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Marvel Snap’s Creator Doesn’t Want You To Play Agatha Harkness’ Card
2.5.2023
In Second Dinner’s mobile card game Marvel Snap, one card seems to draw curiosity more than any other: Agatha Harkness. Part of this may be due to the character’s growth in popularity stemming from her role in the Disney Plus series WandaVision, which led to the creation of spin-off series Agatha:...
Marvel Snap Card Was So Broken, It’s Getting Fixed And Gifted To Everyone
18.4.2023
Kitty Pryde, the Ultra Rare Marvel Snap card that was disabled just two days after its release on March 28, is being redesigned and disseminated to all players, developers said on the game’s official Discord.Read more
This May Be The Biggest Pokémon Card Theft In History, And It’s Causing Drama
17.4.2023
It certainly looks like someone might have stolen a bunch of rare Fusion Strike cards from The Pokémon Company. According to evidence surfacing from a Dallas-based Pokémon trading card community, the alleged thief tried to sell them to a local shop only to be turned over to The Pokémon Company...
The Most Wanted, Valuable Cards In Pokémon Scarlet & Violet TCG
14.4.2023
The new generation of Pokémon TCG cards, Scarlet & Violet’s base set, has been out for two weeks, giving everyone a chance to get to grips with the new “ex” meta, and allowing time for the resale markets to calm themselves down. With the live game making its official rotation to the new...
Rarest Yu-Gi-Oh! Card In The World Will Be Sold After 18 Years
30.3.2023
The rarest Yu-Gi-Oh! card in the world will finally be sold this April. Only one copy was ever printed, and it’s been in the hands of one owner since 2005. Now, the owner is finally ready to part ways with it after 18 years.Read more
Pokémon TCG Scarlet & Violet's New ex Cards Are Ridiculously Powerful
17.3.2023
Tomorrow marks the first chance for Pokémon TCG players and collectors to get their hands on Scarlet & Violet cards. The Build & Battle pre-release boxes, available at specialist TCG stores, allow an early peek at the brand new era for the game due to be fully released on March 31. We’ve...
Marvel Snap's Most Hated Card Gets Another Huge Change
31.1.2023
Today’s big Marvel Snap update added the much-requested (and much-delayed) battle mode for friends. But it also made some changes to a few cards, including a surprise buff for Wolverine and a much-needed nerf to The Leader, a card many claimed was too OP and unfair in its previous state. Read more
I'm Begging Marvel Snap To Stop With All The Annoying Featured Zones
19.1.2023
Another week, another new Marvel Snap location. And sadly, it’s becoming a trend that a lot of these new locations are just really annoying and bad. The latest awful Snap location is Rickety Bridge, a frustrating spot that destroys cards faster than an angry kid who didn’t pull anything good from...
The Best Pokémon Cards Ever Are Out This Year, And They're Mighty Generous
19.1.2023
It’s the end of an era. Over the last three years, the Pokémon Trading Card Game has been primarily focused on the Pokémon and characters from 2019’s Sword and Shield (SWSH) game, but come March 20, that’s all coming to an end. That’s when the world outside of Japan will see its first official sets...
The Ben Brode Creator Interview
12.1.2023
Marvel Snap is just shy of three months old, and it’s fair to say it’s been a success. While the exact number of users hasn’t been shared, Google Play reports over five million downloads, even before you include iOS numbers. And with such popularity comes great scrutiny. Why are the store prices...
The Marvel Snap Cards That Win And Lose The Most Are Hard To Believe
12.1.2023
When it comes to building any style of Marvel Snap deck, there’s always that nagging feeling that you might be including one or two cards out of habit, rather than necessity. But when Kotaku spoke to the game’s creator, Second Dinner’s Ben Brode, we learned that the cards we ought to be leaving...
Marvel Snap Has A Whole Ton Of Plans For 2023
19.12.2022
Marvel Snap may only be two months old, but it has started with a bang. The card-based battler from the mind behind Hearthstone has very quickly become part of the zeitgeist, gathered and enormous army of players, and with it, all the feedback in the universe. In response to all this, developer...
Magic: The Gathering Execs Accused Of Destroying Game Say They're Not
9.12.2022
A month after Bank of America downgraded Hasbro’s stock over fears it was “killing its golden goose” by oversaturating the market with Magic: The Gathering cards, the toy manufacturer says that’s not the case. “There is no evidence that Magic is overprinted,” Wizards of the Coast president Cynthia...
Marvel Snap's Honeymoon Period Might Be Over With Frustrating New Season
6.12.2022
Today, the new season of free-to-play card battler Marvel Snap launched across all platforms, and with it, a brand new battle pass. Many fans online and folks I know IRL were caught off guard by this, even though the game includes both a timer and warnings. Some feel the seasons are too short...
Marvel Snap’s Latest Update Nerfs Some Popular Cards
1.12.2022
I’ve got some bad news for folks running Onslaught or Destroyer decks in card battler Marvel Snap: These cards and a few other powerful favorites have just been slightly nerfed by developer Second Dinner. But there’s some good news, too: The nerfs aren’t too bad, so you might still be able to...
The Pokémon Company Slashes Number Of TCG Cards In Online Packs, Claims It's 'Optimal'
24.11.2022
We’ve already covered a huge number of the serious issues with The Pokémon Company’s new Pokémon TCG Live, the replacement for the decade-old digital way to play the card battler, Pokémon TCG Online. But there’s one other aspect that’s gone under-reported, and astonishingly, it’s not a bug: they’ve...
With 16 New Cards, Marvel Snap's Next Update Is Its Biggest Yet
23.11.2022
Marvel Snap is expanding with its next big update and upcoming cosmic-themed season. Not only is the game getting over a dozen new, rare, and powerful cards, but developer Second Dinner will be adding the previously announced Token Shop to the game, letting players focus on grinding for specific...
Toy Company Slammed For Getting Greedy With Magic: The Gathering
14.11.2022
It feels like every other week Magic: The Gathering is revealing a wild new crossover set or promotional release. And that’s because it kinda is. Fans began stewing over the onslaught earlier this year, and now even Wall Street is starting to balk. Bank of America downgraded toy company owner...
Marvel Snap Creator’s Favorite Cards Prove We All Play The Game Like Buttheads
10.11.2022
Marvel Snap’s boss, Ben Brode, recently sat down and talked shop about the popular free-to-play card game. He revealed a few decks he’s currently playing—one of them being a nasty piece of work that likely annoys many players—and said who his favorite character in the game is. It’s Mysterio...
Marvel Snap Got Way Better When I Started Terrorizing Everyone
10.11.2022
The more I play Marvel Snap, the more dickish I become with my deck builds. Hate me, because I keep leaning toward those cards that mess with the opponent over and above winning a location. And hate me most, because after all the fun of playing cards like Scorpion, Killmonger and Hobgoblin,...