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Marvel Snap is an incredibly balanced game with a ton of variety regarding competitive decks. While certain cards and decklists will inevitably rise to the top, there is enough variety to keep Discard, Destroy, On Reveal, and even Move enthusiasts satisfied.
Developer Second Dinner consistently releases patch and OTA updates to ensure gameplay stability, provide much-needed adjustments to cards and locations, address player concerns, and address identified bugs. We've compiled this guide to detail the latest patch and Over-The-Air (OTA) updates and explain their release schedule for Marvel Snap.
2nd April 2025 Update: This guide reflects the latest balance patch update for Marvel Snap, which was released on 1st April 2025 for mobile devices and PCs via Steam. The original reporting continues below.
Latest Marvel Snap Update News, Schedule & Details
Marvel Snap developer Second Dinner released their latest balance update on 1st April 2025, serving as the major update to usher in the brand-new season of Marvel Snap. This major update welcomes a few new features and other gameplay additions with a few minor tweaks, as card balance changes and other pressing bugs are typically addressed in OTA updates, which are released every two weeks.
According to the season patch notes, the developer joked that these incoming changes "are real," and there are "no April Fool’s jokes in the sacred grounds of patch notes." The new season of Marvel Snap was released on 1st April 2025, themed after the Marvel Animation's anthology series, "What If...?"
Marvel Snap Maintenance & Update Schedule Explained
In addition to adding new features, the developers at Second Dinner are never afraid to make significant changes, whether it be buffs and nerfs, to keep the overall meta balanced – that's usually where the monthly patch comes in. Unless something is problematic or causing gameplay or technical issues, in which case it will be fixed in an OTA or a balance update is rolled out, Second Dinner will release monthly major patches to the game at the start of the month, alongside the beginning of a new season.
The developer adjusted its update schedule, releasing significant updates with the new season once a month with balance and OTAs weekly on Thursdays. This helps the developer address gameplay stability and make necessary card adjustments in the balance or OTAs while releasing major content with the patches.
Marvel Snap Patch Notes (April 2025): All New Content, Adjustments & Bug Fixes
Below, players will find the most recent patch notes for the game as of 1st April 2025, in which Snappers are instructed to update the game through their dedicated app store or via Steam on PC. However, if Snappers are desperate to read previously released patch notes from months prior, we suggest heading over to Marvel Snap's Newslist and filtering by "Game Updates."
New Reward Type, Mystery Borders & Premium Mystery Borders:
- These will be a new reward type you will find throughout the game, including in the Season Pass, Login Bonuses, Alliance Rewards, Conquest Shop, and more!
- Mystery Borders give you a chance to pull your favorite Rare and Super Rare Neon, Cosmic, and Metallic Borders, while Premium Mystery Borders will guarantee at least a Super Rare Neon, Cosmic, or Metallic, plus the chance to pull an Ultimate Cosmic Black or Rainbow border.
Ladder Rank Decay:
- We’ve made some changes to how your ladder rank decays between seasons.
- You will now lose fewer ranks than before after each season, and you’ll lose fewer ranks the farther you are from Infinite.
- We want the goal of climbing the ranks by making season-over-season progress more achievable, and we want the experience of skipping a season to be less punishing.
- Check out the chart below to see how the new rank decay formula works.
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If you are Infinite rank, you’ll go to rank 75
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If you are between rank 90 and 99 you’ll go to rank 73
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80-89 -> 65
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70-79 -> 63
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60-69 -> 55
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53-59 -> 53
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1-52 -> No decay
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Unlock Custom Card Improvements:
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Players can unlock the Custom Card feature with only one Infinity Split or the acquisition of a Collectible Finish or Flare from Character Mastery.
Mystery & Premium Mystery Borders:
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Over time, you’ll find these new reward types throughout the game: Season Pass, Login Bonuses, Alliance Rewards, Conquest Shop, and more!
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Mystery Borders give you a chance to pull your favorite Rare and Super Rare Neon, Cosmic, and Metallic Borders
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Premium Mystery Borders will guarantee at least a Super Rare Neon, Cosmic, or Metallic, plus the chance to pull an Ultimate Cosmic Black or Rainbow border
Art, Visual Effects & Audio:
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Laufey now has VFX and SFX
CARD UPDATES:
Araña:
- [Old] 1/2 - Activate: Give the next card you play +1 Power and move it to the right.
- [New] 1/2 - Activate: After you play your next card, give it +1 Power and move it to the right.
Araña is getting a text-only update to line up her wording with other cards that work the same way.
LOCATION UPDATES:
- Our Lady of Saints will now merge cards if the last one revealed left the location first (e.g., because it was a skill).
Card & Location Fixes in 39.x
- Playing Moonstone on a location with Thanos' Power Stone should no longer result in an Aw Snap
- Galacta’s ability should now fire appropriately if she’s forcibly moved on the turn that she's revealed
Card & Location Art Fixes in 39.x
- Disabled the VFX for Images of Ikonn in order to resolve some associated performance issues
- Once we’ve fixed the underlying performance issue, we’ll re-enable the VFX in a future update
- Corrected the logo for Bolts of Balthakk
- Hotel Inferno’s VFX should play appropriately now
- Yondu’s VFX should play appropriately now
- Cosmetic flare effects should display as expected when opening and closing the card detail views of multiple cards
- Khonshu’s VFX should no longer display when the card is facedown
- The Lemon Art variants should now all have the SNAP magazine print visible on top of the background finishes when split
- Viper’s He Tianyou variant should now display its finish in the small card view in-game and in the collection
- Starbrand’s VFX should no longer play on locations when other cards are being staged while Starbrand remains in hand
- Several cards should no longer see elements along the edges cut off when rotating the card at 3D rarity or higher
- The First Ghost Rider should now correctly have an empty hand “whiff” VFX
- Doctor Strange’s VFX should no longer briefly play when there are no valid targets available to move
- Gyroscope functionality for viewing the parallax effect of cards should be fixed for Android devices
- Note that iOS is only partially fixed as the tilt degree is still restricted more than intended
Other Fixes in 39.x
- Cards displayed in the Graveyard should once again be accurate to what’s been discarded, destroyed, or banished
- Addressed an issue that could expose Skill Cards in an opponent’s hand to third party applications
- Addressed an issue that resulted in some exploitable behavior and weirdness around Gold Pass reward claims for a small number of players
- This was addressed in a server hotfix on the previous version as well.
- The Custom Card tooltip should display appropriately when clicking on locked custom cards
- Made a number of small fixes to UI alignment and screen sizing that should ensure that assets extend the full length and width of screens where appropriate
- Completing an album should no longer occasionally cause an exception to occur
- Fixed an issue that was causing the player’s currently equipped card back to display as their opponents as well
- In instances where the seasonal background splash isn’t available, the client should now fall back to a preset background rather than show a black screen
- Corrected some UI behaviors around the close button for Alliance chat
PC Fixes in 39.x
- The First Ghost Rider’s VFX should no longer clip along the top of the screen when played on the opponent’s side
- Iron Lad copying Joaquin Torres' ability should no longer cause residual VFX to display on the far left side of the screen
- Snap Points icon should no longer be partially transparent on the post-match results screen
- Fixed the clickable area of a handful of buttons on the main menu to better represent the size of the asset
Localization Fixes in 39.x
- Addressed an issue that was preventing the text for Premium Mystery Variants from displaying in different locations
- Mastery’s Max Level text should no longer clip into the progression meter while playing in Italian or Russian
For more Marvel Snap news, be sure to check out our dedicated section or take a look at some of our Guides & Tutorials just below:
- Does Marvel Snap Have Codes
- Featured & Hot Locations Explained
- Who Reveals First
- Progression and Levelling Guide
- What Is the Snap
- How To Get Titles
- Why You Can't Trade Cards
- How To Get, Use and Spend Gold
- How Do Ties Work
- How To Get Collector's Tokens
- How Collector's Reserves Work
- How To Change Card Backs
- When To Snap & Retreat
- How To Change Name
- How To Win A Location With Only 1 Card
- How To Get Credits Fast
- How to Battle Friends
- Marvel Snap Variants Explained
- Ultimate Variants Explained
- How to Get All Variant Cards
