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Yeah, when I look at her I see a crew that is generally working with 10 cards a turn... So has a lot of space to experiment with OOKs. Generally most models power up if you funnel cards into them! Yeah seems good! And on Guard the Stash you can block LOS to the markers with pillars potentially xD I had a sneaky play where I killed the enemy master near a take the hit model by just blocking LOS using pillars. I feel like Pandora 2 is a defining matchup if you're declaring into Neverborn, that's for sure xD Although she's not in the Balancefaux format until next year, so I think Rasputina will find a good home in the format.

I've been trying Rasputina lately, and having pretty decent success with her. In the most recent game I tried her on Flank Cursed Objects in the Balancefaux format. New Rasputina Crew (Arcanists) Size: 50 - Pool: 3 Leader: Rasputina Totem(s): Wendigo Hires: Silent One Magical Training Silent One 2 Snow Storm Joss Envy Soulstone Miner Felt really good! Rasputina seems awesome on Cursed Objects, but can see how she'd not hold up to some S tier stuff. The ability to sit in my deployment zone nuking him all game, with snow storm and joss threatening melee devastation, was really good. Having effectively 10 cards to work with every turn was very potent, and the constant repositioning with Rasputina's bonus 1-2 times a turn was huge. Snow storm was initially ice golem, but then I wanted SSC on it and that wasn't a viable list, whereas snow storm can already use stones which felt real good. I probably could have utilized him a bit better, but basically he did some skirmishing, killed Beebe, provided protection against a few guns, and just deterred the enemy from diving me too hard.

This is especially encouraging as you were vocally opposed to this format when I first proposed it. Hydranixx and I also just played a game of the BalanceFaux format, and it felt like there were a lot less "answer me or instantly lose" crews going on.

There's no plans to do a vore at this stage, but let me know how many teams you have that feel this way and I'll pass it on to the committee. Are they already on the discord?

Oh, maybe I didn't post this already... I've been having great success with double crooligan, double enslaved spirit builds this season! Well, two games with Molly 2. It's so much scoring AP. And Molly 2 herself threatens so many points.

I don't think there's any model with Decay that uses it effectively at a competitive level... Domadore's are probably the best, and I guess Gwyll is modelled off of them. Annoying that Gwyll can't heal the whole keyword, though.

Yeah bleeding disease is a really good answer to tanky models, so try that and see how it goes!

The Team Cup event will use this format, so by the end of the year we should have 6 rounds of experience with it.

Registration for the 2022 Malifaux Team Cup is open! Form teams of three, and battle for the most prestigious title of the year - winners of the Team Cup! Registration deadline is 4 November, with first round kicking off November 7. The BalanceFaux format will be used for this event. Clocks will be used, as is now standard for MWS events. Teams must be made up of 3 players. Each player in a team must register as a different faction. Each team must play three different masters in a round. E.g., if a team has a Bayou player and a Neverborn player and Neverborn declares Zoraida in Round 1, Bayou cannot declare Zoraida that round. The player pack is attached. To register, click the link at the start of the post! Team_Cup_2022-8.pdf

For me, this would include any methods of them coming into base contact (including dropping the marker). Just be aware that if your meta uses this ruling, it presumably means you can end the move blocking LOS to the marker and deny the effect. I'm curious about the requirement about ending a move in base contact, though, since it doesn't say anything about ending a move?

The double rush is a fast paced 2v2 format. One city in my country is running regular tournaments of the format, but I haven't experienced it myself. I believe the rules are in the Gaining Grounds documents.

What do you play? In general, a lot of Transmortis models are weak to running around them. They appear fast, but at a base they're move 5 with two AP. If you can stagger Valedictorian at range, for instance, she potentially is losing out on an entire activation.

Super stoked for when the Molly one comes out, but was also curious about this one. Cheers!

I think masters being pretty tough with leap is fine, especially as stealth gets turned off as soon as this master actually starts using its AP. But is probably a lot less fine if the card draw engine ends up drawing a ton of cards. I think that's the most worrisome part of the crew for me. Card draw tends to break crews. Also, on the note of card draw/card discard, this crew seems like it needs to pressure the opponent's hand... So wouldn't Merris be a great OOK for many matchups? She's great at pressuring hands.

In case I didn't make it clear before, my idea of 'wild success' for this format would be to have a mixture of BalanceFaux and RegularFaux. The competitive community identifies stuff very quickly (probably annoyingly quickly for Wyrd). So we'll still be identifying broken stuff long before it gets errata-ed I suspect... But then there'll just be an alternative for when we don't feel like doing that. Although who knows, the format may flop at the first event and never be seen again. Or it may be so popular people refuse to play anything else. No way to know until we try it.

One interesting effect is tha the format appears to be growing on people xD There's been very few people who were keen when they first heard about it, but then over time find it more and more appealing. But the real test will be an actual event and then to see if people enjoyed it...

Pair him with a changeling and you got scoring power too

Also note with the 'no cheat' bonus, sometimes you'll end up using like a moderate mask to get it off.

Yeah, for me, it was the realization that this will be a permanent state of the game if the cycles don't change. I like the new stuff... Just not if we're in a continual state of new stuff and no periods of errata-ed games. This format lets you mix and match. Yeah, the initial plan was to do it by books, but it just has so much collateral damage (like Kaltgeists for Rasputina, Curator for McCabe, White Rabbit for Som'er, etc). So this is a bit of a compromise. Yannic is the only model I'm really concerned about, but we'll see how it goes. In ~6-8 months when the next errata comes out, all of Malifaux Burns will rotate into the format. So will be interesting to see how it develops (if it even gets off the ground).

The only thing currently confirmed and committed is the top 16 will NOT use this format. But I'll definitely be using it somewhere if the MWS doesn't.

Long story short, about 4 different formats were proposed, but they all end up really messy. Except this one. This one is clean and crisp (with the downside of collateral damage). But it's a bit like being a PC gamer that plays things a few years after release. You get to play the same things, it just takes a little while.

In addition to what Kharnage said, I think this'll still be unfair. Any factions with a must ban master will have an advantage. Bans are more interesting from a counterplay perspective IMO. EDIT: another consideration is moving forward we don't know what will release every year. It's entirely possible factions will have two busted things sometimes. This format is well future proofed as it operates on a simple principle (though has awkwardness until the first title errata xD)

Competitively I don't use them much at all. Casually they're pretty fun, but not at all necessary.

Well, the post includes the philosophy and rules, so when tournament packs start including the format people can reference it. That's the main idea of the post. So to some degree, it's a combination of "hey this is something people are playing now", and for some readers a "hey this is a format happening in your meta". I'll be referring some players in my meta to it. I kinda like Classic Faux, but that doesn't really capture the essence of the format (all new releases are part of the format eventually). The formats core principle is that anything that has been eligible for balancing errata is legal in the format (with some adjustments to address outliers like McMourning). So I think Balance Faux captures that nicely. "Errata eligible" kinda captures it, but is the wrong tense and is super clunky. BalanceFaux has a nice ring to it, and I think it's accurate. Presumably errata has the aim of making the errata models more balanced. The world series isn't my only meta, but there is a lot of overlap. It is likely the World Series will give it a go in an event sometime soon, but the top 16 will definitely not use this format.

Yeah, I think rather than saying all of Wyrds balance cycle should be dedicated to players like me, some experimentation in formats makes sense. For me personally, my last three or four tournaments have been dominated by either Nexkids or Damian. And while I REALLY enjoyed my tinkering to beat Nexus (and Damian), it gets tedious to just pick other overpowered titles to play against them. The most fun tournament games I've had recently were mostly with original titles and masters like Molly 2 (and Lucius 2, but he's secretly super strong). It'd be really nice to have some formats where original titles can keep up with the top stuff of the format.