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 discusses potential nerfs and buffs with Bootman and Combat!), 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.

Remember: Each deck title will take you to a video explanation of the deck, so don’t be shy – check them out!

Loki Is The Meta

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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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Loki is officially just completely great, and it’s in numerous top decks as either a package or a game plan. He’s the most impactful release since High Evolutionary, even going as far as to edge out the utterly dominant Legion.

My Infinite Loki Galactus by SafetyBlade

11. Lokie Season Infinite (Safety’s Loki Galactus)

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 8 months ago

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1x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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

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Deck Thoughts: Safety was the first and only player I know of who took a look at Loki and immediately knew he was great. He skipped Go and did not collect $200 on his way to Infinite with a deck we covered last week, and, not satisfied, basically invented Loki as a package later in the week with this deck.

This is usually a Galactus deck. Nebula gets opponents to play in her lane, leaving lots of space for Galactus to do his thing. Electro causes a Hobgoblin, Galactus, Death play line to be quite effective, but if you have Alioth, the purple cloud is a clean replacement. It’s probably better than Death – Alioth just wasn’t out yet when I hit Infinite with this. Alioth is especially nice with Professor X given that it’s a whole extra win condition; win a Professor X lane then let Alioth win another.

So why Loki? Well, sometimes Squirrels come out early, or your opponent is going off and you realize you can’t Galactus. In those cases, instead of an uphill battle, just play their deck but one cost cheaper.

You’re going to need Loki and Galactus here. You can try to replace Jeff the Baby Land Shark with Nightcrawler, but that’s way worse with Professor X. Nebula can be Sunspot, but, again, worse. Snowguard is phenomenal for Loki in particular, but it can be Agent 13.

If you want a turn-by-turn on how to play the deck, check the video linked in the title.

Devilish Quintheft

Devilish Quintheft 62.6 %

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 8 months ago

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2x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Deck Thoughts: This one is standard Loki with a twist, as my friend Devilish cruised to Infinite by surrounding Loki with two powerful cards: Nakia and Leader. Nakia giving your hand of cheaper cards an extra power is insanely strong and a great innovation, but it’s nothing compared to how good Leader is right now. With priority, Leader isn’t just their best play plus two power. He’s taking Alioth and eating their copy of the card.

The remainder of the deck is traditional Loki good stuff cards. We have Quinjet to make our generated cards cheaper, The Collector to get big, and then a whole bunch of card generation.

Outside of Loki, this deck is all Series 3!

If you want a turn-by-turn on how to play the deck, check the video linked in the title.

DMoney Loki Alioth

DMoney Lokioth

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 7 months ago

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3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Deck Thoughts: As people build more and more against Loki, it’s more often correct to play your own generated cards instead of using Loki to play those of the opponent. That’s not to say Loki isn’t crazy powerful, but a hand of Discard cards mid-game is often worse than Scarlet Witch and Snowguard controlling locations and surprising Nick Fury or Agent Coulson cards.

When this occurs, DMoney, one of the game’s very best players and most original deck builders, had a similar idea to Devilish – add a top end to reward you in the games where you don’t play Loki. In this case, that card is Alioth since it gives you extra play if your opponent is doing something asymmetrical, like Darkhawk.

If you don’t have Alioth, Leader does a good enough impression here. The other high-series cards are Mirage, which can easily be Sentinel, and Snowguard, which can probably be Iceman (but it’s a major drop-off).

If you want a turn-by-turn on how to play the deck, check the video linked in the title.

Alioth is a MEAN Cloud

Loki and Alioth releasing back-to-back certainly was a choice. Without Loki as a Season Pass card, we’d be arguing about Alioth as THE broken thing in the game – especially for the return of Galactus. Don’t sleep on the cloud!

Variants

Alioth

On Reveal: Remove the text from all unrevealed enemy cards here.

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

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Lamby Ramp

Lamby Ramp

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 7 months ago

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1x Collection Level 1-14

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4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Deck Thoughts: The meta ramp deck of the past few seasons (which was really a Sandman deck) has changed lanes in the hands of the best player in the game.

Gone from the deck is Sandman, as the Galactus game plan has become more consistent thanks to both the meta evolution and the power of Alioth after Galactus. It’s essentially an auto-win if you are ahead. The rest of the deck is basically about Odin doubling Leader or Doctor Doom. Those still work, and they win plenty of games of Marvel Snap.

Wait, this just in… Alioth on Turn 5 and Odin on Turn 6 works, too. Yeesh.

Iron Lad is pretty great here, but it can be replaced by Sandman to give you a different game plan. You need Alioth and Galactus. Nebula is awesome with Galactus but can be Sunspot, while Jeff the Baby Land Shark would be either Psylocke if you added Sandman or Daredevil if not.

You know the drill – turn by turn in the link above.

Peaceful Thanos

Peaceful Alioth Thanos

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 8 months ago

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Deck Thoughts: Thanos lockdown, a long time meta staple, has been knocked off its lofty perch by the Spider-Man redesign. But, thanks to Alioth, it’s back on the rise.

The strategy here is to use Psylocke or the Time Stone to get off an early Professor X. If you can get that play to win a lane, pile up power in another lane and then Alioth to win.

As for the rest of the cards: Jeff the Baby Land Shark and Klaw give you extra tools to win with Professor X. Armor gives you some play against Destroy or opposing Alioths. Iron Man, Onslaught, and Devil Dinosaur give you non-Alioth ways to win that extra lane.

Fair warning – this one is very fragile if it doesn’t ramp into a 5-Cost.

Jeff can be Daredevil, but given that you want to play Professor X on Turn 4, that’s not ideal. Alioth is pretty key to the deck at this point.

Check the turn-by-turn in the linked video.

Watch PeacefulSea crush with the deck here:

W MoveWave Alioth

W MoveWave Alioth

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 7 months ago

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1x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Deck Thoughts: Move spent quite a while as the meta deck, but it was chased off first by the BroodMe deck (given the meta evolution, was the Absorbing Man nerf premature?) and later the prevalence of Loki, which loved to play your own high stat cards against you on the cheap.

As he often does, W found the solution. Using the SafetyBlade concept of MoveWave (it was around, but this version with Wave in this shell was popularized by Safety), we can counter all the Lokis running around. Unless they go wide on Turn 5, you are just too far ahead for them to come back with one card on Turn 6. But you also get so tall in one lane that it doesn’t always matter if you Wave. When Wave misses, Alioth making one lane belong to only you is incredible.

The rest of the deck plays like the classic move list. Grow a big Kraven with your move cards and enjoy the great stats for cost of Silk, Spider-Man, Miles Morales, and the rest. The other spice here is Iron Lad, although Snowguard is close behind (I’m starting to think she’s just right in most decks). Iron Lad gives you so many incredible hits. Even if it’s just an extra Jeff or Nightcrawler, that’s amazing at his power, while Alioth, Wave, or Doctor Doom can be backbreaking.

You also have maybe the best Galactus match-up in the game with Aero in the deck.

Iron Lad can be America Chavez, I guess, as much of what he does is consistency. Missing Snowguard hurts the curve badly, but she could be Iceman or Angela. You need Jeff the Baby Land Shark and Silk at this point. Alioth is okay as Leader.

If you want a turn-by-turn on how to play the deck, check the video linked in the title.

Discard is Real

Variants

Silver Samurai

On Reveal: Each player discards the lowest-Power card from their hand.

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

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Variants

Apocalypse

When you discard this, put it back with +4 Power.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Two flavors of Discard are really coming into their own in the meta. They can struggle into Apocalypse, but if you can untie that knot, they’re good into basically everything else we’ve talked about so far.

W Discard

W Discard 2

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 7 months ago

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Deck Thoughts: There’s another W Discard in the video, but this version is my personal favorite.

This deck can put a ton of power out in unexpected and safe ways. It obviously has standard discard – it can play Nebula, Morbius, Daken, Dracula, MODOK, and then drop America Chavez and Swarms to let Dracula get rid of Apocalypse. That wins plenty of games, as it almost always does.

But it can also go Nebula into Morbius into Daken and Absorbing Man. Then Dracula and MODOK on Turn 5 and Turn 6 give a massive power spike as Morbius, Daken, and Dracula all explode in power. You can also play a Zabu into Silver Samurai and Absorbing Man to wreck the opponent’s hand. There are so many great plays and ways to win here. Discard is real.

KrakenNull’s Jund

KrakenNull Jund

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 8 months ago

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1x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Deck Thoughts: KrakenNull is one of the most underrated deck builders in the game, as she shows yet again with this awesome brew.

Just like we almost never have a week without Thanos, we rarely go long without Darkhawk being on this list of Sleeper Decks. The Darkhawk package here is complemented by a discard package to both disrupt your opponent and put out shocking amounts of power.

There are like seven versions of this play line, but Korg/Snowguard into Zabu can lead into Rockslide, Iron Lad, or, best of all, Silver Samurai to discard Darkhawk or Iron Man. Play out the game developing your board until Turn 6 when you can drop either Ghost Rider and Darkhawk or Ghost Rider (for Darkhawk or Iron Man), Stature, and Shadow King (this is my personal favorite). It’s awesome, even if it takes some learning to get good with it.

You’ll need the Darkhawk package, including Zabu to play this. Snowguard is hugely important because, without her, you really lack an early game when you don’t see Zabu. The deck is built for Silver Samurai and Stature, too. Sorry.

Miscellaneous

Here are a few more great decks that didn’t fit into the above categories.

Keen Koala’s Infinite Quake for September

Keen Koala’s Infinite Quake in September

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 8 months ago

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Deck Builder: Keen Koala hits Infinite every month with a Quake deck and, well, here’s this month’s version.

The plan is, as always, to Storm on Turn 3 and then Quake plus another 2-Cost on Turn 4 to steal a lane. This version adds extra combos like Wave and Goose to shut an opponent out of a lane on the last turn or Kraven and Silk to scale power. Invisible Woman is a pretty great problem solver who shouldn’t have disappeared from the meta, either, as Shuri Kitty decks die pretty hard to a Killmonger behind Invisible Woman (or the Wave Goose combo), and an Invisible Woman plus Shang-Chi on Turn 6 often wrecks decks like Destroy who just really want that one unbeatable lane.

As always, this is a deck that takes practice and is quite expensive. You need Silk and Jeff the Baby Land Shark, but Legion can be Vision or Aero reasonably well.

For turn-by-turn, again, check the video.

Glenn Jones’ Hit-Monkey

Glenn Jones Infinite Deck

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 8 months ago

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4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

6x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

2x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

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Deck Thoughts: Last this week, we have the deck Marvel Snap’s principal developer used to hit Infinite. This is almost a bounce-less bounce deck, as it wants to use a last-turn Hit Monkey explosion to steal cubes by playing the Monkey, two or three 0-Cost cards (Wasp, Yellowjacket, Mjolnir) all summoned by a Turn 5 Jane Foster Mighty Thor, along with Kitty Pryde. That’s an absolutely insane power spike – a 16-Power Hit Monkey!

The deck isn’t dead when everything doesn’t come together, though. We still have the bounce-less bounce shell. Angela and Bishop get big thanks to Kitty Pryde, and a [3/10] Thor can be lane-winning in and of itself.

This deck dies horribly to Wave, but if your meta is light on Wave, go for it! It’s very good and super fun. It’s also all Series 3 cards.

Wrap Up

Thanks for reading! Check back all next week so much more great content from Marvel Snap Zone!