Best Marvel Snap Decks Tier List (April 2024)

The Best Marvel Snap Decks

Welcome to our Marvel Snap best decks tier list where I try to cover all of the top decks in the game. In this article, I’ll be covering what I believe are the best decks in the meta, with a focus on high rank Infinite.

April is coming to a close, and the meta is still continuing to evolve. Angela and combo decks have run rampant in the meta, but a new tech deck has risen up to challenge them.

Junk decks have risen up in popularity to combat both combo and Angela decks. Junk decks have a unique strength in being able to disrupt combo decks while also being strong in other midrange decks.

With White Widow releasing this week, more players will likely pick up Junk decks to try her out.

While a lot of the meta outside of Junk remains mostly the same, the meta will likely continue to evolve as well.

Marvel Snap Deck Tier List

Let’s get right into the tier list. Be sure to use the table of contents on the sidebar to jump to different decks.

• S – Pixie Annihilus
• S – Hela
• S – Tribunal
• S – Junk
• A – Loki
• A – Darkhawk Bounce
• A – Surfer
• A – Shuri Kitty
• A – Phoenix Force
• B – Discard
• B – Mill
• B – Cerebro 3
• B – Thanos
• B – Destroy
• B – Negative

Disclaimers

Overall, the decks in this list will be more catered to Ladder than Conquest. Conquest is a very high skill format, but most players seem to prefer Ladder now that there’s Infinite ranks.

Credits to snap.fan for their deck builder and images sourced from their website.

Lastly, there are many more deck archetypes that we would consider to be C tier. While I would put some decks in C tier, the list would get too long if I put every single archetype I can think of. As such, we’re mainly showing some decks in B, the semi-competitive/ fun decks.

Pixie Annihilus – S-Tier

Pixie Annihilus Decklist:

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• 1-cost: The Hood, Spider-Ham, Iceman
• 2-cost: Pixie, White Widow, Jeff
• 3-cost: Mobius, Polaris
• 4-cost: Sentry
• 5-cost: Annihilus, Lady Deathstrike
• 6-cost: Red Hulk

Commentary:

This first deck is a partial Junk deck that uses the core of Annihilus, The Hood, and Sentry. While there aren’t many other Junk tools, the deck can still clunk up your opponent effectively.

Polaris is also a strong card to clog enemy boards, and the newly released White Widow can fit in here as well. Outside of those cards, you have a lot of anti-combo cards like Mobius, Iceman, and Spider-Ham.

Pixie is also card that is rising up in the meta, as it allows certain decks to high roll. This gives the Pixie player a lot of snap potential, as the opponent can never fully guess what you have in your hand.

This deck has just a little bit of everything. Power, tech cards, disruption.

Hela – S-Tier

Hela Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Blade
• 3-cost: Corvus Glaive, Lady Sif
• 4-cost: Dracula, Jubilee, Black Cat
• 6+-cost: Hela, Red Hulk, Magneto, Giganto, The Infinaut, Death

Commentary:

Of the combo decks that have popped off, Hela still remains one that is largely resistant to tech. While Junk decks have risen up with cards like Professor X and Annihilus, there isn’t too much counter play outside of those cards.

If Junk becomes very common in the meta, Hela will definitely move down, but her presence as a deck pushes out many other strategies that can’t interact.

Tribunal – S-Tier

Tribunal Decklist:

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• 2-cost: Psylocke, Ravonna Renslayer
• 3-cost: Mystique, Magik
• 4-cost: Mister Negative, Jubilee, Super Skrull
• 5-cost: Iron Man, Blue Marvel, Sera
• 6-cost: Onslaught, The Living Tribunal

Commentary:

Realistically speaking, the higher you climb in Marvel Snap, the worse of a deck Tribunal becomes. The deck is vulnerable to many tech cards like Mobius, Red Guardian, Scarlet Witch, and more.

While the deck is very fragile, it still has the highest ceiling in the game. If you find yourself playing against unfavorable decks, you should likely look to play a different combo deck.

However, as time passes, people start to remove Tribunal hate from their deck, and it inevitably moves back up.

It’s an extremely difficult deck to tier because of how polarizing it is. For now, I’m leaving it in S-tier, but it could very well drop down to A or B next week.

Junk – S-Tier

Junk Decklist:

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• 1-cost: The Hood, Nebula
• 2-cost: White Widow, Jeff, Ravonna Renslayer
• 3-cost: Green Goblin, Debrii
• 4-cost: Sentry
• 5-cost: Hobgoblin, Professor X, Annihilus, Cannonball

Commentary:

Junk has found itself back in the meta as an effective way to combat Combo decks. Annihilus, Professor X, and Cannonball are all effective ways of disrupting your opponent.

This deck leans more into the Junk strategy with cards like Debrii, Green Goblin, and Hobgoblin.

While the Pixie Annihilus deck has more high roll potential, this list has a more straight forward game plan. The deck also can combat other midrange decks effectively with strong power cards like Sentry and The Demon.

This list adds in White Widow, but if you don’t have her, you can run Daredevil instead.

Loki – A-Tier

Loki Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Kitty Pryde, Quinjet, Snowguard
• 2-cost: Angela, Cable, Jeff
• 3-cost: Elsa Bloodstone, Agent Coulson, Hope Summers
• 4-cost: Shang-Chi, Loki
• 5-cost: Mockingbird

Commentary:

With Angela back in the meta, Loki decks have swapped out cards like Mobius in favor of the Power engine Angela provides. While this may make Loki weak to combos like Tribunal, Loki is still able to play Snowguard.

The Hawk from Snowguard allows you to turn off Limbo for any Tribunal deck looking to combo that way. While the deck may still fall prey to other combo decks, Shang-Chi is still a catch-all tech card.

Overall, I feel that Loki is still the most complete “midrange” deck. You have solid amount of power, and tech cards for the wider meta. Maybe in the future Loki decks even tech in War Machine to combat Professor X as well.

Darkhawk Bounce – A-Tier

Darkhawk Bounce Decklist:

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• 1-cost: The Hood, Kitty Pryde, Korg
• 2-cost: Angela, Beast, Falcon
• 3-cost: Rock Slide, Hope Summers
• 4-cost: Sentry
• 5-cost: Darkhawk, Annihilus
• 6-cost: Red Hulk

Commentary:

Bounce decks have been tinkering around a lot, with some running Hit-Monkey or some being more low-cost. In the current meta, Darkhawk has made a return to Bounce shells. Korg and Rockslide are effective forms of disruption and the Annihilus package helps as well.

The core Bounce shell mainly looks to put high power on the board, with the Rocks helping a little bit against combo decks.

Surfer  – A-Tier

Surfer Decklist:

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• 2-cost: Hazmat
• 3-cost: Ironheart, Mystique, Brood, Magik, Silver Surfer, Luke Cage, Sebastian Shaw
• 4-cost: Wong, Absorbing Man
• 5-cost: Sera
• 6-cost: Odin

Commentary:

With Mobius out of the picture for a little bit, Sera is making a bit of a resurgence in Surfer. We’ve already seen Hope Summer versions perform well, but Sera + Magik gives Surfer a stronger combo to overpower other combo decks.

Hazmat is also a strong counter to decks like Tribunal that rely on Iron Man + Mystique for power.

This list is very all in on a Wong + Surfer combo, but you can also adapt the deck to play without Magik as well. Because of this, Surfer is a very flexible deck that will likely remain strong even if the meta shifts.

Shuri Kitty – A-Tier

Shuri Kitty Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler
• 2-cost: Angela, Armor, Hulk Buster, Jeff
• 3-cost: Elsa Bloodstone, Hope Summers
• 4-cost: Shuri
• 5-cost: Taskmaster, Vision
• 6-cost: Red Hulk

Commentary:

Shuri Kitty is an Elsa deck that looks to maximize in Power rather than run tech cards. You can do things like Hope Summers, Shuri, Red Hulk, Taskmaster, and output a ton of Power.

Kitty Pryde, Elsa, and Shuri also potentially buff up Kitty to very large numbers as well. Essentially, this deck is another “combo” like deck, similar to Phoenix Force.

While you are very vulnerable to Shang-Chi, Kitty + Taskmaster on the final turn usually gives up priority to safely put Power on the board. Kitty + Red Hulk can also output a ton of Power.

Phoenix Force – A-Tier

Phoenix Force Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Ghost-Spider, Human Torch, Nico Minoru
• 2-cost: Carnage, Multiple Man
• 3-cost: Venom, Deathlok
• 4-cost: Shuri, Shang-Chi, Phoenix Force
• 5-cost: Nimrod
• 6-cost: Arnim Zola

Commentary:

Phoenix Force hasn’t really changed, and it’s still a strong deck. It may even still be S-tier, but with it being more prevalent, players are more prepared to retreat when they know they can’t beat Shuri Nimrod.

While most decks have changed quite a bit, Phoenix Force remains just about the same. You can look to drop the Nimrod package in favor of Tribunal as well. By doing this, you look to counter Professor X and potentially have another surprise finish.

Discard – B-Tier

Discard Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Miek, Blade
• 2-cost: Mobius, The Collector, Swarm, Colleen Wing
• 3-cost: Corvus Glaive
• 4-cost: Dracula, Proxima Midnight
• 5-cost: M.O.D.O.K.
• 6-cost: Apocalypse, Helicarrier

Commentary:

Discard hasn’t really seen too much love in the current meta. It could just be that players want to fiddle with other decks, because the deck still outputs strong Power.

However, without Thanos to police combo decks, I feel like Discard finds itself in a weird spot. You don’t really consistently beat combo based decks, and most other midrange decks got a boost in Power with Angela in the meta.

Even still, it’s a consistent deck that can also output high power when the cards line up.

Replacements:

• Lady Sif over Corvus Glaive/Miek
• Gambit over Corvus Glaive

Mill – B-Tier

Mill Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Nebula
• 2-cost: White Widow, Cable, Jeff
• 3-cost: Cosmo, Baron Zemo, Gladiator
• 4-cost: Shang-Chi, Iron Lad
• 5-cost: Professor X, Cannonball
• 6-cost: Red Hulk

Commentary:

Mill is an archetype similar to Junk. Instead of cards like Debrii or Annihilus, the deck instead uses cards like Cable, Baron Zemo, and Gladiator to disrupt combo decks.

Cannonball and Professor X is another strong duo that finds a home in this deck.

While the deck can be annoying for decks to play against, it doesn’t necessarily have the same power that Annihilus decks have. Red Hulk is a strong turn 6 play, so that makes up for it a little bit.

Cerebro 3 – B-Tier

Cerebro 3 Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Bast
• 2-cost: Jeff, Ravonna Renslayer, Sentinel
• 3-cost: Cerebro, Mystique, Magik, Red Guardian, Rhino
• 5-cost: Iron Man, Valkyrie

Commentary:

Interestingly enough, Cerebro 3 is also coming back into the meta. Cerebro 3 actually has some relevant tech cards like Valkyrie, Mobius, Red Guardian, and Rhino.

These cards can all disrupt combo decks while still playing into your own archetype. Red Guardian is quite a strong tech card against a large variety of decks, giving Cerebro a nice buff.

Thanos – B-Tier

Thanos Decklist:

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• 2-cost: Jeff
• 3-cost: Mobius, Hope Summers, Corvus Glaive
• 4-cost: Shang-Chi
• 5-cost: Vision, Mockingbird
• 6-cost: Blob, Hela, Thanos, Red Hulk, Magneto

Commentary:

The nerfs to Thanos have finally moved it down the tier list, but the deck has reinvented itself. Instead of being a consistent midrange type deck, the deck is now another combo deck. Yay.

Similar to ramp, this deck also uses Corvus and Hela to highroll, but you can also play efficient cards like Mockingbird with the Infinity Stones.

While the deck isn’t as strong as it used to be, it’s still a contender.

Destroy – B-Tier

Destroy Decklist:

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• 1-cost: Deadpool, Nico Minoru, X-23
• 2-cost: Carnage, Wolverine, Hulk Buster
• 3-cost: Killmonger, Venom, Deathlok
• 4-cost: Shang-Chi
• 6+cost: Knull, Death

Commentary:

Destroy hasn’t really changed, but the meta hasn’t gotten better for it. Thanos was often a good matchup due to Killmonger destroying Infinity Stones. In the new meta, other decks can go just as big or bigger than Destroy, making it worse than before.

Replacements:

• Arnim Zola
• Taskmaster

Negative – B-Tier

Negative Decklist:

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• 2-cost: Psylocke, Ravonna Renslayer
• 3-cost: Ironheart, Mystique
• 4-cost: Mister Negative, Wong, Shang-Chi
• 5-cost: Iron Man, Black Panther, Jane Foster
• 6-cost: Arnim Zola, Knull

Commentary:

With combo decks coming back in full force, Negative is seeing a bit of a resurgence as well. The deck is very similar to Tribunal in that Mobius is a big counter, but you don’t care about location control.

Like every other combo deck, you’re just hoping that your combo/draws overpower your opponent.

Methodology

We’ve tried our best to evaluate these decks based on a few key factors:

• Overall Strength: The first factor is simply how much Power a deck can put onto the board. At the end of the day, Marvel Snap boils down to a numbers game, and decks that can put high Power on the board will be strong.
• Consistency: Consistency is quite hard to determine for Snap due to the snap mechanics. You can always retreat and make up for it if what your deck does is extremely powerful, albeit difficult to pull off. Even still, being able to enact a similar game plan repeatedly leans to an overall smoother climb.
• Flexibility: For Marvel Snap, flexibility is somewhat equivalent to “surprise factor.” A deck is flexible if you have a multitude of options that your opponent cannot easily counter/predict. This means you aren’t always enacting 1 gameplan every game, but can adapt based on the situation.
• Counterplay: Lastly, a deck should also be analyzed based on possible counters. If a deck has the highest ceiling but is easily countered, it may be difficult to win. Conversely, if a powerful deck has space to play it’s own tech cards, that will help it’s overall strength/ranking as well.

Conclusion

This wraps up our Marvel Snap Best Decks Tier List for the “Thunderbolts” season.

Stay tuned as we update this tier list as more time passes.

Good luck on your climb and snap away!

If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out our other resources for Marvel Snap. These can help you wherever you are in the Collection Track.

• Series 4 Tier List
• Series 5 Tier List
• Spotlight Cache Review

Good luck in your games, and thanks for reading!