Sleeper Decks of the Week – I Love Legion, More New Thanos, and Mirage Arrives
The Marvel Snap meta is in a great place right now, so this week's Sleeper Decks feature a ton of variety! There's something for everyone here, so check out the best decks that no one is playing and start racking up those cubes.
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Hello everyone and welcome to Sleeper Decks of the Week! I’m Glazer of Snap Judgments: The Official Marvel Snap Zone Podcast, and in this article, I’m going to take you through all of my favorite Sleeper Decks this week. In addition to the podcast (this week’s episode features the Top 5 Cards in Each Cost Slot with Paper and FaThorNewman), I do my own daily videos where I scour the darkest corners of the net (ahem Twitter and the various Marvel Snap sites) to find the best decks in Marvel Snap before the meta notices.
I realize there are a LOT of high Series cards in this. Want Series 3 decks? I’ll go over my Top 5 of them in this article or watch the video breakdown here!
Remember: Each deck title will take you to a video explanation of the deck, so don’t be shy – check them out! We also have a bunch of videos from some of our favorite creators playing the decks, so check them out as well!
Legion of My Life
Legion has fast established himself as a staple of the meta, perhaps the current best 5-Cost card in the game – and maybe my favorite card. He’s in an absolute ton of the best decks in Marvel Snap right now and is an absolutely must play.
Dera’s Legion Rocks
Dera Legion Rocks
Created by 
PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago
3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)
2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)
1x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)
4x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)
2x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
2.9
Cost
3.3
Power
Deck Thoughts: This deck has a serious argument for being the best deck in the game. The Darkhawk package – Zabu, Korg, Rockslide, and Darkhawk – is once again at the top of the metagame. Every time cards are nerfed, Thanos and Darkhawk rise again with different packages. They’re just so consistently strong.
Spider-Ham, Jeff the Baby Land Shark, and Lizard offer everything you want in a two-drop: control, versatility, and raw power, respectively. They mirror the 4-Cost cards. Shang-Chi and Enchantress are control, Rockslide and Iron Lad are versatility, and Darkhawk is raw power.
Legion ties all of this together perfectly. There’s no abuse with him inherent in this deck, and that’s the card’s real power. Every game offers a new chance for Legion to shine. My favorite random thing? Snap before playing Legion into Subterranea to make a humongous Darkhawk on the last turn. You can also turn every location into Nidavellir, giving yourself a bunch of new Shang-Chi targets and the ability to go wide. The possibilities are abundant.
The one card here I’m less than enamored with is Lizard. Dera apparently never hits Lizard with Iron Lad, but I did in two of my first three games. So I changed Lizard to America Chavez because Zabu is super important here.
You can make this deck work without Jeff the Baby Land Shark, Spider-Ham, or Iron Lad, but you’ll need the Darkhawk package. Scarlet Witch, Medusa, and Invisible Woman are good replacement cards in the 2-Cost slot, while I think Absorbing Man makes a great Iron Lad replacement.
You can play this without Legion, but the deck loses a lot of what makes it special. Try the recently buffed Vision instead.
2x Tournament Winning Legion
OwlGod’s Double Tournament Winner – Captain Silk
Created by PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago
2x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)
1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)
4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)
2x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)
3x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
3.2
Cost
4.4
Power
Deck Thoughts: This deck from Korean player Owl God is pure mad genius. This Legion deck foregoes the Darkhawk package to be built around… checks notes… Kraven!?
Silk and Jeff the Baby Land Shark make Kraven a big power card early, giving him a four-ish power boost in the early game. That allows Miles Morales to enter play consistently as a 1-Cost card and fill the curve for a Turn 4 Storm. Turn 4 Storm gives the option to just end the game with Legion while Daredevil, when played early, takes away the guesswork.
Daredevil‘s other major use in the deck is to allow for a perfect Negasonic Teenage Warhead. Sniping Dinosaurs has never been easier! Other important plays are Magneto to pull all their major cards (hello, Darkhawk!), a play that can further pump Kraven or enable Captain Marvel on the last turn. Then she can fly over to, again, pump that Kraven, making her effectively a [4|7] in that scenario.
Enchantress is just extra tech. Shang-Chi is better end game play, but as temp plays are often needed in this deck, Enchantress is great – especially for snuffing out early power plays like Zabu.
Legion is again the key to this deck, but Negasonic Teenage Warhead can be Shang-Chi. If you make that change, I urge you to also run Zabu if you can. Nebula can pretty easily be Sunspot.
LegionHawk
LegionHawk
Created by PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago
2x 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)
3x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
3.1
Cost
3.7
Power
Deck Thoughts: The day that Legion was released (and the day after the Storm play was confirmed to work), I went looking for a Darkhawk and Legion deck. When I couldn’t find one, this is the one I made. This would have been a video last week, but I was on a family vacation.
This deck is built to amplify getting the Storm + Legion combo off. You can get to this win through one of two play lines. Ideally, in either case, Sunspot is played on Turn 1. From there, you can go Zabu -> Darkhawk -> Storm -> Legion -> Pass or Jeff the Baby Land Shark.
The other play line is Turn 2 Silk -> Jeff the Baby Land Shark -> Storm and Miles Morales -> Legion.
Korg operates as extra power while Rockslide is disruption for when the package doesn’t come together. America Chavez adds consistency, and Iron Lad is a backup plan for any missing pieces. This is surprisingly effective and consistent, and several people have gotten Infinity Tickets with the deck.
Watch our friend FaThorNewman (Subscribe here!) play the deck:
Lamby Legion
Lamby Legion
Created by PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago
3x 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)
2x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
3.6
Cost
4.4
Power
Deck Thoughts: LambySeries remains a card gaming genius, and his take on the Legion-Darkhawk deck includes Doctor Octopus to mess up opponents.
Jeff is good here mostly for repositioning and losing priority, but Lizard is a perfectly good replacement.
Thanos is Still Bae
Thanos is amazingly versatile as a card to the point where, six months later, we’re still finding new ways to use the Mad Titan.
Kapt Kerr’s Thanos Galactus
3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)
2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)
4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)
3x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
4.2
Cost
4.7
Power
Deck Thoughts: Kapt Kerr dares to ask the question what happens if you get chocolate on my peanut butter?
Wait, wrong question.
What happens if you add Galactus to Thanos Control? As it turns out, an awful lot of cubes is what happens. This deck can win with the Thanos Control route: play Psylocke and/or the Time Stone for an early Lockdown with Professor X, then use Devil Dinosaur and other tools to close the game. It can also win by using Killmonger on all the Stones, playing a cheap Death, and then closing the game with either the control or the Dinosaur pieces.
But it’s most fun when it wins with Galactus. Turn 3 Wave or Time Stone/Psylocke into Galactus is crazy strong, especially as opponents look for Galactus less often than they have in the past. From there, winning is simply about playing Spider-Man or Professor X to end the game. More can go wrong than previous Galactus iterations, but when it goes right… this deck straight-up steals cubes.
Unfortunately, you absolutely need every high series card (including Jeff the Baby Land Shark) for the deck to work optimally.
Watch our friend AZ Snap (Subscribe Here!) play the deck:
Safety’s Thanos Ongoing
Safety Thanos Ongoing
Created by PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago
2x Collection Level 1-14
4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)
2x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)
3x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
1x Recruit Season
3.7
Cost
3.5
Power
Deck Thoughts: This is one of the best Jean Grey decks in the game. Thanos offers Jean Grey the cheap cards to fill a lane along with the movement to really surprise the opponent. Add in Lockdown cards like Professor X once that lane is filled and you have an extremely powerful core.
Goose on Jean Grey is absolutely phenomenal if it fills your lane and not theirs. Unless an opponent has a Wasp, they just can’t play Hulk anymore. They will be forced to play whatever can go in that lane. Add in that you can still drop a Spectrum to add two power to the whole board and we’re really getting somewhere.
This deck puts out a shocking amount of power across the whole board. Mister Fantastic, Blue Marvel, and Spectrum help the power go wide, while Ant Man and Mojo help you go tall. This is a really fun and very effective deck.
If you don’t have Jeff the Baby Land Shark, play Nightcrawler because the move is important here.
Watch our friend Savage Yeti (Subscribe here!) play the deck:
Mirage Has Arrived
Mirage is a good two-drop. She’s not great, and certainly not best in slot, but she’s good. Here are two decks where she adds something to the list that other cards don’t.
Big Math’s Legion SheNaut
BigMath Legion Shenaut
Created by PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago
4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)
2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)
3x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)
2x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)
1x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
3.3
Cost
5.2
Power
Deck Thoughts: BigMath is a wonderful small content creator who deserves more love. You can show him that love by subscribing here! This is mostly his deck – but I added Mirage for Iceman. The logic of the change is that Mirage should go exceptionally well with Quinjet and Moon Girl. Almost any card with +2 power and -1 cost is going to have some major value.
The core of the deck is Magik into Moon Girl. You then have Legion to protect Limbo so you can skip Turn 6 and play two She-Hulks and The Infinaut to end the game. There’s also Moon Girl (with Quinjet out) that lets you skip Turn 5 and play two She-Hulks and Legion on Turn 6. There are plenty of options to drop crazy power and confuse opponent.
Nebula or Moon Girl can be Iceman and Sentinel just fine here. There’s also an argument to be made for Spider-Ham or Jeff the Baby Land Shark.
My Take on Fazzer’s Fury
Fazzer’s Fury (Glazer Take)
Created by PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago
3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)
1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)
4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)
3x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)
1x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
3
Cost
2.9
Power
Deck Thoughts: Fazzer has created the very best Nick Fury deck in the game, and it’s the perfect home for Mirage. It works great with both Devil Dinosaur and Quinjet while also being a solid hit for Iron Lad.
Otherwise, the deck has two main game plans. You already know how Devil Dinosaur works, and that’s usually the main one. Your hand is full from Agent Coulson and Nick Fury, so Dino is huge. Combine that with the omnipresent Darkhawk package to win games.
The other plan is to get Quinjet out into Agent Coulson or Nick Fury. At that point, you should have plenty of cheap, very high-power cards to mix and match with your Dinosaur and Hawk. Good luck to your opponents trying to play around everything, especially once Mirage has revealed their deck to you.
You can switch Mirage for Jeff the Baby Land Shark or Sentinel if you don’t have her. You need the Darkhawk package. Iron Lad could be Jubilee.
Time To Get Toxic
Andrew Doull’s Re2on4ance
Andrew Doull’s Re2on4ance
Created by PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago
2x Collection Level 1-14
1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)
6x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)
1x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)
2x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
2.9
Cost
3.3
Power
Deck Thoughts: Andrew submitted this deck to us over on Twitter and I absolutely love it.
Iron Lad offers a bit of backup for missing pieces, but the real secret is that this deck feasts on anything not running Killmonger and Cosmo. If no Killmonger, your Adam Warlock and Ebony Maw can draw through your whole deck. Better yet, they can still win the game with either the Spectrum or Hazmat play line.
The last spot in the deck is the second one drop spot. Ghost, Howard the Duck, and Echo all make sense. Heck, you could do worse than just Ant Man. It seems strange, but this deck is extremely powerful in the current meta. Try it!
Watch our friend AZ Snap (Subscribe Here!) play this deck:
Zafety Hazards
ZafetyHazards
Created by PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago
1x Collection Level 1-14
1x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)
1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)
6x 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
3.1
Cost
3.1
Power
Deck Thoughts: SafetyBlade is a genius, and this is his version of Hazmat after the OTA (and his vacation).
This deck is all in on the Hazmat package, running Wong to get more out of Hazmat along with both Absorbing Man and Odin to double down. Magik offers the extra turn needed to combo off, while Luke Cage protects your stuff from both the combo and your own Typhoid Mary. Shang-Chi is for anything too big to Hazmat, while Echo protects your Wong. Nebula is decent power.
The closest thing this deck has to a backup plan is Ironheart, who can spread a ton of power all over the board when utilized in the same way Hazmat is – the only worry is the random spread of that power doesn’t always go in your favor.
You’ll need Zabu for this deck, but not Nebula or, really, Echo. Without Echo, I suggest Invisible Woman. Especially in Conquest, you can quickly figure out if they have Cosmo to alter your combos. Nebula is usually Sunspot, but here, I think Iceman might be better.
Zafety Resonance
ZafetyHazards (Glazer take)
Created by PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago
2x Collection Level 1-14
7x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)
1x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)
2x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)
3.4
Cost
3.8
Power
Deck Thoughts: I really like both decks, so I smashed them together. There’s not much more to say here; this is the least tested deck of the week, and all the play lines are described above. I’ll get back to you as soon as I know if this works!
Miscellaneous Sleepers
These decks just don’t fit anywhere else this week, but all three are worth talking about for different reasons.
Paper’s JeanGoing
Paper’s JeanGoing
Created by PulseGlazer
PulseGlazer, updated 2 months ago