Marvel Snap New Card Release, Spotlight Cache, and Series Drop Schedule

New unreleased Marvel Snap cards are primarily released via Season Passes and one new card is introduced as a Series 5 or Series 4 card on a weekly cadence via Spotlight Caches and the Token Shop. In this guide, we outline the release date and schedule of new cards Marvel Snap, when they will be featured in Spotlight Caches, when they undergo a Series Drop, and how they are obtained.

Marvel Snap Card Release and Spotlight Cache Schedule

Spotlight Caches appear every 120 Collection Levels above 490, and can contain a Series 4 or 5 card. Each week, there are three cards and their Spotlight variants featured. For individual posts regarding the monthly Spotlight Cache schedule, click here.

Date	Card 1	Card 2	Card 3
Jul 12	Jean Grey	Knull	The Living Tribunal
Jul 18	Echo	Iron Lad	Kang
Jul 25	Legion	High Evolutionary	Darkhawk
Aug 1	Mirage	Thanos	Master Mold
Aug 8	Galactus	Nimrod	Spider-Ham
Aug 15	Lady Deathstrike	MODOK	Stature
Aug 22	X-23	Nebula	Silk
Aug 29	Silver Samurai	Kitty Pryde	Spider-Man 2099
Sep 5	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	Ghost-Spider	Knull
Sep 12	Alioth	Hit Monkey	Snowguard
Sep 19	Ravonna Renslayer	Zabu	Jean Grey
Sep 26	Mobius M. Mobius	High Evolutionary	Kang
Oct 3	Thanos	X-23	Echo
Oct 10	Man-Thing	Silver Samurai	Lady Deathstrike
Oct 17	Black Knight	Stature	MODOK
Oct 24	Nico Minoru	Kitty Pryde	The Phoenix Force
Oct 31	Werewolf By Night	Silk	Ghost-Spider
Nov 7	Alioth	Knull	Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Nov 14	Gladiator	Mirage	Loki
Nov 21	Annihilus	Daken	X-23
Nov 28	Martyr	Jean Grey	Spider-Man 2099
Dec 5
Dec 12	Firestar
Dec 19	Havok
Dec 26	Selene

Marvel Snap Card Release and Series Drop Schedule

New cards are introduced to Marvel Snap as a Season Pass card or a Series 4 or 5 card, and they cost 3,000 or 6,000 Collector’s Tokens from the Token Shop, respectively. Series Drops are now not on a schedule and can happen at any time.

New Cards

Players can expect to acquire newly released cards in Marvel Snap through the following ways:

• Purchasing the Premium Season Pass and obtaining the featured card.
• Opening them in Spotlight Caches.
• Purchasing them directly with Collector’s Tokens from the Token Shop.

Series 4 and 5

New cards that are released as either Series 4 or Series 5 cards and can be obtained through random chance in the Collector’s Caches and Reserves, or via Collector’s Tokens and the Token Shop. For guides on what cards are available in each Series, their ratings, and decks check out our guides below:

“Big Bad” Series 5 Cards

The follow cards are classified as “Big Bad” cards that are not planned to be ever downgraded from Series 5:

• Galactus
• Thanos
• Kang
• High Evolutionary

“Indefinite” Series 4 Cards

The follow cards have been confirmed to be staying in Series 4 until further announcements. As we yet do not have any precedence, we cannot say how long they might stay in Series 4.

• Darkhawk
• Knull
• Stature
• Zabu
• MODOK

Season Pass

Each month starts a new season for Marvel Snap, where players are able to purchase the Premium Season Pass to obtain the new card for the season. This card is then added as a Series 5 card after the season ends. For a detailed guide, check out our guide on Seasons:

Series Drop

With the monthly update patch (not with the start of a new season or daily reset time), cards are demoted from Series 5 to 4, and 4 to 3 to make them easier for players to obtain. You can find the history of Series Drops and upcoming announcements here and information about Series here.

Initially, all cards were on the same schedule starting in Series 5, dropping to Series 4 and eventually Series 3. According to the latest May 2023 update in the card acquisition model however, there will be more flexibility in what cards drop series and when. Examples include:

• Preserving the Series of a card, like the “Big Bads” Thanos and Galactus and “indefinite” Series 4 cards such as Darkhawk and Knull.
• A card may go from Series 5 directly to Series 3 to give it more play rate.
• A monthly series drop may even be skipped entirely when the meta looks fun and healthy.

These decisions will be made on a card-by-card basis based on data and player feedback instead of applying a blanket rule to all cards and will not be predictable going forward.