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TheCrazyBrew @thecrazybrew.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I miss the M-n-R Podcast.

Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Ok prediction time... I'm going with the base guess that PEN is a light/shadow set called Penumbra. It will feature a Shadow Necromancer and a new Boltyn

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

SUP unfortunately gave us the longest season with the most events* while being the least impactful set in recent history and basically not featuring competitive draft. Can't wait for keynote news, though 🤞 (* Event numbers have generally grown and PQs had extra weeks, haven't actually checked)

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Kayo's perceived meta position curve will be a very steep up and down with 11% day2 conversion 😬

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Lyath has no signature weapon? 😮 Fine, I'll design it myself

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The Reviled cards are calling me. Am I a liar, cheater and a horrible person? 😬 What worries me a bit about this set is that it's the opposite of forcing players to interact with Intimidate, Confidence and quite minimal on-hits

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

23 players finished 9-3+ at Calling Copenhagen 🏆 Within these 23 there were 15 different decks and the most represented was Slippy with 3 copies 😮 If we went back through all the tier 3-4s, I'm not sure we'd find a more balanced spread ⚖️ I'm taking suggestions on making this image even uglier

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Finished Copenhagen at 9-3, 21st. Real happy, although could improve my play a lot in the lost games Now it's time for speculation season! Here's my first take on Super Slam themes & mechanics as a heatmap. This 2-class, 2-talent, Rosetta style draft format shape is my favorite

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

5-2 going into day2 on Mario at Calling Copenhagen. I lost to DIO and Slippy and beat two Gravys so it's an upside down world 🤷 now trying to sleep 12 hours straight, wish me luck

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Flying to Calling Copenhagen today for a true in and out as I'm flying out tomorrow night. Wish me luck with the flight being on time 🤞 woke up 3:20 today but a family man getting a night to sleep alone at the hotel will be a total rejuvenation 😴

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Something I'm missing with this PQ discourse. All posts I see seem to assume they and their carpooling friends are all winning PQs and late season events can't even fire. If your region is anything like Finland, then you'll have 4 PQs of 16-32 people each and missing 1-3 winners is irrelevant

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Super Slam has my brain poking me all the time to start breaking the new heroes. Although they're not my fav classes, the abilities ask you to start brewing. Lyath especially... I'm thinking Small attacks with on-hits (Vipox?) Pumps (Nimblism? More expensive ones?) Prevention instead of blocking

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Well I won the WCQ with Kayo so that's pretty nice 😄 opened Courage of Bladehold

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Missed Finnish Nationals top-8 for the first time, finished 13th. Doubled the attendance from before at 60 players. I really need to start playing faster even when sleep deprived 😩🥱 But there's always next year and the Finnish scene is growing 💪 Blitz WCQ next with a chance to show I'm not washed

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

0-for-7 that doesnt cost an action point? Color me intrigued Being a red block card can really screw your ratios, though, and especially your Ponder draws so you're paying a real price

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Ok so if there's no Necromancer weapon in the set (no space before the Compass or before Dead Threads), do you think we'll get a Pirate cutlass or pistol? Or will Gravy just go with bare hands for the better swimming & summoning feel?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

This seems real strong 🤔 but I think it's a much needed consistency piece for Marlynn who I expect to play 25+ blues in order to utilize the 'CnC on a boat' and possibly the cannon. Enables arsenaling blue arrows off of Ponder, etc.

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Playing FaB is just a sideshow for the incredible talent and effort on display by cosplayers

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This art, we don't know what it is yet, do we? I bet each hero has a signature ship and they're all 4 for 7 Pirate attacks and all really strong, although maybe not as broken as Gravy's CnC boat

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

I love LSS and their openness 🤩 First LL system idea: what would go wrong with a point cap per season per hero? E.g., max 400 points per major set season. That would always ensure a hero gets at least 2.5 seasons or ~10-11 months minimum

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I like the LL system, but Aurora's ascent is a bit of an outlier. One factor is that the winter set season gets both RTNs and PQs, giving out ~3000 LL points in those alone without significant product releases in between. Should the spring seasons give fewer points?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Loads of similarities between Dromai and Gravy Bones... But the play style is interesting. Can you be a control deck if all allies don't block? Can you realistically loot enough for it not to matter? Or do you just play a small amount of allies vs what Dromai played? How low can you go?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

There's so much going on with Polly's design. It's great top-down design as a parrot that starts on your shoulder and then ventures out. It perfectly fits what the hero tries to do. And it gives your opponent a flavorful super annoying quest to shoot it down before it draws another card. Love it!

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Big fan of multiple archetypes per hero! Hammerhead not loading an arrow is spicy... you have to crack a gold or draw a card another way to use Marlynn's hero ability or just arsenal the old-fashioned way. So the archetypes couldn't be much more different. Let's just hope both are viable!

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My #fabtcg #PTLondon prediction is that Zen and Nuu will have the best day 2 conversion

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Why is this card so meh vs the others revealed with it? 4-for-7 is draft chaff level horrible. Pitching and blocking for 2 is 🤢 Galvanize matters! Being able to galvanize multiple items with one blocking card must somehow be a sick synergy. But with what?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Some Marlynn + New Horizon tricks: Three of a Kind gives you 3 separate arrow load triggers, letting you load 2 arrows immediately after drawing the cards Death Dealer lets you load an arrow, draw a card, and then load another arrow Now all you need is more go again arrows!

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I broke down what we know about the new heroes in my latest video, check it out: youtu.be/opJ_8UZKERw?...

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Ok didn't expect my speculation to be instantly checked, but here we are Mech ability✅ Necro ability🟡(keyworded cards are played and not banished from gy, TBD if they create allies) Ranger ability🟡(buys harpoons with gold, TBD if also crafts them from gy arrows)

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Commence speculation! All Pirates interact with Gold Also: Necromancer: Banishes some types of cards from gy to create ghost pirates (blues/attacks/keyworded) Mech: Turns Gold into Golden Cogs, a material for Galvanize and other abilities Ranger: Banishes arrows from gy to create harpoons

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Have been taking some time off FaB (except for one RTN) and spending my competitive gaming energy on Marvel Rivals. I'm not traditionally a great fps player so I'm pretty proud of ranking up to GM. Any Rivals gamers out there?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Do sealed Gold Foils have a market? I have a Legendary and a C/R/M unopened and I wonder if opening them is the way 🤔

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Long time, no content, but here's a deck tech video of my 8-0 Aurora from this weekend's RTN: youtu.be/bO4-kE9cy04 Matches were Boltyn W (opp. match loss due to missing decklist) Cindra W Aurora W Levia W Kano W Levia W Viserai W Viserai W

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8-0 RTN Aurora Deck Tech

YouTube video by Juha Saarnilampi: Whisper of the Oracle

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

8-0'd RTN with Aurora yesterday, AMA Deck tech likely next week

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Way too early speculation... Often the # of things mentioned refers to the # of classes or heroes, e.g., 1. Ranger (the sea captain) 2. Guardian (the landlubber, maybe a tavern keeper or bouncer? 😉) 3. ??? (the sneaky stowaway) I'm also thinking raiding 'loot' is a big theme

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm guessing either a 0-for-3 or 0-for-4 Lighting Attack with "If Skyzyk has go again, it gets +1" If it's 4 base attack then this is broken beyond imagination

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

It seems I'm kinda getting into Marvel Rivals. Who's playing? And who are the top content creators to follow? 👀

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

FaB downtimes like this are great for other games. I've recently played some LoL, tried Bazaar (not my genre) and Marvel Rivals (has potential but might be a little too close to OW) and played Arcs the board game. Even in my downtime I can only play competitive PvP 🙈 what should I try?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

It's between winning Nationals 💪 and James White passing by at Worlds and calling me Nostradamus 🔮 Honorable mention to all the times someone came up to me at an event to say they like my content ❤️ (There will be more in 2025, I promise.)

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Max Ferocity | Bladesaint ⚔️ @maxferocity.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

From the Living Legend himself. Chef’s kiss, no notes. #fabtcg

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

This spoiler got me studying spider anatomy and it's not a very enjoyable subject so I stopped quickly. But it mostly raised more questions. If the chelicerae and the pedipalps have formed from legs, have arachnids actually had 12 legs at some point?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

What axes are there for categorizing #fabtcg decks? I quickly thought of 4 pretty core ones One could use these to quickly analyze decks from a new limited set, for example (Yes, I used the often-criticized 'midrange' term, but I think it actually works in this game)

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I need to simplify my guesses when there's a set of cards that do similar things 🙈 why didn't I think of go again With this logic, could one just give +3 or +4 if Stealth?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Speculation time: 3 Agents of Chaos down, 3 to go. They all pump for 3 plus Redback = Mark opponent on hit Trap Door = Banish top card on hit + bonus ability (e.g., lose life based on pitch of banished card) Orb Weaver = Inertia token (if these make a comeback) Trap Door could also be defensive

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Year in review through my #fabtcg goals 1. ✅ Nationals 2. ❌ Neither 3. 🟡 Traveled to 4 tier2+ and cashed 2 4. ❌ 14th at a Calling was closest 5. ✅ Nationals and PQ with Nuu, 2x PQ with Kayo I'm real happy about the year and my goals felt realistic. 2025 goals to be set next

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Do we know for sure if limited will have 4 heroes or if this is just a blitz deck? I'd guess it's there in limited as well. Which I guess is interesting due to the Contract vs Stealth dynamic, but og Arakni's ability just seems kinda weak? Maybe in limited it's a bit better due to smaller decks

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

They ended up with a relatively elegant design, nice! 0-cost 3-block blue NAA with go again is pretty much the best possible base. But then if you play it you've spent an entire card to get a fully symmetrical effect. So I'm not fully sold on the power level This is in the expansion slot btw

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I was guessing it had to be something spicier than what we've seen before. Switching to a random Agent of Chaos is spot on for... well... Chaos

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