Capita Mercury Review

Capita's Mercury has long been a board that can tackle it all, filling that "all-mountain", one-board-quiver space with authority and ease.

Its evolution over the years has been a series of small tweaks and improvements that have added up over time to keep this board not only relevant in the ever-progressing market of snowboard design, but consistently near the top in this category. 

In this review, I will take a look at the Mercury as an all-mountain snowboard, which we define as the do-it-all swiss-army knives of boards. 

As per tradition here at SnowboardingProfiles.com I will give the Mercury a score out of 100 (based on several factors) and see how it compares with other men's all-mountain snowboards.

Overall Rating

Board: CAPiTA Mercury 2026

Price: $679

Style: All-Mountain

Flex Rating: Medium (6.5/10)

Flex Feel on Snow: Medium (6.5/10)

Rating Score: 87.3/100

Compared to other Men’s All-Mountain Boards

Overview of the Mercury’S Specs

Check out the tables for the Mercury’s specs and available sizes.

* the weight recommendations above are from Capita's website. 

Who is the Mercury Most Suited To?

The Mercury is best suited to someone who is looking for a one-board-quiver or for a board that would take on the daily driver role in their quiver. It's super versatile in its ability to perform well in a variety of different conditions and doing a variety of different things with it. 

Not for beginners, IMO. It's a little too much board to start out with, and lower intermediate riders might find it a little tricky too. But sold intermediate riders all the way up to expert riders could enjoy this as a daily driver or one-board-quiver.  

Mercury DetailS

O.k. let’s take a more detailed look at what the Mercury is capable of.

Demo Info

Board: CAPiTA Mercury, 157cm (257mm waist width)

Date: March 17, 2025

Turning

Ease of Turning/Slashing: I wouldn't say it's ultra easy to turn and does require reasonable technique or it can be a little unforgiving. But in saying that, it's also not something that's super difficult to turn or slash with. 

Maneuverability at slow speeds: I didn't find it was ultra agile at slower speeds. Required a bit of effort to get it edge-to-edge quickly when riding slow, but nothing that was really sluggish either.  

Catchiness: I felt a hint of catch in the Mercury, so you do have to be on your game at least to an extent. Nothing super catchy but it was there.

Carving

This is one of those boards that excels a little more for carves than the average board in this category. It likes to be on edge and locks an edge in well. And II found it could handle carves without trouble at some reasonably high speeds too. 

Speed

Speaking of speed, this is another area where the Mercury is a little ahead of its peers. I found it remained nice and stable at speed, was able to maintain good speed and turned and carved really nice with speed under it. 

Powder

Felt decent in what we had and has the specs which should help it to be at least decent in deeper powder too. Not going to be something you'd use as a specialist powder board, but good enough as a daily driver to give you better than average float. 

Some specs in its favor include a small setback stance, rocker before the contact points at the tip and tail and slightly longer nose vs its tail. 

Uneven Terrain

Crud/Chunder: I found the Mercury felt decently damp and had the stability to stay pretty steady in rough snow conditions. Not a crud crusher, but really decent.

Trees/Bumps: Not a board that I found, or have found in the past, to be super agile, so not ideal weaving tight turns between trees when there's not fresh snow. But it's one of those boards that has a larger than average gap between how it feels in powderless trees and trees with fresh powder.

Jumps

Overall a really enjoyable board to hit jumps, side-hits, lips, drops etc on. 

Pop: I found its pop was pretty easy to access. Not effortless pop, but didn't take too much effort - and had decent total pop too. Not epic, but still pretty good. 

Approach: I found it struck a nice balance of being stable but with enough ease of maneuverability to make adjustments. 

Landing: Again,  a good balance between being solid and stable on landings, but also enough forgiveness that you didn't have to get the landing perfect to ride it out. Tail heavy landings felt fine too, with enough flex to give a bit, but enough stiffness so you didn't over-flex too much. Held up well for uneven snow landings too. 

Speed checking after landing wasn't ideal, but certainly doable. Some catch feel in there though. 

Switch

Felt good riding it switch in general and transitions were good too, but not without some catch-risk, so did need to concentrate on transitions to some extent. 

Spins

I found it had good pop, which was easy enough to access which helped get the necessary air to get rotations fully around. Rotated nicely in the air too.

Take off and landing switch was decent but could feel that bit of catch-risk in there. Same for under-rotations and reverts, but nothing too bad. No major issues with over-rotating after landing. 

Jibbing

Not its forte, IMO, but certainly doable, particularly for stronger, more confident jibbers. 

Butters

Requires a little bit of effort to get its tip/tail flexing but nothing too major. Locks in nicely and feels pretty similar tip and tail. All round pretty decent for buttering if you have a bit of strength and experience with it, but not something that would butter ultra effortlessly. 

Score Breakdown and Final Verdict

Check out the breakdown of the score in the table below.

As it has been for a long time, the Mercury continues to be one of the most versatile, do-it-all boards going around. One that just teeters with the more aggressive side of things, but not to the point that you can't get playful with it or anything, but more to the point that it can handle a more aggressive approach better than most in this category. 

If you have a diverse style, particularly one where you attack things assertively and need a board that can handle that, and are looking for one-board for everything or for that daily driver in your quiver, the Mercury is, as it has been for a long time, one to keep on your radar. 

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