The Sacred Timeline Featured Location Guide: Strategy, Best Cards and Decks

This week’s Marvel Snap Featured Location is The Sacred Timeline: First to fill this gets a copy of their opening hand. This is a brand new location for Marvel Snap’s February 2023 Into the Quantum Realm Season, now added to the Location pool. For the next 48 hours, it will show up 40% more frequently in games during this feature period. Let’s find out what the best strategies, cards, and decks are!

Variants

The Sacred Timeline

First to fill this gets a copy of their opening hand.

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What is The Sacred Timeline?

The Sacred Timeline is maintained by He Who Remains and is the collection of realities isolated after the Multiversal War (which can also be described as the war between all the variants of Kang). These realities all share the same baseline but all lead to the birth of one variant, He Who Remains; therefore, none of the evil variants of Kang are born during the Sacred Timeline.

Strategy

This is an interesting effect which may result in many attempts to abuse the effect by filling your hand back up with the cards you started with. The limitations, though, are clear: we need to be able to fill the location before our opponent. We then also need to be able to clear our hand sufficiently to have these cards return to our hand, and then have a use for them.

Given how little control we have over our opening hand and how decks can be waiting and holding resources to fill final turns in the current meta, this effect has limited application for many decks.

Variants

Carnage

On Reveal: Destroy your other cards here. +2 Power for each destroyed.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Some decks can use this location effectively. The main candidate is Destroy decks. As with The Raft, Destroy can fill the location by as early as Turn 3, then reduce the spots used back to 1 or 2 slots via Carnage or Deathlok. This allows for more power to be put into the lane later in the game with an added bonus of a lot of cards in the opening hand being quickly re-playable.

Variants

Cloak

On Reveal: Next turn, both players can move cards to this location.

Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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Move decks, or Flood decks using a card like Cloak, may also be a surprising way to fill the location and move cards away to push extra power later in the game. Thanos and the Space Stone may play a similar role for those fortunate enough to have Thanos in their collection.

Variants

Quinjet

Ongoing: Cards that didn’t start in your deck cost 1 less. (minimum 1)

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Variants

Devil Dinosaur

Ongoing: +2 Power for each card in your hand.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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Quinjet can also be slotted into several decks that can fill The Sacred Timeline to give us extra confidence while we are replaying our hand.

One last synergy worth mentioning is Devil Dinosaur. We can potentially fill the location in order to regain our hand size and ensure Devil Dinosaur is buffed.

Note: We are still unaware of the time frame for the Zabu and Silver Surfer balance adjustments and have featured decks assuming these may not be nerfed at the start of the Featured Location period.

Cards and Deck Ideas

The best versions of these lists are starting to be built with Series 4 and 5 cards. Where they are not the required for the strategy I will include a note on what cards to swap in.

Death

Variants

Death

Costs 1 less for each card destroyed this game.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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No fancy tech cards for this archetype. Just an honest destroy deck with more 1 and 2 cost cards than some of the regular builds. This allows you to more consistently fill the location while maintaining a strong and proven general gameplan. Fill the lane, destroy the lane, hopefully replay some of the cards you need in the lane, then play Wave on Turn 5 into Death.

She-Hulk can be slotted into the deck for America Chavez, but on this occasion I prefer America Chavez to ensure our turns 1 – 3 are slanted towards lower energy cards.

The Sacred Timeline – Basic

Created by SafetyBlade

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Pool 3Featured Location

6x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

3.2

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3.8

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Thanos

Variants

Thanos

At the start of the game, shuffle the six Infinity Stones into your deck.

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

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Thanos adds a lot of flexibility to this archetype and there are many ways to build this. The 6 additional 1 drops will allow for filling the location quickly and have the utility the Infinity Stones provide.

Sacred Timeline – THANOS

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Pool 5Featured Location

4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

5x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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

3.6

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4.5

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Silver Surfer

Variants

Silver Surfer

On Reveal: Give your other 3-Cost cards +2 Power.

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

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A more interesting approach to filling and emptying the location is the move archetype. The Move and Silver Surfer shell has proven some success already in the meta, and having the tools to pull power away from the location after filling early with cards like Iron Fist and Brood will allow for more move cards to come back to your hand. These cards tend to have excellent synergy, which can be further abused when reduced.

Therefore, adding Quinjet and Sera to keep the cost of your newly filled hand low allows for explosive final turns to overwhelm your opponent.

The Sacred Timeline – Sera Surfer Move

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Pool 5Featured Location

3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

6x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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

2.8

Cost

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3.1

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Devil Dinosaur

Variants

Devil Dinosaur

Ongoing: +2 Power for each card in your hand.

Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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The Devil Dinosaur deck may be able to accommodate enough low cost cards to fill the location consistently by Turn 3-4 and allow for the good cards in your hand to be copied. If you can copy these with Quinjet down, you have another Moon Girl-like effect which gives you more tools to control the rest of the game.

This build brings She-Hulk and Sunspot as they allow for some late flexibility. If you can copy She-Hulk from your starting hand and then skip the energy, you can have multiple very cheap 10 power cards for the last turn. Finally, Cloak appears here again as a way to move some cards later if needed.

The Sacred Timeline – Modified Good Cards Dinosaur

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Pool 3Featured Location

4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

4x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

3x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

1x Starter Card

2.9

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3.9

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What You Should Play

Destroy seems like the archetype most able to use the location effectively, but this one will likely just need some basic adjustments to your preferred deck to provide the chance of some value. On the surface, it’s not a location that is worth heavily building around; instead, The Sacred Timeline elevates the ceiling for a few key decks.

The Sacred Timeline – Basic

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Pool 3Featured Location

6x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

3.2

Cost

0-
1
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5+

3.8

Power

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Series 1

The Sacred Timeline – Dino Zoo

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Pool 1

3x Collection Level 1-14

7x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Recruit Season

1x Starter Card

2.8

Cost

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Power

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This deck allows you to fill the location quickly with Ongoing cards and Angela, whilst allowing for Nightcrawler to leave the lane. If we can’t move anything out, we can push extra power on 6 with Spectrum.

The effect from the location keeps our Devil Dinosaur large and allows for it to win another lane alone. When you enter Series 2, Cosmo and Armor can be swapped over the 3 drops to allow for this deck to continue to compete.

Series 2

The Sacred Timeline – Dino Destroy

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Pool 2Featured Location

8x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

3x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

1x Starter Card

2.6

Cost

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3.1

Power

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Pool 2 allows us to bring a strong Destroy package instead of the Ongoing package. The Destroy package has better utility when it refills your hand to be replayed, and they all assist each other to gain additional power.

The newly buffed Wolverine could also be duplicated and destroyed multiple times with this deck.

Closing Thoughts

Remember, at the time of writing these starter decks are untested. These are theorycraft ideas to get you going, and I’m looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with for The Sacred Timeline. Make sure to leave a comment below, share your ideas on our Deck Builder and discuss with the community on our Discord!

Good Luck, Have Fun, and Stay Safe!