Snap Judgments Presents: PulseGlazer’s Top 10 Decks: The Firehair Shakeup

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 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 +9 power buff on a card, while the same play on Gwenpool is +12 power spread out (plus the extra sixes that you get for creating more of them). Added to that, Ms. Marvel, a Roram innovation, is worth 15 power herself and can lead to 45 power across the board relatively easily thanks to images.

This is the class of the meta right now.

2. Cougarrr Negative

Cougarrr is rank 4 right now and made the majority of his climb with this deck.

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.

Mobius M. Mobius is coming back a little currently. It’s not popular, but it’s around… but who cares? If your opponent has it, just leave. The card would have to be in an absolute ton of games for it to really matter. You can basically beat anything here thanks to the Knull inclusion. A quick Shang-Chi against a great target and Knull already becomes a [6/10]. Arnim Zola that for two [6/20]s (you know, the stats of two copies of The Infinaut), add in any other incidental destroy and this just gets wild.

The real answer to Mister Negative is this: If you see it, run away (outside of the most specific of circumstances)!

3. Crazy Thanos

The video actually talks about a different Thanos list, but Crazy has climbed all the way to rank 5 with this version!

Remember how Loki is really good with King Eitri because of the draw? Well, Thanos has some draw too, and thus those cards work well together. Other people know that and are running Arishem (see below) and Agamotto (see above), so Gorgon is part of the meta. This deck runs Mobius M. Mobius as a counter for that, while Shang-Chi and Red Guardian take care of anything else silly your opponent wants to do.

The list has given up on ramp here, instead just running the best cards in the game. Iron Patriot, Sam Wilson, and Galacta are just the best package, and Agamotto lets you turn Stones into more Galactas (or Thanos or Mockingbird). This is just so strong and consistent.

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 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 list is better into the meta. Move Bounce really struggles with cards like Mobius M. Mobius, Shang-Chi, Juggernaut, 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 deck, though. Alioth and Cosmo just problem-solve those decks away, so long as you can remember to be patient, play off curve, and Cloak the right on Turn 5, you can play this deck at a top level. I’m at an over 80% Win Rate with it.

The innovation here is adding Kraven to the deck. There are usually only three payoffs: Dagger, Human Torch, and Vulture (but Human Torch is less reliable with Killmonger around thanks to Firehair). Kraven gives you an extra scaler, one that competes in size with Dagger and really pushes the deck up another level.

5. Ika Scream

One deck that’s just incredible against Move and really strong into the field is the perennially underrated Scream. Ika had the innovation to add Luke Cage to the list, and it’s one of the higher Win Rate decks in the game.

There’s not much left to say about Scream. It’s nearly as powerful as Mister Negative, but less obviously so, so it keeps the high Win Rate in addition to an extra opportunity for cubes since people don’t run from it. The deck also gets extra advantage out of Cannonball because cards like Polaris offer a mini-clog package, leading to Cannonball auto wins.

Scream is crazy strong and not going anywhere.

6. Top Win Rate Arishem

The OTA almost certainly brought back Arishem by giving it back Turn 1 access to Loki. Outside of that, though, Arishem is just a home for good cards, and even though Loki is good here it is by no means necessary.

There are a few tricks left to it, sure. Quinjet as a near deck-wide discount is nice. Valentina into immediately having the energy to play her card is great, too. Galacta loves coming out on Turn 3 for extra power. Legion can scam a bunch of locations. Mockingbird is often ridiculously cheap.

But what Arishem does best is just have more energy and more unpredictability than anything else. It’s somehow almost fair now, but it’s still great.

7. Sizer Firehair Thors

Sizer is great at building new decks, he just prefers Bounce. His version of the Firehair Thors deck has been the most consistent for me.

The deck either tries to win with Firehair using its main package of The Hood, Iron Patriot, and Misery. A bunch of cheap cards at high power wins games. You can also use Firehair to make Thor and Beta Ray Bill have three triggers each by playing the Hammers and following with Misery on top of them. That gets to nearly insurmountable power on Beta Ray Bill, and is a worthwhile play.

But there’s a problem here: the combo is wildly disruptable. A Magneto, a Juggernaut, an Armor, a Gorgon, a Mobius… all of these can completely ruin you. If you’re in a meta with few counters (or in a few weeks when Firehair isn’t the new hotness), I’m sure the Thors will spike up. This is the best the deck has ever been, but, at least for now, it’s dangerous.

8. Coccia Discard

This is one card off the Day 1 Bullseye deck from Alexander Coccia. Bullseye decks have become insanely consistent. They can win in so many different ways!

First, if they discard Swarm, they have two victory patterns. They can double Bullseye with Frigga or play Bullseye and M.O.D.O.K., and with either of those your Morbius, the Collector, and Miek will all spike in power. That’s hard enough to deal with, but there’s more!

Daken into Frigga into Bullseye with Grand Master on Daken is utterly insane. On the last turn, the opponent can play Daken and trigger Bullseye, which creates two lanes with cards at 32 power.

If you aren’t getting smoked by Mobius M. Mobius every game, I think this is the new Hela.

9. JDMacdonaldinho Sandman

JD Macdonaldinho is a long time Sandman truther. He’s been playing the card with everything from old Storm to Doctor Doom 2099 to this current iteration.

It’s a perfect storm right now for this deck. Gorgon and Mobius counter half the meta, whether that’s Thanos, Arishem, Agamotto, or all the Firehair generation decks. Cap's Shield going to 0-Cost helps bring Ms. Marvel back, and Sandman stops all the end game flood.

The Win Rate on this deck is through the roof. If you miss Doom 2099, play this.

10. SMLZ Surfer

KMBest brought the highest Win Rate Silver Surfer list right now to prominence, but the highest ranked Surfer belongs to SMLZ aka Dr. Shrimp Puerto Rico.

Outside of Scream, this is probably the most underrated deck. It’s able to just run extremely consistent power all across the board, has a tech card for everything, and even a few power spikes with Galacta, Absorbing Man, and Silver Surfer himself.

The other powerful thing Surfer does right now is disguise that it’s Surfer. Almost all of the cards here are just good deck cards. If your opponent doesn’t fully know your Surfer until post-Snap, then you often get extra cubes. Enjoy them before this deck is everywhere.

And that, my friends, is the top 10 decks in Marvel Snap! See you Monday here or later today for a High Voltage video on the YouTube!