Marvel Snap Abilities: On Reveal, Discard, Move & More

Our Marvel Snap Abilities Explained guide showcases complete sets of abilities offered for various cards!

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October 21, 2022

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The Ultimate Marvel Snap Abilities Explained Guide

There are a total of 6 abilities present In Marvel Snap for all cards, as explained below.

On Reveal: The ability will trigger when the card is placed down on the location and is flipped over at the end of your turn.
Ongoing: After being placed down and revealed, the ability continues on for the rest of the game or until demolished.
Discard Cards that are taken away from your deck, and you can’t use them anymore.
No Ability: Cards that offer no value or ability except for power increase.
Destroy: Cards that are taken away from the location after they have been placed down and destroyed.
Move: Moves the card from one location to another location.

Key Takeaways

There are 6 types of abilities in Marvel Snap: On Reveal, Ongoing, Discard, Move, No Ability, and Destroy.
- On Reveal, abilities trigger when the card is placed down on the location and is flipped over at the end of your turn.
- Ongoing abilities continue on for the rest of the game or until demolished.
- Discard cards are taken away from your deck, and you can’t use them anymore.
- No Ability cards offer no value or ability except for a power increase.
- Destroy cards are taken away from the location after they have been placed down and destroyed.
Abilities are used to provide enhancements or debuffs to players or their opponents.
The best way to get abilities is by unlocking different cards and playing matches.
The main benefit of having various abilities is that you can create different decks.

On Reveal

Let’s start things off with the On Reveal ability, which will essentially be listed on cards that will be activated once the other player is able to see the card is revealed to them. The ability is instant and does not continue on for the rest of the game.

The on-reveal ability will probably be seen by the highest number of cards and with varying abilities, therefore they can become one of the staple cards and will be present by varying degrees, such as at least one or two On Reveal cards in your deck.

Pros and Cons

Now, reveal cards will have a few main pros; the first of them is that since there is no scarcity of the cards, it allows players to make decks with tons of on-reveal cards that synergize well with each other.

Another thing to note is that on-reveal cards will also be able to take enemies by surprise, meaning that if your opponent is playing a strong deck, then one strong-on reveal from your end may render them useless.

The main con that players will find is that while they have tons of synergies, it will take a while to figure out which cards work and synergize best with each other. If players end up using the wrong synergies then they can be defeated really easily.

On Reveal Ability Cards

Below listed are all the cards that will have the On Reveal ability.

Card Name	Ability
Absorbing Man	If your last card has an on-reveal, then the card copies it.
Aero	Move any cards played by enemies to this area.
Agent 13	Gives you a random card.
Agent Coulson	Gives you a random 4 and 5 energy cost card.
Arnim Zola	Get rid of a friendly card, but duplicate copies of it elsewhere.
Baron Mordo	Whenever your enemy uses a card, the energy cost will be +1.
Beast	Gives you back your cards in this area but reduces the energy cost by 1.
Black Bolt	Enemy has to get rid of the lowest energy cost card they have.
Black Panther,	The card’s power is doubled.
Black Widow	Give your enemy a widow’s bite.
Blade	Get rid of a card from your deck.
Brood	Place down two broodlings with the same power at this location.
Bullseye	The next card played by you will cost 2 energy.
Cable	Take your enemy’s bottom card into your deck.
Carnage	Get rid of other cards but gain +2 power for each card obliterated.
Cloak	On the next turn, both you and the opponent can move their cards here.
Colleen Wing	Get rid of the lowest-cost card from your deck.
Crystal	If the card is at the middle location, then your cards will be shuffled and you can pick 3.
Deathlok	Get rid of other cards in this area.
Debrii	Give both players a rock.
Destroyer	Get rid of your other cards.
Doctor Doom	Gives each other location a 5-powered Doombot.
Doctor Octopus	Take 4 cards from your opponent’s deck into your end at this location.
Doctor Strange	Take your highest power card and move it to this area.
Drax	+4 power if a card was played by your enemy.
Electro	Energy cost is increased by 1.
Elektra	Get rid of an enemy card that costs one energy.
Enchantress	Get rid of ongoing cards in this area.
Falcon	Gives you back your cost cards.
Forge	Whatever next card you play will have 2 power increased.
Galactus	If no other card is present here, all other locations are destroyed.
Gamora	If a card is played by your enemy here, power is increased by 4.
Ghost Rider	Gives you back one card that got destroyed.
Green Goblin	Opponent gets to control your card.
Groot	3 power is increased if a card is played by an enemy here.
Hawkeye	If a card is played here next turn, power is increased by 2.
Hazmat	All other card’s power is decreased by one.
Heimdall	Your cards are moved to the left.
Hela	Places all discarded cards to other locations.
Hellcow	Get rid of 2 cards from your hands.
Hit monkey	For every other card played by you, +3 power.
Hobgoblin	Opponent gets to control the card.
Hulk Buster	Conjoin the card with a friendly card present at the location.
Iceman	Increase the cost in your opponent’s deck by one (max 6).
Iron Fist	After the card is revealed, move it to the left.
Ironheart	2 power is increased for 3 other cards.
Jane Foster	Draw the cards that have 0 ebergy from your hand.
Jean Grey	Whatever card is played by your enemy will be played here.
Jessica Jones	2 power is enhanced if no card is played by you here.
Jubilee	Use the card present at the top of your deck here.
Juggernaut	If cards were used by your enemy, move them.
Killmonger	Get rid of all one-cost energy cards.
Kingpin	On your next turn, get rid of all cards that have moved here.
Korg	Gives the opponent a rock into their deck.
Lady Deathstrike	At this location, get rid of the card of your opponent with the highest power.
Lady Sif	Get rid of the highest energy cost from your hand.
Leader	Copy all the cards played by your enemy on your side.
Leech	Get rid of the abilities that are present in your enemy’s cards.
Legion	Switch the other locations with this location.
Magik	Convert this location to limbo.
Magneto	Make all the opposing 3 and 4 energy cost cards here.
Mantis	You can take a card from your enemy’s deck if they played a card here.
Maria Hill	Gives you one energy cost card at random
Maximus	Opponent has to draw 2 cards.
Medusa	Power is increased by 2 if the card is in the middle location.
Mister Negative	Replace the power and cost of your cards.
Mister Sinister	Place down a sinister clone here that has the same power.
Moon Girl	Duplicates your hand.
Moon Knight	Get rid of a card from each player’s deck.
Morph	Get a copy of an opposing card towards you.
Mystique	If your last card had an ongoing, this card will copy it.
Nakia	All cards in your deck receive +2 power.
Nebula	Power is doubled for the card that was played by your opponent here and it is given to you.
Nick Fury	Gives you 3 6 energy cost cards.
Odin	Whatever other cards have the on-reveal abilities in your deck will be activated here.
Okoye	Each card that you have will gain one power.
Polaris	Take an opposing card with 1 or 2 energy cards and place it here.
Psylocke	One extra energy on your next turn.
Quake	If the card is present in the middle, positions are swapped.
Red Guardian	Players must play a card here on their next turn.
Rescue	+5 power if you play a card here.
Rhino	Get rid of the ability on this location.
Rocket Raccoon	+2 power if your enemy played a card at this location on their turn.
Rockslide	Give your enemy two useless rocks.
Rogue	Take an ongoing ability from your enemy here.
Scarlet Witch	Get rid of this location and replace it with a new one.
Scorpion	Reduce the power of your opponent’s cards by one.
Sentinel	Give yourself another sentinel copy.
Sentry	Gives your enemy the void on this location.
Shadow King	Get rid of all other cards that have 2 power of lesser than 2.
Shang-chi	Get rid of the opponent’s cards that have 9 power or more than that.
Shuri	On your next turn, the power of the card is doubled.
Silver Surfer	All 6 energy cost cards will have their power doubled.
Spectrum	+2 power for all ongoing cards.
Spider-man	Enemies can’t play cards in their next turn here.
Spider-woman	Gives all opponent cards -1 power.
Squirrel Girl	Give each location a power squirrel.
Star-Lord	3 power is increased for you if enemy played a card here.
Storm	Location is flooded.
Sword Master	Get rid of a card from your deck.
Taskmaster	Equate the power of your card with your last one.
The Hood	Give yourself a demon.
Thor	Give your deck a Mjolnir.
Ultron	Gives adjacent areas 1 power drone.
Valkyrie	Make all cards here have 3 power.
Venom	Get rid of the other cards present here and add the power to your card.
Viper	Enemy gains control of one of your cards.
Wave	All cards in the player’s decks will cost 4 energy.
White Queen	Take the highest cost card from your enemy’s end towards you.
Wolfsbane	Power is increased by 2 for every other card.
Yellowjacket	The other cards here get -1 power.
Yondu	Get rid of the top card in your enemy’s hand.
Zero	Get rid of the abilities on your next turn card.

Ongoing

When it comes to the ongoing ability, it will be a bit differnet from the On Reveal ability. The main aim will be to reveal the ability at the same time, however, the difference is that the ability will be continuous throughout the game.

Players are able to use ongoing cards at the start of their match and will be able to synergize on reveals pretty well with it.

Pros and Cons

One of the main pros of using the ongoing ability is simply the predictability that it offers to the players. With the way that the abilities play out, you can take over your enemies by hand and take them out with ease.

Its pro also becomes it’s con, since the cards can also have conditional abilities, and if they are not played carefully, then you’re screwed.

Cards With Ongoing Ability

Below listed are the cards that have ongoing ability.

Card Name	Ability
Ant-man	If 3 other cards are present here, power is increased by 3.
Armor	Cards here can’t be destroyed.
Blob	The card can’t be moved anywhere else.
Blue Marvel	All cards get +1 power.
Captain America	Other cards at this location gain one power.
Cerebro	The highest card power gains 2 extra power.
Colossus	Card can’t be destroyed or shifted anywhere else.
Cosmo	You can’t use on reveals here.
Dazzler	If 4 other cards are present here, power is increased by 8.
Devil Dinosaur	For every card that you have, +2 power.
Ebony Maw	Cards can’t be used here.
Electro	per turn, you can play one card.
Goose	Neither you nor your opponent can use 4, 5, or 6 energy cards here.
Invisible Woman	Cards won’t be revealed until the match ends.
Iron Man	Power will be doubled here.
Kazar	1 energy cost gains one power.
Klaw	Whatever location is to your right will gain 5 power.
Lizard	If your enemy has 4 cards, -3 power.
Luke Cage	Cards can’t have their power decreased.
Mister Fantastic	The locations that are adjacent will gain 2 power.
Mojo	6 power is enhanced if both players have 4 cards present here.
Morbius	For every card that is discarded, +2 power.
Ms Marvel	Adjacent location will gain 5 power if the only card here is yours.
Namor	5 power is increased if the only card is present by you.
Omega Red	4 power is increased if your power is more than 10 when compared to your enemy here.
Onslaught	Increases your ongoing effects activated here by 2.
Orka	5 power is enhanced if this is your only card at this location.
Patriot	The cards that don’t have abilities gain 2 power.
Professor X	Location goes on lockdown.
Quinjet	Energy cost is decreased by one for cars that didn’t start in your deck.
Red Skull	In this area, opponent cards gain 2 power.
Ronan The Accuser	Players can only use one card per turn.
Sera	Cards in your deck cost one energy less.
She-hulk	If the card in your enemy’s deck is higher than 3 energy cost, +3 power.
Strong Guy	If you don’t have any cards, +6 power.
Super Skrull	All enemy cards’ ongoing abilities are duplicated onto your card.
The Punisher	For every opposing card here, +1 power.
Typhoid Mary	Your other cards gain -1 power.
War Machine	1 energy cost cards gain one power.
Warpath	If your locations are empty, power is increased by 4.
Wong	On reveal abilities happen twice here.

Discard

Discard cards are typically pretty easy to understand, as they will get rid of a certain card from your deck. Typically, general discard cards will provide players with a bit more power when the card is discarded from their hands.

On the other hand, there will be cards that specifically alert the player on what type of card will be taken away, such a higher cost or higher power card.

Pros and Cons

The main pro that players will be able to experience with discard cards is simply that several discard cards will provide power points in exchange for their cards.

As for the cons, it’s pretty self-explanatory as there is extremely less synergy between discard cards and it takes a solid amount of skill to perfect plays with cards that discard cards.

Cards With Discard Ability

Let’s discuss the cards that have the Discard ability below:

Card Name	Ability
Apocalypse	If the card gets discarded, it’s placed back with +4 power.
Black Holt	Enemy has to get rid of the lowest energy cost card.
Black Cat	If your turn ends, and you have the card, discard it.
Blade	Get rid of a card from your deck.
Colleen Wing	Get rid of the lowest energy cost card from your deck.
Dracula	After your final turn, a card is discarded.
Gambit	Gets rid of a card from your hand but also obliterates an enemy’s card.
Ghost Spider	If the enemy gets rid of a card, it will cost 0.
Hela,	All the cards that got discarded will be played in different areas.
Hellcow	Get rid of 2 cards.
Lady Sif	Get rid of the highest energy cost card.
Moon Knight	Gets rid of a card from you and your opponent’s hand.
Morbius	2 power is increased for each card that gets discarded in this match.
Silver Samurai	If the card gets discarded, draw another one.
Swarm	If the card gets discarded, you gain 2 0 energy cost copies in your hand.
Sword Master	Discards a card.
Wolverine	If the card is discarded, it will be played in a different location.
Zabu,	If the card is in your hand when you discard another one, discard this card instead.

Move

Moving on; the move ability will simply involve cards moving from one location to the next. Cards can move to become stronger, can also provide several benefits to others, and all in all, are interesting to play.

Pros and Cons

One of the main pros of playing a move card will be that some cards will grant an increase in power when moved, some will move the opponent’s cards to make them suffer, and some cards can help you gain victory in your final turn such as Captain Marvel’s card.

The main con with move cards is that they are *incredibly* difficult to think through properly. Not only do they require extreme meticulousness to play, they also require that the player have excellent synergy with other cards.

Cards With Move Ability

There are several cards that have the Move Ability, as show here:

Card Name	Ability
Aero	All opponent cards will be moved this turn in this area.
Blink	Card can be moved each turn and will gain +1 power.
Blob	Nothing will be able to move to this anywhere else.
Captain Marvel	After your sixth turn, move the card to an area that grants you instant victory.
Cloak	On your next turn, cards can be moved by both you and your opponent to this area.
Dagger	If the card moves to an area, for every card that your enemy has there, +2 power.
Doctor Strange	Your highest power cards will be moved to this area.
Heimdall,	All your other cards will be moved to one location to your left.
Human Torch	Whenever the card moves, it will double its overall power.
Iron Fist	After the card is revealed, move it to one location to your left.
Juggernaut	If the enemy played here on their turn, move the cards in random order.
Kingpin,	On your next turn, cards that are moved here will be destroyed.
Kraven,	If a card is moved here, +2 power.
Magneto	Move all cards that are opposing and if they cost 3 or 4 energy to this area.
Miles Morales	If a card was moved here last turn, it costs one energy.
Multiple Man	If the card moves, a copy will be placed down on the previous location.
Nightcrawler	Card can be moved once.
Polaris	An opposing 1 or 2 energy cost card will be moved here.
Surtur,	If Human Torch is moved here, +10 power.
Vision	You can move the card each turn.
Vulture	If the card moves, then you gain 5 power.
Yo-yo	If the card ends up moving, it will be moved back with +1 power.

Destroy

The destroy ability is pretty similar to discard as well since it will pick a card from your stack and obliterate it. On the other hand, players will typically receive compensation by having their power increased by a lot.

Pros and Cons

As we mentioned before, destroy cards will provide players will a good amount of unpredictability that they can play against their opponents in order to catch them by surprise and go for a swift victory.

As for the cons, the main one would be that there isn’t a massive selection of destroy-type cards.

Cards With Destroy Ability

The cards that have the destroy ability will be mentioned ahead:

Card Name	Ability
Angel	If one of your cards gets destroyed, it replaces it.
Armor	Cards here can’t be destroyed.
Arnim Zola	Destroys a friendly card in this area but adds copies of it to other areas.
Black Knight	If the card is destroyed, you can draw another.
Bucky Barnes	If the card is destroyed, it will create a winter soldier.
Carnage	Destroys all your other cards at the location but gains +2 power for every card.
Deadpool	If the card gets destroyed, it will be given back to you and power is doubled.
Deathlok	Gets rid of your other cards here.
Destroyer	Destroys all your other cards.
Elektra	Gets rid of a random energy cost card here.
Galactus	All other locations are destroyed if it’s the only card present here.
Gambit	Enemy card gets destroyed.
Killmonger	Gets rid of all one-cost energy cards.
Kingpin	On your next turn, cards that are moved to this location are destroyed.
Lady Deathstrike	The card that has the highest amount of power is destroyed here for the enemy’s end.
Negasonic Teenage Warhead	If a card gets placed here, destroy both.
Nova	If the card gets destroyed, all others gain +1 power.
Sabretooth	If the card gets destroyed, it is given back to you.
Shadow King	Gets rid of cards that have 2 power or less.
Shang-chi	Opposing cards that have 9 or more power are destroyed.
Stryfe	If your opponent has 12 or more power here, the card is destroyed.
Uncle Ben	If the card gets destroyed, a spider-man will be given to you.
Venom	All your other cards in this area are destroyed but power is added to this specific card.
Wolverine	If the card gets destroyed, play it in another area.

No Ability

Last but not least, no ability cards will be just that, they don’t have any ability, but in return, they will have a higher amount of power and will typically be known as the “winning cards” such as Hulk, or Abomination, etc.

Cards With No Ability

Below listed are the cards with no ability.

Card Name

Abomination

Cyclops

Doombot

Drone

Kang

Misty Knight

Monster

Shocker

The Thing

The Void

Wasp

Winter Soldier

With that, these were the 6 abilities that are provided for several cards in-game, and we will now wrap up our Marvel Snap Abilities Explained guide!

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