Hello, my friend convinced me that we should try to buy and play Malifaux so I've spent past few days trying to select the master I will buy first to try the game. I've never played any miniatures games before but I do play a lot of board games, tcgs etc.
I think I will like to play something crazy (both lore and mechanic wise), I like high risk - high reward, unique and weird things and I really like trying to make unusual things work. I don't like to play the "meta" overpowered things and I don't think I would like some master with simple & straight game plan like shooting everything and that's it.
I'm currently considering following:
Wong (or other Bayou master) for being weird / crazy. I just feel that I would need to buy like 4+ boxes (I like pigapult) just for the wong and I feel that he might be even too weak to make him work.
The Dreamer - even though not really crazy, I really like that filtering fate deck ability and nightmare thematic in general. But from reading this forum I feel like he is kind of overpowered and very popular, I don't really want to come to the local community where there are 5 other Dreamers being played (no idea what local meta is).
But I'm open to basically any other master recommendation. As I said weird / crazy / unique and I think I would also like something with fate deck / hand / cards manipulations.
Thank you!