Flesh and Blood: 2025 Review - The Rights, The Wrongs, and The Future

2025 is nearly over. It was a relatively solid year for Flesh and Blood, unlike 2024, which was quite chaotic because of Part the Mistveil. This year went mostly without a hitch. Most of the big issues from 2024 were resolved and the power level of the game was quite balanced.

Let's go through 2025, all the rights and wrongs, and what we can expect from 2026!

We started off the year with an excellent story: Emperor, Dracai of Aesir's death and his quest for vengeance took center stage. We were also introduced to a new talent, Chaos, and several Araknis.

Arakni's new mechanic, that is, transforming into a new version during the match, made him more complex compared to his first version, Arakni, Huntsman. This definitely stole the spotlight at the time.

This set also brought us two new Draconic heroes: Cindra (a Ninja), and Fang (a Warrior). We hadn't seen Draconic heroes since Uprising, but then they showed up much more focused around Daggers and Fealty tokens, a new feature.

Cindra and Arakni immediately started popping up in competitive tournaments and remained relevant throughout the entire year. By the end of this set, Arakni, 5L!p3d 7hRu 7h3 cR4X was one of the best heroes in the format as well and eventually needed correcting.

If you'd like to know more about this set and its heroes, I highly recommend you check out our The Hunted review!

The "Aurora" Problem

During The Hunted season, many heroes also became Living Legends, which shook the Classic Constructed meta. Nonetheless, Aurora, Shooting Star was by far the most noteworthy hero at this time.

When she became a Living Legend, she created many problems. To start, she and her Armory Deck had just come out. She was also a "pipeline" to many other heroes, an "entry" hero of sorts. This sudden departure made many players lose their trust on LSS, and the company eventually had to change the Living Legend system.

If you'd like to see more about this problem, I highly recommend you check out our article on Aurora's departure from Classic Constructed!

After the hectic The Hunted season, that is, after many heroes left Classic Constructed and a new meta formed every month or so, we got the highly anticipated High Seas. It brought us not just one but two new classes: Pirate and Necromancer.

If you'd like to see more details about this set, I highly recommend you check out our High Seas review.

High Seas brought a lot to the game: it reintroduced Mechanologists into Sealed formats, brought back Gold Packs (newly upgraded), and updated many other features. It also brought us our highly anticipated Necromancers. Nonetheless, it wasn't perfect.

Gravy Bones has been at the top of the meta ever since he came out. That's because of his Ally mechanic, which many heroes can't deal with all that well. It made Gravy one of the best heroes in the meta instantly. As for Puffin and Marlynn, we still haven't seen much of what they can do, and they're still the weakest heroes in this set.

Project Blue

This season, LSS also announced a new format: Project Blue. The concept behind it is quite simple: decks with Young heroes and only rare/common cards. The format was an instant hit with the community and became popular straightaway. We'll discuss it later on.

Mastery Pack: Guardian

Mastery Pack: Guardian was initially delayed to the second semester of 2025, but eventually became the first of a series of sealed products centered around a specific class. Unfortunately, this initial release wasn't as great as it could have been.

This set didn't impact the meta at all and had a rather low power level. Valda, the classic Blitz hero that then premiered in Classic Constructed, is practically irrelevant to this day. The new cards didn't change the already-existing decks at all and didn't support the Guardians that needed it the most, like Betsy, Skin in the Game, and Jarl Vetreidi, either.

By far, this was one of the most disappointing sealed products of the year.

The last set of the year, Super Slam, brought us a lot too. Besides four new heroes and two new talents, it also brought us the biggest Expansion Slot ever and support for many old heroes and classes.

This set also brought us the first adult hero with 3 Intellect (Tuffnut) and the first hero in the game with 5 Intellect (Lyath).

However, it didn't impact the meta much, and was the weakest standard set of the year. Kayo, Underhanded Cheat was a bit relevant competitively, that's true, but the other heroes still need some support to see play in that scene.

If you'd like to see more about this set, check out our Super Slam review.

Silver Age Premiere

Once Project Blue was a success, LSS released a new format based on it: Silver Age. Silver Age is exactly the same as Project Blue, and actually came earlier than it was supposed to. It should become an important competitive format in 2026.

If you'd like to see more about this format, I highly recommend you check out our Silver Age review.

For the rest of 2025, however, we could only play a preview of it. Currently, the Silver Age meta is not that diverse and mostly centers around Runeblades and Guardians. From 2026 onward, you can expect more drastic changes.

The Rebirth of Blitz

This year, we also saw Blitz as we know it gradually die. In 2026, it should come back, completely changed.

No banlist, no Living Legends, just one copy of each card. Will this "Commander" Flesh and Blood captivate us, or disappoint us?

Let's go over some 2025 stats:

- 8 heroes became Living Legends, the most out of any year. They were: Viserai, Rune Blood, Enigma, Ledger of Ancestry, Zen, Tamer of Purpose, Aurora, Shooting Star, Nuu, Alluring Desire, Dash, Inventor Extraordinaire, Azalea, Ace in the Hole, and Kano, Dracai of Aether.

- This also means 3 entire sets are currently unavailable in Classic Constructed: Tales of Aria, and now, after 2025, Part the Mistveil, and Arcane Rising.

- The first Calling: Germany took place after the government recognized FaB as a skill-based game instead of a luck/betting game.

- Gem Packs were introduced. They are supposed to replace Armory kits.

- Enigma, Ledger of Ancestry and Gravy Bones, Shipwrecked Looter won Pro Tour: London and Pro Tour: Singapore, respectively.

- Cindra, Dracai of Retribution and Dash I/O won the World Championship.

In 2025, LSS implemented many ideas into the game. Throughout the year, they also reprinted important cards, such as Command and Conquer and Warmonger's Diplomacy, which they'll probably do in 2026 as well. The game overall also became less powerful, but it's still at a decent level (unlike 2023, for instance).

Nonetheless, in 2026 Flesh and Blood will probably be an entirely new game. Because of Silver Age and the massive reprints in Compendium of Rathe, it will probably be the best time to start playing Flesh and Blood as well. We should start seeing the consequences of that in the first few months of 2026.

What do you think? Tell us your thoughts in our comment section below.

Thank you for reading, and see you next time!