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In Marvel Snap, new cards are released weekly into Series 4 or 5, and players need to carefully think about whether they should purchase the card or not. To help players make better decisions and build better decks based on their collections, we rate all the cards from Series 4 and 5 into a Meta Tier List and review the current meta.
- Each week on Tuesday, a new Series 4 or 5 card is introduced to the game. For more information on card release schedules, click here.
- Series 4 and 5 cards can be obtained from Spotlight Caches that appear every 120 Collection Levels after 500. They can be one of the three featured cards that rotate every week, or a random Series 4 or 5 card.
- Series 4 cards cost 3,000 Collector’s Tokens and Series 5 cards cost 6,000 from the Token Shop.
- On June 4, 2024, there will be a scheduled Series Drop affecting 12 cards in total.
Introduction to the New Card Meta Tier List Report
This report was informed by our new approach to rating and reviewing all of the Series 4 and 5 cards. With OTA balance patches now having the potential to upend the meta, we are now moving our Series 1 – 3 approach to the same method as the Series 4 and 5 list. This means more changes, more often. The ratings are indicative of the placement in the current meta and are always subject to change. Going forward, I will be aiming for fortnightly updates to the list or whenever major changes occur.
These reports will discuss the biggest movers and shakers and highlight at least one deck to try (although I will often aim for more), and the Tier List will be updated accordingly. Hopefully, this will help ensure this is a valuable resource for reviewing cards to consider investing in, as well as a better live snapshot of how the cards are playing!
Series 5 Card Meta Tier List
| Tier | Card |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 | • Jeff the Baby Land Shark • Hope Summers • X-23 • Annihilus • Blink 🆕 |
| Tier 2 | • Red Guardian • Red Hulk • Ms. Marvel • Nico Minoru • Loki • Nebula • Sebastian Shaw • Elsa Bloodstone • Pixie • Mockingbird • U.S. Agent 🔼 • Nocturne 🆕 • Cannonball 🔼 • Corvus Glaive 🔼 • Thanos 🔼 |
| Tier 3 | • White Widow • Proxima Midnight • Valentina 🔽 • Werewolf By Night • Galactus • Gladiator • Cull Obsidian 🔽 • High Evolutionary • Caiera • Beta Ray Bill • Black Knight • The Living Tribunal • Iron Lad • Silk |
| Tier 4 | • Blob • Selene • Supergiant • Black Swan • Baron Zemo • War Machine • Skaar |
| Tier 5 | • Jean Grey • Hercules • Grand Master • Alioth |
| Kang | • Kang |
| TBD | • Sage • Namora • Sasquatch |
Series 4 Card Meta Tier List
| Tier | Card |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 | • Knull • Kitty Pryde • Darkhawk 🔼 |
| Tier 2 | • Snowguard • Mobius M. Mobius 🔼 • Ravonna Renslayer • Legion • Lady Deathstrike |
| Tier 3 | • Spider-Ham • Daken • |
| Tier 4 | • Mirage • Havok • Silver Samurai • • Nimrod • Ghost-Spider • Man-Thing • Echo • • Miek |
| Tier 5 | • Howard the Duck • Martyr • Zabu |
Series 3 Card Meta Tier List
Series 2 Card Meta Tier List
| Tier | Cards |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 | • Killmonger • Shang-Chi • Leech 🔼 |
| Tier 2 | • Sandman 🔼 • Iceman • Jubilee 🔼 • Vision |
| Tier 3 | • Agent 13 • the Collector • Morbius • Hobgoblin • The Infinaut • Swarm • Scorpion • Storm • Sunspot • Vulture • Bucky Barnes |
| Tier 4 | • Okoye • Nakia • Warpath • Cloak • Ebony Maw |
| Tier 5 | • Rhino • Sabretooth |
Series 1 Card Meta Tier List
| Tier | Cards |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 | • Angela • Blue Marvel • Cable • Carnage • Devil Dinosaur • Enchantress • Iron Man |
| Tier 2 | • Professor X 🔼 • Spectrum 🔼 • Onslaught 🔼 • Ant Man • Blade • Cosmo • Scarlet Witch • Squirrel Girl • Wolfsbane • Wolverine • Klaw 🔼 • Korg • Armor • Lady Sif |
| Tier 3 | • Jessica Jones • Odin 🔽 • Bishop 🔽 • Deathlok • Ironheart • Lizard • Medusa • Moon Girl • Nova • Apocalypse • Rocket Raccoon • Sentinel • Ka-Zar • Nightcrawler • Spider-Woman • Star-Lord • Strong Guy • White Tiger White Queen • Elektra • Gamora • Mister Fantastic |
| Tier 4 | • America Chavez • Doctor Strange • Forge • Groot • Hawkeye • Heimdall • Hulk *** • Hulkbuster • Kraven • Iron Fist • Mister Sinister • Morph • Multiple Man • Punisher • Captain America • Colossus ** • Namor • Sword Master |
| Tier 5 | • Abomination *** • Cyclops *** • Misty Knight *** • Shocker *** • The Thing *** • Uatu the Watcher • Angel • Yondu • Mantis • Domino |
| Quicksilver | • Quicksilver |
Tier Explanation
This Tier List is heavily geared towards the current environment, and the report will be updated bi-weekly at a minimum. This is to adjust for the in-game balance changes and what is competitively viable.
- Tier 1: These are the cards that support a current top tier deck in the meta or are universally strong enough that not owning them is a disadvantage.
- Tier 2: These are strong cards that are core to playing the currently strong archetypes, or are strong enough that you can play them in several different deck types.
- Tier 3: These are strong supporting pieces of specific archetypes that can be replaced, part of archetypes that are currently not performing at a Tier 2 level, or are universal cards that are options but often replaceable.
- Tier 4: These cards are niche and can only be used within very specific archetypes or only support an archetype that is currently not performing well.
- Tier 5: These cards are very limited and easily eclipsed by other options.
- Kang: This tier is a special tier to represent just how much lower this card is than the cards above.
- * This card is provisionally ranked, and in-game performance may change the ranking as the changes are either not finalized or still too new.
- ** This card is ranked higher in anticipation of a changing meta due to new card releases or balance changes and will be evaluated again on release.
- *** This ranking excludes High Evolutionary versions (see High Evolutionary placement).
Ultron
Decks with Ultron
Ultron‘s adjustment has seen it catapult from one of the worse performing cards to an inclusion in the core of one of the most accessible decks in the game. It is also a deck that is somewhat flexible and can be built and played in ways that are not horrible into a Turn 4 Leech. This makes Ultron one of the biggest movers on the Tier List… ever. Ultron can now be considered one of the strongest cards in the game due to the pure stats it can produce on its own. The current meta demands you have an answer for the pure power these decks can put out.
SafetyBlade
Consider running Mockingbird with Brood in your Ultron decks as well. This gives you solid ways of getting power down outside of the Ultron line and remain flexible compared to your opponents. The rest of the plan remains the same: drop stats as efficiently as possible and then play Ultron.
Blink
Decks with Blink
I would usually be very hesitant to debut a card in Tier 1, but Blink has earned this spot. While the initial home for the card was Hela, you could see her being experimented with in many different decks as the week went on (and she usually improved the results of the deck). Her best application is not universal, though, and the reason for her placement is her core role in Hela and Ramp decks since they are both contenders at the top of the meta (paradoxically improved by the Leech change).
With meta shifts, Blink would still be expected to be a strong card in her current state, and she could still achieve her current success from the Jubilee or Leech into Blink plays. These are the decks you want Blink for, but she is much more flexible than most thought.
SafetyBlade
Hela is about as solved as we can get in Marvel Snap, but I’m featuring the Black Knight version this week. This version is underplayed when compared to lists without Black Knight because it can get stats out without having to rely on Dracula rolls after being hit by Leech.
Darkhawk
Decks with Darkhawk
Second Dinner’s admission of the success of Darkhawk with another nerf would usually mean that the card should drop down in the Tier List. Instead, it appears that Darkhawk is better placed than before the patch. It’s part of the core of the midrange strategies that are working well without including Loki right now. This is as much due to Korg and Rockslide as it is to Darkhawk, but without this card the deck simply does not exist. Darkhawk remains one of the strongest cards in Marvel Snap, and that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon.
SafetyBlade
Last we have this Darkhawk deck. The namesake card maintains its strong placement in the meta, and this deck also demonstrates how good Blink can be. Here it can potentially target Darkhawk, Doctor Doom, or Red Hulk—which are all premium hits—and your early game can frustrate opponents looking for very specific draws.
Conclusion
That’s it! All cards in Marvel Snap ranked in the current environment. Marvel Snap is a unique game, and these cards can lead to different scenarios and decks. At times, you may just like a certain character more than another. As a final disclaimer: chasing the card you want with your heart instead of your head is not wrong.
Have we missed any ideas that raise or lower the bar for these cards? Let us know below in our Discord server.
I’m looking forward to more of the community acquiring these cards and seeing how players will utilize them in new and interesting ways!
Good luck out there!
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