Or maybe making them better?
I love Uatu, the Watcher.
I love to reference him in conversations.
I like to use him in elaborate Marvel-themed analogies when winning arguments.
I love to put him in articles, although he often gets edited out.
Uatu is one of my favourite Marvel characters.
I am Uatu 4 Life.
He’s interesting, too.
But there’s a problem.
Here is my specific problem, though.
As an Uatu mega-fan, I am never going to not use him.
And this means that my deck basically has one fewer functional slots than most people’s decks.
It’s a great game, but once again the fan tax is in play for me.
The fan tax is less of a problem in Midnight Suns than it is in Marvel Snap.
But I still skew towards Blade in a way that makes me neglect other heroes more than I should.
Let’s flip it, though.
Maybe this isn’t a problem.
Maybe it’s one of the world’s greatest licenses actually making these games more interesting.
Both Marvel Snap and Midnight Suns get a lot from Marvel.
Talking to Eurogamer a while back, Marvel Snap’s Ben Brode actually spoke about this.
A top-down approach starts with Uatu, say, and says, what should Uatu’s card to?
(It should RULE.)
A bottom-up approach starts with saying, oh, we want to do more cards that clone other cards.
How should that work, and then who might be suited to it?
“As in… What would Mirage, who causes hallucinations, do?
What would she do in this game?
Or what would Mysterio do?
I suspect that fan tax works the same way.
They make you think.
But now I’ve realised there’s more.
