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CardSpicy indexes card games with an emphasis on the Chinese-language editions, and Flesh and Blood is the line on the site that is least like the others. It is not a licensed property and it is not a rotating game: it is created by Legend Story Studios, an independent studio based in Auckland, New Zealand, and the publisher states that the game spent seven years in development before its worldwide debut in October 2019.
This page is the index for everything CardSpicy publishes about it: the rarity ladder and the two foiling treatments, the dated set sequence, the formats that decide which cards are legal, and where a new collection starts.
Jump to: Rarities and foils · Sets and releases · Formats and legality · Where to start
Rarities and foils
Flesh and Blood separates two questions that other games run together. The first is the rarity a card was printed at, which the publisher lists in the composition of every set. The second is the treatment a particular copy carries, and the two treatments in question — Rainbow Foil and Cold Foil — do not appear at the same frequency as each other.
- Flesh and Blood rarities and foils — the full rarity ladder from Basic to Marvel, the two foiling treatments, and the frequency the publisher states for each.
Sets and releases
The publisher gives a date to every booster set it has released, going back to the original Alpha Print of Welcome to Rathe, and it also dates the Mastery Packs, the Unlimited Editions and the History Packs separately. That makes the Flesh and Blood release list one of the most completely dated lists on this site.
- Flesh and Blood sets and releases — the booster sets in order, the Unlimited Editions that reprint the early ones, and the Mastery and History Packs that sit beside them.
The most recent numbered booster set has its own page, written from the publisher’s product page and its own guide to the set.
- Flesh and Blood Silver Age: Usurp the Shadow Throne — the two ready-to-play Silver Age decks released alongside the twentieth booster set, and what their heroes actually do.
Formats and legality
Flesh and Blood does not rotate sets. It rotates heroes. The publisher maintains a threshold of 1000 Living Legend points, checks the standing every Monday, and a hero that crosses the threshold — along with its signature weapon — stops being legal for official tournament play from the Friday of that same week.
That single rule is why the format matters more here than in most games: the card pool you can legally play changes as the results of tournaments change, not as a calendar moves. The formats themselves are set out on the page linked below.
- How to start a Flesh and Blood collection — the constructed, limited and special formats with their deck sizes and copy limits, and the products the publisher builds for each route.
Where to start
The publisher’s own entry point is not a product but a decision: the game is built around a hero, and the same card pool plays differently depending on which hero leads it. The publisher maintains class guides for Assassin, Brute, Guardian, Mechanologist, Ninja, Ranger, Runeblade, Warrior and Wizard, and its set descriptions name further classes such as Illusionist and Necromancer.
The routes into the game, and what each one actually assembles, are on the how-to-start page linked above.
Where this section sits
Flesh and Blood is one of the card games given their own material on CardSpicy. The lines that do not yet have a full section are collected on Other card games. Every page the site publishes, grouped by game and then by topic, is on All articles, and the sleeves, holders and storage that go around any of these cards start at Card accessories.
Frequently asked questions
Does CardSpicy index Flesh and Blood cards?
It indexes the game rather than a card list. CardSpicy publishes guides to the rarities, the foils, the set sequence and the formats; it does not run a page-per-card database for Flesh and Blood.
Who makes Flesh and Blood?
Legend Story Studios, an independent studio based in Auckland, New Zealand. The publisher states that the game spent seven years in development before its worldwide debut in October 2019.
What is Cold Foil in Flesh and Blood?
One of the two foiling treatments the publisher uses behind an ordinary printing. The publisher’s own set composition lists Cold Foil cards at one per twenty-four packs, which is rarer than the Rainbow Foil treatment.
Do Flesh and Blood sets rotate out?
Sets do not rotate. Heroes do: a hero that reaches 1000 Living Legend points stops being legal for official tournament play, along with its signature weapon.
What is the first Flesh and Blood set?
Welcome to Rathe, released as an Alpha Print in October 2019. The publisher dates an Unlimited Edition of it to November 2020.
Sources
Sources and scope
- Legend Story Studios, the official Flesh and Blood site, About Us — the studio’s location in Auckland, New Zealand; the seven years of development before the October 2019 debut; the first booster set, Welcome to Rathe; and the statement that the game is built around a hero and a unique resource system.
- Legend Story Studios, the official Flesh and Blood Booster Sets, Mastery Packs, Unlimited Editions and History Packs listings — the dated product list reproduced on this page and its linked set page.
- Legend Story Studios, the official product page for Usurp the Shadow Throne — the set composition, the rarity distribution per pack and per display, and the three heroes the set features.
- Legend Story Studios, Tournament Rules and Policy and the Living Legend page — the rarity names used in format definitions, the constructed and limited format specifications, the Living Legend threshold of 1000 points, and the Monday check with Friday effect.
- Scope note: only details published by Legend Story Studios, or printed on the cards, are stated as confirmed. CardSpicy prints no prices on this page and makes no valuation or investment recommendation.
Card pools, product contents and format legality are set by the publisher and can change. Check Legend Story Studios’ own pages before acting on the basis of any date on this site.