Snap Judgments Deck of the Day: Prodigy Day 1!

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.

NOTE: There are three other Esme Cuckoo decks in the video, and at daily reset, a Surge video will go up on the same YouTube Channel that will have four decks for her.

Variants

Prodigy

On Reveal: If this is in the back row, copy the text of the card in front of it.

Series 5

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There’s a case for Prodigy being too clunky to work. The front row/back row mechanic has proven clunky in the past, and he’s a 3-Cost card that needs to be played late in the game. Those two situations are going to mean there are games where he’s a nearly dead card – Central Park seems particularly bad for him.

However, the potential is there for this to be card of the month. It shouldn’t be terribly difficult to get him played behind Galacta, Gwenpool, or Elsa Bloodstone. In any of those situations, he’s playing for a bunch of extra power, as then his 3-Cost means he can be played with other cards. I’m thinking of him as a cheaper, but harder-to-use Images of Ikkon for that style of deck, and that spell made Agamotto, an otherwise clunky card, one of the best in the meta for a full month.

My expectation is that Prodigy or Surge is the card of the month – I don’t have much hope for the next two weeks’ cards – and while Surge has proven to be a great consistency piece, Prodigy seems like a monster scaler.

Coo and Worst – Return of the Passler

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This deck is only a theorycraft in that it hasn’t been tested with the card Prodigy. Coougarrr made this list and it was edited by KM Worst, who took it to Rank 16 on the Infinite Leaderboard.

Agamotto and Infinity Ultron have a secretly hilarious crossover in this deck – the Quinjet. Quinjet gives you early access to both Images of Ikonn and Bolts of Balthakk, which allow for early and powerful plays of Infinity Ultron and combos of his stones. These stones still need work, but when you have four of them for 2-Cost (Quinjet), things really start to come together.

Of course, we aren’t stuck with using Infinity Ultron only to win. Galacta and Gwenpool remain exceedingly powerful and hard to predict, particularly when combined with Images and, now, Prodigy. Surge and Luna Snow give an extra chance to get cards out early, and the deck being bigger feels much better when the Quinjet makes them cheaper and King Eitri draws for you.

Here are some of the craziest combos pulled off with this deck!

1. Quin —> Balthakk —> IU —> 2 Stones 
2. Quin —> whatever —> Luna —> IU —-> Mind Stone/Gwen / Balthakk
3. Quin —> whatever —> Luna —> IU —-> icon IU to fill hand with 2 cost stones

Card Replacements

1. Twitch.tv/Coougarrr w/ help from KM Worst
2. Needs: Galacta, Agamotto, Sam Wilson, Surge
3. Luna needed if IU, but if not IU go Iron Man and Esme.
4. If no Luna, go Shang and Zabu.
5. Eitri, IP -> Zabu, Kate
6. Prodigy has been Red Guardian and can be Rogue

Turn by Turn

1. Turn 1: Eitri or Quinjet depending on hand
2. Turn 2: Balthaak > Surge = Sam > IP
3. Turn 3: Ultron/Galacta/Gwenpool > Luna
4. Turn 4: Balthaak or Galacta/Gwenpool/Ultron 
5. Turn 5: Ikonn/Balthaak or the turn 4 plays after Balthaak… Prodigy on Galacta or Gwenpool
6. Turn 6: Stones/Jugg

I should be on Stream tonight at around 8:00pm EST, so stop by for new card testing!