With the arrival of the Black Order season, two new cards will debut this fatidical Tuesday: Black Swan and Supergiant.
Let’s not worry about Swan briefly and focus on Supergiant, everyone’s favorite Psychic Vampire. She might not have the strength of Cull Obsidian or the viciousness of Corvus Glaive, but she has quite a powerful mind. She can bend even the mightiest heroes to her will and torment them endlessly because she is mean like that (no, you can’t fix her).
Let’s see what she can do in Marvel Snap:
With 5 power, she is slightly weaker than the average 4-cost card, but don’t be fooled. Her On Reveal is sure to torment a ton of opponents. In game terms, she creates a board-wide symmetrical Dark Dimension for both players on the turn that follows her. Since she is a 4 drop, that usually means that no card dropped on turn 5 will be revealed until the game ends. That alone can be detrimental to a ton of decks. Additionally, you can tip the scales of her reveal to you by building your deck with her in mind.
Torment Their Feeble Mind
I believe that Supergiant will be used as a disruption tool. She, by herself, destroys many strategies that rely on deck-defining 5-cost cards. Multiple meta decks become so much better if they can drop their big 5 drop on time, and Supergiant being played on turn 4 ensures they won’t be able to do that. Even if they have the perfect curve, she’ll ensure a turn will delay the 5-cost. Let’s look at a couple of cards that she completely negates:
As you can see, some of these cards are annoying. So if you never want to lose to Leech, Professor X, or Annihilus again, consider a spot for her in your deck. Some of the cards on the list could backfire if hidden on turn 5, though, so you’d better know what you’re facing to play properly.
Supergiant’s Friends
It’s sad, but I don’t see a way to use the entire Black Order in a deck and make it good. So, instead of that, let’s take a look at a few cards that should work well with Supergiant:
First, she seems to have a disgusting synergy with the local purple cloud of death and destruction: Alioth. If you have priority by turn 4 when you play Supergiant, you’ll guarantee that you’ll have it until the end of the game, where you can play Alioth and possibly send to the shadow realm your opponent’s turn 5 and 6 cards in a single strike.
Remember what I said about Supergiant being a symmetrical card? Well, forget about that if you have Daredevil, an attorney at law, on your board. With him, Supergiant’s effect gets way scarier. Not only are the cards not revealed on time, you will know what those cards are. Giving you plenty of time to react accordingly. I suspect that a Supergiant and Daredevil Snap will be the scariest things to face in the game.
I could list potential friends all day for the big blue lady, but I will finish with this one: Absorbing Man. Picture this order of events: you play Supergiant on turn 4, then you continue on turn 5 by playing Absorbing Man, which will stay hidden by her. Lastly, you play a big On Reveal on turn 6 that will be copied by Absorbing Man by the end of the game. Cards that might be good to copy would be Doctor Doom, Leader, and our buddy Alioth.
Dualglove’s Day 1 SuperGiant Decks
Supergiant Surprise
This is the deck I’m most excited about with Supergiant. We have a ton of powerful early cards to try to grab and hold priority. If we have priority, we can use Supergiant and follow her with Absorbing Man to do some powerful turn 6 with Doom or Alioth. This deck might need some more refining, Absorbing Man is useless if you can’t find Supergiant on time.
That's Hela Giant
I have to be honest with you, I didn’t do much here: I replaced Jubilee with Supergiant. This small change hopefully will make the deck more consistent since it gives you one more way to do your Hela M.O.D.O.K. combo. If you have limbo on the field, you can go Supergiant, Hela, and M.O.D.O.K. on turn 7 if they come incorrectly. Supergiant is here mostly as a pseudo Invisible Woman.
TempoStorm Giant
Okay, this deck might seem innocent initially, but it is quite evil. It’s as unpredictable as it can be. You can go Supergiant and hide your intentions while taking a peek at your opponent’s play, or you can do some lane manipulation with Legion and a ton of power with Ms Marvel and Doom (just be a bit careful with Marty; she wants you to lose the game).
Super Ronan
Another positive effect of Supergiant is that she can hide your bad On reveals to the end of the game. And what is worse than giving your opponents more cards to play? A cold and unique line this deck can follow is after a turn 4 Supergiant, you can play Mystique and Maximus on turn 5 (in this exact order) and then play a big Ronan on turn 6.
Variants
Boy, the black order needs some more outfits in their wardrobe. Every member of the team only has their spotlight variant so far and Supergiant is no exception. Although I must say that she looks fantastic in her spotlight variant. I hope that in the future, we’ll have more options and styles for her.
See? Doesn’t she look cool and menacing in this picture? Um... whatcha got there? A smoothie?
Is Supergiant worth your spotlight keys?
Even though I believe she is a Sleepergiant (sorry), I would say that she shouldn’t be anyone’s priority. She will reign supreme in a meta dictated by powerful 5 drops. Otherwise, she is a cool card that has a unique effect and can fit well in a bunch of decks. If your collection is missing many cards, you should probably skip on her. One thing she has in her favor is that her spotlight is stacked. If you don’t have Zabu or Darkhawk, you might consider dropping keys here because they are fantastic.
