Nidavellir Hot Location Guide: Strategy, Best Cards and Decks

The Hot Location for the next 24 hours is Nidavellir: Cards here have +5 Power. This is a Hot Location for Marvel Snap’s September 2023 Season, Loki For All Time, that starts on selected Wednesdays and Sundays at 3 AM GMT. For 24 hours, it has a 50% chance of showing up in games.

Variants

Nidavellir

Cards here have +5 Power.

released

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Players who strategically build around the location or counter the decks that do so can have an advantage over their opponents! So what will you play?

Strategy and General Tips

Nidavellir returns today as our Hot Location. From past experience with this location, there are plenty of fun things you can try to do. For example, you can try using Venom to soak up the power and then play Taskmaster in another lane.

Variants

Shang-Chi

On Reveal: Destroy all enemy cards here that have 10 or more Power.

Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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Variants

Armor

Ongoing: Cards here can’t be destroyed.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Variants

Cosmo

Ongoing: On Reveal abilities won’t happen here.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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With this location, the reality is that you want to try to flood the location with several cards that will stay under nine power so you don’t get hit with Shang-Chi. Or you can run Armor and Cosmo, but these are also anti-synergistic with some of the more creative ways to use the location.

Variants

Iron Man

Ongoing: Your total Power is doubled here.

Starter Card

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Variants

Professor X

Ongoing: Lock down this location. (Cards can’t be added, removed, etc.)

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Iron Man is one option. The card as utility outside of the location, but when played there it gains five power and doubles the power of all your other cards in Nidavellir. Another option is Professor X, which can follow up some early flood strategies to lock the location on Turn 5 (or Turn 4 with a deck like Thanos Control).

Variants

Venom

On Reveal: Destroy your other cards here. Add their Power to this card.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Variants

Arnim Zola

On Reveal: Destroy one of your other cards here to copy it at the other locations.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Variants

Knull

Ongoing: Has the combined Power of all cards destroyed this game.

Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

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Variants

Taskmaster

On Reveal: Set this card’s Power equal to that of the last card you played. (if that card’s in play)

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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If you’re more ambitious, you can use Venom to destroy the cards with additional power and bank it while having ways to spread that power to other lanes (with Arnim Zola, Knull, or Taskmaster, for example). This option can be easily countered, but when it isn’t countered the amount of power you create will consistently win games.

Variants

Loki

On Reveal: Transform your hand into cards from your opponent’s starting deck and give them -1 Cost.

Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

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All month long this trickster is likely to get a mention. Why? Well Loki could let you swap your hand for your opponents synergistic location based deck, an effect not to be undervalued but also maybe not always worth building around.

Negative Surfer

Negative Surfer

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 8 months ago

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1x Collection Level 1-14

8x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

1x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

1x Recruit Season

1x Starter Card

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I’ll start with Mister Negative. It can fill the location without going over nine power and then back the lane up with Iron Man – even when it misses on Mister Negative by Turn 4. This adds more chances to win games that would normally be losses when the location doesn’t appear.

Thanos Death

Thanos Death

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 8 months ago

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4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

3x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

3x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

1x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

1x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

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Thanos has the ability to fill the location using the Stones. Then, you combine this with Destroy cards like Venom and Carnage to either buff Knull or set up for a juicy Arnim Zola. Knull helps you with opposing Shang-Chi plays a little, but if you’re too greedy with Nidavellir you may end up getting punished. In most games, though, you should have solid plays without the location and get a huge boost when it shows up.

Lockdown

Lockdown

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 8 months ago

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1x Collection Level 1-14

6x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

1x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

1x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

1x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

1x Recruit Season

2.6

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2.4

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This deck looks to fill the location on the same turn you play Professor X by utilizing Nightcrawler and Jeff the Baby Land Shark. These two cards can move into the location on Turn 5 while helping you buff the other lane you’re contesting with Angela. Then you then have Gamora to play on the last turn in the lane you want to win along with Rocket Raccoon or Kitty Pryde.

Loki

Tech-Loki-Hawk

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 7 months ago

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4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

2x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

3x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

1x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

2.5

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2.7

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Loki can be anywhere and everywhere, so this weekend trying out the Loki deck to try and beat the Loki decks whilst still being okay. Here we can Invisible Woman and play a key tech card like Killmonger or Shang-Chi prior to playing Snowguard, Kitty Pryde and Loki on 5. We switch out the hand for the final turn miracle with the opponents deck.

Shang-Chi being set up on Nidavellir and then a handful of cheap cards to try and take the other locations is the plan. Our Invisible Woman even protects us from the opponent’s Shang-Chi that they have or get from our Loki.

Series 2 and Below (pre-CL 474)

Nidavellir – Pool 2

Created by SafetyBlade

, updated 1 year ago

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3x Collection Level 1-14

4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

3x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

1x Recruit Season

1x Starter Card

2.7

Cost

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2.3

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For early collection level players, the recommendation is try flooding the location with Iron Man and then use the Control tools for the other location. This deck runs the classic Storm and Jessica Jones, as it provides some flexibility to turn off Nidavellir if you want to.

Wrap Up

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Good luck, have fun, and stay safe!