Hi, it’s been a minute! 👋 I ended up sick enough last week to miss an installment of Snapalytics. It’s good to be back!

This week, a look at the most played archetypes and the off-archetype cards that help them out the most.

Looking to add a little spice to a classic deck you can’t get enough of? Read on to discover which card you could swap in. Maybe you prefer to play off-meta to employ the element of surprise? Maybe the twist that’ll inspire your next deck is waiting for you below.

The Dataset

The following analysis covers the last week of ranked matches recorded by our Marvel Snap Tracker.

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I included matches from players at Rank 60+ and Collection Level 994+. The data was divided into two groups by rank, 60–99 and 100+. For context, CL 994 is when you open your first Collector’s Reserve, at which point you’re roughly one-third of the way through completing your Series 3 collection.

Due to the nature of this analysis, only decks with a detected archetype were included. Ooh, let me explain archetype detection!

Archetypes are defined and named automatically. It’s a super cool system developed by our lead developer, Razviar (who does tons behind the scenes, including developing our tracker). On a weekly basis, the existing archetype definitions are thrown out and created anew. Without getting too complicated, every single deck recently observed by our tracker gets analyzed against the rest to identify trends. With this information, archetypes are defined by cards that frequently appear together.

Within the dataset being analyzed in this article, roughly 60% of matches were played with a deck that was sorted into an archetype. It would be a huge undertaking to determine if that 60% is a good number, but rest assured it shouldn’t be anywhere near 100% — there are plenty of people playing hybrid or unique decks that have usages too low to qualify as an archetype.

Odd Ducks

What follows are this week’s archetypes sorted by usage, highest to lowest. With each, the cards that are rarely played with that archetype but help it most.

To qualify as “rarely played”, a card must be in deck for less than 30% of a given archetype’s matches. A card must also have been in deck for at least 1% or 20 of the archetype’s matches (whichever is higher) in order to mitigate the luck factor.

In order to determine which cards help an archetype most, I calculated win rate delta. This describes how much higher an archetype’s win rate is when a card is included in the deck versus when it is not. Cube rate delta represents the same difference for cube rate.

Only cards with a positive impact were included.

After taking all these qualifications into account, some archetypes did not have enough qualifying cards to fill (or even start) a top 10 list.

I’ll be covering the top 22 archetypes for rank 60–99, but only the top 11 for rank 100+. We’re early in the season, so even with the error in rank drops this season, the volume of matches recorded at Infinite rank is fairly low.

1. Lockdown High

Rank 60–99

Matches: 42,070

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Spider-Woman	1.82%	Jessica Jones	0.140
2	Shocker	1.36%	Spider-Woman	0.125
3	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	0.89%	Daredevil	0.098
4	Jessica Jones	0.32%	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	0.064
5	Scorpion	0.32%	America Chavez	0.063
6	Rogue	0.13%	Shocker	0.030
7	Armor	0.07%	Juggernaut	0.026
8	—	—	—	—
9	—	—	—	—
10	—	—	—	—

Jessica Jones usage in the archetype is low (1.11%). That’s still a respectable 468 matches thanks to the popularity of the archetype. ’s usage is quite a bit higher, at 6.34%.

Their numbers are nothing to scoff at! Increasing your cube rate by 0.1 is huge — granting you an extra rank for every 10 matches you play.

Rank 100+

Matches: 10,349

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	6.24%	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	0.286
2	Super-Skrull	4.92%	Hazmat	0.282
3	Hazmat	4.35%	She-Hulk	0.192
4	Shocker	2.89%	Shocker	0.192
5	Shang-Chi	2.62%	Cosmo	0.161
6	Scorpion	2.52%	Rogue	0.157
7	Cosmo	2.51%	Scorpion	0.153
8	She-Hulk	2.51%	Shang-Chi	0.146
9	Moon Girl	2.29%	Super-Skrull	0.145
10	Lockjaw	2.24%	Moon Girl	0.127

In Infinite, Jeff represents a massive boost to the Lockdown High archetype. Switching to Infinite means we’re looking at a quarter as many games, but Jeff’s numbers are actually extremely respectable — with 19.59% usage representing over 2,000 matches.

2. Sera Control

Rank 60–99

Matches: 16,533

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Star-Lord	5.85%	Star-Lord	0.256
2	Doctor Doom	3.81%	Doctor Doom	0.167
3	Green Goblin	1.58%	Ghost-Spider	0.147
4	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	1.17%	Rogue	0.134
5	Ghost-Spider	0.95%	Carnage	0.119
6	Maximus	0.74%	Maximus	0.111
7	Nebula	0.63%	Dagger	0.089
8	Typhoid Mary	0.29%	Magik	0.054
9	Polaris	0.24%	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	0.027
10	Hazmat	0.19%	Green Goblin	0.013

You see how much of a popularity gap there is between the two most popular archetypes over this past week? Here’s an opportunity to advise taking all this data with an additional grain of salt than usual. ’s technically-qualifying usage in Sera Control sits at 1.06% (175 matches) versus ’s 11.98% (1981 matches).

I could raise the minimum requirements, but the primary goal of this article is deck inspiration. To help you find a new twist for your favorite deck. Or maybe you see something like “Star-Lord in Sera Control” and that concept alone is enough to inspire an entire deck for you. Similarly, I could include the in-archetype usage in the tables, but I think it would add a lot of complication for little value.

Hazmat and Typhoid Mary are the most popular Sera Control inclusions in the table above. That’d be surprising, except Luke Cage has been included in Sera Control at a very high rate (31.26%) in response to the popularity of High Evolutionary’s affliction package.

Psst! If you’re thinking about throwing Star-Lord in your Sera Control deck, you should also consider the newly-buffed Medusa.

Rank 100+

Matches: 3,541

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Aero	7.26%	Aero	0.523
2	Typhoid Mary	4.91%	Doctor Doom	0.193
3	Maximus	4.00%	Polaris	0.176
4	Hazmat	3.19%	Maximus	0.118
5	Doctor Doom	3.00%	Beast	0.096
6	Rockslide	2.80%	Hazmat	0.066
7	Bast	1.87%	Star-Lord	0.061
8	Beast	1.18%	Bast	0.020
9	Carnage	1.00%	Typhoid Mary	0.016
10	Polaris	0.58%	—	—

Aero’s numbers are certainly inflated by the small sample size. What should you do with the data then? Her numbers above are ridiculously good. I’d read it as likely Aero is a beneficial addition to Sera Control in Infinite… but I’d also expect a much smaller bump than half a cube per game!

Say you’re picking between Typhoid Mary and Aero. In this specific case, Mary’s usage is almost six times that of Aero’s. To me, that makes Mary’s win rate more impressive than Aero’s, even though it’s slightly lower. Despite Aero’s inflated numbers, the apparent difference in win rate is small — 2.35%! Player skill could easily cover that gap. They’re really different cards and you shouldn’t ignore personal factors when deciding. Maybe Aero just clicks with you. Maybe you have more experience with Typhoid Mary. Maybe you have an awesome Aero variant. Maybe you really like Luke Cage and Hazmat, a little package that partners great with Typhoid Mary!

By the way, the cube rate list above is our first that just doesn’t have enough qualifying cards to fill the list. The gaps will be represented with dashes.

3. Knull Galactus

Rank 60–99

Matches: 17,176

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Wasp	2.07%	Lizard	0.267
2	Lizard	2.01%	Rocket Raccoon	0.238
3	Shocker	1.92%	Iron Lad	0.163
4	Hulk	1.55%	Nebula	0.108
5	Hobgoblin	1.53%	Hobgoblin	0.101
6	Howard the Duck	1.33%	Howard the Duck	0.058
7	Iron Lad	0.95%	Daredevil	0.052
8	Nebula	0.90%	Shocker	0.050
9	Daredevil	0.73%	Cloak	0.034
10	High Evolutionary	0.64%	Venom	0.029

Is Iron Lad worth 6,000 tokens? He is if you’re a Galactus fan! Although, maybe you should wait and see if Galactus survives the impending patch expected on June 13th. 😅

Apparently, same with Howard — which is great. What can I say? I love the duck! 🤷‍♀️ Can’t say I expected him to show up so high on any of these lists, though! Howard’s 1.69% usage in Knull Galactus represents 291 games, which is enough that I’d consider his stats reliable enough to be meaningful!

Rank 100+

Matches: 2,560

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Nebula	10.07%	Hazmat	0.311
2	Venom	4.95%	Scarlet Witch	0.311
3	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	4.14%	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	0.236
4	Green Goblin	3.72%	Kitty Pryde	0.223
5	Sera	3.13%	Nebula	0.220
6	Iron Lad	1.19%	Kang	0.201
7	Wasp	1.00%	Iron Lad	0.161
8	Negasonic Teenage Warhead	0.34%	Psylocke	0.149
9	Howard the Duck	0.28%	Hobgoblin	0.067
10	—	—	Howard the Duck	0.058

I find the differences between the rank 60–99 list and rank 100+ list for the same archetype fascinating, if not especially valuable (because Infinite is so much less competitive). Wasp (probably Evolved Wasp) Hobgoblin, Nebula, Iron Lad, and Howard match between the lists. Otherwise, they’re so different!

This’ll be the last archetype with my commentary. Enjoy the rest! I’ll catch you at the #Conclusion. ☺️

4. High Lockjaw

Rank 60–99

Matches: 13,133

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Nightcrawler	5.84%	Nightcrawler	0.511
2	Shang-Chi	4.68%	Killmonger	0.225
3	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	4.66%	Shang-Chi	0.200
4	Killmonger	4.49%	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	0.134
5	Spider-Man	3.26%	Magneto	0.100
6	Magneto	2.95%	Iron Lad	0.027
7	Iron Lad	1.74%	—	—
8	Luke Cage	0.59%	—	—
9	The Thing	0.17%	—	—
10	Sunspot	0.13%	—	—

Rank 100+

Matches: 3,899

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	The Thing	6.98%	Luke Cage	0.768
2	Luke Cage	6.98%	Iceman	0.485
3	Abomination	5.36%	The Thing	0.302
4	Leech	5.25%	Abomination	0.243
5	Vision	4.10%	Leech	0.181
6	Iceman	3.81%	Giganto	0.123
7	Giganto	2.16%	Vision	0.118
8	Misty Knight	0.82%	Wave	0.101
9	Wave	0.32%	Magneto	0.045
10	—	—	Death	0.034

5. MODOK Discard

Rank 60–99

Matches: 12,585

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Jubilee	5.33%	Nakia	0.468
2	Cosmo	3.14%	Stature	0.364
3	Moon Knight	2.52%	Cosmo	0.162
4	Iceman	2.16%	Jubilee	0.162
5	Mystique	1.99%	Captain Marvel	0.156
6	The Collector	1.51%	Iceman	0.128
7	Gambit	1.19%	Moon Knight	0.103
8	Agent Coulson	1.02%	Blade	0.083
9	Nakia	0.98%	Sunspot	0.057
10	Stature	0.37%	Zabu	0.040

Rank 100+

Matches: 3,336

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Shang-Chi	11.19%	Iron Lad	0.493
2	Iron Lad	8.06%	Shang-Chi	0.485
3	Cosmo	4.32%	Hulk	0.339
4	Hulk	4.23%	Cosmo	0.259
5	The Collector	1.45%	The Collector	0.055
6	Rhino	0.12%	Magneto	0.045
7	Aero	0.12%	Blade	0.032
8	—	—	Wong	0.029
9	—	—	Ghost Rider	0.018
10	—	—	Rhino	0.013

6. Kitty Bounce

Rank 60–99

Matches: 9,814

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Miles Morales	5.23%	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	0.730
2	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	4.53%	Misty Knight	0.449
3	Shocker	3.92%	Vulture	0.429
4	Sunspot	3.84%	Shocker	0.398
5	Darkhawk	3.53%	High Evolutionary	0.339
6	Vulture	3.05%	Enchantress	0.306
7	High Evolutionary	2.85%	Nightcrawler	0.237
8	Nebula	2.66%	Ghost-Spider	0.205
9	She-Hulk	2.52%	Nebula	0.176
10	Wolfsbane	2.27%	Kraven	0.175

Rank 100+

Matches: 3,107

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Shuri	12.63%	Shuri	1.208
2	Sera	10.69%	Sera	0.781
3	Debrii	8.15%	Shang-Chi	0.602
4	Shang-Chi	8.02%	Carnage	0.526
5	Cloak	7.57%	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	0.510
6	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	7.25%	Cloak	0.495
7	Doctor Strange	7.20%	Ghost	0.319
8	Luke Cage	5.46%	Nova	0.254
9	Carnage	5.16%	Luke Cage	0.242
10	Goose	3.74%	Spider-Man	0.236

7. Sera Surfer

Rank 60–99

Matches: 8,404

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Nakia	8.24%	Gambit	0.672
2	Gambit	7.16%	Ghost	0.658
3	Captain America	6.08%	Nakia	0.563
4	Okoye	5.81%	Invisible Woman	0.456
5	Ghost	4.60%	Ghost-Spider	0.316
6	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	3.76%	Iron Fist	0.316
7	Wolfsbane	3.57%	Vulture	0.316
8	Iceman	3.36%	Kingpin	0.240
9	Kingpin	3.02%	Okoye	0.188
10	Thor	2.88%	Captain America	0.183

Rank 100+

Matches: 1,425

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Nebula	17.78%	Nebula	1.102
2	Captain America	10.71%	Captain America	0.576
3	Wolverine	3.19%	Shang-Chi	0.391
4	Scorpion	1.41%	Forge	0.097
5	Venom	1.38%	Kingpin	0.080
6	Sabretooth	1.38%	Scorpion	0.017
7	Deathlok	1.38%	—	—
8	Carnage	1.38%	—	—
9	Bucky Barnes	1.22%	—	—
10	Shang-Chi	1.02%	—	—

8. Knull Death

Rank 60–99

Matches: 7,684

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Psylocke	2.62%	Psylocke	0.782
2	The Hood	1.23%	Wave	0.220
3	Wave	0.85%	Galactus	0.170
4	Angel	0.62%	Kitty Pryde	0.055
5	Squirrel Girl	0.28%	Angel	0.020
6	—	—	The Hood	0.009
7	—	—	—	—
8	—	—	—	—
9	—	—	—	—
10	—	—	—	—

Rank 100+

Matches: 1,882

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Kitty Pryde	11.83%	Galactus	0.449
2	Galactus	6.41%	Angel	0.447
3	Angel	5.89%	Electro	0.277
4	Electro	3.47%	Nimrod	0.260
5	Nimrod	0.14%	Kitty Pryde	0.221
6	Iceman	0.13%	—	—
7	—	—	—	—
8	—	—	—	—
9	—	—	—	—
10	—	—	—	—

9. Move Heimdall

Rank 60–99

Matches: 6,822

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Kingpin	16.28%	Kingpin	1.026
2	Iron Lad	9.35%	Killmonger	0.549
3	Killmonger	8.53%	Forge	0.348
4	Spider-Man	6.77%	Iron Lad	0.345
5	Howard the Duck	4.32%	High Evolutionary	0.330
6	Forge	4.25%	Hulk	0.330
7	Spider-Woman	3.73%	Spider-Man	0.329
8	Nebula	3.49%	Nebula	0.295
9	Magneto	3.44%	Spider-Woman	0.219
10	Beast	2.99%	Magneto	0.197

Rank 100+

Matches: 2,049

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Sunspot	9.52%	Goose	0.790
2	Goose	7.24%	Sunspot	0.595
3	Magneto	7.11%	Aero	0.343
4	Carnage	5.12%	Magneto	0.302
5	Aero	4.82%	America Chavez	0.214
6	Wave	3.51%	Wave	0.170
7	America Chavez	3.15%	Forge	0.149
8	Scarlet Witch	1.72%	Scarlet Witch	0.136
9	Forge	0.87%	Carnage	0.128
10	Iron Lad	0.50%	Shang-Chi	0.082

10. Ultron Patriot

Rank 60–99

Matches: 3,996

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Hulk	14.69%	Hulk	1.231
2	Armor	12.11%	Armor	0.805
3	Nebula	5.56%	Storm	0.519
4	Storm	4.94%	Sandman	0.312
5	Scarlet Witch	4.18%	Nebula	0.201
6	Shang-Chi	1.79%	Cyclops	0.120
7	Cyclops	0.68%	Shang-Chi	0.117
8	Sandman	0.60%	Ka-Zar	0.099
9	Dazzler	0.51%	Dazzler	0.082
10	Ka-Zar	0.27%	Brood	0.045

Rank 100+

Matches: 1,035

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Nebula	9.36%	Nebula	0.550
2	Green Goblin	6.84%	Brood	0.339
3	The Thing	5.01%	Abomination	0.177
4	Brood	2.96%	Ka-Zar	0.156
5	Cyclops	1.29%	The Thing	0.146
6	Dazzler	0.66%	America Chavez	0.135
7	Abomination	0.51%	Dazzler	0.105
8	—	—	Cyclops	0.085
9	—	—	Killmonger	0.044
10	—	—	—	—

11. Nimrod Galactus

Rank 60–99

Matches: 3,505

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Ghost-Spider	6.14%	Mister Negative	0.861
2	Professor X	5.56%	Zabu	0.527
3	Cosmo	4.50%	Adam Warlock	0.509
4	Zabu	2.95%	Ghost-Spider	0.371
5	Mister Negative	2.74%	Cosmo	0.305
6	Negasonic Teenage Warhead	2.25%	Red Skull	0.229
7	Nebula	1.67%	Cloak	0.140
8	Hazmat	1.10%	Professor X	0.080
9	Iron Lad	0.79%	Kang	0.063
10	Cloak	0.67%	Armor	0.026

Rank 100+

Matches: 1,218

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	11.00%	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	0.774
2	Rocket Raccoon	10.41%	Yondu	0.601
3	Thanos	6.18%	Rocket Raccoon	0.303
4	Yondu	4.92%	Daredevil	0.298
5	Venom	2.87%	Thanos	0.286
6	Daredevil	2.50%	Taskmaster	0.220
7	Iron Lad	2.38%	Professor X	0.143
8	Kang	1.25%	Kang	0.115
9	Professor X	0.95%	Venom	0.108
10	Killmonger	0.90%	Psylocke	0.104

12. Electro Ramp

Rank 60–99

Matches: 3,259

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Enchantress	12.62%	Enchantress	1.038
2	Zabu	9.52%	Gamora	0.537
3	Gamora	8.65%	Zabu	0.515
4	Captain Marvel	4.39%	Cloak	0.224
5	Polaris	3.97%	Storm	0.220
6	Jeff the Baby Land Shark	3.41%	Yondu	0.181
7	Professor X	1.98%	Scarlet Witch	0.171
8	Absorbing Man	1.46%	Sentinel	0.171
9	Storm	1.44%	Polaris	0.159
10	Ironheart	1.12%	Captain Marvel	0.153

13. Negative Knull

Rank 60–99

Matches: 2,947

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	The Living Tribunal	12.30%	The Living Tribunal	0.750
2	Iron Lad	7.61%	Sunspot	0.353
3	Doctor Doom	5.26%	Jane Foster Mighty Thor	0.287
4	Goose	4.22%	Killmonger	0.254
5	Professor X	3.54%	White Tiger	0.239
6	Shuri	3.35%	Iron Lad	0.221
7	Taskmaster	3.27%	Doctor Doom	0.185
8	Deadpool	2.10%	Yondu	0.185
9	White Tiger	2.09%	Shuri	0.160
10	Adam Warlock	1.65%	Magik	0.119

14. Sand Wave

Rank 60–99

Matches: 2,796

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Giganto	15.28%	Giganto	0.769
2	Captain Marvel	15.16%	Captain Marvel	0.710
3	Spider-Woman	11.37%	Spider-Woman	0.698
4	Shocker	6.92%	Shocker	0.442
5	White Tiger	5.44%	The Infinaut	0.368
6	The Infinaut	3.66%	Goose	0.288
7	Goose	3.17%	Jubilee	0.236
8	Leech	3.11%	Leech	0.200
9	Jubilee	1.99%	Gamora	0.121
10	Gamora	1.26%	White Tiger	0.103

15. Dino Hawk

Rank 60–99

Matches: 2,264

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Nebula	4.68%	America Chavez	0.092
2	Kitty Pryde	4.56%	Iron Lad	0.089
3	America Chavez	4.20%	Nebula	0.068
4	Wave	3.37%	Polaris	0.038
5	Iron Lad	1.68%	—	—
6	Black Widow	0.08%	—	—
7	—	—	—	—
8	—	—	—	—
9	—	—	—	—
10	—	—	—	—

16. Good Stature

Rank 60–99

Matches: 2,246

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Heimdall	14.87%	Cloak	1.474
2	Doctor Strange	14.57%	Heimdall	0.940
3	Human Torch	14.57%	Doctor Strange	0.787
4	Iron Fist	14.57%	Human Torch	0.787
5	Vulture	14.46%	Iron Fist	0.787
6	Ghost-Spider	12.67%	Ghost-Spider	0.770
7	Cloak	11.55%	Vulture	0.718
8	Iron Lad	8.70%	Iron Lad	0.506
9	Storm	6.59%	Mystique	0.249
10	Mystique	6.17%	Black Widow	0.190

17. Spectrum Destroyer

Rank 60–99

Matches: 1,787

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Yondu	12.35%	Iceman	0.878
2	Iceman	11.20%	Squirrel Girl	0.816
3	Squirrel Girl	9.32%	Yondu	0.643
4	Ebony Maw	7.32%	Mystique	0.568
5	Attuma	6.21%	Attuma	0.478
6	Goose	5.94%	Ebony Maw	0.457
7	Invisible Woman	5.37%	Blue Marvel	0.428
8	Mystique	4.26%	Nightcrawler	0.313
9	Super-Skrull	2.40%	Ka-Zar	0.289
10	Namor	1.91%	Namor	0.261

18. Venom Nimrod

Rank 60–99

Matches: 1,817

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	America Chavez	6.76%	Ghost-Spider	0.688
2	Mister Sinister	4.40%	Kingpin	0.688
3	Hobgoblin	4.27%	America Chavez	0.361
4	Green Goblin	3.57%	Hobgoblin	0.340
5	Knull	2.84%	Green Goblin	0.323
6	Psylocke	2.49%	Mister Sinister	0.081
7	Ghost-Spider	1.63%	Negasonic Teenage Warhead	0.076
8	Kingpin	1.63%	Sera	0.043
9	Electro	1.50%	Shang-Chi	0.042
10	Magik	1.16%	Wave	0.040

19. Luke Cerebro

Rank 60–99

Matches: 1,510

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Super-Skrull	7.73%	Beast	0.490
2	Beast	6.57%	Mantis	0.473
3	Mantis	5.69%	Super-Skrull	0.386
4	Rogue	5.60%	Rogue	0.197
5	Yellowjacket	3.60%	Wong	0.121
6	Lockjaw	2.71%	Yellowjacket	0.108
7	Wong	0.56%	—	—
8	M'Baku	0.39%	—	—
9	—	—	—	—
10	—	—	—	—

20. Thanos Ongoing

Rank 60–99

Matches: 1,360

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Wave	11.19%	Wave	0.794
2	Super-Skrull	10.86%	Okoye	0.702
3	Okoye	9.47%	Nebula	0.643
4	Spider-Man	8.91%	Sunspot	0.470
5	Sunspot	8.78%	Super-Skrull	0.443
6	Omega Red	8.02%	Shadow King	0.384
7	Nebula	7.79%	Onslaught	0.343
8	Shadow King	7.60%	Captain America	0.329
9	Captain America	6.08%	America Chavez	0.292
10	Onslaught	5.98%	Leech	0.268

21. High Thanos

Rank 60–99

Matches: 1,261

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Blue Marvel	13.21%	Enchantress	0.850
2	Jane Foster Mighty Thor	8.03%	Blue Marvel	0.732
3	Thor	8.03%	The Thing	0.553
4	The Thing	7.88%	Aero	0.533
5	Enchantress	7.50%	Death	0.261
6	Aero	7.09%	Jane Foster Mighty Thor	0.256
7	Luke Cage	1.06%	Thor	0.256
8	Death	0.59%	Odin	0.152
9	Shang-Chi	0.20%	Cyclops	0.125
10	—	—	Abomination	0.009

22. Thanos Death

Rank 60–99

Matches: 1,171

Rank	Win Rate Card	Win Rate Delta	Cube Rate Card	Cube Rate Delta
1	Bishop	7.63%	Bishop	0.666
2	Beast	7.31%	Angel	0.521
3	Angel	6.83%	America Chavez	0.481
4	Devil Dinosaur	6.19%	Squirrel Girl	0.341
5	Magik	5.90%	Moon Girl	0.307
6	America Chavez	4.37%	Devil Dinosaur	0.296
7	Sabretooth	4.11%	Magik	0.274
8	Moon Girl	4.08%	Sabretooth	0.253
9	Squirrel Girl	3.94%	Wave	0.246
10	Doctor Octopus	2.70%	Doctor Octopus	0.135

Conclusion

Well, any surprises or inspiration for you? I really hope so (as always)! One of my favorite things in Marvel Snap is discovery. It’s even cooler to see how a single interesting idea can evolve as it passes from one player to another.

If you’re a player who feels a little shy about deck-building, this article can sort of serve as a guide of where to start. You don’t have to start from scratch — instead you can take a popular meta deck and put a small twist on it. A single card swap is all it takes to make a deck perform better for you. Better still, that’s all it takes to make a deck feel more like it’s yours. It won’t be everybody’s gaming personality, but I personally find it much more rewarding to win with a deck of my own invention.

The win rate and cube rate deltas throughout this article are proof of the difference a single card can make. Yes, many of the examples have a low sample size — but not all of them. Several listed cards were represented by over a thousand matches and still delivered large improvements to an archetype’s cube rate.

Of course a single card can make such a difference! Decks in Marvel Snap consist of a mere dozen cards. When thinking about the power of a single card, another takeaway is how the right swap can keep a deck properly adapted to an ever-evolving meta. The rise of Luke Cage in Sera Control and Kitty Bounce is one of the clearest examples of this we’ve ever seen. I encourage you to make little changes like this to your decks. If something isn’t working out, it doesn’t automatically mean the whole deck is bad. A great way to practice this skill is to adapt a deck to a hot or featured location. As you develop that skill, you can swap out more than just a single card at a time and, ultimately, adapt your deck to the regular everyday metagame.

This sort of tinkering and refining is actually the essence of deck-building. You don’t have to build a whole new deck from scratch every time. In fact, the abilities to adapt and hone are probably the more useful (and impressive) skills!

I hope you all have a great week exploring new strategies, adapting to the meta, and unlocking the potential of your favorite decks. If you make your own atypical addition to an archetype deck that turns out awesome, I’d love to see it! Please share it with me in the comments below or else on Twitter! 💜

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