Last Ditch Effort - A Flesh and Blood Podcast

This week we have the whole Last Ditch Effort crew in the Pod, to find out what the opinions about some of the most exciting Decks for Silver Age are. Focusing on our favourite Upgrades that we get for our Decks, both competitive and casual oriented. Join us as we prepare for Compendium of Rathe.

Happy New Year and welcome back to the first Podcast of 2026. Road to Nationals Season is already in full swing and we take a look at the first week of results. Afterwards we close in on our hopes and dreams for the new Silver Age format and predict where the year will take us. Buckle up for a wild ride.

This week Ralph is back on the Pod fresh of the World Championship in Philadelphia. We get into the weeds about Silver Age and why we belive Living Legend is not coming back as a competitive format anytime soon. We talk about the Reprints and excitement for a new set, Compendium of Rathe, geared towards supporting the SAGE format. Join us for a dynamic duo episode.

After a long break, the Last Ditch Effort Crew is back. This time at our friend Gabriel's coffee table, talking about the Worlds format. The new Meta prediction and just how important Lore is to the game we all love to play.

This week we have newly crowned Swiss National Champion Tigran Grigorian on the show to talk to us about his phenomenal run. Join us for a breakdown of the Tournament and some insight into how he became a champion of our game.

This week on the Podcast we give our first impressions on the new limited and constructed formats. We go over some of our Deck choices and what to look out for in your limited games of High Seas.

The Last Ditch Effort crew is finally back with a new episode just before the High Seas prerelease events kick off. We dive into the recent announcements and some new cards from the new set. Also Preach Modesty gets mentioned in this episode.

In this weeks episode we try to guide new players as they enter this hobby and give an overview over things to watch out for. From your first Ira deck all the way to your first Road to Nationals win. We give tips and tricks on how to improve and talk about what helped us level up our play on our personal Flesh and Blood journeys.

The Hunted released and we were in Prague playing the World Premier. Ralph and Maurice give you their raw insight into the Limited format as well as a preview over the early Hunted CC Meta Game. Join us for another Episode of the Last Ditch Effort Podcast!

In this week's episode, we go over the significant events in FAB that happened in 2024, go over our favorite memories and favorite cards, and just chat about the nice games we had! Be excited for more diverse topics, segments, and new type of content in 2025! We are just getting started.... Thanks to all our listeners in 2024!

This week on Last Ditch Effort we dive into our performance at the first ever Battle Hardened in Switzerland, what happened at the Pro Quest + on the day after and what cards you should definitely buy now because it will be broken a year from now. Join us for another round of our thoughts on the best card game in the world.

In this weeks episode the LDF crew talks about the most recent Ban & Restricted announcement, their meta analysis and try to look into the near future with the upcoming Battle Hardened Geneva.

We're back with a Ralph Field Report hot of the world championship in Osaka. Patrick predicts all the bannings correctly and we speculate on Oscillio being a sleeper pick. Join us for a first hand account of what it feels like to complete a Top 16 run at the World's toughest tournament.

We're Back with some Stories from Lyon. Ralph and Maurice talk about their experience playing in the Calling aswell as the best Format ever... Commoner!

Join us this week for an exciting review of the recent competitive season, talking about Swiss Nationals and the PT. This week wee are joined by the current Swiss champion Michael and with last years' champion Ralph. Basically the Swiss FAB Hall of Fame.

In this week's episode Ralph and Maurice share their experiences at the Swiss National Championship. It's time for another Last Ditch Effort Field Report!

In this week's episode we discuss our opinion on the current limited and CC metagame with our Swiss National Championship in just a few days!

In this weeks episode we go over some the new heroes and some of our favorite cards to watch out for in your pre-releases! You might be surprised by some interactions and some of our new favorite limited cards!

It has been a while since our last episode, but we are back! In this episode we talk about PQ's (playing Pro quest and RTN season) and DQ's (judging events). As always, we give our objectively correct meta impressions and look back at what happened at FAB events around us! [Also sorry for the dog background sounds in the beginning, we had a special guest in the background and didn't realize the mic captured all her movements...]

Welcome back to the Last Ditch Effort Podcast! This week we have our first ever recurring guest Ralph back from his trip to New Zealand to talk about community organized events, our judging experience from the first week of Road to Nationals Season, the general Road to Nationals metagame, Talishar metagame data and a little bit of Kano chatter. It's also the first time we have an official segment, the "Ralph Field Report"! Let us know what you think in the comments!

This week's episode is very special! We welcome Ralph, our Swiss National Champion, for a first impressions episode live from New Zealand! Ralph cashed in at the Heavy Hitters limited Calling in Queenstown and has quite a few tips for you to prepare you for your heavy hitters prerelease!

In this week's episode we discuss the spoilers before the official spoiler season, and give a rough outline on how we expect the heavy hitter limited meta could look like. Also one of us might believe that the beloved card "pummel" will be in the set, so let's see how that hot-take ages once we have more information.

The JUDGE Episode! In this weeks podcast we talk all about Judges, the path towards joining the infamous Bees in the Yellow and Black shirts, their responsibilities and we even have a little pop quiz prepared for all of our listeners. Do you have what it takes to answer all the questions correctly. If you would like to find out more about Judging in Flesh and Blood or you’re interested in joining the Judge program please visit: https://judge.fabtcg.com/

It’s PODCAST TIME again! Welcome to the second round of the Last Ditch Effort Podcast (ldfpod)! In this weeks episode Patrick and Maurice talk about their experience at their local Blitz Skirmish. Share their thoughts about the latest Heavy Hitters Spoilers and then get into a deep discussion about variance in Flesh and Blood. If you have any comments and questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us on @lfdpod on twitter “X”! We are looking forward to hear your feedback and talk to you again soon!

It’s PODCAST TIME! Welcome to the Last Ditch Effort Podcast (ldfpod)! The first episode gives an overview of your hosts, the local FAB scene in Zürich, Switzerland and our community accolades! After a brief introduction, we talk about the hot topics of:- FAB Worlds 2023 in Barcelona (which we watched from our couches), - the post Iyslander Meta (Frostbite who?), - and finally the reasons why we think Data Doll is THE deck to beat this Skirmish Season. If you have any comments and questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us on @lfdpod on twitter “X”! We are looking forward to hear your feedback and talk to you again soon!