Loki Decks: Weekend Challenge Mission Guide

During the weekend, there is now one more set of Missions for players to complete: The Weekend Missions! These involve additional rewards for winning games related to the week’s new card and the Season Pass card. These missions provide extra Collector’s Tokens and Gold! This week’s Weekend Challenges are:

You need to win games with the card starting in your deck, and it does not count if the card was generated by cards such as Cable and Maria Hill. Each of these reward amounts will vary depending on the difficulty of the mission. There will be Weekly Missions available for each new card release. The goal of Weekly Missions is to allow players to earn back Collector’s Tokens from new cards and subsidize their cost.

The token missions are expected to differ from week to week, depending on the card. For example, three wins for 100 Collector’s Tokens, four wins for 300, and five wins for 500, depending on the week (1,000 Collector’s Tokens is on the highest end).

Variants

Loki

On Reveal: Transform your hand into cards from your opponent’s starting deck and give them -1 Cost.

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

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Most players will want to be efficient with these missions, so today we will give you three different decks that incorporate Loki.

We’ll also give you a short guide on how to get the most out of the deck and finish the missions quickly, but first let’s take a quick look at the new card’s performance this week.

For more inspiration, make sure to check out our latest strategy guide on Loki as well:

Performance

Loki is here, and Marvel Snap seems to have tipped on its head. The energy discounts and the ability to take advantage of The Collector has turned out to be one of the strongest, if not the strongest, plays you can make in Marvel Snap. The effect and the decks Loki is in have immediately brought with them lots of discussion on the power level and whether it is too strong. But, is it? Has Loki performed that far above other releases and other decks, or is it just new card excitement?

Variants

The Collector

When a card enters your hand from anywhere (except your deck), +1 Power.

Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

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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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Cutting right to the chase, the deck is performing at historic levels according to the deck trackers. This doesn’t give us the full picture, and we will discuss the issue of whether it is actually too strong a little later, but the stats put this one card as pretty much the strongest play you can make in Marvel Snap. When a card is released to such fanfare, the discourse around it is skewed because players either want to counter the card or simply defend it so they can keep playing. Still, the Win Rates being displayed are way above what we have seen for single cards previously.

The power comes from the clear synergy with The Collector and Quinjet, as well as the powerful Kitty Pryde and Angela package. This creates a lot of power on board, but the additional cost reduction of all the copied cards is the straw that really pushes it over the edge. You gather multiple resources at significant reductions, and by that stage it almost doesn’t matter what the cards are. The combinations have produced a powerful deck that the metagame was not ready for, but will it remain good with adjustments?

Variants

Cerebro

Ongoing: Your highest-Power cards have +2 Power.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Variants

High Evolutionary

At the start of the game, unlock the potential of your cards with no abilities.

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

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Well, yes. The matter of if there are counters or even decks that can perform better than this deck doesn’t mean the card is not strong or won’t remain strong. If one card is strong enough that every deck has to either play it or have a solid plan against it, then that card has had an oversized impact.

The decks it has been primarily run in can be attacked on three axes. First, they like to fill the board with cards, so locking up locations in different ways can hurt them. Second, you can aim to counter the big stats on Angela and The Collector with cards like Shadow King, Shang-Chi, and Valkyrie. Third, you can limit the benefit from the card swap by playing synergistic decks like Cerebro, High Evolutionary, and Thanos. While this sounds like plenty of ways to attack the deck, they can all still lose to their own cards if the Loki play is timed correctly.

In addition, while the core deck for Loki seems rather solved, there are other ways to play the card. We can play it in decks focused around entirely different strategies (like Shuri, for example), where it can act as a switch card in a bad situation. These are underexplored for now, but the ability to have entirely different outcomes available to you from the inclusion of one card may be worthwhile in more decks. Especially if you pair it with Snowguard since it gives you two extra cards on the swap. The card can also have value in Conquest; you can swap hands when you don’t have what you need and try to surprise your opponent.

Variants

Snowguard

On Reveal: Add the Hawk and Bear auroras to your hand.

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

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Variants

Shuri

On Reveal: If you play your next card at this location, double its Power.

Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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Whether you’re Team Loki Is Busted or Team Wait And See, it is hard to deny that Loki has had a huge impact. It has fully lived up to the expectations and has become a card you ignore at your own cost.

This impact is felt both when playing the deck and when playing any other deck in the game. The meta has shifted, and it doesn’t really matter if it settles with or against Loki. The card is strong, and it enables a style of deck that is different from what we had prior to its release. That is enough to pass the performance test at this stage, so we will have to watch how things develop from here to determine if the damage from this card has longer lasting repercussions.

So, how do we use Loki to rack up wins and complete the Weekend Challenge Missions?

The Loki Deck

The Deck

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4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

3x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

3x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

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

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I’m going to do something a little different this week. This versions will serve as the “core” deck with Loki; it’s on the top end in cost, but we will cut back as many of the pieces as possible to present the low cost version. Many players are going to want this card, and that will give us a wide range to work with. The solid shell is The Collector with enough generation to keep your hand filled, but make sure there are enough key tech cards to allow you to maintain your threats. The two chosen here are Luke Cage and Cosmo, but something like Armor can also be in one of these slots.

These allow us to protect lanes where we are playing Angela and The Collector from counter play. Legion is also included as a good value card that does a lot for the investment, but generation cards like Mirage could fill this spot as well. The plan is simple: play The Collector, play other generation cards, and aim to play Loki and Kitty Pryde on Turn 4 or Turn 5 to swap your hand and win with whatever you get.

The Cheaper Deck

The Cheaper Deck

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5x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

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

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The cheaper deck hits the heights with the Loki play, so it relies on it a lot more. To try compensating for the loss of generation, we include Devil Dinosaur as a second threat/plan we can pursue. This way, we commit to either Devil Dinosaur or Loki depending how our hand looks on Turn 4. Loki is a fine Turn 6 play after setting up a Devil Dinosaur, too, because it still buffs The Collector.

Shuri Collector

Shuri Collector

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4x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

1x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

4x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

2x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

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

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When considering what deck to present as another option for this article, I landed on this Shuri hybrid to demonstrate just how small the core Loki package actually is. Here we are able to combine it with enough of the Shuri package to make a deck that can either play Shuri or not, or even do a little of both.

Hela Loki

Hela Loki

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2x Collection Level 18-214 (Pool 1)

2x Collection Level 222-474 (Pool 2)

5x Collection Level 486+ (Pool 3)

2x Series 4 Rare – Collection Level 486+ (Pool 4)

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

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Looking for something new? This deck looks to have the Loki game plan alongside the “discard everything casino” game plan. The advantage it tries to capitalize on is less of an ability to be countered via the opposing Loki play since the discard game plan is harder to copy. It is also just a fun and interesting way to play the card if the other versions feel stale.

Closing Thoughts

Wins with the new card may seem a tall order some weeks depending what quality of card is released. Hopefully this guide helps you decide first if you want the card prior to the missions coming out, and what you can potentially play to complete the missions quickly!