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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.
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Decks with Goliath
Goliath isn’t in the #1 ranked deck, but since today is his last full day in Spotlights, we need to discuss him anyway.
Goliath is an absolute staple of Ongoing decks. It’s hard to imagine ever building another Ongoing deck without him. That’s easy, right? You should obviously just get him if he’s such a major staple.
Well, not so fast. Ongoing decks are quite good right now – there are the Anti-Venom Moonstone versions, of course, and the Doom 2099 decks, but the one that’s taken them all out is Thanos, since the stones build in four extra Ongoing cards to buff Goliath and be buffed by Blue Marvel and Spectrum. If you want access to those decks, you’re going to need Goliath.
Ongoing, however, is not always meta. Much like the other starter decks, it goes through ebbs and flows in both popularity and usefulness. Right now, it’s at an all-time high, and if you want to play it, you absolutely need Goliath. Goliath’s presence being only in these decks, however, means that when Ongoing isn’t meta, Goliath will utterly disappear. That’s something you’re going to have to measure the value of.
To be clear, I think Goliath is still probably worth it, but that’s a fairly major caveat to be aware of. Also, if possible, use Tokens until the new system if you only need one card and use keys if you need two or more.
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Xunzzz is back! This Asia server player first hit #1 on the Infinite Leaderboard in December of 2023 as a 14-year-old. Then, as a 15-year-old, he repeated the feat in July of 2024. Now 16, he’s going for his third ever #1 finish. He’d be the first player other than Sizer to get to three #1 finishes.
Xunzzz is also free to play – he gets the new cards at the start of the next season with careful hoarding and planning. For that reason, it’s no surprise to see his #1 placement be with an older deck. Burr has been telling me for seasons now that this deck is still the best, and if his multiple top 10 finishes weren’t enough to prove it, Xunzzz #1 surely is.
This deck uses the power setting of Bast and Agent Venom to mitigate the negatives of running cheap, low-power cards. The Hood, Sage, Havok, Cassandra Nova, and Thena are all balanced by having low base power, but when you start any of them with three, the deck suddenly can match many of the strongest decks in the game.
Because the deck is trying to gain power by scaling up small threats, it has the ability to run effective tech for the meta. Previously, we’ve seen Mobius M Mobius and Luke Cage in the list. Currently, Shuri Enjoyer is top 30 running Super Skrull. But Xunzzz went with the base tech package. U.S. Agent stops big threats, weakening cards like Iron Man or the new Captain Carter. Red Guardian stops threats similarly, not letting them amplify the board, but hitting some different targets like Madame Web. And Cosmo shuts down annoying opponent combos, giving you a way to, with priority, lock down a Silver Surfer or Spectrum play.
This deck isn’t easy to play, but it all sings together and is still one of the very strongest decks in Marvel Snap.
Card Replacements
- Twitter.com/Xunzzz0122
- Needs: Thena, Agent Venom
- Nico -> Warlock
- U.S. Agent -> Gorgon, Quake
- Sage -> Wolfsbane, Juggernaut
- Red Guardian, Cass -> Super-Skrull, Mobius, Juggernaut
Turn by Turn
- Turn 1: Kitty… Bast if Hood+other targets
- Turn 2: Agent Venom > Bast = Thena > U.S. Agent
- Turn 3: 1+Thena or Cass
- Turn 4: Cass+1 or Havok + 2
- Turn 5: Sage/RG + 1 or 2
- Turn 6: Sage/Red Guardian/Cosmo + 1 or 2
We’ll be back with Kahhori decks in an article and on Stream tomorrow!
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