Marvel Snap Series 4/5 Guide: Card Tier List & Buyer's Guide - Marvel Snap Zone (2025)

In Marvel Snap, new cards are released weekly into Series 4 or 5 with frequent balance updates to shake up the meta, so players need to carefully plan their card acquisition. To help players make better decisions and build better decks based on their collections, we rate all these Marvel Snap cards we have to spend resources to get in this article.

• Each week on Tuesday, a new Series 4 or 5 card is introduced to the game. For more information on card release schedules, click here.
• Series 4 and 5 cards can be obtained from Spotlight Caches that appear every 120 Collection Levels after 500. They can be one of the three featured cards that rotate every week, or a random Series 4 or 5 card.
• Series 4 cards cost 3,000 Collector’s Tokens and Series 5 cards cost 6,000 from the Token Shop.
• The next Series Drop affects 25 cards on March 4, 2025.

Tier Explanation

This Tier List should be regarded as a “How much do you need a certain card” and is heavily geared towards the current environment. To know more about the metagame, we have weekly Ranked and Conquest Tier Lists you can look at if you click here.

This article will be updated after a card releases, a balance changes goes live, or the meta changes due to new archetypes emerging. This is to adjust for the in-game balance changes and what is competitively viable.

• Tier 1: These are the cards that make a current top tier deck in the meta or are universally strong enough that not owning them is a disadvantage.
• Tier 2: These are strong cards that are core to playing the currently strong archetypes, or are strong enough that you can play them in several deck types.
• Tier 3: These are strong supporting pieces of specific archetypes that can be replaced, part of archetypes that are currently not performing at a Tier 2 level, or are universal cards that are options but often replaceable.
• Tier 4: These cards are niche and can only be used within very specific archetypes or only support an archetype that is currently not performing well.
• Tier 5: These cards are very limited and easily eclipsed by other options.
• Kang: This tier is a special tier to represent just how much lower this card is than the cards above.
• Series Drop: This card is undergoing a Series Drop or recently done so.
• * This card is provisionally ranked, and in-game performance may change the ranking as the changes are either not finalized or still too new.
• ** This card is ranked higher in anticipation of a changing meta due to new card releases or balance changes and will be evaluated again on release.
• *** This ranking excludes High Evolutionary versions (see High Evolutionary placement).
• 🆕 means the card was recently released or meaningfully changed.
• 🔼 means the card moved up in position. It might have some upsides in the current meta or be a part of an archetype that is building some momentum.

Spending Recommendations

Following the OTA, the safe route, and the one the metagame is pointing at as well is to pick strong standalone cards. Then, the best targets look to be former season pass cards you can use in a multitude of decks :

Obviously, there are others you can target in this “Good overall Card” category depending on what you like to play. Galacta, Wiccan or Rocket and Groot are also worth their weight in Collector’s Token. However, I don’t think anything comes close to the highlighted two, able to be the 2-cost for virtually any archetype.

The only reason I would see to not pick either of these two is if you wanted to play a specific synergy. Even then, I probably would still pick up Iron Patriot. So the only real reason not to pick it up is the anticipation of a future nerf.

So let’s assume that happens, and we are looking for a foundational piece. Then, I would direct my attention to Arishem and Thanos.

Both cards have kind of an ongoing battle as they both push for the same kind of strategy, with Arishem always on top lately. Yet, Thanos has just been buffed and is posting good numbers following the OTA. Plus, Arishem is being targeted by certain cards (Gorgon, Cassandra Nova, Darkhawk) at the moment, which could be a little frustrating when you spend 6,000 tokens to get it.

For those reasons, I believe Thanos is a good purchase at the moment for those eager to explore a new archetype, but still able to run a variety of cards to adapt to most collections. If you wanted to go with Arishem, I wouldn’t fault you, either.

The last direction one could consider is the incoming card, Firehair, which looks to have a lot of people hyped about it. If you intend to grab the card, then you probably want to invest in some discard oriented cards to surround it.

Nico Minoru would likely be my pick, as the 1-cost can follow Firehair in almost any Destroy oriented deck you would want to try. Fortunately, Nico Minoru is featured in Spotlight Caches this week, so I’m going to assume you can get both her and Firehair without spending Collector Tokens.
Misery and X-23 are a little more specific picks, but both are solid picks if you have your eye on either a Mill or Destroy deck. Last, you could pick up Thanos in hope Firehair makes Thanos Destroy a good deck, and then have the possibility to play other builds of the Mad Titan as well.

Obviously, this is the riskiest gamble, but you could just wait and see which decks emerge with Firehair before spending your resources.