Flesh and Blood’s Classic Constructed format sees you battling with older heroes in long-form combat, able to use up to three of each card to fill an 80-card deck. This added flexibility and larger deck size compared to the Blitz format allows for more strategies to unfold from the card combinations you can now leverage in battle.
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But as with every competitive game, there will always be a top dog; certain styles of decks perform extremely well at tournaments, leading to domination at these events and imminent Living Legend status for the heroes that these decks are centered around.
10Viserai, Rune Blood - Aggro
Key Cards:Spellbound Creepers, Grasp Of The Arknight, Rosetta Thorn, Revel In Runeblood, Mauvrion Skies, Shrill of Skullform
Viserai is apart of the Runeblade Class, meaning that you’ll be primarily working with half attack cards and half non-attack cards to stack up physical and arcane damage to overwhelm an opponent and push you to a win.
A good example of a Viserai deck that does this isthe one used by Junio Antonoto win the Indonesia National Championship. Combos like following Mauvrion Skies with Shrill of Skullform activate the Rosetta Thorn’s ability and allow you to deal decent physical and arcane damage over a chain– fill a deck with brutal cards like Command and Conquer, and you’ll be unstoppable.
9Dorinthea Ironsong - Aggro
Key Cards:Overpower, Ironsong Response, Dawnblade, Steelblade Supremacy, Nullrune Gloves
The Warrior class is one of the most versatile in all of Flesh and Blood, able to take on both an aggro or control role based on how you build its deck. Dorinthea was specifically designed to use Dawnblade’s effect to rack up big damage, able to keep its attack counters by using her effect to attack twice with the weapon.
Onica Lucian used an aggro Dorintheato win the Romania National Championship, filling the deck with cards like Ironsong Response that furtherstack up her fantastic weapon’s damageand make blocking her savage attacks less feasible.
8Bravo, Showstopper - Control
Key Cards:Anothos, Crippling Crush, Spinal Crush, Disable, Pummel
You might remember the overflow of Bravo, Star of the Show decks that took him to a far-too-early Living Legend status, and while Bravo, Showstopper isn’t nearly as powerful as its sibling, it still makes for a strong deck.
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ABravo deck used by Luka Kramaricwon first at Battle Hardened: Bologna– it was specifically a control-style deck that used cards like Crippling Crush in conjunction with Anothos to force opponents into situations where even if they blocked a majority of the damage, they would still experience crush effects that would bring them closer and closer to the brink of death.
7Katsu, the Wanderer - Aggro
Key Cards:Harmonized Kodachi, Mask Of Momentum, Mugenshi Release, Surging Strike, Whelming Gustwave
Aggro Katsu is one of those decks that relies heavily on the concept ofblock threat, or how risky it is for your opponent to not block your attacks. Many cards that Katsu has at his disposal are great for this, forcing an opponent to choose between blocking and suffering on-hit effects.
What’s especially tricky is that these on-hit effects can feign a genuine threat when used properly to bait blocks out of an opponent’s hand– if an opponent flinches and wastes a great hand on blocking a weak one, they’ve weakened their strategy.Jack Whit took an aggro Katsu deck like thisto a Proquest tournament and won first place for it; the mind games are no joke.
6Oldhim, Grandfather of Eternity - Control
Key Cards:Crown of Seeds, Rampart of the Ram’s Head, Spinal Crush, Winter’s Wail, Nullrune Gloves
Oldhim is currently the second closest of the current tournament legal cards to becoming a Living Legend, so it’s no wonder he has one of the strongest decks in the current Classic Constructed meta. Oldhim’s style of control is fairly traditional, stopping enemy attacks in their tracks with his unwavering defense.
As you can see inthe deck Michael Feng usedto win Battle Hardened: Minneapolis, equipment like Crown of Seeds and Rampart of the Rams Head allows for your defense to ramp up over the course of a Combat Chain, while Winter’s Wail enables you to slowly pick at your opponent’s defenses after their attacks turn to dust.
5Iyslander, Stormbind - Control
Key Cards:Wounded Bull, Aether Icevein, Fyendal’s Spring Tunic, Frost Hex, Energy Potion
Michael Hamilton’s Iyslandermight just be one of the best put-together decks up to this point in Flesh and Blood, something that he’s all but proved by winning the World Championship with it. That win shows just how powerful Iyslander’s ability to disrupt opponents is, placing her near the top of the current meta.
Iyslander, when played as a control deck, will use cards like Aether Icevein to force opponents into situations where no matter what they do, they’ll lose the resources that support their big attacks. Additionally, while Iyslander is happy dealing damage over time, Frost Hex and Energy Potion give her the option to do sudden, massive damage that makes her unpredictable.
4Dash, Inventor Extraordinaire - Aggro
Key Cards:Hanabi Blaster, Teklo Plasma Pistol, Teklo Pounder, High Octane, Spark of Genius
With all thegreat Mechanologist cards that came with the Dynasty expansion, the already powerful aggro Mechanologist was given even more boost cards to make its Combat Chains a challenge to shut down. By making a deck that is almost purely Mechanologist cards, you guarantee that every boost card will let you go again, which will either ramp up damage or force blocks.
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As seen inCaleb Womack’s winning Dash deckfrom the Unison Games Cafe Proquest event, the Hanabi Blaster and Teklo Plasma Pistol provide two different ways of increasing the pressure– the Hanabi Blaster works well if you’re going to be boosting regardless, providing an attack every two turns, where the Teklo Plasma Pistol costs resources but can be used every turn.
3Fai, Rising Rebellion - Aggro
Key Cards:Searing Emberblade, Mounting Anger, Rising Resentment, Lava Burst, Brand With Cinderclaw
Fai’s aggro deck resembles a traditional Ninja deck, focusing hard on stacking up the Combat Chain with a variety of cards that allow you to go again. What makes Fai’s deck unique is its use of Draconic cards to extend already massive Combat Chains with Searing Emberblade’s effect and take advantage of other Draconic card effects.
Tom Evans’s Fai deckused Draconic cards in this way to win at The Venue Plymoth’s Proquest event. In that deck, cards like Brand With Cinderclaw even allowed for non-Draconic cards to suddenly get the Draconic modifier, keeping the Combat Chain healthy and long.
2Lexi, Livewire - Hybrid
Key Cards:Channel Lake Frigid, Rain Razors, Three of a Kind, Lightning Surge, Amulet of Ice
Lexi manages to be threatening to play against whether she’s aggro or control. Still, one of the best ways to play her is as a hybrid of the two– where she loses some of her elemental fuse effects without a specific focus, she gains the ability to both deal staggering damage and slow down opponent turns.
At the Kingslayer Games Proquest event,Evan Bridges used a hybrid Lexito take first place, using the combined power of the constant pressure imposed by aggro cards like Rain Razors and control moves like Amulet of Ice to ruthlessly shut opponents out of their game plans.
1Briar, Warden of Thorns - Aggro
Key Cards:Channel Mount Heroic, Swarming Gloomveil, Bramble Spark, Earthlore Surge, Nimblism
Briar’s elemental effects allow her to try different styles of aggro play. Still, one of the best is focusing on Earth and attempting to use large, unstoppable attacks rather than the spread-out attacks seen in her Lightning-oriented decks.
Eric Dauemnheim played this type of aggro Briarto win The Nerdvana Games Proquest event, using the fantastic Channel Mount Heroic to give three attack to any attack actions as long as the cost could be paid. To keep the deck from losing versatility, cards like Bramble Spark were also used to follow up on larger attacks, keeping the deck balanced.
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