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Welcome to our new series of Marvel Snap guides, where we feature a Series 4 or 5 card and analyze how to use it. The goal is to give you a tutorial on how to use the card most effectively in an everchanging meta, as well as help you decide if the card is worth the tokens or if you should pick it up during a Spotlight Cache week!
We will aim to revise this guide each time it becomes featured in a Spotlight Cache. If the card becomes rebalanced or the meta has changed a lot, please let us know in the comments and we will look to update it based on demand!
Series 4 cards can be purchased for 3,000 Collector’s Tokens from the Token Shop initially as a Weekly Spotlight card, or opened as one of the featured cards in the Spotlight Caches that are found every 120 Levels on the Collection Level Track after Collection Level 500 (until the next new card releases the following week).
Who Legion?
Legion is known as one of the most powerful mutants. As the son of Professor X, he has his father’s physic ability. More unique though, Legion has multiple personality disorder. As a mutant, this means each of his thousand personalities have their own powers. This makes Legion a lose cannon, and he is often seen as a villain despite wanting to do good in the world. This is what leads to his iconic phrase “We are many”, referencing his multiple personalities.
Legion has made several appearances across animated X-Men shows, including X-Men Evolution. While he currently has no MCU ties, he does have a live action show that exists outside of any live action canon.
How to Use Legion
Legion is a strong tech card that has a lower play rate, but a huge potential. Legion is best used as a surprise rug pull to your opponent. By swapping locations to all be identical, you can severely mess up your opponent’s strategy while planning around the swap. For example: If you recognize your opponent is playing a Silver Surfer deck and Crimson Cosmos is a location, you could swap all locations to Crimson and lock your opponent out from their final play!
Decks with Crimson Cosmos
You can also swap locations out to fix unfavorable locations for yourself. If Deep Space appears and you need your cards to trigger, Legion can set you up for a strong turn 6 play. He can also open restricted locations like Altar of Death or Kyln.
Decks with Altar of Death
Best Synergies
Since Legion‘s ability is centered around locations, he primarily synergies with other cards that interact with locations. For example, Storm can flood a location to lock out any play. You can play Legion into Flooded to immediately turn all locations into Flooded and force all locations to lock down for the final turn!
Decks with Storm
You can also use Magik with Legion! If your gameplan heavily relies on needing a turn 7, Legion can almost guarantee Limbo stays on the board. Copying Limbo also allows you to play safely into any location with no restrictions, advantages, or disadvantages!
Decks with Magik
Best Deck
Bohe
Sera Control decks tend to be the best competitive usage for Legion. Since Sera decks already win by being extremely interactive with your opponent, Legion adds the extra interaction of heavy location control. As a 5-Cost card, Legion will often be an alternate turn 5 play to Sera.
He can, however, be a successful turn 6 play if the locations you swap give you an advantage! You can also use Legion to surprise remove Limbo without telegraphing it like Snowguard does.
Fun Off-Meta Deck
den
Utilizing that interaction with Storm and Flooded, this deck merges the classic High Evolutionary list with a surprise lockdown package. One play line gives you the standard Evolved cards with Hope Summers, She-Hulk, and The Infinaut to make a big turn 6 play by skipping turn 5.
Your surprise play line is Storm on turn 4 and Legion into Flooded on turn 5! Your Nebula, Sunspot, and Cyclops can give you extra Power to secure multiple locations when both players get locked out for turn 6!
Weaknesses and Things to Avoid
Surprisingly, Legion has virtually no counters. His only direct weakness is to Cosmo, who blocks your On Reveal from triggering.
Your only other caution to use with Legion is to ensure the location you choose to copy is beneficial to you.
Closing Thoughts
Legion is a solid tech card that is often a sleeper in the meta. While he doesn’t have much synergy, he also doesn’t have many weaknesses. This makes him easy to slot into most decks without requiring a package or a specific deck. A simple card with a solid effect, and for only 3000 tokens!
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