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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
As we dive deeper into the Leech meta, we are starting to see some archetypes fight back in Conquest. Since you can’t just fold against a bad match up, some more creative decks are starting to emerge that are looking to capitalize on certain weaknesses in the top tier decks.
For now, there is really is only one, which I labelled Ravonna Lockdown for lack of a better name. With this deck, we can see what the next step of the meta might be: cheap On Reveal cards that you can play before Leech comes out, and lanes winners atop the curve. Professor X, in particular, has a big impact currently because the card is useful against both Hela and Leech (whose meager two power is the card’s biggest weakness).
It is too early to say if the deck—or the concept behind it—will be how we play Marvel Snap in the second part of the season. But, after Good Cards ruled the game for almost two weeks, it is good to see a deck post a better performance, especially because I don’t expect Namora to have any impact on the situation when the card becomes available on Tuesday.
Apart from this newcomer, the balance in the meta is more or less the same compared to the Ranked mode, with the exception of disruptive decks being stronger in Conquest due to their ability to leverage the information they gain round after round more efficiently. Apart from Good Cards, Junk is the other dominant archetype, with Loki showing flashes of brilliance as well. Hela and the Ongoing archetypes are also posting solid results, but you can clearly see how those decks are much more suited for the Ranked mode.
Happy Tier List, everyone!
Marvel Snap Conquest Tier List
| Tier | Deck |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 | Ravonna Lockdown 🆕 |
| Tier 1 | Good Cards Blink 🆕 |
| Tier 1 | Junk 🔙 |
| Tier 2 | Loki 🔙 |
| Tier 2 | Ongoing |
| Tier 2 | Hela Corvus 🔽 |
| Tier 2 | Destroy 🔽 |
| Tier 2 | Patriot 🔽 |
| Tier 3 | Pure Evolutionary 🔙 |
| Tier 3 | Hela Tribunal |
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 > 62%
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 > 58%
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 > 54%
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.
Tier 1
Ravonna Lockdown
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The meta is starting to adapt to Leech, and it shows—especially among archetypes that still build around the On Reveal mechanic. Realistically, unless you go with an Ongoing deck, you are bound to use On Reveal cards one way or another. And right now, the cheap ones are much better. Indeed, if you expect Leech to come down on Turn 4, you can drop Sage plus Wolfsbane (thanks to Ravonna Renslayer) to build your points total while you still have other cards to compete.
The other card that benefits from Leech is Professor X since it is fairly simple to seize priority when your opponent just plays a two power card on Turn 4. Then you can not only have a good Professor X, but you might also deny their Blink if you can lock their Leech down.
Overall, this is new approach to Lockdown that is only represented by Professor X, and I don’t think we’ll see Storm in the current meta (which makes a ton of sense). It is only logical to see it grab the first spot in our rankings with an incredible 70% Win Rate over about 150 games.
Potential Additions
Looking at the very low average cost of the cards in the deck, U.S. Agent could be a consideration. Nocturne or Nightcrawler would also make sense with Angela and Professor X.
Good Cards Blink
Good Cards benefits a lot from knowing what they are up against in Conquest because it makes the choice to play Jubilee or Leech on Turn 4 much easier. Also, you have an idea of the expected impact of Red Guardian or Magneto in each individual match up.
After a dominant performance in the Ranked mode, the Good Cards archetype proves it is back in full force with Blink at the helm. This list posted an impressive 65% Win Rate over more than 300 games.
Potential Additions
Good Cards is notorious for being a very flexible archetype, which means you could consider many changes to adapt it to your own play style. Cards like Doctor Doom, Vision, Gladiator, and Mobius M. Mobius can easily make it into the deck. For example, here’s another Good Cards deck that uses Darkhawk with the Blink package.
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Junk
Although there is a new deck leveraging Ravonna Renslayer, Professor X, and Cannonball, Junk remains a very strong contender in the current meta—especially in Conquest. In that game mode, the deck can be as disruptive as it wants since knowing what the opponent wants to accomplish makes it much easier to disturb their plans.
Leech is pushing the meta to play cheaper cards, so more decks will tend to fill their board early on. While this could mean you have to be more precise when you play your Green Goblin or Debrii, it also opens more opportunities to completely lock them out of space before Turn 6.
During the first week, Junk seemed to have lost some momentum, but the 65% Win Rate in Conquest over 250 games seems to indicate the archetype is back at full strength.
Potential Additions
Daredevil replaced Magik in some lists.
Tier 2
Loki
I wouldn’t say Loki is back in business yet, but things are looking up for the Trickster God (at least in Conquest). Indeed, even if the Ranked mode still isn’t great for Loki, the information gained round after round in Conquest is very precious for dodging the opponent’s traps. Plus, Loki is still a difficult deck to Snap against, which is another great upside in Conquest.
As usual, there were a ton of different Loki lists to look at with Win Rates ranging from 60% all the way down to below the 50% mark. Match up information is crucial for playing Loki well. Stealing the cards of the most popular archetypes right now (Junk, Good Cards, Ongoing, Hela) can make you feel helpless if you don’t know how to navigate them.
Potential Additions
Red Guardian is the flexible card in the build that you can replace with any solid standalone in the current meta, or a match up specific card.
Ongoing
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The Ongoing archetype looked like it turned a corner in our last Ranked report after focusing on Onslaught rather than Spectrum. For some reason, the best performing list in Conquest is still the same one we grew accustomed to towards the end of last season.
Granted, Jean Grey and Cosmo with priority will be huge against a lot of decks, and it will protect you from Leech turning off your signature 6-Cost. Still, I can’t help but wonder if you have any chance of competing when your disruptive cards aren’t putting in a massive amount of work. With a 60% Win Rate over 150 games, the deck gained the benefit of the doubt, if not more.
One upside I can’t take away from the Ongoing synergy is how simple it is to pilot. Compared to the other decks in this report, this is certainly the one with the most obvious Snaps and Retreats. This alone could be enough to justify picking it for a Conquest run, especially if you aren’t feeling comfortable in the current meta.
Potential Additions
Iron Lad and Rogue are two cards outside the Ongoing synergy that you could consider in this deck.
Hela Corvus
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Even if the meta continues to look worse as time passes, Hela managed to stay afloat and posted an impressive 60% Win Rate over 250 games.
Why is that impressive if Hela is only a mid-Tier 2 deck, one of its worst placements in weeks? Well, the entire meta looks like a bad match up right now since you are bound to face either Leech, Professor X, or Cosmo in the majority of your games. The only upside Hela has is the relative absence of Shang-Chi, which allows you to drop big power cards proactively. Maybe just don’t Snap in the first round before checking if your opponent is running Shang-Chi or not.
Potential Additions
Black Knight could be another big card like Giganto, but Blink looks mandatory (it was part of all the best performing lists).
Destroy
Ongoing isn’t necessarily a great opponent for Destroy to run into, but the other threats around aren’t so bad. Indeed, by Turn 4 you could have grown Deadpool enough to just play Death and Knull on the remaining two turns, as well as a blank five power Deathlok if you want. The same can be said for Professor X or Junk in general: you can simply proactively destroy what they send your way, and you have the ability to develop enough points to challenge a Professor X.
As such, the current meta doesn’t look too bad for Deadpool overall. This list managed to post a 59% Win Rate over 280 game, which is its best performance of the season so far.
Potential Additions
A cheap card to support your synergies can replace Shang-Chi if you fear it will be Leeched too often.
Patriot
After a great first week following the Ultron buff (and a more disappointing performance in our last Ranked report), Patriot seems to have found a decent middle ground by focusing on developing points and blurring the lines as much as possible. I’m a little surprised to not see Mockingbird in a deck with Squirrel Girl, but I guess Klaw and Onslaught are really good at developing points, and they give you an alternate route when Ultron gets Leeched.
In Conquest, Patriot is obviously a fairly simple opponent to recognize, so it is hard to imagine it will be able to climb much higher in the rankings. However, whenever you see little Ongoing disruption around, this deck is able to beat most of the flexible lists by simply developing more points than they can handle.
Potential Additions
Mockingbird and Super-Skrull would be my go-to additions.
Tier 3
Pure Evolutionary
High Evolutionary occasionally comes back and posts a decent enough performance to be worth including. A 55% Win Rate is quite a gap compared to the great decks I discussed above (even Patriot weighed in at 59%). Yet, this is once again a reminder that even the strongest cards can’t cover every synergy in the game. Apart from Shang-Chi and Enchantress, which are used to bring some element of Control to the deck, High Evolutionary dodges Leech, Junk, and even Loki really well.
While it isn’t enough to make this archetype a powerhouse, it does deserve to be mentioned at the very least.
Hela Tribunal
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Hela Tribunal looked great in the Ranked report since it’s more resilient to Leech with its core synergy. Unfortunately, the deck still needs some element of surprise to be excellent, which is something Conquest takes away after Round 1. You will often be stuck with little agency when it comes to your Snaps and Retreats… unless you are good at bluffing.
Closing Words
Conquest has a bit of an “all or nothing” feeling currently. Each deck has at least one terrible match up somewhere in the meta. It is too early to say we might have found the solution, but the Good Cards archetype’s biggest weakness is the relative lack of points it can develop when Blink doesn’t turn Leech into another card. If you are able to develop points early on and lock Leech with Professor X, Good Cards is immediately much less of a threat.
This alone makes me want to play Marvel Snap more. I want to see how far we can push this new concept and see if it has the potential to really shake things up. Obviously, I will share those developments in future reports, as I’m curious to see if this new trend can work in the Ranked mode as well.
As usual, find me on the Marvel Snap Zone community Discord to discuss the report. You can also use my Twitter page where I share decks and biased opinions about the game.
Good Game Everyone.
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