We believe card legality and format management is a vital element to earning the respect of TCG fans and achieving longevity as a game system.

Our philosophy to card legality has been built into the DNA of our product design and organised play program, and aims to:

Create dynamic metagames for constructed tournament play
Support long term utility of card ownership

New Card Legality Date

New cards become legal for official tournament play on the release date of the product they are from.

Special Use Promos

The following special use promos are not legal for Classic Constructed, Blitz, Living Legend, or Commoner official tournament play:

Special Use Promos

Revolving Card Legality – Living Legend

Flesh and Blood uses a revolving card legality model where cards flow in and out of being legal for tournament play.

A tournament legal constructed deck may only include generic cards and cards that share the same class and/or talent as the hero card used. Therefore, it’s hero cards which ultimately determine the tournament legality of all non-generic cards that exist in Flesh and Blood.

A hero stops being legal when it has attained Living Legend status (but will remain legal in Living Legend format).

Becoming a Living Legend

A Living Legend check will occur every Monday (United States time). At the time of this check, any hero that has crossed the threshold officially attains Living Legend status. That hero, along with their signature weapon, will no longer be legal for official tournament play effective from the Friday of that same week.

The threshold is 1000 points.

Gaining Living Legend Points

A hero gains Living Legend points by winning tournaments that award Living Legend points.

During their first year of legality, a hero’s earned points are halved. During their second year, earned points have no multiplier. In all other subsequent years, earned points are multiplied by 1.5.

Living Legend points by event type and the leaderboards are available here:

Living Legend

Last updated: August 19, 2025

Classic Constructed

Classic Constructed includes every Flesh and Blood card, with the following exceptions:

Young hero cards.
Heroes and weapons that have attained Living Legend status.
Cards that have been banned.
Special use promos.

Living Legend

The following hero and weapon cards have attained Living Legend status and are not legal in Classic Constructed:

Hero	Signature Weapon
Aurora, Shooting Star	Star Fall
Azalea, Ace in the Hole	Death Dealer
Bravo, Star of the Show	–
Briar, Warden of Thorn	Rosetta Thorn
Chane, Bound by Shadow	Galaxxi Black
Dash, Inventor Extraordinaire	Teklo Plasma Pistol
Dromai, Ash Artist	Storm of Sandikai
Enigma, Ledger of Ancestry	Cosmo, Scroll of Ancestral Tapestry
Iyslander, Stormbind	Kraken’s Aethervein
Lexi, Livewire	Voltaire, Strike Twice
Nuu, Alluring Desire	Beckoning Mistblade
Oldhim, Grandfather of Eternity	Winter’s Wail
Prism, Sculptor of Arc Light	Luminaris
Viserai, Rune Blood	Nebula Blade
Zen, Tamer of Purpose	Tiger Taming Khakkara

Banned

The following cards are banned in Classic Constructed:

Art of War
Awakening
Ball Lightning
Belittle
Berserk
Bloodsheath Skeleta
Bonds of Agony
Bonds of Ancestry (Blue)
Bonds of Ancestry (Yellow)
Cash In
Count Your Blessings
Crown of Seeds
Drone of Brutality
Duskblade
Golden Tipple (Red)
Golden Tipple (Yellow)
High Octane
Orihon of Mystic Tenets
Plume of Evergrowth
Plunder Run
Scepter of Pain
Stubby Hammerers
Talk a Big Game
Tome of Aetherwind
Tome of Divinity
Tome of Fyendal
Tome of Firebrand
Zephyr Needle

Classic Constructed

Silver Age

Silver Age is a fun and fast format, featuring young heroes. Silver Age includes every Flesh and Blood rare, common, and basic (formerly known a token) rarity card, with the following exceptions:

Adult hero cards (A hero card must have the “Young” subtype to be legal in Silver Age).
Heroes and signature weapons that have been rotated out of official tournament play (as of November 13, 2025, all rare, common, and basic young heroes will be legal to play. Hero legality will be determined each season by a community voting system. More information on this system will be released at a later date).
Cards that have been banned.
Special use promos.

Banned

The following cards are banned in Silver Age:

Aether Flare
Aether Ironweave
Amulet of Ice
Ball Lightning
Belittle
Bonds of Ancestry
Cash In
Count Your Blessings
Deadwood Dirge
Drone of Brutality
Electromagnetic Somersault
Fate Foreseen
Fiddler’s Green
Flic Flak
Goliath Gauntlet
Heartened Cross Strap
Honing Hood
Mask of Three Tails
Nimby
Old Knocker
Plunder Run
Rake the Embers
Ragamuffin’s Hat
Reality Refractor
Rootbound Carapace
Rosetta Thorn
Seeds of Agony
Sigil of Solace
Sink Below
Snapdragon Scalers
Stubby Hammerers
Vest of the First Fist
Vigorous Smashup
Waning Moon
Zephyr Needle

Silver Age

Blitz

Blitz is a fun and fast format, featuring young heroes. Blitz includes every Flesh and Blood card, with the following exceptions:

Adult hero cards (A hero card must have the “Young” subtype to be legal in Blitz).
Heroes and weapons that have attained Living Legend status.
Cards that have been banned.
Special use promos.

Living Legend

The following hero and weapon cards have attained Living Legend status and are not legal in Blitz:

Hero	Signature Weapon
Briar	Rosetta Thorn
Chane	Galaxxi Black
Dash	Teklo Plasma Pistol
Ira, Crimson Haze	Edge of Autumn
Iyslander	Kraken’s Aethervein
Kano	Crucible of Aetherweave
Kassai, Cintari Sellsword	–
Oldhim	Winter’s Wail
Rhinar	Romping Club
Victor Goldmane	Miller’s Grindstone
Viserai	Nebula Blade

Banned

The following cards are banned in Blitz:

Aether Flare
Aether Wildfire
Art of War
Awakening
Ball Lightning
Belittle
Berserk
Bloodsheath Skeleta
Bonds of Ancestry
Cash In
Channel Lightning Valley
Count Your Blessings
Drone of Brutality
Duskblade
Flicker Wisp
Hadron Collider
Heartened Cross Strap
Mask of the Pouncing Lynx
Orihon of Mystic Tenets
Snapback
Storm Striders
Stubby Hammerers
Talk a Big Game
Tome of Aetherwind
Tome of Divinity
Tome of Fyendal
Tome of Firebrand
Traverse the Universe
Zephyr Needle

Blitz

Living Legend

Living Legend format includes every Flesh and Blood card (including heroes and weapons that have obtained Living Legend status), with the following exceptions:

Young hero cards.
Cards that have been banned.
Special use promos.

Banned

The following cards are banned in the Living Legend format:

Carrion Husk
Crown of Seeds
Kraken’s Aethervein
Rosetta Thorn
Zephyr Needle

Restricted

The following cards are restricted in the Living Legend format. A registered deck can contain up to 1 copy of a restricted card:

Awakening
Bonds of Ancestry
Electromagnetic Somersault
Count Your Blessings
Crippling Crush
Cull
Deadwood Dirge
Oaken Old
Open the Flood Gates
Succumb to Temptation

Living Legend

Commoner

Commoner is a casual play format featuring young heroes. Commoner includes every Flesh and Blood card that has been printed as a common or token, plus weapons, equipment, and heroes that have been printed as commons or rares, with the following exceptions:

Adult hero cards (A hero card must have the “Young” subtype to be legal in Commoner).
Cards that have been banned.
Special use promos.

Banned

The following cards are banned in Commoner:

Aether Ironweave
Amulet of Ice
Belittle
Reality Refractor
Rosetta Thorn
Stubby Hammerers
Waning Moon
Zephyr Needle

Commoner

Ultimate Pit Fight (multiplayer)

Ultimate Pit Fight (UPF) is a casual play format. UPF includes every Flesh and Blood card, including special use promos, with the following exceptions:

Go Bananas is banned in official events (We encourage play groups to continue to enjoy Go Bananas for social play).
Yorick, Weaver of Tales is banned in official events (We encourage play groups to continue to enjoy Yorick for social play).

It is recommended that UPF is played using young heroes and adjudicator heroes.