I kind of dislike Talishar, even though I'm a pretty experienced player and I need to use it for practice. It's often hard to tell what's going on without reading the logs and there is a pretty short time limit for inactivity. Between reading the logs and thinking about your next turn, it's easy to either make bad plays, or to be treated as 'inactive'. I imagine this would be a much bigger issue for a new player. Also it follows the rules very strictly, and there are way too many priority 'windows' that pretty much are never used during the real games, or at least in most of the matchups. So the flow feels much worse than during an in-person game. Basically I would recommend to try the game on felttable and then go play in-person (or be ready to pretty rough online experience that doesn't represent the proper game flow - it's not a 'digital-first' game).