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[@nxi-glhf]

I love how you explain while playing instead of frontloading everything. Seeing the game played is always more intuitive than just listening to all the rules at once.

[@MengusWorkshop]

Thanks! It was Tommy idea on how to approach this, he’s so good at this! Thanks for watching!

[@GablyFably]

@@MengusWorkshop Is Tommy gonna play FaB on the channel? Love the banter between you two, would love to see you play FaB with Tommy as well!

[@leonelsamayoa3260]

Miss play on the chest piece hehe

[@spctcl_]

I volunteer for this type of comment nxi! Lmao 🤣

[@thomasyoung5572]

I loved how you slowly introduced the equipment and other parts of the game while playing. Great intro to the game and i hope you make more videos

[@MengusWorkshop]

Thanks. I had to find a way to tell about equipment without showing the very overwhelming board you start fab with

[@ThreeFloating]

Great stuff!! Love to see more FAB gameplay make its way to KZbin - will have to get you on a Fight Nite someday 😈so glad you're having fun in the game : )

[@DMArmada]

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing you put out more of these!

[@gerardochadid1328]

Honestly, this video makes me want to try Flesh and Blood, they way it was played and explained made it super easy to understand.

[@MengusWorkshop]

Great to read! Thanks for watching :)

[@Mad-Slick]

If you want some more easy to follow matches I have two channel recommendations: The first is the main FAB channel called Flesh and Blood TCG. Watch their recent 'Rosetta Blitz Deck Battle' videos, as well as their 'How To Play Wizard' and 'How To Play Runeblade' videos. My second recommendation is the channel Three Floating. They post matches that are very easy to follow. I used them to learn the game.

[@gerardochadid1328]

@@Mad-Slick Thanks!!! will check them out.

[@ElykMuablhats]

As an additional option as well, without knowing where you are, I can promise there is a local community with a deck ready and waiting for you to try at a local Armory (our version of FNM), most likely with a local Pro player attached to it to show you the ropes. The FaB trailer from a couple weeks ago titled "A Night at the Armory" is very much based on real events haha

[@nickfanzo]

The best tcg out there. No ridiculous transformers cards needed.

[@phanomen-aal6147]

Spongebob is coming xD

[@oafkad]

Not even close, this is the best video about FnB I've seen. It makes the game make so much sense. I'd be down for watching more of these. Hope it does well.

[@MengusWorkshop]

Thanks!

[@Whoah7]

FnB always seemed a little difficult to get into. This gameplay showcases that it's really not the case. Great video

[@MengusWorkshop]

Great to read this comment :)

[@Cardboardgrinch]

the base level is almost too easy to get. the depth therefore is beyond imagination

[@tannerlee7979]

Convert them all Mengu. Show them the ways. I fucking LOVE flesh and blood.

[@maesterjono]

Also, I love the back and forth of FaB. It feels so fluid and does a perfect job emulating a real battle between heroes!

[@ChaosArchmage]

Very excited to see you adding FaB to the channel. Loved the game, hope to see you playing some CC in the future! At 16:20 - The Concuss actually gets +4 attack so it should have attacked for 8 as Flourish gives +3 on top of whatever the effect is that increases the damage.

[@MaraFaris]

So excited to see more amazing people picking up our game! Excellent video! Oh, and as for my hero, I'm playing Dash for now. But really, I'm just biding my time until our dragon queen takes to the skies once more.

[@Galaxy-ys5nx]

Great video!! Super glad to see more magic players introducing fab to people -- one small nitpick though, there's a sequencing error at 10:47. Alfri cannot use blossom of spring to add 1 resource/mana at that time, because it is an action and he does not have an action point / go again. He could have used it before playing the burgeoning, floated 1 extra mana and then used terra at end of turn, but rules as written he cannot do it in the order presented. Not a big deal at the end of the day, just wanted to leave this comment for the sake of new players learning.

[@MengusWorkshop]

Thanks!

[@ih8people]

@@MengusWorkshop One more thing, because 'floating' mana was mentioned. In Magic, you can activate mana abilities pretty much whenever you want. In FaB, however, there are two limitations. #1 is that you can never pitch cards for no reason, so 'floating' can sometimes become a bit trickier #2 is that if you already have some resources in your resource pool when you're about to pay for something, those are used first and then you pitch cards one by one until you have enough Most of the time this isn't important, but certain weapons like Anothos gain additional power if you pitch cards the right way when activating them. Let's say you have a blue card and a red card in your hand, both with the cost 3. If you just pitch the blue to activate Anothos, its activation cost will be fully satisfied and it will attack for 4. However, if you pitch the red first, you will have the option to pitch more cards and 'overpitch' by pitching the blue, thus fulfilling the condition for the extra power on Anothos, and send it for a total of 6 damage! This can become especially intriguing for the opponent if you can 'float' two resources while having presented an attack with cost 2 or more, because of a very famous attack reaction called Pummel :) Pitching cards is quite important in this game, and I am sure that as you become more and more proficient, you will start seeing more clever tricks that can be performed by simply pitching cards in a specific order. Maybe even stack your whole deck this way for a one turn kill combo? ;)

[@choyboi6069]

Absolutely loved this! Thanks so much for making a really easy guide to Flesh and Blood specifically for magic players. I’ve been wanting to get into the game and this is exactly the video i was looking for.

[@osgalion]

Finalmente flesh and blood! complimenti Andrea sia per esplorare altri giochi uscendo dalla zona di "comfort" che può essere mtg, sia per portare questo gioco che a mio avviso è un capolavoro di design. Consiglierei a tutti i giocatori di magic di provarlo. Spero di vedere contenuti CC e/o Clash che è un gran bel formato non ufficiale, ve lo consiglio!

[@andrewostman3135]

Been addicted to this games since it came out .... I left MTG for it. I just love the fab interplay. Welcome to the game

[@philipblades3213]

What a great video! I've been wanting to start F&B for a while but always been a bit confused when watching explanation vids, but this is super clear! Thank you!

[@boataccident1492]

Really cool game. A lot of tactical considerations and the fact that you draw back up to 4 per turn is pretty great, it leads to games that feel very back and forth and interactive!

[@Welank]

Glad to see you are enjoying Flesh and Blood. I still watch your magic videos from time to time, but haven't played much magic since MH2. I moved to Flesh and Blood around that time and have been loving it!

[@andreferreira6090]

In Lyon you said you already had plans to post some FaB content, I wasn't expecting it would be already this month. Great to see and very clear explanation

[@MengusWorkshop]

Thanks!

[@Matti_Mattsen]

Yes!! finally some Flesh and Blood content. I love this game so much, an amazing TCG. Especially since magic keeps mistepping recently, this game is an awesome alternative!

[@lorenzklug3354]

you actually made playing FaB fun. Might now take my time to look into it. Also congrats on the great showing of Alfri

[@protestthebread1046]

FaB is incredible. LSS is finally printing new player friendly products like the ones show cased. Never been a better time to get started in the game.

[@ChefLeandroTV]

I've been playing mtg for almost 18 years and a few months ago i started trying some FnB, it is a really cool game. I totally agree with the slow aproach on the equipments, nice work mengu

[@888ian2]

Listening to people with an accent that speak confidently is so goooood, loving this video and it's my first time seeing fab gameplay!

[@ruisousa2725]

The competitive scene of FAB should in fact be very attractive for Magic Pro Players, and with them more players will come. Happy to see more ppl appreciate the game and trying to show it the way you are doing. Hats off to you

[@jiffyb333]

Absolutely brilliant to just dive into a game and explain as you go. So many explainers made my head spin because they tried to front load all the rules without context. This was super easy to follow and did a great job highlighting the game!

[@jongibson4766]

I never knew I needed CC on Mengu's Workshop until now. I hope you play more FaB on here!!

[@aniessays]

As you know I started playing after Calling Lyon because of your tweets! Fully addicted and recently went 2-1 in my first draft playing Aurora 😤 looking forward to some more FaB veedeos!

[@MengusWorkshop]

Great!

[@DemonBlanka]

I've played FAB a couple of times but this really made me realise how I should try to strategise and especially how to use the arsenal.

[@TehKorwinMikke]

! Mengu tries FaB ! Looking forward to see what happens. In my experience, FaB is extremely dense in decisions and caused me analysis-paralysis whenever I tried it.

[@andrewostman3135]

This was a great video to explain to magic players how flesh and Blood Works. Thank you!

[@gmongo]

Great style for both entertaining and explaining the game for those who don't know!

[@csherren1]

Happy to see this - looking forward to you continuing your journey!

[@patrickdarge7180]

Awesome to see, I picked up Azalea because of you and your Kayo deck 🫶

[@MengusWorkshop]

I also bought Azalea!

[@patrickdarge7180]

@@MengusWorkshop Such a fun deck!

[@samuelkinnunen828]

This is my first time ever seeing a game of flesh and blood I think it is really cool and you should do more

[@outputcoupler7819]

Great to see FAB content from Mengu! Using the precon blitz decks was a great idea, they're much easier to understand than some of the crazy nonsense that happens out there. But if you want some crazy nonsense for the algorithm, check out what Kano could do in blitz before he became Living Legend. People were maindecking Kano hate and it still wasn't enough to stop him. I won second with him in a Skirmish, didn't get a chance to take him to a bigger tourney before he LLed. Side note, at 10:41, this is actually not a legal play. It's an action to use the Blossom of Spring, and Burgeoning didn't have go again. This is part of why Fyendal's Spring Tunic is so powerful, it's an Instant and not an Action.

[@Mortigaul]

I haven't played in quite a while, but you're making me want to pick it back up again! I played Fai and loved having so many little attacks to wittle down the opponent.

[@rvdpadt]

"Death by a thousand cuts", they outdid themselves with how they translated these classes into gameplay

[@philzeng]

Great intro Mengu! You made it really easy to follow. Looking forward to more Flesh and blood content

[@mizzogames]

Flesh and Blood is the best competitive TCG for me nowadays. Such amazing art, gameplay and also good lore background!

[@mmedal_]

Flesh and Blood is such a good game. Fun to see Mengu play.

[@ThePlagueHive]

Yeees Flesh and Blood and Mengu, the dream combination! Love to see this, I was super (pleasantly) surprised to see you play on stream in the Calling Lyon, hope you keep enjoying it and bring more FaB content! Also heard you qualified for PT, see you in London!

[@Casi_Here]

This was an amazing introduction to the game. No baggage upfront and just diving right in, letting the different mechanics come up gradually. Nice

[@robopigeon8286]

Now that you’ve got a primer I wanna see you play your CC deck against an opponent and play out matches with less rules explaining and more nuanced decision explaining. Would be sick to watch!! Happy you’re enjoying FaB. I’ve been playing it for a few years and love seeing people get into it!

[@vocepensouquefosseorenanma1427]

Great explanation, loved the ideia tô bring F&B, i wish you could bring much more vídeos in the Future!

[@Frohock]

This easily has been the best flesh and blood tutorial video i've ever seen!

[@alecxisgarcia1990]

I've never seen a gamer of FAB. Very fast action paced.

[@TheKaijudist]

Love FAB! Awesome video

[@TrueFireForest94]

great video, vut there was one öitle misplay at 10:52. You cant use your Blossom of Spring after attacking because it's an action and your attack doesn't have go again. So if you wanted to do that, you had to do that before your attack because the spring have go again :) Still, it was just a small misplay. Hope you enjoy the game and thanks again for the video :)

[@IraAry]

I was watching the video and the title was "flash" and blood! 😆 Someone changed in the time I was watching it? Great video lads! Really enjoyed the explanation during the match! Cheers!

[@MengusWorkshop]

Yeah!

[@protestthebread1046]

Love fab content hitting your page. Heres to more fab videos!

[@marcelinefang]

Yay!! It's so cool that you're having a good experience with my favorite tcg!! I shared this video to my Bluesky account 🥳

[@MengusWorkshop]

Thanks!

[@mstSean]

Great video to explain the game. Would love to see more in the future. Might have to pick up a starter deck while I wait for MH4 😂

[@rannico1]

So nice to see some FaB, rope to see more games. It would be nice to see a deck techs before the game begins, since I don't know the game very well and have no ideia on what to expect from the decks.

[@MengusWorkshop]

They drive content away, this is supposed to teach you everythinng you need as you watch

[@lexist7]

This is the best explanation of flesh and blood i have seen. They should pay you.

[@SittingBullStudios]

im very glad ya guys did this! burgeoning at 10:53 doesnt have go again for the blossom of springs action. but other than that, looks pretty good guys!

[@jjacha]

10:40 One mistake from Terra. The chest activation is an Action, in order to do that, you need to have an Action Point. So in this case, you need to firstly destroy the chest, which has Go Again, and then attack with Burgeoning which does not have Go Again. Other way around is not possible. But I understand that coming from MTG, it's weird that an activated ability can't be used whenever (imagine it's like a Sorcery spell). It's not a huge mistake, does not really change anything for both players, but the correct way would give information to Aurora, that you are floating one resource for some reason and will probably do something more (could be huge if there were some Attack Reactions in that deck).

[@JustinCu22]

Thank you for giving our game some love ❤ Happy that you're enjoying and congrats on that ProQuest win!

[@maesterjono]

Amazing video and great production value. And oh wow that playmat is gorgeous. Excited for more FaB on the channel!

[@Movieseecker]

It's great to see such a legendary MTG player trying out FaB. At my LGS it feels like the MTG players are very resistant to trying out the game, seeing a player as yourself will really help open people's eyes to give FaB a shot. Your play-by-play explanations were really on point. Thanks for helping promote my favorite game! I hope you keep enjoying FaB!

[@LinkmasterZable]

Great video Andrea! My main hero right now is Aurora, I got 3 top 8s in pro quest with her and qualified for London. I might be playing her in osaka for worlds too! (But my favourite will be playing living legend team cup with Briar)

[@MengusWorkshop]

See you in London then!

[@hagazissa1599]

great video mengu! I know you from the Cardmarket Magic gameplay videos which I watch all the time, excited to see you on FaB now! just one small ruling: at 15:42 when Alfri used Flourish and his Arms Equipment to buff his Concuss, the Concuss would have gained 4 attack, not only 3. Flourish increases the attack boost by 3, not to 3; so instead of the Arms equipment boosting the attack by 1, it boosts it by 3+1=4 and you maybe have had to block with another card or discard one. Great video nonetheless, love the editing and how easy it was to understand your gameplay, really love another KZbinr starting with FaB ❤

[@Robloner123]

Very clean introduction. Thank you!

[@sakidickerson]

I found this extremely helpful I'm able to follow along so far about 5 minutes into the video and it's got me excited to try this game

[@DrSiddha]

Grazie Mengu per portare lo spotlight in Italia

[@JacobBader-f6w]

love it! hope to get to see more fab in the future! love to see a full game of CC!

[@giorgiodalmasso9288]

Seems very interesting! Every paper contents are nice, so both magic and Feb on the channel! 😊

[@mountainde09]

MENGGU PLAYING FAB!? YES PLEAAAAASE

[@JJW410]

Thank you so much for explaining things so well. Made it very easy to follow!

[@wallieescollectibles3813]

Awesome video, definitely will save for future introductions to new players.

[@mangnusbaneXIII]

Can’t wait to see more FaB videos!

[@nthnthms1212]

i dont play this game but at 16:02, shouldnt the hands given concuss +4 because of the flourish?

[@rvdpadt]

Yes 😅 also the last turn would have been stronger if he used the blue react card to first hit with the weapon and then attack, without having to use the armour to pay for it. But sometimes unexpected 1-2 damage is all you need to finish a game

[@Tatsunoko793]

Love the video! Please do more Flesh and blood content

[@slayeroffilth45]

Hey, just wanted to say this video is great! I just started about a month ago myself and I picked up Kassai of the golden sand in CC. Super simple deck as all the cards block for 3 keeps the math pretty simple.

[@whywhy5419]

love the flesh and blood content, hope to see some CC content in the future.

[@shawndimension4147]

yessss Flesh and blood is amazing!

[@aureliusmarcus9171]

Let's go Mengucci!!! Welcome to FaB! Huge fan here...

[@BasedVidya]

Alfie's accent is so interesting. I've been thinking about checking out the LGS scene for this game and see how I can jump into it.

[@uweschmidt4780]

Great Video. I really love this game.

[@jp0123456100]

fantastic veedeeo! i'm sure someone has written this but just in case: alfri could not destroy his chest to gain a resource. that requires an action point which he did not have. Also, a clarification on the embodiment of lightning tokens. They don't work like might tokens. embodiment of lightning only gets destroyed when you attack but sticks around if you don't do anything.

[@thesleepinggloom2603]

I used to be absolutely hooked on Flesh and Blood. I played a lot from Alpha through Tales of Aria. The heroes I have enjoyed the most are Katsu and Lexi. Katsu's playstyle is amazing, it is comparable to Aurora with creating long combat chains, but you make your opponent solve a puzzle every attack. Lexi wasn't amazing on release, but after a few sets, she became very powerful and Living Legend out of the format. It's awesome to see people trying new card games. I find myself playing too many to count. Right now Star Wars Unlimited and Sorcery: Contested Realm are what I'm jamming these days!

[@rikard8386]

Great video! Perfect introduction video and well executed game with no missplays. Showed off the game in a great way If you want some feedback for the future, is to make the life count easier to read. Especially on phone its just dark text on slightly grey background in a small corner of the video. Could be much more clearer

[@93mpo]

Amazing video! Keep up the good work!! I hope to see Alfri again soon 💪

[@Nouxatar]

Love this game. When I want something that isn't Magic, I want something that feels totally different from Magic, and FaB really scratches that itch for me. Hopefully it takes off in my area again, since it died down here just before I got into the game.

[@Mrsierramist1]

Love FAB. Great way to teach

[@Novakane32]

Nice video, I've been playing a lot of assassin lately with Nuu so looking forward to the new set, The Hunted.

[@Rayan01012]

Alfri is an amazing guest!

[@uriarte411]

Honestly I didn't like Flesh and Blood my first time playing it. But this was the first video that made me realize its almost like a Trick game like Hearts or Rummy rather than a Magic replacement. Since you get 4 cards everytime its more trying to gain little advantage with each interaction and "resetting" each turn.

[@MengusWorkshop]

It s a puzzle every turn!

[@akromvaleth]

Good decision making in FaB is trully rewarding, the game is easy to learn and really complex to master, each hero play fundamentally diferente even heros of the same class / talent (like Kassai and Dori for warriors or Azalea and Riptide for rangers). Hope you give the game another chance and find a hero to call yours.

[@as95ms98]

This is a great video! Super awesome seeing you both walk through the rules and game actions as well as your reasoning behind each action. As someone who needs to play card games on a budget, is there a format that's designed to be inexpensive kind of like Pauper in MTG?

[@MengusWorkshop]

Yes! It s called Commoner, also Blitz is a budget way of playing the game.

[@as95ms98]

@@MengusWorkshop Great to know! I'll look out for those two formats then. Thanks!

[@mizzogames]

Commoner is the official pauper version of FaB. But there is also Clash, a fan made budget version that is quite nice to play as well.

[@Jedicake]

Why is the Italian dialect so kickass lol

[@CarterBarton]

Welcome to Flesh and Blood, Mengu!

[@emida2012]

Well done video, hope to see more on the channel. 😊

[@stigmurder99]

I love that Mengu is playing FaB now! Welcome everyone to the game, you're gonna love it! So many people out there missing out on the new classic tcg. I can't forget to mention that the company (Legend Story Studios ) actually cares about their game and players! 😂 #longliveFleshandBlood

[@SupaCoco]

Yay the video I was waiting the most!

[@aportillo3]

Fantastic video. First time watching your channel/video. Great explanation of cards and the game.

[@RhinosShinyCardboardEmporium]

Great video! I love watching your stuff with Card Market. Thank you for putting this together. I was curious: Would Terra be able to pay multiple resource for multiple might tokens?

[@MengusWorkshop]

No just once

[@Fred-fb2vz]

This video got me to buy 2 decks (one for me and one for my friend) very excited to try something outside of MTG!

[@MengusWorkshop]

Great to read!

[@jakealdred7003]

Thanks for the video! Loved it! Hope you continue uploading FaB content!!!!!

[@spctcl_]

If some of the top FaB content creators are the top comments on your first FaB video, youre doing something right! 🎉

[@user-gj1lb6xp3t]

I tried to learn how to play this before and this video is the best I've seen, I might try it again now

[@MengusWorkshop]

Thanks!

[@protestthebread1046]

I am a Ninja diehard and right now that means I play Zen! Much like Aurora, I like to go wide and put more attacks on the board than my opponent has cards to defend with. To help with this, when Zen has a blue card and a transcend card in the same hand, I can tutor out almost any attack in my deck and make a crouching tiger in order to send huge combos turn after turn.