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Atlas Break

Game ID: GID0032398
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Year
2019
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Description

Atlas Break is a fast-paced Deckbuilding card game. You get 4 Champion cards, 4 Score cards, 20 Starter cards, 10 Gold Unit cards, 14 Bounty cards, and 57 Market cards to begin your adventure. Invite your friends, choose your champions, and decide who conquers and who falls!

—description from the publisher

Description

Atlas Break is a fast-paced Deckbuilding card game. You get 4 Champion cards, 4 Score cards, 20 Starter cards, 10 Gold Unit cards, 14 Bounty cards, and 57 Market cards to begin your adventure. Invite your friends, choose your champions, and decide who conquers and who falls!

—description from the publisher

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Video _MSrXLDq9VY Board to Death TV - Board Game Reviews Review at 0:15 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
  • Good for new players to the deck builder genre.
  • Good for people new to the hobby.
  • Not expensive.
  • Travel size.
Cons
  • Nothing really new or innovative.
  • Not a game changer.
  • Not recommended for veteran players or players who already own deck building games.
Thematic elements
  • Destroying bounties and reducing opponent's influence to zero.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Area Control — Players aim to destroy bounties and bring their opponent's influence to zero.
  • Deck Building — Players buy cards from the market by spending units, and these cards go into their discard pile. When a player cannot draw five cards, they shuffle their discard pile to form a new deck. The game is described as a deck-building game.
  • Hand Management — Players play cards from their hand during the action phase and discard their entire hand at the end of their turn.
  • Set Collection — Completing a bounty gives a reward.
  • Take That — Players can play attacks on their opponent's barrier or influence if they don't have a barrier.
  • Variable player powers — Each player chooses a champion with a one-time ability that can be used on their turn.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • hello everybody my name is giancarlo caltigano and this is our review of atlas break
  • now this is a quick two player deck building game where your goal is to destroy bounties and bring your opponent's influence to zero
  • during the first phase action you can buy cards from the market and play cards from your hand
  • now atlas break seems to be a game that is growing and will have expansions as this is the core box only so keep an eye out for those
  • i have to say though that there's nothing really new here or innovative i mean atlas break is no game changer by any means but it is good game for new players or people who are new to the hobby and want to try deck building
  • it's not expensive and it's travel size so you can always have it on you
  • we don't recommend it to veteran players or players who already own deck building games
  • go check out atlas breaks website in the description below for more information
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Video 21jqFaoQWhA All You Can Board Card Preview at 0:37 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Fits into multiple deck archetypes
  • Allows information gathering about opponents' top deck cards in multiplayer
  • Can function as a support-like card by occupying an ally slot
Cons
  • Damage to Atlas Bear only occurs if the top card is an Event
  • If a non-Event is revealed, no damage is dealt
Thematic elements
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Exhaust to reveal top card of a player's deck — Exhaust Atlas Bear and look at the top card of a player deck; if that card is an Event you may deal one damage to Atlas Bear and add that card to its owner's hand.
  • Posse trade — Atlas Bear has the Posse trade in addition to its other traits; interacts with Posse-related cards and effects.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • Atlas bear is a three cost Ally a three Health a one-throught one attack a consequential damage in each of those the uh oh
  • you can almost use Atlas bear as like a support card where it's the support says minus one Ally
  • Posse trade in addition to the book on Detroit
  • look at the top card of a player deck if that card as an event you may deal one damage to Atlas bear and add that card to its owner's hands
  • this is a one cost player side scheme Victory zero when defeated each player May search their deck and discard pile for support with a cost of three or less and put it into play shuffle your deck afterwards
  • slap this into play right away no cost you're not even paying that one extra cost for it to get into play
  • the three cost supports Helicarrier twin carrier as well as the xjet
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