Hey, folks!
Welcome back. I’m Matt and it’s time for our Top 10 countdown for the newest set, Marvel Super Heroes. I’ve gone through the entire set and handpicked what I consider the most interesting cards just for you. Let’s dive in!
Marvel Super Heroes’s Top 10
The Wondrous Wasp: In a fast-paced, 1v1 format like Centurion Commander, tempo and interaction are everything.
The Wondrous Wasp from the Marvel Super Heroes looks like a premier tool for blue mages looking to disrupt opponents without losing momentum. Because it has flash, you can leave up mana for counterspells or removal.
If your opponent casts a massive threat or tries to activate a key engine, drop the Wasp to tap it down and strip its abilities instantly.
Unlike traditional bounce spells, the Wasp removes all abilities.
This means you can temporarily strip ward or indestructible from a commander or a troublesome blocker, opening them up to your targeted removal or a lethal attack.
I see this as a must include card in your 99 if you are playing a tempo-oriented build, but I still prefer Malcolm, Alluring Scoundrel as commander, being less dependent on what your opponent does and more of proactive threat.
The Serpent Society: this card is a heavy-duty meat grinder.
As a 3/4 with deathtouch, this card turns midrange mirrors and creature-heavy matchups into absolute nightmares. It’s a virtually hexproof threat: the standout feature here is ward—get five poison counters; taking 50% of a lethal poison clock just to target this guy with a removal spell is a losing proposition.
Its passive ability turns every trading dynamic in your favor.
Whenever another creature you control with deathtouch dies, your opponent must sacrifice a nontoken creature. In Golgari colors, packing your 99 with cheap, efficient deathtouchers lets you attack or block with impunity: if they block, their creature dies to deathtouch.
If they don’t, you bleed them out. If your creature dies, they still lose a nontoken creature of their choice.
The Serpent Society forces a chokehold on the board. It locks down combat and slowly starves your opponent of their best assets.
The Fantasticar: this card functions less like a standard vehicle and more like a very efficient win condition.
It shines in noncreature-heavy strategies—especially Spellslinger, Storm, and aggressive “Cheerios” artifact lists.
Its second ability is where the card transitions from a solid value engine to an absolute game ender: if you can chain four noncreature spells together in a single turn, you can sacrifice the car to create four 4/4 colorless Construct tokens with flying and haste.
Swinging for 16 immediate flying damage out of nowhere, maybe on turn 3, considering the Fantasticar itself counts as the first noncreature spell on the turn you cast it, often forces a concession. I see it as a pretty solid commander if you are into this kind of all-in, super explosive strategies.
Namor the Sub-Mariner: As a flying ∗/4 whose power scales directly with your oceanic army, Namor transforms standard blue control into a wide,lethal board presence. It rewards you for casting noncreature spells with blue mana symbols in their costs by generating a 1/1 Merfolk token for every single blue mana symbol.
Packing your deck with cards like Cryptic Command, or Counterspell, means you aren’t just controlling the stack: you’re building a massive army on your opponent’s turn.
It bridges the gap between hard control and aggressive token swarms, ensuring every piece of interaction moves you one step closer to a lethal combat phase. Since the tokens it spawns are Merfolk, it integrates seamlessly with classic blue sea-dwellers.
Cards like Lord of Atlantis or Master of the Pearl Trident give your newly created army islandwalk and massive stat buffs, turning a handful of 1/1 tokens into an unblockable, crushing wave. I see it as a viable commander, either for a control shell and a tribal one.
World War Hulk: As an enchantment saga, World War Hulk acts as a multi-stage tactical nuke, but it’s its first chapter to make it spicy.
It says: “The next red or green creature spell you cast this turn can be cast without paying its mana cost”. This basically allows you to cheat into play commanders like Atraxa, Grand Unifier and two turns earlier, probably securing you a win or at least a massive edge on the game.
Playable also in green-based ramp decks, where you have many gigantic threats to make this card valuable; the last two chapters would probably be winmore, at that point.
Doctor Doom, Unrivaled: Having a literal Thassa’s Oracle win condition directly available in your command zone completely shifts how you pilot Mono Black strategies.
Because Doctor Doom sits in your command zone, cards like Doomsday turn into a one card win.
Cast Doomsday, build a pile of zero to five cards, find a way to give Doctor Doom haste and activate his ability to instantly close out the game.
The same works with cards like Demonic Consultation or Tainted Pact ,all of which should be featured in a competitive list.
A crucial mechanical quirk of Doctor Doom is that his “win the game” check happens during the resolution of his activated ability.
Because state-based actions aren’t checked until a spell or ability completely finishes resolving, you win the game on the spot before the rules can punish you for drawing from an empty library or sitting at 0 life.
Even if an opponent removes it in response to the activation, its ability remains on the stack and will still win you the game if your deck is empty.
Check out our new list, if you like this commander: https://moxfield.com/decks/atD7zud4R0aDZ2mMoJALJA
The Mind Stone: Stepping into the artifact slot, this Legendary Infinity Stone stands as an indestructible mana rock that scales into a repeatable, late-game value engine. Once you pay its 6-mana cost to “Harness” its true potential, it gains its loopable infinity ability:
At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one other target nonland permanent you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner’s control.
The Mind Stone can target any nonland permanent. This opens up unparalleled value loops in white tempo or control strategies: you can blink a planeswalker to reset its loyalty counters, for instance.
Very solid card.
Absorbing Man A 4/4 Vigilance body for 3 is already reasonable. One of its funniest mechanical interactions involves Dark Depths.
Because Absorbing Man copies the land without entering the battlefield, it becomes a copy of Dark Depths with zero ice counters on it.
The game rules immediately check the state, force you to sacrifice it, and reward you with a legendary 20/20 flying, indestructible Marit Lage token to completely steal the game. For just three mana, Absorbing Man gives Simic midrange and tempo lists a fluid chameleon that adapts to the best permanent on the board. It punishes opponents for playing high-value noncreature cards, transforming their best setups into a 4/4 offensive threat.
Feel free to check out our new list, featuring this guy in command zone:
https://moxfield.com/decks/o_6eARei1nKOo9G3ChRk9w
Jennifer Walters: Dropping into Selesnya colors, Jennifer Walters // The Sensational She-Hulk pulls double duty as a premier protective piece and an explosive mid-game finisher. Starting as a efficient two-mana 2/3 Human Advisor Hero, it can later transform into its 6/6 alter ego for 3GWW. In hatebears lists, having a Grand Abolisher available directly from the command zone forces control players to interact entirely on their own turns.
Because opponents cannot cast spells on your turn, the steep sorcery-speed transformation cost (3GWW) is completely safe from instant-speed blowout removal like Swords to Plowshares or Fatal Push. You can tap out to flip it into The Sensational She-Hulk with absolute confidence, ending up having your likely wincon online.
Dark Fortress: and the new lands cycle: These duals feature a unique conditional clause: they tap for colorless immediately, but can tap for either of their colored mana if the land entered the battlefield this turn or if you control a basic land. Because these lands provide colored mana on the exact turn they are dropped, they function perfectly as turn one or turn two plays. Good in two color decks, that usually run a good amount of basics, where they can function at their best
Thank you for reading.
Written by Matt Lorenz
