Everything in Marvel Snap A Blink in Time season update: Release date, new cards, & more

Christopher Baggett
Marvel Snap May 2024 Update Exiles

Blink, and you’ll miss the Exiles making their leap to Marvel Snap in May’s A Blink in Time season with four new cards.

The latest season of Marvel Snap is upon us, and it’s a doozy of a throwback for classic X-Men fans. 

A Blink In Time introduces the Exiles, a fan-favorite team of X-Men characters from across the multiverse, to Marvel Snap. New cards featuring Exiles characters will be added throughout the season, and special events will be held, some of which tie into X-Men ‘97.

Read on to learn all about Marvel Snap’s A Blink in Time season, including new cards, locations, & more. 

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Marvel Snap A Blink in Time begins May 7, 2024, and runs through June 4, 2024. A Blink in Time is the 24th Season of Marvel Snap and will launch with both a free and premium reward track tier. 

For players who want to enable the premium reward track, the Marvel Snap Premium Pass is available for $9.99. The Premium Pass will allow players to unlock rewards by completing objectives. 

For players who want an early boost, a Marvel Snap Premium+ Season Pass is also available for $14.99. The Premium+ Season Pass lets players skip the first ten tiers. 

Season 5’s theme, A Blink in Time, is based on Marvel’s multiversal powerhouses, Exiles. Debuting in 2001, Exiles is a team of X-Men-adjacent characters who are plucked from their worlds to correct “hiccups” in reality across time and space. 

Five Exiles characters—Blink, Nocturne, Sage, Namora, and Sasquatch—will be released throughout the season. Blink will be available to Season Pass owners, while the remaining cards will be available weekly in both Spotlight Cache and Token Shop. 

In addition to the new cards, last season’s Season Pass card, Baron Zemo, will be added to Spotlight Cache and Token Shop as a Series 5 Card on May 7th. 

Marvel Snap A Blink in Time Blink card
  • 5 Cost
  • 7 Power
  • On Reveal: Swap the last card you played with a higher-Cost card from your deck.

Nocturne 

Marvel Snap A Blink in Time Nocturne card
  • 3 Cost
  • 5 Power
  • You can move this once. When this moves, replace its location with a random new one.

Sage

Marvel Snap A Blink in Time Sage card
  • 3 Cost
  • 0 Power
  • On Reveal: +2 Power for each different Power among all other cards here.

Namora

Marvel Snap A Blink in Time Namora Card
  • 5 Cost 
  • 6 Power
  • On Reveal: Give +5 Power to each of your cards alone at another location.

Sasquatch 

  • 6 Cost
  • 10 Power
  • Costs 1 less for each card you played last turn.

Two new Exiles adjacent locations join Marvel Snap this season: the Panoptichron, which is home to the Exiles multiversal base, The Crystal Palace, and Cancun, the vacation reality from Exiles #11

Panoptichron

Marvel Snap Panoptichron location
  • Cards that didn’t start in your deck get +2 Power here.

Cancun

Marvel Snap Cancun location
  • Power here doesn’t count toward winning the game.

There will be three new season albums for A Blink in Time featuring artists Dan Hipp and Rian Gonzales. In addition, two shop takeovers will make sure players have plenty of opportunities to snag new cards.

May 7 – Dan Hipp Album

Marvel Snap Dan Hipp album
  • Collect 3: Werewolf By Night Avatar
  • Collect 6: 1000 Credits
  • Collect 9: Heimdall Shocked Emote
  • Collect 12: Werewolf By Night Variant

May 15 – Rian Gonzalez Album

  • Collect 3: Silk Avatar
  • Collect 6: 1000 Collector’s Tokens
  • Collect 9: Gambit Swoon Emote
  • Collect 12: Silk Variant

May 31 – Oops, All Chibis Album

  • Collect 3: Iron Lad Avatar
  • Collect 6: 1000 Credits
  • Collect 9: Iron Lad The Thinker Emote
  • Collect 12: Iron Lad Variant

The season will have two takeovers, both featuring the art of Rian Gonzales.

  • The first takeover runs May 15th and 16th and features a new Jubilee variant. 
  • The second takeover will take place on May 31st and June 1st and feature chibi-style art. The takeover features multiple new variants, including Miles Morales, Wolverine, Dracula, and Cyclops.

Spotlight caches enable players to obtain more Marvel Snap cards faster. Once a player reaches Collection Level 500, Spotlight Caches will replace the Collector’s Caches and Reserves. 

The Spotlight Caches refresh weekly and offer a chance to get one of four cards. Cards already owned are removed from the rotation, thus improving the odds of getting other cards. Once you unlock all four cards in the cache, they will be replaced with Spotlight Variants. 

Marvel Snap A Blink in Time May 7 Spotlight Cache & Variant cards
  • Nocturne
  • Caeira
  • Selene
Marvel Snap A Blink in Time May 14 Spotlight Cache & Variant cards
  • Sage
  • Legion
  • The Living Tribunal
Marvel Snap A Blink in Time May 21 Spotlight Cache & Variant cards
  • Namora
  • Skaar
  • Black Knight
  • Sasquatch
  • Ravonna Renslayer
  • Havok
Marvel Snap a Blink in Time Twitch Drops

Players who watch Marvel Snap streams from May 7th to May 15th will get a slew of Marvel Snap Twitch drops tying into the X-Men ‘97 finale.

  • Watch 2 hours to earn: 65 Random Boosters
  • Watch 4 hours to earn: 350 Credits
  • Watch 6 hours to earn: Mister Sinister and Bishop X-Men ‘97 Variants

That’s all we have now for Marvel Snap’s A Blink in Time season! If you’re looking for more Marvel Snap, check out our rundown of the 2024 Marvel Snap roadmap or these additional Marvel Snap guides.

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Christopher Baggett started writing about comics on the Internet when he was 14 years old. Since then, he's written professionally for a host of sites, including ComicsBeat, Comic Book Resources, and The HomeWorld. He's most knowledgable about the legacy heroes of the '80s and '90s that he grew up with and believes Wally West is the best Flash - and he'll fight anyone over it. For tips, news, press and more, contact Christopher at christopher.baggett@dexerto.com