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Shuffle Heroes
Steam Punk, heroes and Horror
The world of Shuffle Heroes is a dark fantasy world, full of Steam Punk inventions and Horror. Aim of the game is to either defeat the opposing heroes – a hero is defeated when he has lost all his hit points – or to reduce/destruct the deck of your opponent – when a player has more than 15 cards in the void, his heroes are tired and the player is defeated.
Following a detailed procedure each player chooses two heroes and takes the respective cards, the starting player draws four cards, his opponent six cards.
At the start of a turn you clear up – you discard all shield markers and all cards played in the previous turn, unless they are marked persistent and then you either play a card, activate a hero or discard cards and fill your hand up to six cards; you can do this only when holding four or less cards in hand. If you play a card you set it down and follow its instructions. Heroes have both a passive abilities and a hero action; this action can be used once in a turn if you are able to pay for it. To use a passive ability of a hero you need not activate him. Damage is dealt to heroes and other cards, you first remove shield markers and then hit points.
Nothing very new as regards to topic, but a few clever details in mechanisms; there is for instance cleaning up, familiar from deck building games – it happens at the start of the next turn, so that my cards are liable to attack by my opponent in his turn. Then there is deck destruction as a second winning option and an easy access to the game without time-consuming deck assembly. A clever, quick game for friends of Steam Punk!
Players: 2
Age: 10+
Time: 25+
Designer: Jan Vaněček
Artist: Hana Novotná
Price: ca. 16 Euro
Publisher: Czech Board Games 2015
Genre: Cards, horror, fantasy
Users: With friends
Special: 2 players
Version: en
Rules: cz de en
In-game text: yes
Comments:
Standard topic
Deck-destruction as possible winning condition
Cards are cleanup at the start of the next turn
Compares to:
Fantasy card games, also deck building games
Other editions:
German at EDC Blackfire, Czech at CBG
Chance (pink): 1
Tactic (turquoise): 2
Strategy (blue): 1
Creativity (dark blue): 0
Knowledge (yellow): 1
Memory (orange): 1
Communication (red): 0
Interaction (brown): 3
Dexterity (green): 0
Action (dark green): 0