For Marvel Snap’s Spider-Ham, Great Power Comes With Great Utility

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With Spider-Ham having swung into Marvel Snap this week, we’re breaking down what the new card does, which decks it fits into, and whether it’s worth 3000 of your precious Collector’s Tokens. Even though Spider-Ham’s ability is strong by itself, it has an unwritten side effect that makes it better than it has any right to be.

Spider-Ham, aka Peter Porker, is an anthropomorphic pig cartoon character who most fans likely met for the first time in 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, voiced by John Mulaney, and now he’s making his Marvel Snap debut as part of the Spider-Versus season. He joins the previously released season pass card Ghost-Spider and Series 5 addition Silk.

Spider-Ham’s release is notable for being for the first time a new card has debuted in Series 4 for 3000 Tokens as opposed to starting in Series 5 for 6000. Next week’s Spider-Man 2099 will follow suit and also start off at this cheaper rate. But is Spider-Ham worth buying, even at that discounted price? Let’s dig in.

Spider-Ham card text: "On Reveal: Transform the highest-cost card in your opponent's hand into a Pig, keeping its Power and Cost.”

Befitting his silly, prankster personality, the 1 Power/1 Energy Spider-Ham whips out a cartoon hammer and bonks the highest-cost card in the opponents’ hand, transforming it into a Pig with the same stats but no ability.

Spider-Ham’s effect has the potential to be incredibly impactful for a variety of reasons. High-energy cards are usually the big closers thrown down on the final turn in an attempt to win the game with a powerful effect, but Spider-Ham takes the steam out of the opponent’s grand finale. There are numerous popular high-cost cards with game-changing effects that Spider-Ham would love to smack,