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During the weekend, there is now one more set of Missions for players to complete: The Bonus Challenge! These involve additional rewards for winning games related to the week’s new card and the Season Pass card. These missions provide extra Collector’s Tokens, Gold, and Credits!
You need to win games with the card starting in your deck, and it does not count if the card was generated by cards such as Cable, Loki, and Maria Hill. Each of these reward amounts will vary depending on the difficulty of the mission. However, you don’t have to play the card during the course of the match for it to count, it just needs to be in your starting twelve!
There will be Bonus Challenge Missions available for each new card release to allow players to earn back Collector’s Tokens and subsidize their cost. Players can also expect the rewards to be stabilized at 200 Tokens to help them plan their token budget for the month.
Marvel Rivals: Bonus Challenges – December 27, 2024
This week’s Bonus Challenge Missions are:
| Mission | # | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| TBA | 15 | 150 Credits |
| Win with Bruce Banner starting in your Deck | 4 | 200 Collector’s Tokens |
| Win with Galacta starting in your Deck | 8 | 150 Gold |
Decks with Bruce Banner
Decks with Galacta
Most players will want to be efficient with these missions, so today we will give you a few different decks that incorporate all the cards featured each weekend. You can find the current best performing deck for each card down below, as well as some other options to match your collection or play style preferences.
We’ll also give you a short guide on how to get the most out of the decks and finish the missions quickly. First, let’s take a quick look at the new card’s performance this week.
For more information about the new card, make sure to check out our latest strategy guide on Bruce Banner as well:
Bruce Banner Performance
For a card that I have barely seen mentioned in a positive light (or mentioned at all), Bruce Banner is sporting fairly good results. Indeed, an average of a 57.5% Win Rate and 0.5 Cube Average are far from what I would expect a card ranked #198 overall to put up.
Well, as it turns out, there is a trick.
The trick is that Bruce Banner has vastly different results depending on whether you look at the card’s metrics before or after the Infinite rank. Indeed, in competitive ranks, Bruce Banner is basically a non-factor; its most popular deck, High Evolutionary, is posting terrible numbers. In the rest of the Ladder, however, High Evolutionary isn’t doing bad at all, which might explain the decent numbers associated with the new card.
Post-Release Score:
Galacta Performance
Galacta continues to be an amazing card when she hits the board on Turn 3 or 4. However, the numbers show that the decks she is in really need to draw a certain way, and they suffer significantly when you don’t follow the set game plan. Even with this reliability problem, Galacta remains one of the most impactful cards in the game at the moment.
Post-Release Score:
Galacta Decks
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There are plenty of archetypes you can slot Galacta into, but I just spoke about reliability in her performance section so I wanted to highlight the two decks with the best Win Rates. At 58% for Good Cards and 57% for Silver Surfer, these two are several percentage points ahead of the other decks (which are typically around the 54% or 55% mark).
If you care more about racking up the most cubes, I could have mentioned the Wiccan build, Arishem, or one of the myriad other ways to build Good Cards. But the weekend missions are about winning, even if it’s just one cube, so the Win Rate metric is more important here. In that regard, flexibility and disruption seem to have a much bigger impact than raw power.
Bruce Banner Decks
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If you want to know the best deck to complete your missions using Bruce Banner, High Evolutionary takes the crown by default as the sole participant. Indeed, there are no other archetypes using Bruce Banner in their best list, or, put more bluntly, there are no decks with Bruce Banner that have posted promising results over more than 25 or 30 games.
With this in mind, maybe the best way to knock out the associated mission is to throw Bruce Banner in a deck that is largely able to ignore it. Arishem, for example, could probably run Bruce Banner and not really care about it. Otherwise, there isn’t really an archetype that wants to skip energy. The current meta kind of pushes for the opposite: very effective tempo-oriented plays, and disruption when it makes more sense than developing points.
Closing Thoughts
Galacta has been the same card all season long, and she’s always had at least three or four archetypes available to complete her missions. For yet another week, there will be no problem getting the Gold associated with the Marvel Rivals Season Pass card.
Bruce Banner‘s situation is a bit more complicated. For those who picked up the card to play it in a High Evolutionary deck, you can probably just stick with that and grab your four wins with little trouble.
As for those who picked up Bruce Banner in the hopes that it would be good, I’m sorry to disappoint but the card is the worst of the season so far by a wide margin.
Hopefully this guide helps you decide if you want the card prior to the missions coming out, as well as what you can play to complete the missions quickly!
Good Game Everyone.
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