Gamma Lab Featured Location: Best Cards and Recommended Decks

This week’s Marvel Snap Featured Location is Gamma Lab: After turn 3, transform all cards here into the Hulk. This is a brand new location that is now added to the location card pool and will show up 40% more frequently in games during the feature period, which lasts for the next 48 hours.

Important note: “tokens”, such as Debrii rocks, Mister Sinister clones, and Brood clones DO NOT turn into Hulks. In addition, buffs given before the Hulk transformation carry over after it!

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Gamma Lab

After turn 3, transform all cards here into the Hulk.

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Gamma Lab encourages you to play cards that are cheap, such as The Hood, Yellowjacket, Wasp, Uatu the Watcher and Iceman. Uatu lets you see the location in advance, while Iceman can prevent your opponent from curving out on Gamma Lab.

Another specific card that receives a buff is Venom, who can eat several Hulks on turn 4, and allow you to either continue deploying into the lane, or copy his 33+ power with Taskmaster.

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Yellowjacket

On Reveal: Afflict your other cards here with -1 Power.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Wasp

“My secret power is that I get things done.”

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Iceman

On Reveal: Give a card in your opponent’s hand +1 Cost. (maximum 6)

Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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Venom

On Reveal: Destroy your other cards here. Add their Power to this card.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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The Hood

On Reveal: Add a Demon to your hand.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Given the weird token interactions, there are several very obvious counterplays to what we can reasonably expect to be a metagame that involves playing multiple one-drops into Gamma Lab.

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Killmonger

On Reveal: Destroy ALL 1-Cost cards.

Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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Shang-Chi

On Reveal: Destroy all enemy cards here that have 10 or more Power.

Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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Armor

Ongoing: Cards here can’t be destroyed.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Groot

On Reveal: If your opponent played a card here this turn, +4 Power.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Star-Lord

On Reveal: If your opponent played a card here this turn, +4 Power.

Starter Card

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Rocket Raccoon

On Reveal: If your opponent played a card here this turn, +4 Power.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Iron Man

Ongoing: Your total Power is doubled here.

Starter Card

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Quake

On Reveal: Swap the positions of the other two locations.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Killmonger can help to clear the location out early if your opponent is spamming one-drops into Gamma Lab. Shang-Chi can help to clear out Hulks later in the game, which encourages you to run Armor to counter possible Shang-Chis.

The Guardians of the Galaxy cards actually keep their buffs after the Hulk transformation, creating 14 and 13 power Hulks that can help break parity if you have the same number of Hulks at the location.

Iron Man is a lategame play that can lock up the lane entirely. Quake can juke the location of Gamma Lab, rendering spamming ineffective.

Below, you can see a deck built with the idea of countering Hulk spam, abandoning investment in the lane entirely and focusing on playing an anti-Hulk gameplan while maintaining the ability to put power on the board as a quasi-Sera Miracle deck if the location does not show up.

Another option would be to play Sera + Mister Negative with Shang-Chi, and trust that your lategame power and Shang-Chi can carry you through.

Sera Anti-Hulk Tech

Created by KMBest

, updated 2 years ago

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In Pool 2, my favored strategy would be to tech a Zoo list out against the likely flood of Zoo and Hulk spam that could occur. This means including Elektra, Star-Lord and Shang-Chi in what is otherwise a fairly typical list.

pool 2 gamma lab zoo

Created by KMBest

, updated 2 years ago

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