Marvel Snap Conquest Meta Tier List: July 4, 2024 – The Celestials’ Finest Week 5

Welcome to our Marvel Snap Conquest Meta Tier List! Each week, we review the best decks in the ever-changing Marvel Snap Conquest meta.

This report is dedicated to the Conquest mode and lists the current best decks to run the gauntlet and grab your next Infinity avatar. We also provide a Ranked report, available around the middle of the week based on the latest updates, that highlights the best archetypes for that mode. Looking to figure out the impact of the newly released card or the latest balance changes in Conquest? This is the place to be!

If you are looking for more information about a deck in particular, check out our Archetypes pages, with detailed information about each of the household names in Marvel Snap.

Marvel Snap Conquest Overview

It isn’t often I get to rank a single deck in Tier 1, especially when it’s based around the latest card. That typically means there are a ton of different lists going around, which damages the performance of an archetype. In that context of not being at its best due to plenty of people testing wacky things, Arishem and Loki still posted the best Win Rate in Conquest and dominated by any metric you want to look at.

In terms of pure Win Rate, Loki Arishem is the sole deck at 70% with over 400 hundred games recorded at that level. Popularity wise, the data about the Infinity League had more Arishem decks than all the other archetypes combined (at least according to the deck trackers). This is a hostile takeover, with Arishem leading the charge and plenty of different synergies following in its footsteps.

In that context, I had to make a decision regarding how I normally rank decks since almost no other archetype had enough games to support its Win Rate. As such, even if they are inflated, I decided to include all archetypes with more than 50 Conquest games, when I would usually require 150 or 200.

Tier 1 logically goes to the super dominant deck, no surprise there. Tier 2 contains all the decks with a 60% Win Rate or more. Once again, keep in mind that it is much easier to accomplish such a high Win Rate with fewer games to play. A 4-2 record nets you a 66% Win Rate, but that’s nowhere near enough to call yourself a great deck. You would need to replicate that feat at least 25 times to earn your spot in a report most of the time. Tier 3 features decks with a Win Rate between 55% and 60% (which would typically be a Tier 2 performance, but we are working with inflated numbers here).

Let’s dive in this Infinity League focused Conquest Tier List and explore the very best decks to grab that next Infinity avatar. Arishem tops the list, but the other decks are also worth a look!

Happy Tier List, everyone!

Marvel Snap Conquest Tier List

Tier	Deck
Silent Performer	Loki
Tier 1	Arishem Loki
Tier 2	Destroy
Tier 2	Kazoo
Tier 2	Good Cards Ravonna
Tier 2	On Reveal
Tier 2	Junk
Tier 2	Toxic Surfer
Tier 3	Shuri Sauron
Tier 3	Galactus

Disclaimer and Tier Explanations

In order to be featured here, a deck needs to hold a win rate above the 50% threshold over more than a hundred Conquest games.

In order to create this chart, den is using data from our Marvel Snap Tracker, as well as other available data online and his own expertise and opinion of respected players. If a deck showed great performances with a very limited presence in the meta, you can find it in the Silent Performers section. That section highlights decks with an excellent Win Rate, but too little of a sample size to be representative of their real strength.

Decks not good enough to be considered contenders but with a good representation will be ranked in Tier 3 in our chart. See those builds as decks that are good to know about, as you should face them when playing Marvel Snap. However, unless the meta changes or a new variation of the build emerges, these decks are a notch below the dominant ones in Tiers 1 and 2.

Silent Performers

Although most people are playing Loki alongside Arishem right now, the Trickster God has a fun little interaction when playing against Arishem. Indeed, you might see more of your opponent’s deck than they do. Plus, due to Loki‘s tendency to lean heavily on energy cheats, the deck is able to follow Arishem when it comes to spending much more than the base 21 energy Marvel Snap gives you.

Due to its ability to keep up with the other Loki (and sole Tier 1 deck this week), it felt more appropriate to rank the Classic Loki deck as a Silent Performer rather than a Tier 2 candidate.

Tier 1

Arishem Loki

This deck had a 71% Win Rate over 350 games or 88% over 35 matches, you can pick whether you like consistency or insane performance over a smaller sample size. Arishem Loki is the best deck in Marvel Snap since Arishem hit the shop on Tuesday.

The deck is so good, it already started including Darkhawk to beat itself! It is quite ironic to see a deck play both Blob and Darkhawk, but it’s a clear indication that Arishem quickly found out how to perform and how to adapt at the same time. Outside this amusing interaction, the rest of the build is very much about strong standalone cards (Shang-Chi, Mockingbird, Nocturne…) and support for a good Loki.

Let’s not push the alarm buttons just yet, but if the next report shows a similar situation we might quickly enter panic mode and call Arishem the new Thanos. I mean the old Thanos. The Thanos that bullied us for months. You get what I mean!

Potential Additions

Mobius M. Mobius, Alioth, or other generally strong standalone cards will do just fine in the archetype.

Tier 2

Destroy

Destroy has been doing pretty well in Conquest for multiple weeks in a row, and it stayed afloat after Arishem released with a 66% Win Rate over 80 games. Maybe this is a hint towards the best way to go against Arishem: Just ignore it.

If you think about it, this is a very straight forward list with only Shang-Chi as a reactive card. Yet, with Arishem Loki so busy trying to beating itself, Armor, Cosmo, and even Shadow King have been very scarce, which means Destroy can run free.

Potential Additions

Arnim Zola and Lady Deathstrike are always possibilities.

Kazoo

The Gilgamesh experiment looks officially over, as the best list for Kazoo cut the Season Pass card in Conquest as well. In its place, you have more flexible options with Nocturne or Jeff the Baby Land Shark, and Alioth—which simply does more work on Turn 6 right now.

Kazoo had a 65% Win Rate over 50 games, which is a pretty low sample size. However, due to the deck’s good results over the season, there is little doubt about the deck’s overall strength.

Potential Additions

Shadow King, Rogue, and other disruptive cards can fit in the deck for specific targets.

Good Cards Ravonna

With Destroy and Kazoo also posting solid performances, it feels like the decks that are able to survive this Arishem meta are mostly those that develop a lot of points. Indeed, in all three archetypes, the disruptive cards have been scarce, with each deck’s synergies being pushed first and foremost. In this one, you can see Juggernaut as potential disruption because it’s a card you can use against virtually any opponent.

I’m very curious about Morph in this new meta, but the zero power card feels necessary since it synergizes with both Ravonna Renslayer and Mockingbird.

Potential Additions

Red Guardian, Nightcrawler, or Jeff the Baby Land Shark could replace Juggernaut. You could also replace Morph, but you would need to find another card that gets a discount from Ravonna Renslayer in order to keep the 2-Cost in the mix.

On Reveal

With the exact same list for the entire season, On Reveal is simply a good, reliable archetype. It’s perfect for a meta with a new foe and difficulties adapting against it. There is no proof that On Reveal would actually do well against Arishem Loki, but it can at least focus on its own development, which seems to be the best thing to do currently in the Infinity League.

If you don’t know what to play and you don’t fancy deckbuilding something specific, On Reveal is definitely part of the proven decks that you can give a shot.

Potential Additions

Nightcrawler is the most flexible card. Spider-Ham, Doctor Doom, and other cards that are either able to cancel an important card for the opponent or improve your development even more make the most sense.

Junk

Junk experimented with a Darkhawk list for a bit after the huge OTA we had around the mid-season, but the archetype quickly went back to a more disruption focused deck. Ever since then, Darkhawk has been out of the picture.

With Arishem making decks 24 cards, Darkhawk naturally has a ton more appeal. It became the counter card of choice to go against Arishem. In this deck, you can see there is even Korg, Rockslide, and Black Widow, but it is entirely possible that Darkhawk could function with less support if you face mostly Arishem decks.

Potential Additions

Mysterio, Cannonball, Beast, and Lady Deathstrike could all make sense in the deck, probably replacing Black Widow.

Toxic Surfer

With a 65% Win Rate over just 25 games, Toxic Surfer posted the best performance for the archetype in the Infinity League. Arguably, Arishem makes disruptive patterns a little worse since you won’t find those cards as reliably as you used to. With this in mind, the entirety of Tier 2 in Conquest this week is filled with proactive, points driven archetypes. Toxic Surfer might be the one with the most cards to answer its opponents, but it also packs a ton of points when it focuses on leveraging Wong with Silver Surfer, Ironheart, and Odin instead of focusing on Hazmat.

Potential Additions

Hazmat and Luke Cage could become proactive cards (like Sebastian Shaw, Phastos, Nocturne, Forge…) if you really wanted to focus on points.

Tier 3

Shuri Sauron and Galactus play completely differently from the decks above, but they share a big similarity: both want to get something specific done during the match. Plus, apart from Blink in Galactus, both decks rely on cards released in 2023 or before, offering options for those with a limited collection.

Both decks are arguably more limited when it comes to adapting their play patterns compared to the other decks in the report. Still, if Arishem takes over like it has already started to, strong gimmicks might be the best way to go against it. In the end, you can’t predict what will happen when your opponent has 12 random cards in their deck, so you might as well play something that is easy to pilot and force your opponent to get the right stuff to beat you.

We have seen in the upper tiers that proactive decks were the most competitive so far in the Infinity League, with the sole exception of Junk since it is able to leverage Darkhawk for the Arishem match up. As such, Shuri Sauron and Galactus fit that mold, as both decks will focus on themselves in most situations.

Shuri Sauron

Galactus

Closing Words

I really like the early Tier Lists that are made around specific events in the game because they show what the early trends are, and whether the player base has started to adapt or not. Without a shadow of a doubt, the early trend has been to play Arishem Loki, and the answer has yet to come. So far, the best way to tackle the Arishem problem seems to be playing a proactive deck and focusing on doing your own thing while you hope Arishem doesn’t get a nutty draw or card generation.

I know this sounds like a “just pray” kind of thing, but it actually is the logical way to attack Arishem for now. The card gives its owner a clear energy advantage, so you have to make the fight about one of the other two resources instead (i.e. cards or available space). For cards, you can plan on being more reliable than your opponent, which is why proactive decks have been the best so far. For space, Junk is in the report, but it looks like it needs Darkhawk to compete, which is a sign that it might have a tough match up with the basic list.

This is just the start of the Infinity League, so it is too early to pull the trigger on calling Arishem busted. It feels like a great card, and it gives me some old Thanos vibes for sure. Still, we’ve seen cards get off to a hot start and be targeted after a few days, so let’s see if that happens when we revisit the meta in future reports.

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Good Game Everyone.