my local LGS grew from 2-4 players for armory events every week about a month ago to now 12-14 players per week. Once new people tried the game they stayed.

MtG was my first CCG. Got into it after seeing a game played. It was just a quick game while we waited for the rest of our D&D group to show up. I got a good look at the Keldon Warlord, and I had to learn the game. Unlimited had just released. Once I started playing, I was solidly hooked on the game. Just as a quick note. We didnt play with sleeves, and card value was strictly how well that card fit in your deck build. 6 months later, we started seeing a financial element to it. To this day I cant fully grasp how a game card (any) became so valuable. FaB is not MtG, it didnt hook me as quickly, the art was good, but not quite the same level as the early MtG card art., and FaB game mechanics took me a minute to work out, but once it all clicked for me, I was all in! Nothing will replace Magic in my heart, but FaB is truly a great game. I'm just a player, and thats my 2 tokens worth.

FaB is the best game I’ve ever played and has a community to match. The mechanics of the game really make it feel like a duel between two champions. Trading resources and battling for advantage. I hope a LGS in your area picks the game up. In central Iowa we went from 4 players week one to 20+ local players playing 3 times a week spread over 2 game stores 18 months later. We had 4 new players in the store last night alone.

The tunic goes for roughly 140ish bucks, but it can be used in many decks and will never rotate out of the game. I remember spending 120x 4 for Jace, Vyrnns prodigy at a point in MTG...guess the difference? Jace isn't legal in standard any longer...I think you covered this well since it's mostly an eternal format.

Great video man. You rarely need 4 legendary equipment in a deck, most only use 2-3. Fabled are NEVER required, the one that is most played is the eye of ophidea (from arcane rising) but is never required. Tunic there have been both non-foil and white-border reprints which are cheaper than $150 (look for non foil black border from crucible of war unlimited for the cheapest tunic)

FaB is sooooo Good. Never played a game so wel designed art-wise and mechanics.

Switching from magic to FaB has been a fantastic decision for me. Keep your eye on the event and store finder on the main website. Over 3000 LGS carry the product

Another thing awesome about FaB is the fact that you are not prone to (bad)luck-by-variance, which makes it more balanced, you are not waiting for mana while still having mana-management and last, but not least, you are not subject to infinite combos or whatever mechanics that force a player to watch the other play solitaire or turn one/two wins. All this is coming from a Magic: the Gathering fan.

Man I have been so lucky. Multiple stores carry and do tournaments. One even does a learn to play on Sunday. Please play it with a friend what a great experience it can be

Flesh and Blood is a good game. Cons- stores are not holding games and I would love to play in person. I have one LGS down the street and it only hosts magic and some Pokémon. Also I think WOTC is trying to drain out wallets constantly so we don’t have money for other games. It’s working, unfortunately.

Welcome to FaB! :) Someone mentioned this already but my favorite aspect of FaB (v MTG) is that there is never a non-game in Classic Constructed. Every game is close and exciting, and you play a single game per round in a tournament as a result. No mana screw / flood here!

Love FaB. Agree with all your pros and cons. I play as much as I can, its a brilliantly designed game. MTG is great too but I do hate having to keep up with all the sets in MTG. If you need someone to teach you to play, feel free to message me.

So glad you are putting out FaB content. Welcome to the community. I believe you will enjoy FaB a lot. More and more folks are migrating away from MtG (for a multitude of reasons) over to FaB and not looking back. The FaB community is very welcoming and much less toxic as well.

FAB is the type of game that the FLGS has to do a little more work to promote…but LSS has had provided great prize support to LGS’s.

Regarding the CURLING of foils: the curling does not affect COLD FOILS (a super premium foil). The regular foils (called rainbow foils) have the same issue as MTG foils (they may curl if you do not take care of humidity and storage configuration).

Fab leans on player skill over card power. Somebody who net-decks the top meta deck will almost always lose to a player with a higher skill level. FaB is extremely choice-rich, so knowing your deck and making the right choices will always be better than a legendary Tunic in your equipment slot.

Great video pointing out the pros and cons!

As a person that is trying to learn more and more about the game, one of the things that catch me is how there is no need for best of 3/5. The game is that good to the point where the games are competitive and close that you don't need multiple games. And that also come with the modern take on card games, removing resources like mana or energy by integrating them on the action cards itself. It's really brilliant. Another modern take is the "fill the hand at the end of the turn". Both aspects minimalize the bad luck you can naturaly have when playing a card game. The only con is that I really think those rarities make a young game like this really expensive.

as far as net decking... just because you bring a good deck doesn't mean you have the skill to play it. you don't know what is meant to block, or to further your strategy...

Sounds like you’ve really done your research, I hope you’re able to find a way to play FaB. As an old MTG player I can say Flesh and Blood is the real freaking deal. LSS really cares and it shows. Can’t say the same about WoTC. The competitive scene is top notch and so are the players.

I really enjoy the game and it's still growing. I'm fortunate I have 3 stores locally that carry the game, and 2 of them run weekly events. I'd say if you really want a store to carry this get a friend or two who's willing to try the game with and just start playing casually at your local store. If you get enough people interested and asking the store for it they'll hopefully start bringing it in.

An honest attempt to look at the other side, I'm impressed. You just fit right in, man. You're focused on much of what we've been begging for and have found in Flesh and Blood. I hope you find/build a community sooner rather than later. Maybe extend your search to a 20 mile radius? 😆 Would love to see you get a spoiler. I'd address some of your misgivings, but i have a feeling you'll be working through those yourself eventually. There's some online tools like felttable for learning the game, or talishar for testing against other players, that are really helpful in between events. Or for late nights. 😉

You're not talking about Magic... grrr... rage!!! haha... just kidding. Thank you for the video, I learned a bit more about FaB. The hero equipment system was used in the WoW tcg so that really interests me.

That’s unfortunate you can’t find a local scene near you. Here in Portland FaB is getting pretty big with multiple stores running events and carrying the product.

I heard "Ashenwingz" and i knew immediately what he plays 😂 good video bro.

Great video, I didn't realize how much I disliked MTG's rotation until you talked about how it (doesn't) work in Flesh and Blood lol

Where my Canadian Prairies player's at! We know the struggle of not being able to find products easily let alone travel for 3+ hours to find an LGS hosting play. Webcam games have been great but it's not as easy to make friends.

I am a long time MTG player, I dont see the fyendel tunic as a very high cost, especially if you compare it to the average cost of the top 10 modern decks. You buy ONE and your good for a few Hero's, AND you can sell it back if needed.

More like 3 sets a year. I think their goal is 2 main and 2 supplemental sets each year this year we got two supplemental Everest and Dynasty by and 1 main..Uprising…the meta is wide open right now

I saw people playing it at a local festival it looked very interesting, but magic is enough for me , but as tempting as it is I don't have the time or money to get into another trading card game.

Great video! Every time I was ready to jump in the comments to attempt to counter one of your points, you looked at the other side of the position as well. I loved you open-minded take and honest opinion.

Thank you Ashen I get more impressed with all the time

The name of your channel is awesome!

Also hello! There’s an official discord where you can play webcam games if you get a deck together I’d be way more than willing to show you how to play!!! Seriously but a starter blitz deck and I’ll teach you!!!!

I've been playing FaB for the last 6 months and I've been loving it. I never thought another game could scratch the MtG itch I had, but wow. I've sold my MtG collection and I haven't missed it thanks to FaB

I started FaB in Bright Lights. I kind of love it. Very hard at first. I've been with MTG since it's beginning. I got tired of Wizards trying to beat me over the head with a message and giving me gimmicky sets with a hundred different alt arts of the same damn cards and jumped ship after they released the Lord of the Rings set. I really enjoyed MTG but I LOVE Tolkien. They should have never screwed with my Tolkien. FaB was there to catch me. Incidentally the art is amazing and the game play is fun once you can learn it. HAIL FaB!

I have played competitively since the game started and still haven’t gotten a Spring Tunic. There are always interesting choices you can make to circumvent expensive equipment and many classes have good options for the chest piece that are far more affordable. Only top level play really requires the full commitment of heavy legendary/fabled investments.

thanks for the video. i always admire outsider perspective for flesh and blood. you definitely had some hits and misses. Personally i wouldnt create a video of a tcg i dont play and can confidently comment on. nonetheless i really hope you get to jump into fab - and appreciate your audience to flesh and blood. i dont mean to sound crass and genuinely wish you the best.

FaB is fantastic. I do love MTG also. But I have had fantastic times when attending the large events (Pro Tour, etc). You may need 1 or 2 expensive cards (equipment) but that’s about it. I think the notion that the game is too expensive is a relic from 1.5 years ago when speculators were speculating. But players have taken over IMO

I started playing magic in 1993 with beta packs. I now play FaB and it scratches the same itch that Magic used to scratch back in the day. It has that same new, raw feeling that’s a ton of fun. I also like that you don’t ever get mana screwed in FaB. You always have options until you run out of them. Getting mana screwed turned me off of the competitive MtG scene back in the day.

As a note about the foils: I agree they totally look better than Magic's foils - they do a really good job with spot foiling - but unfortunately just like Magic foils, they do start to curl if not stored properly. Cold foils don't curl though, at least not that I've ever seen.

You don’t even need more than 1 Spring Tunic in your entire collection … unless you’re somehow playing multiple sanctioned games simultaneously.

Here in Europe Fab is getting really big, its growing more then in Usa and now it has come to Brazil🤟😊

Flesh and Blood is leagues beyond Magic as far as game design and mechanics. The "pitch" system of resources fixes alot or the problems that the land/mana system presented in MTG. Even Richard Garfield himself has said that his later design, Netrunner, was a far superior game to its predecessor. The "four actions per tern" system in Netrunner had far more freedom and variability, allowing you to use those actions any way you'd like (gain a credit, draw a card, play a card, etc). It foxes both the land based resource system and the linear beginning of turn card draw. Magic was just the first, so it gained enough popularity to be ubiquitous with the CCG, but its far from the best CCG design.

You don't really need fabled cards in most top competitive decks... it's more sort of a collectable thing. As for the equipment it's true that it's pricey as are some generic majestics. But you will be able to play them in multiple heroes. Once you got a few key-pieces the price of staying up to date is quite alright. I mean i just buy Common and Rare complete playsets of a set off of people who open a lot of product, then a few majestics that are reasonably low prices at the moment eg in uprising and thats it... Plus there are quite a few heroes that are not so popular and thus their cardpool is considerably affordable. In my opinion the power of many heroes is untapped and those heroes will not go living legend for a while. It's is quite fun to work and try to figure out underdogs... but i recommend using proxies from fab proxies or testing on talishar online before buying expensive stuff.

Foils still curl btw, it's the nature of the thing. But for some sets it doesn't seem to be as bad that might be true. And it's great to see that some people actually dig into what a game this is. You've seen some finance shills hop onto the train after the Profs video but that's not what the game needs. The game needs players who genuinely try the game and dedicate attention to it, that's how a game does well, and this one really did it for a couple people not just to get away from Magic but just because it's very good in itself and has a great publisher. The L issue is a good one to always keep an eye on but besides "every competitive TCG will have its price" and "that's bonkers what a bad game this has to be" you don't read much. It has real disadvantages for some heroes and that's an issue, but people also look at competitive decks so freaking early just to netdeck that they're so quickly angry these are so expensive when the maindecks are so affordable with few substitutions, it just doesn't help a good discussion about it. The ease and practicality of switching between decks/classes/heroes and have your money in a very select few cards instead of playsets and 3-ofs all over the place like in Magic is just such a big advantage in my book though.

I like MTG just fine, like FaB better at the moment. Will see long term.

Make it known that you want to grow the scene around you. See if your LGS will get product and try out running some events. Unfortunately, the average LGS is not in the position right now to take a risk. Tell them to get Welcome Decks, and have a Learn to Play event using those decks! It would happen without your support. :)

So that's what you meant by that community post... I'm sure some will definitely be quite fired up by this...

Fabled cards are situational. They are typically not mandatory. Blood of the dracai is on 56 right now too. I would argue you are correct about the equipment with the caveat that you can play most really good legendaries across multiple decks

In Canada, Fab at $100-130. Mtg is like 200-400 Yu-gi-oh 65-110 depending on value of cards, Digimon 110-130 Cardfight vanguard 75-100

Price has gone up again

It is less than 3 sets a year. In october 2019 we had the first set (WTR). Then, in 2020 only two sets were released (ARC and CRU). With that, the first block was done. Then, in 2021, two more sets came out (MON and ELE). In february 2022 came another set to complete the seconf block of three sets. And in june 2022 UPR came out and we are waiting for DYN next month (november 2022). James White, the creator, said that they would have no more than 3 releases per year. This is a very nice frequency. I hate MTG's nearly monthly releases.

I watched card kingdom do a "beginner" video. Someone I know apperantly plays it now. I don't like it and wont play it since I'm done playing new card games, and contemplating quitting MTG after the over priced magicCon

FAB is so much cheaper to play.

I feel like the gameplay of FaB lacks varied play styles. Most of the successful strategies are about aggro.

Just wanted to throw it out there, FAB releases 3 sets a year.

Flesh and Blood is the best TCG I have ever played. MTG is great but really shows it's age and has one of the worst companies pushing it.

Tunic is the best equipment card just period that's why it's so expensive

fab is poaching mtg players. it will shift further without a doubt

Wait.. so this furry is talking about a game he has never played!?