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Good morning all! I’m back at Marvel Snap Zone with a deck of the day: a top deck for you to try out! My aim for this article is to get you in and out quickly and give you something new to play every day along with the tools to do well with it. Check out the video for a verbal explanation of this and three other new decks.
Decks with Elixir
So, Elixir is decent. He’s not good, and not build around, but he’s a decent support piece in quite a few decks, working reasonably well with Cassandra Nova/Misery decks and Arnim Zola with any deck that ramps. In these decks, he offers a fundamentally irreplacable utility – a 3x trigger Cassandra Nova is a lane winner, and a Zola’d card in all three lanes. It’s solid tech against an early Shang-Chi, but really great against Negasonic Teenage Warhead, who’s in every Silver Surfer deck lately.
Don’t rush to go out to buy this card – it’s clunky and hard to use, but it was being compared to Bruce Banner or on release Daken. It’s better than those by a lot, and while I don’t expect it to be meta, I do think it’s pretty good in the right homes.
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Our friend Bit Twiddle came up with an On Reveal variation of Elixir. Elixir isn’t important here, but he offers some extra plays with Arnim Zola and counterplay against tech cards.
The deck is doing simple things – it wants to go Black Panther into Arnim Zola or White Tiger into Odin, ideally with either on Wong. The trick here is that we’re trying to take these actions a turn ahead of level, and using Surge and Luna Snow allows us to access those plays. That’s where Elixir fits, as a Zola on 5 means getting back an extra copy with Elixir on 6… or that trigger being copied by an on-board Firehair.
The other key plays are Cassandra Nova and Sage, both cards that scale up. Cassandra on curve is big against Thanos, weakening their board while giving you a spot to compete in. Against other decks she’s less great, but Thanos is around 25% of games. Sage is an end game fakeout play. With Surge or Luna, you can drop a turn 6 Wong and Sage, suddenly going huge and winning lanes.
Finally, this is an amazing deck to learn to Snap and retreat. You can aggressively Snap your combos and if they Snap back, you’re forced to think critically about why. Undo End Turn, and think about how they’re countering you. If you can stop it (the aforementioned Sage/Wong, a surpise Tiger or Odin, etc.), you can stay and win 8, and if not, you can still retreat for two. It’s a truly great start to improving at Snap’s key mechanic.
Card Replacements
- Bit Twiddle
- Needs: Surge, Cassandra Nova, Sage, Luna
- Firehair, Elixir -> Ravonna, Echo
- Grandmaster -> Ghost-Spider
Turn by Turn
- 9-1 +13 cubes and Bit went 6-1 -> 15-2 -> 88%
- Turn 1: Pass
- Turn 2: Surge > Firehair
- Turn 3: Cass or Luna
- Turn 4: Wong… or Panther/White Tiger
- Turn 5: Panther or Tiger… or Zola/Odin on them
- Turn 6: Zola/Odin or if you Zola’d Sage+Elixir
Thanos for stopping by! I’ll be streaming every Elixir deck I can find tonight at Twitch.tv/PulseGlazer!
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