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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.
The Amazing Spider-Season: Bonus Challenge – September 13, 2024
This week’s Bonus Challenge Missions are:
| Mission | # | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Play 2-Cost Cards | 15 | 150 Credits |
| Win with Madame Web starting in your Deck | 4 | 200 Collector’s Tokens |
| Win with Symbiote Spider-Man starting in your Deck | 8 | 150 Gold |
Decks with Symbiote Spider-Man
Decks with Madame Web
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 two 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 Madame Web as well:
Madame Web Performance
While plenty of creative ideas emerged from the community using Madame Web, she has failed to be anything but a support card for the Pure Move archetype so far. A few days after her release, no archetypes other than Move managed to post a positive Cube Average over more than 50 games with Madame Web in the mix. If you look at the archetypes that used Madame Web over smaller sample sizes, the card disappears from their lists once the amount of games goes up.
This should still give you plenty of avenues to explore in order to complete the weekend missions; you only have to win four games, after all. Still, it shows that the card struggles to be more than some Move support or a niche option in the current meta.
Post-Release Score:
Symbiote Spider-Man Performance
A week after its average start, Symbiote Spider-Man has found new synergies to contribute in (albeit mostly gimmick decks). Lately, the card has been seen alongside Darkhawk and Ronan the Accuser as a way to add more Rocks to your opponent’s deck or cards to their hand. That deck is the first one where the Season Pass card has not felt like just an inclusion among other possible contenders, and instead it brings something the deck needs and can’t get from other cards easily.
Symbiote Spider-Man also found a spot in Mister Negative, Phoenix Force, Patriot, and Bounce decks, but it serves as a supporting cast at best and could easily be replaced.
Overall, the card has progressed over this second week. This is mostly thanks to finding a deck where it truly feels needed. If the community hadn’t found that build, the loss of both Sandman decks (Patriot Sandman and Midrange Sandman) following the OTA might have been a big hit to Symbiote Spider-Man‘s momentum going forward.
Post-Release Score:
Symbiote Spider-Man Decks
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Phoenix Force and Bounce might have some success with Symbiote Spider-Man, but there really isn’t anything different in how you play those decks when you include the Season Pass card. As such, I’m just going to focus on the first deck, which I call Rocks and Cards.
Symbiote Spider-Man serves as a support card to reactivate Rockslide or Master Mold, which helps either Darkhawk or Ronan the Accuser grow as big as possible. You also have a chance to high roll with Copycat grabbing an expensive ability that could use twice. Typically, you want to position this support mechanic on a lane where you don’t intend to play Darkhawk or Ronan the Accuser in order to force your opponent to commit a significant chunk of points to win it. If you have Mystique and want to focus on only two lanes, the points from Symbiote Spider-Man will tilt a battle of big cards in your favor while Mystique surprises your opponent in another lane.
In this form, the deck plays with Armor and Cosmo for both disruption and protection for your big cards. However, you could easily run Maximus and a strong 3-Cost, such as Cassandra Nova.
Madame Web Decks
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As I mentioned in the Madame Web section above, both the Good Cards and Ongoing decks have a limited number of games with Madame Web. There was another archetype with solid results, but I can’t recommend a Sandman deck with the OTA we just had.
In this context, the safest pick is clearly Move if you want to get your four wins and move on to something else. However, that archetype isn’t that simple to play. You need to control and anticipate a lot of variables to play it correctly, which can become a lot of work. As such, even if Move has the best results, a limited experience piloting the deck might lead you to pick Good Cards or Ongoing to get your weekend missions done.
Closing Thoughts
With more decks available for Symbiote Spider-Man compared to its first week (and plenty of gimmicks to pick from), it should be fairly simple to achieve the necessary number of wins to complete the weekend missions.
As for Madame Web, the card is more than capable of winning four games with multiple archetypes, but it might be a little trickier—especially if you don’t know how to pilot a Move deck. It’s not super complicated really, you really just have to plan ahead how you want to use your support cards and where your buffed cards will end up. If you really can’t make it work, Madame Web alongside Angela, Elsa Bloodstone, and Hope Summers is probably your best bet. I would reserve the Ongoing build for players with a smaller Collection Level or a low ranking.
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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