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Welcome to the first Spotlight Cache Showcase of the Marvel SNAP November War of the Nine Realms Season. In this article series, we review the contents of upcoming Spotlight Caches and decide if this is a week worth your resources or not.
To kick off the War of the Nine Realms Season, we have the new Series 5 card Frigga appearing alongside Series 5 Red Guardian and Series 5 Copycat.
FRIGGA – Long Live the Queen
Frigga joins Marvel SNAP as part of the War of the Nine Realms Season. It is a 3-Cost, 3-Power card with the ability On Reveal: Add a copy of the last card you played to your hand (if able). Its card generation effect is similar to other cards you may be familiar with such as Moon Girl, Mirage and White Queen.
Thematically, the flavor of Frigga's synergy with Thor's Mjolnir is just how we like our Marvel SNAP, but as a 3-Cost, Frigga may see more play in the Surfer Archetype, providing yet another way to trigger Silver Surfer alongside Absorbing Man, or in archetypes that disrupt and annoy your opponent, like Mill Archetype and Master Mold Archetype where you can double down on cards like Cable, Master Mold or Gladiator. In a meta where tech is thriving, you're also looking to double down on your Cosmo, Rogue or Shang-Chi - cards you always want to play twice.
DECKS TO TRY FRIGGA IN
Unfortunately, Frigga's main downsides are its cost and the fact that you still have to play the card to reap the benefits. Coming down on Turn 3 may be too slow for certain cards to truly impact the game when copied and Frigga is a dead draw on Turn 5 and Turn 6 where copying a card is too late.
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RED GUARDIAN – OUR Spotlight Cache, Comrade
Red Guardian is currently sitting in Tier B on the Card Tier List with a +0.23 average cube rate and 53.3% winrate while being played in 5.5% of decks at Rank 70 and above. Red Guardian is most commonly played in the Affliction Archetype alongside US Agent, Man-Thing and Luke Cage.
DECKS TO TRY RED GUARDIAN IN
For many players, this will be the first time Red Guardian is in Spotlight Caches, and the card continues to be one of the more powerful tech pieces, sometimes the only against certain cards, like Marvel Boy. With Toxic Sera positioning itself as the counter to every other deck in the meta, it may be the perfect time to add Red Guardian to your collection.
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COPYCAT – You, but better
The final card in this week’s Spotlight Cache is Copycat. Currently Copycat is sitting at Tier B on our Card Tier List, maintaining a +0.14 average cube rate and 51.9% winrate at Rank 70 and above. Copycat is most commonly played in Surfer decks, where it synergies well with Silver Surfer, Absorbing Man and Sera.
DECKS TO TRY COPYCAT IN
The initial hype for Copycat has taken a nosedive and not many decks can justify a spot for the card, even at the coveted 3-Cost, 5-Power statline. Still, Copycat is a powerful tool that provides invaluable information - knowing your opponent's Sera, Alioth or Shang-Chi is at the bottom of their deck allows you to play with no fear of those cards. Unfortunately, a quick shuffle of the deck can disrupt this planning and bring those threats back to the top. Copycat is a card that may play well with Frigga, however, so it's as good a time now as any to pick them both up.
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SPOTLIGHT VARIANTS
Each week, there's a chance you open exclusive Spotlight Cache Variants for the featured cards. These variants only appear once you own the base card, so you’ll need plenty of Spotlight Keys if you don't already own one. Spotlight Cache exclusive variants will not be available in-game again until one full year has passed following their release.
The featured artist for the War of the Nine Realms Season is Andrea Guardino, so we should expect all Spotlight Variants for new cards, such as Frigga, to get Andrea Guardino depictions. Red Guardian receives a portrayal by Eduardo Mello and Copycat receives a new variant from Don Aguillo.
FINAL THOUGHTS
This week’s Spotlight Caches are solid additions to your collection. Although we predict Frigga to be a bit niche, Red Guardian and Copycat are useful tools if you don't already have them.
Remember to consider the upcoming Spotlight Caches. Next week, we’ll see Malekith release alongside Valentina and Thena, another week of three Series 5 cards.
How are you feeling about the new War of the Nine Realms Season? Are you using Spotlight Keys to get Frigga or saving them for future weeks? Let us know your thoughts over at @UntappedSNAP on Twitter/X. Alternatively, come and chat with the wider Marvel SNAP Community on our Discord Server!
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