Elysium Hot Location Guide: Strategy, Best Cards and Decks

The Hot Location for the next 24 hours is Elysium: Cards cost 1 less. Hot Locations happen every week, starting on Sunday at 3 AM GMT. The chosen location has a 50% chance of appearing during games. Players who strategically build around the location or counter the decks that do so can have an advantage over their opponents! How will you approach the meta and what will you play?

Variants

Elysium

Cards cost 1 less.

released

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Strategy and General Tips

Elysium is a location that can be used by any deck in the game. Since it reduces the cost of cards, this can result in combinations you wouldn’t normally be able to get off or force you to include energy ramping cards like Electro and Psylocke to function.

The cost reduction could also just represent playing your big cards earlier. This generally leads to exciting changes in how you decide to play and what you can achieve throughout the course of the game; however, the location appearing 50% of the time will potentially warp the game significantly.

Variants

Sera

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

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Variants

Mister Negative

On Reveal: Swap the Power and Cost of all cards in your deck.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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The logical way forward is to play a deck that benefits the most from the reduced cost. Thanos Lockjaw, for example, will have Infinity Stones that cost nothing again. If we are looking wider afield, two types of decks ready to play into this strategy are those with either Sera or Mister Negative. These are far from the only directions to go, but they highlight what you want to build towards for the location. You want combinations of cards that work well together, are flexible, and allow you to change your plays depending on the situation.

Main Deck Feature

Elysium – Sera Toxic

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 2 months ago

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3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

6x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

2x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

2.9

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A strong deck in the current meta is Sera Control, and Elysium increases its ceiling significantly. With Elysium on the board, the cost of your cards is reduced even further, and in some circumstances you may be able to play six cards on Turn 6. This is insanely powerful when you consider the entire deck is built around using energy efficiently to negate your opponent’s entire game.

Elysium – Bast Patriot Surfer

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 2 months ago

0

1x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

10x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

1x Recruit Season

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I would be remiss if I didn’t point out the Sera Surfer decks get a huge boost from the location as well. It allows for more flexible plays with several of the deck’s powerful tools. As a deck on the rise in the past few weeks, this location will make the Sera Surfer decks more consistent and, potentially, a very strong choice.

The build featured recently with Bast and Patriot is worth trying out if you’re looking to do something new. Sera plus Elysium can lead to multiple 3-drops alongside Valkyrie on Turn 6, a huge and game swinging combination of plays.

Series 2 and Below (pre-CL 474)

Elysium – Sandman

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 2 months ago

0

3x Collection Level 1-14

3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

3x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

2x Recruit Season

1x Starter Card

2.8

Cost

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Sandman Zoo may be very powerful in Series 2 during the location. Elysium on Turn 3 should hopefully allow you to drop all your early game cards and follow up with a Turn 4 Sandman. This locks out your opponent completely, and you are then able to play your board-wide buffs such as Blue Marvel, Ka-Zar, and Spectrum and proceed to win the game.

Versions of this could be built for Series 3 and beyond as well – like replacing Spectrum with Ultron, for example (see below).

Elysium – Sandman Bonus

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 2 months ago

2

2x Collection Level 1-14

4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

1x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

2x Recruit Season

1x Starter Card

3

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3.3

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After Credits

Mister Negative is the deck that takes energy reduction to the extreme. Any location that helps the reduction increases the ceiling of the deck. Draw issues and linear play patterns can still be an issue, but if you’re one of the Mister Negative enjoyers / believers then this may be the direction for you during the weekend.

Featured below is a basic Mister Negative build, but you could try others like the Destroy version or the Gambit combo too.

Elysium – Mister Negative

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 2 months ago

2

1x Collection Level 1-14

2x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

3x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

2x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

2x Recruit Season

1x Starter Card

3.7

Cost

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1.1

Power

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