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Welcome to our Marvel Snap Conquest Meta Tier List! Each week, we review the best decks in the ever-changing Marvel Snap Conquest meta.
This report is dedicated to the Conquest mode and lists the current best decks to run the gauntlet and grab your next Infinity avatar. We also provide a Ranked report, available around the middle of the week based on the latest updates, that highlights the best archetypes for that mode. Looking to figure out the impact of the newly released card or the latest balance changes in Conquest? This is the place to be!
If you are looking for more information about a deck in particular, check out our Archetypes pages, with detailed information about each of the household names in Marvel Snap.
Marvel Snap Conquest Overview
Just like in Ranked, Arishem Loki remained the dominant force in the game after the OTA. Meanwhile, Wiccan helped raise the stock of a few decks. It seems that the ability to gain (or cheat) energy is still the strongest mechanic you can leverage in Marvel Snap, which is exactly what a lot of the best performing decks (both in Tier 1 and the Silent Performers section) are doing.
One difference to note, however, is the presence of Stature Darkhawk among the best performers. This shows that there is a way to disrupt those strategies… at least in Conquest. Once again, this is how forcing players to stay in a bad match up without a one cube Retreat changes the game. If you have a deck that is consistently able to beat a certain popular opponent, you have a pretty good Conquest build.
In Ranked, the flexibility and the way Snapping and Retreating favors decks with a high potential make it difficult to act against the extra energy that Arishem (and now Wiccan) grants. In Conquest, you can build against those decks by trying to take away their cards or their space, and then the extra energy they have can’t be used efficiently.
If you are a disruptive player, Conquest is definitely the place where you can thrive.
Happy Tier List, everyone!
Marvel Snap Conquest Tier List
| Tier | Deck |
|---|---|
| Silent Performer | Wiccan Pixie |
| Tier 1 | Arishem Loki |
| Tier 1 | Stature Darkhawk |
| Tier 1 | Silver Surfer |
| Tier 2 | KaZoo |
| Tier 2 | Loki Wiccan |
| Tier 2 | Destroy |
| Tier 3 | Bounce |
Disclaimer and Tier Explanations
In order to be featured here, a deck needs to hold a win rate above the 50% threshold over more than a hundred Conquest games.
In order to create this chart, den is using data from our Marvel Snap Tracker, as well as other available data online and his own expertise and opinion of respected players. If a deck showed great performances with a very limited presence in the meta, you can find it in the Silent Performers section. That section highlights decks with an excellent Win Rate, but too little of a sample size to be representative of their real strength.
Decks not good enough to be considered contenders but with a good representation will be ranked in Tier 3 in our chart. See those builds as decks that are good to know about, as you should face them when playing Marvel Snap. However, unless the meta changes or a new variation of the build emerges, these decks are a notch below the dominant ones in Tiers 1 and 2.
Silent Performer: Decks with a very little presence in the meta that still showcase a Cube Average and Win Rate worthy of a Tier 2 deck (or better). Oftentimes, these can be archetypes with some nice game play that have been left unchecked in the current environment, or decks on the rise that found a few good match ups to abuse.
Tier 1: Tier 1 represents decks with all the upsides we would be looking for to run the gauntlet. They have good match ups in the current meta, offer different play patterns during a match, and often have the ability for explosive or surprising turns. These should be decks worth investing into in order to climb for the coming week.
Win Rate > 58%
Tier 2: Tier 2 are very good decks but with a weakness holding them back – either not being as reliable in its draws as Tier 1 decks, countered by another popular deck, or still being a work in progress as you read this. A good pilot could probably take these and have the same results as with a Tier 1 deck, but their play patterns are more difficult to enact compared to the tier above.
Win Rate > 55%
Tier 3: This tier is made of decks that have a pervasive issue compared to Tier 1 or Tier 2 decks. Usually, Tier 3 will be a mix of decks on the rise that don’t have much data, old archetypes on the decline, decks that require substantial experience and/or knowledge to pilot properly, powerful decks that aren’t well positioned, or niche decks.
Win Rate > 52%
Budget: Decks that consist only of cards in Pool 1 and 2 that are still capable of competing with an experienced pilot in a similar Collection Level, Rank, and MMR range. See our matchmaking guide for more details.
Meta stats and analytics directly from our Marvel Snap Tracker can also be found here.
Silent Performers
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Decks that are based on getting a great early draw have a little upside in Conquest compared to Ranked: they can bluff.
Indeed, once your opponent sees what your deck can do when you draw the nuts, your Snaps become a little more frightening. This gives you the opportunity to bluff certain hands with a strong early game but not much to follow it up. For example, if you used all your energy during the first three turns and Snap at the start of Turn 4, your opponent will naturally assume you are about to play Wiccan. With this in mind, it doesn’t matter if you have it or not—just spending all your energy during the first three turns is enough to get a cube, with or without Wiccan.
Arguably, a 58% Win Rate isn’t stellar. This list would only rank in Tier 2, but it is the best performing deck with the new card this week in Conquest.
Tier 1
Arishem Loki
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A 64.2% Win Rate is 3.5% higher than the next best deck and Arishem‘s immediate counter, Stature Darkhawk, which places this archetype firmly in the lead when it comes to the best Marvel Snap archetypes.
The reason why is pretty simple: there are so many strong cards in Marvel Snap that you can play a turn ahead with one extra energy that 12 or 15 random cards isn’t enough of a drawback.
Potential Additions
Strong standalone cards fit Arishem perfectly, so you could replace any card you are missing with another generic solid inclusion.
Stature Darkhawk
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The more Arishem you play against, the better your Win Rate with this deck should be. Its 60.5% Win Rate is already a great sign for this archetype, especially considering Arishem Loki isn’t extremely popular yet (probably because players believed the OTA would limit its strength this time around).
With little risk to see less of Arishem than you currently are, it seems like a great time to give Stature Darkhawk a try in Conquest.
Potential Additions
Silver Surfer
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With Mobius M. Mobius now completely out of the equation since most decks gain energy rather than reduce the cost of their cards, Silver Surfer can play Sera with no risk at all. Sandman could be a consideration, but it seems like that deck has been losing some momentum lately.
In this context, Silver Surfer is a solid pick for anyone who is not looking for anything too fancy with their play patterns, or for something with a steep learning curve.
Potential Additions
Makkari, Rogue, and other good 3-Cost cards make sense in this deck, while Spider-Ham complements Copycat well for disrupting the opponent’s deck.
Tier 2
KaZoo
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I expected KaZoo to do much worse in Conquest compared to the Ranked mode due to Killmonger and Enchantress limiting its ability to develop. However, with a 59% Win Rate this week, it seems like the Ka-Zar-led archetype is just a solid all-around pick in the current environment.
Potential Additions
Nightcrawler had better results than Nico Minoru in the Ranked report.
Loki Wiccan
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Loki without Arishem has been on the comeback trail since the OTA, this time by leveraging Wiccan to create explosive Turn 6 plays. Whether it is with generated cards or just playing both Shang-Chi and Enchantress, Loki rarely has too much energy available.
Also, this deck features a synergy we have seen very little of:
Potential Additions
Valentina plus Shadow King is a duo that fits the Loki+ Control theme. Nick Fury can work with Wiccan, and Cable can bring some sort of disruption while buffing The Collector.
Destroy
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With a similar performance in Ranked, Destroy looks like it’s back to being a solid-but-not-particularly-great archetype. KaZoo is very popular, which naturally improves Destroy’s stock a little. However, in a meta with a lot of decks disguising their play patterns and running all sorts of disruption (Shang-Chi, Enchantress, Copycat, Moon Knight, Black Bolt, etc.), Destroy feels a little too fair to rise any higher in the rankings.
Potential Additions
Shang-Chi can replace Arnim Zola.
Tier 3
Bounce
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Playing Wiccan in a deck with a curve that maxes at three might seem a little weird, but it becomes crystal clear when your
With this very proactive list, Bounce is once again trying a different concept after the Loki list with much more disruption was featured in the Ranked report. It is good to see the Bounce shell lead to various viable strategies, as it shows the foundation is solid. However, there eventually needs to be a top performer for the archetype to breakthrough.
Closing Words
Due to fewer games being played (and one game actually representing multiple ranked matches), the gap between one deck’s performance and another’s tends to be much bigger in Conquest, in addition to fewer decks being represented.
Still, even if the Ranked mode is more diverse, there are some similarities in how you should approach the game right now. Arishem is still on top with its best counter to date right behind it, and a Wiccan deck is hot on their tails. Behind those are the strong, reliable archetypes we know we can pick up whenever we’re in doubt of what to play. However, it’s easy to assume that Silver Surfer will never surpass Arishem until another balance update hits since it has been refined as much as possible due to being around for forever.
Stability won’t beat the meta, but it will guarantee good results. On the other hand, it can be hard to risk playing one of those decks since only energy cheating decks are currently making it to the top. And who does that better than Arishem and Wiccan?
If someone could solve this riddle, they would probably rule Conquest until the rest of the player base catches up.
As usual, find me on the Marvel Snap Zone community Discord to discuss the report, or you can follow my Twitter page where I share decks and biased opinions about the game.
Good Game Everyone.
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