Flash Duel: Revised Second Edition

About this board game

Flash Duel: Revised Second Edition is a fast card game for 1–5 players, with matches taking about 5 minutes. Set in the Fantasy Strike universe, it simulates sparring matches between distinctive characters on an 18-space linear track.

Victory depends on striking from the right distance and reaching the right range. Players use numbered cards to maneuver and attack, while character abilities create hundreds of possible matchups. The revised rules put greater emphasis on improv, bluffing, and timely action rather than calculating the exact contents of the deck.

The game includes 20 characters, each with special abilities, and offers seven ways to play:

• Simple mode for first-time players
• Full mode with character abilities
• Custom Clockwork, where you build your own character
• 2v2 team battle
• Solo play with 10 achievements to earn
• Raid on Deathstrike Dragon, a cooperative challenge for 2–4 players against a fifth player controlling the Dragon
• Betrayal at Raid on Deathstrike Dragon, where one player is secretly allied with the Dragon

In the Revised Second Edition, every mode uses a 40-card deck, with five cards set aside unseen at the start of each round in modes other than the Dragon Raid. Rounds generally last longer, and ties award both sides a win token.

Timeouts are simpler too: instead of using last-hits, the player or side that advanced farthest wins. With quick turns, varied abilities, team play, solo goals, and cooperative raids, Flash Duel: Revised Second Edition delivers compact tactical confrontations with plenty of room for deception and adaptation.