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Hello everyone, and welcome to Top 5! I’m Glazer of Snap Judgments: The Official Marvel Snap Zone Podcast, and every week, we’ll be counting down a different Top 5 things you need to know in, around, and about Marvel Snap! Sometimes this will be silly in nature, but we’ll always have some pearls of wisdom to help make you the best (and best adjusted!) Marvel Snap player you can be! This week? The Top 4 New Cards from Big in Japan.
We’re not doing this the normal way, though. You aren’t just getting my opinion and rankings for these cards. Instead, today you can find the combined statistical ranking of over 50 of our favorite Content Creators! A #1 ranking gained a card four points, while a #4 got one point. Let’s take a look at the participating creators, and then get to the list.
- den is the legendary card game player and head writer at Marvel Snap Zone.
- SafetyBlade is a Marvel Snap Zone writer, and a prolific and genius deck builder.
- Bohe is a Marvel Snap Zone writer who is responsible for our new excellent deck guides.
- Kirallas is a Marvel Snap Zone writer and graphic designer who does stellar analysis of every bundle.
- LaurenWhatever writes Snapalytics for Marvel Snap Zone and is the authority on Spotlight Caches.
- Drewberry on YouTube does the best card and data mine analysis in the biz. This article was his idea!
- Lamby is probably the best player in all of Snap.
- NinaisNoob is one of the biggest Snap Content Creators, and she covers absolutely everything at a super high level.
- Educated Collins is the thinking person’s Snap player. He and Nina are the two most charming people in all of Snap.
- Bynx is awesome, creative, and friendly, but you probably follow him already… right?
- SuperTechGod is an awesome streamer who owns every variant in the game!
- Eggs is the grumpy mother of Snap who runs incredible streams!
- WolverSnap has the highest production values that go with the most analytical content.
- JeeseJames is an incredible streamer and an all-around great guy – just don’t ask how to pronounce his name.
- Paper is a brilliant YouTuber and streamer who dominates with totally unique decks.
- Revis is the best deck builder you don’t follow (but really should).
- FaThorNewman is the kind dad of the Snap community who you love to listen to stories from.
- Dougpie is an awesome streamer with a great, kind personality. He’s also the only Snap player from the Bronx besides me (that I know of)!
- TeddyNinja is the chillest YouTuber and streamer around.
- PeacefulSea is a rising YouTuber with a great sense for top decks.
- AZ Snap is a rising YouTuber who plays a lot of the same decks I promote better than I do, and he’s my fellow Aaron!
- Teebs is one of my favorite streamers. They always have cool decks and great vibes.
- BitTwiddle is the incredible graphics guy behind some of your favorite smaller Snap Creators.
- Combat is a great YouTuber who’s one of the best in-game players around.
- Jhugs has the best voice in Marvel Snap and DC Dual Force!
- Tuccrr is a streamer with a huge personality and an even bigger heart. He was just on our Podcast!
- Lil Robitussin is Tuccrr’s partner in crime and runs a chill stream with great music. He was just on the cast, too!
- BigMath is a rising star of the YouTube scene with awesome deck techs.
- FionaShadeStories is, very simply, brilliant.
- W is an unreal player, deck builder, and the tournament winner who originated DoomWave.
- Alphos is a creative streamer and deck builder who’s responsible for Snap Battle Arena tournaments!
- TeamCounterGaming is a streamer who mains Silver Surfer with some amazing builds.
- Devilish is a British streamer whose name belies how kind he is.
- Mister Zariweya is a great Spanish-language streamer.
- Comixfan is an Aussie streamer and a Galactus main.
- Ni_Theal is a great French streamer.
- Owi is a huge French streamer.
- Ramekiano is a huge Spanish-language streamer!
- Batmesa is yet another wonderful Spanish-language streamer.
- Prof Lucci is an Italian Tik Toker!
- Yosakiz is an awesome Greek streamer.
- Cavernadodudao is an awesome Portuguese streamer.
- Pink Saffiah is an up and coming Tik Toker!
- Eva Zord is another great Portuguese-language streamer.
- TheJollyRoger is the King of Marvel Snap TikTok.
- Torikun is a phenomenal player and the winner of Snap’s biggest tournament to date
- Braude is responsible for Marvel Snap News (and wins major tournaments)!
- Interrobang is one of the top free-to-play streamers.
- Bootman is the outspoken voice of the voiceless for the Snap community.
- And I’m Glazer. I post deck videos of some of the best decks before they get famous.
4. Lady Deathstrike – 59 Points
Decks with Lady Deathstrike
Even a buff from three to four power isn’t enough to save Lady Deathstrike from last place. But not just last place – she scored less than half of third place! She’s not a bad card, but even as a [5/4] she can be clunky to use. You want to double her power or use Forge to pump her up, and that might have been great when the meta was all 5-Power cards. Now, though, Absorbing Man has outgrown her for a while, and Loki decks just go way over the top of her. The best target in the game is probably Angela, but by Turn 5 Angela has often outgrown Lady Deathstrike. Cards like Shuri and Forge often lose you priority, so her best targets, frustratingly, have a habit of just outgrowing the sweet spot.
Still, she’s not all bad. The effect is powerful, and, because it’s so rare to see, no one bothers playing around it. That means that when she does work, there are huge cube gains to be had. Here’s one shell where I’ve found some success with the card.
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3. Daken – 123 points
Daken and Silver Samurai were only a point apart in the standings, so they are considered all but equal as cards. That’s fair here, as Daken often plays as a [4/8]. I think the buff to Blade in the recent patch may have pushed Daken ahead of Silver Samurai, my previous favorite card of the season, since a Turn 4 play of Daken and Blade is an all-but-guaranteed 11 power. That’s not an easy combo to pull off, but simply adding Daken to Colleen Wing or Silver Samurai has proven more than viable. That’s a lot of options to play Daken for a well-above-rate power swing. I feel like the community sort of gave up on him just like they did to
TheCounterGuy has had great success with this Silver Surfer Daken list.
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2. Silver Samurai – 124 points
Decks with Silver Samurai
I really love this card. The disruption of discarding the opponent’s lowest-power card is not to be overlooked. By Turn 4 or 5, that card is often extremely powerful. I’m only sad this wasn’t released during the height of Darkhawk since it’s one of the best possible counters for that deck. Iron Man, Knull, and many other cards are great hits, too, but I’ve even hit cards like Evolved Hulk and Death. Silver Samurai is great for disruption, and doubly so with cards like Zabu, Wong, and Absorbing Man.
The trick is to disrupt the opponent and benefit yourself at the same time. There are a ton of ways to do this – X-23, Wolverine, Swarm, and Daken are the obvious ones, but your own Iron Man or Darkhawk with Ghost Rider or Hela have proven surprisingly resilient.
This brilliant idea came from den – and it’s my new favorite way to play the card.
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1. X-23 – 154 points
Decks with X-23
X-23 is in first place here not just because it’s powerful, but because if you see it early and your opponent doesn’t have a counter, it’s extremely abusable. Destroy decks can often kill it multiple times, setting up huge early energy spikes. It’s never been easier to Arnim Zola a Knull or get a Deadpool and Knull out on the same turn. Even more, X-23 smooths out your curve for those Deadpool decks by making sure you have the extra energy to play and destroy the namesake card.
On Turn 5, X-23 is often backbreaking. A Carnage on X-23 into Killmonger is worth five energy and, often, many destroys, and it leaves you with eight energy on the last turn. That means Wave cannot hard counter you, and the last turn of the game can still be Deadpool and Knull or Death and Knull or pretty much whatever you want.
X-23 has also given Galactus a new power spike. While it’s dangerous (and Galactus is still best as a late-game surprise), X-23 can open up the Turn 4 Nimrod AND Turn 5 Galactus without the need for Electro.
Of course, X-23 is also excellent in discard or semi-discard shells. The hard discard decks aren’t sad to have a way to cheat out their cards early, and the aforementioned Silver Samurai will often become a 7-Power card with X-23 that also grants an extra energy.
There are a lot of powerful ways to play the card, and that’s ultimately what makes it #1 for the majority of our queried creators.
Conclusion
How did you find the cards from Big in Japan? Are they here to stay, or do they need adjustments to be part of the meta? Let us know in the comments below, and be ready for the companion piece to this article: Predictions on the Top 4 Loki For All Time cards.
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