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In my most recent iteration I've taken out Razor Reflex and Snatch and put in Thump, Oasis Respite and some more suspense auras and 3 cost blues. Less spicy and explosive, but I am still very much playing to abuse WHN and Slap-Happy, which I think separates us from the more block oriented builds. I so wish we had access to the reviled guardian 0 cost attacks...

I will look into having more 3 cost blues. Getting 4 value from a blue is a good follow up to Razor Reflex and is of course is solid when taking an off turn, too.

I think I will try to keep Razor Reflex for now, but cut yellow Snatch and Small Problem. Short Shrift and Razor Reflex is such a potent combo.

The Razor Reflex strategy is a lot more viable in Elly's CC deck due to Enlightened Strike and the tower attacks, I feel. I could keep trying to make it work by going back to Strike Gold, though, and maybe adding Scar for a Scar. Still I feel like we are way too dependent on getting a sort of lucky turn 0 and seeing Short Shrift early for that to work.

This armory was a bit tough! Was on verison 1.1

Drew against Dash - new player who had to learn the game
Won against fatigue Pleiades - great matchup for me
Lost to Kayo - welp
Lost to Kayo - welp

Aggro is hard. I really need a good turn 0 setup and see Short Shrift early to be able to win, since I can't sustain good value turn by turn the way a well built aggro deck can, and unlike other guardians I don't have the defensive tools to draw it out and fatigue them (too many 2 blocks). The anti fatigue tech that I put in was great. I feel very confident about fatigue matchup. But to keep up with aggro I think I need more disruption to reliably have it up. More 3 blocks would be handy, to have the option of doing more midrangey things. That kinda goes hand in hand with running more suspense auras to absolutely ensure that we get to steal value turn 0.

When I get my hands on magmatic carapace that will probably come in, and maybe also civic steps.

I will tinker with these ideas for a bit. I feel like the Snatch and Razor Reflex package, while really cool, is a tad unreliable. It doesn't steal value turn 0 and it is a struggle to build the deck so that we can use that card drawn. Thump seems like it could be good, leveraging Slap-Happy, Magmatic Carapace and What Happens Next?

Still unsure about Embolden. It has similar problems to Snatch in that we don't know if the card drawn will be usable. But if we pivot towards using more Guardian attacks like Thump and maybe even Concuss it seems like a plausible card.

I'm tempted to test one copy of Energy of the Audience and Emboldened by the Crowd which seems like ways to maybe keep up in the value game against aggro. It's not at all hard to make it a 2 card 8 and on a really good turn it could be even more. Blocking with Helm of the Adored and playing a free 0 for 6 seems pretty alright.

Oasis Respite is another consideration, which is quite awesome if we have What Happens Next? in play and are facing aggro. It's easy to side it out when we are up against fatigue.

My counter fatigue strategy is now more item-focused so that I can set up for a truly monstrous turn where I get to deny Defense reactions.

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! 8char

Or are the dragons illusions drawn with ash? "I draw my dragons"

@U_Mage Jarl always seemed weird to me since his full name just looks like totally plausible regular fantasy name. Maybe you're right about "betray thee". Maybe there's a betrayal in the lore I don't know about, or it will happen at some point. It could also be something something "raidy"..?

Is Dromai a play on "I'm hoping to draw my good cards" or something?

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

Wow, this seems huge! I hadn't yet faced Briar at Armory and feared that it would destroy me, but now I feel like I have a fighting chance.

This would be nice to have!

I now realise I've already updated the list, so my above comment doesn't make much sense given what you can see in the link above. I was running rainbow Clash of Vigor and Thunk.

Oof, armory today was rough. Lost to Levia, Shadowborn Abomination got a bye and and lost to Verdance, Thorn of the Rose. I made some mistakes here and there, but still I think my extremist clash of vigor plan is a bit too polarized for my taste. In some matchups it's awesome and into others it makes a large chunk of the deck useless 3 blocks.

Shield Beater felt a bit meh in this build, since if you have 4 resources there are usually better things to do. I suspect that to be true in many situations in other decks as well, so I'm a bit skeptical about how good it is. Titan's Fist for 4 is such a great floor that is awkward to give up.

Methinks it's better to have a cost curve and card pool that doesn't rely on Vigor. I think Primed to Fight works better as a 2 of and mostly just as a payoff to a Good Time Chapeau or Bet Big setup turn. Getting the aura setup with clashes is a bit too unreliable.

@u_mage

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!

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

I wonder What Happens Next?

Listing some cards:Betsy, Bravo, Fai– and of course ...Cindra!

Link to my Katsu deck

My favourite Brute cards:

• BRB
• Flex Strength
• Flex!!!!
• Flex Speed?
• Clash of Might
• Alpha Instinct

Agility in a sentence.
Agility in a sentence.
Agile Windup in a sentence.
This is Agility in a sentence.

This is Agile Windup in a sentence.

Snatch is amazing. So is ️Aether Hail️

What's your favourite card, @Flex?

@xXThunkLoverXx

Do you also like Tiger Eye Reflex?

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.