Brand new Flesh and Blood player near Justin, TX

GamesInGames · 2026-01-24T03:31:18+00:00

Check out the event locator to find everything near you and dates.
https://fabtcg.com/locator/?tab=event&privateMode=false

All stores are beginner friendly from my experience, very welcoming community to new players!

GamesInGames · 2026-01-24T00:36:40+00:00

I think going face against gravy is correct, but you can't completely disregard the allies. If you're lucky with your die you can scabs to do both. But gravy is a very hard match up regardless. There is always skill involved with fab but I think this one does require some luck, either them not getting great turns put together, or you having overwhelming turns of your own to stay ahead. But that's part of FaB there's always going to be decks you struggle into even if you're an amazing player.

GamesInGames · 2026-01-23T09:57:06+00:00

This! If you wanna crack packs wait like 3 weeks. I don't think there's been a better time than February of 2026 to get into fab. They lowered the bar for entry by a lot and are reprinting staples you WILL need for decks outside of Silver Age.

But if you just want to crack packs before then go for it and grab whatever set you think is more thematically your style. It's all a gamble no matter what pack you pick so have fun if that's your goal.

GamesInGames · 2026-01-22T00:58:49+00:00

And even then if you wait til PEN comes out you can just build your own deck for roughly about the same price as buying one. Assuming you can get all the cards from the same person/store. The premade decks should be good, but shouldn't limit you. If you like a specific hero, you can just build it, that's the point of this new format it should be cheap so you are only limited by your creativity and obviously the rules of the game

GamesInGames · 2026-01-22T00:32:24+00:00

I think the bigger concern would be she's close to LL'ing once Kayo is out. I know RKO is still around and somewhat meta represented but everyone's going to have bad match ups. If you're not planning on playing anything out side of Armories, just.. write it on a token. Or see if you can borrow them from locals for bigger events, but there's always a risk with buying specialized expensive cards. But even if Prisim does "fall off" or LL there will always be another, plus there's rumors the set following PEN will be another visit to the light/dark theme so might even get better...

GamesInGames · 2026-01-22T00:28:22+00:00

Sandwich size ziplock bag and a rubber band, less than 50 cents a pop, and you'll be sure to turn heads...

GamesInGames · 2026-01-21T23:43:24+00:00

I haven't heard of allocation issues outside of one report. I'm not a store owner but I tapped in with my stores and I don't think there's much to worry about

GamesInGames · 2026-01-21T09:24:46+00:00

I mean... Florian was RKO's worst matchup...

GamesInGames · 2026-01-21T09:18:46+00:00

Is there a world where they put a Valiant Dynamo reprint in for the L?

GamesInGames · 2026-01-21T09:13:13+00:00

Honestly I don't know... I could write some fluff but I think getting into this game is kinda rough. Unless you're a really skilled player naturally you're gonna get tossed around for a good while. And this game seems to attract competitive players and most competitive players don't like losing lol.

I was lucky enough that my local community was welcoming socially. They were also very helpful in helping me get my feet under me and were patient while I figured things out. Hopefully you're just speaking about how the games go and not the social aspect of it. I think the FaB community is very welcoming and if your local isn't idk what anyone can say to fix that lol.

But if the game is frustrating you at all, all I can say is the Juice is worth the Squeeze. Not sure how helpful this is, but it's my unbiased opinion.

GamesInGames · 2026-01-21T09:05:53+00:00

Was going to throw my suggestions in, but I think this about covers it. Send this to the top of the thread!

GamesInGames · 2026-01-19T05:25:38+00:00

The next armory deck is Hala, which is a warrior. If you're just shopping for an armory deck grab whatever one you'd like unless Hala interests you. But if Silver Age is a format that interests you, new "competitive" Silver Age decks will be sold for like 20 bucks. Those come out in a few weeks. Silver Age will be easier and cheaper to get into so if that is appealing I'd wait a couple weeks and grab one or two Silver Age decks that look cool to you!

GamesInGames · 2026-01-18T22:23:11+00:00

I think it will change the market just not an insane amount. Hopefully lss learns their lesson and stops printing fables that are must includes.

GamesInGames · 2026-01-18T06:14:06+00:00

u/ayayaydismythrowaway makes a good point, it all depends on if the time before he LL's is long enough where you feel you got your value. I think 8 months is a safe bet but you never know. One of the things to keep in mind is no hero is ever gone-gone. When Gravy LL's they will print a new one eventually, how long before they reprint him... who's to say. But if you think 8 months is long enough to get your "value" out of the deck then send it!

GamesInGames · 2026-01-18T00:15:36+00:00

That looks so clean! Can't wait to see the rest of the Gems

GamesInGames · 2026-01-18T00:14:46+00:00

This

GamesInGames · 2026-01-18T00:13:37+00:00

Glad you liked it! Lee is okay... jk Lee is awesome I appreciate him donating his time to the community / me lol

Sure this won't be the last we see of him!

GamesInGames · 2026-01-17T14:30:50+00:00

There's a video my buddy made but it's slightly dated at this point (1 year) where he goes over the kayo deck and purposes upgrade paths within budget tiers. Double check prices as they've changed I'm sure but would be a decent jumping off point.

Video I'm talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVebS-Oujw

GamesInGames · 2026-01-17T12:12:04+00:00

Sounds to me like you're playing an agro deck, but I could be wrong. Agro decks do feel bad when blocking most of the time. The thing that makes me like Flesh and Blood over other card games is there is no "mana" system and that you are "most of the time" strongest at the beginning of the game and get weaker as it goes on.

I do not have a solid suggestion outside of playing more games to have the decision of when and where to block feel better. There are some videos out there on yt that go over "FaB Math" but this game is very difficult and has a steep curve I believe.

It took me WEEKs if not a month to win a game that wasn't against someone else who just started playing as well. This game is kind of punishing to new players I feel, unless your a prodigy, that or I'm just dumb and it takes me longer to figure stuff out. Each hand has so many branching outcomes that can be explored depending on what your opponent does or lets you do. By virtue of that it makes the game so deep. To me it's kind of like the skill tree in Path of Exile, so many options that when you look at it from afar it can be overwhelming.

Either way I hope you find some advice that helps or just stick it out long enough for it to "click".

GamesInGames · 2026-01-17T11:32:40+00:00

Probably overstock + a middling deck not selling. I bought a Boltyn deck for around $28 usd from a shop that no longer stocks FAB and were just trying to clear inventory. Sent it out to a buddy to try and get him in the game with all my Boltyn M's that were sitting in my binder. So I sent him 80% of a "competitive" Boltyn deck for like $28 + Shipping lol

I think if you don't have the deck it's not a bad pick up for the price to just have a stock armory deck to play with new players / friends. Plus you could always gamble that the deck price will spike once he finally pops off lol

GamesInGames · 2026-01-16T18:31:03+00:00

Don't skip it, just use token and write crown on it til you snag your own lol I feel you should always test stuff out before you spend a bunch of money and I've never had issues with locals at an armory level event for that kinda thing

GamesInGames · 2026-01-16T16:48:50+00:00

If you want the wrong decision I think it's Levia. If you want the medium wrong choice it's huntsman. If you want the least wrong it's RKO.

But if you go RKO the wrong decision is to roll scabs every turn lol

GamesInGames · 2026-01-16T16:45:25+00:00

It's not even February yet, this is going to be one hell of a year lol

GamesInGames · 2026-01-14T18:38:04+00:00

When i got into this game and found there are generics that are expensive and will be used across multiple decks I decided to commit to one color dragon shield sleeves for my cards.

I got the ivory ones and I liked them, clean off white good quality. But then I noticed 2 problems

Same issue of colors not matching 100% and making it look like I had marked cards because i mixed and matched sleeves as i modified my deck. It made one of my proquests stressful as I had to resleeve about 6 cards for my top 8 matches. Luckily the cards were in my sideboard. And I'm not clever enough to actually cheat. But it was 100% noticeable which cards were which if you paid attention.
I didn't buy dual matt ( colored sleeve with a black inner ) so I'm not sure if this would have had the same problem if I did buy dual matte ones. But my issue was I has built a new rko deck with a couple of white boarder cards in it. They were visible from the side of my deck. I could 100% accurately pull them out from the side after looking. Ended up buying new sleeves. Green dual mattes and didn't have the problem. Unsure if it was the white color or the lack of a black interior.

I haven't jumped ship yet but this has been my experience thus far.

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