I mistakenly said in the video that there are 16 splits (four backgrounds, four border effects), but that actually fails to account for the fact you get rainbow backgrounds without borders to start, so at least 18 is correct. Does anyone know if you can get gold / inky without border effects?
Don't be discouraged viewers! In less than 3 months from watching this I have over 50 splits including Ink and Gold splits! You too can get there with determination and dedication to shiny things.
That last bit of information is huge! As a beta player I had no idea but I've stopped upgrading some cards at legendary because I got the variant I wanted. Going to infinity split everything now thanks!
How, I had no idea there was this much going on. They put so much care into this game. Wish more card games had this many effects/variants. It’s a cool touch and they’re relatively well priced/free. Great model.
Thanks, this really explained a lot. I had no idea you couldn't get duplicates (of background, border combos), or that this rule then carried over to variants too. I had a lot of boosters saved up on some cards I play a lot waiting for a cool variant, so knowing I can upgrade them now and not waste it is nice. :D
Thank you for explaining this. Subbed. You haz learned me a knowledge. I wish we had the ability to choose borders. There are some cards as I upgrade where I think that particular artwork pairs nicely with the solid green, blue or purple borders. Most look terrible with the purple border and I wish I they could go back to the blue or green one that made them pop more.
Huh, I never even heard of the splits and different variants of 'em. But then again, Snap has almost no community in a country that I live in so it's not surprising. Thanks for the coverage, Jeff! Your work is greatly apprecitated!
I reaally like the idea of splitting cards/variants I am not too interested in as preparation for the variant I AM interested in LOL … gonna split a bunch of cards so my favourite art one can have the chance to get some inkify background!!!!!
Question about the boosters: is there pure randomness to which card is awarded boosters? Does using certain variants influence which cards get boosters? Are foiled cards less likely to receive boosters? Probably confirmation bias but I feel like when I'm playing a deck with a single card with a foil variant that card is far less likely to get boosters than other non-foil cards in the deck.
I’m new 2 this game & a lil confused . My question is that will I still be able 2 get more copies of the character points or whatever they’re called even if I use 2 splits ?
Thanks for the informantions . always love to watch your videos i have a question : if you have all the possible splits for a card . what happend when you level the last card to infinity? you can't split it anymore ? or you get a variant art of the card?
Gotta say you're my favorite marvel snap content creator on youtube. This video made me sub. I agree the ink one looks best, and I really want it. But those border effects seem really useless/unimpressive? Like does it stand out at all or be honest are we just looking at the art. Makes me not want to split a card twice.
Sooooo, I can eventually have like 16 versions of the same card...there is no duplicates of the same version tho right cuz this would be disappointing. I finally split my 1st rainbow and saw it was only just the purple swirl like, what is the difference and had to look it up cuz originally I wanted to find out for myself but after that I just had to find out lol Very helpful video tho thank you sir
I'll update because it was such great content with amazing content. The information was clear and managed to clear all my doubts BUT... I will never reach this far as a casual player probably... I can at least dream about it xD
I actually like the original backgrounds more, it make each card stand more out. After a while they'll just all have the same background. Or just a variation of a couple backgrounds.
For example White Tiger got a really good looking background with a building behind her and a green tiger spirit at night, but after it's just some rainbow colors and de building completely disappears.
So attempting to do some quick maths... There are currently 1030 different card arts to upgrade including originals and all variants. Each card can be upgraded effectively 19 times (1 original plus 18 splits). So 19x1030 is 19570 full upgrades. Upgrading a card to infinity is 31 collection levels (1+2+4+6+8+10). Unless there are collection points awarded for a split? So a collection score could currently at max be 606,670.... anyone close?
Given the first split has no border effect, does that mean each card can be split 17 times (16 combinations + 1 just background no border) or even more if it is possible to get the other just background no border/ vice versa if those exist?
Interestingly if Jeff is 100% accurate there are two impications. As you say, the very first split of a never split character will not have a border and (probably) is a 17th (1st+16) Split. Secondly, the rarest card you will probably ever potentially have is actually a VARIANTs first-character split which will be one of the rainbows WITHOUT a border effect - which youll never be able to get if you split the original card. Unless of course each split CAN be obtained without border effects... which means there's 20 splits.
I love and hate this system. Some effects are really cool, like the Kirby Dots and monochromatic effect. Whilst some are really ugly. But there's no way to actually mix and match. These variants often remove the background of the card in favor of a rainbow colored background. Which often makes them look worse in my opinion. Also I think the legendary border has the coolest color and stands out the most. Making me not really want to upgrade to Infinity. I wish they would implement a way for you to customize a card to your liking. You would still need to obtain all the effects in the exact same way you do now. But you can make the card look however you want. Maybe you want it to have the "Common" colored border but still be 3D and animated and all that. Why not let players choose. It would give so much amazing depth to the system and it would actually make me want to upgrade my collection.
I'd assume something like this is coming at some point but the tech stack isn't done yet. Being able to pick border color specifically has been requested a lot.
@Lambi I couldnt agree with you more, the legendary border I think is the best border, the infinite one after it feels less epic and just purply translucent. (which is weird as earlier one is also purple) It would be way better to let players customize whatever border, special effect and background they want. Since they use this modular system anyways, it wouldn't be hard to program at all. I also think the game should default with only the cards you have unlocked in the collection screen, with the option to click on a card and to swap between cosmetics taking the last chosen cosmetic as default for when you add that card to a deck. Currently you have 5 different Green Goblins, 11 different Professor X's all clogging up your screen while you're looking for only a single card. In fact, I feel so strongly about this, I am going to make a suggestion to the devs to implement these changes for a future patch. EDIT: I posted something to this affect to 2nd dinner, hopefully they will implement.
@@HooglandiaSnap so say you have iron mans base card and a variant are you saying splitting the base card then splitting the variant gives me a better chance at getting a rare variant
So is it possible to get the same split multiple times for the same card, or if you get them to infinity enough times are you going to get every version eventually?
@@HooglandiaSnap aaah okay, I guess I just haven’t seen any yet. Crossing my fingers for Daredevil! Thank you, I appreciate you making this video and taking the time to answer my question! 😊
They've actually added more color combinations for the border effects, so there are roughly 100 splits per card now. When you hit that limit you have to stop splitting.
@@HooglandiaSnap Yeah that part i thought so. So you can split every variant of a card 16 times each to have a "full" collection of a card. Thx for the answer! ;)
I am at collection level 3335 and still missing 3 cards (Galactus), (Thanos) and (Nick Fury... which may still not be available in the pool as it was part of a beta season). I am not sure but I feel like I am well below the average player. I believed a new card was expected to pop up after a set number of reserves. My last new card wass 10 reserves ago (level 3226)
None of the three cards you listed are currently in pool 3. Nick Fury will be added to pool 3 when this season ends. The other two aren't released yet at all and can only be see via random generation.
Too each their own, but luckily I do not care for the inkified cards at all, so I will not mind not rolling them ever 😂 I'd honestly almost rather run the regular version on most cards than inkified even Really enjoy the rest of the upgrades tho!!!
I wonder if they'll let you split down after you've got the 4x4 combinations and get the other two borderless backrounds or even backgroundless borders? that would be pretty cool as a final way to round out the card collection. Although I think it would be better at the end rather than as a random chance while you're still pining for rare splits.
with all the variants and splits. the collection is already arguably infinite. but it would still be nice to be able to pick your fave cards and just go to town on them
Infinity Splits are a really elegant way of having long-term collection progression without giving players with upgraded collections a gameplay advantage over other players. If I have a full deck of cards with matching "Kirby" dots, I can still lose to a much better player using cards with the ugly triangle background.
One thing that’s adjacent to this topic that I still don’t understand: If I’ve upgraded all cards to green - why is the most efficient way to level cards to split the same card over and over instead of just upgrading cards in the deck your playing as soon as they are available. Unless I’m missing something every upgrade past the first is the same credit/booster/level gained ratio. You can’t target which booster you get outside of jamming games w the same cards over and over. I’ve seen so many people say split the same card over and over…why not just upgrade what you can when you can?
500 credits for ten collection levels vs 250 credits for ten collection levels. Plus improving twenty cards for the price of one. There are definite benefits to running a deck full of commons, not least forcing you to improvise a playstyle rather than slavishly follow the latest deck trend. Swapping out a card each game is good solid training.
The only difference is after a split you get to start at common again, and get another half-price level (or I think of it as a 25 credit "bonus" every time you split a card). Like Jeff mentioned it's relatively minimal (so 4900 credits spent only on splitting cards will net you the same number of levels as 5000 credits spread across your collection sans splits). The upgrade every common probably is a little more worthwhile, since you can slide a card into a reasonable, well suited deck for a game or three and usually get the needed boosters, and its effectively 25 free credits (or half a free level) but even that the difference between not paying attention at all and strictly optimal amounts to just dozens of collection levels over the course of obtaining a full collection ~3000 levels give or take).
You need like 150000k credits to get every card. A 250 credit saving in the grand scheme of it all isn't a lot. If it makes you happy to min max that fraction of a precent, go nuts, but it also isn't nearly enough progress to be worth stressing over if you don't enjoy the process.
The fact that they took away the mechanic that made it so mutagens always went to the common made getting the effect that you want on a specific card a monumental task, very bad patch for collectors. Should have just left that system in play after every card has 20.
