Snapalytics: Perfect Pairings — A Bestie for Every Card

Leech and Leader. Shuri and Red Skull. Electro and Sandman. Wave and Death. Stature and Black Bolt.

Stature

Costs 1 if your opponent discarded a card from their hand this game.

Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

view card details

Decks with Stature

Black Bolt

On Reveal: Discard the lowest-cost card from your opponent’s hand.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

view card details

Decks with Black Bolt

Marvel Snap has certainly seen its share of dominant two-piece combos. There are other obvious combos, like Howard the Duck and Iron Lad. There are other powerful combos, like MODOK and Hela. But not all power pairs are created equal. Those in the first paragraph all had high enough usage and performance that Second Dinner saw fit to nerf them.

This week’s Snapalytics is about card pairings. Some of you may recognize that topic from one of my earliest articles on Marvel Snap Zone. It’s now six weeks later and the metagame looks completely different — it’s a great time to look at the top-performing pairs again! Last time, there were certainly surprises among the bunch. Surprises that inspired my own deck-building — heck, I ended up throwing Maria Hill into a deck that ended up being my favorite deck I’ve ever made (and I took it to Infinite last season). I’m sure there will be some interesting surprises this time around, too.

Valk X Machina v8

Created by

LaurenWhatevs

, updated 4 months ago

2x Collection Level 1-14

2x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

5x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

1x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

1x Recruit Season

2.8

Cost

0-
1
2
3
4
5+

2.2

Power

0-
1
2
3
4
5+

Stick around until the end! After going through top cards among various segments of players, I’ll be listing the best partner cards for every card in the game.

Get access to our real time data report of the best card pairs! Check out our Premium Top Marvel Snap Card Pairs report, updated every hour. Get 50% off the Annual plan for a limited time!

Go to Top Card Pairs

The Dataset

The data being analyzed is ranked matches recorded by our Marvel Snap Tracker over the past two weeks.

We’re looking at pairs that appeared in the same deck together. Requiring them to be drawn would be more meaningful, but we only recently started storing data in a way that would support that.

Note that over half of the time covered predates the recent nerfs to Black Bolt and Stature, as well as the release of High Evolutionary. I don’t think Black Bolt and Stature were nerfed very hard, but it’s worth keeping in mind that they may be overrepresented (and High Evolutionary underrepresented).

Because the meta game varies quite a bit at different ranks and collection levels, I’ve divided them up accordingly:

Rank

Mid: 30–69
High: 70–99
Infinite: 100+

Collection Level

Mid: 486–2099
High: 2100+

Players at Collection Level 486 have completed Pool 2.

Players at Collection Level 2100 have completed roughly half of Pool 3, which currently holds 98 cards.

Just as an FYI, players will currently complete Pool 3 around Collection Level 4600. This does depend on several factors, including how many Pool 3 cards the player has collected with tokens (a feature that used to be available, and will be available again).

Your Dynamic Duos

Like last time, I’ve applied minimum requirements to make sure luck or an especially skilled player aren’t skewing the data. Cutoffs for minimum match appearances and deck appearances will be listed at the top of each section.

Also like last time, the following data is available for each section. I suggest focusing on the category that applies to your current rank and collection level, but also skimming the other categories.

Top 10 pairs by usage
Top 10 pairs by win rate + honorable mentions
Top 10 pairs by cube rate + honorable mentions

Mid Rank (30–69) and Mid CL (486–2099)

Cutoffs
Matches: 300+
Decks: 10+

Usage

Rank	Card 1	Card 2	Matches
1	Killmonger	Shang-Chi	4,055
2	Devil Dinosaur	Moon Girl	3,887
3	Devil Dinosaur	White Queen	3,804
4	Agent 13	Devil Dinosaur	3,565
5	Devil Dinosaur	Sentinel	3,539
6	Moon Girl	White Queen	3,449
7	Agent 13	White Queen	3,386
8	Sentinel	White Queen	3,363
9	Killmonger	Nova	3,328
10	Agent 13	Sentinel	3,172

Win Rate

Rank	Card 1	Card 2	Win Rate
1	Blue Marvel	Brood	62.46%
2	Brood	Mister Sinister	62.39%
3	Iceman	Ultron	61.43%
4	Elektra	Korg	60.13%
5	Bishop	Korg	59.77%
6	Blue Marvel	Ultron	59.77%
7	Abomination	Cyclops	59.71%
8	Abomination	Misty Knight	59.62%
9	Angela	Onslaught	59.52%
10	Korg	Shang-Chi	59.47%

Blue Marvel

Ongoing: Your other cards have +1 Power.

Recruit Season

view card details

Decks with Blue Marvel

Brood

On Reveal: Add 2 Broodlings to this location with the same Power.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

view card details

Decks with Brood

Honorable Mentions

Pairs that would have made the top 5 if the cutoff was 200+ matches instead:

Cube Rate

Rank	Card 1	Card 2	Cube Rate
1	Moon Girl	She-Hulk	0.90
2	Brood	Mister Sinister	0.86
3	Blue Marvel	Brood	0.85
4	Iceman	Kitty Pryde	0.85
5	Iceman	Moon Girl	0.84
6	Groot	Wolfsbane	0.78
7	Maria Hill	The Collector	0.74
8	Cyclops	Shocker	0.73
9	Abomination	Cyclops	0.72
10	Abomination	Shocker	0.71

Honorable Mentions

Pairs that would have made the top 5 if the cutoff was 200+ matches instead: