As with every Tier Four event, there is always a series of announcements from the developers to us players. It's in these speeches that we hear the vast majority of upcoming releases from Legend Story Studios.
The Pro Tour Yokohama offered some key first looks at Omens of the Third Age, the new Armory Deck, Mastery Pack Warrior, and dates for upcoming World Tour stops.
Omens of the Third Age
During this Keynote, we got to see the previews of Aurora, Legacy of Tempest and Oscilio, Forked Continuum's new signature weapons.
We also got to see the first look of Zyggy Starlight's play pattern. During the gameplay video, it looks as though the Instant Auras provide buffs to Lightning attack actions, which are better when you use Zyggy's ability to banish and return them with Holo Counters. It's noted during the gameplay that banishing the aura is part of the cost of activating Zyggy, so it cannot be responded to. This is key for auras with Ward, since you aren't able to destroy them with arcane or true damage until after they've returned to play.
For more insights, watch the gameplay demos from LSS below.
Silver Age Precons
We can expect to see Chapter 3 of the Silver Age preconstructed decks coming alongside the release of Omens of the Third Age. Read the report about the upcoming Briar, Boltyn, Blaze, Firemind, Gravy Bones, and Lyath Goldmane decks coming in another article.
James White confirmed in the Yokohama Keynote that starting from Set 20, we can expect future Silver Age decks to tie in more closely to the set release, with decks that match the set's heroes and packs of the new set in the decks, as opposed to packs of Compendium.
LSS remains to be cagey about what that next set will be, and we will likely not hear it announced until well after Omens has released and been integrated into the metagame.
Mastery Pack Warrior
During Brian Gottleib's keynote during the World Championships, he stated that they had learned a great deal from the mistakes of Mastery Pack Guardian, and applied it to their next product.
Mastery Pack Warrior is set to release on August 7th. It's looking to make the card pool and Limited experience deeper, offering players the choice to play Crack Shuffle Play with Dorinthea, Quicksilver Prodigy, Olympia, or a young version of Hala, Bladesaint of the Vow. This puts both this new Dorinthea and Hala into the card pool of Warrior Heroes for Silver Age.
Alongside this release, it's been confirmed by players at the Pro Tour that a new Welcome Deck, to match Ira, Crimson Haze and Bravo, Flattering Showman will feature Dorinthea, Quicksilver Prodigy. As a LGS manager, I love this. More variety for teaching players Flesh and Blood is always welcome, and so far they've been keeping to the original Welcome To Rathe classes. Is Mastery Pack Brute on the horizon?
Early reveals from Mastery Pack Warrior has effects that shore up mirror matches, and their matchup into Assassin. In addition, it's been confirmed that Warrior mainstay Valiant Dynamo is getting a sorely needed reprint with unbelievable new art.
Armory Deck Olympia
To tie in with the release of Mastery Pack Warrior, the forgotten hero of the Warrior Class is receiving an Armory Deck.
Olympia, Prized Fighter is a deck that started out in the realm of irrelevance when compared to other heroes in the same class. The printing of Visit the Golden Anvil in Mistveil gave players an outlet for what to do with the Gold. First looks at this Armory deck and Mastery Pack Warrior has given us a good look at Olympia's Signature weapon, Golden Grail. It being able to attack by breaking Gold, and coming in for a breakpoint if you've Wagered, leaves us thinking if Olympia is going to maintain his slower, fatigue via burst damage, gameplan.
These are the Marvel printings of the swords of the Mastery Pack Warrior heroes, yet we can expect Golden Grail to be in the Armory Deck.
World Tour Stops
James White announced the following locations as stops for Callings on the Flesh and Blood World Tour:
The World Premier for set 20 will be the first World Tour stop in Korea; Seoul on September 11-13.
- Kyoto - October 16-18
- Mexico City - October 23-25
- Sydney - November 13-15
- Shenzen - November 27-29
- Wakefield - December 11-13
- Portland - December 18-20
The 2026 World Championships will be in Paris France, on November 5-8.
The 100th Calling will be somewhere in the USA in October, yet to be confirmed.
Wrap up
The Pro Tour Yokohama Keynote has left many players eager for more news about Set 20 and the upcoming Armory Decks and Mastery Packs, as well as excited for Omens, now that we have context for how the decks play, and for Mastery Pack Warrior, as it looks to reinvigorate an otherwise unsupported class.
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