Got the MTG blues due to Wizards acting so crumby lately.

Gonna visit my brother in law (we usually play Magic (and ignore my sister)) this weekend, so wanted to try FAB.

So I ordered 8 blitz decks off eBay for super cheap; my local game store doesn’t sell FAB. I also bought official Dromai and Fai blitz decks because I heard they’re a good match up.

I noticed the oficial decks came with a card ranking their difficulty to play. Dromai is 4.5 stars difficult I guess, and Fai is 2 stars.

Played a game with my wife and it was challenging to get the hang of defending, and knowing what to pitch, and realizing you don’t have another action point.

Anyways I’m hoping to get some suggestions on which decks we should start playing with, that hopefully also will be fun to play against each other. Just by reading some heroes, I feel they’d be hard for a beginner. The decks I have are:

  • Azalea
  • Dorinthia
  • Bravo
  • Katsu
  • Rhinar
  • Viserai
  • Kano
  • Dash
  • Fai
  • Dromai

Wife and I played Bravo v Dorinthia and she really struggled trying to get two attacks with her weapon each turn, and I don’t think I ever used my weapon. Azalea seems like she might be straightforward.

Super excited to play another game.

Maybe the game just takes time to comprehend, but the difficulty ratings made me wonder. Thanks for any help!!

  • UnPassive@social.fossware.spaceOPEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Thanks! I don’t think I realized tempo during our game, but it’s obvious now. The video was super helpful as well. Gonna pummel my wife tonight (just kidding, I’ll share what I learned).

    Really glad to hear that there isn’t really a “bad match-up” problem, but you just need to learn how to play against different heroes. In MTG we’ve discovered quite a few bad match-up decks. We have the most fun when it feels like skill is involved, and no player pulls too far ahead. I’ve even made some decks with the intention of them playing against each other. So FaB not suffering as much from this excites me!!

    This weekend I’ll try and get a few more games in but my wife is studying for a big test so we’ll see. I might try out Fai vs Katsu for the first game to teach my brother in law. I’m hoping having more, cheap attacks means less planning during blocking so maybe the game starts to click earlier. Then we’ll hopefully move on to try other heroes.

    The 8 decks I got from ebay didn’t have all the equipments for each hero. Just a pool of generics, and a few specialized. But Azalea had a bow that I don’t think the official precon has, this one lets you pay 1 to put a card from hand face up in your arsenal. I’m pretty excited to try and pick out some good equipment for each hero! Really wishing my LGS sold FaB so I didn’t have to order online.

    • TwoMindsQMEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Glad I could help!

      Yeah blow out matchups just don’t exist like they do in mtg.

      I didn’t connect that you didn’t buy official precons but that definitely makes sense now and was honestly probably a better option than the official ones.

      Ninja v ninja should be fun. Fai makes big fiery chains and katsu pokes holes in you then combos.

      I understand the shop dilemma. I have about an hour drive to my closest lgs and would much rather support them than shops online.

      If your wanting some practice play in the mean time, I would suggest Felt Table to play against ai or Talishar to play against people. Both are browser based so no downloads. You can use fabdb or Fabrary for deck lists to play on either site I believe but it’s been a while since I’ve used felt table.

      Felt table honestly helped me learn a lot when I first started.