Every resource you need to start your journey through Faeria and master your competitive skills
- by Moonfassa
Introduction
This guide will provide you with every resource you need to get started in Faeria and transition into competitive gameplay. It will largely contain content from my YouTube channel but also links some guides that other members of the community have created.
| Topics |
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| My Background |
| Community Links |
| Brand new to the game? |
| Deckbuilding |
| Faeria Cards & Decks |
| Advanced Faeria |
| Tournaments |
| Solo Missions |
| Puzzles |
| Pandora |
| Cosmetics |
| Comprehensive Rules |
Fun tip: highlight one of the above topics and press ctrl+f to find that section easier
My Background
My name is Moonfassa. I started Faeria around 2016 and it quickly became my favourite game, replacing my previous interest in MTG. After a few years break, I started Twitch streaming and making YouTube content. The community was super encouraging, which is rare for media platforms, and I soon found myself creating numerous guide videos and other content.
As for experience, I've come first place in tournaments and on the ranked ladder. So hopefully I know what I'm talking about by this point and this article will help some of you to improve and have a better experience overall in Faeria!
Community Links
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The official Faeria Discord is the main place people use for communication. There's lots of help for newer players and people looking to fight the co-op dragons.
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Stay up to date on all Faeria-related news by checking out the monthly blog posts.
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Community-built decklists (This is currently linked to an older account system so any new players will not be able to post here)
- My links: YouTube, Twitch, Discord
Brand New to the Game?
Welcome to the game! Below, are some helpful links for those who have just purchased the game or are returning after a long break.
The ABSOLUTE Beginner's Guide to Faeria
A tutorial series on game mechanics, UI, and tournament registration.
Faeria Through the Eyes of a Beginner
Starting a brand new Faeria account, I climb my way up the ranked ladder using whatever cards I find in chests and the 6 crafting charges I'm given in each video.
Learn what cards are worth crafting near the start of the game and how to fight with a bare card collection.
Faeria Vocabulary
Words/phrases used by the Faeria community and what they mean.
Decent Starting Decks
Crafted by SuperbLizard, here are some decent decks you can build near the start of the game after completing the first set of solo missions (after the initial tutorial missions) and spending a few crafting charges.
Deckbuilding
Here are a few resources to help you learn good deckbuilding techniques, or how to pilot decks already built by myself and the community.
Some no-DLC lists built by SuperbLizard with a short description on how to pilot each of them.
My OLD Deck Guides
This was my first guide series on my yt channel so the quality is pretty bad but there are some great starter decks here.
The first 5 videos are DLC free and I've put a coloured book in the title of each video representing their difficulty to pilot:
My NEW Card Review Series
I take one card in each video to review, discuss its uses, and then showcase two decklists along with sample matches. This will give you a detailed look into deckbuilding with specific cards.
Building A Deck From Scratch
There are a lot of cards in Faeria and it can be quite overwhelming for a new player to build a deck from scratch. The board also makes deckbuilding pretty unique compared to other card games.
A short article written by SuperbLizard about what to keep in mind when deckbuilding.
Part of my older deck guide series, this video will walk you through detailed steps on deckbuilding and card considerations.
I do plan on making a better quality video for this in the future but it probably won't be for a while.
The Hub
Decklists posted by members of the community. Try searching for 'seasonal cup' or 'open' to see decks that came in the top 4 of tournaments.
Note that this is currently linked to an older account system and has not yet been fixed, so any new players will not be able to post here (but you can still view the lists).
Probability Calculator
Starting creatures, as I mention throughout my guides, are creatures that can be played early to collect Faeria for you. This calculator can help you see how likely it is to find one in your starting hand.
In Faeria's mulligan system, you are shown 3 cards at the start of a match, with the option to toss away any of those that you choose and draw replacement cards. The cards you toss will never be seen in those replacement cards (even if you had more copies in the deck). This means that the probability of finding a starting creature will be greater if you have many 3x copies of cards in your deck, and lower if you have many 1x copies.
Faeria Cards & Decks
This section will be for information on specific cards, DLC cards, or just cards in general
DLC's
DLC's, contrary to popular belief, are not at all necessary to do well or have fun in this game. The base set has exceptionally strong cards that hold their own. Having said that, there are plenty of great cards in the expansion DLC's as well.
Summerflame's guide on the DLC expansions, balance changes to DLC cards, and other frequently asked quesitons.
Card Filtering
Below, are a list of all the special keywords you can use to filter for a card in the card collection screen. Just typing in a word on a cards' text will work too.
| Keyword | Reveals |
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| incomplete | all cards that you don't have a full set of |
| common/ rare/ epic/ legendary | cards of the appropriate rarity |
| green/ blue/ red/ yellow | cards with coloured symbols in their text |
| event/ creature/ structure | the different card types |
| yak/ beast/ mecha/ rakoan | creature subtypes |
| oversky /fall of everlife/ resurgence/ gagana | different card sets |
Faeria.org
An online search engine for Faeria cards if you're not in game or want to view the DLC cards you don't own.
A few cards haven't been updated since balance changes happened so just be aware of that also.
Dowloadable card images: https://github.com/abrakam/Faeria_Cards
Downloadable card art: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AswYvEj4g-EW6JQzsPLPuhuxjBJArmG9
Card Tierlist
Knowing the meta is super important when you want to build competitive decks and prepare yourself for cards you may run into at higher levels. Here is a lengthly tierlist video I made ranking all cards in the game, based on the compeititve tournament format (crucible).
Deck Tierlist
Superblizard's tierlist for deck archetypes in the meta. This is a great place to find decklists to use to fit your current experience level and competitive goals.
Orosei
Kaerukero's guide on everything Orosei: which creatures are the best to transform, probabilities, and some fun facts.
Custom Card Creator
Show off your creativity by making your own custom Faeria card. Community-made cards can be found in the official Faeria discord.
Advanced Faeria
After getting a handle on the basics and finding some decks you enjoy, this section will provide you with some more detailed tactics and strategies to start improving your games.
My Advanced Faeria Series
Learn how to become #1 in this detailed guide discussing every complex strategy in Faeria.
How to Open in Detail
This guide by Luuu90 is a little dated, so bear in mind that many of the cards/decks he talks about have changed since 2017.
However, the concepts he explains about starting land placement are still very relevant today.
How to Counter Certain Archetypes
A series where I show you how to counter certain archetypes and what cards/decks you can use when you're struggling.
Tournaments
Tournaments are a much different experience from the ranked ladder, as they involve bringing 4 different decks, deck banning, and a time bank.
Introduction to Tournaments and How to Register
Register here: https://battlefy.com/abrakam-entertainment
Open tournaments are available to everyone, seasonal cups by invite only.
Other links:
Zorni's Ultimate Tournament Strategy Guide
A very descriptive article by Zorni, talking about tournament strategies.
My Tournament Analysis Series
A series where I analyze my past tournament matches over Twitch, talk about the plays, and have a discussion with chat.
Tournament Broadcasts
Solo Missions
I beat all the solo missions a long time ago so I don't have much to say about these. But here are some links from other community members who have created guides for them.
World Bosses
Aquablad vs the World Bosses
This is an old guide now (2017), but you can still use many of the decks/strategies he talks about here.
My recommendations
Many of the world bosses are pretty challenging and they will usually require you to design a specific deck to fight each one.
Building massive stats can work if they don't use hard removal, or even OTK combos. You'll want to find some way to efficiently remove their threatening creatures while still having a reasonable win condition, which will of course vary on the boss.
Remember, you're facing a pre-programmed AI which makes their choices predictable. Use that to your advantage by testing certain strategies and seeing how they respond.
Some specific cards that are very useful in these missions are Sharra, Bone Collector, Seifer, Possessed Ursus, Gabrian Enchantment, Punishment, Barter, and anything with deathtouch.
Puzzles
ALL puzzles are currently solvable (2023)
Core Puzzles
Ojamamask's solutions to all core puzzles.
These ones won't be available in the puzzles screen until you beat them in the solo missions.
Elements Puzzles
Matrien's solutions to the first page of the Elements DLC.
I couldn't find an organized guide that contained the rest of the puzzles so if anyone knows of a decent one let me know. Maybe I'll have to make one in the future sometime
Community Puzzles
"Get to 330 Faeria this turn"
This puzzle was proposed by Hunter, the master of puzzles himself. Solution by Summerflame here.
More community puzzles can be found on the Faeria discord or my own discord.
Create Your Own
Create your own puzzles using the tab at the top left.
Pandora
Pandora is Faeria's draft mode, and offers some great rewards to build up your card collection.
Introduction to Pandora
A 3 minute section to introduce you to Pandora. The rewards given can be found here.
Pandora in Detail
Includes a deckbuilding guide as I mentioned earlier in this article, but the link above will take you to the Pandora timestamp.
Some Pandora matches I streamed on Twitch
Cosmetics
All purchasable cosmetic DLC bundles inclduing avatars, cardbacks, orbs, and wells can also be purchased with in-game currency (shards). Special cosmetics earned through means such as seasonal cups cannot be purchased. Some cosmetics are no longer available such as yak avatars and seasonal card backs.
Cosmetics can be applied by clicking your orb in the top right corner of the main menu.
You can also apply deck-specific cosmetics by clicking the gear icon in the deckbuilding page. This will only be applied to that deck. Every other deck you own will use the global emotes you selected using your orb.
Emotes
Unique emotes can be purchased in the shop using shards. You must buy the complete set, not just the avatar.
When you own the emotes to a character they will show up as a complete fraction on the cosmetics page (ex. 5/5). All 5/5 characters use the standard emotes. Characters with unique emotes will use 6.
Above is a link to all unique emotes for each available character.
Comprehensive Rules
