Finspan Fish Card Tier List – Version 1.0
This is our Finspan Fish Card Tier List.
FINSEARCH is a great companion page to go with this list, as it will give you all of the card details.
God Tier | Tier 0 | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | UUT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | Blue Lanternfish | Angelshark | Abyssal Halosaur | Abyssal Anglerfish |
| Mandarinfish | Atlantic Mackerel | Abyssal Spiderfish | Angler | |
| Orange Roughy | Atlantic Sailfish | Arabian Carpetshark | Atlantic Bluefin Tuna | |
| Smoothcheek Lanternfish | Barramundi | Atlantic Bonito | Atlantic Salmon | |
| Black Swallower | Bigeye Smooth-Head | Atlantic Sturgeon | ||
| Blob Sculpin | Bigeye Tuna | Atlantic Wolffish | ||
| Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse | Binocular Fish | Banggai Cardinalfish | ||
| Cookiecutter Shark | Black Hagfish | Barreleye | ||
| Deepsea Lizardfish | Bluntnose Sixgillshark | Bearded Seadevil | ||
| Elsman’s Whipnose | Chola Guitarfish | Black Cardinalfish | ||
| Emperor Red Snapper | Clown Anemonefish | Blue Tang | ||
| Faceless Cusk | Cownose Ray | Bluespine Unicornfish | ||
| Giant Manta Ray | Creole Fish | Bonefish | ||
| Great White Shark | Crocodilefish | Chinese Trumpetfish | ||
| Indo-Pacific Sailfish | Escolar | Common Fangtooth | ||
| Long-Snouted Lancetfish | European Anchovy | Diamond Stingray | ||
| Mediterranean Damselfish | False Cleanerfish | European Flounder | ||
| Pacific Sardine | Flabby Whalefish | European Sturgeon | ||
| Pennant Coralfish | Giant Devil Ray | False Catshark | ||
| Porkfish | Giant Oarfish | Football Fish | ||
| Red Lionfish | Giant Trevally | Giant Hatchetfish | ||
| Rockmover Wrasse | Greenland Shark | Giant Hawkfish | ||
| Sargassum Fish | Japanese Anchovy | Great Northern Tilefish | ||
| Scaleless Black Dragonfish | Kaluga | Grey Triggerfish | ||
| Swordfish | Kawakawa | Grideye Fish | ||
| White Suckerfish | Largetooth Flounder | Haddock | ||
| White-Banded Triggerfish | Longspine Porcupinefish | Hogfish | ||
| Mahi-Mahi | Honeycomb Scaly Dragonfish | |||
| Maltese Ray | Humpback Anglerfish | |||
| Ocean Sunfish | Humphead Wrasse | |||
| Pale Chimaera | Leafy Seadragon | |||
| Paraliparis | Little Skate | |||
| Pilotfish | Live Sharksucker | |||
| Red Scorpionfish | Longfin Batfish | |||
| Sailfin Flying Fish | Mariana Snailfish | |||
| Shortspine African Angler | Mediterranean Parrotfish | |||
| Shortspine Spurdog | Midwater Scorpionfish | |||
| Smooth Oreo Dory | Oceanic Puffer | |||
| Stripped Marlin | Pacific White Skate | |||
| Whale Shark | Paintspotted Moray | |||
| Yellowtail Snapper | Patagonian Toothfish | |||
| Pelican Eel | ||||
| Platefish | ||||
| Pudgy Cusk-Eel | ||||
| Pygmy Seahorse | ||||
| Saddleback Butterflyfish | ||||
| Silverlightfish | ||||
| Skipjack Tuna | ||||
| Sloan’s Viperfish | ||||
| Snaggletooth | ||||
| Snipe Eel | ||||
| Speckled Butterflyfish | ||||
| Spiny Seadevil | ||||
| Spookfish | ||||
| Spotted Parrotfish | ||||
| Stonefish | ||||
| Stoplight Loosejaw | ||||
| Tripodfish | ||||
| Tropical Two-Wing Flying Fish | ||||
| White-Spotted Puffer | ||||
| Whitemargin Stargazer | ||||
| Wolftrap Angler | ||||
| Yellow Boxfish |
Finspan Tier List Revision History
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Tier List Definitions
God Tier: Traditionally, these cards can facilitate a runaway win on their own.
Tier 0: Could be considered “The Best of Tier 1” or “The Bottom of God Tier”. More effective, efficient, and/or game shaping than Tier 1 cards but not necessarily as impactful as God Tier fish.
Tier 1: Effective, efficient, and game shaping cards. These are among the best cards in the game and represent some of the best general qualities and/or powers. These will be the bread and butter of the best games.
Tier 2: Cards that have desirable general qualities and/or powers that can be useful in the right circumstances. These cards could be a key component of a combo or engine and might not otherwise be very effective on their own.
Underused Tier: These are cards that don’t see play at our table often due to “better” options being available most of the time. Being in this Tier doesn’t necessarily mean that a card is bad. It just means that they may consistently lose out in head-to-head decisions made between one card or another. These end up being prime Consume/Discard fodder.
General Finspan Gameplay Notes
- Fish that cost eggs and/or young (points) feel undesirable.
- Hatching and moving feel like inefficient actions. There are times where you need to perform them to fulfill a cost or stay busy when you otherwise can’t do anything.
- Sharing eggs with other players results in net neutral points.
- Giving cards to all players feels undesirable. Cards are the fuel that make Finspan go.
- Playing a lot of fish seems to matter more than anything else.
- Playing big point fish in the closing turns of the game may be optimal despite egg/young costs.
- Egg spam is easily capped since each fish can only hold one egg.
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