The Living Tribunal is the second most powerful being in the Marvel universe. In Marvel Snap, it has a high-risk, high-reward ability that requires a certain deck build to make work.
Here are the best The Living Tribunal decks in Marvel Snap.
Marvel Snap‘s The Living Tribunal abilities, explained
The Living Tribunal is a six-Cost, six-Power card with the ability: “Ongoing: Split your total Power evenly among all locations.” Currently, The Living Tribunal is a series five card, meaning that it costs 6,000 tokens from the regular rotation of the Token Shop, and it will eventually become available from the four-card pool of the Spotlight Cache rotation every week.
Strategy and best combos for the Living Tribunal decks in Marvel Snap
The best strategy for all the variations of the Living Tribunal deck is to put up massive Power in one location, then put The Living Tribunal there to evenly split it among the others. Having support Power from the other locations will boost the overall Power total.
Iron Ma has the ability to double the current total Power of the location where it is played, providing fantastic synergy with The Living Tribunal. Mister Negative, who has the On Reveal ability to switch the cost and Power of all the cards in your deck, is also a great partner to have.
The best Living Tribunal decks in Marvel Snap
Hela Tribunal
The Living Tribunal became one of the primary targets of the famous Hela combo with Invisible Woman and MODOK. Here, the goal is to play multiple high-Cost cards all at once with Hela since it can call all of your discarded units without having to pay their Energy cost.
MODOK is the main discard enabler of the deck. Hiding it and Hela under Invisible Woman is the only way to pull off the combo. This makes Magik instrumental since it can turn a location to Limbo and extend the game to a seventh turn, giving you more time to set up the combo.
Aside from The Living Tribunal, the other targets for the Hela combo are Iron Lad (to copy the text of the top card of your deck while maintaining its stats), War Machine (to play cards while disregarding their text and the location effects), Onslaught (to double all Ongoing effects of cards placed on the same location as it), Red Hulk (to potentially gain plus four Power at the end of each turn your opponent has unspent Energy), and the 20-Power The Infinaut.
Cap off the deck with Crystal, which lets both players draw a card from the deck for further consistency.
Negative Tribunal
In this deck, the focus is to play Mister Negative as early as possible to pave the way for the Cost and Power switch effect that can potentially create explosive plays in the late game.
Psylocke and Ravonna Renslayer let you play Mister Negative as early as turn three. Sera lowers the Cost of cards in your hand by one, giving you a better chance of playing multiple cards in a single turn. Blue Marvel gives plus one Power to all of your cards in play, while Mystique can copy the Ongoing ability of the last card you played.
Finish the deck with Jubilee, which can call a random card from your deck without having to pay the necessary Energy cost, and Leader, which can copy the highest-Power card your opponent played during the same turn when you placed it in a location.
How to counter The Living Tribunal decks
The Living Tribunal has an Ongoing ability, so three cards serve as its main counters. Enchantress can remove the Ongoing abilities of cards that are already placed in the same location; Rogue can steal a random Ongoing ability from one of the opponent’s cards in its same location; and Echo removes the Ongoing abilities of all cards that will be placed on its location.
The Living Tribunal decks’ current state in the meta
The current meta of Marvel Snap highlights The Living Tribunal as one of the most popular cards we have today. Both the Hela Tribunal and Negative Tribunal decks provide consistently positive results, especially in the higher ranks, even though both decks mainly rely on a single card or combo to be effective.
Is The Living Tribunal worth pulling?
Yes, the Living Tribunal has been an instrumental part of meta staple decks for quite some time already. It is especially helpful when challenging and unplayable locations are present in a match (Death’s Domain, Sanctum Santorum, Rickety Bridge, etc.).
The Living Tribunal also has some sort of unpredictability for the opponent since its ability is quite hard to read, especially in the Negative Tribunal deck above. Its Power stat of nine is also very decent for a six-Cost card, making it a reliable late-game option regardless of its ability.
