How does Card Rarity work in Flesh and Blood TCG?

Update 26-04-2022: Added information about the Flesh and Blood Uprising expansion and the new rarity added in this set. Scroll to the end to read! Also added some missing information for other sets.

Update 08-06-2021: Added information about the Flesh and Blood: Monarch limited and unlimited edition cards and how to tell them apart from eachother!

There’s already different editions of sets, many different types of rarity, and also different types of foils in Flesh&Blood TCG. If you are looking for a guide on rarity, foils and how to know which expansion set a card is from in FAB TCG, your search is over. In this article you will learn everything there is to know!

How many sets does Flesh and Blood TCG have?

Here is a list of all Flesh and Blood sets:

Set nameSetcodeRelease Date
Armory Kits - Season 12019-10
Welcome to Rathe - AlphaWTR2019-10
Arcane Rising - 1st EditionARC2020-03
Ira Welcome DeckIRA2019-08
Armory Kits - Season 22020-04
Crucible of War - 1st EditionCRU2020-08
Welcome to Rathe - UnlimitedWTR2020-11
Arcane Rising - UnlimitedARC2020-11
Armory Kits - Season 32020-10
Armory Kit Prism2021-05
Monarch - Blitz DecksPSM, BOL, CHN2021-05
Monarch - 1st EditionMON2021-04
Monarch - Unlimited EditionMON2021-06
Crucible of War - Unlimited EditionCRU2021-07
Tales of Aria - 1st EditionELE2021-09
Tales of Aria - Unlimited EditionELE2021-10
Tales of Aria - Blitz DecksOLD, BRI, LXI2021-09
Everfest - 1st EditionEVR2022-02
UprisingUPR2022-06

How to recognize sets for Flesh and Blood TCG

You can tell if a card is from Welcome to Rathe and Arcane Rising by looking at the rarity symbol, as it was reworked for Crucible of War and the Unlimited reprints. Any cards that have the coloured rarity symbol before the card code (unsure if this is also the case for promos) will be from Unlimited print runs or post Crucible of War 1st Edition. The Alpha / 1st Edition prints of WTR and ARC will have the rarity behind the code at the bottom of the card. Furthermore, the year for the copyright on the Alpha / 1st Edition prints of WTR and ARC will be 2019, while unlimited will be 2020. Lastly, the unlimited editions of WtR and Arc have a coloured bubble behind the rarity letter at the bottom.

The card code at the bottom of a card starts with a 3-letter code, which represents the set the card is part of. So you will not find expansion symbols like in for example Magic or Pokémon.

For Monarch they added a clear marker so you can tell the 1st Edition and Unlimited Edition apart. When you see a rarity symbol in a solid circle, it means you have a 1st Edition Flesh and Blood Monarch card in your hands (Congrats!), however when the circle is open it means you are holding an unlimited edition card (still congrats!)

Talking about rarity

Let’s take a look at the Flesh & Blood card rarities themselves:

  1. Common – 12 per booster pack
  2. Token – 1 per pack
  3. Rare – 1 per pack
  4. Super rare – about 1 in 6 packs
  5. Majestic – approximately 1 in 12 packs
  6. Legendary – approximately 1 in 96 packs
  7. Fabled – at least 1 in every 960 packs
  8. Marvel — Added in the Uprising expansion

What types of foils in FAB TCG?

There are 2 types of foils;

  • Cold foils; Which are for weapons and equipment cards, cold foil cards have a silverish glint on parts of the card, usually on the item displayed in the artwork and on the border.
  • Rainbow foils; Which you will find on other cards.

There exist also cold foil hero cards, these are so far only obtainable through special events (apart from the shapeshifter card in Crucible of War). Which means they are actually rarer than legendaries.

What’s this Marvel rarity they’re all talking about?

With the release of Uprising, Legends Story Studios added a new rarity, presumable to make up for the discontinuation of the Limited/Unlimited release pattern. The new rarity can be recognized by the purple triangle icon besides the setcode (UPR for the Uprising set). The main attraction of this new rarity is to deliver full-art versions of other cards, making them more desirable to collectors.

 

Border colors and Card Frames

Up until History Pack 1 all FaB cards had black borders, but that changed with the release of this set. History Packs contain reprints from older sets and denote that they have opted to add white borders to these cards.

As you can see in this example, the rarity symbol is open, which means this set is an unlimited edition printing. There is no limited edition version of this set. LSS has decided to step away from the Limited/Unlimited release model starting from Uprising.

 

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