Flesh and Blood

Kriptini said:

Yep, they're selling a ton of boxes in a bundle under MAP right now and the community is not happy with it. CFB also got in trouble for doing an early box break of Everfest on a stream and told the LSS employee who told them to stop to go fuck themselves. They're hosting the Vegas world premiere for Uprising in June but I really do wonder if their partnership with LSS is going to survive much longer.

Luckily all of the stores near me (there's about 4 in a 30-minute distance) all carry FaB and have no issue getting product, so it hasn't affected my local store at all. Rudi did say in his video exposing CFB that he believes FaB isn't going anywhere, and I think he's right.

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I firmly believe that entirely depends upon what kind of contract LSS has with CFB. CFB keeps this shit up, there won't be enough LGS carrying this shit to keep it alive.

I went 2-4 at a CC cash tournament with Kano yesterday. I'm able to race down aggro decks that play 0-1 AB but anything more than that and it's just brutal. If I block with 1-2 cards it pretty much neuters my offense for my turn but it doesn't bother other heroes whatsoever. It seems like everyone else has gotten so much more consistent offense since CRU while Kano got more cards that are only good when your opponent doesn't AB.

So two Kanos got to top 8 at the first ProTour and all of their opponents had 0-1 AB. Wish my locals were like that!

I'm prepping for the Vegas team blitz in June now. Kano is still decent in blitz after nerfs but you have to pitch stack to beat AB4 Oldhim and I'm just... not into that. So I'm currently testing both Benji and Iyslander. Benji can be explosive into certain matchups but he can't beat Oldhim, Dash, or Prism, so I don't think he's the one. Iyslander meanwhile has no really bad matchups and is pretty strong into Kassai, Briar, and Prism, and she's Wizard which I'm pretty used to right now. My teammates are going to be running Prism and either Oldhim or Kassai, and I feel pretty good about my chances - in team blitz at Indy my team went 4-2 as Kano/Rhinar/Prism with our Rhinar losing every single game (skill issue).

I want to try Flesh and Blood and this seems like a good product to try. Where is the best place to get it online since I dont have any local stores near me?

CaughtCross said:

I want to try Flesh and Blood and this seems like a good product to try. Where is the best place to get it online since I dont have any local stores near me?

Classic Battles: Rhinar vs Dorinthea

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Most of the distribution is done through game stores, and I know there's a lot of game stores that don't mind shipping. You could try contacting one in your same state and asking if they'll ship. Aside from that, maybe Amazon?

yeah, a lot of stores have an online presence, this is my local one, if you can't find a better price close to you (I know a lot of places are trying to sell at MSRP instead of MAP)


In my opinion, the best introductory product is the Ira deck, but I don't think that is available any more outside of like conventions and stuff.

If you're on Facebook, join the NA trading group and ask for whatever you want to buy - store owners will reach out to you and you should be able to hook up product from there.

Holy fuck people, it's like Google isn't a thing... I've ordered here before multiple times with no issues.

OneofOne said:

Holy fuck people, it's like Google isn't a thing... I've ordered here before multiple times with no issues.

Classic Battles Rhinar VS Dorinthea (Flesh and Blood)

Each box set contains two ready to play 40-card blitz decks, plus Cold Foil heroes, Cold Foil weapons, and Rainbow Foil equipment cards, an illustrated mini lore booklet and a quickstart playmat. Designed to welcome new players to the world of Flesh and Blood, Classic Battles: Rhinar vs...

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We don't shame bumping the Flesh & Blood thread around these parts. Gotta keep MtG on their toes.

Nirgon said:

Shocked this card game isn't even bigger and gaining more momentum (not that it isn't or doesn't have a strong following). Everything is right about it.

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the game has everything going against other than itself. Was released in 2020 during a Global Pandemic, picked up some momentum in 2021, through Global Supply issues, followed now by 22s Global Supply issues still making printing anything suck fucking shit, plus the current economic situation.

Far as I can tell though, the game is still growing at a decent pace, and once the supply chain gets paper products back into regular supply and conventions centers and stuff finally clear their backlog of cancellations into rebookings, the game should do even better.

Callings and Pro Tours should have their locations mapped more than 90 days (or less) in advance. When they can start announcing locations for things like that a year out, I feel like the competitive scene will blow up even further. I know a number of people not going to the PT in France just cause of the cost to fly there, plus how short of a time there was from when it's location was announced and when it is taking place.

I am super hype to start seeing the new cards from Uprising starting today, though.

Angerz said:

followed now by 22s Global Supply issues still making printing anything suck fucking shit

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As far as I can tell, this hasn't affected FaB at all. Product always seems to arrive on time.

Kriptini said:

As far as I can tell, this hasn't affected FaB at all. Product always seems to arrive on time.

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They avoided any street date problems from shipping, but I am nearly certain it effected early print runs of the first few sets in terms of quantity. Of course with the recent revelation of how much first edition Monarch Channel Fireball sat on, you may be correct.

Also James White did kind of insinuate that FaB could (would?) see 4 sets a year (but not more than that) and I wonder if the printing slowness is why we aren't there yet. The game could certainly use more cards, more often, even if the 4th set is a 2nd supplemental (so 2 draftable sets, 2 supplemental sets a year)

I think we're almost there. The last two years were two sets a year, this year seems like it's going to be two supplemental sets and one draftable set. I think it'd be safe to bet that next year is two draft sets, one or two supplemental sets, and PvE.

Did a team blitz practice armory at an LGS today. My hybrid Iyslander matchup into Rhinar is... brutal. Not quite unwinnable, but definitely more luck-based than skill-based.

I have one teammate on Oldhim and one on Prism, but the Prism player might be switching to Rhinar. If he does, I think we have a good lineup to do well at Vegas.

Yeah but he has a harder time vs. aggressive decks. If you can pressure his hand, his turns become really awkward. Hybrid Iyslander can't pressure his hand hard enough from damage (he has good armor without sacrificing AB), and he usually has no problem affording taxes.