{"id":4214,"date":"2025-12-12T15:56:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.judge.fabtcg.com\/?p=4214"},"modified":"2025-12-12T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:56:24","slug":"slipping-through-the-stages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.judge.fabtcg.com\/es\/blog\/2025\/12\/12\/slipping-through-the-stages\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipping Through the Stages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Flesh and Blood is a game that is full of a type of effect known as continuous effects. These effects modify a card or other game object over a period of time, such as adding power, adding abilities to attacks, or turning a card into a copy of another card. While simple on the surface, these effects can quickly become complicated when combined. This article will walk through Flesh and Blood\u2019s stage system to handle multiple continuous effects, and answer the question of how Horrors of the Past interacts with Take Up the Mantle to celebrate the release of Armory Deck: Arakni. There will be many example combat chains to demonstrate the interaction, and in all cases it will be assumed that the opponent is Marked.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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TLDR:<\/b> If you play a Take Up the Mantle to turn your Horrors of the Past into a copy of a different stealth card, you will end up with a copy of the card from your graveyard that <\/span>also<\/span><\/i> has the abilities of your last stealth attack. For example, if Tyler attacks Nic with Kiss of Death, then Horrors of the Past, reacting with Take Up the Mantle to copy Mark of the Black Widow, the Horrors of the Past will now be “Mark of the Black Widow” with 2 on-hit abilities: banish a card from Nic\u2019s hand and Nic loses 1 {h}.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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To understand this interaction, we first have to talk about stages. Stages are the system that Flesh and Blood uses to ensure consistency when multiple continuous effects are affecting the same game object. The stages are defined in <\/span>rule 6.3.2<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, and while they look complicated at first glance, they\u2019re a relatively straightforward process once you get the hang of them. There are additional rules about how to handle multiple effects in the same stage as well as effects moving stages due to dependencies (6.3.2a and 6.3.3 to be specific for anyone who\u2019s interested), but those are outside of the scope of this article.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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6.3.2 Stage order is defined by how an effect applies to the object. Effects are grouped into stages and are applied in ascending stage order. If there are two or more effects in the same stage, the effects are applied using substage order.<\/span><\/p>