My Fai List and Sideboard guide from Canadian nats

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I think in general people tend to sideboard too many random cards that are not core to the idea of an aggro deck in FaB. Often I'll see a bunch of D reacts in SB of Fai lists and it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. People had the same issue when playing red line Briar last year. This list starts with the idea that Kodachi + Mask of Momentum is best into aggro decks and Emberblade is best into Wizard and Oldhim. The hard part after that was to try to figure out how to make both of them work well together. I started from the BH list from Ethan Van Sant and kind of made some changes to fit what I was trying to do. There is the full 9 Brand with Cinderclaw because of that and how well you use them with Kodachi makes a world of difference when trying to bring back pheonix flame or get bonus from spreading flames (kodachi can get bonus from this).

Weapons: Harmonized Kodachi X2, Searing Emberblade
Equipment: Flamescale Furnace, Fyendal's Spring Tunic, Mask of Momentum, Mask of the Pouncing Lynx, Nullrune Gloves, Snapdragon Scalers, Tide Flippers, Tiger Stripe Shuko

(2) Ancestral Empowerment (red)
(3) Belittle (red)
(3) Blaze Headlong (red)
(3) Brand with Cinderclaw (red)
(3) Double Strike (red)
(3) Lava Burst (red)
(3) Lava Vein Loyalty (red)
(1) Liquefy (red)
(3) Mounting Anger (red)
(1) Phoenix Flame (red)
(3) Rising Resentment (red)
(3) Ronin Renegade (red)
(3) Snatch (red)
(3) Spreading Flames (red)
(3) Take the Tempo (red)
(3) Tome of Firebrand (red)
(3) Art of War (yellow)
(2) Belittle (yellow)
(3) Brand with Cinderclaw (yellow)
(3) Salt the Wound (yellow)
(3) Brand with Cinderclaw (blue)
(1) Energy Potion (blue)
(3) Lava Vein Loyalty (blue)
(2) Minnowism (blue)
(3) Rising Resentment (blue)
(3) Ronin Renegade (blue)

Iyslander

You go up an extra blue and try to play all your go again attacks to begin with and close the combat chain with conditional go again (including the weapon) to try to avoid getting destroyed by instant speed Hypothermia. Opening with Rising Resentment is good too since some players with respond to your first attack by playing their arsenal and you can banish a 0 cost on hit to eat the frostbite. Tunic is only for this matchup and I could be swayed to have another nullrune instead but I found the resource overall more beneficial than the ability to prevent damage.

Mask of the Pouncing Lynx, Fyendal's Spring Tunic, Nullrune Gloves, Tide Flippers, Searing Emberblade

- 1 Liquefy - 3 Tome of Firebrand - 3 Take the Tempo -2 Double Strike

Kano
Same as above except you don't need to play around Hypothermia and you play the Liquefy instead of a Snatch

Oldhim
This is a bad matchup no doubt about it. How bad it is really depends how good your opponent is. I decided I was ok losing to the Tariq / Isaak Krut / Dilks type at my nats if it meant I would have game into the rest of the field. If you can figure out a better plan you will eliminate what i feel is the only played bad matchup to this deck (Dori is the other bad one imo). I did beat some with Liquefy so maybe going up to a 2nd one instead of the 3rd tome is right. You can use your pouncing lynx to help get the liquefy turn off as sometimes you will be short a resource or a 4th chain link, you also want to try to liquefy on the 2nd attack with 2 attack or less so it's the Shuko attack and they can't prevent damage with the hero ability or crown of seeds or oasis respite.

Mask of the Pouncing Lynx, Flamescale Furnace, Tiger Stripe Shuko, Snapdragon Scalers, Searing Emberblade

-2 Salt the Wound -3 Take the Tempo -3 Double Strike -1 Snatch

VS everything else
You want to constantly try to present 2 MoM triggers per turn. Often you will start the turn with a kodachi attack and once it hits you chain your head jab followed by either a 4 attack creating a breakpoint on the MoM trigger or a double strike presenting 1 damage on the MoM trigger. Pretty much try to think what would be most annoying to block if I was my opponent. If they have an equipment that can block for one easily (grasp of the arknight on 1) you want to avoid the double strike part. Keeping Ancestral Empowerment for the MoM trigger is also something you want to do often. Once they block the MoM trigger you start over with the 2nd Kodachi etc. At times you want to Brand of Cinderclaw first to give your kodachi draconic so you can return the pheonix flame cheaper so you need to practice these hands by goldfishing a lot.

Mask of Momentum, Flamescale Furnace, Tiger Stripe Shuko, Snapdragon Scalers (Tide Flippers into Viserai), Harmonized Kodachi X2

-3 Salt the Wound -3 Tome of Firebrand -1 Energy Potion -1 Liquefy -1 Mounting Anger

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