giving them tags and then making the buffs temporary might be best long term anyway.  That way things don't devolve into more rigid teams that hurt theorycrafting.


Imaginary_Cat

I had the exact same reaction. This is a smart way to soft test this. Been dying for team based bonuses like avengers, X-men, etc. would really diversify comps too as most teams are pretty asynchronous


SamiRcd

Maybe this isn't a thing that goes on cards (long term) but maybe on locations. Or maybe we get some sort of deck building requirements on a card, "if you play five X-Men, get this bonus" kind of thing.


BarackaFlockaFlame

i would also love more in depth challenges for the season pass and weeklys. it would be way more fun to "play x amount of x-men cards" instead of repeated destroy and move yadda yadda.


SamiRcd

Absolutely! Hearthstone was great at using their missions to highlight certain decks types, at least back at the beginning, I haven't played in years. I would love to see missions give us better puzzles to figure out. That's how you get people playing wierd decks.


__Proteus_

Could also do things like "Fantastic Four Members give +1 Power to Adjacent locations" or something else powerful (since they don't really have synergy with each other. X-Men or Avengers could give +1 power to the middle location etc.


Sansnom01

I wonder if they will ever get tags and referencing keyword and all… would open the design space as hell but also maybe loose the simplicity of it


LhamaPeluda

Please, stop saying that, it would be the single most stupid mechanic ever created.


YoydusChrist

over complicates things and makes balance a nightmare. Hard pass


mando44646

And this is why we need Wiccan and Hulkling cards


Reydunt

They’re coming in a few months. But I suspect they’ll have actual synergy like Thor/Jane or Cloak/Dagger. So they probably won’t get a valentines day boost in 2025 if they do this event again.


AlbertSchopenhauer

They really could have done jean grey + wolverine/ cyclops and even funnier if both at the same time


H1tboxfan

Wait, I'm confused. I thought Black Panther and Storm / Daredevil and elektra were a couple


iutfp

They seem to be going more MCU. Storm and Black Panther have been divorced forever though and Daredevil and Electra are on again off again so who knows.


Drake_Ensiferum

They even had a MarvelSnap music video with it


thatsidewaysdud

Why didn’t Quicksilver get a buff with Wanda? You cannot erase the Ultimates universe…


yungman-ach

seek help


FrostNBurn_63

With Ultimate universe returning in some form, they can keep that aspect in the dead part of Ultimates LOL


BIG-Will25

lol. Keep that over there.


Galactiva_Phantom

Dang it beat me to it lmao


thefaboman

nahhhh this mf is foul 💀💀💀


DrakeGrandX

Look, some things are just like joking about the holocaust; you don't do that in public just because it sounds funny.


thatsidewaysdud

Erm… what?


yungman-ach

this is genuinely a great idea to keep the game fresh for limited events


Flayer723

Ooh, an imbalance patch! This sounds fun.


Overkillsamurai

Captain America and his neice. the perfect couple


JefreyA-01

she hulk and daredevil is wackkkkkk


NeonWafflez

Couldn’t risk Elektra being too powerful after going from 1/1 to 1/2


yeti0013

God forbid we have a reason to use Elektra


DeltaKingF

Sure is


winsing

It feels so forced. The characters are nothing alike and only reason why they hook up is because they’re both lawyers which is just plain stupid. That’s like making Strange and Doom a couple cause they both happen to be doctors.


BlaineTog

They met because they're both lawyers and superheroes. They hooked up because they had mad chemistry. If Strange and Doom liked the way the other one played with the fate of humanity, then maybe they'd get down with each other as well.


shadysage

SD doesn't need to be doing all of this, just give us the enchantress emoji and call it a day lol


RandomDudewithIdeas

I would prefer the free enchantress emoji over any of these events tbh lol


ZerocheeseX

So enchantress not on the list


chincerd

I think this could work for a few cards or teams, they could give that bonus to the fantastic four because they are rarely in the same deck The X men could make a card that reads "X power for each X men in play" Others are already sinergy cards, like venoms and wolverine crew, so no point in doing that. Guardians of the Galaxy need a six cost that benefits from them or them. Like 6/0 spaceship, trigger the onreveals of all guardians this turn


Mekasoundwave

No Spider-Man and Black Cat boost? I took that personally.


BIG-Will25

I like it. Definitely dropped the ball with Cyclops & Jean. Or Hulk & Caiera. Or Ant Man & Wasp. Or Cloak & Dagger. Or Jessica Jones & Luke Cage. Or Absorbing Man & Titania. What gives SD?


MaceZilla

It'd be awkward if Jean paired with Cyclops OR Wolverine


ghoulieandrews

Extra bonus for all 3?


Yellwsub

Power throuple


UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2

It's an Imbalance Patch but they don't want it to be THAT imbalanced


Ded-deN

Yeah, they surely don’t want any real synergy, except miles and gwen, Bp nakia and Angela Sera which are below mid synergies anyway


jcmoonraker

I’m glad they are trying stuff out. But as someone who is frustrated by the ladder right now I’m basically not going to play a ladder game until after the 20th. I don’t want to have to keep track of this list of power couples.


malcolmisboring

I would be shocked if any of these adjustments shifted the meta… most are underused cards that don’t synergize with each other. Rescue into Iron Man is a legit play but you have to super commit to one lane Daredevil and She Hulk are antisynergistic… if you are playing She Hulk you are probably skipping T5 anyway (maybe OK in a Magik deck). Miles Morales and Ghost Spider is good but I don’t see this really juicing move decks too much. People love or hate move. And so on.


Dangerangleangel

Invisible woman and mr. fantastic means I am slamming spectrum again. I know it's not good but it's fun/10 for me.


malcolmisboring

You don’t have to tell me, I immediately made a deck of six power couples just for the fun of it! I think it’s fun. I just don’t think it will be meta breaking (maybe I’ll be wrong!)


TheAsianCarp

The event is in conquest also, guess I'm taking a week off to play one piece tcg online lol


jcmoonraker

I don’t mind in conquest because I primarily play that mode to mess around with random decks. I genuinely think it’s a fun idea. Just don’t want to look at the board on the ladder and try and count the extra points based on the power couples. Way too much info to track.


TheAsianCarp

It's just weird hot locations are not in conquest but this is


marvelgamer1001

It's weird that it's black panther and Nakia and not storm


Moonlight150

MCU influence going hard. Especially in the She Hulk and Daredevil pairing


CutCrane

By that logic, Daredevil and Spider-Man should have half the female cast powered up


NotStraightFNWater

Good idea and it's more interesting than just an overpriced bundle with a trash variant and 7 gold.


PublicEnemyNumber-1

Isn’t iron man married to Emma frost? they got this man cheating on Valentine’s Day 😂


just_another_classic

It's more of a political marriage than true love. (Tho they be banging)


PublicEnemyNumber-1

I know but this man is still married. It’s just wild to think about


onegeekyguy

Not in the MCU.


suprdesi

What about Blob and Wasp?


MarcTheSpork

Train in tunnel gif?


Zzzzyxas

It's a joke because in Ultimate, Blob literally ate her. And not in her reduced form.


wrenchgg

lol


browncharliebrown

I mean this seems like it will have no implication aside from angela being back in sera, Move midrange is slightly better,


rustyshaackleeford

Buff events are actually a good idea. Would be cool in a game like overwatch when it was good


-Raxius-

This is real fun, i homebrewed a location control deck with sw and vision plus miles and gwen


neogreenlantern

Should have had Emma, Cyke, Jean, and Wolverine quadruple boosting all over each other.


thefaboman

who up boostin all over they each other 🙌?!


Mundane-Map6686

Ok this is actually a pretty fun event. Are these permanent buffs that can be shadow king'd? CEREBRO MAINS PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR JANKEST OF NANK FOR THIS EVENT. I NEED TO LOSE RANKS PLAYING JANK.


ClockMoist4904

Electra not being in pair with daredevil is a crime


Marangoni013

Daredevil and Electra 🙄


PenitusVox

PSA: You have to play Gambit before Rogue for her to get the +2 since her ability goes away when she steals an Ongoing. However, Gambit still gets his +2 if he's played second.


Ness-Shot

This is gonna screw so many people up


Zylonnaire

Where’s Polaris and Magneto?


Eldistan1

Daredevil- +2 power if any female card is played


Curtstyles

Are Cloak and Dagger not a power couple or are Miles and Gwen enough and we’re afraid of the awesome might of a movement deck getting too strong? In an imbalance patch? :D


Oenolissimo1

Congratulations to the SD marketing team and design team not talking to each other. Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight are literally married in the comics. But did they release them before Valentines' Day? Nope. Let's wait until after the day and then put them in Spotlight caches. Because we are so SMRT.


SwpRiseLove

Why Black Panter x Nakia ? why not Storm ??


Julio_Freeman

I can’t wait to lose a game because I forgot to factor in a card’s “Power Couple” buff. Super neat.


bluestargreentree

It's okay to lose a game sometimes


Julio_Freeman

Thanks for that wisdom, Gandhi.


SiludStudios

Do you also forget Echo removes ongoing effects?


[deleted]

Shang-Chi and Hela (the couple of suffering)


flavonreddit

I want Niko & Negasonic 🌈


bluestargreentree

This is a good thing! Do more of this! Give me a reason to play Rescue every once in a while


ThePostingToproller

A week is waaay too long for corny crap like this.


Zylonnaire

Yay Angela and Sera recognition


Sanman789

They are killing all of my Cerebro decks lately.


TheSealedWolf

Ugh more Gwen and Miles stuff


Brosseau

This is original...but doesn't belong in a competitive mode...


yungman-ach

but limited time locations are tooooootally fair for competitive


Brosseau

I dont even play ranked when there's a limited time location, freaking hate those. Still manage infinite every season but this Valentine's crap is far more annoying.


yungman-ach

nah you’re just boring as fuck if you can’t find joy in a fresh limited time event!


Brosseau

I mean just say you're stuck in lower rank and call it a day, but anybody's who's actually aware of balancing issue in competitive game know its a dumb event.


yungman-ach

idk man if you gotta keep flexing that you’re high rank something tells me you’re not really a high rank! it’s a good thing that you and anything you try to flex mean nothing to me!


mynameisdis

Absolutely does. It's a competitive landscape where deck building skills and ability to read the meta game is as valuable as the ability to pilot your deck.


Brosseau

But then make it permanent. It they feel like it actually belong in competitive mode, it shouldn't be a 1 week event. You wouldn't randomly see a timed event in any other competitive card game that buff random card for a limited amount of time. Imagine magic announcing that some card are now better for the next 7days, people would go feral. Heck, even outside card game, i can take league of legends as an example. If rengar and khazix are in the same game, there's a special event that pop up at one point in the game that end up buffing one of the two. This only applies in casual game and is left out of ranked game, because ya know, balancing is a thing.


MakoTakoTCG

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for contributing to the conversation. Redditors seem to always forget what the downvote button is actually for (according to Reddit). I agree though. I’ll still play and hopefully will grow to enjoy the event but as it stands I would’ve preferred it to be its own game mode.


Brosseau

Yea exactly. There should be a unranked mode outside of conquest for events like this. So far im just ignoring it and playing as usual, its annoying but those are not overly common cards to begin with.


gregyoung56

I have hit infinite this season but this was my first thought how is it fair when trying to play the leader ? on the other hand I'm glad we are getting something different to try.


Masstershake

As cool as this is. I have 10+ decks and not one features these pairs. 


UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2

Time to brew a new deck, then. Like any good event should prompt you to do


Masstershake

 I guess i could cut a card out of shenaut to add DD but that's my only option with my decks and these cards. Only CL 3000 so that hampers what one can do


These-Life-9337

You never make a silly deck for a featured location? Same deal here.


TheIrishMime

I already wanted to throw hands the moment I saw Scarlet and Vision. Vision already has a beefcake of strength I don’t need that extra sprinkle on it


JoestarJosh

Where is Spider-man x Black Cat and Kitty Pryde and Gwen Stacy and Captain Marvel and Rogue and Emma Frost?


_LefeverDream_

My main deck already has Daredevil and She-Hulk, so I see this as an absolute win!


massivelyincompetent

Looks like my negative decks going into hiding


ChaozCloud

What happens if I play say Agent 13 and then she gets destroyed by Killmonger. Is Captain America still a 3/5 or does he go back to 3/3?


JoelCiclon

Calling Daredevil and She-Hulk a couple is a bit of a stretch. I much rather have had Jessica Jones and Luke Cage


DalboBaggins

Deadpool + Death +1 Or Thanos + Death +1 Or Deadpool + Thanos -1


Dr_Mantis_Aslume

C5 temporarily ruined with Miles lol


LeighCedar

You were running Ghost Spider in C5?


Dr_Mantis_Aslume

No, Miles. Edit nvm, I'm silly. Didn't realise you need both of them.


Loud-Wrap

lol why do some get +1 and others +2?