It’s absolutely worth playing. I realised this game was “it” when I was playing with family members. For game nights, it was usually Pokemon when it came to card games for a bit of nostalgia and ease of picking up and playing. Showed them FaB, they had a ball. Next time we went to play Pokemon again, a few bad hands and being able to do nothing later and getting light heartedly frustrated, and my partner asked “can we play Flesh and Blood instead?” And we haven’t looked back. Playing with matched blitz decks is easy at home and lets you mix it up for cheap, and even dipping a toe into more competitive play, it’s tons cheaper than MtG or Pokemon for that side of things

I can't believe sloopdoop spent 25 minutes just saying yes. Such a chad.

I. Love. This. Game. My local community is amazing. Online can indeed be cringe, but my local community is super awesome.

Woah jumpscared me with myself

Nice video! I thought I’d share my perspective a little since I think it may be a little different. I enjoyed FaB while I played it but sadly ended up quitting after not being able to upgrade my blitz deck into a classic constructed deck and getting bored of draft/upf. While the balance of the game is good with complete decks, in my experience a complete competitive deck beats a deck with a few missing pieces (especially equipment) most of the time. For myself, I think that the game shares similar issues to a lot of fighting games: the general lack gimmick characters/decks and being completely steamrolled by more experienced players with the expensive equipment and staples. In my 6 months of playing, I’ve seen other new people try the game in draft or UPF but almost no one came back more than twice. Everyone was extremely friendly and even happy to share the cards and I really hope that other stores are getting new players. A few of my friends seem to enjoy this game more than me or became better friends with people at the store (likely both) and I’m very happy that they have found a card game that they like. So I still encourage people to try it through blitz or even cc, especially now that there’s a lesser barrier of entry for it. Yet I sadly have to accept that FaB is not a game for me :(

>if you just wanna play casually at an armory jokes on you, our local armory is competive as heck

I'm all in. I sold a large chunk of my mtg to buy into flesh and blood. This feels like what commander should have been. Build a deck that has a true identity

It's an amazing game, but i gotta say I'm still pretty frustrated after playing 2 years, i still lack a lot of the staples. I chose assassin, which was a huge financial mistake as the cards prices are just insane. It's pretty discouraging sometimes but well, bit by bit I upgrade my deck and still enjoy the game. I'm pretty sure that at some point I'll get tired of the constant new releases and power creep (hello Kayo and Zen). TCGs are awesome but man what a money trap they are 😅

Thank you for the video!🎉 Been on the fence for this TCG and you video sold me on it. I just went to my LGS and bought the only products they had. Was only a few historic pack 1 blitz decks but they sold sold me a 2 player playmat. I am excited to learn and play

It is still worth playing. Very fun and interactive game, but my only gripe is that they won't release an official online client. People at my LGS slowly shifted to only playing Magic and it's been pretty disheartening to only have 1 or 2 people besides me playing. While Talishar is a nice option, it's presentation is not the greatest and it doesn't allow the content creators to make gameplay content around it, as even for players it can be confusing at times. An online client would also help us in smaller or non-existent communities to enjoy the game, but James White has said that they're vehemently against one, so my only hope is that they may reconsider the matter in the future.

Found you through Del from Peranine; I remember some of your old interviews and frog-head meme shorts, they were great but this video blew my mind. You now live in my head canon as the prof of FAB. I'm serious this video is really that level and quality. Keep up the good work.

Your videos became so professionally looking. U really have had a gigachad glowup. Great work on your videos!

I played my first couple games 2021 but I never played again, up until 2 months ago. I never knew how big the community is. These videos are great!

You've been slooping our doops for 3 years, dude (Whatever that means) . Congrats! 😂

Don't even need convincing, just here for the new sloop content.

When I was younger the best time I had playing MTG was when I had a deck built with a strong theme (Simic). What I love about FAB is the decks built around a hero feel very flavorful.

Great content as always! Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

As someone who's played Yu-Gi-Oh for a few years, Magic for a TON of years... Nothing has captured me like FaB. It's just great!

Do I like the game yes. Do I still enjoy playing it? Not really. Feeling burned out with mst, hh was great and I thought kayo was a mistake, now all 3 mst heroes are really unfun to play against, zen is a real problem. Will have to drop the game for some time and return next year because when mst released i stoped enjoying it.

I legit got interested when I saw how cheap the packs were and now I hear everyone saying it's expensive. But that could be because I'm used to buying Collector booster boxes for mtg

Thanks Sloop, what a great video. I'm also really glad you highlighted the price of some MTG collector booster boxes; the definitive riposte to the tired argument that FAB is expensive.

Sloop, kudos on creating amazing videos! To the rest of you, if on the fence this game (better yet community) is amazing as well!

Man this video sold me. Time to make the leap. It's there a good place to play paper webcam games? Spell Table has been a great way for me to play commander when life gets busy and allows me to stay engaged

This video is going to get me into checking out the game! Thanks so much

Yugioh players are some of the most toxic people I ever met. Seattle actually shut down selling yugioh in like 90% of local stores because of the toxic behaviors of people. It’s all magic, Pokémon and Flesh and blood now here

I WILL NOT STAND BY SILENTLY AND ALLOW YOU TO SLANDER THE HUNTSMAN. Great video - slick editing. 🤘😎

Only if they change the name of the game to “Command and Conquer” lol but also, they need to make sure they support LL heroes, otherwise most older cards will become worthless and players are forced to play heroes they dont like as much or buying new sets.... which goes against the concept of why i started playing this “non rotating tcg” . I wanted to keep my heroes and update their decks over time to adapt and make different version, but now, if you invest too much in a hero, it feels bad once it goes LL..... or if it gets too many bans. and thats NOT fun. To helpfix this, An evolving suspended/restricted list is ideal. there needs to be more heroes to allow more deck building. Look at how awesome the new star wars tcg is with its rapidly growing roster of leaders. Dragon Ball Masters is the best at pumping out thematic and complex heroes, and even the newer more simpler One Piece has released more leaders than FaB. Theres also alpha clash... I really like Blitz and Commoner, both which need more tournament support. But UPF is not optimal, it needs better rules, and “politics” is not an excuse for a poor multiplayer game. Just my $0.02

Cnc I’ve pulled a total of 9 copies in history pack vol 1 ,5 e strikes tons of equipment. But it took well over 20 boxes. I definitely am opting in for buy these singles y’all! It is definitely cheaper! Lol

I just picked up 4 blitz decks. So far my son and I love how the game plays

This game has the dynamism of single player card games (slay the spire) with all the good stuff that comes from pvp and in person play, everything well balanced

I am thoroughly enjoying FaB. It provides a play style that I have not gotten from other TCGs. Almost similar to Final Fantasy in pitching etc but this feels like a superior fighting game. And when I say fighting game I mean it is virtually the TCG equivalent of a Tekken or Street Fighter. Dash i/O for life. Come at me bro!

> Is it worth playingg Flesh and Blood? > Bajillion flesh and blood posters in the background

"Have a fighting chance at your locals" - never happened.

The devs and the community don't put enough love into UPF. Bums me out. I'll come back to the game if we ever see PvE

Fab has been my number 1 ever since Monarch. Best tcg going around.

As a new player, not only are the cards over priced, I could not find any of them even if I was going to pay for them. Most of what you argued sounds like sunken cost.

i am not the biggest fan of the game itself but the community really is amazing plus it dosnt release 500 new expansions every month so its alot more wallet friendly to play

This is a piece of art, will be sharing with all the curious tcg players

They killed casual and armories (Elo instead of EXP, prizes are lackluster, playmats/promos are worthless), its all about competitive play. Which makes it not worth playing. Better to just judge events than to play at this point.

Fantastic video as always. Hope to hang out in person again one day sooner than later😭. Tampa?

I think fab is the most unique tcg ever created

I just bought an Aria blitz deck for like $12 from my local shop because of the art no idea what it is but is love to know if this deck is good

Great video. Definitely an amazing game, and well worth checking out.

I dont see anyone playing it

20:15 - buying a 100$ display and it turning out to be a complete dud of 6 majestics that go for pennies is pretty anticonsumer to me tbh. Why do legendaries have to be once per case. It's quite stupid.

I love watching Flesh and Blood gameplay and was curious when this video popped up cuz it’s been very difficult to find an LGS in my area to play 😔

"Quit Magic and never looked back." It feels like you are still looking back, just with venom instead of fondness. I enjoy watching your videos to learn more about FaB, but each one seems to have several Jabs at Magic. Even this one mentioned multiple times about one of magics bad products. And then the comparison you made felt kindof disingenuous. Is it overcosted? Absolutely, its a produxt i wouldnt buy. But its price is jacked up due to being alt arts and foils. Your paying extreme prices for fancy cardboard not to access certain cards(its still an eggregious price though). As someone who still plays magic(and several other tcg) despite some gripes about the company, it gets a little annoying when it comes accross that i should play FaB because magic sucks. I cant really get into the mindset of liking something becasue something else was worse. Especially since FaB is so insanely different from how most other TCG play. It combines the "any card is mana" aspect of Lorcana with the speed of Yugioh. And then on top of that GREATLY mitigates the card advantage fights other tcg have by giving player their full hand back every turn. Id like it better if there was more focus on what FaB does differently and why it is good, instead of looking at what they do the same and pointing out how others are worse. Idk, that was kindof a rant. I do love your videos. I just keep running into MTG hate and it annoyd me a little. I havent watched all of your videos either, so maybe ive just been unlucky and only seen the ones that have those jabs.

Dude please be honest. This game is expensive no matter how long the card last, the moment there are core pieces that cost 50 USD or more is deterring new player. New players without those core pieces will just lose to those with it.

Great video. Better than the how I tried to approach this same topic.

Great video Wes!

Tolarian community college meets josh strife hayes 😅

Great video. Still think this game deserves more attention what it gets, at least locally.

Good video and nice job for the game !

I dunno man. The whole reason I want to leave yu-gi-oh is the feeling of being priced out. I'm not sure if I want to get into this anymore.

I'm still waiting for LSS to make my Benji viable

I moved on to play Grand Archive and BSS (Battle Spirit Saga)

The big question for me is: does it cost upwards of 100+ dollars to put together a competent deck? card affordability is a big hurdle for players like me getting into a new card game

Guess who’s back ! 👀

Sloopdoop doing gods work 👼

To build a enigma only missing cards from mist i needed to spend 400$ - and that is rly too much. I would prefer more use of old cards than pushing new ones.

I play during 2 years but sell everything, And I was very frustrate, card drop is so low and price are so high, And nobody play without optimum deck, so if you don't have the best card (the most expensive) you can't compete against other, even in armory with your friends. Thats really sad because the game is really cool Also power creep is abuse in last edition (Kayo and Zen) Lexi was let destroy everything because her deck was really expensive, until its LL and all the player have to buy new things. Kayo has taken 500point of LL in 2 month, and they give him imba torso, and 3 blue.....what the point ? ---> money money money And Zen is absurd, I honestly don't thinks they really test the deck, or it's really a money strategie of power creep

Yes it is. However as someone who loves the game I have zero scene around me. This game needs to change its philosophy to look into an official online client. It’s a brilliant game.

No locals within an hour from my house, all cancelled, so unfortunately I play on talishar only

This game is like having a jojo stand

Looks like myst change the powering down, and made a power up.

Reported this video for the murder at 18:20.

nah, I'll stick to magic. didn't take long for the "hurr durr its better than magic" snobs to become loud enough push me away from the game.

Man, this is the best Flesh and Blood video ever made. Every point that makes Flesh and Blood such an amazing game you brought up. Keep up the amazing work, and showing the world again and again why it’s is STILL worth playing Flesh and Blood.

i think people who say FaB is expensive are just parroting what they've heard other people say, FaB hands down is the cheapest TCG ive ever played. The only expensive cards are cards like spring tunic, but even those cards arent even that bad in comparison to other games.

Have you played _VTES yet ?? =P

Nice!

11:35 say no more. flesh and blood is NOT worth getting into

I have always found card games to be interesting, but I cannot stomach spending more than $60 for a properly competitive deck ,which is impossible in basically every TCG. Take all the $60 cards and print them into the ground or let me compete with proxies. I am happy for there to be ultra rare cards that are chase collectables, but they either need to be alternative art treatments of a cheaper and more commonly available card or unplayable trash. if you are happy because you payed $274 for a single card you are gaslighting yourself. it almost certainly didnt cost more than 50cents to manufacture you got scammed.

This sounds cool

Who up rn slooping their doop

I need to know where you get those jackets please.

no

Informative, but horribly bias video!

Bruh... Saying that Grand Archive is almost the same as Magic is insane. It definitely scratches a similar itch but at least to me it feels vastly different. That said, ever since Grand Archive was first released I wished that it had the card frames and art direction of Flesh and Blood. I love manga and anime but the frame design is very basic and the art mostly looks like it was made for horny 15 year olds. As for Flesh and Blood - I want to get into that game precisely because visually the cards look so cool but I find the 1 on 1 fighting so boring as a concept (I mean just a single character against another single character) and just can't. I know about this game since 2020 but just can't get into it.

Try wixoss it's way more balanced or yugioh rush duel,also universus is the exact same

Amazing

freakin well made sir !

truth nukes start at 18:19

Not worth time invested and very little to no player base irl.

I’d say nah, game is dying. Damn riptide

I like FAB because you feel like your playing a single character, not some min-maxed meds of random cards. I would never play it officially though since I am intensely against the idea of any sort of "living legends" like mechanic that could essentially phase out entire deck builds. If you like a character, you should be able to play that character, period.

The “FaB is expensive” arguement is very outdated at this point. They have reprint Tunic and other staples multiple times at this point and prices are very reasonable at this point. MTG is the overpriced game. They literally release a new set almost monthly now with little products like Secret Lair in between. They also have separate tiers of product like Play and Collector boosters. It’s insane. FaB has a one booster box model and only has releases every few months. It’s very well paced.

UNGA BUNGA SQUAAAAAD!!!!! 🧌🧌🧌

Stream it

the hardest part about fab is not to flex on it. so stay away all you fine lost yugioh peops, this game very very bad and a scam. go Buy and play metazoo instead please. its at least serious. trollolooooool

Usually, I set x1.5 for speed, but this video was impossible to watch for a non native speaker, with music too loud and going too fast on topics. Please go slower, it’s easy to accelerate a video, but slowing it down is not a good experience 🙏🏻😇 Thx in advance

It was never worth it in the first place.

Why is all titles like this these days, kind of annoying clickbait for something that is not dying at all... Please stop or change your titles❤

Ard++

no. Next.

The game is too difficult to learn

“We know how to shower 🧼!” Amen- Here’s looking at you too 40k players lol

Woah jumpscared me with myself