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@amyhzl.bsky.social

She/Her FAB player and content creator. Smashing Good Team 👊 https://youtube.com/@smashinggoodteam?si=yRxK6-OMB9Vm1qn6 Brute x warrior gamer 🧌🗡️

Top 8 at a 47 person battlegrounds today on Oscilio! 5-1 in swiss and lost in QFs. The deck feels really strong as long as you don’t pair into illusionist :3 R1 Flarvo ⚡️ R2 Briar ⚡️ R3 Azalea ⚡️ R4 Dromai ❌ R5 Briar ⚡️ R6 Blaze ⚡️ QFs Enigma ❌

the chess meta is stale. pawns are too weak and boring early game. pawn chains are too strong, and the center matters too much. the right and left pawns should multi attack

Remember the tantrums people threw seeing Tempestuous Kiss?? A mid card for a weak deck? That's the state of FAB discourse now. Everything is broken slop or unplayable. It's either unfair or boring. People were calling this the best meta in history a couple months ago but now everyone is bored.

Good aggro deck? 0 for 4 slop. Good blocking deck? Fatigueslop. Disruptive deck? Uninteractive slop. Y'all couldn't even handle earth heroes needing to decompose to build up to their power card you still called for Felling bans. Now Omens has no standout Ms and idk why anyone is surprised!

Even amidst this meta where people say the game is too weak you STILL see people crying for bans. Anything that does anything remarkable is crucified after it shows a modicum of success. People doom so hard about matchups and metas they don't even try to innovate to beat the top deck they just doom.

Remember when Huntsman first showed up as a viable deck? It was hyped for 1 tournament and then suddenly being called fatigueslop toxic gameplay uninteractive design back to "wahhh assassin codex" memes. Victor saw success and after one tournament everyone was screaming for nerfs.

The current state of FAB is a direct result of the widespread kinds of complaining that were being vocalized online and I'm so tired of people pretending that isn't what caused this. When you amplify complaints to this degree everything gets flattened to appease people who hate anything strong.

I've been feeling this creep in for a while now. There's been a noticeable shift away from powerful heroes with consistent, even turns in favor of weaker heroes with powerful cards that lead to games feeling more spiky and swingy than they used to. I miss the days of 1 life to 1 life slugfests.

I have been sorely feeling the lack of a "true" competitive space for marginalized folks in #fabtcg, so today I'm setting out to create one: the Queer Competitior's League! discord.gg/Mm59HE9Nrk This is intended to be a space for marginalized Flesh and Blood players to congregate and compete.

Join the Queer Competitor's League Discord Server!

Check out the Queer Competitor's League community on Discord - hang out with 1 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Top 8d my PQ today on Claw Rhinar! Blurry mirror pic as proof I live Deck felt good, only losses were I verdance ( super close shoutout @brianhoffmanfab.bsky.social ) and to Hex Levia in the quarters. Good games happy for one last wild ride with claws!!

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