Marvel Snap is a fun, strategic, fast-paced card battler featuring heroes and villains from the Marvel multiverse. Games in Marvel Snap can be especially challenging if you’re up against a Gambit deck, which is a great choice for anyone looking to climb the ranks.
In the Marvel universe, Gambit is a member of the X-Men. As a mutant, he can convert potential energy into kinetic energy and use it to charge up objects that explode when thrown. In Marvel Snap, he has an ability that excellently matches his mutant powers. So, here are the best Gambit decks in Marvel Snap.
Marvel Snap Gambit abilities, explained
Gambit is a three-Cost, three-Power card with an ability that reads “On Reveal: Discard a card from your hand to destroy a random enemy card.” Gambit doesn’t have the best stats, but you can use his ability offensively, especially if the destroyed card has high Power.
Gambit is a series three card, meaning it’s up for grabs once you reach Collection Level 486. You can also get Gambit as your free series three card once per season, so make sure to regularly check your store rotation if you want to add it to your collection.
Strategy and best combos for Gambit decks in Marvel Snap
Gambit’s ability works as long as you have at least one card in your hand. The Discard condition to activate the destruction ability needs to happen, otherwise Gambit is just a vanilla card.
For this reason, use cards that benefit from being Discarded to make best use of Gambit’s ability. These include X-23 (to gain bonus energy), Swarm (which returns to your hand as a zero-Cost, three-Power card with an extra copy), Wolverine (which regenerates itself to a random location with added Power), Daken’s Muramasa Shard (to double Daken’s current Power), and Proxima Midnight (which jumps to your location with the lowest Power when Discarded).
You can also spam Gambit’s ability with the help of Wong and Odin. Wong has an Ongoing ability that makes your On Reveal cards activate their effects twice, while Odin reactivates all On Reveal effects of your cards at the same location. Both can be especially dangerous for opponents as you can potentially wipe out their cards.
Best Gambit decks in Marvel Snap
Hela Discard
The Hela Discard deck uses Gambit as a Discard enabler, as well as to potentially destroy your opponent’s units. Your main focus is to Discard cards as much as possible to gain beneficial effects for your side, like increasing your cards’ Power, reducing the Cost of your cards, calling in powerful units for free, and more.
Aside from Gambit, your Discard enablers are Blade, Colleen Wing, Lady Sif, and Dracula (which gains the Power of the cards you Discarded at the end of the game). Additionally, Swarm can potentially give you free units when Discarded.
Hela resummons all your Discarded units to random locations without needing to pay their Costs. For this reason, targeting high-Powered cards like Magneto, Giganto, and The Infinaut to be Discarded is ideal to maximize Hela’s ability.
Cap off the deck with Lockjaw and Jubilee, both of which can summon random cards from your deck for free.
Sera Surfer
Gambit excels in a Sera Surfer deck. This strategy is different to Hela Discard decks, since it doesn’t use the Discard mechanic as its main offensive engine. Instead, the combo of Sera and Silver Surfer is your primary weapon.
Silver Surfer gives plus two Power to all your three-Cost cards, while Sera can pave the way for you to play three three-Cost units on turn six thanks to her ability to lower the Cost of your cards in the hand by one.
Aside from Gambit and Silver Surfer, the deck runs other three-Cost cards including Brood (for swarming a location with three-Cost units), Negasonic Teenage Warhead (to destroy one of your opponent’s cards), the lock and move combo of Storm and Juggernaut, Nakia (for the power boost), Sebastian Shaw (to stack more Power every time it permanently gains Power), and Gladiator (as an eight-Power card with a possible drawback).
Finish the deck with Goose for a pseudo-lockdown package, and Okoye to give plus one Power to cards in your deck for an extra boost.
How to counter Gambit decks in Marvel Snap
Many Marvel Snap cards can counter Gambit decks. These include Cosmo, Hobgoblin, Armor, and Spider-Woman.
To block Gambit’s On Reveal ability, you can use Cosmo, which stops On Reveal abilities. Hobgoblin is also an effective counter as it adds a negative-eight-Power unit to the opponent’s side of a location. Spider-Woman is a good counter to Gambit for the same reason, as On Reveal, she afflicts all enemy cards at a location with negative-one Power.
Additionally, Armor is an effective counter as it prevents cards from being destroyed at its location. So, if you have an essential card you want to save from Gambit’s On Reveal ability, play Armor at that location.
