Marvel Snap Cassandra Nova counter decks are centered around countering her powerful ability to to steal 1 Power from each card in the deck. Her ability directly creates a high power in mid-game, making it difficult to dominate lanes in later turns. To counter her, use strategies that help you reduce the power loss, play cards that do not rely on base power, and punish her setup.
We've curated a list of Marvel Snap Cassandra Nova counter decks to maintain a significant advantage while pitted against her.
Note: This list is based on the author's opinion and is in no particular order.
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5 of the best Marvel Snap Cassandra Nova counter decks
1) Low-cost flood
- Ant-Man (Cost 1/Power 1)
- Sunspot (Cost1/Power 0)
- Misty Knight (Cost 1/Power 2)
- Korg (Cost 1/Power 2)
- Forge (Cost 2/Power 2)
- Captain America (Cost 3/Power 3)
- Ka-Zar (Cost 4/Power 4)
- Shuri (Cost 4/Power 1)
- Man-Thing (Cost 4/Power 7)
- Blue Marvel (Cost 5/Power 3)
- Onslaught (Cost 6/Power 7)
- Hulk (Cost 6/Power 12)
Kazar and Blue Marvel directly improve low-cost cards in general, and Shuri doubles the power of your highest-cost card making her effect almost negligible. Man-Thing reduces the power of 1,2,3 cost cards in the location essential dominating a lane in mid-game. Onslaught doubles the ability of Kazar and Blue Marvel so that your board remains strong.
2) Destruction
- Nova (Cost 1/Power 2)
- Yondu (Cost 1/Power2)
- Deadpool (Cost 1/Power 1)
- Carnage (Cost 2/Power 2)
- Bucky Barnes (Cost 2/Power 1)
- Sabretooth (Cost 3/Power 5)
- Deathlok (Cost 3/Power 5)
- Killmonger (Cost 3/Power 3)
- Venom (Cost 3/Power 1)
- Arnim Zola (Cost 6/Power 0)
- Destroyer (Cost 6/Power 16)
- Death (Cost 8/Power 12)
Nova gives itself to add +1 power across the board. Bucky Barnes transforms into the 7-Power Winter Soldier when destroyed and Carnage gains Power for each weaker card he destroys. Destroyer wipes the board while keeping a dominating lane with Knull to stack power with destruction. This deck inherently uses the debuffed cards to increase power with destruction.
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3) Power scaling
- Quinjet (Cost 1/Power 2)
- Armor (Cost 2/Power 3)
- Mojo (Cost 2/Power 2)
- Goose (Cost 2/Power 2)
- Colossus (Cost 2/Power 3)
- Cosmo (Cost 3/Power 3)
- Captain America (Cost 3/Power 3)
- Warpath (Cost 4/Power 5)
- Iron Man (Cost 5/Power 0)
- Devil Dinosaur (Cost 5/Power 3)
- Spectrum (Cost 6/Power 5)
- Arishem (Cost 7/Power 7)
Iron Man doubles the power of any location, which means that nullifies her 1 Power reduction per card advantage. Devil Dinosaur’s power is proportional to hand size. Warpath can dominate a single lane with the boost from Mojo or Captain America. Spectrum lets you increase the Power of all your Ongoing cards by +2, which is useful for the end-game.
4) Bounce
- The Hood (Cost 1/Power -3)
- Iron Fist (Cost 1/Power2)
- Collector (Cost 2/Power 2)
- Cloak (Cost 2/Power 4)
- Mysterio (Cost 2/Power4)
- Angela (Cost 2/Power 3)
- Falcon (Cost 2/Power 3)
- Bishop (Cost 3/Power 1)
- Beast (Cost 3/Power 5)
- Hit-Monkey (Cost 3/Power 3)
- Miles Morales (Cost 4/Power 6)
- Sera (Cost 5/Power 4)
Beast and Falcon enable you to return cards to your hand for further plays, this compliments Angela and Bishop, who gain power with each card played. Hit-Monkey is exceptional in this deck, allowing for power generation for multiple card plays on a turn.
5) Lockdown
- Daredevil (Cost 2/Power 2)
- Goose (Cost 2/Power 2)
- Debrii (Cost 3/Power 3)
- Polaris (Cost 3/Power 5)
- Spider-Man (Cost 3/Power 4)
- Jessica Jones (Cost 4/Power 4)
- Storm (Cost 4/Power 5)
- Sandman (Cost 5/Power 7)
- Professor X (Cost 5/Power 2)
- Vision (Cost 5/Power 7)
- Aero (Cost 5/Power 10)
- Doctor Doom (Cost 6/Power 5)
Storm floods a lane so that the opponents have no option but to play accordingly. Professor X further secures another lane. This is why Spider-Man and Daredevil can work together to control the board so that they can make the proper plays at specific turns. Doctor Doom deploys 5-power Doombots in all lanes, ignoring her Power decrease in the process.
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