Deadpool and Wolverine was Cassandra Nova’s first live film appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She also made her way to Marvel Snap as a new card, with a powerful ability that can help you turn games upside down if you play it as early as possible.
Cassandra Nova is a mutant and sister of X-Men founder Professor Charles Xavier. Like her brother, Cassandra Nova can read and control minds, use telepathy and telekenesis, and is almost indispensable in battle. In Marvel Snap, her ability may seem underrated at first, but she can be a gamechanger.
Here are the best Cassandra Nova decks in Marvel Snap.
Cassandra Nova abilities, explained
Cassandra Nova is a three-Cost, zero-Power card in Marvel Snap with the ability that reads “On Reveal: Steal 1 Power from each card in your opponent’s deck.” Cassandra Nova may seem underwhelming at first, especially with her zero-Power stat. But her ability becomes huge if your opponent has many cards in their deck. The minus one-Power to their cards can also hurt them, especially in crucial moments where only a few points would be the difference of the locations.
Cassandra Nova is a series five card, meaning you need to spend 6,000 tokens to get it from the regular rotation of the Token Shop.
Best Cassandra Nova decks in Marvel Snap
Silver Surfer
Since Cassandra Nova is a three-Cost card, try putting her in a Silver Surfer deck. Here, the main strategy is to play as many three-Cost cards as possible to be boosted by Silver Surfer giving them all two more Power.
Aside from Cassandra Nova, the other three-Cost cards you can use in this deck are:
- Brood – for swarming a location with three-Cost Broodling units.
- Killmonger – for destroying all one-Cost cards in play (a good combo unit with Nova since their combo can give plus one Power to all of your cards).
- Nocturne – for moving and changing a location all at once, a good utility card with a midrange Power stat.
- Sebastian Shaw – for stacking additional Power every time it gains permanent Power because of card or location effects.
- Copycat – for stealing the text from one of your opponent’s cards.
You can also add Forge and Gwenpool for an additional Power boost, while Absorbing Man can copy the On Reveal ability from the last card that you played before it. Cap off the deck with Sera, which lowers the cost of your hand’s cards by one. It allows for a miracle turn six play playing three three-Cost cards at once.
Sandman Patriot
Another deck where Cassandra Nova shines is in a Sandman Patriot deck. Unlike the Silver Surfer deck, this deck has more versatile strategies that can adapt to almost any offensive scenario from your opponent.
Sandman is the focal point of this deck, with a turn five play forcing both players to just play one card the next turn as the key to victory. A follow-up play by using the buffed Ultron to swarm locations with two-Power Drones is game-changing, and the Power boost from Patriot to your vanilla cards creates the offensive core of this deck.
Squirrel Girl can also produce vanilla units, while Nebula can be added to build up the Power of your early game. As for Jeff the Baby Landshark, it can literally move and be played anywhere, and no one can stop it, and Captain Marvel’s added layer of unpredictability can be useful since it can win you a location if needed. Finish the deck with Klaw, which gives Power to the location to the right, and Red Hulk as your main late game finisher since it can possibly stack Power if your opponent ends the turn with unspent energy.
Is Cassandra Nova worth pulling in Marvel Snap?
Yes. The Power steal Cassandra Nova can make converts a minimum of plus five Power if you play her on turn three. Also, Cassandra Nova is very useful against Arishem decks since the additional 12 cards Arishem gives to its user’s deck provide a lot more Power for Cassandra Nova’s ability. The minus one Power to your opponent’s cards is also big for your side since it increases the plus to Cassandra Nova’s Power.
