Legend Story Studios  ·  Auckland, New Zealand

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Flesh & Blood

Seven years in the forge. Released October 2019.
Played face to face in more than two thousand local game stores, every week.

Scroll. The road to Paris begins
IThe Game · Hero versus hero

Every card matters

No lands. No mana screw. You arrive armed: hero, weapons, armour. Every card in your hand is a decision. Strike with it, pay with it, block with it, or bank it for the turn to come.

01Play

Spend it as the attack, the trick, the answer.

02Pitch

Burn it for resources to pay for something better.

03Defend

Throw it in front of the incoming blade.

04Arsenal

Set it face-down, a threat that survives the turn.

RedHits hardest, pays least. The blade.Pitch 1
YellowThe balance point between power and cost.Pitch 2
BlueWeak in the swing, rich in the purse. Funds the big turn.Pitch 3
IIThe Armory · Where the game lives

The store is the arena

Flesh and Blood was not built for screens. It was built for the table at your local game store: Armory night, week after week, where strangers become rivals and rivals become friends. The store isn’t a retail channel. It’s the arena.

2,000+
Stores · weekly play
5,000
Stores on GEM
5M+
Official matches, all-time

Figures as reported by Legend Story Studios, 2025.

IIIThe Ascent · One ladder, no gates

The road rises

Every sanctioned match feeds one ladder, the same one the pros climb. A US $19.90 Silver Age deck is tournament-legal from its first shuffle, and the path above it never forks: it only rises.

Tier I
Armory · Skirmish · Prerelease
Your local store. Every week.
Tier II
Road to Nationals · ProQuest · Battlegrounds
The first taste of blood.
Tier III
National Championships · The Calling
Your country watches.
Tier IV
Pro Tour · World Championship
The world does.
US$2M
2026 World Tour
36
Pro-level events planned
IVThe Arena · Worlds 2026

Paris. November 6–8.

The road ends under the lights of Calling Paris: the 2026 World Championship, broadcast live by the studio’s own production crew. And the forge never cools: the year’s steel is already on the anvil.

Feb 13Compendium of RatheThe history of the world, in one setReleased
Jun 05Omens of the Third AgeBooster setReleased
Aug 07Mastery Pack: WarriorClass-mastery boosterReleased
Sep 25Usurp the Shadow ThroneBooster set · with Armory Deck: MaliceForging
Nov 14Mastery Pack: AssassinWith Armory Deck: Dr. MortimerForging

2026 catalog per the official Card Vault. Future dates may change.

VLegacy

Some games are played. This one is lived: in the flesh and blood.

“Bringing people together in the flesh and blood, through the common language of playing great games.”

The mission of Legend Story Studios