Ramp & Hela

Archetype pages are updated after each Tier List is made. If a page isn’t up-to-date, it means there was nothing worth mentioning in the last report, either because there was no data about the archetype or it did poorly.

How to Play

Hela is one of the most popular foundations in the current meta with three different decks built around the Goddess of Death.

Most of those decks function the same way: they aim to play Hela to bring back all the cards you discarded during the course of the match. The strategies used to get there, however, are different.

Hela Corvus and Electro Ramp will look to gain energy and discard when Hela isn’t in hand. They can also simply leverage their extra energy to play their big cards early. In that sense, they are very proactive-minded, and they won’t hide much of their strategy from their opponents.

On the other hand, Hela Tribunal wants to hide MODOK behind Super Giant or Hela behind Invisible Woman in order to trigger their abilities on game’s end and summon your entire hand to the field. In that sense, the Hela Tribunal deck is much more combo-oriented. This means it’s a riskier deck to run since disrupting your synergy often means you have no chance of winning the match, but you have one of the highest point ceilings in the game in exchange for that risk.

If the meta isn’t pushing you to play one style over another, the main factor to take into account is your ability (or willingness) to take risks. Hela Tribunal clearly requires being bold and Snapping aggressively, while Ramp decks are more flexible in the way they operate.

Current Hela Builds

Current Ramp Builds

Guides

Hela Lockjaw Discard Detailed Deck Guide: All Routes Lead to a Big Hela!

Current Power Level in the Meta

Hela Tribunal

It is hard to say how much the inclusion of Super-Skrull is responsible for Hela Tribunal being so high in the rankings, but I believe the deck would be much, much lower without it.

Indeed, while you can always play Iron Man, Onslaught, and The Living Tribunal the good old fashioned way if your opponent played Leech (a big upside compared to Hela Corvus), the deck also has the ability to simply throw points on two lanes against disruptive decks.

Limbo feels like the riskiest part of the deck right now with Nocturne being quite popular across the meta. But, because you can see the card being played, you can adapt to it and maybe hold your Snap if you can’t compete with only six turns.

It is a bit of a weird feeling, but Hela Tribunal might be more flexible than Hela Corvus in this particular meta.

Hela Corvus

Leech being a menace right now naturally hurt this deck’s stock, enough where it lost its routine top rank. The numbers remain very solid (a 55% Win Rate and 0.4 Cube Average since the OTA), but you can’t Snap as aggressively as you could in the past now that you have to fear for your signature card getting deactivated.

Even then, Hela still remains a deck that is able to target two lanes with just high power cards if you anticipate your opponent could be playing Leech. Indeed, just a Corvus Glaive on Turn 3 or Jubilee on Turn 4 can be enough to have multiple big cards on the board, and there’s also Dracula.

Hela is surely on the decline, but it is far from dead.

Conquest Performance

Updated: May 19, 2024

Hela Corvus

Even if the meta continues to look worse as time passes, Hela managed to stay afloat and posted an impressive 60% Win Rate over 250 games.

Why is that impressive if Hela is only a mid-Tier 2 deck, one of its worst placements in weeks? Well, the entire meta looks like a bad match up right now since you are bound to face either Leech, Professor X, or Cosmo in the majority of your games. The only upside Hela has is the relative absence of Shang-Chi, which allows you to drop big power cards proactively. Maybe just don’t Snap in the first round before checking if your opponent is running Shang-Chi or not.

Hela Tribunal

Hela Tribunal looked great in the Ranked report since it’s more resilient to Leech with its core synergy. Unfortunately, the deck still needs some element of surprise to be excellent, which is something Conquest takes away after Round 1. You will often be stuck with little agency when it comes to your Snaps and Retreats… unless you are good at bluffing.

Archetype Evolution Over Time

May 8th Update

• Hela Corvus is doing great early in the season. Electro Ramp has a higher Win Rate, but its Cube Average is not as good. Both decks are running Blink, and they both look improved with the new Season Pass card in the mix.

April 28th Update

• Hela is one of the few proactive synergies that is able to exist in the current meta. However, the environment is particularly difficult to navigate with Cosmo, Professor X, and Junk synergies roaming about.

April 19th Update

• Hela Tribunal is in the discussion for best deck in the game right now, even if it has a huge target on its back. As for Hela Corvus, the deck is good but it just loses against The Living Tribunal too often to be a force in this meta.

April 13th Update

• Hela was the best deck in the game shortly after the patch. It is a contested battle with other high potential decks, but both the Corvus Glaive and the Living Tribunal builds had great results.