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Good morning all! I’m back at Marvel Snap Zone with a deck of the day: a top deck for you to try out! My aim for this article is to get you in and out quickly and give you something new to play every day along with the tools to do well with it. If you want three more new decks today, check out this video!
Decks with Temporal Manipulation
Decks with Winds of Watoomb
Decks with Bolts of Balthakk
Decks with Images of Ikonn
Agamotto is going to be a weird card, especially for a Season Pass. He’s designed like a big bad—an Arishem or Thanos build-around kind of card (or at least 3/4 of the way to one). He’s got premium stats, as Snap has very few [5/10]s (yet somehow an abundance of [4/10]s and, soon, a [3/10]), and he adds four cards to your deck.
That last thing can be a problem because these cards will definitely clog your draws at the expense of board space, even if they are very powerful. These cards—the first in the game with no innate Power—have a bunch of wonky interactions; they won’t work with Ravonna Renslayer or count for Cassandra Nova, but they’re great with Quinjet or Hope Summers. Key among them is the new Banish keyword, which states that the spells immediately disappear after use. So, while they clog your draws, they won’t clog your board.
At least the spells are incredibly strong. The weakest and cheapest is a one energy draw Agamotto (even from your Discard and Destroy piles) and give him +3 power. The others, however, all do something great, from moving an opponent’s card and giving it -5 power to granting you +4 energy next turn for three energy. The big one, though, is, Images of Ikonn, which turns everything in the lane into the highest power card at that location. Playing that on Galacta seems absolutely fantastic!
This type of big card so rarely coming to Season Pass likely means that it will be great. Every Season Pass from last October—Agent Venom, Surtur, Galacta, Iron Patriot, and Sam Wilson Captain America—has been great. I’m sure Agamotto will be, too.
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Our friend Mayor Pluto has already been crushing with this Thanos list with Blob in Agamotto‘s place, but the first Sorcerer Supreme should add a ton of new and interesting plays to this already powerful deck.
Drawing Agamotto with Temporal Manipulation is obviously going to be the deck’s weakest effect, but it is another 1-drop you can play that comes with “draw a card” tacked on. That’s not amazing, but it does have its uses. Winds of Watoomb is essentially a [2/5]; nothing amazing there, but it does help clog your opponent (and Thanos can sometimes draw dead on Turn 2). What it really does here is help Iron Patriot go off much more consistently.
Bolts of Balthakk and Images of Ikonn are where you really start to go off. An early Alioth, Thanos, or Agamotto with the Bolts is nearly as good as just getting an early Galacta to be played with multiple other cards, or having a extra energy on the last turn for both Alioth and Shang-Chi. Images can turn a bunch of Infinity Stones into copies of Galacta or Mockingbird, which also seems absolutely game winning.
And, of course, the deck can win just by playing it’s regular good cards. Draw with Thanos‘s Infinity Stones, get a cheap Mockingbird, and use Alioth or Shang-Chi to close the game. This is the one I’ll be starting with tonight on stream!
Card Replacements
- Needs: Thanos, Mockingbird, Hope Summers, Alioth
- Agamotto -> Blob
- Iron Patriot -> Cable
- Galacta, Anti-Venom -> Wiccan, Misery, Enchantress
- Rocket and Groot -> Mobius M. Mobius, Marvel Boy, Psylocke
Turn by Turn
- Turn 1: Pass
- Turn 1: Draw!
- Turn 2: Iron Patriot > draw more (depending on hand)
- Turn 3: Hope Summers > Rocket and Groot (w/ Prio) > 2-Cost + 1-Cost
- Turn 4: Galacta > Anti-Venom > Mockingbird / 3-Cost + draw
- Turn 5: Thanos or Mockingbird or Agamotto
- Turn 6: Alioth or Shang-Chi
That’s it for today, don’t forget to check today’s video atop the page for more great decks!
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