Best Polaris, Horseman of Pestilence Decks and Strategy Guide

Polaris, Horseman of Pestilence is the third Series 5 card joining Marvel Snap for the April 2026 Season, X-Men: End of Days. It is a 2-Cost, 2-Power card that reads:
Objective: Cards in play are afflicted with -5 Power ➡️ Put a card from your hand here.

Today, let’s explore the new card strengths and, of course, the best decks to try it out in.

Series 5 cards can be purchased for 6,000 Collector’s Tokens from the Token Shop as the latest Seasonal Spotlight card. They will be also be included in the Seasonal Series 5 Snap Pack for 5,000 Collector’s Tokens during their season and the following one.

Synergies

Afflicting a total of 5 power to the board is one of the easiest objectives released so far. Indeed, there is a good amount of cards able to do it on their own:

Variants

Bullseye

Activate: Discard all cards that cost 1 or less from your hand. Afflict that many different enemy cards with -2 Power.

Series 5

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Variants

Hazmat

On Reveal: Afflict all other cards with -1 Power.

Series 3

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Variants

Caliban Horseman of Pestilence

Objective: Have 3 cards that are 4-Cost or more in play Afflict the highest-Cost enemy card with -7 Power. (0/3)

Series 5

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Variants

Fantomex

Activate: If you’ve had cards discarded and destroyed, afflict front-row enemy cards at each location with -2 Power.

Series 5

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Omega Sentinel

Activate: Afflict the highest-Power enemy card with -7 Power.

Series 4

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To those, we can add plenty of other cards able to contribute, and likely to fulfil the objective if we draw two of them over the course of the match:

Variants

Yellowjacket

On Reveal: Afflict your other cards here with -1 Power.

Series 3

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Lasher

Activate: Afflict an enemy card here with negative Power equal to this card’s Power.

Series 4

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U.S. Agent

Ongoing: 4-Cost or more cards here have -3 Power.

Series 5

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Scorpion

On Reveal: Afflict cards in your opponent’s hand with -1 Power.

Series 2

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Cassandra Nova

On Reveal: Steal 1 Power from each card in your opponent’s deck.

Series 5

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Red Guardian

On Reveal: Afflict the lowest-Power enemy card here with -2 Power and remove its text.

Series 5

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Spider-Woman

On Reveal: Afflict all enemy cards here with -1 Power.

Series 1

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In that second category, you will notice most cards are On Reveal, meaning we can consider Stryfe and Fin Fang Foom alongside Polaris, Horseman of Pestilence. In that synergy, the 2-cost brings a new way to get the 7-cost in play for cheap.

There isn’t a ton of room to explore synergies as we have to focus on afflicting cards with negative power. Yet, the fact several cards can take care of the entire objective on their own should give us a good bit of freedom in terms of deck building.

Luke Cage might be a problem for the new card, but it isn’t popular at the moment. If the 3-cost rises in popularity in the near future, Polaris, Horseman of Pestilence will already have proved her worth.
We could also mention the Clog archetype, but that one has not seen play in a very long time, so I’m not considering it too much.

The Verdict: Should You Get Polaris, Horseman of Pestilence?

Among already made archetypes, High Evolutinary might be able to welcome the new 2-cost and not adapt its synergy too much, while there must be a good list of Wiccan Affliction as well.

Yet, I’m most interested in the possibility to build a good cards type of deck around Polaris, Horseman of Pestilence. It would require several cards able to afflict negative power, but the objective isn’t that hard to complete, while summoning a card for free has never been a bad thing in Marvel Snap.

Overall, the need to afflict will obviously limit the decks able to welcome the new card. Yet, the objective is simple enough to consider we won’t need to build for that goal only.

Pre-Release Score:

Polaris, Horseman of Pestilence Decks

Polaris in Small On Reveal Affliction

Created by den

, updated 2 months ago

0

2x

Series 3

1x

Series 4

9x

Series 5

Polaris in High Evo

Created by den

, updated 2 months ago

0

2x

Series 2

1x

Series 3

4x

Series 5

5x

Starter Card

Polaris in Wiccan Affliction

Created by den

, updated 2 months ago

0

1x

Series 1

1x

Series 2

1x

Series 3

8x

Series 5

1x

Starter Card

Polaris in Shou-Lao Afflicts

Created by den

, updated 2 months ago

0

2x

Series 3

1x

Series 4

9x

Series 5

Polaris 2099

Created by den

, updated 2 months ago

0

1x

Series 2

2x

Series 3

2x

Series 4

7x

Series 5

Closing Words

I hope this review of the new card was helpful. You can find everyone on the Marvel Snap Zone team in our community Discord to have a chat or ask any questions.

Good Game Everyone!