Snap Judgments Presents: PulseGlazer’s Top 10 Decks: What’s Left After Hela

Good morning all! It’s Friday, so let’s do something special! I’m going to spend this article covering the Top 10 decks right now in Marvel Snap. On this site, you get the legendary den’s weekly Tier Lists, which are entirely data-driven. This will not be that. Let’s discuss what that is, but if you’d like a video on this list with full turn-by-turn guides and card replacements…

This Tier List is my opinion based on top meta gameplay. Some viewers will ask, “if these are not top performing meta decks by the data, why should I care about them?” The answer is simple: the majority of decks proliferate downward from the top meta players. Most of the best deck builders are top meta players, and decks at that level are built to counter each other so the meta ends up spiraling downward through the Ladder.

These 10 decks are all Top Tier and presented in no particular order.

Finally, I’m not doing turn-by-turn breakdowns or card replacements for this article. If you’re interested in that (and two bonus decks), be sure to check out the video above!

The Top 10

1. Roram Agamotto Loki

Agamotto is one of the most popular cards ever in Marvel Snap, but even so, it didn’t take long to find his most popular and successful deck. This one was created by #1 player Derek and refined by top player Roram.

The best thing to do with Agamotto so far is to abuse four drops. Agamotto offers two specific ways to do that. The Bolts of Balthakk spell lets you get an extra 4-cost in, and the Images of Ikonn spell pays you off for turning cheaper cards into your powerful fours. Doing that with Galacta can lead to a plus 9 buff on a card, while the same play on Gwenpool is a 12 spread out (plus the extra sixes that you get for creating more of them. Added to that, Ms. Marvel, a Roram innovation, is 15 power herself, and can lead to 45 power across the board relatively easily thanks to images.

Loki was in this deck even before his OTA buff. With so much powerful midrange, playing that for cheaper, especially when you have a good hand and synergy in King Eitri and Quinjet… well, it can be game winning.

This is the class of the meta right now.

2. Cougarrr Negative

Cougarrr is often a top ten player in Snap and is absolutely destroying everyone right now with Mister Negative. This deck became popular to counter Hela, but it’s just so consistent now that it’s still at the top of the game.

Mister Negative puts up more power than anything, and suddenly it’s more successful than ever. The release of Gorr, another lane winner like Iron Man as well as another card to be copied with Mystique (all with no extra work), really pushed Negative to the top. Luckily for the meta, Mobius M. Mobius soon became a meta staple for a bit to keep the Negative decks in check. Well, Mobius does nothing against Hela, so now Mister Negative is back and near the top of the meta.

Mobius M. Mobius is coming back a little currently. It’s not popular, but it’s around… but so? If the opponent has it and you’re negative, just leave. It’d have to be in an absolute ton of games for it to really matter. You can really beat anything here thanks to the Knull inclusion. A quick Shang Chi of a great target and Knull is already a 6-10. Zola that for 6-20, you know the stats of two Infinauts, and any other incidental destroy and this just gets wild.

The real answer to Mister Negative – If you see it, run outside of the most specific of circumstances!

3. Sizer Thanos

After the OTA, #1 player Sizer created a Thanos list that he won 76% with in 30 games. I tried this and won an easy 60% as well. Thanos is back!

Remember how Loki is really good with Eitri because he draws? Well, Thanos has some draw too, and thus those cards go together. Other people know that, and are running Arishem (see below) and Agamotto (see above), so this deck runs Gorgon and Morbius as counters there, while Shang-Chi or Red Guardian take care of anything else silly they do.

We’ve seen a lot of Wiccan in Thanos to great success, but Sizer decided to go with Luna. Luna on turn 3 is just one less usable energy than Wiccan on turn 4 while offering you an earlier, easier ramp option that can get you into a turn 5 (thanks to Time Stone) 12 Power Thanos that can’t be killed (thanks to Space Stone). You get an incidental cheap 9 for playing Thanos’ stones due to Mockingbird, and even some scaling with Gwenpool.

This deck has it all!

4. Sizer Move

Let’s stick with Sizer for a quick moment here. He’s also the game’s best move player and the other deck he’s rocking with right now is move.

Right now, Sizer is doing better with move bounce than standard move, but that’s a specific Sizer thing, and, from my experience, the standard move is better into the meta. Move bounce really struggles with cards like Mobius M. Mobius, Shang-Chi, Juggernaut, Mister Negative, and so on, all popular meta staples, unless you play it at an absolute expert level.

Those cards usually do nothing to the standard move. Alioth and Cosmo just problem solve those decks away, and so long as you can remember – be patient playing off curve, Cloak the right on turn 5, you can play this deck at a top level. I’m over 80% with it.

5. Alliance Lowell

One deck that’s just incredible against move, and really strong into the field, is the perenially underrated Scream. Alliance Lowell put this one together and variations of it permeate highest win rate lists.

There’s not much lest to say about Scream. It’s nearly as powerful as Mister Negative, but less obviously so, so it keeps the high win rate but has extra opportunity for cubes as people don’t run from it. The deck also gets extra advantage out of Cannonball because cards like Stegron and Polaris offer a mini-clog package, leading to Cannonball auto wins. Winds of Watoomb really helps with this too.

Scream is crazy strong and not going anywhere.

6. My Arishem

The OTA almost certainly brought back Arishem by giving it back turn 1 access to Loki, but also, it’s the last place that Doctor Doom 2099 still makes sense right now. Loki on turn 1 in Arishem is the deck’s strongest play, as now you have both energy discount and cheat, and the entire thing feels broken, but let’s focus on Doom 2099.

Doom 2099 was fairly seriously nerfed at this point where it’s only usually worth it if you can get the card out on turn 3. If not, the deck needs a very serious backup plan. Arishem not only gets the card on 3 without any shenanigans, but because of its energy cheat, it has multiple serious backup plans. Whether those plans are Eson or Galacta or just generated tempo, Arishem can still win with Doom 2099 or it can go over the top of opponents in a myriad of ways.

Also, those of you lamenting Doom 2099’s death outside of Arishem, wait two weeks. Come the April Season with Ongoing support galore, the card will be back.

7. DottGeo Bounce

Arishem, Thanos, and Agamotto put Darkhawk in a great place right now. The smallest amount of cards put in the deck -4 for Arishem, still leaves a Darkhawk at a whopping 8 extra power. The problem is, Darkhawk decks aren’t particularly good into anything else.

In order to solve for that, former #1 player DottGeo decided to go with bounce. This bounce package, combined especially with Wiccan, offers an entire other pattern of win condition. Sage and Werewolf By Night are both lane winners, while Rocket Raccoon and Demons aren’t far off with either Black Swan or Wiccan, you’re even able to get those cards to go off while still playing a Darkhawk. This one is a secret meta killer.

Note: I talked about a different Bounce list in the video above. This one was covered last Sunday. Here it is if you want the breakdown.

8. Ika Ongoing

Either classic Discard or the Alex Coccia Bullseye version belongs on this list. The Coccia list spikes higher, but is more draw dependant. It’s easier to Snap with or retreat against. It could easily be here, but classic discard has a slightly higher win rate right now, so here it is.

This is the Dracula style list. It pays off by using that card with (ideally) Apocalypse, but also Scorn to put up massive power. That combo alone is often a lane winner, so the deck is left with numerous other options to win other lanes – from just points from above rate cards like Strong Guy and Colleen to big scalers like Morbius. The beauty is Strong Guy, Morbius, and Proxima Midnight are all a late power spike, which keeps opponents in and steals extra cubes – just remember to keep Morbius and Strong Guy in different lanes.

There’s one other big way to win here – Gambit. His kill just steals games, especially when combined with Grand Master. It’s one of my favorite turn 5 plays in the game.

9. Chamo Cook

The Cook is an old deck created by Derek and Barzy, but it had disappeared from the meta for several seasons. Chamo brought it back

This deck plays a lot of cards for a lot of power in unpredictable places. The key to this is Mysterio, Mockingbird, and Sasquatch. Mysterio and one other card on Turn 5 drops Mockingbird‘s cost to two (with Sam Wilson) and Sasquatch‘s cost to two. That’s 19 points and still leftover energy for another card… but you can do more! Mysterio hit by Gwenpool is like a miniature Doctor Doom and brings more surprise points. If you have any of Kate Bishop‘s arrows out, Mockingbird can go to one or zero, and Sasquatch can be a 1-Cost if you play another 2-Cost + 1-Cost with Mysterio (Kate‘s Arrows, Kitty Pryde).

10. Season Pass Surfer

KMBest brought the highest win rate Silver Surfer list right now to prominence.

Surfer lists seem fairly solved right now. They usually run Hope Summers so that on turn 5, they can play two 3s. They always run Galacta as huge power spike for Brood and Sebastian Shaw. Surfer tops the meta. From there, we run some good utility threes that change from deck to deck, but this one likes Red Guardian, Rocket and Groot, Cassandra Nova, Copycat, and Cosmo. And that’s a deck!

And that, my friends, is the top 10 decks in Marvel Snap! See you Monday here or tomorrow for two videos on the YouTube!