The Best Marvel Snap Decks

Welcome to our best decks tier list where I try to cover all of the best decks in Marvel Snap. In this article, I’ll be covering what I believe are the best decks in the meta, and potentially some honorable mentions.

The December season is entering Week 2, and while Shaw saw more play at the start, he’s starting to fall off. Surfer has seen an uptick due to Shaw, but the deck is moving back to A tier.

Ravonna Darkhawk as an archetype also hasn’t made much of a splash. Zabu Darkhawk is still a top tier deck, and is looking to stay for a while.

The America Chavez change still is the most impactful change from the patch, and decks have adjusted quite a bit. Overall, the meta isn’t completely different from November, but some decks have moved around slightly.

Let’s get right into the tier list. Be sure to use the table of contents on the sidebar to jump to different decks.

• S – Bounce
• S – Darkhawk
• S – Deadpool
• S – Collector Loki
• A – High Evo
• A – Surfer
• A – Shuri Sauron
• A – Control
• A – Shuri Nimrod
• A – Hela
• B – Discard
• B – Black Knight
• B – Cerebro 5
• B – Negative
• B – Thanos Scam
• B – Move Alioth
• C – Junk
• C – Lockjaw
• C – Galactus Ramp
• C – Ongoing
• C – On Reveal

Disclaimers

With the recent change to the Infinite Leaderboard, the decks in this list will be more catered to Ladder than Conquest. Conquest is a very high skill format, but most players seem to prefer Ladder now that there’s Infinite ranks.

Credits to snap.fan for their deck builder and images sourced from their website.

Lastly, there are many more deck archetypes that we would consider to be D tier. While I put some decks in C tier, the list would get too long if I put every single archetype I can think of. As such, it’s mainly there to show some budget or alternative decks.

Bounce – S-Tier

Bounce Decklist:

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• 1-cost: The Hood, Bast, Forge, Korg, Nico Minoru
• 2-cost: Black Widow, Shadow King, Falcon
• 3-cost: Rockslide, Werewolf, Beast
• 4-cost: Darkhawk

Commentary:

Bounce Darkhawk is back with Werewolf driving the deck forward. The engine of Angela, Elsa, and Kitty took big nerfs, but Werewolf is covering for them. Darkhawk is back as an efficient way to get points through cards like Korg and Black Widow.

Werewolf synergizes very well with low-cost On Reveal cards, which this deck can provide a ton of. Werewolf can easily reach 15 Power or even higher with this deck.

In terms of pure Power, this deck can compete with just about any deck.

Replacements:

• You can run other 1-cost cards like Spider-Ham or Iceman.
• Rockslide can be replaced with another tech card like Rogue or another 1-cost card.
• Annihilus and Sentry can come in the deck as well, replacing Rockslide and Falcon.

Darkhawk – S-Tier

Darkhawk Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Korg, Snowguard
• 2-cost: Black Widow, Zabu
• 3-cost: Mystique, Rock Slide, Agent Coulson
• 4-cost: Darkhawk, Ms. Marvel, Iron Lad
• 5-cost: Devil Dinosaur
• 6-cost: Doctor Doom

Commentary:

Darkhawk decks saw some experimentation with Ravonna, but the Zabu version is simply stronger and more consistent. The deck has just about everything you can ask for. Power, access to difficult locations through Marvel and Doom, junk cards with Korg, Black Widow, and more.

While the deck doesn’t win strictly through Power, the deck just has the most tools out of any other top deck.

Replacements:

The core engine is Korg, Black Widow, Zabu, Rockslide, and Darkhawk. The rest of the cards you can kind of just throw whatever you have or want to play.

• Man-Thing, Luke Cage, Hazmat
• Stature, Black Bolt, Silver Samurai
• Shang-Chi, Enchantress
• Annihilus, The Hood, Sentry
• Ravonna Renslayer, Iron Man
• Cosmo, Shadow King

Deadpool – S-Tier

Deadpool Destroy Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Deadpool, Forge, Nico Minoru, X-23
• 2-cost: Carnage, Wolverine
• 3-cost: Killmonger, Venom
• 5-cost: Taskmaster
• 6+cost: Knull, Death

Commentary:

Deadpool wasn’t really changed much in the recent patch, and the deck is still very solid. Shadow King is still a common tech card, but isn’t in every deck. As Darkhawk becomes more popular, we see more people move toward Rogue/Enchantress instead of Shadow King/Shang-Chi.

Armor isn’t particularly prevalent in the current meta, but Cosmo can definitely hurt this deck quite a bit.

Even still, the deck can output a ton of Power, and has multiple finishers you can go through such as Knull, Death, and Taskmaster.

Replacements:

• If you don’t have X-23 or Nico Minoru, look to run other Destroy cards like Nova or Bucky Barnes.
• Arnim Zola can replace Task Master

Collector Loki – S-Tier

Collector Loki Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Agent 13, Maria Hill, Nico Minoru, Quinjet, Snowguard
• 2-cost: The Collector, Falcon, Sentinel
• 3-cost: Cosmo, Werewolf by Night
• 4-cost: Shang-Chi, Loki

Commentary:

Loki is finally being knocked down in the tier list. The loss of America Chavez is quite large as the deck heavily relies on playing either Werewolf or Loki on time. Even still, when the cards line up, Loki is still a very powerful deck.

Replacements:

• Shadow King/Rogue (Over Cosmo)

If you want to play a Loki deck that doesn’t run Werewolf, you can look to play more card generators.

• Mirage, Agent Coulson over Werewolf, Falcon

High Evo – A-Tier

Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Sunspot, Misty Knight
• 2-cost: Armor, Shocker
• 3-cost: Magik, Cosmo, Cyclops
• 4-cost: High Evolutionary
• 5-cost: Leech
• 6-cost: She-Hulk, Hulk, The Infinaut

Commentary:

With Luke Cage nerfed, there has also been an uptick in High Evo decks. The deck has a simple game plan, but it’s very effective.

You can go Sunspot, into Misty Knight, into Shocker, into Magik, into Leech, pass on turn 6, and play Infinaut/Hulk + She-Hulk on turn 7.

Not many decks can outpower you while also playing through Leech on turn 5.

Replacements:

You can run a High Evo deck without the Magik/She-Hulk/The Infinaut package, running other cards like Storm, Doctor Doom, etc.

Surfer  – A-Tier

Surfer Shaw Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Forge, Nova
• 2-cost: Okoye, America Chavez
• 3-cost: Brood, Silver Surfer, Killmonger, Nakia, Werewolf, Sebastian Shaw, Polaris
• 5-cost: Sera

Commentary:

Sebastian Shaw saw a lot of play early in the new season as a new card release. As time has passed, it would seem that Shaw is a solid card in Surfer, but not absolutely necessary. You can still play Surfer without Shaw and lean more into Werewolf.

Even still, this version of Surfer can be very strong at putting points on the board. Killmonger is the only tech card, and in the current meta, he isn’t too effective compared to others like Rogue or Shadow King.

As such, this deck is mainly looking to put Power on the board, and it does it well. It just does it slightly worse than the decks in the S tier.

Replacements:

There are a lot of 3-cost cards you can run in this list.

• Maximus
• Gladiator
• Storm + Juggernaut

You can also go back to the Werewolf version here.

Shuri Sauron – A-Tier

Shuri Sauron Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Echo, Zero, Ebony Maw
• 2-cost: Armor, Lizard
• 3-cost: Sauron
• 4-cost: Shuri, Typhoid Mary
• 5-cost: Taskmaster, Vision, Red Skull
• 6-cost: Alioth

Commentary:

Shuri is still just a solid deck. The deck received two recent nerfs in Shuri and Sauron, both losing 1 Power. Even still, the deck is still a powerhouse and is basically the baseline for Power in the game.

Shang-Chi and Shadow King are both common in this meta, so Shuri may move down a bit over time, but the deck is still just simple, effective, and strong.

Replacements:

She-Hulk can be a decent alternative to Alioth, but she only reaches 18 Power which a lot of decks can overcome quite easily.

Control – A-Tier

Control Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Nebula, Nightcrawler
• 2-cost: Medusa, Jeff
• 3-cost: Rogue, Storm
• 4-cost: Ms. Marvel, Iron Lad
• 5-cost: Professor X, Legion
• 6-cost: Alioth, Doctor Doom

Commentary:

This Control deck looks to use location control tools along with Ms. Marvel. Location control has been an archetype for a long time, but the release of Ms. Marvel has been a nice buff compared to something like Klaw.

In general, the deck looks to win one of the side lanes with Storm or Professor X. Once that is accomplished, you can either play for all 3 locations, or win a second location with Alioth. Be wary for things that can get around location lockdown like Werewolf or Jeff.

The deck is quite effective at shutting down opponents, but the rise of Darkhawk with Ms. Marvel and Doctor Doom makes this deck perform slightly worse.

Replacements:

Nightcrawler/Rogue are the most replaceable cards in the deck. Here are a couple options you can consider running instead:

• Psylocke
• Shadow King

Shuri Nimrod – A-Tier

Shuri Nimrod Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Forge, Ghost-Spider, Human Torch
• 2-cost: Carnage, Multiple Man
• 3-cost: Venom, Deathlok
• 4-cost: Shuri, Phoenix Force
• 5-cost: Nimrod
• 6-cost: Arnim Zola, Destroyer

Commentary:

Shuri Nimrod decks have evolved to include Phoenix Force in the deck as well. The deck can still simply win by going Shuri, into Nimrod, into double destroy on turn 6. However, with Phoenix Force, the deck has more options to play different things like reviving Multiple Man or Human Torch.

Ghost-Spider is also a nice card to dodge tech cards like Shang-Chi, Armor, or Cosmo, but your Human Torch won’t survive a Killmonger.

Replacements:

You can look to play a Shuri Nimrod deck without Phoenix Force by cutting the Move cards and adding in Destroy cards.

• Put in: X-23, Bucky Barnes, Wolverine, Killmonger, Destroyer
• Take out: Forge, Ghost-Spider, Human Torch, Multiple Man, Phoenix Force

Hela – A-Tier

Hela Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Blade
• 2-cost: America Chavez
• 3-cost: Lockjaw, Lady Sif
• 4-cost: Jubilee, Silver Samurai, Black Cat
• 5-cost: White Tiger
• 6+-cost: Hela, Magneto, The Infinaut, Death

Commentary:

Hela decks have begun to play around Lockjaw instead of the usual Invisible Woman Modok combo. With Lockjaw, you’re able to potentially highroll Hela. You can also simply just overpower one lane and use Hela to win another lane.

The deck is higher variance than the old Hela deck, but has a higher ceiling and is less predictable.

If you want to play the old Hela deck, here it is below.

Hela Combo Deck

Hela Decklist:

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• 2-cost: Invisible Woman
• 3-cost: Magik, Crystal
• 4-cost: Iron Lad, Black Cat
• 5-cost: Iron Man, Modok
• 6+-cost: Hela, Onslaught, The Living Tribunal, Giganto, The Infinaut

This Hela deck is simply a combo deck. You have two basic plans:

• Invisible Woman into Modok -> Hela.
• Magik into Iron Man + Onslaught + The Living Tribunal

Alioth is less common in the meta, so Hela can do well, but Cosmo will shut down the deck.

Discard – B-Tier

Discard Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Blade
• 2-cost: Mobius, Wolverine, Swarm, Colleen Wing
• 3-cost: Gambit, Daken, Lady Sif
• 4-cost: Dracula, Hell Cow
• 5-cost: M.O.D.O.K.
• 6-cost: Apocalypse

Commentary:

The nerf to America Chavez definitely hurts this deck quite a bit. It’s a deck where you really want to see specific cards early, so the loss of consistency can be felt. Furthermore, the deck often actually played America on turn 6, letting Dracula discard Apocalypse.

Because of this, Discard is moving down to B tier.

Replacements:

• Daken can be replaced with just about and card you want. Gambit, Storm, etc.

Black Knight – B-Tier

Black Knight Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Sunspot, Black Knight, Blade
• 2-cost: Armor
• 3-cost: Magik, Lady Sif
• 4-cost: Iron Lad
• 5-cost: Taskmaster, Leech
• 6-cost: She-Hulk, The Infinaut

Commentary:

The buff to Black Knight might be the most impactful buff for a card in a long while. Being able to protect Ebony Blade from being reduced by Shadow King or destroyed by Shang-Chi is absolutely huge.

In a way, this deck is similar to Shuri in that if you get your perfect curve off, there aren’t many decks that can beat this. For now, I’m rating it at the top of B-tier, but as optimizations are made, I can see this deck moving up.

Cerebro 5 – B-Tier

Decklist:

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• 2-cost: Luke Cage, Medusa
• 3-cost: Cerebro, Polaris, Spider-Man, Wave
• 4-cost: Enchantress, Miles Morales, Ms. Marvel
• 6-cost: Doctor Doom

Commentary:

The release of Ms. Marvel has turned Cerebro into a surprisingly competitive deck. Cerebro has a strong matchup into Loki, and Cerebro 5 is a bit better then Cerebro 3 in the general meta.

Polaris and Spider-Man can disrupt enemy cards, and Enchantress can be a strong tech card for some matchups.

Cerebro 2 and 3 are still playable decks as well, but all the hype is on Cerebro 5.

Replacements:

You can replace Enchantress with just about any 5 Power card if you’re worried about the Loki matchup.

Negative – C-Tier

Negative Decklist:

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• 2-cost: Zabu, Ravonna Renslayer
• 3-cost: Ironheart, Mystique
• 4-cost: Mister Negative, Wong
• 5-cost: Iron Man, White Tiger, Black Panther, Jane Foster
• 6-cost: Arnim Zola, Knull

Commentary:

Ravonna Renslayer is seeing some play in Negative decks after Mobius was nerfed. While the deck lacks consistency, you can definitely high roll games and look to leverage the snap mechanic to climb.

Thanos Scam – B-Tier

Thanos Scam Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Nico Minoru
• 2-cost: Elsa Bloodstone, Psylocke, Armor, Jeff
• 4-cost: Iron Lad
• 5-cost: Blue Marvel, Professor X, Devil Dinosaur, Vision
• 6-cost: Alioth, Thanos

Commentary:

This deck was considered the best deck for a brief period of time. Unfortunately, the nerfs to Elsa and Alioth have hurt this deck quite a bit.

While you can get a lot of wins with Professor X + Alioth, the deck can just simply lose in Power to other more explosive decks.

Replacements:

• Nico Minoru: Other strong 2-cost cards such as Luke Cage, Mobius
• Armor: Once again you can replace Armor with Luke Cage/Mobius
• Iron Lad: Tech cards such as Rogue/Shang-Chi/Enchantress

Spectrum: If you want to play a build that’s more Ongoing with Spectrum, look to add in cards like Ant-Man, Mister Fantastic, Klaw, etc and replace some of the control tools to do so.

Move Alioth – B-Tier

Move Alioth Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler
• 2-cost: Angela, Kraven, Jeff, Silk
• 3-cost: Spider-Man
• 5-cost: Aero, Vision
• 6-cost: Alioth, Doctor Doom

Commentary:

Move Alioth has fallen out of favor quite a bit. The nerf to Elsa and Angela have hit the deck quite hard. We may see the archetype adapt, but other decks are simply much stronger at the moment.

If you enjoy moving cards around, you’re likely better off playing the Surfer Werewolf deck with Kraven instead.

Replacements:

• Jean Gray can be added into the deck to disrupt your opponent while enacting your main gameplan of stacking one lane with Movement cards.
• Legion can replace Alioth, as they are both strong finishers for the deck. They are completely different cards, but empower the deck in similar ways.
• If you don’t want to run Elsa Bloodstone, you can look to add in cards like Crossbones or Miles Morales. These can help you gain priority to finish the game with Alioth.

Junk – C-Tier

Junk Decklist:

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• 1-cost: The Hood, Nebula
• 2-cost: Jeff
• 3-cost: Storm, Debrii
• 4-cost: Shang-Chi, Ms. Marvel, Sentry
• 5-cost: Professor X, Valkyrie, Annihilus
• 6-cost: Alioth

Commentary:

The Junk archetype is making a small comeback due to the release of Annihilus. I’m not sure whether this version of the deck is stronger than playing without Annihilus and playing the Goblins instead.

Either way, the deck is mostly a control deck, except it looks to use more “junk” cards like Debrii to clog the enemy board. The main issue with this list compared to the Control list above is that when things don’t line up well, you just aren’t putting enough power on the board.

Lockjaw – C-Tier

Lockjaw Decklist:

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• 0-cost: Wasp
• 2-cost: Spider-Ham
• 3-cost: Lockjaw, Killmonger, Wave, Spider-Man
• 4-cost: Shang-Chi
• 5-cost: Devil Dinosaur, Vision
• 6+cost: Thanos, Magneto, Death

Commentary:

Thanos Lockjaw is once again the prevalent Lockjaw version after the nerfs to the High Evo Lockjaw deck.

This deck excels at high rolling games through Lockjaw and the Infinity Stones, but the deck can be inconsistent. You really have to leverage your snaps well to find success with this deck. Also this deck doesn’t care about Mobius which is nice.

Galactus Ramp – C-Tier

Galactus Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Sunspot, Nebula
• 2-cost: Jeff
• 3-cost: Green Goblin, Electro, Wave
• 4-cost: Iron Lad
• 5-cost: Hobgoblin
• 6-cost: Alioth, Doctor Doom, Galactus, Odin

Commentary:

Galactus and Electro Ramp have merged together once again. Alioth makes for a great finisher for both Galactus and Electro game plans.

The deck has a lot of options, and it can be very difficult to play around everything. If you play around Galactus, maybe you lose to Doctor Doom -> Odin. Or you can get sniped by Galactus and lose to Alioth on turn 6. Galactus is back.

Galactus was nerfed to a 6/5, which makes the deck MUCH weaker than before. However, the deck still has a lot of play lines, so you’re not all in on Galactus. I expect the deck to still see some play, although it has fallen quite low in the tier list.

Replacements:

• Arnim Zola / Black Panther
• Professor X
• Daredevil

Ongoing – C-Tier

Ongoing Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Ant-Man, Quinjet
• 2-cost: Armor, Lizard
• 3-cost: Mystique, Cosmo, Mobius M. Mobius
• 4-cost: Ms. Marvel
• 5-cost: Klaw
• 6-cost: Onslaught, Spectrum, America Chavez

Commentary:

In the past, Ongoing decks relied on Professor X and Destroyer to win games, but that has been too weak for a long time now.

With the release of Ms. Marvel, you can try to compete on points instead.

While the deck isn’t amazing, it’s still competitive enough to be played, and with more support, we may see the deck rise up the tier list. The buff of Spectrum makes this deck a bit more interesting to try, but there are likely less budget decks that can utilize Spectrum to higher effect.

On Reveal – C-Tier

On Reveal Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Sunspot, Iceman
• 2-cost: Scorpion
• 3-cost: Ironheart, Wolfsbane, Storm
• 4-cost: Wong
• 5-cost: White Tiger, Black Panther
• 6-cost: Arnim Zola, Doctor Doom, Odin

Commentary:

This deck is honestly more of a Tier 4 deck, but I thought I should include at least one deck that is more budget friendly for newer players. The deck doesn’t use any many Series 3 cards, and doesn’t have any Series 4 or 5 cards.

While this deck isn’t amazing compared to the others, it can definitely still win some games.

Methodology

We’ve tried our best to evaluate these decks based on a few key factors:

• Overall Win %: This looks to see simply how often a deck wins. It doesn’t matter if you only win 1 cube a game if your win % is 70%. You can simply spam games to Infinite.
• Consistency: Consistency is quite hard to determine for Snap due to the snap mechanics. You can always retreat and make up for it if what your deck does is extremely powerful, albeit difficult to pull off. Even still, being able to enact a similar game plan repeatedly leans to an overall smoother climb.
• Flexibility: For Marvel Snap, flexibility is somewhat equivalent to “surprise factor.” A deck is flexible if you have a multitude of options that your opponent cannot easily counter/predict. This means you aren’t always enacting 1 gameplan every game, but can adapt based on the situation.

Note: For numbers like win %, we would like to credit sources like Snap.fan and Marvelsnap.pro for their statistics and tracking.

Conclusion

This wraps up our Marvel Snap Tier List for the “Hellfire Gala” season.

Stay tuned as we update this tier list as more time passes.

Good luck on your climb and snap away!

If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out our other resources for Marvel Snap. These can help you wherever you are in the Collection Track.

• Series 4/5 Tier List
• Spotlight Cache Guide

Good luck in your games, and thanks for reading!

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