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Hello everyone and welcome to Best Marvel Snap Decks of the Week! I’m Glazer of Snap Judgments: The Official Marvel Snap Zone Podcast, and in this article, I’m going to take you through all of my favorite decks this week. In addition to the podcast, I do my own daily videos where I scour the darkest corners of the internet (ahem X and the various Marvel Snap sites) to find the best decks in Marvel Snap before the meta notices.
Remember: Each deck title will take you to a video explanation of the deck, so don’t be shy – check them out!
The Best Infinite Leaderboard Decks in the June-July Season
Decks with Mockingbird
Decks with Silver Surfer
Decks with Hercules
Decks with Doctor Octopus
We exclusively have the Top 4 Infinite decks for you from last Season! Let’s take a look!
Rank 4 Nownoos
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Both the #4 and #6 decks last season were specifically built to counter Arishem by using Cerebro 3!
Wait, Cerebro 3 shouldn’t counter Arishem, right? Well, this version does! All it really needs to do is get Cosmo set up. Then on turn 4, it can play Darkhawk and turn 5 Mystique in order to win the game. As for other matches, it has a regular Cerebro 3 match-up spread of turning your 3-power cards into 7, leaving up to 28 power at a location, functionally more with U.S. Agent. You can also scam extra power and win with both Scarlet Witch and Quake! Sentinel makes sure that you always have a 3 to play, and this deck hummed to the top of the leaderboard.
U.S. Agent is great here because he’s cheap, but Shang-Chi is a fine replacement. In an Arishem meta, you’ll need Darkhawk, but Mobius can be Luke Cage and Jeff can be Baron Mordo.
Rank 4 Tanjo
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Tanjo, last season’s first place finisher, ended his season by finishing third with his friend Huskypuppies35’s junk list.
The list this fairly standard junk, mostly. We have Magik to extent the game and cards like Debrii and Doctor Octopus so that only you can take advantage of that game being extended. Shang-Chi and Cannonball are game-winners always, but especially on a clogged board. The best part here though, the secret sauce, is Dagger. Dagger with Iron Fist or Ghost-Spider allows you to turn a clogged board into 12 to 24 power, stealing a lane and a win.
I don’t think you can replace White Widow, Dagger, or Cannonball here, but Red Hulk would be fine as Magneto.
Rank 2 Sizer
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Sizer finished in second place for the second season in a row with this Bounce Move list.
This list is perhaps the most complicated I’ve ever seen in Marvel Snap, and is a deck I was never able to make quite work. The list spends early turns making one big move card, then bouncing it back. The idea is to replay it then, making it a lane winner with another powerful move card or Shadow King or Sage to steal a lane. That means a lot of passing and off-energy turns, but it can work.
Nico is wrong for the list – Daredevil, Cloak, and plenty of other cards are tried in that spot. The right card here may not exist until September‘s Araña and Madame Web. The other high series cards must be here – this one is too demanding to change much.
Rank 1 Xunzzz
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Xunzzz the 15-year-old Taiwanese Marvel Snap prodigy, ended up dominating the season from almost start to finish.
This list is built to handle absolutely everything. Opposing power plays are stopped by Cosmo, location issues by Nocturne, and their consistency is smashed by Korg and Rockslide. Of course, those last two support a Darkhawk package, and Darkhawk as a card, especially paired with Cosmo and Mystique, give a ton of trouble to opposing Arishem. Silver Surfer is one of the best meta decks and it was almost pushed out by Arishem, but this build with Darkhawk takes care of that issue by melding two of the most powerful decks in the game.
Nocturne is the one replaceable high series card here, and it could pretty easily be Red Guardian or Rogue or even Gladiator.
Top of the New Season
Decks with Arishem
Decks with Gwenpool
The best players in Marvel Snap never stop brewing. These players were climbing towards the top of the Infinite Leaderboard over the past week.
FAK Crazy Arishem #1
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Deck Thoughts
Crazy, who has begun streaming as CrazyMSnap, was the #1 player on the Infinite Leaderboard in March and April with Thanos. He’s dominating right now at #1 with a new huge card, Arishem.
This list doesn’t bother with a lot of answer cards. For Darkhawk, there’s only really Shang-Chi. Instead this list relies on a more heavy Loki package along with Doctor Octopus and Alioth to beat the omnipresent Darkhawk. The deck is really strong otherwise since Super-Skrull has the ability to give so many benefits – even copying a Luke Cage or Ravonna Renslayer can be game-winning. This is more technical and less powerful than other versions, but the results speak for themselves.
Legion here can be Leech or Vision. Mockingbird, Loki, and Blob are now in every Arishem list, unfortunately. Alioth can be Magneto, but if so make Quinjet be Echo.
Macdonaldinho Lockdown
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Our friend and Lambyfam member Macdonaldinho is well into the top 100 list with this Gwenpool list… featuring
Okay, Hydra Bob doesn’t really matter here. The goal of this deck is to play Gwenpool on 4, then Grand Master the Gwenpool on 5 with both a 1 and Mysterio. That opens up an end game of Mockingbird, Sasquatch, and Sage – a truly ridiculous final turn, especially as it’s pumped by Gwenpool.
Jeff and White Widow are just good cards. Try Cable and Baron Mordo instead. Nico can be a card like either Ant-Man or Hawkeye, as could Hydra Bob. Nocturne, too, is a good card. I’d go Red Guardian, Gladiator, or even Polaris. If no Makkari, you need a 1 or Wasp so it’s easy to play. If you have a lot of the move cards, there’s a good argument for Miles Morales, too. The rest is needed.
Owi Gwenpool
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French player Owi is in the top 10 with several lists, but among them is this awesome Gwenpool list.
This list can generate early power by using Forge and Brood, but otherwise, it just plays early tempo power like White Widow and Nocturne. Its real juice is going with Gwenpool to make one of the following cards shockingly huge: Brood, Black Panther, Mysterio, and Absorbing Man. If it can get some combination of those going on turn 5 to lead into a Sasquatch and/or Mockingbird finish, this is a cube thief!
Widow is just early tempo and so can be Medusa while Polaris, Gladiator, or Red Guardian are still fine for Nocturne. Nebula can be Nightcrawler or Jeff, but… other cards are needed.
W Good Cards
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Deck Thoughts
When the best deck builder in Snap drops a new deck, we pay attention. After three days, this maintains a whopping 67% win rate.
This deck foregoes the common Mockingbird + Sasquatch + Mysterio package for the Elsa Bloodstone + Angela + Thena + Kitty Pryde package. That early power is protected and made cheaper by Cosmo and Ravonna, respectively, and at the top end, we have the Darkhawk package as a way to smash Arishem in the face. Iron Man bridges the decks, giving Mystique an extra target and being awesome with Ravonna.
Jeff could be Nightcrawler here, and Elsa, though great, can be Hope Summers, Mobius, or another good 3.
Closing
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