Welcome to the Mystic Arts Archive!
This website is a repository for the information I want to provide for the Marvel Contest of Champions community. Check out the Champion Guides if you want to learn more about my favorite champions and the Battlegrounds Guides for tips and tricks on how to navigate the current meta. If the Squad Builder Side Quest is active, check out the Optimizer to maximize your points per energy spent.
I hope this information is helpful. If you have any guides you want to see or have questions, hop on the Discord server!
Champion Guides
I made these champion guides to share what I have learned about champions I love. These guides lay out how to effectively play a champion for a beginner, and how to optimize the champion in specific circumstances for an expert. I hope they are helpful!
This website is very early in development, and it takes a lot of effort to create a guide that meets the quality standards I want to have. I will frequently display guides that I am not finished with to show what is on the horizon for Mystic Arts Archive. Look forward to more content in the future!
Latest Guide - Mojo
All Champion Guides
Battlegrounds Guides
Welcome to my Battlegrounds Guides! These guides are designed to help players understand the current meta and how to navigate tricky interactions and nodes.
For perspective, I typically finish each season somewhere in the Quantum tier of the Gladiator’s Circuit and play Battlegrounds every day. I don’t have the strongest roster, but I try to make up for it with game knowledge and gameplay.
Check back in each season for new guides and for updates during the season!
Alliance War
This is a place where I post my Alliance War gameplay. From the home page, you can select a specific season and wars within that season. I'll try and highlight fights that do and don't go well, as well as interactions that may be easy to miss.
Squad Builder Optimizer
This is a feature that I custom-built for the February 2026 Squad Builder. It isn’t relevant to the game right now, but it still works! Feel free to check it out and give it a test.
Under the hood, the Optimizer takes your starting hand and analyzes every action you could take. It then averages how many points each action will give you. It then finds the highest point average and recommends the actions that lead to that.
One behind-the-scenes rule of Squad Builder is that once a card is discarded, it cannot be drawn again. The Optimizer takes this into account and calculates probabilities accordingly.
The Optimizer is designed to maximize the amount of points you get over time, which means it naturally takes a more conservative approach to risks. If you want to shoot for higher scores, you can ignore the advice of the Optimizer and tell it what you did instead to get new recommendations.
About Me
Hello, and welcome to Mystic Arts Archive! I'm Doctor_Strange~19, Strange for short. I have been playing Marvel Contest of Champions since 2019, and I love this game so much. My favorite part of this game is its complexity, and I love diving deep into champion interactions and how the game engine does math. My goal is to share these insights with the broader community to reduce player friction with the complexity of the game.
Professionally, my areas of expertise include Web Development, Networking, and Cybersecurity. Personally, my hobbies include building LEGO, running a Home Lab, and playing video games on the Wii. I love talking about these things, and if you want to chat, check out the random channel on the Discord.
AI Usage Disclaimer
I have strict standards for when and how I use AI on this website. I share them here in an effort to be transparent so that users of this website can trust the content I put out.
Written Material
AI will never be used to produce written content for Mystic Arts Archive. All written material is produced solely by myself and is based on my years of playing Marvel Contest of Champions. The only exception to this is the "Full Champion Abilities" section of each guide, which is pulled directly from the official Marvel Contest of Champions website.
Images
All images that exist on this website are generated using AI. The art teams at Marvel and Kabam are exceptional and produce amazing content, and the AI-generated art on this website is not meant to detract from their excellent work. Because my personal expertise lies in computer programming and game design rather than illustration, I use AI-generated images to supplement my creative contributions, not to replace the contributions of real artists.
Code
For the most part, all code I write on this website is my own. The one exception to this is the Squad Builder Optimizer. On this tool, I use AI to help me know that my code is making the right calculations and that my logic is sound. I also use AI to help me with the complex probability aspects of the Optimizer.
I have no formal affiliation with Marvel or Kabam.