Marvel's Most Underrated Game Adds New Characters For True X-Men Fans

Summary Marvel SNAP's new season introduces Blink and the Exiles, bringing underrepresented X-Men characters to the game.

The season features new locations and abilities, adding depth to gameplay with unique card interactions and power dynamics.

Act fast to add these Multiverse-traveling characters to your deck before Marvel SNAP's season ends on June 4, 2024.

Marvel SNAP's latest season is delving into the multiverse with the introduction of an X-Men character that's often underrepresented in the gaming space. Since its launch in October 2022, Second Dinner's free-to-play, deck-builder title has seen the addition of many characters from across the Marvel Universe, from more well-known teams such as the Avengers or the X-Men, through to the Thunderbolts, a team comprised of reformed supervillains that is due to get its first movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2025 after the latest change-up in scheduling.

As reported by GameInformer, Marvel SNAP's latest season, titled "A Blink in Time" will introduce the teleporting mutant Blink, and her team, the Exiles. It also includes two new locations, the Panoptichron, an observatory located outside time and space that can be used to observe all realities of the Multiverse, and the real-world location of Cancun. In the former, cards that didn't start in players' decks will receive +2 power, and in the latter, power at that location doesn't count toward winning the game.

The new characters included this season are:

Name Cost Power Ability Blink 5 7 On reveal, swap the last card played with a higher-cost card from the deck. Nocturne 3 5 Can only be moved once. When this moves, its location is replaced with a random new one. Sage 3 0 On reveal, +2 power for each different power among all other cards here. Namora 5 6 On reveal, give +5 power to each of the cards at another location. Sasquatch 6 10 Costs 1 less for each card played at the last turn.

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Blink Is Often Underrepresented In Marvel Games

But She And The Exiles Are A Good Fit For A Multiversal Season

Despite her popularity in the comics, and appearances in the 2014 movie X-Men: Days of Future Past and the 2017 TV show, The Gifted, Blink hasn't appeared much in the gaming space. She was voiced by Tara Strong in the acclaimed 2005 title X-Men Legends 2: Rise of Apocalypse, and there's a card of her in 2014's mobile card battle game X-Men: Battle of the Atom, which has been delisted since September 2015. As for the Exiles, they also appeared in Battle of the Atom, but not in any other Marvel games.

Considering the group's role within the Multiverse, however, they are a good fit for Marvel SNAP's new season. The Multiverse has become somewhat overdone as a plot element in recent years, but it's good to see Second Dinner adding new characters rather than various variants of popular characters already featured in the game, such as Spider-Man or Iron Man.

Marvel SNAP's A Blink in Time season began May 7, 2024, and will be running until June 4. Therefore, those who wish to add the Multiverse-traveling team to their deck will have to act with haste before they're gone!

Source: GameInformer