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I went 4–1 at armory with this list (version 1.0)

There could be something here!

Dash, Database

They started. They didn't expect this game plan. They were playing setup/payoff that would normally be good into guardian but this allowed me to play a lot of cards and apply pressure. After the first few turns I was at 12 or so and they were at 8. I sent a boulder drop, they said no blocks, +1 in reactions for the win.

Kassai, Cintari Sellsword

They started. They were not very experienced with Kassai (they were borrowing a deck from someone), and it felt pretty chill to take the worst edge off of their attacks while still doing my thing. I got them on the back foot and had just enough equipment to keep denying refraction bolters while sending 8+ every turn. Eventually I got there.

OTK Viserai with lots of D reacts and blocks

I did classic setup/payoff to leverage their lack of ability to convert a full hand. Confidence FTW! Macho Grande got there in the end. I won with 19 life and they had something like 12 runechants, so this one felt pretty easy. If I took a setup turn they would just meekly create 3 runechants or whatever.

Kayo

This was a really close game where I had to make some tough blocking decisions. Overall I played really quite aggressively and ended up eventually winning when they had two red non blocks and could only send claw for 3. They had a 19 damage turn with buckwild, Pulping and run roughshod so it wasn't like they completely whiffed either. Still, this was really close, too close for comfort!

Oldhim

Ahh, the fabled blockslop. I won the roll for the first time of the day and got a decent enough turn 0 setup. They discarded fruits. Off too a decent start, I felt, and I managed to play mostly confidence 9+ attacks in the early game. Then it hit me just how bad confidence actually is in the matchup since block cards are excepted, and they have a whole lot of them. My biggest turn was macho grande with confidence for 23, but even so they still blocked 14 (4 block 2 equipment, 8 staunch). Had I been more focused on going super duper tall and not sent as many attacks for 10 or so I might have gotten more hits in, but with only two dominate cards in the deck I don't really think I had that great of a chance. I got fatigued like a puny aggro deck in the end.

Heroic Pose is not the right sideboard tech for fatigue because of the prevalence of block cards, which is a bit unique to Silver Age, so this is one area where we clearly have to diverge from Elly's CC tactics here. We need to combine confidence with dominate.

@u_mage Here's the first version. Give it a try!
https://github.com/braaar/nodebb-plugin-fab-cards

Let me be the first to show off my deck; Clash and Smash!

It's heavily clash based, and focuses on blocking for 6-7 with 2 cards and attacking for 8-11 with 2 cards. Simple as that! It's really cheap (less than 100€), so I would recommend it for someone who is Betsy curious, but don't want to invest in the expensive generics or guardian staples that are used in more conventional builds.

Cheers!

Remember to type Knick Knack Bric-a-brac with correct capitalisation and hyphenation, folks!

Regardless, the CSS could use some tweaking. It's a bit janky in terms of where the image appears in the viewport, especially on mobile.

And support for specifying the colour of a card would be nice.

To Be Continued...

My initial idea was to implement a server side functionality that would filter upon posting and insert HTML card embeds. I got it a rough draft of that working with a filter hook.
The problem was that I couldn't see a way to make it not look weird if you would try to edit a post that had cards embedded. Ideally I would have wanted another hook that would essentially strip away the card embeds when you hit edit, but I found no such hook. Could be it exists. The edit hooks that exist seem to apply once you click save in the editor? I would maybe like to ask about that. Maybe they could add a hook for this.

I was also worried that the embedded card markup in the actual post content would look awful if consumed outside of this site via federation. At least the embeds would have to be something that's not annoying to read on the other end, like a normal hyperlink. In that case I suppose the client side script in here could then only take care of inserting the images on hover, which would be a lot simpler and more performant.

Oh my! I just found out how this can be done server side! We don't need a separate edit hook, we just use filter:parse.post

This would be nice to have!

I've come to gather that all hero names in FaB are either a literal pun or are referencing something. Kayo is a respelling of KO (knockout), Kano is short for volcano, Bravo is a circus performer who makes his audience say "bravo!", Rhinar looks like a Rhinocerous and Uzuri is reference to usury, since she is a crime boss and is probably engaging in moneylending with interest.

Still, there are a few that stump me. What are these names referencing/making a pun out of?

• Kavdaen, Trader of Skins
• Viserai
• Dorinthea
• Fai
• Jarl Vetrei∂i
• Kassai
• Katsu
• Lexi
• Riptide
• Teklovossen
• Vynnset
• Yoji, Royal Protector
• Valda Brightaxe
• Shiyana
• Levia
• Dromai

I just published a new version of the package, extensively rewritten (now running server side and unit tested). Should improve the reliability quite a bit!

@MeowMeow You're right on the money, it's my attempt at porting that deck to Silver Age. It was quite fun. 0 cost attacks are so nice for the suspense aura game plan!

It would be really cool to have a plugin that lets us hover a card name to see the card. Uploading card images manually is a bit of a chore. This has existed in Magic forums for some time, so I'm sure there's lots of existing projects to draw inspiration from.

Additionally, I think it is a good idea to be able to post and see decklists directly in the forum rather than only having hotlinks to other sites such as Fabrary.net. Of course there's nothing stopping anyone from just posting a list as plain text currently, but it's unlikely that people will want to do that when you get card previews and other benefits in deck builders.

One of my motivations for this is that Fabrary decks often get modified, made private or deleted, but forum posts could preserve a more accurate representation of what was actually being discussed at the time, like an archive. I would suggest, perhaps, that such a decklist plugin could take in a fabrary link, and when you post your comment it will contain a static version of that decklist (with card previews on hover using the card preview plugin). The link to Fabrary could still be attached for those who want to click through and see more details in there.

Excited for my next Silver Age armory tomorrow! I made some changes, in particular adding yellow Snatch and making sure the blues are worth arsenalling. I also put in Comeback Kicks and a singular Heroic Pose, which essentially means I get a third copy of Razor Reflex, just not at reaction speed.

Thanks for the bug report! I've published a new version of the plugin that should address this and a few other things, as well.

Still, I'm noticing some annoying limitations with my current approach, so it's likely I'll make some more changes soon.

I picked up on that, yep.