Forestcraft Fae is a Forestcraft deck that revolves mainly around creating Fairy cards in your hand, using them late game to build towards a combo with Amtaz, Origin Blader. The deck is pretty grindy, much like a Puppet deck, but with the ability to keep Fairies around to be able to attack with them on future turns.
Forestcraft also revolves around the Combo mechanic, which means you have to play multiple cards in a singular turn. Luckily, Fairies cost 1 to play, and so building up a combo with them is incredibly easy. With this, cards like Killer Rhinoceroach become deadly and able to pummel an opponent to death with its Storm ability.
If you like making a ton of followers and swarming with a massive boardstate, Forestcraft Fae is a great deck for you. However, against some decks like Portalcraft Hybrid, you'll have to learn to play more into your combo, to play around their huge sweepers. Otherwise, though, Forestcraft Fae is a great, fun deck that shows off one of the more unique playstyles in Shadowverse.
Forestcraft Fae Deck
Forestcraft Fae works on three different axes. First of all, you have the all in Combo Storm deck with Killer Rhinoceroach. This gameplan is all about building up a huge combo in your hand and then sending as much damage using the Rhinoceroach's storm ability, with no way for your opponent to stop it without a Ward follower. This is great against decks like Portalcraft Hybrid that run a lot of sweepers, as well as a lack of Ward followers.
However, against decks that have Ward followers, Amataz, Origin Blader is great way to be able to power through without falling at risk of sweepers, while also being able to clear the board ahead of you. Importantly, though, it doesn't have Storm and so will be slower at killing an opponent, but is better if your fast kill isn't going to be successful anyway.
And, if you're in a matchup where you can't even get to that point but a low number of sweepers, Fay Twinkletoes can create a great aggro strategy that'll be able to use the Fairys you generate to deal a huge amount of damage early on. With this, you can get the upper hand before the game even gets into gear, finishing with a low-Combo Killer Rhinoceroach as your opponent will be fairly low.
Metagame Analysis
In the current metagame, Forestcraft Fae looks to be okay against Portalcraft Hybrid and Runecraft Spellboost, both of which are unable to stop a win from a high-roll from Forestcraft deck. However, a lot of this is depending on your luck, as the biggest problem with Forestcraft is running out of gas along the way and falling victim to either of these decks due to it, making it a coinflippy matchup for both.
However, this deck is better against more aggressive decks than the two other best decks in the metagame, such as Swordcraft Zoo. This does make it on the more comeptitive end of the metagame, and time will tell if these advantages keep it on the S tier of the meta or if it falls under new and emerging decks.
