Every Location In Marvel Snap: Each Location Effect Explained

Marvel has been expanding its catalog of games as of late, with an especially weighty focus on mobile games. This isn’t too surprising considering the lucrative profits that the mobile game market offers to developers, and Marvel Snap is the game in 2022 for Marvel to cash in on that potential. 

Featuring a highly tactical gameplay loop that requires players to second guess how their opponents are planning on using their cards, creating an exhilarating back-and-forth that lasts for 6 turns with each player at the brink of taking the upper hand at a moment’s notice. One key aspect of this back and forth is the utilization of and planning around locations.

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How Do Locations Work In Marvel Snap

In each game of Marvel Snap, you are given 3 locations where you are supposed to play the cards in your hand. Each one of these locations gives the cards that you play there specific buffs or debuffs depending on their effect. The leftmost of these locations is revealed on the first turn, followed by the middle location on the second turn, and finally, the rightmost location is revealed on the third turn.

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What makes this experience a lot more immersive and native to the Marvel universe is how all of these locations are based on places in the ever-expansive world of Marvel. Whether it is Asgard, the Nordic realm of the gods, or New York, the specific locations that you get and their location-specific effects are always sure to put a smile on any dedicated fan’s face.

All Locations In Marvel Snap

Now that you know why locations are important in Marvel Snap, here’s a list of all the locations currently available in the game: 

Location	Effect
Asgard	At the end of turn 4, whoever is winning here draws 2 cards.
Atlantis	If you only have one card here, it has +5 Power.
Avengers Compound	On turn 5, all cards must be played here.
Baxter Building	Whoever is winning this location gets +3 Power at the others.
Bifrost	After turn 4, move all cards one location to the right.
Central Park	Add a Squirrel to each location.
Cloning Vats	When you play a card here, add a copy to your hand.
Crimson Cosmos	1, 2, and 3-Cost cards can’t be played here.
Daily Bugle	Get a copy of a card in your opponent’s hand.
Danger Room	Cards played here have a 25% chance to be destroyed.
Dark Dimension	Cards played here are not revealed until the game ends.
Death’s Domain	When you play a card here, destroy it. (Previously this effect was seen on Knowhere)
District X	Replace both decks with 10 random cards.
Dream Dimension	On turn 5, cards cost 1 more.
Elysium	Cards cost 1 less.
Fisk Tower	When a card moves here, destroy it.
Gamma Lab	After turn 3, transform all cards here into the Hulk.
Grand Central	At the end of turn 5, put a card from each player’s hand here.
Hala	At the end of turn 4, destroy all cards controlled by the player losing here.
Hellfire Club	1-Cost cards can’t be played here.
Hell’s Kitchen	Draw a 1-Cost card from your deck.
Isle of Silence	Ongoing effects are disabled here.
Jotunheim	After each turn, cards here lose 1 Power.
K’un-Lun	When a card moves here, give it +2 Power.
Kamar-Taj	On Reveal effects happen twice at this location.
Klyntar	Cards here have -2 Power.
Knowhere	On Reveal effects do not happen at this location.
Kyln	You can’t play cards here after turn 4.
Lechuguilla	When you play a card here shuffle 3 rocks into your deck.
Lemuria	No cards are revealed this turn.
Limbo	There is a turn 7 this game.
Los Diablos Base	At the end of turn 3, ruin a random location.
Mindscape	At the start of turn 6, swap hands.
Miniaturized Lab	On turns 3, 4, and 5, no cards can be added here.
Mirror Dimension	On turn 4, transform into one of the other locations.
Mojoworld	Whoever has more cards here gets +100 Power.
Monster Island	Add a 9-Power Monster here for each player.
Monster Metropolis	The cards with the highest Power here get +3 Power.
Muir Island	After each turn, give cards here +1 Power.
Murderworld	At the end of turn 3, destroy all cards here.
Negative Zone	Cards here have -3 Power.
New York	On turn 6, you can move cards to this location.
Nidavellir	Cards here have +5 Power
Nova Roma	Draw a card.
Olympia	Draw 2 cards
Onslaught’s Citadel	Ongoing effects here are doubled.
Oscorp Tower	After turn 3, all cards here swap sides.
Project Pegasus	+5 Energy this turn.
Ruins	[no effect]
Sakaar	Put a card from each player’s hand here.
Sanctum Sanctorum	Cards can’t be played here.
Savage Land	Add two Raptors on each side of this location.
Shadowland	Add a Ninja to each side with -2 Power.
Sinister London	When you play a card here, add a copy to another location.
Sokovia	Discard a card from each player’s hand.
Stark Tower	At the end of turn 5, give all cards here +2 Power.
Starlight Citadel	After turn 4, swap the position of each location.
Strange Academy	At the end of turn 5 move all cards here to other random locations.
Subterranea	Shuffle 5 rocks into each deck.
The Bar With No Name	Whoever has the least Power here wins.
The Big House	4, 5, and 6-Cost cards can’t be played here.
The Hub	Add a random card to each player’s hand.
The Ice Box	Give a card in each player’s hand +1 Cost.
The Nexus	Your Power here is granted to other Locations as well.
The Space Throne	Only one card can be here for each player.
The Superflow	If you have no cards here, +1 energy each turn.
The Triskelion	Fill each player’s hand with random cards.
The Vault	On turn 6, cards can’t be played here.
Tinkerer’s Workshop	+1 Energy this turn.
Titan	6-Cost cards cost 1 less.
Transia	Shuffle the locations.
Wakanda	Cards here can’t be destroyed.
Wakandan Embassy	Give +2 Power to cards in players’ hands.
Washington D.C.	Cards here with no abilities have +3 Power.
Weirdworld	Both players draw from their opponent’s decks.
Westview	Turns into a new location on turn 4.
Worldship	Destroy the other locations.
X-Mansion	At the end of turn 3, add a random card here for each player.
Xandar	Cards here have +1 Power.

Although the developers seem to keep constantly adding a location or two every few weeks of the game’s seasonal cycle, these are all of the locations in Marvel Snap that exist as of now.

As you will have already figured out, the locations that you will be given and their specific effect will have the ability to turn the game around on any player’s head in a matter of seconds. Therefore the key to securing the most amounts of victories for the highest possible rank is to always ensure that you build your deck with an idea in mind of how to secure a favorable position in every possible scenario.

Final Thoughts

Locations in Marvel Snap are key to securing victory. There are a wide array of locations that the game randomly picks from for each match, with each type changing how you will want to strategize your playstyle drastically.

So with locations being chosen randomly for each game, as long as you optimize your deck for the most possible selections, you’ll find yourself gaining the upper hand in more of your games in no time!