Top New Cards of the Higher, Further, Faster 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 the Higher, Further, Faster Season!

We’re not doing this the normal way, though. You aren’t just getting my opinion and predictions 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!
• 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.

4. Martyr – 49 points

Variants

Martyr

At the end of the game, move to a location that LOSES you the game. (if possible)

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

view card details Start a deck Decks with Martyr

At first look, this card is absolutely terrible. Who wants a card that will move to lose you the game? Isn’t the point of Marvel Snap to win? What a bad card.

Well, Martyr is probably not very good, but it’s also unlikely to be useless. [1/4] is a good rate, and adding two with Forge, Elsa Bloodstone, or Nico Minoru makes for pretty good stats. The problem is that a lot of Snap games come down to 50-50s where this card ensures you have no right choice. Moreover, it costs 3000 Collector’s Tokens or some Spotlight Caches. Never has a card more screamed to be released into an earlier Series. The stats aren’t even much of an outlier with Ant Man and Hawkeye matching the power.

• Martyr is a card that I don’t know why anyone would want to own or even play. Just for stats maybe with Zero, but there are better cards. – KingofCanada
• Now that it’s a [1/4] and not a [2/6], it has lost a large majority of its potential. – BitTwiddle
• Only good for fill decks. Losing on purpose?? Need to make it so the card won’t move. – WolverThor
• Gladiator is way better than Martyr. – Revis
• I think it should be interesting, but a card like Martyr baffles me. You need to fill all your lanes to snag a win, but it will be good with Ka-Zar and Elsa Bloodstone for seven power on Turn 6 as a 1-drop. – Vision

Cerebr4

Created by den

, updated 6 months ago

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3. Ms. Marvel – 103

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Ms. Marvel

Ongoing: Your adjacent locations with 2+ cards and no repeated Costs have +5 Power.

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

view card details Start a deck Decks with Ms. Marvel

While the non-Martyr cards were all close, it’s hard for me to imagine Ms. Marvel being worse than second when the dust settles. A potential [4/15] seems almost too good to be true, but [4/10] is a card you need to jump through hoops to get to, whether that be Sentry, Attuma, or Typhoid Mary. The downside on all of those essentially outpaces the stats entirely, while Ms. Marvel is, at worst, a [4/5], so basically a Stegron when you didn’t care to hit anything. That’s fantastic.

But don’t you have to play it in the central location? No. Remember what I said about the ability to get a [4/10] being great? If you can get it activated elsewhere, it’s still great. In the Bloodstone Season article, I talked about how Marvel Snap was really about stats, which makes both Elsa Bloodstone and Werewolf By Night premium cards. That’s also going to be true of Ms. Marvel, too.

• Am I crazy for thinking Ms. Marvel is actually gonna be mid? It seems harder to pull off than Galactus… between junk cards, Spider-Man, Rogue, Magneto, etc… I just don’t see it. – Monroe Bieler
• I see a ton of disrespect for this card, but any card that can generate this much power needs to be respected. Ms. Marvel into Professor X is going to cause a lot of rage this season… – PeacefulSea
• Many doubt the potential of this card, but, personally, I find it extremely solid. In combination with Doctor Doom, you can put 10 power in each lane for 10 energy. That is, 10 energy for 30 power… It seems solid enough to me to be playable. – Bohe
• A three card combo – minimum – that can be stopped with Enchantress or Rogue. – SafetyBlade
• A 4-Cost for 15 power that isn’t super hard to trigger. I can already picture multiple decks running it. Also, it can be paired with Shadow King or another 2-Cost to keep in hand until Turn 6. Zabu still exists as well. – den

? MISS MARVELAD

Created by Owi

, updated 6 months ago

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Pool 3On RevealOngoingComboInfiniteGuideMidrangeThematicCompetitivePool 5

2x Collection Level 1-14

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2. Gladiator – 116

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Gladiator

On Reveal: Add a card from your opponent’s deck to their side of this location. If it has less Power, destroy it.

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

view card details Start a deck Decks with Gladiator

I think this card will be bad. Very few creators seem to agree with me, but giving an opponent a free card – anything from The Infinaut to Darkhawk to Doctor Doom – just seems backbreaking. By definition, when it doesn’t work, it’s giving the opponent more than you (without resources). When it does work? It’s basically Yondu with the downside that the On Reveal could still have messed you up. You need to pack Shang-Chi with it, but having to Shang their card that they didn’t pay for when they likely have other threats isn’t a great deal either. I know I said stats are king, but it’s a [3/7], not a [3/12] or a [4/15]. [3/7] is very good, but Maximus and Wolfsbane aren’t, like, OP cards. What am I missing? I’d rather buy Martyr; at least it’s cheap.

• Gladiator is either very strong or actually broken depending on how the ability triggers in regards to Ongoing and On Reveal abilities, and it is the card I expect to see Loki levels of play. – TeamCounterGaming
• Gladiator RNG is going to be so fun – the rest of them are kinda boring to me. – Combat Snap
• I think Gladiator is the most evergreen, and some healthy disruption that Snap needs at the moment. – Interrobang
• Gladiator will often pull America Chavez, so America’s power level will be more impactful and this could lead to Second Dinner reducing it (as they have alluded to a Chavez nerf before). – DoctorOctillery
• Gladiator’s ability looks cool, but most of the time it’s just Yondu’s (and when it’s not – the downside might be worse than Maximus’s, depending on how important it was to your opponent to play that card with specific timing). Of course, the power is great. – LaurenWhatever
• Gladiator seems omega-mid. I’ve been wrong before. – Alex Graves
• My Safety sense is tingling with this one. Pulling and potentially destroying key resources while junking up strategies is a lot. If you do pull something over, the power can be mitigated or known about on Turn 3 instead of winning other lanes. The power of pulling something they didn’t want pulled is high (with the downside of it representing deck thinning). – SafetyBlade
• I’m most excited for Gladiator. It will fit into the Destroy archetype nicely and, while triggering an On Reveal is a potential downside, it has the opportunity to steal a kill and build your initiative going into later turns. – TheJollyRoger
• But with huge power and the ability to buff it then have it do its thing. I’m thinking of Shuri on Wong or Forge on Wong. I mean, even just getting it to nine power wipes out most of your opponent’s deck.- SuperTechGod

Check out den’s version of Destroy:

Gladiator Surfer

Created by den

, updated 6 months ago

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3x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

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1. Annihilus – 122

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Annihilus

On Reveal: Your cards with Power below 0 switch sides. Destroy those that can’t.

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

view card details Start a deck Decks with Annihilus

The votes for Annihilus are all over the place. Some people seem to think it’s a trap – that opponents will clog their own board first or Killmonger will render it useless. While Destroy is a concern, I tend to find if an opponent is filling up their entire board by Turn 5, I’m likely to win the game… and anything that can’t move over just dies! I think this is more likely to be broken than mid.

• Annihilus Meta looking toxic. – Educated Collins
• Junk decks will actually be good… for a few days before Destroy takes over the meta. I still think this card will have the most impact on the meta. – Paper
• Annihilus is a card I’ve been looking forward to for a while; it makes me want to learn how to play clog more, and I think it adds a nice change of pace to the game. – Tuccrr
• Ravonna Renslayer with Junk will make Annihilus and Martyr a problem. – Prashaun

AnniThing

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 7 months ago

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2x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

7x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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

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

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Conclusion

How did you find the cards from Higher, Further, Faster? 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 5 Bloodstone Season cards.