Cannonball and Hope Summers Decks: Bonus Challenge (Weekend Mission) Guide

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 and Gold!

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.

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.

Bonus Challenge: March 22, 2024

This week’s Bonus Challenge Missions are:

Variants

Cannonball

On Reveal: Move the highest-Power enemy card here away. If you can’t, destroy it with a Rock.

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

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Variants

Hope Summers

After you play a card here, you get +1 Energy next turn.

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

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Most players will want to be efficient with these missions, so today we will give you three different decks that incorporate Cannonball and Hope Summers.

We’ll also give you a short guide on how to get the most out of the deck and finish the missions quickly, but first let’s take a quick look at the new card’s performance this week.

For more inspiration, make sure to check out our latest strategy guide on Cannonball as well:

Performance

The Avengers vs. X-Men season continues with the release of Cannonball this week. Cannonball is a 5 energy, 8 power card that either moves the highest power card on your opponent’s side of board or, when he cannot move the card, destroys that card and replaces it with a Rock. Targeted removal and/or targeted move, but it’s attached to 5-Cost card. Is the effect big enough to justify the cost?

Variants

Shang-Chi

On Reveal: Destroy all enemy cards here that have 10 or more Power.

Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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Cannonball‘s first comparison to consider is Shang-Chi. It costs more energy, but it also has more power. For the extra power you also get to move the biggest card (which doesn’t always have to be over 10 power). So it should be great, right? It’s removal like Shang-Chi with more power that allows you to swing the lane. In practice, however, it is much, much worse than Shang-Chi. The condition is usually just not worth building for. If you move the card, more often than not it still loses you another lane.

Marvel Snap is simple and requires you to win two lanes. Cannonball may win you one, but, without a full lockdown on another lane, it will often just transfer the problem you were dealing with to another lane. This creates an issue where the only decks that can find consistent success with Cannonball are the ones that can fully lock other lanes before playing the new card.

Variants

Professor X

Ongoing: Lock down this location. (Cards can’t be added, removed, etc.)

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Variants

Debrii

On Reveal: Add a Rock to each other location, for both players.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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This, in turn, creates a situation where the only consistent way to play the card is in decks that have not been very effective since the Professor X nerf. If you’re just swapping the lane you’re winning with Cannonball, it becomes hard to recommend him. But, if you can lock out lanes with Debrii and Professor X, he can be an interesting way to win games. This guarantees the destroy effect occurs, which can allow you to target cards that Shang-Chi could not.

The issue, then, is the cost; at five energy, it is hard to pair Cannonball with many other great plays on Turn 6, so Cannonball often has to be the game-winning play. When you play with the card a little, it is easy to find plenty of times where you would prefer many alternative cards in a tech slot – even in these Lockdown decks. Cards like Enchantress can often be much more flexible, and this creates a situation where replacing the card is easy. This is all before we consider the priority problem. If the opponent’s card is not revealed yet, Cannonball misses and destroys a less important card that is already revealed.

Variants

Kingpin

When an enemy card moves here, afflict it with -2 Power.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Variants

Kraven

When a card moves here, this gains +2 Power.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Variants

Silk

After ANY card is played here, this moves to another location.

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

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So, it’s not a consistent card, but it is playable as some kind of tech card. It also often means skewing your deck to ensure the effect is valuable to you. You can, however, play it in other movement style decks as a Control tool for Turn 5 or Turn 6. This allows you to play it with cards like Kingpin and Kraven without having to change your whole game plan to accommodate the card. This way, Cannonball can be a supporting piece rather than the card that wins the game.

Variants

Stegron

On Reveal: Move an enemy card from here to another location.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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This direction is much more interesting. However, there is a card that can be played before Turn 6 for a similar style of disruption: Stegron. Cannonball is targeted and has the additional condition when the card cannot move, but is that really worth the extra energy? Not to mention the lower power strategies you have to employ to use it consistently. Unfortunately, Cannonball has fallen a little short of the target, but it can be interesting to play in the right decks.

So, how do you use Hope Summers and Cannonball to rack up wins and complete the Bonus Challenge Missions?

Junk

Cannonball Of The Galaxy

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2x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

3x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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

4x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

1x Starter Card

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This version of the Junk deck looks to use the Guardians of the Galaxy to provide extra power, as well as the inevitability provided by Professor X and Debrii to guarantee hits more often. The goal here was to be less reliant on specific Lockdown outcomes and be more flexible with power on the final turns.

Cannon Junk

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 1 month ago

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7x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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

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This is a more all-in strategy. You have lots of ways to fill board slots, which creates a situation where, on the last turn, you can hit a card with Cannonball while already being ahead on other lanes. If you’re looking for the way to make the card more consistent, this is the way to go.

Move

Hope & Pray

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 1 month ago

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3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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

3x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

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This deck looks to try and use all of the 5-Cost Move cards with the help of Kraven and Kingpin. You scale here by moving your opponent’s cards around and then placing your power wherever you want it. Kitty Pryde allows you to always have a way to move Silk, and you can combine her with the 5-Cost cards in the later turns. Aero and Cannonball give you two ways to move the opponent’s final plays for the wins where you need them.

Hope & Move

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 1 month ago

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3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

2x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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

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

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This one goes lower to the ground to support Elsa Bloodstone and allow for the Move cards to be buffed by her. This gives you a little more flexibility, but you’re more reliant on the scaling effects to win. The basic plan is the same in theory: play Move payoffs and move your cards to where you need them on Turn 6.

Closing Thoughts

Wins with the new card may seem a tall order some weeks depending what quality of card is released. Hopefully this guide helps you decide first if you want the card prior to the missions coming out, and what you can potentially play to complete the missions quickly!

Good Luck, Have Fun, and Stay Safe!