1/21/2024 0 Comments Shadow era ccgYou can never defend with an ally, only attack with one. I’m sure many of you may be familiar with Magic’s method of attacking and defending – Shadow Era is the complete opposite. The current pool of resources replenishes each turn, much like a mana pool does in Magic: The Gathering.Īllies are the main source of dealing damage to the enemy hero and can be used as a glorified human shield to protect your hero from your opponent’s attacks. This makes strategy all the more important as, once the card is sacrificed, it can no longer be used and permanently converted to a resource. In order to play a card in the game, you need to accrue the requisite amount of resources the main way to do this is to sacrifice a card at the beginning of the turn. The goal of the actual game is to deplete the enemy hero’s health to zero before the same happens to yours. Each hero has its share of strengths and weaknesses, so it’s a good idea to become knowledgeable about each hero if you want to become more competitive. A deck must consist of at least 40 cards, with one of them being the hero and no more than four copies of any specific card. This is where the meat of the deck building strategy comes into play, as most of the cards have restrictions on which characters can use them. Each hero is split between the Human or Shadow side, with each side having a subset class for each one. Every playable deck has a common general structure, consisting of a main hero accompanied by allies, spells, items, weapons, and armor. Although I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, I’ve read that this game is quite similar to the World of Warcraft card game so if you’re familiar with that, then you should be familiar with Shadow Era. Now onto what you’re probably most curious about – the game itself. As with any CCG, players who are able to spend more will have more cards at their disposal – but money can’t buy you skill, meaning that a cunning player with a cheap deck could certainly best a rich dumbass. Although you’d think that those with the most money will always be the best, a decent deck can be made on the cheap if you are wise with how you spend your gold. Gold can be gained by selling off unwanted cards to the in-game vendor, allowing you to sculpt the deck that you want whilst getting rid of cards you have no desire to use. If you do decide to drop some cash on cards, you can only purchase the crystals, as there’s no way of purchasing gold directly. While this is an incredibly slow process, the option is there to provide people who don’t want to spend any money a fair chance at competing in this game. There are free offers to complete to award more crystals, but those can only be achieved once the more common way is to actually play the game (which, let’s face it, shouldn’t be that revolutionary a concept to many of you).Įach game that you play provides XP and gold gold can be used to purchase cards directly, whilst gaining levels through XP will net more crystals. If you don’t feel like spending any money at all, there’s two ways to achieve more cards. When you sign up for your account, you get to choose one of the starter decks and funded with a few hundred shadow crystals in order to purchase a few booster packs or another starter deck if you so choose. This is actually the best point to start at. Luckily for the great and good of the BRB community, I’ll be giving away some of my considerable virtual fortune (in the form of the in-gane currency of shadow crystals) to some of you to get you started in this game. Apart from receiving loads of cards and other physical goodies, I also acquired more online game currency than I will ever conceivably use, which is another reason I’m doing this game first. I’m one of the lucky few who has got their hands on the game ahead of being released to the public the cards I received were for crowd funding the game. Yes, there is a physical card portion of this game, but it is entirely optional and deciding to pass on this aspect of the game won’t get in the way of your enjoyment in the slightest. Receiving those hundreds upon hundreds of cards (don’t ask how much I spent) really revitalized my enjoyment of the entire game. Considering I had just received my ginormous order of physical cards for Shadow Era, I felt this was the most appropriate choice for my first Game You Probably Haven’t Tried (GYPHT).
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