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Good morning all! I’m back at Marvel Snap Zone with a deck of the day: a top deck for you to try out! My aim for this article is to get you in and out quickly and give you something new to play every day along with the tools to do well with it. Check out the video for a verbal explanation of this and three other new decks.
Decks with Esme Cuckoo
One day in, Esme Cuckoo seems like a good card. She goes in a lot of very strong decks that aren’t meta right now, but have been in the past, as she likes cards like Iron Man and Gorr where becoming a 3-4 is a boon. The power she sets cards to can be reverted by Luke Cage, but in day 1, that interaction is underexplored. She felt very good when she works, but a bit clunky when she misses. Still a 3-4 that can give you a Snap condition is nothing to sneeze at.
Decks with Surge
This card felt really good in Thanos, where free stones are easy to chain, but in almost every other deck, she felt like a ramp card that only really works if the card you need is within one or two of the one you draw. That’s not great. The extra power is nice, but the ramp felt incredibly inconsistent and chaining, even in decks like Silver Surfer, meant I was often playing a 2-3 or a 2-4 with no added benefit.
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Despite what’s written above, HeartoftheCardsSnap was able to hit Rank 1 with his Silver Surfer deck. He’s been in top 10 with Silver Surfer for each of the past two seasons, and absolutely rocked with this deck. I also had a 75% win rate and +18 cubes, but strangely, almost every game was against a bot, and I went 9-0, then I faced four cheating bots that took 4 or 8 cubes from me. I have no idea why, and it made card evaluation really tough. Luckily, I had three hours of prior testing to form my opinion.
Silver Surfer is mostly a consistent points deck, or at least this version is. Surge has two uses in this list. If it hits a Galacta for turn 3, not the best chance, you get a lot of extra points. Since there are also three two cost cards, you can also often end up playing a card that Surge hit that was brought down to two cost and another two. Those are… fine, but outside cases – the card rarely did anything worthwhile, often playing as an Okoye with fewer points.
Brood and Captain Carter, however, do give Silver Surfer the ability to go unexpectedly tall, which is how this deck wins cubes. Whether is be an amplifying location, or just the presence of Galacta and Surfer in the deck, sudden power spikes are often more points than an opponent commits in a location.
The deck isn’t truly without tech – Negasonic Teenage Warhead gives the power to surprise kill an opponent’s key card. It killed a Luke Cage that won me a game yesterday. Killmonger can stomp numerous decks that rely on 1s, turning off Thanos’ power. And Red Guardian operates as a catch all control piece.
This deck is very strong and remarkably consistent… just little of that has to do with Surge. In fact, the better version without Surge looks like this:
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Card Replacements
- Twitch.tv/HeartoftheCardsSnap
- Needs: Galacta, Carter, Makkari
- Surge -> U.S. Agent, Kate, Fenris
- Copycat -> Mobius
- Red Guardian -> Rogue
Turn by Turn
- Turn 1: Pass
- Turn 2: Sam > Surge > Forge
- Turn 3: Negasonic/Copycat > Carter or buffed Brood.
- Turn 4: Galacta > 3
- Turn 5: Forge > other 2 with Brood/Monger/Carter
- Turn 6: A 5 and Surfer
I should be on Stream tonight at around 3:00pm EST and again at 8:30pm EST, so stop by for more new card testing!
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