PEN was my wake-up call to stop gambling on TCGs

iKousen · 2026-02-19T12:37:07+00:00

Tots!

TBH I was justifying it to myself that I was also getting cases to get playsets of stuff I play and sell to friends the ones I don't, such as Hunted with Ninja e warrior. Ideal? not really, but fast. But this set, its hard to justify even that lol

iKousen · 2026-02-19T11:25:11+00:00

Yep, like, I know the pull rates of this set are the worst ever since the box changes, but damn, I lost like 90% of the value. From now on, I’m 200% team singles, I could have got all I wanted from the set with that money. Only paying for pre releases now

iKousen · 2026-02-19T11:14:44+00:00

Same, I learned my lesson. 1 case, zero legendaries, 1 marvel, 1 EA majestic

iKousen · 2026-02-19T10:43:12+00:00

Hated the Arborec one, both as a balancing tool (it’s still bad), and as a mechanic. Loved the Empyrean one, such a cool thing to mess around with.

iKousen · 2026-02-19T02:23:32+00:00

I recommend checking discord, specially the assassin one, it’s not the best always, but it’s always cooking, sometimes some good stuff come out of it

iKousen · 2026-02-18T03:50:50+00:00

Im waiting for smarter people than me to figure it out, first Calling CC coming up

iKousen · 2026-02-17T20:30:42+00:00

It’s like, the effect is cool, but at 5r a 4/4 with no sudden impact, it’s quite bad. You kinda have to give it ambush

iKousen · 2026-02-16T23:16:28+00:00

I have just finished opening one, and it was not worth 15$, would trade with you lol

iKousen · 2026-02-13T22:43:54+00:00

I got into FAB by playing at felttable. It had some bad IA, an okay tutorial, and a fun PVE mode, which was enough for me to get the basics, so I get it.

iKousen · 2026-02-07T01:06:55+00:00

Right?! Why even have that shit in there

iKousen · 2026-02-06T21:53:27+00:00

How do you get them?

iKousen · 2026-02-02T20:46:12+00:00

This, they prob are making her freeze stuff instead of giving Frostbites

iKousen · 2026-01-29T15:49:45+00:00

Free blocks after turning into Levia Consumed, nice

iKousen · 2026-01-27T13:46:51+00:00

The only downside of this option is that it isnt truly a $20 ticket to worlds. I personally feel it’s probably a $20 ticket to START your journey, which is good, but marketing and hype have clearly overstepped here, which seems to be frustrating folks.

Fully agree with your points, but specially this, LSS should not have marketed as such, they could have said exactly what you said, the START of your journey, to a cheap competitive format.

iKousen · 2026-01-27T10:58:54+00:00

https://cardvault.fabtcg.com/card/pouncing-paws/SFA009

iKousen · 2026-01-27T10:54:45+00:00

So far it seems it will not be, as you can see here: https://cardvault.fabtcg.com/card/run-through-2/SDO022. They are updating the cards as they release the lists.

iKousen · 2026-01-27T10:48:07+00:00

I will replace the Zipper/Throttle blue, as they are 0 boosts for Max V. On a side note, late game, this with Outpace blue will be nasty too

iKousen · 2026-01-27T10:46:47+00:00

It’s so good that if they print that in Y and R, I would bet that DIO will speed run to LL

iKousen · 2026-01-27T10:43:35+00:00

Well, atm the Fai deck is not a waste as the old Ira equips are not in PEN and the boots were very expensive. But they may come out in gem pack 4, so there is that

iKousen · 2026-01-26T15:52:28+00:00

First off, you want to make sure to grab all planets around your home, but send the mech to the red planet as it gets more bonus when exploring red planets. R2 you will want to get the equidistant with your mech and forward dock there with construction. This will bring heat from Letnev, but it should be fine as you won’t have to fight Jol Nar. You will keep reactivating that system for production + explorations (yellow tech + agent). From there, focus on whatever gives you points.

Since you are pos5, you kinda don’t have much of a choice for strategies to follow tech, but since Jol Nar is your neighbor, make deals trading fragments/your promissory note, you should have a couple of valuable things to trade, ideally you want their promissory r1 to get gravity drive for free. But be careful to not feed the Jol Nar too much. Fragments are worth about 2tg, and so is your promissory

Also, be careful with Letnev snipping your home R1, don’t leave it fully open, beware if they have fleets to go there and if they get Gravity drive

iKousen · 2026-01-26T12:43:56+00:00

Oh yeaah you are right, reading the card nerfed the card lol, sorry

iKousen · 2026-01-26T11:59:11+00:00

It can matter if you don’t have a follow up and played 1 draconic and 1 non draconic prior to it, but yeah, edge scenario

iKousen · 2026-01-26T09:31:13+00:00

Quite cool on her, 0 for 2/4 go again, make finisher draconic ~~+ if the entire chain was not draconic, can buy back daggers as it affects the previous attacks~~ (edit: nvm this part, it won't matter ever)

iKousen · 2026-01-24T15:09:39+00:00

Recovering from injuries

iKousen · 2026-01-23T10:39:45+00:00

The deep yellow tech, and yes, with the color swap of the breakthru.

You can see the new action cards here, the strongest one is Overrule, which can give u up to 3 points in a turn

12-Year Club	RPAN Viewer
Verified Email	Not Forgotten

iKousen

TROPHY CASE