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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
Agatha Harkness can’t be regarded as a joke anymore; Agatha Discard is probably the most influential deck in the meta right now. By drawing an extra card at the start of the game, the deck manages to make a rather high roll based synergy into a reliable point generator. Black Knight on Turn 1, discard Agatha with Lady Sif or Moon Knight on Turn 3, then profit from a 14 power Ebony Blade and an 18 power Ghost Rider. The deck also combines some good points output with a bit of disruption thanks to Moon Knight and Black Bolt.
Early on, the deck showed some promise, but it started to lose some of its Win Rate as time passed after the OTA. Over the weekend, however, the deck steered the ship and stared to gain momentum once again. Overall, Agatha Discard is the best deck to come out of the recent OTA at this point.
I’m personally convinced that the deck isn’t as good as the stats are currently showing. It is clearly solid enough to be a part of the current meta, but I think it should be a Tier 2 contender. I find it odd to see so little of the other great archetypes we’ve grown accustomed to from before the OTA. The Silver Surfers, Arishem Lokis, and even Good Cards decks exist and are doing fairly well, but the popularity of each has been eaten by Agatha, which limits their impact on the current meta.
One deck managed to make the most of the situation: Destroy. Not only is the deck a fan favorite, it also fits the strengths that Agatha requires you to have. You know pretty early if you’re going to be able to develop enough points to compete (basically, whether Deadpool is in hand or not). You have some nice flexibility with the ability to reposition your cards, and both Death and Arnim Zola allow you to be flexible on Turn 6. The cherry on top is that an opposing Moon Knight can discard Wolverine to help you get some extra points.
Happy Tier List, everyone!
Marvel Snap Conquest Tier List
| Tier | Deck |
|---|---|
| Silent Performer | Arishem Loki |
| Tier 1 | Destroy |
| Tier 1 | Agatha Discard |
| Tier 1 | Stature Darkhawk |
| Tier 2 | Discard Dracula |
| Tier 2 | Lockdown |
| Tier 2 | KaZoo |
| Tier 2 | Toxic Surfer |
| Tier 3 | Junk Move |
| Tier 3 | Ongoing |
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 > 56%
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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Arishem Loki is still strong enough to be in the rankings, even after a summer spent limiting its power. However, with a lot of new decks emerging from the previous balance patches and new cards available every week, Arishem might not be strong enough to remain the default deck that players gravitate toward when their creativity is running low.
Tier 1
Destroy
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Typically, Destroy struggles to develop as it wishes since disruption is always a part of the game, and the archetype’s Snaps are too predictable to really be dominant. In this environment, however, Destroy has enough good match ups to mitigate that predictability weakness.
Agatha Discard is a good match up because you’ll know early on if you will be able to challenge them on points. You can also Killmonger their Black Knight with priority on Turn 3 before they can discard Agatha. You also have KaZoo and Junk, two opponents that Destroy traditionally does well against.
This is just a fine time to be a Deadpool player.
Potential Additions
Attuma can replace Deathlok. Arnim Zola is good if you are able to outscore most opponents, but Shang-Chi does better if you need some interaction.
Agatha Discard
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This is the most popular deck currently. Agatha Discard has gathered the few things a deck needs to convince the Snap community of its worth. It is pretty straight forward in how it plays, but still packs a bit of disruption to avoid being easily countered by decks that are able to combo for more points (like Mister Negative or The Living Tribunal). Plus, it possesses a bit of a wacky side to it thanks to Agatha Harkness.
Early on, the deck quickly became super popular before losing a bit of momentum. A few days after the Ranked report, however, Agatha managed to surpass the 60% Win Rate threshold in Conquest, where the Win Rate metric is more important. It has clearly shown that it might be more than just a gimmick.
I’m going to need a few more days to be fully convinced, but there is no denying that Agatha Discard is a serious player in the current meta.
Potential Additions
Silver Sable and Copycat are the two flexible cards. Nebula is another proactive 1-Cost, and Iceman is great in the mirror to make an odd card even. Copycat can be any odd card you find valuable.
Stature Darkhawk
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Stature Darkhawk is still a solid deck in Marvel Snap. It surpassed the 60% Win Rate threshold in Conquest, a mode where disruption is typically more effective. However, when your most popular match up also runs Moon Knight (and would thank you for discarding their Agatha), it makes it a little more difficult to play your deck as intended.
Potential Additions
Cassandra Nova was an anti-Arishem card. Even though she synergizes well with the Rocks you put in your opponent’s deck, other cards can bring different abilities that might be more appealing in this environment.
Tier 2
Discard Dracula
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Two of the Tier 1 decks this week are playing discard based synergies, and Discard Dracula players couldn’t be happier to see Swarm, Apocalypse, or Proxima Midnight fly from their hand due to Moon Knight and Black Bolt from the opponent.
Unfortunately, that was not enough to make this deck into a Tier 1 contender, although it came pretty close to it with a 59% Win Rate. I think this archetype could keep improving if discard oriented decks maintain their current position.
Potential Additions
the Collector, Gambit, and Moon Knight are the flexible slots in the deck. Strong Guy is played for points, and Hellcow should become a consideration after the patch that turns it into an Activate card.
Lockdown
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Lockdown started the post OTA meta as the hottest thing around. While Agatha Discard took a dive before recovering, Lockdown is currently losing momentum.
It isn’t the deck’s fault entirely, although a bit more points early in the match would help it dodge Cosmo. The main problem is that the most popular deck in the game runs Legion as well, and removing the Flooded location before you get to copy it kind of ruins the whole game plan. It’s hard for Lockdown to avoid this by controlling priority since its early game isn’t very strong.
Also, play patterns that end the game on Turn 5 have the annoying limitation of never winning you more than two cubes.
Potential Additions
White Widow and Jeff could be swapped for cards with more power to gain priority for your Legion.
KaZoo
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KaZoo is great whenever attacking all three lanes is the way to go or priority matters a lot. In this still forming environment, a lot of decks only focus on two lanes, which means your point-spread strategy isn’t as effective. Mockingbird plus Gilgamesh will give you plenty of points to win one lane, but compared to a big Ebony Blade, Agatha Harkness, or Darkhawk, you often fall short.
Plus, with Destroy coming back and the Discard decks not playing the way you would like them to, KaZoo isn’t in a great environment to shine.
Potential Additions
Alioth can bring some disruption against combo oriented decks.
Toxic Surfer
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In a meta with quite a lot of Moon Knight, it can be difficult to keep your Hazmat, Odin, or Wong. This basically explains why Silver Surfer isn’t higher in the rankings this week. Other than this little disruptive snafu (as well as Cosmo appearing in a couple of decks), the meta is based on proactive decks, which gives Toxic Surfer plenty of room to combo in a lot of match ups.
Potential Additions
Rogue could be Echo if you want to limit Cosmo more than Mobius M. Mobius.
Tier 3
Junk Move
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Junk Move has been the best Move archetype for a while, at least when it comes to the Dagger and Vulture core (even with Madame Web in the game). That might change with Araña coming soon, but it seems like Move can’t focus solely on points right now—especially once the opponent knows about your strategy.
Ongoing
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Ongoing got a nice boost with War Machine bringing Ebony Maw to complement Ant Man early on, and Madame Web makes the deck much more flexible in how you can position your cards. Still, Ongoing too often needs to rely on disrupting its opponent to compete with the proactive synergies. Conquest isn’t exactly the best place to do that, as your opponents will quickly know what to play around after a few rounds.
Closing Words
This Conquest report shows that the decks that emerged following the OTA are the real deal since they managed to put up numbers in both modes. However, Lockdown’s hot start has already started to cool off, and Agatha Discard is proving to be much stronger than a silly, fun deck with a card that everyone thought was unplayable.
In a couple of days, we will have a balance patch alongside a new card that most players expect to change to fortune of Move (and possibly Bounce as well). As such, There’s no need for long speeches. The best course of action right now is to play a deck you enjoy; just keep in mind that you probably want to be strong on two lanes, or at least have a Shang-Chi ready to turn one around.
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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