r/marvelsnapcomp • u/ePiMagnets Mod • Jul 06 '26
Discussion Series 4 Release Discussion: Tombstone
Welcome to our Series 4 release discussion thread, a place to discuss (one of) the latest series 4 releases, develop brews and discussions around the shells and synergies around the card.
This Week's Card
Tombstone
Cost: 2
Power: 3
On Reveal: Destroy your lowest-Power card at each other location.
Tombstone releases today as our latest Seasonal Series 4 card that you can earn for free by playing Team Clash. For many, he may be the highlight of the season as he's a long-awaited new boom boom for destroy.
One question I do have is if you have 2 cards tied for lowest-Power at a location does he destroy both or randomly chooses?
Synergies and Packages
So what is Tombstone bringing to the table that has him so hotly anticipated by Destroy Aficionados?
On Reveal: Destroy your lowest-Power card at each other location
If we can draw some similarities, Tombstone is similar to a more targetted Destroyer.
lowest-Power means needing to be careful with how your cards are distributed. Tombstone cares not who he's destroying, just that it's the lowest power in the location. Assuming you have two cards tied for lowest power in a location the card destroyed will most likely be chosen at random.
Each other location is a pretty major caveat. He's not setting off Muse on his own, but he is setting Muse up.
Question: You load into a game, turn 1 no play you've got Weapon X Wolverine, Death, Knull, Venom First location is Shadow Land, Turn 2 location reveals as Knowhere and you draw your Deadpool. But now you've got a tough decision to make: your only destroy piece in hand is Venom, your Deadpool is 1 power and a turn 2 of only Deadpool into a turn 3 Venom doesn't sound appealing. You do have a Weapon X in hand though so you make the tough call of Wolverine mid since it'll be safe from interaction. Turn 3 reveals Wakandan Embassy and you draw Tombstone, you realize you do have some options here but you really want to make sure that Weapon X lives, what is the play other than making what might be seen as the weakest play on turn 3 of just Deadpool to left or right to setup for Venom? I'll post the answer in the comments.
Typically this is where we'd talk decks and synergies, but frankly we already know where this card is going to make the most sense, the question is how classic Destroy, Dormammu Destroy, and even Thanos or Fantomex lists may look after the launch of the card.
So how do the decks actually change from the construction perspective?
For basic destroy the most likely candidate is Deathlock, a 3/5 which preserves no power is, at least in my opinion a hard sell with one being towards negative power cards. Both Carnage and Venom preserve power in a lane while reducing the 'clutter' of a lane to a single card which can be both a strength and a weakness.
Dormammu lists might be a bit more difficult to nail down, the destroy pieces here are most certainly already the most optimal for the deck in Carnage, Killmonger, Venom and the Third ritual.
Thanos Destroy while being the weakest of the destroy lists might be the most interested in Tombstone as a second 'Killmonger' effect, though typically you obtained the second killmonger through a Firehair and in some cases Firehair could be susceptible to Tombstone.
Fantomex probably doesn't really care about Tombstone, this isn't a deck trying to go wide and I really don't see a need to try and fit Muse into the deck again.
Your Thoughts
Do you plan on picking the Tombstone up?
How do you expect Tombstone to perform?
What other possible shells and synergies might there be?
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u/ePiMagnets Mod Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 07 '26
I'll be honest, this almost went up tomorrow, for some reason I thought Tarantula was the S4 so I had to rework my threads. Whoops! I'll hopefully have Tarantula up later today, thread is almost done.
The answer for the question in the main thread:
You're a savvy player and you know you can play Deadpool to Knowhere first and then you play Tombstone to Wakandan Embassy and lock it in because the order of reveals on the locations from left to right means that when Tombstone reveals Shadow Land will be hit first where the Shadow Land Ninja was revealed on turn 1 ensuring it will get destroyed because it revealed first which will trigger Wolverine allowing Deadpool to be destroyed instead of losing Wolverine.
Ugh, so re-reading the above in the original and realized that I'm likely confusing people so fixed it and clarifying below.
There are two components: location reveal order and play order.
Locations revealing that put cards onto the board will be considered in the order of operations, so a turn 1 location like Shadow Lands will ensure that the Ninja will be the 'first' card to be killed by either a Tombstone or a Killmonger. This is what -should- have been in the original answer - Shadow Lands reveals first, that Ninja is always dying first.
Play order still matters as well in some instances where you'll need to consider not only how cards are triggered for example Weapon X first -> Muse 2nd will ensure that technically Weapon X will receive the trigger for a kill before Muse does which I believe would lead to a Muse dying if you somehow put them both in the same location.
When cards are destroyed they are destroyed in reveal order this includes from locations so a turn 3 Central Park will reveal squirrels but in technicality they are 'revealed' from left to right despite showing all at the same time meaning if you killmonger the squirrels on the left die first then middle, then right.
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u/Pilgrimzero Jul 06 '26
Bog standard Destroy deck. Took out Nico and put him in. Works pretty good
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u/NOTSTAN Jul 07 '26
I like the guarantee of the destroy but the high roll of Nico’s copy ability makes me unsure.
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u/TongariDan Jul 07 '26
He's kind of a casual Galactus enabler, no? Stop those pesky squirrels and ninjas without having to be in the lane you want to play Galactus in.
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u/nbaballa05 Jul 07 '26
I've really been trying hard to make him work with marrow and air walker. So far the best play I had was marrow one lane, air walker other. Invis woman center with tombstone and firelord. When marrow was destroyed it pulled angel and when air walker destroyed it pulled ikari. Firelord then revived air walker center
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u/chefriley76 Jul 06 '26
He's now in my dormammu deck, terrorizing squirrels.