Nova: Marvel Snap Card Stats & Variants

Nova Marvel Snap card art

Nova is a Series 1 card in Marvel Snap with 1 cost and 1 power. Abilities: When Destroyed, Destroy, Empower. When Destroyed: Give your cards +1 Power. Nova is one of 72 Series 1 cards in Marvel Snap. As of October 2026, Nova is owned by 99% of tracked players on SnapComplete, with 11 released variants and 11 avatars. Released May 2022. All ownership data comes from real synced player collections and refreshes every four hours.

How does Nova rank on the leaderboard?

SnapComplete data from 22,214 synced players shows Nova rankings across three metrics: Mastery XP, Infinity Splits, and Net Wins. The #1 Mastery XP player has 1,430 XP, and the top 1% threshold is 615 (top 10%: 300, top 50%: 110). The #1 Infinity Splits player has 48 splits, and the top 1% threshold is 9 (top 10%: 4, top 50%: 1). The #1 Net Wins player has 1,983 net wins, and the top 1% threshold is 284 (top 10%: 131, top 50%: 31). 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 Nova have?

As of October 2026, Nova has 11 released variants and 11 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. Nova variants appear in DESTROY All Pixels, Peculiar Pantheon, Terrific Tarots, Trippy Surfer albums. Completing album tiers earns Credits and Collector's Tokens.

All Nova variants (11)

Upcoming Nova variants (1)

Datamined variants not yet released. Art and metadata may be incomplete until release.

Nova Reaction Set

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How players customize Nova

Most equipped variant: Nova (Deodato), chosen by 3,794 of 21,926 owners (17%). Most equipped premium border: Purple Neon Border, equipped 594 times on Nova. Most popular finish: Ink, equipped by 48% of the 1,529 players who unlocked it on Nova. Most popular flare: Krackle White, equipped by 36% of the 168 players who unlocked it on Nova.

Customization stats aggregate every synced SnapComplete player who equipped a variant, finish, flare, or border on Nova. Popularity rankings refresh automatically as new variants release and loadouts change.

How does Nova perform in tracked Marvel Snap decks?

The most-played deck running Nova posts a 57% win rate and +0.51 cubes per game across 388 tracked matches from 45 players this week. Its core teammates include Deadpool, Bucky Barnes, Carnage. Open every tracked Nova 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

Nova is classified under When Destroyed, Destroy, and Empower on SnapComplete's 23-ability card index. That means it slots cleanly into decks built around those keywords. Across 808 tracked Nova decks this week, the most common teammates are Killmonger (80%), Carnage (49%), Venom (45%), Death (38%), Wolverine (38%). Percentages show how often each card appears alongside Nova. Other When Destroyed cards that often appear in adjacent archetypes: Air-Walker, Bucky Barnes, Deadpool, Headpool, Marrow, Moira X.

Where does Nova perform best and worst?

Across SnapComplete-tracked Ranked and Conquest games, Nova performs best at Altar of Death (+8.9% win rate vs its average) and worst at The Nexus (-5.6%).

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How this is measured: across tracked games (bots excluded) where Nova was in the deck and the location was in play. It reflects how decks running Nova perform with that location on the board, not where Nova itself was played. Win rates are smoothed against Nova's own baseline and update continuously.

Track Nova on SnapComplete

Sync your Marvel Snap account to see your Nova mastery XP, splits, net wins, owned variants, and avatars compared against 22,214 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 Nova further: Nova leaderboard for percentile thresholds and top players, Nova decks for community win rates and meta deck stats.

Balance History

DateTextPowerCost
Jan 10, 2023 PatchWhen this is destroyed, give your cards +1 Power.1 (was 2)1
Jun 29, 2022 Patch
Now: When this is destroyed, give your cards +1 Power.
Was: When this is destroyed, give your cards +2 Power.
21
May 7, 2022 ReleasedWhen this is destroyed, give your cards +2 Power.21