Best Marvel Snap Decks – Life After Leech

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!

Lamby Open Top 4

Last weekend, the great LambySeries held a cash prize open tournament. Each of the Top 4 decks has found an interesting place in the metagame.

Toto Top 4 Supergiant

Deck Thoughts

Toto, a player I’m unfamiliar with outside of this accomplishment, played one of the coolest decks in the tournament to great success.

This deck is built around using Supergiant to steal cubes and, as such, may be even more successful on ladder than in Conquest or a tournament. Supergiant here can hide Ronan, who is surprisingly big on 5 with a turn 6 Maximus, or a surprise Klaw, messing up opponent math or even Killmonger or Red Guardian as a surprise end-game counter. All of that is amazing, but Supergiant also ruins on curve plays of Professor X, Cannonball, Blink, or Annihilus, making the deck really effective against a lot of the meta.

Red Guardian can be Shadow King or Shang-Chi, and Nocturne is fine to replace with Scarlet Witch. Iron Lad can be Jubilee. Red Hulk can always be Magneto. I think, at this point, you need Jeff, and the deck is built for Supergiant.

Desmond Loki Top 4

Deck Thoughts

Desmond is one of the most important players in all of Marvel Snap, as this deckbuilder has inspired a change in the meta many times.

This Loki list has been my most successful this season, though I changed Yondu for Mockingbird since Mockingbird is just better and works pretty well with Baron Zemo herself. The rest of this one is the Loki package of Snowguard, Quinjet, Cable, and Agent Coulson with Loki combined with a bit of mill in Zemo and Gladiator. The deck is rounded out with good cards: Jeff is now a requirement, but White Widow and Red Guardian are just best in slot choices. Cosmo answers a lot of the meta and is just becoming way more popular.

Snowguard can be Maria Hill. Gladiator and Zemo are needed for the mill Loki, but White Widow or Supergiant can be Rogue, Mobius, Juggernaut, Nocturne, Shadow King, or Shang-Chi.

RA1N Loki Thanos Top 2

Deck Thoughts:

After winning a smaller tournament with this earlier in the week, Ra1n, came in second with this great brew.

This deck does everything. The Thanos change to start in hand made the deck less consistent – sometimes it just doesn’t do much for a few turns. That’s what Loki is for. When the Thanos stuff doesn’t happen – cheap big cards – Loki gives you cheap opponent cards. The deck has multiple win conditions, then. Thanos can lead to a cheap Mockingbird or a full Loki hand… or you can use early Thanos power for Professor X.

This one is just expensive with Red Hulk and Mobius as the only really replaceable cards. Rulk can always be Magneto while Mobius can be Rogue or Red Guardian.

FAK Molwin Winner

Deck Thoughts

Molwin is a wildly successful FAK team member located out of Eastern Europe.

If you gave me 50 guesses as to what would win this tournament, I’m not sure Cerebro 3 would have made the list, but here we are. The recent change of Luke Cage to being a 3-3 along with the buff to U.S. Agent giving -4 gave this enough of a buff to let it compete. This version foregoes deck staple Valkyrie to keep the curve down, and doesn’t use Ravonna since it wants to hit Cerebro and Mystique with Bast – a move that protects them from Red Guardian, as does Invisible Woman.

Mobius can be cut here for Valkyrie, Ravonna, or Cosmo. You’ll need U.S. Agent and Jeff, but hey, two Series 5 cards aren’t that bad!

Top of the Leaderboard Decks

The best players in Marvel Snap never stop brewing. These players were the top of the Infinite Leaderboard over the past week.

FAK Crazy Alioth Returns

Deck Thoughts

After being second, first, and first the last three seasons, Crazy took this season off, merely hanging around the top 15.

This list has been my most successful since the Leech nerf. It has enough move and ramp to be difficult for opponents to plan for, while Professor X and Cannonball is the strongest two-card combo in Marvel Snap. That doesn’t always beat huge combo decks like Hela though, so in comes Alioth to steal those cubes.

This one is just really expensive though. Only Nocturne can reasonably be changed – that would be Red Guardian, Rogue, Shadow King, or Juggernaut. You can try those to replace Mobius, too.

Sizer Lockdown

Deck Thoughts

Our friend Sizer has spent the past several weeks atop the Infinite Leaderboard. This deck is one he used to get there.

Lockdown has been less popular, as version can struggle into Hela, but retreating for one cube in that match is totally fine, and this has an otherwise great match up spread. Storm lanes are easy to steal with Ms. Marvel and Klaw in the deck, and bounce has no shot vs. Sandman. Doom allows you to go wide after or, against big guy decks, Leader steals the victory.

Nebula and White Widow are an excellent lockdown combo. They can be Nightcrawler and Lizard or Medusa, though. Jubilee can replace Lad. Mobius is probably needed for Loki to not run you over, and Jeff is a requirement for all the Professor X. For Ms. Marvel, try Klaw.

Owi Rank 4 Thor

Deck Thoughts

Owi is a French player who is always atop the Infinite Leaderboard.

Right now, he’s using a unique Thors and Werewolf By Night brew to take over the meta. With early drops for disruption and bounce to do it again with the Werewolf, this one puts out a ton of power. The Thors make it really difficult to Professor X, too, as they can get surprisingly big and steal a lane, and all the mid-sized targets can end up countering Cannonball. This one is a thing of beauty.

If you’re missing some of these cards, and want to try Thors, try this other version from our friend KM Worst:

KX4N Darkhawk Lives

Deck Thoughts

KX4N saw Darkhawk leave the meta when Leech was nerfed and, instead, went more all in on the ‘Hawk.

This deck is extremely disruptive. With both Widows, Rockslide, Korg, and Absorbing Man, this deck can prevent an opponent from seeing any useful draws. That doesn’t always work, though, so there’s a ton of power in just running Jeff, Nocturne, Jubilee, and Namora, too. Blink helps the plans come together, and Darkhawk and Rulk give you huge finishers.

Namora can be Ms. Marvel or Klaw here, and Red Hulk can be Magneto. White Widow may just be better as Baron Mordo. You can replace Nocturne with a good 3 like Gladiator or Polaris, but I think Nocturne is one of the better cards in the game.

Sasquatch Decks

Sasquatch is the new Marvel Snap card this past week. I figured we should look at my two favorite decks with the new card before we head out.

Dott.Geo Sasquatch Bounce

Deck Thoughts

Dott.Geo is perhaps the best player in the game, and certainly the king of bounce.

This list is aiming to play a cheap Sasquatch on 6. The idea here is to bounce with Beast on Turn 4, then spend turn 5 on Hit Monkey, Mysterio, and 0-cost cards. That leaves a Demon and Sasquatch-filled turn 7. The power output here is absolutely absurd, as turn 5 is often 20-Power or so with Mysterio, Hit Monkey and the 1s (to say nothing of any Angela or Bishop benefit) and turn 6 with just two Demons and Sasquatch is another 22 Power. That’s enough to compete with even Hela.

You need Sasquatch for this exact version, but Iron Man or Mockingbird are fine replacements. Hit Monkey can be Sage. Kitty and Nico are required at this point – Nico just does too much with Hood.

Gnome Sasquatch

Gnome is a Top 50 global player who streams regularly and resides in the USA.

This has been my favorite and most successful Sasquatch build. It has a ton of ways to get a ton of power onto the board. You can use Mysterio, Squirrel Girl and the Hood for a cheap Mockingbird or as food for Killmonger and Carnage so that Death can be cheap. So many cheap cards get out Sasquatch, and you have enough power to win a location for Crossbones and plenty of 1s for Cull Obsidian. Of course, all of these save Mockingbird have 10-Power, so a cheap Skaar is also on the menu. Just drop bombs.

You need all the stuff here, sorry. That’s why I saved it for the end.

Closing

Thanks for reading! Check back all next week for so much more great content from Marvel Snap Zone, and read my article previewing the Season’s new cards with a deck for each!