The Thing First Steps: Marvel Snap Card Stats & Variants

The Thing First Steps is a Series 5 card in Marvel Snap with 5 cost and 6 power. Abilities: End of Turn, Destroy, Empower. End of Turn: +2 Power. Once per game, if your side here is full, destroy an enemy card here with less Power. The Thing First Steps is also known as The Thing FS and TTFS. The Thing First Steps is one of 189 Series 5 cards in Marvel Snap. As of October 2026, The Thing First Steps is owned by 45% of tracked players on SnapComplete, with 4 released variants and 4 avatars. Released July 2025. All ownership data comes from real synced player collections and refreshes every four hours.

How does The Thing First Steps rank on the leaderboard?

SnapComplete data from 22,293 synced players shows The Thing First Steps rankings across three metrics: Mastery XP, Infinity Splits, and Net Wins. The #1 Mastery XP player has 1,325 XP, and the top 1% threshold is 450 (top 10%: 150, top 50%: 15). The #1 Infinity Splits player has 44 splits, and the top 1% threshold is 7 (top 10%: 2, top 50%: 0). The #1 Net Wins player has 1,280 net wins, and the top 1% threshold is 154 (top 10%: 65, top 50%: 15). 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 Thing First Steps have?

As of October 2026, The Thing First Steps 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 Thing First Steps variants appear in the Mafayon’s Masterpieces album. Completing album tiers earns Credits and Collector's Tokens.

All The Thing First Steps variants (4)

Sam NielsonSam Nielson · Super Rare · General Pool · 4% of players ownPaul MafayonPaul Mafayon · Super Rare · General Pool · 4% of players ownAdi GranovAdi Granov · Spotlight · Token Shop · 2% of players ownCreeesCreees · Bundle · <1% of players own

Upcoming The Thing First Steps variants (2)

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

RodgonRodgonSUPJASUPJA

The Thing First Steps in Limited Time Game Modes (1)

The Thing First Steps has special versions in Marvel Snap limited time game modes (Grand Arena) with modified stats and abilities. Each version and its ability is below.

The Thing First StepsGrand Arena · 5-cost, 6-power · End of Turn: +2 Power. Once per game, if your side here is full, destroy an enemy card here with less Power.

Clobberin' TimeGrand Arena Skill · 6-cost, 0-power · Costs 1 less for each different Cost among your cards in play. On Reveal: Give your Champion +8 Power.

How players customize The Thing First Steps

Most equipped variant: The Thing First Steps (Sam Nielson), chosen by 649 of 9,922 owners (7%). Most equipped premium border: Blue Cosmic Border, equipped 764 times on The Thing First Steps. Most popular finish: Gold, equipped by 78% of the 195 players who unlocked it on The Thing First Steps. Most popular flare: Krackle Blue, equipped by 70% of the 33 players who unlocked it on The Thing First Steps.

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

How does The Thing First Steps perform in tracked Marvel Snap decks?

The most-played deck running The Thing First Steps posts a 53% win rate and +0.04 cubes per game across 95 tracked matches from 1 player this week. Its core teammates include Merlin, Gambit, Fenris Wolf. Open every tracked The Thing First Steps 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 Thing First Steps is classified under End of Turn, Destroy, and Empower on SnapComplete's 23-ability card index. That means it slots cleanly into decks built around those keywords. Across 174 tracked The Thing First Steps decks this week, the most common teammates are Isca the Unbeaten (47%), Sam Wilson Captain America (25%), Cosmo (29%), Aurora (32%), Invisible Woman First Steps (34%). Percentages show how often each card appears alongside The Thing First Steps. Other End of Turn cards that often appear in adjacent archetypes: Adam Warlock, Attuma, Aunt May, Aurora, Black Cat, Bruce Banner.

Where does The Thing First Steps perform best and worst?

Across SnapComplete-tracked Ranked and Conquest games, The Thing First Steps performs best at Worldship (+6.7% win rate vs its average) and worst at Stark Island (-4.6%).

Performs best at:

• Worldship +6.7% (520 games). Destroy the other locations.
• Sakaar +4.3% (6,952 games). After this turn, put a card from each player's hand here.
• Project Pegasus +3.8% (4,229 games). +5 Energy this turn.

Performs worst at:

• Stark Island -4.6% (1,347 games). End of Turn: Give a card in each hand -1 Cost.
• Valhalla -3.6% (2,608 games). After turn 4, cards here repeat their On Reveal abilities.
• Fractured Outpost -3.6% (672 games). Draw a 3-Cost card from your deck.

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

Track The Thing First Steps on SnapComplete

Sync your Marvel Snap account to see your The Thing First Steps mastery XP, splits, net wins, owned variants, and avatars compared against 22,293 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 Thing First Steps further: The Thing First Steps leaderboard for percentile thresholds and top players, The Thing First Steps decks for community win rates and meta deck stats.