We've got a new featured location in MARVEL SNAP and it's Altar of Death!

Altar of Death is a completely new location being added to MARVEL SNAP as part of the January Season: Savage Land. When you play a card there, it is destroyed and you get +2 Energy next turn.

Altar of Death is a Ramp deck's dream, turning cheap cards (that you might be OK with destroying anyway) into Energy that you can use to play your expensive cards. Electro is possibly the best card to play there, adding the the location's inherent Ramp while simultaneously getting rid of the annoying Ongoing downside. While you're at it, you might want to run Death as well, to take advantage of all the cards getting destroyed. Hold on to your butts, because this is going to get crazy.

However you choose to plan for the new location, you'd better get used to it; being a featured location means that Altar of Death will have a 40% chance to appear for 48 hours, from 7 PM PT Tuesday night to 7 PM PT Thursday night (2 AM UTC Wednesday to 2 AM UTC Friday).

Electro Card ImageOn Reveal: +1 Max Energy. Ongoing: You can only play 1 card a turn. Death Card ImageCost 1 less for each card destroyed this game.

What Are Featured Locations in MARVEL SNAP?

There are two different types of location events in MARVEL SNAP.

  • Sunday's Hot Location that has a 60% chance to appear for the next 24 hours.
  • Wednesday's Featured Location that has a 40% chance to appear for the next 48 hours.

This helps pave way for new deckbuilding strategies as you may want to be playing something else should the bonus better benefit cards you aren't playing with. We've seen this previously with the featured location, Monster Island, whose boosted appearances meant many players ran Shang-Chi to destroy the 9 Power Monster.

As announced in the developer livestream, MARVEL SNAP will be getting a brand new location every week and it will be featured when it is added, as we're seeing now with Altar of Death.

What do you think of Altar of Death? Have your own ideas for taking advantage of the featured location? Let us know in the comments below!