Flesh and Blood

About this board game

Flesh and Blood is a hero-centric fantasy trading card game for 2 players, with games lasting about 50 minutes.

Each player begins by setting up with a chosen character, weapon or weapons, and equipment. From there, the battle unfolds through attacks, defensive plays, and careful use of the cards in hand. Flesh and Blood is designed for constructed, booster draft, and sealed deck play, offering several ways to build and play a deck.

Action cards are played by pitching cards from your hand to pay their resource costs. This creates meaningful choices as you decide which cards to use for their effects and which to discard as resources. Players can attack with their weapons and use action cards to shape the course of each turn.

• Choose a character, weapons, and equipment before the game.
• Pitch cards to generate the resources needed for action cards.
• Place attacks and defense reactions on a chain, or queue.
• Resolve damage based on the difference between attack and defense values.

Attacks and defense reactions are added to the chain and resolved in sequence, with damage determined by the difference between the values involved. The result is a focused contest where every attack, defense reaction, and pitched card contributes to the developing exchange.

Play continues until one player reaches 0 health, at which point the opponent is declared the victor. With its combination of hero selection, equipment, weapon attacks, resource management, and chain-based resolution, Flesh and Blood presents a compact fantasy card battle built around tactical decisions.