Top New Cards of the Bloodstone Season!

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 5 New Cards from Bloodstone.

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 five points, while a #5 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!
• 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.
• SuperTechGod is an awesome streamer who owns every variant in the game!
• 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.
• 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!
• Vision is one of our favorite Australian Streamers!
• 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. Hail the Pirate King!
• Doctor Octillery is a great YouTube creator and streamer.
• Lil Robitussin Robo runs a chill stream with great music often featuring… well, me!
• Prashaun is one of my favorite small streamers in Snap and has a great YouTube, too!
• W is an unreal player, deck builder, and the tournament winner who originated DoomWave.
• TeamCounterGaming is a streamer who mains Silver Surfer with some amazing builds.
• Devilish is a British streamer whose name belies how kind he is.
• MonroeBieber hosts the brilliant The Snappening!
• MythSnap is an exceedingly cool Twitch streamer.
• Comixfan is an Aussie streamer and a Galactus main.
• Ni_Theal is a great French streamer.
• Snapcaster Tobi is a phenomenal player who specializes in Thanos.
• ChaosPro has some of the best Marvel Snap Shorts around.
• TheJollyRoger is the King of Marvel Snap TikTok.
• KrakenNull is the secret king of Move and Silver Samurai.
• Remkiano is a competitive Spanish-speaking Marvel Snap guru.
• Alex Graves is an awesome streamer who’s popping off!
• KingofCanada is a tournament player, twitch streamer, and sweetheart!
• 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)!
• ItsGuestGaming does it all from YouTube videos to running content at CCGhub.
• Interrobang is one of the top free-to-play streamers and runs the Marvel Snap Twitter group.
• Bradcifer is the outspoken host of numerous podcasts.
• 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.

5. Black Knight – 59 points (predicted 4th place)

Variants

Black Knight

After you discard a card, add the Ebony Blade to your hand with that card’s Power. (once per game)

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

view card details Start a deck Decks with Black Knight

Black Knight wasn’t expected to be great, but, honestly, it’s not half bad. It goes in several pretty good decks, and, while it may not be meta, it is very fun. Hela decks often overperform, and it’s a solid addition there. Super Tech God-style Shuri decks perform better than expected as well.

• It’s very niche, but it gives discard an option to player bigger bombs to get rid of. – BitTwiddle
• Black Knight I feel is the most underrated card this season. The fact that it helps you put more power on the board is crazy in a time where cheating out costs are on a high with Loki, Ravonna Renslayer, and the classics like Sera and Zabu. – Super Tech God
• Black Knight was definitely the underwhelming card of the month. While there are some fun things you can do, Second Dinner has done such a good job buffing the discard archetype that it doesn’t provide any real additional value. – Bootman
• I don’t like BK (I skipped it despite being collection-complete since June). It seems bad, but it’s really hard to deny the stats across all three trackers. I suspect it’s Hela-ish… a mediocre Win Rate but can pull in cubes. – LaurenWhatevs
• That card is so bad. – SafetyBlade

Here’s a successful Black Knight build from STG:

STG Black Knight

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4. Man-Thing – 88 points (predicted 5th place)

Variants

Man-Thing

Ongoing: 1, 2, and 3-Cost cards here have -2 Power.

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

view card details Start a deck Decks with Man-Thing

This card that ranked so low even though it basically immediately went into tournament-winning Elsa Bloodstone Move decks and also managed to find its way into the top-rated Darkhawk deck last season. This is quite a strong season if this is the number four card, and it would absolutely be even a bigger piece of the meta were it not for decks like Bounce and Loki keeping Shadow King present. That presence of Shadow King puts Luke Cage into the meta, which keeps Man-Thing suppressed. Still, this card is back-breaking if the opponent isn’t ready with a counter!

• Could rise dramatically when Loki gets nerfed a second time and we can’t get our Luke Cage stolen. – den
• Great cost to power ratio when no Luke on the board. – WolverThor
• I think Man-Thing gets significantly better over time as more cards get released – notably Annihilus and Selene in the upcoming months. – Doctor Octillery
• Worth noting that I think in most other months, Man-Thing would be among the best; October was just stacked. – Bradcifer
• I suspect this card was overplayed when it was popular, but the potential remains high here. – SafetyBlade

Norn’s Darkhawk list was one of the best in the game for much of the season:

Norn

Created by Geordiekrispy

, updated 53 years ago

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

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3. Werewolf By Night – 165 points (predicted 2nd place)

Variants

Werewolf By Night

After you play a card, move there to gain +2 Power if it has an On Reveal.

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

view card details Start a deck Decks with Werewolf By Night

Werewolf By Night was #2 in the pre-season and pretty close to the number two here – and I still think it’s an underrated card because it came out just this past week. A 3-Cost card that generates more than seven or so power is nearly unheard of (mainly just Silver Surfer and Patriot), so Werewolf is already in elite company. This is one card that is both a blessing and a curse depending on the board state, but, ultimately, Marvel Snap is a game about stats. Werewolf By Night, for a lot of what most decks are doing already, generates stats way ahead of the going rate without any major downsides. That’s a top tier card.

• Almost like a 3-Cost Vision, playing against a WWBN usually requires either having priority on Turn 6 with Shang-Chi or just praying. – Paper
• Could easily be higher, but only three turns for procs and needs room for procs. Can be tough to pull off. – WolverThor
• Werewolf shocked me with how good it is, how consistently I get it to [3/17], and how easy it is to fit into decks. I would say this is my most fun card EVER in Snap. – Lil Robitussin
• Very close to #1, but Elsa Bloodstone can still win multiple lanes; it’s usually just one for Howlie-boy. – Monroe Bieler

KMBest’s list is one of the homes with the highest Win Rates for the card:

2. Nico Minoru – 171 points (predicted 3rd place)

Variants

Nico Minoru

On Reveal: After you play your next card, cast a spell. (The spell changes each turn.)

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

view card details Start a deck Decks with Nico Minoru

Well, I got this wrong. I thought Nico would be too finicky to be competitively viable… oops. It’s immediately in contention for the best 1-Cost card in the game. It’s not only viable as Thanos‘s seventh Infinity Stone, but in any deck that wants some of its powerful synergies – Destroy, Phoenix Force, Bounce, Loki – if the deck wants anything that Nico Minoru does, it can usually find a use for most of the spells.

• Surprisingly good. – Educated Collins
• Nico was my favorite card because it elevated my favorite archetype: destroy. Destroy has always been linear, to an extent. I’ve pushed the limits with certain combos, but Nico feels like a must-have for any serious Destroy player. – TheJollyRoger
• Nico is such a fun and versatile card. Can fit into a variety of decks and bring value to them all! – Comixfan
• Super versatile. You can put it in any deck and it’s useful. – BitTwiddle

Check out den’s version of Destroy:

Deadpool Destroy

Created by den

, updated 6 months ago

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4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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2x Series 5 Ultra Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 5)

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1. Elsa Bloodstone – 192

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Elsa Bloodstone

Each card you play to fill your side of a location gains +2 Power.

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

view card details Start a deck Decks with Elsa Bloodstone

Before the nerf that changed it to +2 power instead of +3 power, Elsa Bloodstone was the best card in Marvel Snap. In fact, it was one of the best cards in the history of the game, and that power level, even with a nerf, sticks with people. So, should it still be number one?

That’s a tough question. It’s still likely among the top ten cards in Snap; it’s a wildly strong card that goes in many decks as a build around. What weakened it is actually Werewolf By Night. Few decks can effectively fit both, and fewer players can figure out how to play the cards together when they do. When two powerful cards clash like this, both are played less. For now, as the older card, Elsa’s popularity has fallen a little. Time will tell if that continues.

• Elsa is the best choice because it is so diverse and fits into almost any deck type. – KingofCanada
• Release Elsa is #1 by far. – Torikun
• Elsa would have been first before the nerf. – NiTheal
• Still the highest output 2-drop in the game. – SafetyBlade
• Even after the nerf, Elsa is still performing. SD is not going to touch Elsa again soon. In its current condition, Else will still be a meta-defining card. – Bohe

Enjoy den’s Miss Lockdown:

Miss Lockdown

Created by den

, updated 6 months ago

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1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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1x Starter Card

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Conclusion

How did you find the cards from Bloodstone? 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 Higher Further Faster cards.