Marvel Snap Hot Location and Featured Location guide: Best decks for Altar of Death

Marvel Snap is full of a lot of randomness. You can build a great deck and get the best possible cards in your hand, but if the locations don’t work in your favor, then it may be time to retreat.

If you’re looking to play Marvel Snap during a Hot or Featured location, you should have a deck or two that will play well into it. With Altar of Death, one of the more fun locations in the game since it can be played into or countered easily, there’s a few decks that will flourish.

Here’s the skinny on the Altar of Death location in Marvel Snap, and how to play into it when it’s got a 50 percent chance of appearing.

Altar of Death location in Marvel Snap

Altar of Death is an aptly-named location in Marvel Snap. Anything you play there will be destroyed, but the cards you sacrifice won’t be in vain. Every time you play a card there and it gets destroyed, you get plus-two energy to use in the next turn.

If this type of location gets your brain going and thinking about ideas for deck builds, you are a tried and true Marvel Snap player.

How to win Altar of Death in Marvel Snap

Altar of Death’s description text makes it so that the location lends itself to cards that benefit from being destroyed and decks that have high energy cards, since you can seriously buff your energy number early on and allow yourself to play some of the biggest cards in the game.

Alternatively, you can fill your deck with low-cost cards to sacrifice them and then fill the other locations. This makes Altar of Death one of the more fun, interesting, and flexible featured and hot locations in the game.

The best Altar of Death decks in Marvel Snap

Death and Destruction

This is a well-balanced deck for Series Five gamers who can utilize both Knull and Nimrod to both fill their other locations with powerful cards and continue to feed Knull throughout the destruction that Altar of Death games are filled with.

You can get easy energy by sacrificing Wasp whenever she is in your hand, follow up with The Hood to get a one-cost, six power card for free along with energy, and continuously sacrifice Deadpool to double his power, all while buffing both Knull and Death.

Alternatively, Bucky Barnes can be sacrificed to spawn The Winter Soldier, or you can use Armor or Storm to nullify the location completely if things are not going your way.

Zoo-ish Destroy

A similar kind of deck, this one continues using cards like Deadpool and Wasp to buff your energy levels, but also has the potential to fill up the board with one-cost cards to buff them with Ka-Zar and Blue Marvel for easy power.

If you play Ka-Zar and Blue Marvel, you can then play Ultron on turn six (or earlier with the energy buffs if you want to) to fill up the board with drones for power across all of the locations.

Disruption and Destruction

Using cards like Korg, Yondu, and Scorpion to sacrifice into the Altar is just plain annoying. So is using the White Tiger and Odin combination on back-to-back turns to hopefully throw in some seven-power tigers so supplement Bucky to really lock down the location.

You can also use Jubilee to hopefully pull Leech to suck the abilities from the cards in your opponents’ hand. If they don’t rage-retreat after turn four or five, the card pulls were not in your favor in that match.