Let’s take a walk down memory lane. The year is 2022 and a new Flesh and Blood hero is being revealed at Pro Tour: New Jersey. In order to properly thank the FAB cosplay community, LSS designed Taylor – a special card meant to be given away during cosplay competitions at big events. The idea behind the hero was simple, yet effective. She’s a young Shapeshifter who has the ability to wear any piece of equipment, regardless of class or talent, and also swap out that equipment. Taylor was designed for UPF and was meant to be just that, a pretty card to be collected and a valuable prize for the best cosplayers in the FAB cosplay community.

Today, however, she’s actively played in UPF and many players even win UPF matches using her. She isn’t just a cosplay card anymore either. Most cosplayers choose to sell their Taylor for the cards still-high value, as not many of them currently exist.

Of course, after a while, many people started entering cosplay competitions and giving away just a singular prize wasn’t enough anymore. While LSS gave away a few books at first during competitions, the need for more cosplay support cards quickly became more and more obvious. In 2023 they decided on the following: for bigger competitions, with a double digit number of cosplayers competing for Taylor, LSS started handing out Fabrics and a special weapon. There are currently four existing fabrics that cosplay competition participants can win, depending on their overall placement at the competition.

If a cosplayer were to place in the Top 4 – they would get Fabric of Spring and Venomback Leather, two double sided cards which respectively have Fyendal’s Spring Tunic and Scabskin Leathers on the other side of the card. The other two Fabrics are Fabric of Scales, which flips to Snapdragon Scalers and Fabric of Blossoms, which flips to Blossom of Spring.

I also mentioned a weapon – Silversheen Needle, which lets you use your Fabrics more effectively as they get go again thanks to the needle.

The addition of these cards made two things possible – making cosplay more popular among FAB players and fans as well as making sure everybody feels included in the competitions. While Taylor remains the crown of any cosplayer’s collection, getting Fabrics and the Needle (as well as other goodies such as the lore boor or playmats) makes entering cosplay competitions that much more fun.

Cosplayers aren’t the only ones getting recognized by LSS. Good Deeds Don’t Go Unnoticed, a content creator appreciation card, was also given out to various content creators. By the looks of it, LSS doesn’t plan to stop showing its players and fans just how much they care about the time and effort they put into Flesh and Blood. Not just playing the game, but also promoting it and helping more people find out about this still very young TCG.

Valera

Valera tried Magic in highschool then forgot about it. Some years later, she fell in love with broken FaB heroes (like Data Doll MKII) and tribal commander MTG decks. A shapeshifter, collector, traveller, writer... Who needs free time?