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Ranked Performance
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Thanos Wiccan really never managed to be anything but another way to play Good Cards Wiccan. But, now that Doctor Doom 2099 is eating most of the popularity in the Good Cards archetype, Wiccan is now mostly played in the Thanos deck.
At a 0.35 Cube Average and 55.5% Win Rate, the performance reflects the position of Thanos Wiccan in the meta. It’s nothing extraordinary, but it has too many strong cards to not be at least a decent deck.
Conquest Performance
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Toxic might have lost some momentum, but it remains a very popular deck. This means Doctor Doom 2099 still isn’t the best idea for Conquest at the moment. Plus, even though you can control the Snaps and Retreats with this deck in Ranked to mitigate the random cards, it isn’t that simple in Conquest once the opponent figures you out.
Also, Cassandra Nova is quite popular at the moment with both Small Good Cards and Mister Negative doing well.
Arishem Thanos did much better this week in comparison and easily beat the traditional list’s 56% Win Rate. The amount of games was very different, though, so take this with a grain of salt.
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How to Play
Thanos decks are a mix of flexibility and proactive development. Although they will usually pack cards such as Shang-Chi, most of Thanos‘s game plan relies on beating the opponent on points. However, through the Infinity Stones, Magneto, or Leech (to name a few), the deck is able to interact and disrupt opposing patterns as well.
Thanos Lockjaw is the flagship archetype based around the Mad Titan, and it’s been one of the strongest archetypes in Marvel Snap for the last two months at the very least. In that deck, Lockjaw serves as an energy cheating engine while Caiera protects the 6-Cost cards you will get out early in the match. Compared to other decks looking to cheat energy to summon high power cards early, Thanos sets itself apart thanks to the protective cards making the build much more resilient against Shang-Chi.
As such, once Thanos knows it can develop its planned strategy, the deck is not only difficult to stop, it also has the ability to focus on its opponent and limit their ability to grow. In that sense, Thanos can be regarded as one of the most flexible archetypes in the game. It’s able to do a little of everything, and it usually excels at both.
Archetype Evolution Over Time
- Thanos Wiccan has been pretty discreet all season long, but it has remained a decent archetype for the Wiccan enjoyers.
- Thanos is slowly finding its unique traits in the current meta. Most of the lists are ripoffs of Wiccan Good Cards builds, but a deck based on the 10 Power archetype emerged this week and gave Thanos an opportunity to be the best way to build around a synergy.
- Thanos is basically an alternate way to build the Good Cards Wiccan deck. It is good enough to be played if you like Thanos, but unfortunately it has nothing specific to offer other than adding Thanos and a few synergistic cards (like Mockingbird) to the mix.
- Thanos has been making regular appearances since it was buffed, but the archetype still has to find its own thing. This week, Wiccan and Arishem were the best way to build around Thanos, but both the regular Wiccan and regular Arishem archetypes did better than their Thanos counterparts.
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