How to Value Flesh and Blood Cards: Edition, Foil and Border
Valuing a Flesh and Blood card means pinning its set code, edition, foil, border and language first. Here is how to read each one, then a real price.
In this guide
A Flesh and Blood card has no single price, because one name can exist as several very different printings. Identify the set code, edition, foil and border first, and then read what that exact printing sold for.
The market data on which foils earn the money sits in are Flesh and Blood cards worth money. This page is about working out what you are holding.
Read the code and the name
Cards carry a set code and a three digit number. The official History Pack 1 list shows entries such as 1HP016.
That list also shows why the name alone will mislead you. Breakneck Battery (1), (2) and (3) are three separate entries with three separate numbers.
What (1), (2) and (3) mean
The bracket is the pitch value, which is how many resources the card gives when you pitch it. You read it as the socketed symbols in the top left corner of the card, per rule 2.8.2.
The colour strip at the top tells you the same thing. The rules give the example of one name with 1 pitch and a red bar, and with 2 pitch and a yellow bar, and they call those two distinct cards.
A blue strip is the 3 pitch version. That part comes from play rather than from a sentence in the rules, and the order in the official list fits it.
Marketplaces often use the colour instead of the number. TCGplayer lists Flock of the Feather Walkers as (Red) WTR182, (Yellow) WTR183 and (Blue) WTR184, so search for the code and make sure your price belongs to your colour.
Work out the edition
The publisher's 2020 Unlimited announcement sets out how the early sets split:
- Welcome to Rathe, first printing: an "Alpha Print" badge on the back of the display box.
- Arcane Rising, first printing: a "First Edition" badge on the back of the display box. Crucible of War and later boosters followed the same rule.
- Unlimited Edition: a red UNLIMITED flag on boosters and displays.
Those badges are on packaging, so a loose card needs another test.
On the card, the publisher says Unlimited has "red" colour strips on Welcome to Rathe cards, rarity badges, and italic reminder text on some cards. It also says Unlimited is black border, so a black border alone does not prove an early print.
A 2022 VintageCCG guide, which is not the publisher, adds two checks for Welcome to Rathe and Arcane Rising. First prints show the rarity letter behind the code with a 2019 copyright, and Unlimited shows a coloured bubble with 2020.
If you still cannot tell, sell it as "edition unconfirmed" or ask an experienced local player to look.
From Uprising the split ends. The FAB 2.0 article says it plainly: there is no differentiation between 1st Edition and Unlimited from that set on.
Check the foil and the alternate versions
The same article and the 2020 one give you the rules that matter most for value:
| Printing | What the publisher says |
|---|---|
| Cold Foil in early sets | Only in the first printing, not in Unlimited |
| Same card in Unlimited | Found as a Rainbow Foil instead |
| Marvel | Purple triangle symbol, used from Uprising on high tier alternate versions |
| Marvel scarcity | Varies by card, and all are much rarer than a normal foil of their base rarity |
| Cold Foil reprints | A reprint policy protects 1st Edition Cold Foils and those in booster sets from Uprising, with an exception for prize cards |
Pull rates help as background only. For Uprising the publisher gave Legendary Cold Foil as 1 per 220 packs and warned that the rates are an average across the production run, not a promise for any box.
Our data guide covers what each foil tends to fetch, so we will not repeat it here. What you need from this step is the correct label for your own copy.
Spot History Pack reprints
History Pack 1 gathers key cards from Welcome to Rathe, Arcane Rising and Crucible of War into a new set. The English run is white border, and the FAB 2.0 article says it has no foils.
So a white border card with a famous name is not the old printing. Price it as its own product, under its own 1HP code.
Watch for the Black Label run in German, French, Spanish and Italian. It is black border and has its own special Cold Foils, so a border or a foil alone can fool you here, and the 1HP code settles it.
Language is part of the printing beyond that run too, and it differs from set to set. Filter the marketplace to your language first, and if it has almost no sales, say so in your listing instead of borrowing the English number.
Grade it, then read the price
Use the scale of the site where you plan to sell. Cardmarket grades M, NM, EX, GD, LP, PL and PO, and it says whitened borders must be offered as Poor.
Check for that first on any black border card, because it changes the price you can honestly ask. Our condition guide has the rest, and is grading worth it helps with the expensive ones.
Then read the numbers:
- TCGplayer: open the product for your card, then filter by printing. Its Market Price is built from recent sales rather than current listings, and Current Quantity tells you how many are on offer.
- Cardmarket: read Price Trend and the available items count on the product page for your printing.
- Sold listings on eBay: check them for a rare printing, and look closely at every photo before you trust a sale.
One card, five printings
Here is Enlightened Strike from the TCGCSV public price file of TCGplayer figures, stamped 2 November 2026. TCGplayer labels the first print of this set "1st Edition", and the file does not state a condition.
| Enlightened Strike | Market Price | Lowest listing |
|---|---|---|
| WTR159, 1st Edition, plain | $48.89 | $48.88 |
| WTR159, Unlimited, plain | $24.21 | $22.59 |
| WTR159, Unlimited, Rainbow Foil | $64.84 | $66.88 |
| WTR159, 1st Edition, Rainbow Foil | None in the file | $1,575.00 |
| 1HP361, History Pack, plain | $22.09 | $20.10 |
One name runs from about $22 to a four figure asking price. Four of those rows share one code, so the edition and foil labels matter as much as the number.
Look at the fourth row as well. With no Market Price there is nothing recent in the file to compare, so that $1,575 is only what a seller is asking.
We have no euro column because a security check kept Cardmarket's card pages closed to us that day.
What people ask next
- Which Flesh and Blood foils carry the money?
- How do I value cards from any game?
- How do I check a stack I inherited?
- What sets are coming next?
- How do I spot a fake?
FAQ
Are all Rainbow Foils from Unlimited?
No. The publisher says Uprising itself includes both Cold Foil and Rainbow Foil versions, so check the set code.
Is an Alpha card always worth more than Unlimited?
Do not assume it. Look up both printings of your card, because a common from an early set can still be cheap.
Can I tell the edition from the card back?
We could not find a publisher page that says so. Use the front details from the Unlimited announcement and compare them with product images.
Are History Pack cards fake?
No. They are official reprints, and the publisher lists them on its own Collector Center pages.
Do Cold Foils get reprinted?
The publisher's reprint policy protects 1st Edition Cold Foils and those in booster sets from Uprising on. Organized play prize cards are the stated exception.
Find your card
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