In Second Dinner’s cell card sport Marvel Snap, one card appears to attract curiosity greater than every other: Agatha Harkness. A part of this can be as a result of character’s development in recognition stemming from her position within the Disney Plus collection WandaVision, which led to the creation of spin-off collection Agatha: Coven of Chaos, set to launch in winter of this yr. Nevertheless, it’s much more seemingly because of her card’s loopy distinctive skill that sees her play your playing cards for you.
Marvel Snap creator Ben Brode is aware of how particular the Agatha Harkness card is, too, going as far as to say the staff was “terrified for years of this card.” However that uncertainty and instability is definitely the whole level. Brode spoke to Eurogamer concerning the want for collectible card video games to keep away from making gamers feeling like they’ve seen all of it earlier than.
“You want one thing that blows their thoughts and makes them suppose: ‘Maintain on! Something might occur on this sport! I don’t know what to anticipate! What else do these playing cards do? I’ve to see all of those playing cards now! That is wild!’” Brode advised Eurogamer.
Those that have been taking part in Marvel Snap because the sport launched in October 2022 have seemingly had that unbelievable second the place they first encounter this card’s skill and understand what’s occurring. What could be extra stunning, although, is that Brode really doesn’t need you to play the Agatha Harkness card, and the explanation lies in how the witch works.
It seems, Agatha Harkness solely has one factor on her thoughts: taking part in herself. If there’s sufficient Vitality to play her 6-cost card, she’ll play herself. Nevertheless, that usually doesn’t occur till the very finish of the sport. Within the meantime, she’ll play the sport for you solely randomly. That’s proper. There’s nothing else to it however full randomization. This information surprised Eurogamer’s Christian Donlan, who requested Brode to make clear.
“Fully randomly,” Brode responded. “She is going to take a random card, play it to a random location and do it once more and do it once more till she’s out of mana. That’s it.”
Donlan confessed that he tried making use of extra logic to the Harkness card than the cardboard itself was using, a mistake he’s seemingly not alone in making.
“So one in every of my theories has been that there’s a quirk along with her as a result of she doesn’t know learn how to play Medusa, who solely is smart should you play her within the center location,” Donlan advised Brode. “Agatha performs Medusa all over. However it seems I’m studying completely all the pieces into that? Was that the plan from the phrase go? Full randomness?”
Brode’s recommendation? Don’t depend on Agatha in any respect. However should you do put your religion in her, possibly don’t pair her and Medusa up in the identical deck.
So should you’re not supposed to truly play Agatha, you might be questioning, why have her in any respect? It’s all a part of that central purpose of protecting the collectible card sport distinctive.
“I might somewhat you don’t play Agatha, really. I’d somewhat you be making onerous selections and try to puzzle out the precise play. However we wish there to be this actually distinctive factor within the sport,” Brode defined to Eurogamer.
And the true magic of the cardboard comes from being on the opposing aspect of her, discovering on the finish of a match that it was Agatha you have been taking part in towards all alongside.
“So this card was not Agatha to start with,” Brode reveals. “It was Adam Warlock as soon as upon a time. […] However then WandaVision got here out. And there’s a second—this can be a spoiler, I’m sorry. However there’s a second in WandaVision, the place there’s a personality who all of a sudden reveals that she was the unhealthy man all alongside.”
And, effectively, you most likely understand how the tune goes.
