Thanos
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Archetype pages are updated after each tier list is made. If a page isn’t up-to-date, it means there was nothing worth saying about in the last report, either because there was no data about it, or the archetype did poorly.
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.
Current Thanos Builds
Thanos
Created by 
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den, updated 20 days ago
2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)
2x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)
1x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)
7x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
4.3
Cost
5.9
Power
Guides
Current Power Level in the Meta
This is an archetype I didn’t expect to see so high after the dive it took last week. Thanos returned to a more disruptive build and managed to boost its Win Rate to 59% in the process. Just like Move and other flexible decks, it is difficult to leverage your Snaps unless you’re willing to pull the trigger very early in the match.
The inclusion of Alioth is a potential sleeper, though, especially against The Living Tribunal decks. Thanos used to be the best deck to leverage the card before its nerf, and it should still be able to leverage priority in order to land Alioth when it needs to.
Conquest Performance
Thanos looked like an average deck in Conquest this week, posting around a 54% Win Rate over a low sample size of games. It seems like the archetype is slowly losing all its fans after the last nerf, and we might even consider Thanos to be a fringe archetype at this point.
Archetype Evolution Over Time
- With more disruption in the list (particularly Alioth), Thanos managed to reclaim a nice power rank in the current meta. It is still far from the dominant king it was last season, but the deckbuilding flexibility the archetype has is keeping it afloat for now.
- In a points-focused environment, Thanos seemed much more limited in how it could compete. Since the most recent nerf, the deck turned back to the
Caeira +Skaar duo in order to bring some explosiveness to how it develops points alongside Mockingbird. Unfortunately, there are many decks that can develop more points, so Thanos didn’t look good overall this week.
- Thanos remains an elite archetype, even after yet another nerf. The deck quickly adapted to the meta by packing a ton more points with Skaar and Red Hulk (and Caiera for protection), just like it did back in January. This shifts the focus to being proactive instead of using cards like Shang-Chi and Mobius M. Mobius as disruption.
- Thanos returned to be the best performing deck in Marvel Snap, although it holds a very slim margin over Destroy. Plus, lots of archetypes have posted solid performances this week, so “best in the game” doesn’t hold the same weight as in other times of the meta.
- Thanos suffered from the nerf to both Mind Stone and Psylocke, but it remains a solid contender in the meta.
- Thanos Control is arguably the best deck in the game.
- Thanos Lockjaw came back with Hope Summers and returned to the Tier 1 status it lost after the OTA at the end of the Black Order season.
- Thanos Lockjaw is a Tier 1 deck with the highest Win Rate in the game. It is more demanding to play compared to Hela or Destroy, but it gives the pilot more agency as well, all the while being able to counter certain strategies.
- Other builds of Thanos aren’t popular or strong enough to be a part of our weekly Tier List at the moment.