Merlin - Marvel Snap Card & Variants
Merlin is a Series 5 card in Marvel Snap with 2 cost and 2 power. Abilities: On Reveal, Add to Hand, Extra Energy, Empower. At the start of each turn, add an Incantation to your hand. Merlin is one of 170 Series 5 cards in Marvel Snap. As of July 2026, Merlin is owned by 77% of tracked players on SnapComplete, with 6 released variants and 6 avatars. Released June 2025. All ownership data comes from real synced player collections and refreshes every four hours.
How does Merlin rank on the leaderboard?
SnapComplete data from 8,660 synced players shows Merlin rankings across three metrics: Mastery XP, Infinity Splits, and Net Wins. The #1 Mastery XP player has 2,655 XP, and the top 1% threshold is 1,135 (top 10%: 335, top 50%: 140). The #1 Infinity Splits player has 88 splits, and the top 1% threshold is 20 (top 10%: 6, top 50%: 1). The #1 Net Wins player has 1,076 net wins, and the top 1% threshold is 220 (top 10%: 96, top 50%: 23). Six percentile tiers (top 1%, 3%, 5%, 10%, 25%, 50%) plus individual top-10 ranks update every four hours from real player data.
What variants and cosmetics does Merlin have?
As of July 2026, Merlin has 6 released variants and 6 avatars tracked on SnapComplete. Each variant page shows owner rarity, artist credit, acquisition source, equipped popularity, and album membership. Counts update automatically as new cosmetics release and get detected through crowdsourced collection data. Merlin variants appear in the Ryman Reason album. Completing album tiers earns Credits and Collector's Tokens.
All Merlin variants (6)
Winking StudiosWinking Studios · Season Pass · 52% of players own
Creative House PocketCreative House Pocket · Super Rare · General Pool · 12% of players own
James RymanJames Ryman · Super Rare · General Pool · 9% of players own
FantasyKevin Sidharta · Ultimate · Token Shop · 4% of players own
Grafit StudioGrafit Studio · Bundle · 2% of players own
Zak PlucinskiZak Plucinski · Bundle · 1% of players ownUpcoming Merlin variants (2)
Datamined variants not yet released. Art and metadata may be incomplete until release.
Envar Studio
MerlinMerlin Tokens (3)
Cards and abilities Merlin brings into play in Marvel Snap: Omniversal Presence, Once And Future, Polymorph. Cost, power, and ability text for each is below.
Omniversal Presence1-cost, 0-power · On Reveal: Replace this location with a new one and give Merlin +1 Power.
Once And Future1-cost, 0-power · On Reveal: Shuffle your lowest-Power card here into your deck to get +2 Energy next turn.
Polymorph1-cost, 0-power · On Reveal: Transform your lowest-Power character here into one that costs 1 more.How players customize Merlin
Most equipped variant: Merlin (Winking Studios), chosen by 2,786 of 6,651 owners (42%). Most equipped premium border: Cosmic Blue, equipped 435 times on Merlin. Most popular finish: Gold, equipped by 63% of the 742 players who unlocked it on Merlin. Most popular flare: Krackle White, equipped by 50% of the 205 players who unlocked it on Merlin.
Customization stats aggregate every synced SnapComplete player who equipped a variant, finish, flare, or border on Merlin. Popularity rankings refresh automatically as new variants release and loadouts change.
How does Merlin perform in tracked Marvel Snap decks?
The most-played deck running Merlin posts a 50% win rate and +0.01 cubes per game across 421 tracked matches from 59 players this week. Its core teammates include Yellowjacket, Deafening Chord, Majestic Wingbeat. Open every tracked Merlin deck with copyable deck codes, or browse the full list on the deck tracker. Deck stats update continuously from SnapComplete-tracked matches against real opponents (bots excluded).
Card synergies
Merlin is classified under On Reveal, Add to Hand, Extra Energy, and Empower on SnapComplete's 20-ability card index. That means it slots cleanly into decks built around those keywords. Across 484 tracked Merlin decks this week, the most common teammates are Werewolf By Night (24%), Mother Askani (22%), Deafening Chord (16%), Shou-Lao the Undying (17%), Shadow King (22%). Percentages show how often each card appears alongside Merlin. Other On Reveal cards that often appear in adjacent archetypes: Absorbing Man, Adamantium Infusion, Aero, Agamotto, Agent 13, Agent Coulson.
Where does Merlin perform best and worst?
Across SnapComplete-tracked Ranked and Conquest games, Merlin performs best at Bar With No Name (+8.3% win rate vs its average) and worst at The Sandbar (-4.9%).
Performs best at:
- Bar With No Name +8.3% (1,063 games). Whoever has the least Power here wins.
- TVA +6.7% (244 games). After turn 4, end the game.
- Sandcastle +5.9% (210 games). After turn 5, end the game.
Performs worst at:
- The Sandbar -4.9% (2,005 games). Created cards cost 1 more. (max 6)
- Wakandan Embassy -3.7% (3,955 games). Give +2 Power to cards in players' hands.
- Thunderbolts Tower -3.4% (1,918 games). After turn 5, give all cards here -2 Power.
How this is measured: across tracked games (bots excluded) where Merlin was in the deck and the location was in play. It reflects how decks running Merlin perform with that location on the board, not where Merlin itself was played. Win rates are smoothed against Merlin's own baseline and update continuously.
Track Merlin on SnapComplete
Sync your Marvel Snap account to see your Merlin mastery XP, splits, net wins, owned variants, and avatars compared against 8,660 tracked players. SnapComplete reads your collection directly from the game through Google or Apple sign-in. No screenshots or manual entry. All data refreshes every four hours.
Explore Merlin further: Merlin leaderboard for percentile thresholds and top players, Merlin decks for community win rates and meta deck stats.