I'm intrigued to try the Flesh and Blood trading card game in person, but I'm scratching my head at the publisher's unwillingness to teach people how to play. There are no rules included in the starter set -- just a thick booklet of inconsequential lore.
Yes, the website has a brief "how to play video" and quick start rules, but they don't cover some things that you'll need to know for your first game with the "ready to play" decks. For example, one of Dorinthea's cards*, Quicken, is NOT meant to be shuffled into her deck. The rules say nothing about this, and a literal reading of the quick start rules suggests the opposite.
There's no bridge from the incomplete overview to the 104-page comprehensive rules. How easy are those to read? Let me give a sample:
"1.6.2. An attack-proxy is an activated-layer (activated-attack) or triggered-layer (triggered-attack) with the
attack ability (see Rule 8.3.1), and represents its source as an attack on the stack before the source
becomes a chain link on the combat chain."
I've read programming language specifications that were clearer.
There is an excellent interactive tutorial, but it was developed by a third party:
*Bonus fun from the comprehensive rules: Quicken is also a token, and "A token is not a card, even if it is represented by an official Flesh and Blood card."
