I have posted 3 predictions pieces recently. What’s Coming Up In 2026? where I look at what I think will come out in the releases. Who Gets A Deck In 2026? where I try to predict the armory deck releases. What Is A Flesh And Blood Showdown? I think the title is enough for this one.
So how well have these predictions stood up now we’ve listened to the LSS Keynote at Philadelphia Worlds?
What’s Coming Up In 2026?
First up I tried to predict what we would see in the new releases in 2026:
* Guardian and Mechanologist are due a year off
* First release Light & Shadow with Brute, Illusionist, Runeblade and Warrior
* Second release Elemental with Runeblade & Wizard
* A mini Mastery Pack for either Brute or Warrior
* Third release for Savage Lands with a new talent and Necromancer and Brutes
* That means no Assassin or Ninja next year
We now know that the first release of next will not be Light & Shadow and won’t even be a main release. The first release of next year is Compendium of Rathe which is a ‘premium supplementary booster set’.
I had read somewhere that LSS had moved away from supplementary sets. Which is why I didn’t think we would be getting one in 2026. So clearly I got the first release wrong. We could still see a Light & Shadow release and an Elemental release. I think this does mean we won’t be visiting the Savage Lands next year.
Even though Hala isn’t a Light Warrior I do think the announcement of her does point to Monarch 3 or Light & Shadow being the 2nd release next year. She is from that part of Rathe.
I predicted 1 Mastery Pack for either Brute or Warrior, we might get both.
As far as which classes of heroes we will be getting, we don’t know yet but Warrior is hinted at for Set 19 with Hala. From what I’ve read, Compendium of Rathe won’t be including any new heroes.
Who Gets A Deck In 2026?
This was not my finest post and probably is one that I should quietly forget about. However let’s have a look at what I said:
* Release 1 will see a Chane or Cleric deck
* Release 2 will see a Wizard deck probably Iyslander
* Release 3 I’m going Savage Lands Ranger
* 2 existing CC heroes to get decks I’m going for Vynnset and Olympia
* 2 Armory Deck Legend go to Nuu and Zen
Already we know that I got the releases wrong. Let’s get rid of the release 3 Savage Lands Ranger. That was always a wild pick with zero evidence. I was reacting to what some people were hoping for, not what might really happen.
So for Set 19 I thought we would get Chane or a Cleric. Clearly I’ve got that wrong with Hala being announced.
It is interesting to see a mentor made into a hero. I’ve never come across mentors before, they are something I’ll need to look into. The mentor cards say you can only play them with young heroes but the FAB card vault says they are legal for CC. I don’t know what’s going on there.
Whilst there are only 3 Armory Deck slots on the slide they did say that there can be more than 1 deck in each of those slots. Basically we won’t get an armory deck in Q1 but we will be getting armory decks throughout the rest of the year.
Most of this prediction is still in the wait and see bucket.
What Is A Flesh And Blood Showdown?
I thought that Showdown was going to be the rollout of store championships across the world. I really got this one totally wrong.
Battle Hardeneds are going away and Showdowns will replace the Sunday Battle Hardeneds at Calling events. The stand alone Battle Harden events will not be replaced however there will be more Calling events next year.
This was predicted by some people and I said no way because so few places got world tour points. Clearly I was wrong.
We might still see the rollout of store championships globally because it does say ‘And More To Come!’
