Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Lynn. I'm your host for this week.

Joined by our returning regular panelist, Rowan Kaiser.

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We're also happy to welcome back. A friend of the show, you may know whom is Chef Lubu or the anime for Southerners guy, Brian Smalley.

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And on, I believe, his three moves ahead debut, we have from the Acts of the Blood God podcast, among other things, Eric Van Allen.

Shiny logo.

And if those introductions didn't tip you off, we're talking about Marvel Snap, the new free-to-play mobile card game featuring characters from the Marvel

universe that it seems like everybody I know is currently playing. It's kind of a little bit

of a phenomenon. It almost feels feels like you know this year's

um Pokemon go except nobody's going outside because it's cold and also there's still a deadly

virus um yeah ruin why don't you kick us off are you sure can we get a check on that? Yeah, I mean, you would, you would, you would, you would, you would, you would, you would, uh, you'd hardly believe it. Uh, you see how, how, how, uh, I'm gonna check the CDC. Because if there's like, the CDC is gonna be on top. Right. Yeah. And also, it would be on Twitter. You're not allowed to lie on Twitter.

Oh, wait. Hang on. I'm getting a message that you are actually allowed to lie on Twitter.

All freedom of speech. Yeah, it's called comedy. It's allowed on Twitter again. Right. Yeah, which

lying about a deadly virus is is comedy. So that's allowed.

Rowan, why don't you kick us off?

What exactly is Marvel Snap?

Marvel Snap is like a collectible card game.

It's from one of the guys who made hearthstone.

And I feel like the best way to describe it is it is to Heartstone, what Harthstone was to Magic the Gathering. It's like a super simplified, much faster variation of that collectible card game.

Build a quick deck. I think there are 20 cards or maybe 18 cards. And then play a game that

lasts two minutes. Get like a couple good strategic decisions in there,

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