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Bullseye is the next Series 5 card joining Marvel Snap for the January 2025 season, Dark Avengers. It is a 3-Cost, 3 Power card that reads: Activate: Discard all cards that cost 1 or less from your hand. Afflict that many different enemy cards with -2 Power.
Today, we will take a deeper look at the new card and, of course, the best decks to try it out in.
Decks with Bullseye
Spotlight Cache
Series 5 cards can be purchased for 6,000 Collector’s Tokens from the Token Shop initially as a Weekly Spotlight card, or opened as one of the featured cards in the Spotlight Caches that are found every 120 Levels on the Collection Level Track after Collection Level 500 (until the next new card releases the following week).
Strengths and Weaknesses
Bullseye‘s weakness is quite obvious: the card is not flexible at all. You either play Bullseye in Discard, or you have no reason to spend your resources on Bullseye.
With that said, let’s dive into what can be done with Bullseye in Discard decks!
Decks with Swarm
Decks with Scorn
First are, naturally, the staples of the Discard archetype, Swarm and Scorn. These are the best targets for Bullseye. In fact, I believe Swarm is the reason the new 3-Cost is an Activate card: you can play Bullseye, discard Swarm with Colleen Wing, use
With just two Swarms, Bullseye is a [3/13] because it will remove four power from your opponent’s board and create two Swarms with three power each in your hand. Add Scorn to that equation and you get a [3/19] in total. Kinda bonkers.
Decks with Helicarrier
Although it hasn’t seen much play in the Discard archetype lately (a deck with Victoria Hand and Helicarrier did post some good results early in the season if you want to check it out), let’s talk about Helicarrier.
First, The Collector loves Helicarrier (and Swarm), so adding this pair to the two cards I mentioned above looks like a decent foundation for a Discard deck. Second, Helicarrier typically gives you way too many cards to play, so why not recycle some of them into negative power for your opponent’s cards and some additional power to your Morbius?
Decks with X-23
It’s been a while since X-23 has been associated with a Discard deck, so this one is a huge long shot. But I’m here to explore the various synergies, and this could be one.
Decks with Beast
Helicarrier gives you random cards and requires you to discard it for it to work.
As for Beast, there are a lot of cards with strong abilities and low power that you can pick back up and discard with Bullseye. Plus, Beast opens the way for more synergies with 2-Cost cards since they will cost one for a turn after being bounced. For example, you could pick up a fake Mysterio and discard it instead of having a zero power card taking up space on your board.
Decks with Widow’s Bite
Since its most recent nerf, Darkhawk has not been much of a menace at all. Yet if that synergy was to ever come back, you now have a card to get rid of the Rocks you draw and the Widow's Bite from Black Widow. You can change them from powerless cards that help your opponent into negative power for their cards!
Overall, there aren’t many unique things to do with Bullseye. Still, at -2 power a pop, the new 3-Cost can quickly represent a lot of power. I definitely believe the potential is there, we just need to find it.
The Verdict
Bullseye is a niche card, obviously, so I can’t grade it as high as something like Galacta or Iron Patriot since those can be played in virtually any deck. However, I believe the impact of Bullseye on the Discard deck specifically could be similar to some of the great cards we’ve recently had.
I mean, Scorn and Swarm are staples of the archetype, so Bullseye has obvious strong allies to pair with on Day 1.
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Bullseye Decks
Honestly, there isn’t much to be done with Bullseye apart from finding the best Discard deck for it. I think it will most likely be either the traditional Discard Dracula deck or a Helicarrier build (but I’m not sure how much support for the generated cards is right). For example, The Collector wasn’t part of the Victoria Hand deck that came out at the start of the season because Dracula and Apocalypse were better options for creating points. Maybe Bullseye can make
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Just for fun, here’s a Bounce deck that could use Bullseye (even though it probably doesn’t need to). I included Spider-Ham and Mysterio due to their synergy of being bounce targets that you can discard afterward. The goal here is just to deplete your opponent’s power using Silver Sable and Bullseye. You could possibly go as far as including Selene as well to try annihilating all the power of their cards.
Feeling particularly daring ? Give High Evolutionary a shot, maybe Bullseye and its synergy with Abomination will have more impact on the archetype than Bruce Banner did.
If you are missing either Silver Sable or Rocket and Groot, you can replace them with Sunspot plus She-Hulk, or go one for one with Cyclops, Spider-Ham or another strong 1-cost early, but Bullseye target later on.
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Closing Thoughts
The way I see it, you have three choices with Bullseye:
- You don’t like or want to invest in Discard, so you pass on the new card
- You like Discard but you want to make sure the card improves it, so you wait until others test it to know if it’s worth your resources
- You like Discard and cannot wait to test how much power you can remove from your opponent’s cards, so you get Bullseye as soon as it releases
Discard Dracula was my favorite deck back in beta, and it’s the first deck I aimed to split all my variants to have it full inked. I’m getting Bullseye immediately as far as I’m concerned.
I hope this review of the new card was helpful. Feel free to share your opinions and excitement about the card in the comments. You can find everyone on the Marvel Snap Zone team in our community discord to have a chat or ask any questions.
Good Game Everyone!
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