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Warlock is the fifth Series 5 cards joining Marvel Snap for the September 2025 Season, Visions of the Future. It is a 3-Cost, 3-Power card that reads: Activate: For each unspent Energy, give a card in your hand -1 Cost.
Decks with Warlock
Today, let’s explore the new card strengths and, of course, the best decks to try it out in.
Series 5 cards can be purchased for 6,000 Collector’s Tokens from the Token Shop as the latest Seasonal Spotlight card. They will be also be included in the Seasonal Series 5 Snap Pack for 5,000 Collector’s Tokens during their season and the following one.
Strengths and Weaknesses
Warlock has everything it needs to be a good addition to the Marvel Snap roster. Sunspot, She-Hulk and The Infinaut are decent cards at the moment, while Red Guardian has been nerfed recently.
Decks with The Infinaut
These three are the obvious pairings for Warlock, and likely the starting point for many of us looking to test the new 3-cost. Have Sunspot on the board, pass turn five to enable The Infinaut and discount She-Hulk, get five bonus energy in the bonus, allowing you to play both 6-cost and maybe a little more on turn six.
Arguably, one of these three cards will be part of most decks including Warlock. Sunspot plus She-Hulk is a flexible enough pair to be included in a variety of decks. Then, let’s look for ways to boost our energy, so we can make that synergy as powerful as possible.
Decks with H.E.R.B.I.E.
Decks with Magik
Decks with Luna Snow
Decks with Hope Summers
Decks with Pixie
Decks with The Fallen One
To that list, we can also add Jocasta, which allows triggering Warlock an extra time, possibly discounting our hand 10 times on turn five through simply playing both cards back to back on turn three and four.
Decks with Jocasta
For all those great promises however, I see a major issue on the way.
Decks with Mobius M. Mobius
Mobius M. Mobius is enough to shut down Warlock, especially as the activate key word gives our opponent a turn to play Mobius M. Mobius. Just due to that synergy, I don’t think Warlock will have much of an immediate impact, unless the OTA tones down the current metagame. Indeed, on top of that immediate counter, Warlock also needs to empower its decks to rival Move and such high power decks currently roaming the ladder.
The Verdict: Should You Get Warlock ?
I believe Warlock is good enough to be a card one wants in its collection. Eventually, there will be a time when that ability will be great. That time could actually come next week, with Jocasta coming as the hot release of the season and an OTA on Thursday.
In this metagame however, with Move and Iron Hand decks putting up tons of points, while Mobius M. Mobius is one of the few untouched disruptive cards around, I fear Warlock won’t look that great.
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Warlock Decks
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In the Double Up archetype, I like Warlock mostly because it brings more flexibility towards using Moon Girl. Indeed, we can discount our cards on turn four and copy them on turn 5 if She-Hulk was missing, to create plenty of discounted copies with Moon Girl.
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In those decks looking to cheat energy in order to Taskmaster a card buffed by Shuri, Warlock will bring a lot of flexibility, and more importantly, more for the opponent to guess.
Indeed, if Warlock discounts enough of our hand, we could play Shuri, She-Hulk and Taskmaster all in the same turn. This way, we can pick which two locations we want to target, while the opponent still has no idea how we plan to win the game.
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I expect this type of deck to be reworked in a week with Jocasta in the mix, but we can still use Warlock in that shell until then.
Here, Warlock once again enables an explosive last turn, with Hulk and She-Hulk at the very least, while also keeping one energy for Misty Knight and Cyclops’s ability.
Variants
I have to say, these variants are absolute fire. Warlock immediately contends for most stylish card in the game in my opinion.
Conclusion
If it wasn’t for Mobius M. Mobius, I would regard Warlock as a new way to develop points flexibly, and a possible new contender in this points heavy metagame. However, the disruptive 3-cost is already quite popular to keep the likes of Mister Negative in check, so there is no way Warlock represents a safe energy cheat.
I hope this review of the new card was helpful. You can find everyone on the Marvel Snap Zone team in our community discord to have a chat or ask any questions.
Good Game Everyone!
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