Deck of the Day – Evocula

Hello everyone, and welcome to Deck of the Day! I’m Glazer of Snap Judgments: The Official Marvel Snap Zone Podcast, and every weekday I’m going to be highlighting a different deck for you to try out!

Twitch Irimm is a tournament-winning Korean player, famous to the English-speaking world as the creator of one of the early powerful Thanos Lockjaw Quinet decks, with which he won a major tournament. He recently won a big-money Korean tournament, and this was one of his two major decks.

Outside of Jean Grey, everything in this deck is Series 3 or lower. This deck runs not only High Evolutionary, but Hit-Monkey, and Silk, as well, so set your expectations accordingly.

Introduction + Disclaimers

This deck is a very good and extremely surprising deck.

Sometimes the decks featured in this article will be Tier 1, the most competitive decks in the metagame. Sometimes they will be fun tier. Often, they will feature Series 4 and 5 cards (which is hopefully less of an issue with the card acquisition change), but sometimes they will be Series 3 or even lower.

Additionally, these decks can come from anywhere – they could be homebrews, a really cool idea from your favorite content creator, a tried and true meta deck, and sometimes, well, we won’t really know where the deck came from. We endeavor, however, to credit original deck creators whenever possible, so if we miss one, please do let us know! Want to submit a deck for consideration? Email me [email protected].

The Deck

Evocula

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 10 months ago

2

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

5x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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

2x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

2x Starter Card

3.3

Cost

0-
1
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3
4
5+

5.2

Power

0-
1
2
3
4
5+

Deck History

While this deck has High Evolutionary, it operates as an old school Sera Miracle deck.

We’ve talked about the history of Sera Miracle decks here.

Variants

Sera

Ongoing: Cards in your hand cost 1 less. (minimum 1)

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Variants

High Evolutionary

At the start of the game, unlock the potential of your cards with no abilities.

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

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For a quick refresher – early Sera was all about the stats. It used Dracula into Sera to drop basically entire boards on the last turn, including Colleen Wing who discarded whatever was cheap and left over. That left Dracula to only discard the remaining big card in a huge, game-winning last turn.

That’s what this deck does.

How to Play

This deck is truly built around Sera and Dracula‘s synergy with Colleen Wing.

Variants

Dracula

At the end of the game, discard a card from your hand to gain its Power.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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The last turn of the game is meant to be a miracle turn, dropping 4-5 2-cost cards including Colleen, leaving only a huge Hulk or The Infinaut in hand.

Variants

Hulk

“HULK SMASH!”

Starter Card

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Variants

The Infinaut

If you played a card last turn, you can’t play this.

Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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At that point, your Hit Monkey, Invisible Woman, and Shang-Chi all combine to give your opponent no outs. If you’re struggling with Invisible Shang-Chi or Killmonger decks, then this is the one for you.

Here are the play lines:

• Turn 1: Pass.

• Turn 2: Shocker is often best here to discount a card you’ll want to play later. Invisible Woman is also a very strong play, but I prefer her on turn 3. Silk is perfectly acceptable here.

• Turn 3: If Invisible Woman is down, you want Colleen Wing or, better, Hit Monkey behind her. If not, the other 2s are totally fine.

Variants

Hit Monkey

On Reveal: Gain +2 Power for each other card you played this turn.

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

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Variants

Invisible Woman

Ongoing: Cards you play here are not revealed until the game ends.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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• Turn 4: Dracula is the play you most want here. If your Invisible Woman lane appears contested, Shang is fine here. Don’t fill your Invisible Woman space, but a third card is viable if need be. If you’re missing Sera, there’s some logic to dropping two 2-cost cards here.

• Turn 5: This is the Sera turn. Nothing is more important for this deck. If Dracula isn’t out and you don’t have Sera, play Dracula here.

• Turn 6: Explode. An ideal turn has Sera and Dracula out with Hit-Monkey under Invisible Woman. You then play Colleen Wing, Silk, Shocker, Shang-Chi, and Wasp, with Colleen ideally discarding High Evolutionary. That’s 18 power plus whatever Shang-Chi killed. Hit-Monkey will also reveal at 10 power. Finally, Dracula will discard either Hulk or High Evolutionary, leaving you another 12-20 power. That’s a potential 48-point miracle.

Variants

The Infinaut

If you played a card last turn, you can’t play this.

Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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Variants

Hulk

“HULK SMASH!”

Starter Card

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Card Substitutions

High Evolutionary is great here and takes the deck up a huge notch, but may be replaceable here. Destroyer is a fine card to discard without Evolutionary, and Wasp can stay as just a 0-cost card. Strangely, what you’ll miss most is Shocker. He almost has to be replaced by Zabu or, in a pinch, Psylocke.

Variants

Zabu

On Reveal: Until the end of next turn, your 4-Cost cards cost 1 less.

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

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Silk is the easiest card to replace in the deck. Lizard or Medusa will do the job (or Jeff the Baby Land Shark, but suggesting another Series 5 defeats the purpose). Meanwhile, without Hit Monkey, there is no other 2-10 and the deck takes a huge hit. There’s some argument for trying to fit in Mysterio and Bishop, but it isn’t worth the trouble, really.

Conclusion + Video

This deck is secretly really good and worth playing!

If you’d like a video discussion of this deck, check my page out. The video for this one is right here: