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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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

Oh it seems they are indeed creating allies. Makes sense. And I'd expect the new symbol to just mean "tap" or "exhaust" i.e. turn sideways until the beginning / end of your turn so something you can only do once per turn cycle per card

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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

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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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

#fabtcg HNT set # speculation... Between the last Draconic card and the 2nd to last Generic there are 76 cards. That seems like too many Generics 🤔 So what is it? Assassin / X Hybrids! It would be a clean way to create partly overlapping card pools. And Ninja / Warrior isn't needed due to Draconic

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Couple interesting pieces of art from the #fabtcg Hunted teaser that kinda look like heroes. The dude looks a whole lot like Taipanis to me, even likes to strike a similar pose Is the 4th hero Chaos (maybe another Arakni?) or is it just a third Draconic hero? Need some set number crunching for this

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

The Hunted announcement was cool and I can't wait to go 4-wide with draconic chain links again 🔥 But I feel the main announcement was Player of the Year. Am I interpreting correctly that it would replace ELO for qualification purposes or am I reaching too far?

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Could it just say Chaos Phantom Hero - Arakni or is there no space where the dash is? The last word doesn't look like Assassin to me but more like Arakni. Or maybe it's like Demi-Arakni? Anyway, I'm not sure they're an assassin this time around. I bet they're going to play ninja or warrior cards

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Juha Saarnilampi 🔮 Whisper of the Oracle @bramblespark.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Landed in Osaka. Saw Mt Fuji on the way to my Tokyo transfer 🤩 #fabtcg

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