Highlights

  • Marvel Snap's A Blink in Time season is now available.
  • The game's latest update introduces 5 new cards, 2 unique locations, and 3 albums featuring art by Rian Gonzales and Dan Hipp.

The latest season of Marvel Snap, A Blink in Time, is now available on PC and mobile devices. This content drop introduces five new Marvel Snap cards and two extra locations, among other novelties.

Marvel Snap launched in beta in October 2022 before receiving a full-fledged release come August 2023. Developer Second Dinner has been treating it to seasonal content on a monthly basis ever since. New Marvel Snap seasons commonly start on the first Monday of each month.

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This month offers a slight deviation from that pattern, with the latest Marvel Snap season kicking off on Tuesday, May 7. Called a Blink in Time, this season comprises five new characters to collect, including another variant of Marvel Snap's Blink. Unlike its 3-Cost, 1-Power counterpart, this latest variation of Blink requires 5 Mana points to put in action and has a power rating of 6. Its special ability is triggered on reveal, allowing the player to swap the last played card with a higher-cost one from their deck. This potentially makes it super useful for performing wild tempo swings that can decide a match.

Another one of Marvel's superheroes starring in A Blink in Time is Nocturne. Aside from offering a solid 1.66 Power points per Mana spent, this 3-Cost card has an interesting ability to move to a random location. While fully embracing its randomness will inevitably yield mixed results, its effect may find use in Marvel Snap move decks that are all about taking advantage of the game's multi-location format. A Blink in Time also introduces another 3-Cost card in the form of Sage, which comes with 0 Power but gains two additional Power points for each different Power among the surrounding cards, thus offering some decent versatility.

  • Rian Gonzales shop takeover: May 15 – 16
  • Chibi shop takeover: May 31 – June 1

Decks revolving around buffing low-cost cards instead of packing heavy-hitters may benefit from Namora, another new character introduced in Marvel Snap's May 2024 season. This 5-Cost, 5-Power superhero gives +5 Power to all of the player's cards that are alone at a different location. The final A Blink in Time character addition is Sasquatch, a 6-Cost, 10-Power card with a discount mechanic, which reduces its Cost by a point for each card its owner played in the previous turn.

The new season also introduces two extra locations in the form of Panoptichron and Cancun. The former raises the power of cards that didn't start in the player's deck by two, while the latter prevents any Power used in it from counting toward winning the game, allowing for some potentially interesting interactions. Three new albums are also part of the seasonal content drop; the first of those is already available today, while the remaining two will debut on the 15th and 31st of May. The next stop on Marvel Snap's 2024 content roadmap is expected to follow on or around June 3.

New Characters

  • Blink (5 Cost, 6 Power)
    • On Reveal: Swap the last card you played with a higher-Cost card from your deck.

  • Nocturne (3 Cost, 5 Power)
    • You can move this once. When this moves, replace its location with a random new one.

  • Sage (3 Cost, 0 Power)
    • On Reveal: +2 Power for each different Power among all other cards here.

  • Namora (5 Cost, 5 Power)
    • On Reveal: Give +5 Power to each of your cards alone at another location.

  • Sasquatch (6 Cost, 10 Power)
    • Costs 1 less for each card you played last turn.

New Locations

  • Panoptichron: Cards that didn't start in your deck get +2 Power here.
  • Cancun: Power here doesn't count toward winning the game.

Series 5 Releases

  • May 7th: Baron Zemo - Series 5 Release
  • May 7th: Nocturne - Series 5 Release
  • May 14th: Sage - Series 5 Release
  • May 21st: Namora - Series 5 Release
  • May 28th: Sasquatch - Series 5 Release

New Albums

This season includes three new albums featuring art from comic artists Dan Hipp and Rian Gonzales!

May 7th: Move Your Hipps

  • Collect 3: Werewolf By Night Avatar
  • Collect 6: 1000 Credits
  • Collect 9: Heimdall Shocked Emote
  • Collect 12: Werewolf By Night Variant

May 15th: Cute but Deadly

  • Collect 3: Silk Avatar
  • Collect 6: 1000 Collector’s Tokens
  • Collect 9: Gambit Swoon Emote
  • Collect 12: Silk Variant

May 31st: Oops, All Chibis

  • Collect 3: Iron Lad Avatar
  • Collect 6: 1000 Credits
  • Collect 9: Iron Lad The Thinker Emote
  • Collect 12: Iron Lad Variant