Good morning all! Most days, we cover a deck of the day, but since it’s the last day of March, I thought why not do something a bit different – it’s time for our card of the month! Have no fear though, if you want some new decks for today, check the video below for four great ones:
Card of the Month: Scream
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In a month with a tumultuous meta, Scream has remained a consistent card at the top, posting some of the highest play rates among cards that go in specific decks while also being the top Win Rate card throughout the season.
Scream‘s power was first noted months ago around a week after her release. At that time, we had Glenn Jones on the podcast, and he told us that Scream had a similar on play Win Rate to Mister Negative. Obviously, playing Negative is a huge spike, and Scream having a similar power rate speaks extremely well of the card; but, notably, Negative decks fall apart without Mister Negative, and Scream decks without Scream are weaker, but still functional.
Scream maintained meta dominance until she took a hit to her power—going from a [2/3] to a [2/2]—and lost her ability to still gain power when Luke Cage was on the board. The Luke issue may matter in the coming Ongoing themed season What If…? with Captain Carter, but over this past month Luke Cage was a rare sighting, which lead to Scream once again shaping the meta.
In Marvel Snap, there are two major forces that control the weekly meta: the OTA and the newest card. Week 1 of this season saw the release of Agamotto and Eson. As everyone tested Agamotto, Scream became a major home for the new card since it’s able to leverage his Winds of Watoomb spell. While Agamotto decks ended up not being Scream‘s best home, she was a major meta force for that whole week.
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The next week brought the release of Starbrand and an OTA that basically took Skaar decks out of the meta and totally neutered Hela—the only deck that was really going over the top of Scream effectively. As everyone tried Starbrand, Scream‘s disruption proved key, as moving the card away from Enchantress or taking ten power cards down to eight can really disrupt their synergies. The tech card of choice from here on was also Shang-Chi; power must be controlled, after all. Unfortunately for Shang, Scream decks offer no targets, which lets the card continue to dominate.
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Firehair week was another major shift, as everyone expected that card to take over the meta. All it did, however, was push a ton of Scream players into the top 20. The standard list was able to basically ignore Firehair‘s presence, but this is really the week that made Scream the card of the month. With Firehair everywhere, not only did the main Scream list dominate, but the deck was also able to adjust to farm the meta for truly absurd Win Rates. Furthermore, two of Scream‘s major competitors in this category were nerfed this week (more on that later).
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Finally, for Khonshu week, Scream should have fallen off due to its aforementioned weakness to Discard. The issue was that Scream decks are fully customizable for the meta. They’re have Mister Negative-like power, yes, but they don’t need to go all in on the titular card, and thus we got builds teched out to completely roll the new Khonshu-heavy meta.
But Scream is not the absolute best card with no other contenders.
First, we have Shang-Chi. This meta staple is the card the entire game is built around, but he’s not the best and his Win Rate is never actually very high. He’s strong and important, but that’s not the same thing as best.
Galacta and Iron Patriot were major contenders, but not only do their decks tend to not perform quite as well as Scream, but they were each nerfed during the month. They’re still top cards, but just barely off this list.
The real contenders are Rocket and Groot and Sam Wilson; both are stellar cards. Sam in particular has an insanely high play rate—including being a part of every major Scream deck. I wouldn’t argue against anyone putting either of these as the card of the month, but even though Sam Wilson drives consistency and helps the Win Rate of his decks, Scream straight up wins games, and her Win Rate goes higher the further up into Infinite you go. At the end of the day, both are good choices, but I’ll take the upside of the latter.
At a brief glance, 6 of the top 20 players on the Infinite Leaderboard are or have spent a significant part of this season playing Scream. That, in addition to everything else, is why Scream is my card of the month for March 2025.
And, of course, there’s an extra Scream deck for you in today’s video.
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