Are your spidey senses tingling, or is it time for another round of Marvel Snap Most Wanted? November is here, and although we’re already a few days into the month, it’s never too late to vote on which characters that you want to see make their debut in Marvel Snap.
This month we’ll be graduating four characters from the list, dropping the bottom ten from last month, and welcoming fourteen new additions! If you missed out on my last article, you can read about the characters we’re saying goodbye to in my October breakdown here. I’ll also be taking a moment to spotlight a character from the list thematic to this month’s season - everyone’s favorite Inheritor, Morlun.
Before we start on November’s list, let’s take a moment to congratulate the characters who are making their way off the list and into the game.
(If you’re just here to vote and don’t want to put yourself through my ramblings you can always skip to the vote by clicking here.)
Graduates
This is a big month for graduates, as all four characters leaving the list have spent time in the Top 20. Thematically, based on the current Top 20, if you look at what characters fit together into seasons, there may never be another graduate list like this again. Spider-Punk, Spider-Man Noir and Prowler are both extremely popular due to the universal success of the Spider-Verse movies. They’re all great characters in their own right, but it’s hard to deny that their popularity is tied to the movie franchise. Prowler definitely has a stronger case outside of the films, but his resurgence everywhere in recent years is undeniably connected. Along with the three of them, classic Spider-Man villain Chameleon finally makes his debut.
All four of these characters will have impactful debuts in the game, and their abilities are filled with clever references to their comic powers.
I considered leaving Spider-Punk’s yearbook picture blank here, because he’s probably too cool to pose for the yearbook, but I really liked the way his cap sat upon his mohawk.
Newcomers
This month we’re welcoming a wide variety of newcomers, almost all of whom showed up on suggestions made by voters over the past few months.
Our newcomers are joining us, sailing in on a fictionalized version of the Mayflower, just in time for American Thanksgiving. (Can you tell I’m having fun editing bizarre ensembles of characters into strange locations?)
This months’ additions can be divided into a few different subgroups. The first and most obvious is made up of Archangel, Old Man Logan, Nick Fury Sr. and Ronin. We’ll call this the variant group, because they all exist in the game already in other forms. As the game goes on, we’ve seen more and more double-dipping when it comes to characters.
Months later, I’m still kind of down on movie tie-in characters, like the First Steps crew. I have, however, grown more accepting of variant characters. In December we’ll see Wolverine in his Weapon X depiction, and as far as I can tell, most people seem to support this concept. I’m curious what people think about cards for these iterations of characters, despite their presence in the game already.
The next group will lovingly be referred to as the meme group. Demolition Man (or D-Man) has never been anyone’s favorite Avenger, and Trapster (or Paste Pot Pete) and Leapfrog are also seen more often than not as the butt of super-jokes. All three of these characters have appeared in surprising media over the past few years, with Demolition Man starring in a Marvel Lego movie, Trapster making his debut in Spidey and His Amazing Friends, and Leapfrog in She-Hulk: Attorney At Law.
The next group of three consists of a few classic characters, who probably should have been on the list to begin with. Moondragon is one of the biggest cosmic omissions from the list (and the game) at the moment, and her absence on the list before this month is more about my error than anything else. I suspect she will easily crack the Top 50, if not higher. Mar-Vell is another cosmic classic, who could also be grouped into the variant category, if Second Dinner decides to call him Captain Marvel. Finally, Xemnu is an alien space monster who can trace his origins all the way back to the 1960s.
The final four have less in common, but all are worthy additions whose names I have seen come up over the past few months. Xavin is another missing Runaways character. I really wanted to add Satana, after not adding her last month, despite her connections to the various monsters who were added to the list. Necroko and Maystorm I expect to be a little bit more surprising additions to the list, Necroko is multiversal symbiote Magical Girl, who only debuted in 2023.
Maystorm is even newer, having debuted in June of 2024. Maystorm is a creation of Snap fan-favorite Peach Momoko, and would join Storm as another weather-controlling mutant in the game. Both Necroko and Maystorm could be unique additions to the game, with excellent variants to boot!
If you want to jump ahead and vote for these characters now, you can find the November Most Wanted poll right here.
Character Spotlight: Morlun
When this spider-season was first datamined months ago I was confident that we would finally be seeing the debut of one of my favorite Spider villains: Morlun. How could you have an entire Spider-people season and feature Ezekiel Sims, but leave Morlun out? Well, uh… I guess this season is how… But don’t worry, for this season only means that Morlun is one season closer to his debut. Second Dinner is surely to be running out of Spider-People… (This paragraph will be even more sad in November of 2026 when Pter Ptarker and Spiders-Man enter the game, with Morlun nowhere to be found…)
But who is Morlun and why do I believe he’s so cool? The short answer is, he’s a “vampire” that preys on Spider-Totems. Spider-Totems, for the uninitiated, are multiversal beings with spider powers, linked to the Web of Life. If you’re a fan of overly complex and sometimes nonsensical lore, this is a great rabbit hole (or spider-nest?) to go down, but the idea is conveyed much more simply in the Spider-Verse movies.
Morlun isn’t really a vampire, though, but an Inheritor, a human corrupted into a near immortal being that feeds on the life force of spider, and other totems, on the web of life. Morlun and his Inheritor family travel across dimensions hunting spiders with the goal of controlling the Master Weaver and the Web of Life itself.
Morlun’s debut in the comics comes to Peter in a warning from Ezekiel Sims, who is himself a Spider-Totem. When Peter and Morlun first clash, Peter believes it to be the hardest he has ever been hit. Across many years of comics, the fights between Peter and Morlun are some of my favorite to see in the comics, filled with what feels like an unending rawness, and little held back.
Peter defeats Morlun, for the first time, with science. He realizes that Morlun’s DNA contains pure animal DNA. Peter’s DNA, however, is not pure, because of the radioactive nature of the spider that bit him. When Morlun tries to feed off of Peter, his body is unable to handle the radiation and he is badly hurt, only to be shot by his mistreated assistant, Dex.
Morlun, along with his family of Inheritors, led by his father Solus, return throughout a variety of Spider-Verse arcs. Morlun also has a brief stint as a villain in Wakanda, attempting to feed off of panther totems. Each of these stories more or less end up with Morlun retreating, finding victory over totems everywhere except, much to his frustration, the 616 universe.
The most interesting arc for Morlun has come more recently, when the Web of Life on Loomworld is taken over by the Wasp totem, Shathra. (You may remember Shathra from her being kicked off the list last month - Boo!)
Morlun finds himself teaming up with a group of Spider-Totems, with the goal of turning Shathra’s Great Nest back into the Great Web. This leads to a variety of awkward interactions, but none more awkward than when Silk realizes that in order to defeat Shathra she needs to stab Morlun, releasing the power of the thousands of Spider-Totems whose life force he’s absorbed.
Morlun is not gone forever, though, as he’s more recently powered himself up with the help of Carnage, and is now hiding somewhere in the multiverse, waiting for the right time to strike.
Morlun in Marvel Snap
What would Morlun do in Marvel Snap? The obvious answer is that he counters move abilities that dominate among the various spider-cards. Thematically, that makes sense, but I wanted to try to go the extra mile, and make him really stand out on his own.
In thinking about what move lacks as an archetype, I wondered what I would want to see in a move deck. I settled on location control, specifically with Morlun’s home of Loomworld,
Morlun - 4/2 - On Reveal: Replace this location with Loomworld. +2 Power each time a card moves into Loomworld.
Loomworld - Cards that were played into other locations get +1 Power here.
This design counters moving spider cards, not by damaging them, but instead feeding Morlun, every time they move into the Loomworld location that he creates. This can counter your opponent's move, and also helps move-style cards that push the opponent around. Of course, Morlun himself is filled with the life force of spider-totems, so you can play him in a traditional move deck yourself.
Loomworld itself is an interesting design. I don’t think there are any locations that look at where cards were originally played. Loomworld rewards moving cards into it, but is it worth it for your opponent to move cards there if it buffs Morlun more than their own cards
Here’s a deck that I would play Morlun in:
Most Wanted Morlun Deck
The idea here is an aggressive push and pull deck that doesn’t rely on moving around one or two big bodies. Instead, you want to drop Morlun on turn 4 and build him up with small cards like Cap’s Shield and Polaris, and other enablers like Fan Fei or Xorn. On turn 6 you have another big, disruptive body, with Magneto or Heimdall. Heimdall himself almost guarantees that Morlun is at least a 4/10, and also plays nicely with Loomworld.
Conclusion
We’re at the end now, and this month’s poll won’t be around long! Make sure you take a moment to vote on who you most want to see in Marvel Snap!
This month’s poll format is slightly different, with characters divided into pages of 25 characters. This hopefully makes the poll a little bit easier to read through, and less overwhelming. I’m always open to more suggestions or ideas on how to make the poll better. (My ultimate goal is to find a way to hyperlink each character's name to a page with information about them.)
I have two season passes to give away. The first can be won by voting in the poll and leaving your discord username at the end. The second can be won by commenting here on who your favorite Spider-Totem is that has yet to be added to Marvel Snap. (And just maybe they’ll be added to the poll next month, too!)