


If you choose, you may remove it from the game at any point on your turn (even after you’ve used its printed effect, mind you) to use its Sacrifice Ability.ĭuring your turn, you may spend gold from your Gold Pool to buy cards, which are placed directly into your discard unless otherwise stated. Other cards have a “Sacrifice Ability”, which is the same thing as a Scrap Ability or an on-trash effect. This is partially why you don’t discard cards until the end of your turn. If you ever have another card from that faction in play, allAlly abilities for that faction on cards in play activate (cards can activate each others’ Ally abilities). When a Champion is stunned, place them in your discard pile.Ĭertain cards have faction symbols and an effect on the bottom these effects are known as Ally Abilities, same as Star Realms: Frontiers. Some Champions are also Guards, which means that you cannot attack your opponent until they are stunned (sort of like how you can’t attack your opponent’s life points directly in Yu-Gi-Oh if they have monsters on the field … I’m told). They stay in play between turns until they’re defeated and offer a once-per-turn effect, called their expend ability. You can spend from your Gold or Combat pool at any time to buy cards or injure your opponent or their Champions.Ĭhampions are similar to Duration cards from Dominion: Seaside ( kind of) or Bases in Star Realms: Frontiers (more apt).

Give each player a starting deck, which is seven Gold, a Shortsword, a Dagger, and a Ruby: Put the Fire Gems into a stack next to them: Your opponent(s) plan to do the same, though, so you better beat them to success! Will you be able to rise above and become a titan of Thandar? You’ll trade, buy, sell, and fight your way to becoming increasingly influential (and probably kill someone along the way, but what can you do? It’s fantasy), especially as you continue to trade with various factions that emerge throughout the metropolis. In Hero Realms, you play around the great city of Thandar (making the Campaign The Ruin of Thandar seem a bit more ominous). There have been some good ones, lately! SPQF last year was a delight, Promenade is on Kickstarter now and that’s quite good if you like economy with your deckbuilding, and here I am finally getting into the Second Great City of Deckbuilding with Star Realms and Hero Realms! My first real exposure to this was Hardback, ironically, which is essentially Paperback + Star Realms, and then I played the app for a bit but I have trouble with apps, and now here I am! Let’s dig in a bit more and see how Hero Realms measures up to last week’s Star Realms: Frontiers. I feel like I fell off the deckbuilding train for a while and only recently got back into it.
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Full disclosure: A review copy of Hero Realms was provided by White Wizard Games.
