The Ancient One - Marvel Snap Card & Variants
The Ancient One is a Series 5 card in Marvel Snap with 3 cost and 5 power. Abilities: On Reveal, Ongoing, Add to Hand. On Reveal: Add Tao Mandala to your hand. The Ancient One is one of 178 Series 5 cards in Marvel Snap. As of August 2026, The Ancient One is owned by 48% of tracked players on SnapComplete, with 4 released variants and 4 avatars. Released June 2025. All ownership data comes from real synced player collections and refreshes every four hours.
How does The Ancient One rank on the leaderboard?
SnapComplete data from 14,724 synced players shows The Ancient One rankings across three metrics: Mastery XP, Infinity Splits, and Net Wins. The #1 Mastery XP player has 1,400 XP, and the top 1% threshold is 400 (top 10%: 150, top 50%: 15). The #1 Infinity Splits player has 35 splits, and the top 1% threshold is 4 (top 10%: 1, top 50%: 0). The #1 Net Wins player has 490 net wins, and the top 1% threshold is 54 (top 10%: 16, top 50%: 1). 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 The Ancient One have?
As of August 2026, The Ancient One has 4 released variants and 4 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. The Ancient One variants appear in the Ryman Reason album. Completing album tiers earns Credits and Collector's Tokens.
All The Ancient One variants (4)
Zak PlucinskiZak Plucinski · Rare · General Pool · 16% of players own
Creative House PocketCreative House Pocket · Super Rare · General Pool · 5% of players own
James RymanJames Ryman · Super Rare · General Pool · 4% of players own
Winking StudiosWinking Studios · Spotlight · Token Shop · 2% of players ownUpcoming The Ancient One variants (1)
Datamined variants not yet released. Art and metadata may be incomplete until release.
Dark DimensionThe Ancient One Skills (1)
Cards and abilities The Ancient One brings into play in Marvel Snap: Tao Mandala. Cost, power, and ability text for each is below.
Tao Mandala2-cost, 0-power · On Reveal: Copy the text of one of your Ongoing cards here onto your other characters here.How players customize The Ancient One
Most equipped variant: The Ancient One (Zak Plucinski), chosen by 1,165 of 7,451 owners (16%). Most equipped premium border: Gold Cosmic Border, equipped 184 times on The Ancient One. Most popular finish: Gold, equipped by 62% of the 37 players who unlocked it on The Ancient One. Most popular flare: Krackle Black, equipped by 57% of the 7 players who unlocked it on The Ancient One.
Customization stats aggregate every synced SnapComplete player who equipped a variant, finish, flare, or border on The Ancient One. Popularity rankings refresh automatically as new variants release and loadouts change.
How does The Ancient One perform in tracked Marvel Snap decks?
The most-played deck running The Ancient One posts a 57% win rate and +0.66 cubes per game across 2,777 tracked matches from 277 players this week. Its core teammates include Lady Bullseye, Scorpion, Mystique. Open every tracked The Ancient One 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
The Ancient One is classified under On Reveal, Ongoing, and Add to Hand on SnapComplete's 22-ability card index. That means it slots cleanly into decks built around those keywords. Across 436 tracked The Ancient One decks this week, the most common teammates are Scorpion Brand New Day (75%), Hazmat (73%), Magik (73%), Scorpion (64%), Mystique (65%). Percentages show how often each card appears alongside The Ancient One. Other On Reveal cards that often appear in adjacent archetypes: Absorbing Man, Adamantium Infusion, Aero, Agamotto, Agent 13, Agent Coulson.
Where does The Ancient One perform best and worst?
Across SnapComplete-tracked Ranked and Conquest games, The Ancient One performs best at Onslaught's Citadel (+12.0% win rate vs its average) and worst at Mindscape (-14.7%).
Performs best at:
- Onslaught's Citadel +12.0% (2,673 games). Ongoing effects here apply an additional time.
- Bar Sinister +11.1% (1,497 games). After you play a card here, fill this location with copies of it.
- Elysium +10.4% (3,284 games). Cards cost 1 less.
Performs worst at:
- Mindscape -14.7% (912 games). At the start of turn 6, swap hands.
- Sandcastle -12.9% (487 games). After turn 5, end the game.
- Ego -12.6% (243 games). Ego takes over and plays your cards for you.
How this is measured: across tracked games (bots excluded) where The Ancient One was in the deck and the location was in play. It reflects how decks running The Ancient One perform with that location on the board, not where The Ancient One itself was played. Win rates are smoothed against The Ancient One's own baseline and update continuously.
Track The Ancient One on SnapComplete
Sync your Marvel Snap account to see your The Ancient One mastery XP, splits, net wins, owned variants, and avatars compared against 14,724 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 The Ancient One further: The Ancient One leaderboard for percentile thresholds and top players, The Ancient One decks for community win rates and meta deck stats.