Good Cards

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How to Play

Good Cards simple defines a deck built around solid standalone cards, or packages you could use in various archetypes. When you combine those together, you end up with a deck mostly made of cards you can play whenever your energy allows to, without much risk of them being useless. Plus, this type of deck is difficult to disrupt, as it doesn’t have a clear pattern it needs to follow.
Unfortunately, this also makes the good cards archetype less synergistic than most, and in need of strong cards able to contribute on their own.

In the past, Zabu was the backbone of the Good Cards archetype, making the deck mostly about strong 4-cost cards such as Shang-Chi, Iron Lad, or Ms. Marvel. Since Zabu got nerfed, Angela, Elsa Bloodstone, Hope Summers and Kitty Pryde have become new foundation, alongside other trios such as Annihilus, Sentry and The Hood, or Korg, Rockslide and Darkhawk.
Until now, they were operating mostly in the Loki, or Move archetypes. Yet, we saw a mix of Move and Lockdown emerge in Conquest towards the end of the Zeroes to Heroes season, reinvigorating this idea to just develop simple synergies flexibly, depending on what your opponent shows you during the match.

To play this type of deck, you really only know a good knowledge of the game’s fundamentals, alongside a knack for guessing where the majority of your opponent’s points will be on game’s end.

Current Good Cards Builds

Current Power Level in the Meta

Both the Bounce archetype and the Darkhawk synergy were flying under the radar for a very long time. Yet, this deck has been popping early in the season, posting a 57% win rate and 0.5 cube average over 400 hundred games.

The deck is reminiscent of the old Good Cards builds, which simply merged the best synergies available in the metagame. Here, we have the Annihilus trio, the Darkhawk trio and the Angela trio with Beast, Nico Minoru and Shang-Chi sprinkled on top, textbook Good Cards building.

We’ll see how this deck fares in the future, but if you don’t know what to expect early in your climb, this is a great option, as you don’t really depend on your opponent at all.

Conquest Performance

This just looks like a Move deck which included Ms. Marvel, Doctor Doom and Iron Lad into the mix. Yet, it beat all other Move decks when it comes to win rate, although there were only about 70 Conquest games to show for it.

If you are looking to pick up Nocturne on Tuesday, this could be a nice place to start.

Archetype Evolution Over Time

May 8th Update

• A bit out of nowhere, Good Cards Bounce posted an impressive performance, taking the top spot in the ranked report. This is textbook what to do early in the season, with proactive play patterns which also impact your opponent.