Players build their decks with cards having unique abilities that trigger either passive abilities for their team, like Captain America giving your other cards in the location it’s played +1 power, or something like Shang-Chi while will destroy all enemy cards at the location it’s played with power nine or greater. There’s no need for typical CCG decks of 60+ cards because the games are short, and instead, you build a deck with 12 cards. 

At launch, Second Dinner is launching with 150 cards in the game with plans to add more regularly after launch. As far as micro-transactions go, the team promised you could earn every card in the game for free, but just how much of a grind you’ll need to go on to do that compared to just paying for them is yet to be determined. But there will also be variants of cards released (alt-art) which seems like the most obvious place to make money in a way that won’t punish casual players and lets the hardcore seek out rarer cards to pimp their decks. 

The “snap” in the title of the game comes from a mechanic that lets you double the stakes of each match but more or less yelling to your opponent “, I’m sure I’m going to win!” If you do, you’ll win more cosmic cubes, which sounds like they’re used for your player rank and potentially currency (I honestly am not 100% sure on this yet). But you can also retreat at any point in a patch before the final turn, which means you’ll lose fewer cubes than if you’d seen the match out to the last turn. 

You can check out some complete gameplay in the video below.