is their a certian deck formula that is best to be followed when condtructing decks? like how many characters, plot twists, equipment and locations per deck?

from looking through the rules, i was thinking of going with the following:

25 character cards
15 plot twists
5 equipment
15 locations

what does everyone else go towards?

Our group has found out that probably at least 50% of your deck should be characters (since that's the main part of the game) and not too many locations as you'll likely only drop 3-4 locations anyway (in a 6-7 turn game).

For us:

30-35 characters
15-20 plot twists
0-5 equipment (more if you are playing an F4 deck)
5-10 locations

as far as generic deck build goes, i have also found about 50% characters/equipment, and 50% plot twists/locations is a good starting point.

of course, this ratio could potentially change if you have a radical strategy... :devious:

I am starting with the following card counts:

Characters: 26
Plot Twists: 24
Equipment: 6
Locations: 5

Total:61

I have tested the deck 2x and I might need more characters. If you don't have any characters then the plot twists cards will not help you out.

I use between 25-30 characters

Between 4-6 locations

20-25 Plot twists

4-5 equipment


Naturally this varies between decks and the card available to me.....

i keep it a rule of thumb to use at least 40 characters ... i play X-Men

60 Card Deck

35 characters
17/18 plot twists
8 locations/equiptment

Our FF deck has higher equip and less characters, only 4 locations.

i say 30-40 characters is about the rule of thumb. never thought about the max for locations. i guess it all depends on if you are going to be depending on the locations as a part of your strategy. even if you only lay down max 5-8 locations in a game, if they are vital then 4 of whichever locations you need shoudl be a given.

i would have to agree with the thing for a ratio, cause speed is the name of the game

The only experimentation I tried was...

36 characters
7 locations
9 equipment
8 plot twists

It felt too character heavy. I always had a version of someone in my hand to ditch as a power up, but I would've rather had more plot twists.

I had a lot of equipment because I was playing a FF deck, but I didn't get a lot of use out of it because I was lacking some key cards to fish it out.

7 Location cards felt just right. 8 would probably do well also.

ATR

I had attempted 32 characters 6 equipments and 22 plot twists/locations (mostly plot twists). I found that to be too equipment and plot twist/location heavy and switched to 35 characters, 4 equipments and 21 plot twists/locations.

I’m contemplating a 2-1 ratio of characters to plot twists/locations/equipments.

In the sealed booster drafts that we did in Vegas, it was 3 packs worth of cards (42 cards), so you had to make a 30 card deck...

It was suggested that for the smaller deck, you make it twenty characters and 10 plot twist/equiment/location cards...Seemed to be a good formula...

For the larger decks, I'm seeing more of a 50/50 character/other mix being a solid ratio...More and you're missing out on plot twisting, and less you are missing characters...

DID I play you at the booster draft?

Uh...I dunno...

I wasn't referencing you specifically when I said "you". More of a figure of speech...But you might've...