Best Marvel Snap Cards: Series 4 & 5 Meta Tier List – January 13, 2024

In Marvel Snap, new cards are released weekly into Series 4 or 5, and players need to carefully think about whether they should purchase the card or not. To help players make better decisions and build better decks based on their collections, we rate all the cards from Series 4 and 5 into a Meta Tier List and review the current meta.

• Each week on Tuesday, a new Series 4 or 5 card is introduced to the game. For more information on card release schedules, click here.
• Series 4 and 5 cards can be obtained from Spotlight Caches that appear every 120 Collection Levels after 500. They can be one of the three featured cards that rotate every week, or a random Series 4 or 5 card.
• Series 4 cards cost 3,000 Collector’s Tokens and Series 5 cards cost 6,000 from the Token Shop.
• Cards no longer have a scheduled Series Drop; it is now at the discretion of the developer. Currently, 14 cards are scheduled to drop with the patch on January 9, 2024.

Introduction to the New Series 4 & 5 Meta Tier List Report

This report is informed by our new approach to rating and reviewing all of the Series 4 and 5 cards. Over the past few months, it has become clear that Series Drops will not be occurring as often, and major changes can occur to cards that change their value. This changes the previously maintained Meta Tier Lists almost weekly, which was never the original intention of our old Tier List structure.

Instead, these reports will discuss the biggest movers and shakers and highlight at least one deck to try (although I will often aim for more), and the Tier List will be updated accordingly. Hopefully, this will help ensure this is a valuable resource for reviewing cards to consider investing in, as well as a better live snapshot of how the cards are playing! This report will be updated every 2 weeks or after significant changes occur.

Tier Explanation

This Tier List is heavily geared towards the current environment, and the report will be updated bi-weekly at a minimum. This is to adjust for the in-game balance changes and what is competitively viable.

• Tier 1: These are the cards that support a current top tier deck in the meta or are universally strong enough that not owning them is a disadvantage.
• Tier 2: These are strong cards that are core to playing the currently strong archetypes, or are strong enough that you can play them in several different deck types.
• Tier 3: These are strong supporting pieces of specific archetypes that can be replaced, part of archetypes that are currently not performing at a Tier 2 level, or are universal cards that are options but often replaceable.
• Tier 4: These cards are niche and can only be used within very specific archetypes or only support an archetype that is currently not performing well.
• Tier 5: These cards are very limited and easily eclipsed by other options.
• Kang: This tier is a special tier to represent just how much lower this card is than the cards above.
• * This card is provisionally ranked, and in-game performance may change the ranking as the changes are either not finalized or still too new.
• ** This card is ranked higher in anticipation of a changing meta due to new card releases or balance changes and will be evaluated again on release.

Thanos

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Thanos

Starts in your opening hand and shuffles the six Infinity Stones into your deck.

Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

view card details Start a deck Decks with Thanos

Thanos took over the metagame these past two weeks and is the undisputed winner of the new releases and the recent patches. Blob, Skaar and Caiera all work perfectly in this deck with Lockjaw, Wave and the Time Stone all helping to cheat how these big cards. Countering the core of the deck requires multiple cards now and when you do line them all up the deck can often just overwhelm you with threats.

Thanos Lockjaw

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2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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5x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

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We are seeing plenty of versions of Thanos now but the core is simple – Thanos, Lockjaw, Blob, Caiera, Skaar and Vision are what are emerging as the common ground, with players wanting to make the deck their own with plenty of experiments. If your looking to get into playing this deck though the best direction actually remains the simplest. Play the big cards and win.

Echo

Variants

Echo

After your opponent plays an Ongoing card here, remove its abilities.

Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

view card details Start a deck Decks with Echo

Echo is finally establishing itself as one of the best 1 drops to consider to fill your deck with and the balance patch didn’t change this. Ms. Marvel was weakened but playing Echo on the middle location continues to be one of the best turn 1 plays you can make right now. When she doesn’t outright win the game, she limits many opponents – including Thanos. If your unsure what to put in your deck right now at 1 cost the answer is usually Nebula or Echo or both. Not bad for a card which was once at the bottom of most tier lists and has had zero adjustments.

Lockdown

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, updated 4 months ago

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3x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

2x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

1x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

6x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

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Lockdown is still finding success as it can limit the game and make it hard for Thanos to play cards. The issue can be when you miss on key cards it is easy for this deck to be outpowered. The mark for Echo is right now it is hard to recommend any ‘control’ build without her as she does so much to limit what your opponent do and lock certain plays out. She does all this whilst allowing you to make these plays still, creating an unequal situation for little investment.

Kitty Pryde

Variants

Kitty Pryde

When this returns to your hand, +1 Power. Returns at the start of each turn.

Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

view card details Start a deck Decks with Kitty Pryde

The silent riser is Kitty Pryde. It’s not the best deck at the moment but Sera decks in multiple forms are finding success as they can play Shadow King, Enchantress and Shang-Chi. Enchantress can be played out early often also right now as the ongoing targets are played earlier. This rises Kitty Pryde as key power card which allows you to control priority and plan that final swing turn.

Surprise!

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 4 months ago

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1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

3x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

1x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

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Unfortunately Leech does make this harder to play but Mysterio, Maximus and Hit Monkey is a throwback which can catch decks off guard. It has game into Thanos whilst being strong into the rest right now. This could be a direction which just needs more exploration and any deck running Shadow King right now can get free wins if Blob comes out too early.

Conclusion

That’s it! All Series 4 and 5 cards in Marvel Snap ranked in the current environment. Marvel Snap is a unique game, and these cards can lead to different scenarios and decks. At times, you may just like a certain character more than another. As a final disclaimer: chasing the card you want with your heart instead of your head is not wrong.

Have we missed any ideas that raise or lower the bar for these cards? Let us know below in our Discord server.

I’m looking forward to more of the community acquiring these cards and seeing how players will utilize them in new and interesting ways!

Good luck out there!