Marvel Snap: The Best Silver Samurai Deck

Silver Samurai is a 4-Cost 5-Power card in Marvel Snap’s Series Five. His text is of the discard archetype, enabling him to remove the lowest-Power cards from both players’ hands on reveal. In this guide, fans get a blueprint for building the best deck with Silver Samurai and understand his mechanics like a pro player.

The Best Deck for Silver Samurai

Synergy-wise, the best deck for Silver Samurai is a Swarm-Daken discard setup. Replicate this lineup by teaming up the mentioned trio (Samurai, Swarm, Daken) with Stature, Zabu, Wong, Gambit, Apocalypse, Black Bolt, Baron Mordo, Absorbing Man, and Colleen Wing.

Here’s how the deck works:

• Silver Samurai hits Swarm (or Baron Mordo) while discarding an enemy card.
• Absorbing Man and Wong double Samurai’s effect, eliminating two more cards from the opponent’s hand.
• Black Bolt and Gambit mess with the enemy’s deck. They remove two additional cards from their hand.
• Daken and Stature benefit from discards. Daken doubles his Power and Stature drops her Cost to one.
• Apocalypse is the win condition. He brings power to the board in the final round.

How to Play Silver Samurai

When playing Silver Samurai, the goal should be two things: 1) Target a discard-benefiting friendly card and 2) try to retrigger his effect at least twice. For that matter, it’s crucial to aim him at cards like Swarm and then hit him again with Wong or Absorbing Man for duplicated effects.

The following are the best Silver Samurai combos:

• Wong, Silver Samurai, Absorbing Man. The trio works when Swarm is already at hand. But the result is three discards on the enemy side.
• Daken, Silver Samurai, Stature. This combination would double Daken’s Power and add a 1-Cost 6-Power Stature to hand.
• Zabu, Silver Samurai, Absorbing Man. With this team, Samurai hits the board early and gets copied by Absorbing Man on turn four.

Best Silver Samurai Counters

As with most On Reveal counterparts, Silver Samurai is countered with Cosmo. Other counterplays include hitting him with Negasonic Teenage Warhead on turn four. However, counters aside, having a discard-benefiting deck against Silver Samurai is the ultimate neutralizer, as it would turn his effect into a buff trigger.

Is Silver Samurai Worth It?

At the Cost of four, Silver Samurai doesn’t add much value to discard decks. His replaceability and lack of Power make him a skippable card for most players. However, pro players looking to spice up discard archetypes would enjoy Samurai’s disruptive capabilities.