Marvel SNAP‘s Lockjaw builds off the comic character’s power to transport himself and his companions through space and into other dimensions. His card’s ability, “When you play a card here, swap it with a card in your deck,” can pull out high-cost cards by playing low-cost cards. Decks need to strategically balance high and low-cost cards.
With a Power of two, Lockjaw isn’t an impressive card on its own. Including it in a deck is only worthwhile if the deck takes advantage of its swapping ability.
A bit of grinding is required to level up in Marvel SNAP and unlock Lockjaw, especially since cards within a pool have a random unlock order for each player.
How To Get The Lockjaw Card
Cards are unlocked by Collection Level in Marvel SNAP, not the Ranking Number to the right of the “Play” button. Collection Level is essentially the player level. Pool 3 is available from Level 486 onward and contains 75 cards, including Lockjaw. Match completion-given Boosters needed to raise Collection Level are only chosen from the deck used during the match, which was well-thought-out by Marvel SNAP’s creators because it encourages players to utilize cards they normally wouldn’t play.
Cards for a Lockjaw-Thanos Deck
The Lockjaw-Thanos combo is a popular Marvel SNAP deck build, and most players put their own spin on the idea, meaning there are countless variations. The goal is for Lockjaw to use the Stones, which only cost one energy, to pull out the high-cost cards while buffing Thanos if players are lucky enough to have played all 6 Stones. For the synergy to work, players want to have drawn Lockjaw by turn three, but it isn’t guaranteed to happen. Several of the Stones have draw abilities, increasing the chance of drawing Lockjaw compared to most decks. YouTuber ZombiesGoNomNom’s showcase of this deck expands on its mechanics.
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Card |
Cost |
Power |
Pool |
Ability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Lockjaw |
3 |
2 |
3 |
When you play a card here, swap it with a card in your deck. |
|
Thanos |
6 |
8 |
5 |
At the start of the game, shuffle the six Infinity Stones into your deck. |
|
Killmonger |
3 |
3 |
2 |
On Reveal: Destroy ALL 1-Cost cards. |
|
Dracula |
4 |
3 |
At the end of the game, discard a card from your hand. This has its Power. |
|
|
6 |
10 |
4 |
Costs 1 less for each unspent Energy last turn. |
|
|
Quinjet |
1 |
2 |
3 |
Ongoing: Cards that didn’t start in your deck cost one less. |
|
Wave |
3 |
3 |
3 |
On Reveal: Next turn, cards in both players’ hands cost 4. |
|
Magneto |
6 |
12 |
3 |
On Reveal: Move all opposing three and 4-Cost cards to this location. |
|
America Chavez |
6 |
9 |
1 |
You always draw this card on turn six and not before. |
|
Death |
9 |
12 |
3 |
Costs 1 less for each card destroyed in this game. |
|
Giganto |
6 |
14 |
3 |
You can only play this at the left location. |
|
6 |
20 |
2 |
If you played a card last turn, you can’t play this. |
On Reveal Cards for Lockjaw Fodder
Cards swapped out by Lockjaw still use On Reveal abilities, so low-cost cards added to the deck to pull out high-cost cards should have On Reveal to make them more than just dog fodder. Plus, they’ll trigger the beneficial ability again if they happen to be pulled a second time by Lockjaw. These cards aren’t all meant to be in one deck and are potential options for getting more high-power SNAP cards onto the board.
|
Card |
Cost |
Power |
Pool |
Ability |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Iceman |
1 |
2 |
2 |
On Reveal: Give a random card in your opponent’s hand +1 Cost. (maximum 6) |
|
Okoye |
2 |
2 |
2 |
On Reveal: Give every card in your deck +1 Power. |
|
Psylocke |
2 |
1 |
3 |
On Reveal: Next turn, you get +1 Energy. |
|
Jubilee |
4 |
1 |
2 |
On Reveal: Play a card from your deck at this location. |
|
Ironheart |
3 |
Recruit |
On Reveal: Give three other friendly cards +2 Power. |
Playing a Lockjaw deck is always interesting because it’s a double dose of RNG, triple if Marvel SNAP Locations are taken into account. Despite being a roulette if the cards aren’t carefully balanced, Lockjaw is still a fun deck anchor, even if RNGesus is a no-show. He is a cosmic good boy.
Source: Youtube/ZombiesGoNomNom
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Marvel SNAP
- Summary:
- Marvel brings its multiversal madness to the digital collectible card game scene with Marvel SNAP, a 1v1 multiplayer Digital TCG arriving on iOS, Android, and PC. In Marvel Snap, players will assemble teams of their favorite heroes and villains as they battle against other players in three-minute games in this high-speed card battler. Animations are dynamic and feature artwork from several artists from Marvel’s history, including some new talent – all designing pieces exclusively for the game – with over 150 illustrations at launch. Decks are kept small, and turns are limited to six per player. The game comes from the former Hearthstone CCG director Ben Brode and is free-to-play with monetization elements. Marvel SNAP exited its beta and was released officially on October 18 2022.
- Franchise:
- Marvel
- Platform:
- iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows
- Original Release Date:
- 2022-10-18
- Developer:
- Second Dinner
- Publisher:
- Nuverse
- Genre:
- Digital Card Game
- Multiplayer:
- Online Multiplayer
