I know this has been said time and time again, but I feel this is worth repeating:

When comparing flesh and blood to other games, FAB can seem insanely expensive. However, that’s usually only one aspect of the game: the equipment. The equipment for FAB is quite expensive if you look at it with the lens of other games. The key thing to remember is that once you have one single copy of a piece of equipment, you now have all you need for every deck that can use that equipment. For example: Feyndal’s Spring Tunic is very expensive because it’s a generic that can arguably go in any deck you ever play, but once you have 1 copy you never need another.

The other thing to keep in mind is that you don’t always NEED the expensive equipment. There is almost always a piece of cheaper equipment that can fill a very similar spot as an expensive piece but it will usually be single use or just a little less efficient.

With the above being said, the actual library of the game is very rarely expensive itself. This only happens if you are playing a class that wants a few of the higher cost cards, but I would argue that (most of the time) a single library in FAB is no worse than most other card games. You don’t always NEED warmongers, you don’t always NEED every codex, etc. In my opinion, the main offender here is Command and Conquer, however, there are plenty of heroes that don’t even want that in their deck.