FaB Review: The Death and Rebirth of Blitz (+ New Lists for the New Blitz)

In my past article, I briefly discussed the death of Blitz and how it had become quite unpopular. Despite this widespread sentiment, LSS hadn't, so far, announced anything about the future of Blitz. All they said was that it would become more of a casual format.

That raised a few questions: what would happen to the Living Legend system (considering heroes would no longer gain any points for Blitz wins)? What about bans? And what about those of us who like Blitz?

However, in the latest Dev Talk (the LSS podcast), James White, one of the creators behind the game, discussed each format a bit, and announced that Blitz would go through some radical changes. So, today, let's go over these changes and how they'll impact the meta. We'll also show you a few new lists for the future at the end.

Let's go!

A Quick Review of the Other Formats

Before we move on to Blitz, we need to go over the other formats. After all, the devs discussed them too. None of them will go through any drastic changes right now, but we still need to talk about some details.

The Living Legend format stood out a lot in 2025. It was featured in the Skirmish season and even at Worlds, but, in the next year, it will be moved to the side a bit. That's because of Silver Age, the new Flesh and Blood format, should become the second most competitive format.

Speaking of Silver Age, the devs discussed it a lot, and made one thing clear: the dev team built and balanced this format around the next set (Compendium of Rathe). This means they won't change the current meta too much, but promised to be more radical in 2026.

Another thing they discussed was what would happen to Commoner now that it has been deemed obsolete. Silver Age is supposed to be a cheap format with a low power level, so what would that make of Commoner? The answer was quite clear: irrelevant. So, Commoner will no longer exist.

Now, let's discuss Blitz. If you don't remember (or aren't familiar with this format), Blitz featured Young heroes (of any rarity) and 40-card decks with at most two copies of each card. Blitz decks needed to have a total of 52 cards, including the main deck, equipment cards, weapons, and any other cards in the inventory.

It also used, just like Classic Constructed, the Living Legend format. Heroes got points for each competitive win, and, as soon as they hit 1000 points, they were removed from the format.

From January 1st, 2026, the following changes will apply to Blitz:

- All Living Legend heroes will return (so the Living Legend system will no longer be valid).

- The banlist will no longer be valid.

- Blitz decks can only play, at most, one copy of each card (essentially, they'll be singleton lists).

How These Changes Will Impact Blitz

The first shocking piece of information is that the heroes who have left the format ages ago will come back. Particularly since Viserai changed a lot since Rosetta came along, Iyslander should be at full power with all the cards in the game, and Kano can also play his full combo freely. Other very strong heroes have returned as well, like Chane, Briar, and Oldhim. However, all of this comes at a price: Blitz decks can only play one copy of each card.

Note: that means one copy of each card in their respective colors, so you can build a Blitz deck with one red Zero to Sixty (1), one yellow, and one blue.

Adding these deckbuilding restrictions could be what this format needed. Because of them, we won't be able to set up such powerful turns so consistently. We'll need more time to play our combos, and, on the other side, we'll have more efficient ways to answer them.

Since we can play all cards in the game, we can take some heroes down a path we never could when they were actually valid in Blitz.

Verdance

Verdance was the star of one of the strongest decks in the game in Living Legend, alongside Kraken's Aethervein and the Amp mechanic.

This weapon was quickly banned in LL, but we can certainly use it in the new Blitz. We can build something similar with lifegain, Amp, and a few defensive tools so that we can buy time while we set up the combo with Firebreathing.

The idea is to do something similar to what we did in Living Legend: Amp as much as possible with Rampant Growth // Life, deal a lot of arcane damage with our weapon, draw lots of cards, and finish the game with Firebreathing. We'll pay for its ability with the other cards we drew.

Because we can only play one copy of each card, we'll need time to find our pieces. So, we added a few defense reactions.

Oldhim

If you prefer an extremely controlling deck so that you can stretch the game until your opponent runs out of cards, Oldhim is the perfect choice.

We can play several blocks from the Mastery Pack: Guardian as well as a few cards that were banned before, like Awakening and Drone of Brutality (1), which will help us end the game. While we can't find them, though, Winter's Wail will stall our opponent, and Crown of Seeds will prevent some damage.

Iyslander

Iyslander is an iconic Flesh and Blood hero. In the new Blitz, she'll be the most powerful she can be. Because of how recursive some of her 7-power attacks are, Iyslander can put her entire game plan in motion without any issues.

Furthermore, we can play some powerful disruptive tools with her, like Channel Lake Frigid and Hypothermia, which can disrupt our opponent's turn completely. Storm Striders is still the perfect finisher in a format where players don't have a lot of HP.

Briar

But the new Blitz will have space for more than just combo lists. Briar was one of the best aggro lists in its time, but now it will be able to play a few cards that didn't exist back then, like Skyward Serenade, Regrowth // Life, and Burn Up // Shock.

Furthermore, it can also play few staples that were banned before, like Ball Lightning and Plunder Run.

Blitz, now reborn from the ashes like a Phoenix Flame, has needed some drastic changes for a while. Making it a casual format and removing it from the competitive sphere entirely (which is now centered around Silver Age) is an excellent way to make players comfortable when playing it.

Furthermore, returning old heroes and letting us use the strongest cards in the game is also definitely something many players enjoy. All that power, nonetheless, naturally needed some control, and restricting the deckbuilding is a great way to do that. Now, Blitz should be more pleasant and fun to play.

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

Thank you for reading, and see you next time!