Marvel Snap Hot Location and Featured Location guide: Best decks for Onslaught’s Citadel

If you’ve played Marvel Snap for any extended period of time, you know all about the awesome character Onslaught, which is a sentient psionic entity formed from the consciousnesses of both Professor X and Magneto.

But Onslaught’s location in Marvel Snap, Onslaught’s Citadel, is a bit tricky if you don’t know how to handle it or use the right cards and decks to play around it when it’s the Hot or Featured location in-game.

Here’s what you have to know before jumping into a game of Marvel Snap

Onslaught’s Citadel location in Marvel Snap

Onslaught’s Citadel’s description text is simple enough. Playing any Ongoing card at that location will double its effects, creating some extremely powerful combinations.

But there’s also an opportunity to completely shut down that location with some other cards that are known for their ability to suck the fun out of any game in Marvel Snap. It just depends on what kind of deck you want to play and what kind of player you want to be.

How to win Onslaught’s Citadel in Marvel Snap

You can build a deck all around certain Ongoing cards to really inflate some power numbers. Cards like Patriot, Cerebro, Ka-Zar, Iron Man, Blue Marvel, and of course Onslaught can create some ridiculous power buffs.

Alternatively, you can choose to ignore the location altogether and then play Enchantress or Rogue to stop whatever Ongoing ability they’ve played there. That’s a great play to snap on and try to snag an extra cube or two.

You can also place Cosmo in Onslaught’s Citadel as soon as possible to follow it up with your Ongoing cards and prevent the Enchantress or Rogue play from ruining your game and possibly the rest of your day.

The best Onslaught’s Citadel decks in Marvel Snap

Patriot Power

If you can play out your smaller, no-ability cards early and then get Cosmo into Onslaught’s Citadel to prevent any On Reveal shenanigans, then you’re set up for victory.

You can follow up with Patriot, Mystique, and Onslaught to completely overpower your opponent with some outrageously powerful buffs across the board. Playing Onslaught into his own location will quadruple the Ongoing effects, giving a ton of power to the cards you’ve already played.

Classic Zoo

The aim with this deck is to fill the board with one-cost cards and then play your Ongoing cards like Ka-Zar and Blue Marvel into the Citadel to buff them all up with some big numbers.

Your main enemy here will be Enchantress or Killmonger, but you can use Cosmo to attempt to stop that On Reveal ability from either one of them.

Once you have cards like Ka-Zar, Mystique, and Blue Marvel into the Citadel, you can fill the rest of the location spots you have left with Ultron for a large power play on turn six.

Zabu Fun

The objective here is to play Zabu on Onslaught’s Citadel immediately, giving you a two-cost card that will then shave two energy off of the multiple four-cost cards in the deck.

Use Zero to negate Typhoid Mary’s negative Ongoing effect, play out Warpath in another lane if you want to keep a third lane empty and play for just two, and then play out Spectrum to buff the Ongoing cards you’ve played throughout the game.