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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 4h

ZGM is almost worth playing outside of Horde decks, but not quite. In Horde decks he now functions as desired - a likely lane winner especially paired with a 1-drop on ZSW on t6.

Overtuned in Horde? Maybe but we gotta let the season play out, get that last Horde card out there (Sentry) and see.

blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 4h

Zombie Giant Man!

ZGM + Zola before :

5/4 1-Cost Horde -> 5/6 2-Cost Horde & 5/7 3-Cost Horde

That's 5/5 or 11/16 YUCK!

after :

5/6 2-Cost Horde -> 5/10 4-Cost Horde & 5/12 6-Cost Horde

that's 5/8 (eh) or 11/28 (hey!)

It's not Panther but with a little Horde help it's right there.

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 4h

Headpool!

A great card for Destroy, that gets its second solid 1 drop in a row. (sorry Destroy haters). Which one drop combo will be the best choosing between Nico, Agony, Headpool, and Moira is the immediate future of destroy but there are no bad choices here.

Not a buff deck card though.

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 4h

Fortnight Round-Up!

Zombie Power-Man! Statted high (sorry Colleen!) everyone is convinced he's good but the stats say nope. Really a hard card to build around as deciding WHEN you discard is kind of important. But still - no effort actions are powerful.

Will Weapon H make his deck work?

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 4h

He's gotta out value those guys if he wants to get in OR he's gotta get a deck that works for him better than those guys. With Weapon H and Marrow that might just happen but more likely it looks like another fringe Discard design. Ok but not the best option

blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 4h

IOW : Discard decks want to discard. You should be a card that Discards or a card that wants to be discarded. Colonel America is neither. You can have 1-2 of these as well but the lower the cost the better. Morbius wins the powerhouse battle here. And Collector isn't far behind in Swarm decks.

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 4h

Need/Shoud/Wait? WAIT. The card is strong but the deck doesn't exist. It might after December's season and you can wait for that.

From skeet 1 : My core belief is when you have a deck type that has cards that do something or want to have that thing done to it, that's basically your deck.

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 4h

Where is he now? fringe Discard decks

Future Homes / Synergies : Marrow is a card that wants to be Discarded and Weapon H is the type that comes back after Discard. Both could be pieces to the Colonel America deck.

Other cards want to see discards but don't want to BE discarded so are more risky

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 4h

Anything real good? If you have the right deck & draw, with Zombie Power Man this can be an absolute powerhouse of a 3/18 that can win lanes with minimal help

Anything not work? Nothing in particular but the "right deck" has been hard to dial in and the "right draw" is up to the Snap gods.

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 4h

Fortnight Follow-Up : Colonel America!

Did he technically work like we thought? Yes, no surprises

Did he strategically work like we thought? Yes, he's a discard card and one that's possibly underrated though probably not since he goes against my core belief.

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 5h

ZSW is a pretty good yet boring card because it's tied to the mechanic as long as the Kitty/Elsa/Angela stuff remains a notch too underpowered. If that ever gets buffed ZSW might be a valuable piece of that but I'm not going to say you need a card based on maybes.

blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 5h

Need/Should/Wait? It comes down to the hoard mechanic. If you want to play it at all you NEED her. If not, you can WAIT. If the deck were getting updates soon I might push to NEED but likely we'll see a card or two the next half-year.

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 5h

Anything real good? not really

Anything not work? Bounce ideas never took off.

Where is she now? Horde decks

Future Homes / Synergies : Prowler's potential zero cost skills would fit nicely behind ZSW

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 5h

Fortnight Follow-Up : Zombie Scarlet Witch! ZSW! Zombie Shoe Warehouse!

Did she technically work like we thought? Yes, though there was a minor question on whether she'd create her own hoard (she doesn't)

Did she strategically work like we thought? Mostly - Kitty/Elsa and Merlin/Wolf Horde decks

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 5h

Our rule is everyone has to be active most months. We (almost) always get the job done.

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 6h

Update : Still not happening.

blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 6h

Me every month : “how do those guys stay that high in Infininte every month”

Me seeing these alliance numbers : “oh ok”

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 19h

They should just do something like "If you haven't gotten inked or gold your 20th split is one of them. Your 30th split is the other"

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 1d

No shark. Robot!

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 1d

Nebula 2-Cost? It must be code. What is safety bot trying to tell us?

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 1d

Goddammit! This is the third time I’ve been offered the wolf. I don’t want the wolf. Stop giving me the wolf

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 1d

Another no

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 1d

Want two emotes (Ultron and Capt Marvel). Ultron came up but at the literal one time I didn’t have the charms to buy it. Let’s see if he ever comes back. Been two days of no

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blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 2d

They replaced my emote in the Sanctum shop with the same emote. Come on man

blueskysnapper.bsky.social @blueskysnapper.bsky.social · 2d

Ah so they know these are coming and people just randomly guessing codes. I’d ask don’t people have better things to do but obviously not!

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