Highlights

  • Marvel Snap's Blob has recently influenced the meta with his unique abilities, making him a popular character.
  • Players can look forward to future seasons in Marvel Snap, with January featuring content for Hulk fans and February reinforcing Thanos' Infinity Stone deck.
  • The Black Order season in February introduces new characters like Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight, who offer interesting abilities for discard and Power-based strategies.

Possible spoilers ahead for datamined seasons in Marvel Snap.

Marvel Snap is currently enjoying its Hellfire Gala season and associable Season Pass this December. The Gala’s card variants have all brought stunningly regal attire to many of Marvel’s most iconic characters, but on the side of gameplay it’s been interesting to see how Marvel Snap’s Blob has influenced the meta recently. Blob is highly unique for his On Reveal ability which subsumes the player’s deck into the card, accumulating its total Power, with a supplementary Ongoing ability that renders him immovable. There are obvious advantages and disadvantages to this, but Blob seems to be relatively popular at the moment.

Thankfully, even if one season’s content isn’t tailored to one player’s Marvel or Marvel Snap preferences, there are always more seasons to look forward to with each coming month. Likewise, learning what those future seasons will consist of is as easy as inquiring about it due to the dedication of dataminers who preemptively learn all they can about new cards, Season Passes, variants, and locations. January looks to be an exciting month for Hulk fans, for instance, and February looks to celebrate and reinforce Thanos’ Infinity Stone deck in Marvel Snap with the addition of more Black Order lackeys.

Marvel Snap ’s Black Order Season Pass is slated for February as per datamines, but all details are subject to change since the season hasn't been released yet.

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Marvel Snap’s Black Order February Season May Usher in Some Big Changes

Marvel Snap’s Corvus Glaive, Proxima Midnight Could Be Huge for the Discard Meta

Marvel Snap already features Ebony Maw (who receives an In-Hyuk Lee variant and avatar in the Black Order Season Pass). Still, the datamine for February states that the rest of the Black Order will be joining him now. Interestingly, two Black Order characters are particularly oriented around the discard build, as discerned by these datamines—Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight.

Corvus’ On Reveal ability discards two cards from the player’s hand and grants +1 Max Energy, which seems terrific at the moment and could likely precipitate a nerf in the future for the 3-Cost 4-Power card. This also makes Corvus a far superior Electro without the hindrance of only being able to play one card per turn, though some players may still prefer him since they won’t need to discard anything from their hand to play him. On the other hand, when Proxima is discarded, she instead moves to the player’s lowest-Power location that isn’t already full.

Because this ability is innate, the phrasing of this description suggests that she’ll then move around and remain in play regardless of whether she’s discarded from the player’s hand or discarded while she’s at a location, and because she is a 6-Power card with 4-Cost that makes her tremendously valuable in a discard deck. Few discard builds can maintain high-Power cards and largely rely on bringing them back in final turns for a big upswing, but as long as Proxima isn’t destroyed it seems like she’ll be a great card to bolster any of the player’s losing locations.

Card

Cost/Power

Ability

Corvus Glaive

3-Cost, 4-Power

On Reveal: Discard 2 cards from your hand to get +1 Max Energy.

Proxima Midnight

4-Cost, 6-Power

When this is discarded, jumps to your lowest-Power location. (that isn’t full)

Marvel Snap’s Cull Obsidian, Black Swan are True Infinity Stone Powerhouses Like Thanos

Thanos’ Infinity Stone-populating deck has had some clever plays in the meta before, but the Black Order season this February could make it much more popular with cards helping to supplement the stones. Cull Obsidian, otherwise known as Black Dwarf, can only be played at a location with an Infinity Stone already there and ordinarily has 10 Power.

Obsidian cannot be destroyed but that perk comes from an Ongoing ability, meaning that Marvel Snap’s Enchantress would be able to nullify it. Being only 4-Cost, though, is a wonderful boon that makes him incredibly worthwhile. Meanwhile, Black Swan, the February Season Pass card, has an On Reveal ability that reduces the Cost of 1-Cost cards to 0 until the end of the next turn. Therefore, with Black Swan herself being a 2-Cost 3-Power card, it’s possible players could dish out all their Infinity Stones in the first few turns and buff Thanos.

Funny enough, Cull Obsidian and Black Swan may not necessarily make the Infinity Stones or Thanos any more vital, but the Infinity Stones and Thanos could make Cull Obsidian and Black Swan more vital. It’s fun when commonly paired or affiliated characters can find synergy in Marvel Snap, and seeing all if not most of the Black Order together in a deck will be a satisfying representation of that.

Card

Cost/Power

Ability

Cull Obsidian

4-Cost, 10-Power

You can only play this at a location with an Infinity Stone. Ongoing: Can’t be destroyed.

Black Swan

2-Cost, 3-Power

On Reveal: Until the end of next turn, your 1-Cost cards cost 0.

Marvel Snap’s Supergiant is the Only Black Order Card That Doesn’t Seem OP

Supergiant is an odd variation of Invisible Woman. Perhaps the advantage of that is not giving opponents the foresight and opportunity to play a Rogue on that location later on, which would disrupt any elaborate plans constructed beneath a Sue Storm played. Rather, Supergiant seems to affect both the player and opponent’s cards based on the description’s wording, and because the card doesn’t affect all cards on that location or elsewhere after the next turn it has less of a risk involved.

However, while this could be great for a card or two in the turn Supergiant is played as well as the one after, the following cards will be revealed still once played. This way, players may have one or two cards unrevealed and in play that could avoid a Rogue since Supergiant’s ability is an On Reveal, unlike Invisible Woman’s Ongoing ability. Otherwise, Supergiant is also a 1-Cost 2-Power card, which allows her to be played practically any time and as early as possible.

Ultimately, Supergiant seems effective if there are only a couple of important cards players need to be left unrevealed until the end of the game and she should be reserved for that exclusively. Players won’t get the unrevealed mileage that Invisible Woman would with a full location, but it’s also much more difficult to thwart Supergiant’s unrevealed cards. Paired with Corvus Glaive, Supergiant has the potential to pull off some chaotically brilliant strategies in a Marvel Snap discard deck.

Card

Cost/Power

Ability

Supergiant

1-Cost, 2-Power

On Reveal: All cards played this turn and next turn don’t reveal until the game ends.