In Flesh and Blood, there are almost no cards or effects that stay on the field for more than a turn. In Magic (and most card games) the first thing used to judge who's winning is to look at the battlefield: if I have more than you, then I'm winning. This is sometimes unavoidable, but can often be remedied by better planning your turn. If you have 10 less life than your opponent, and they effectively lost nothing to gain this advantage, then you have used the resources the game has given you less efficiently than your opponent. As all cards can be used as pitch, or used to defend (as well as, of course, being used as something you play), it is always possible to find something to do with the cards that are in your hand, and a big part of the skill in a game of Flesh and Blood is figuring out how best to use the cards you're dealt turn by turn, not unlike in Poker. This becomes very easy to do with the defense system.

All cards must have a good enough impact that when you draw it, it does something. For a card to be in your deck, it can't be just something to do on your way to the ideal board. By win condition, I mean the kind of card that is expensive in terms of resources needed, but which - when played - gives you a huge advantage.Īnother consequence of this is that cards are all very close in power level. Every turn you can use the cards in your hand as pitch and the amount of pitch you have access to will not change during the game, unlike Magic where the more turns that go by, the greater the amount of resources you have access to is.Ī consequence of this is that there are no “win conditions” like in Magic.

You are just as capable of playing the cards in your deck at the beginning as you are at the end of the game. As you “spend” cards to do things in the game, along with the fact that the amount of cards in your hand is always around 4 (which is the Intellect of almost all heroes released so far), a game of Flesh and Blood winds up being very different from a game of Magic.

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