u/John-Oblivion

I'm looking into getting some Blitz decks to upgrade them to Silver Age decks, but I don't know if they're worth it. Do you know if they share enough card pool to be worth it or I'll be better just buying the singles? I don't care about the foil hero cards honestly, so that's not a factor for me.

I'm looking into buying the Rosetta heroes first, but I'm interested in Runeblades, Wizards and Illusionists in general.

I like to collect precons and I already have a few of each. But I'd like to focus on just one of them because otherwise I feel like I'm overspending in this game.

- I like how Armory decks have foils and a coherent aesthetic between their cards. Like how the Pleiades deck has mostly pink cards, Gravy teal, etc. The decks as a whole just look cool. Also sometimes they have unique and pricey cards. But they also don't have a sideboard and can't do much against finetuned decks without heavy upgrades. In short, they're mostly collector pieces more than usable decks, because 99% of them would be kept as they are.

- SAGE decks on the other hand include a sideboard, a booster pack, and need minimum upgrades to become tournament ready. But they also don't have any foils and don't have that aesthetic coherency I talked about before. Also, I feel like I'm paying top dollar for essentially bulk cards, of which I would only play regularly a few of them. In short, they're very usable but feel less premium.

- I could just buy a mix of them with the classes and particular heroes I'm truly interested in, like any sane person would do. But sadly this is not the case.

So, what would you do? Or what are you actually doing in your personal case? This is mildly OCD tangential, so hearing your thought process about this would help me a lot. Thank you.

I wonder if anybody collects Armory Decks, Silver Age precons or any other precons and if they're worth it. I don't mean it as single products, but as keeping a whole collection.

In my case I tried collecting Silver Age precons, they're very good but I only ended playing the two classes I already liked, so not worth it for me.

I wonder what you guys are playing in SAGE this Skirmish season and why.

I'm torn between playing Briar, Blaze, Iyslander or Viserai. I know I would have a much better chance of success if I play Briar, but I do enjoy a lot how Blaze works.

What about you?

I mean it in terms of the actual contents of the product, not the card selection itself; that's a separate debate. There are a few small things I don't understand:

- The foil treatment. In my opinion, the whole suite (equipment, weapons, and the hero itself) should be rainbow foil. It bothers me that the hero is usually non-foil, and in some cases it's even worse: single pieces of equipment are non-foil while the rest of the set is. "But LSS's foil reprint policy..." I don't care. Print it with different art, or add an exception to the policy for preconstructed decks. It feels like gatekeeping for the sake of gatekeeping.

- No sideboard. This has been discussed a lot, but I don't understand how ten extra cards could hurt the product, especially when there's only a single copy of Arcane Barrier in the main equipment.

- The rules leaflet. It's just a wall of text. It should be easier to read and include some lore about the character.

- A vinyl resource coin or another goodie would be nice. A booster pack for the relevant set would also be interesting to have, the way Silver Age decks already include one.

While not on the level of giants like Konami, The Pokémon Company, or Hasbro, LSS isn't a small startup either, and shouldn't treat its customer base with this kind of complacency.

I love vampires across media, but I haven't found a proper vampire tribal Commander for me yet. I want to avoid [[Edgar Markov]] for his boogeyman status and to be able to build something different.

Besides Edgar I also played [[Strefan]], but doesn't matter how strong I build him, I always find him lagging behind. [[Clavileño]] was tested too, but I like the flavour of Innistrad vampires more than the Ixalan ones. Although I like to be able to mix them up in a Mardu deck if possible.

Any recommendations? Have you played with any unusual vampire decks successfully? I'm aiming at bracket 3 by the way. Thanks.

The question above. I would love to play a hero in CC that doesn't use the same package of generic goodstuff that I see in every other deck. Cards like Tunic, CnC, Enlightened Strike, fables, etc.

Or at least that can work at 95% without them. Any suggestions?

I want to keep around a couple of demo decks to teach new players, but I wonder which combination would be the best. For now Ira vs Ira has worked well enough for me, but I feel like Bravo and Dorinthea could also play against each other too, instead of just against themselves.

Have you tried them against each other? Did they work better or worse than mirror matchups? Thanks!

Hi! I come from Magic, and when I started playing Flesh and Blood I looked for something similar to EDHREC to help with deck building. Instead of picking a random tournament decklist and hoping for the best, I wanted to build my own deck by checking what other people were playing. However, many of the lists I found were old, had banned cards or were no longer relevant. So I ended up building FABtastic:

https://fabtastic.app

It uses tournament decklists from the official Legend Story Studios archive to show hero popularity, card inclusion rates, average copies and average decks. You can filter the results by card, format and time period, check the original sources and export an average deck to FaBrary.

I find the card filters particularly useful because they let you narrow the results to decks using the same hero and the specific cards that define the build you are interested in. It currently covers Classic Constructed, Silver Age and Living Legend.

I know sites like FABrec and Fablazing already exist and they are great, but I built FABtastic with a narrower focus on tournament deck statistics, card popularity and making every result traceable to its source. I am not trying to replace either of them. I just wanted a tool focused on this particular use case.

It is 100% free, has no accounts and has no ads. Nothing is behind a paywall. It does not measure win rates or tell you what the best deck is, but it shows what people are actually playing in the available decklists.

I would love to keep working on it, with ideas such as including public FaBrary decklists in the data and providing sideboard suggestions with clear explanations.

What do you think about it? I would love to hear your thoughts!

I was having a bad day and I decided to treat myself with an Omens box. I've never opened a box before, only single booster packs and while I knew the pull rates were bad, this was ridiculous. 6 Majestics and 4 of them were from the Expansion Slot.

Maybe this box was a super dud, but I haven't encountered a TCG that their boosters are such a misery to open. I can't imagine opening MTG boosters and only open Commons and Uncommons, for example.

Is this your experience as well or I'm just super unlucky? I was planing to buy a Mastery Pack Warrior box but now I'll think it twice.

Tengo casi 20 envíos de correo ordinario que deberían haber llegado hace casi un mes. A alguno más les está afectando esto?

After almost a year of playing the game, I finally decided to build a proper CC deck instead of playing with proxies. I was about to build Fang, but Hala seems like a better idea long term because of her 0.5x multiplier and her being talentless.

Which would be the best upgrade path for her from her Armory Deck? I would like to avoid very expensive generics like CnC, Tunic and Shelter if possible, at least for now.

I would love to get an Armory Deck and upgrade it to play at my local Armories. I already did a bit of research and those are my conclusions:

- Ira, Arakni: Good entry points, but I don't like how Ira needs so many expensive generics and Arakni so many expensive Assassin cards.

- Rhinar, Zyggy: Completely different build from what it's played in CC, I don't know if they're worth it.

- Boltyn, Maxx, Gravy Bones, Pleaides: I was told they're good starting points for those heroes, but they're not my thing.

- Jarl, Hala: I don't know anything about them yet.

- Dash: Too close to LL.

- Kayo, Azalea, Aurora: Already in LL.

It's the above true? There are many posts about this but some time has passed since then and they may not be up to date. Thanks.

EDIT: I forgot about Olympia and Malice, they're going to be released in a few weeks.