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Jocasta is the last Series 5 cards joining Marvel Snap for the September 2025 Season, Visions of the Future. It is a 3-Cost, 3-Power card that reads: Activate: Immediately Activate your other cards here. (without using up their Activate abilities)
Decks with Jocasta
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.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Jocasta looks like a very flashy card, able to take the Activate synergy to new highs if left unchecked. In a way, the 3-cost could be considered the Wong of that keyword. Indeed, after it was introduced about a year ago with Symbiote Spider-Man, Activate now includes plenty of cards, all more than happy to synergise with Jocasta.
Decks with Awesome Andy
Decks with Lasher
Decks with Kid Omega
Decks with H.E.R.B.I.E.
Decks with Warlock
Decks with Invisible Woman First Steps
Decks with Bullseye
Decks with Scarlet Spider
Decks with Omega Sentinel
Decks with Fantasticar
In that list, I’m particularly interested in two types of cards : 4-costs and those at the helm of a deck.
I really like 4-cost activate cards with Jocasta because it means I can play Jocasta and keep my opponent in the dark as to what will I use it for. Let’s go even further and play a 1 or 2-cost on that same location early for multiple triggers. I wouldn’t mind triggering Spider-Ham on turn four and five to deplete my opponent’s hand from its abilities heading into turn six.
No matter how we build that curve, the fact my opponent only sees Jocasta, and maybe a Snap, should keep them on their toes.
In that category, Scarlet Spider, Omega Sentinel and Fantasticar all look very good. They represent enough value to be triggered as soon as they hit the table, or I can wait a bit longer to extract maximum value. This way, priority would guarantee I would get some value from Jocasta before some disruption can be played.
The other cards we have to discuss are those with a deck built around themselves. Indeed, the likes of Bullseye or Invisible Woman First Steps are good enough already, a second trigger has to be incredible.
I do have a few reservations about these patterns, however. Indeed, we will have to snap early for a Jocasta plus Bullseye or Invisible Woman First Steps to have any impact. Considering they are all Activate cards, we need them on turn five to be able to click them on turn six. That means we give the opponent a chance to retreat before the stakes are at their highest.
For as good as those pairings might be, playing for two cubes at best is a major limitation.
Plus, these synergies can be faced with counter cards, two immediately come to mind : The generic disruptor, and the new specific counter.
Decks with Red Guardian
Decks with Super-Adaptoid
Red Guardian just got its power back in the last OTA, great news for those looking to not get bullied by Activate decks looking to trigger their cards two times per game. As for the new card Super-Adaptoid, it will represent some specific disruption, in case Activate would take over Marvel Snap.
If Second Dinner released Super-Adaptoid the same day as Jocasta, it might mean they did know how to balance the new Series 5, so they give us a backdoor with a new Series 4.
The Verdict: Should You Get Jocasta ?
If interested in using the Activate synergy in Marvel Snap, there is little doubt Jocasta will be a consideration in your deck. Even if the card is met with Super-Adaptoid early on, or simply retreated against for low gains most of the time, Jocasta will enhance the power of our Activate deck. Plus, we have used Prodigy for a while in Bullseye or End of Turn type of decks, which goes to show the interest of these builds to find more ways to trigger their key cards.
Plus, with more cards to come in the future, Jocasta will only gain more potential pairings as time passes.
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Jocasta Decks
The new card has multiple synergies to explore, but the big one has to be the End of Turn archetype. However, that build has been on the disruptive side of things lately, something Jocasta doesn’t improve that much. We could add Danger to the mix to improve that part of the deck, hence why I made two different lists.
Also, the new card probably makes Fantasticar worth running in the deck again, which naturally impacts the way we build End of Turn as a whole.
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The other synergy which should benefit from Jocasta is Cerebro 3, a deck using Omega Sentinel since it released early in the season. One activate is definately not enough so Jennifer Kale joined the regular Toxic Cerebro 3 build.
We could also take it one step further and use Bullseye as our other target for Jocasta. After all, Swarm, Blade, Red Shift and Moon Knight (or Gambit if you like that one more) are all 3-power cards.
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Stature Darkhawk is another synergy with a few activate cards, but Darkhawk and his friends took a bit too much room in the deck. Then, I was forced to cut that part of the deck to emphasize on the Activate cards, so Jocasta has enough cards to synergize with.
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Last, here are two concepts to explore with Jocasta, although I don’t have much faith for the Surfer one, probably too gimmicky compared to the current builds.
I didn’t have that more faith for the full Activate deck at first, but I actually like the end result. Lasher, Scarlet Spider and Danger all make for great buff targets, while we have Awesome Andy and Symbiote Spider-Man to grow their power amongst Activate cards.
Plus, if the Activate keyword were to be very popular, that deck could easily run Super-Adaptoid.
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Conclusion
There is an interrogation about Jocasta : What happens if we manage to duplicate it (Frigga, Prodigy, Bastion…) and activate Jocasta herself ?
If a loop, even not an infinite one, is available, then Jocasta will become a problem we’ll have to counter one way or another. Otherwise, the new 3-cost will represent a solid addition to the Activate synergy, definitely worth getting for those who want to build around that keyword.
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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