Caliban, Horseman of Pestilence & En Sabah Nur Bonus Challenge Guide

Curious how the latest release has fared? Looking for ideas to complete the weekend missions? You've come to the right place!

This has been a very uneventful week in Marvel Snap, with Caliban, Horseman of Pestilence joining the fray without changing the landscape of competitive decks at all.
The new 3-cost card joined a few archetypes as a standalone inclusion, but barely impacts their strategy. Instead, Caliban, Horseman of Pestilence acts as a fine way to spend 3 energy at any point in a match.

En Sabah Nur helps a bit more when it come to metagame diversity, although nothing new emerged this week. The season pass card got a big boost in popularity following the OTA with the creation of the High Power Summons. Since then, the card has been among the most played in Marvel Snap, without really posting metrics to back it up.

That deck, alongside ThanAurora, are both solid performers. Yet, the random element of the summon causes En Sabah Nur to lose more high-stakes matches than most other foundational cards, hurting its cube average as a result.

Mission#Reward
Play 4-Cost Cards15150 Credits
Win with En Sabah Nur starting in your Deck4200 Collector’s Tokens
Win with Caliban, Horseman of Pestilence starting in your Deck8150 Gold

En Sabah Nur Performance

En Sabah Nur finally looks like a season pass card, at least from a popularity standpoint. However, the metrics still don’t point towards a dominant, let alone an excellent card.
Indeed, even if the 4-cost clearly improved with the latest OTA, now in the green in all metrics and at all ranks, everything is awfully close to parallel.

At least, the card can pride itself with improving its deck when played, as the win rate jumps about 3% when En Sabah Nur hits the board. If only it didn’t hurt the cube average the other way, as a dive from 1.45 to 0.04 points to a terrible card when it comes to high stakes matches.

Post-Release Score:

Rating: 6 out of 10.

For more information about En Sabah Nur , make sure to check out our strategy guide:

Caliban, Horseman of Pestilence

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Caliban, Horseman of Pestilence is off to a solid start, posting positive metrics no matter where you look at. To be fair, it helps to make it into the Doctor Doom 2099 deck, one of the best performers so far in March. At the moment, the new 3-cost is getting most of its statistics from that particular archetype, alongside a bit from the Wiccan Affliction one.

Caliban, Horseman of Pestilence also sees play in a bunch of other niche archetypes, such as a Black Bolt Stature Odd build. Yet, the new 3-cost isn’t good enough to elevate those decks on his own.

Overall, Caliban, Horseman of Pestilence is a solid standalone in decks with enough high-cost cards to complete the objective. However, don’t expect the card to elevate your deck, rather fill a slot with a good enough card to be included.

Post-Release Score:

Rating: 6 out of 10.

For more information about Caliban, Horseman of Pestilence, make sure to check out our strategy guide:

Bonus Challenge Decks

For those looking to complete all missions at once, I expect Caliban, Horseman of Pestilence to be a decent replacement to Drax, Avatar of Life in the High Power Summons deck.

Otherwise, both cards have solid performers available, in the form of ThanAurora and End of Turn 2099, two great decks so far this season.

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Den has been in love with strategy games for as long as he can remember, starting with the Heroes of Might and Magic series as a kid. Card games came around the middle school - Yu-Gi-Oh! and then Magic: The Gathering.

Hearthstone and Legends of Runeterra has been his real breakthrough and he has been a coach, writer, and caster on the French scene for many years now. He now coaches aspiring pro players and writes various articles on these games.

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