Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals season: All new cards explored

The Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals season commemorates the upcoming launch of the new Marvel Rivals hero-shooter game for Windows PC and consoles on December 6, 2024. This 31st season started on December 3, 2024, and will end on January 7, 2024. As such, this crossover season introduces seven brand-new cards based on Marvel heroes and villains from the Marvel Rivals game.

This article explores the stats and abilities of all the new cards introduced in the December 2024 Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals season.

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Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals season: All new cards stats and abilities

1) Galacta

Galacta in Marvel Snap (Image via Nuverse)

• Cost: 4
• Power: 5
• Ability: Each turn, the first card you play at another location reveals with +3 Power.
• Unlock: Season Pass (Tier 1)

Marvel Snap Galacta is an amazing Series 5 card you can obtain immediately by buying the Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals Season Pass. This card might become a mainstay on Marvel Snap Black Panther decks since it can buff Black Panther’s base power to 8, which could become 16 due to its On Reveal effect.

Moreover, the daughter of Galactus synergizes well with other decks that use cards like Brood and Mister Sinister since it can buff their base power, letting their clones get +3 power as well.

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2) Luna Snow

Luna Snow in Marvel Snap (Image via Nuverse)

• Cost: 3
• Power: 5
• Ability: On Reveal: Add an Ice Cube to each side of this location.
• Unlock: Series 5

The Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals season will introduce Luna Snow, a new On Reveal card that generates an Ice Cube — a card that lets you gain extra +1 energy after every turn if you have unspent energy left. This card could be good in various decks that rely on stronger five and six-cost units, helping you summon them earlier.

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3) Peni Parker

Peni Parker in Marvel Snap (Image via Nuverse)

• Cost: 2
• Power: 3
• Ability: On Reveal: Add SP//dr to your hand. When this merges, you get +1 Energy next turn.
• Unlock: Series 5

Peni Parker is a Neon Genesis Evangelion-inspired Spider-Man from an alternate universe, where she controls a Spider-Man robot called SP//dr. Introduced with the Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals season, you get +1 energy if you merge it with another card, such as the Hulk Buster and Symbiote Spider-Man.

Moreover, you create a three-cost three-power SP//dr card in your hand that you can use to merge with Peni Parker. This card synergizes well with merge decks, making it a mainstay in the best Symbiote Spider-Man combos in Marvel Snap.

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4) Doctor Doom 2099

Doctor Doom 2099 in Marvel Snap (Image via Nuverse)

• Cost: 4
• Power: 2
• Ability: After each turn, add a DoomBot 2099 to a random location if you played (exactly) 1 card.
• Unlock: Series 5

Doctor Doom is one of the best six-cost cards in Marvel Snap since his ability helps you summon a five-power DoomBot on all your other locations. Similarly, the Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals season introduces Doom 2099. This lets you summon a DoomBot 2099 with the same stats on your other locations after every turn if you played only one card on them.

Moreover, DoomBot 2099 has an Ongoing ability that gives +1 power to all your other Doombot 2099s on the field — and even the original Doctor Doom card. Therefore, even the best Marvel Snap Doctor Doom counter decks will have a tough time countering Doctor Doom now. This is a huge buff for all Doctor Doom decks.

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5) Bruce Banner

Bruce Banner in Marvel Snap (Image via Nuverse)

• Cost: 2
• Power: 1
• Ability: When you end a turn with unspent Energy, there is a 25% chance to HULK OUT!
• Unlock: Series 5

If you wish to play the six-cost 12-power Hulk early on in the field, you cannot go wrong by playing Bruce Banner in turn two. The design of this card is inspired by Bruce Banner’s ultimate ability in Marvel Rivals, where he can transform into the Hulk for a period.

As a result, this new card introduced in the Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals season will let players do the same. This has the potential to become a mainstay within the best Marvel Snap Surtur decks.

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6) Rocket and Groot

Rocket and Groot in Marvel Snap (Image via Nuverse)

• Cost: 3
• Power: 3
• Ability: You can move this once. After your opponent plays a card here, steal 1 Power from it.
• Unlock: Series 5

Move decks are common in Marvel Snap since many cards in the game can buff themselves upon being moved from one location to another, or when other cards do the same (like Vulture, Human Torch, and Kraven).

These two misfits from the Guardians of the Galaxy appear as a single card in the Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals season, letting you steal power every time your enemy plays a card opposite it. This card will be useful in many Marvel Snap Hercules decks.

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7) Lasher

Lasher in Marvel Snap (Image via Nuverse)

• Cost: 2
• Power: 2
• Ability: Activate: Afflict an enemy card here with negative Power equal to this card’s Power.
• Unlock: Series 4/High Voltage event

Many of the best Marvel Snap decks focus on strategies that reduce the power of enemy cards. The new Marvel Snap Marvel Rivals season in December 2024 introduces Lasher, a great card that supports this archetype.

However, you will only get it for free by completing all Marvel Snap High Voltage game mode missions, starting December 28, 2024. After January 4, 2024, Lasher will be available from Collector's Caches and the Token Shop as a Series 4 card.