Stature Theorycraft, Strategies and Decklists: Can Stature Save Some of Marvel Snap’s Worst Cards?

When anybody talks about a “discard” archetype, everybody understands the same thing: tossing away cards from our own hand to activate some powerful effects. In Marvel Snap, Morbius, Dracula, Apocalypse, Hela, and MODOK should immediately come to mind.

Well, you might want to reconsider what discard means in Marvel Snap; Stature joins Marvel Snap as a Series 5 card on February 21, 2023, and she might bring a whole new meaning to the archetype.

Variants

Stature

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

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

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If we only talk about flavor, Stature would be considered a great card. She pushes a whole new way of playing and might even give Disruptive decks a way to develop some points for cheap, similar to what Miles Morales does for the Move archetype. Still, if we take a look at the handful of cards available that activate her ability, one could quickly begin to wonder if Stature has any shot at being picked up for 6,000 Collector’s Tokens (at least for the next 2 months).

Let’s take a look at what can be done with Stature, and how we can build decks to maximize her strengths.

Synergies and Gameplay

There are two big categories of cards to consider playing with Stature, both linked to the Discard synergy:

• Cards with an ability that forces your opponent to discard something:

Variants

Moon Knight

On Reveal: Discard a card from each player’s hand.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Variants

Black Bolt

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

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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• Cards that benefit from Moon Knight‘s discard:

Variants

Swarm

When this is discarded from your hand, add two copies that Cost 0 to your hand.

Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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Variants

Apocalypse

When you discard this from your hand, put it back with +4 Power.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Variants

Ghost Rider

On Reveal: Bring back one of your discarded cards to this location.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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This reveals the problem with Stature right now, and the reason it’s difficult to consider her worth the 6,000 tokens: there aren’t a ton of options to surround the card in a cohesive deck.

Of course, she does create a nice package alongside Moon Knight and Black Bolt. They form a cohesive trio that disrupts the opponent in addition to packing some explosive power. At the end of the day, Black Bolt is an eight power card enabling a seven power card for one energy on the next turn. This is a total of fifteen power for six energy, with five left to work with on turn six. Considering the amount of solid cards to play for five or less energy on the last turn of the game (like Aero, Shang-Chi, or even Valkyrie), I’m sure you can find something good to play with Stature.

From this angle, the last two turns of the game for a Stature deck are looking pretty locked, with Black Bolt on five and Stature plus something on six. Now we have to answer the big question: what are we doing with the rest of the game?

Archetypes to Try With Stature

Because Stature works best in a three card package, we aren’t looking to build an entire deck around the card. Rather, we want to find decks with enough room to play Stature, Black Bolt, and Moon Knight without throwing the balance of the archetype off.

Stature Good Cards

Created by den

, updated 7 months ago

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3x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

7x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

2x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

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First on the list is just a good cards deck with several small combos to abuse in order to create a nice turn six:

• Shuri into Black Bolt opens for Taskmaster and Stature on turn six.
• Zabu opens Wong on turn three, which we can follow up with Moon Knight and Iceman to dismantle the opponent’s hand, and Black Bolt can also follow on turn five.
• If we’re going to discard with Moon Knight, we might as well include the Colleen Wing + Swarm duo.
• Aero and Shang-Chi are just solid cards to include, and they should pair well enough with Stature on turn six.

Stature Lockjaw

Created by den

, updated 7 months ago

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1x Collection Level 1-14

1x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

3x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

6x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

1x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

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6.6

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Although I doubt Lockjaw will ditch Thanos or Thor for Stature, the card’s archetype represents really well what we would be looking for as a flexible win condition to include the Stature package with. Lockjaw also proved to work perfectly with Swarm in the past, and summoning Black Bolt or Stature is not bad considering their high power.

Another way to build such a deck would be to include the Lady Sif and Ghost Rider duo to represent another route toward cheating big cards early. Being ahead by turn five should make Black Bolt into Stature + Aero a pretty good pattern for the last two turns.

Devil Stature

Created by den

, updated 7 months ago

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3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

2x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

1x Starter Card

3.4

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5+

4.2

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When it comes to a flexible deck that’s able to include a small amount of cards easily, one needs to include Devil Dinosaur in the discussion. In this deck, I decided to leave Moon Knight out for the obvious anti synergy with Devil Dinosaur, but Moon Girl might be able to replenish our hand enough for it to be worth in the end.

Otherwise, this deck has a plethora of good five cost cards we can pair with Stature on turn six, ranging from Devil Dinosaur himself to any six cost card we got with White Queen that’s been discounted by Quinjet.

Closing Words

Although the card itself seems quite good, Stature suffers from a lack of flexibility when it comes to the cards we need to play to support her. Granted, it doesn’t take more than Black Bolt or Moon Knight to make it the best 1-cost card in the game. Considering, however, that both cards don’t see any serious play and that Stature is awful if we don’t draw into either of them during the match, it’s tough to pull the trigger and purchase Stature.

Overall, I would consider Stature a fine pull out of a lucky Collector’s Cache since she opens otherwise unplayable cards and play patterns. I wouldn’t recommend that anyone spend their hard earned Collector’s Tokens to get this week’s new card, though. Sorry.

Have a sweet build with Stature you want to share with us? Find the whole team on our community Discord. As for myself, I’m mostly active on Twitter, so feel free to message me there.

Good Game Everyone.