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Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set

Summoner Wars is a fast-playing, action-packed 2-4 player card game. Players take on the role of Summoners: powerful beings who harness the power of mysterious Summoning Stones to lead their race to conquest on the war-torn planet of Itharia. These Summoners wield terrible magic...

Players

2-4

Time

?-?

Age

9+

Weight

2.72

Rating

8.06

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Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players frequently need to be aware of and react to others' strategies and turns. However, the game does not emphasize cooperation as much as other aspects. Overall, it offers a good balance of player interaction.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.8

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 2.7

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players frequently need to be aware of and react to others' strategies and turns. However, the game does not emphasize cooperation as much as other aspects. Overall, it offers a good balance of player interaction.

Replay value

Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set has a high replayability score due to its high variability gameboard, expansions available, strategic depth, scalability, and moderate easiness to learn. The game offers different experiences each time it is played, with the presence of expansions adding new content and gameplay elements. There is ample room for players to improve their strategy over time, and the game adapts well to different player counts. While it may take some time to learn, the depth it offers makes it worth the investment.

Luck profile

Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. Players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.

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Summoner Wars is a fast-playing, action-packed 2-4 player card game. Players take on the role of Summoners: powerful beings who harness the power of mysterious Summoning Stones to lead their race to conquest on the war-torn planet of Itharia. These Summoners wield terrible magic on the battlefield, freezing their foes in place, draining their enemies of power, and even bringing rains of fire down from the heavens. But most notoriously, they summon their great race's hordes of warriors to the battlefield, to clash in the never-ending struggle for supremacy. Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set, a big box starter set for Summoner Wars akin to the Summoner Wars Master Set, features eight complete faction decks and can be played on its own or combined with other Summoner Wars products. All sixteen factions in the SW world are represented as each new summoner is a hybrid of two existing factions, blending the themes of the two factions and expanding deck-building possibilities. The factions are: Fallen Phoenix: Phoenix Elves/Fallen Kingdom Cave Filth: Filth/Cave Goblins Tundra Guild: Guild Dwarves/Tundra Orcs Swamp Mercenaries: Swamp Orcs/Mercs Vargath Vanguard: Vanguard/Vargath Sand Cloaks: Cloaks/Sand Goblin Deep Benders: Deep Dwarves/Benders Jungle Shadows: Shadow Elves/Jungle Elves

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Designers

1
Colby Dauch

Artists

1
David Richards

Publishers

2
Cube Factory of Ideas Plaid Hat Games

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