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Dragon of the Moon is the Super Premium Season Pass card for the January 2025 Season, DRAGONS. However, the card will also be obtainable immediately through the Seasonal Series 5 Snap pack.
It is a 3-Cost, 2-Power card that reads: On Reveal: Steal 1 Power from even-costed cards in ALL hands.
Decks with Dragon of the Moon
Today, let’s explore the new card strengths and, of course, the best decks to try it out in.
Series 5 cards can be purchased for 6,000 Collector’s Tokens from the Token Shop as the latest Seasonal Spotlight card. They will be also be included in the Seasonal Series 5 Snap Pack for 5,000 Collector’s Tokens during their season and the following one.
Synergies
For each power we steal from our opponent’s cards, Dragon of the Moon represents two to the game’s total. Then, just three cards in their hand would make it a [3/8], which is fine.
I don’t count cards in our hand as this is just a power transfer, although this could be a good thing if we stole power from a card we ended up not playing.
In comparison, Cassandra Nova on turn three, without help from added rocks, is a [3/9]. She represents six power on the board, and the opponent will draw three of the six afflicted cards. For the sake of this analysis, let’s say Dragon of the Moon is a fine card if it manages to compare to Cassandra Nova.
Our goal is to touch four opposing cards. Precisely where our problems begin.
Unless the metagame features more even cards than odd cards, especially 4 and 6-cost cards since 2-costs will be played before Dragon of the Moon gets played, it is extremely unlikely we hit four cards.
On turn three, both players saw six cards, and played one to three of them. To hit four cards reliably, we need our opponents to run 8 even and 4 odd cards in their deck, so the average spread would be 4 – 2. Unless those four even cards are still in their hand, meaning they didn’t play any, Dragon of the Moon will be a [3/8] at best, one power worse than Cassandra Nova.
Not only the metagame is very far from that split, as no deck in our latest tier list featured 8 even costed cards. It is even worse if you consider many of the best cards to steal power from are odd cards:
Decks with Deadpool
Decks with Maverick
Decks with Captain Carter
Decks with Nimrod
On top of that, we could also mention the other releases will mostly push synergies based around odd costed cards. Lockheed synergizes with 1-costs, while most abilities considered to grow Shou Lao (Merlin, Kate Bishop, Prowler, Kitty Pryde…) also are or generate 1-cost cards.
For the new 3-cost to be good, we need to support it:
Decks with Master Mold
These two are the best way to grow our opponent’s hand right before playing Dragon of the Moon, which obviously ties the new card to Ronan the Accuser. Within that synergy, we could also mention Black Widow which adds a 0-cost Bite or Baron Mordo turning a card into a 6-cost.
There are other cards able to help Dragon of the Moon, but we’re going into specific, stars must align type of ideas.
Decks with Maria Hill
Decks with Valentina
Decks with Luke Cage
Decks with Shadow King
Maria Hill, Valentina and Nick Fury all add even cost cards to our hand, while Shadow King or Luke Cage are able to restore the power we stole from our own cards. For the bold, Sersi is also an option to evolve those cards, or Blink to replace them with something from our deck.
The Verdict: Should You Get Dragon of the Moon?
It feels like a lot of work to make Dragon of the Moon good. However, it is nice to see a new card synergize with a struggling synergy.
The 3-cost won’t be enough to revive Ronan the Accuser, doesn’t synergize with Silver Surfer, and probably doesn’t make sense in an Odd deck such as Black Bolt – Stature. Then, I don’t expect Dragon of the Moon to have much impact on the metagame, but I am nonetheless happy to see such ability added to Marvel Snap.
Pre-Release Score:
Dragon of the Moon Decks
There are multiple archetypes with Ronan the Accuser and its acolytes, although none is particularly good in the current metagame. I didn’t bother building decks with a lot of even cards in hope to buff Dragon of the Moon as reaching the 8 – 4 split is quite difficult, especially when Shadow King and Luke Cage have to be in the mix to cancel the stolen power down the line.
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Variants
I hope this review of the new card was helpful. 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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