When comparing Spellweaver vs Faeria, the Slant community recommends Spellweaver for most people. In the question“What are the best digital Collectible Card Games on PC?” Spellweaver is ranked 4th while Faeria is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Spellweaver is:
This game is more complex than most digital card games. For example, to summon a creature you need the resource cards, but you also need to be a certain level (levels can be added by discarding resource cards). This makes for more unique deck compositions, as you will need to decide if your deck will be a resource or level focused deck, or a mix of the two.
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Pros
Pro Advanced game mechanics makes for unique and strategic gameplay
This game is more complex than most digital card games. For example, to summon a creature you need the resource cards, but you also need to be a certain level (levels can be added by discarding resource cards). This makes for more unique deck compositions, as you will need to decide if your deck will be a resource or level focused deck, or a mix of the two.
Pro Supportive community that welcomes new players
Veteran players are very willing to welcome new players and help them learn the game.
Pro Quests add more depth to the game
In the map view, you can click on a location to take that area's quest. These quests unlock rewards, which can be cards or other unlocks. This adds more content to the game, and makes it feel more substantial than 'just' a digital card game.
Pro For all the MTG lovers
This game comes quite close to Eternal in terms of core game loop. However, Spellweaver was released before Eternal and doesn't have many of Eternal's flows.
Pro Recently released mobile version
The game got a mobile version in 2018.
Pro Impressive art
Pro PvE Content
Insane amount of PvE. There are games vs AI opponents, puzzles, a solo arena mode... and all of them provide gold or straight up packs as rewards.
Pro Unique gameplay
There are many unique mechanics in Faeria. If you don't know about them, look them up on YouTube. If anything should convince you to try this game, it's this.
Pro Easy to learn - hard to master
This is #1 requirement for successful competitive game and Faeria did this part very well. PvE content will help you understand how the game works and then it will be up to you have far you can get. You'll often have to think forward while facing multiple good options during your turn and RNG will not win you any games.
Pro Almost no RNG
RNG in Faeria is heavily reduced. It's still there like in every CCG but it won't win you any games.
For example there are no cards that deal from 5 to 8 damage.
Pro Beautiful art
Not only the cards but the Menu, HUD and board background are simply gorgeous.
Pro Very good balance
Of course, there are cards that are bad no matter how used, but most of them are in very good spot right now. There are cards that can be used in almost every deck, and there are cards that can be used only in specialized decks, but that doesn't mean that these cards are bad. Also, Legendary cards are not better than cards of lower rarity. Same goes for epic and rare. Legendary cards are often simply unique in what they do.
Pro Relatively fast progression
Compared to most other ccgs, Faeria allows you to build your collection significantly faster than most other card games. Recently after Faeria's official release the dev's improved the rate at which you gain cards as well.
Pro Available in 12 languages
English
French
German
Spanish
Portuguese
Russian
Portuguese-Brazil
Italian
Czech
Japanese
Korean
Traditional Chinese
Pro Creative deckbuilding
There are no classes or factions. It's not that simple but you can basically build your deck from any card you own.
Pro Frequent updates
Even after release, the game receives balance changes and new content quite often.
Pro Amazing community
The community in Faeria is one of the best there is. The reason for that is probably official Discord server, Hub and amazing devs.
Pro Multiplatform
Available on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, Android, iOS and possibly more to come. It has announced that it is coming to consoles as well, Switch included.
Pro Has it's own deck sharing website
The devs made a website called The Hub where you can share your deck and guides.
Pro e-Sports
Every month there is an official tournament with 3000$ prize.
Pro Great dev team
The dev team has listened to feedback so often and looks to improve the game constantly.
Cons
Con The UI
It can improve a lot. The UI needs an update, but game mechanics and creature combat animations are moreish
Con Advanced game mechanics punish learning players
It will take a while before new players are fully accustomed to the way to play Spellweaver. A single poor decision can cost you the match. But learn from each mistake and the long term game satisfaction is great.
Con F2P, but if you want to grind the whole collection it can take a couple months.
But in game rewards are generous compared to competing CCGs, and there are many powerful decks which can be built using lower rarity cards, new players can be competitive with vets on ladder using rush decks until the fill out their collection.
Con Mechanic of "storing mana" between turns leads to too burst-y gameplay
Con Starting hand size is very small
Games can sometimes be decided almost entirely by starting hand where you only get 3 cards as games can be over very quickly and you will see very few cards.
Con Can be addictive.
This game has so many different archetypes of decks, that a creative deck builder will lose themselves in the possibilities.
Con Heavily dependent on RNG
Con Static environments
The game features beautiful worlds but there is next to no animations bringing them to life.