All men and women are created equal, but that is very rarely the case with cards.

Playing cards have a value that typically makes one card more ‘valuable’ than another, and in collectible card games such as Flesh and Blood that is absolutely the case. The business model of these card games is built around it. This short article is going to explain how card rarity works in Flesh and Blood so if you want to re-familiarise yourself with the Flesh and Blood basics then check out our How To Play Flesh and Blood article here.   

What Is Card Rarity?

If you’re familiar with collectible card games then you’ll be totally au fait with the concept of card rarity and you’ll want to skip the rest of this paragraph, otherwise read on!  Collectible card games typically have rarity levels that are an indication of both card power and card availability.  As the rarity level increases the percentage chance you will find that card in a pack will go down whilst the power of the card typically increases.  

First things first, the prices for Flesh and Blood cards you might have heard (like $10,000 for a single card) only really apply to very VERY select cards from older expansions.  For the most part getting hold of the cards you need isn’t as large an investment as you may think if you have a solid plan for how you’re going to build your deck and you shop around for singles (check out our singles for sale here). However when trading, some idea of value is always good.

Flesh and Blood Rarity Levels

In Flesh and Blood there are currently 6 rarities of cards (plus tokens) which have different odds of being found in a given Booster (this doesn’t take into account foil cards – for our guide to Flesh and Blood foil cards click here)

• Common
  
• Token
  
• Rare
  
• Super Rare
  
• Majestic
  
• Legendary Rares
  
• Fabled Rares

Each Booster will contain either 12 or 7 commons depending if the set is a Standard Booster Set or a Supplementary Booster Set respectively. Amassing a play set of commons for a given class isn’t too difficult if you have a group who are willing to play different classes and is always a good place to start. (How well a commons only format would work at the moment is something we will explore in the near future.)

In addition each pack will contain a Token card of either a hero, a weapon, or a Cracked Bauble for use in booster draft/sealed. If you’re feeling lovely, donating these to your local shop can help them out with running sealed/draft events.

Checking Your Cards

So, how do you know what rarity a Flesh and Blood card is?  Well, best get your glasses on because blink and you might miss it!

At the very bottom of the card you will see a line of text.  The second part of this is the copyright info –   © 2021 Legend Story Studios.  It is the information to the left of this that we’re interested in.  See the small coloured circle with a letter in it?  This is what you seek – the colour and letter indicating the rarity level.  

Grey C = Common

Grey T = Token

Blue R = Rare

Purple S = Super Rare

Red M = Majestic Rare

Orange L = Legendary Rare

Gold Diamond = Fabled Rare

 

However, if you have cards from before Arcane Rising Unlimited they use a slightly different method of showing rarity where they have a single letter after the set code, like this for example as a Majestic rare.

But we all know that first edition cards are the dogs bits so how do we tell the difference I hear you ask. Well, it’s complicated, or at least too complicated for this post so we’ll explore that in a later post.

Pull Rates

Unusually for a TCG Flesh and Blood Boosters contain 2 rare slots with one of these slots being a Rare card and the other being a card of rarity Rare or higher. The pull rates below mean that you will get a Rare card approx 75% of the time in the second slot, and a card of higher rarity around 25% of the time.

Pre-Crucible of War:

• Super Rares can be found 1 in every 6 packs. 
• Majestic Rares can be found 1 in every 12 packs.

Post-Crucible of War:

• Majestic Rares can be found 1 in every 4 packs.
• Legendary Rares can be found 1 in every 96 packs.
• Fabled Rares are the proverbial hens teeth with an unconfirmed pull rate of 1 in every 960 packs (or 1 in every 40 Booster Boxes).

From personal experience these numbers seem to stand up fairly well in terms of numbers and I cherish my Teklo Foundry Heart, well until someone offers me a Storm Striders in trade for it at least.

So, that wraps up our guide to Flesh and Blood card rarity.  Check out our guide to Flesh and Blood foils coming soon if you want to venture further into the rabbit hole of Flesh and Blood card rarity.

If you’re looking for Flesh and Blood cards then check out our Booster Boxes, Packs and Blitz Decks here, and our Flesh and Blood single cards collection coming very soon.