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OT Fantasy Draft is a 1-5 player card drafting game where each player drafts a team of Old Testament characters, locations, and things that will create the best combos and score the most points. Games are quick and the rules easy to pick up, but the decisions will be hard!
A game of OT Fantasy Draft lasts for seven rounds. Every round begins with the Starting Player and then proceeds around the table clockwise until everyone has had a turn. On each player’s turn they will:
Take (draft) a card from the Draftline.
Place the card in front of themselves, forming their drafted team.
A new card is drawn from the top of the Draw Pile to replace the missing card. Play passes to the next player.
If it is the last player’s turn, instead discard the leftover cards in the Draftline, draw five new cards from the Draw Pile, and begin a new round with the player who went last the previous round.
After the end of the 7th round, players add their secret card to their Drafted Team and proceed to score their hand. The player with the most points wins!
—description from the publisher
- Accessible due to light complexity
- Strong card synergy and promising combos
- Thematic art and Old Testament-inspired flavor
- Bold, thematic art style (helmet logo, character poses)
- Prototype components and rules are not final in this preview
- fantasy football with biblical figures; card drafting and set collection
- old testament characters in a fantasy football drafting theme
- explanatory with scoring examples, describing card interactions
- Fantasy Realms
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Attack/defense interactions — Fire and famine cards can destroy other cards; defensive cards protect them
- Card Drafting — Players pick one card from a display to add to their tableau; one hidden card is chosen at start
- end-game scoring and point adjustments — At game's end, points are added or subtracted based on card interactions
- hidden end-game scoring cards — Each player starts with a hidden card whose points are revealed at game end
- Hidden Victory Points — Each player starts with a hidden card whose points are revealed at game end
- round-based display refresh — After each round, the display is discarded and a new set of cards is drawn
- Set Collection — Players collect cards to form point-scoring sets and combinations
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- the game feels like one of my favorite drafting set collection game fantasy realms
- offense sells tickets defense wins championships
- the locations are all drawn on the green iron field
- the game is of light complexity
- and like with any fantasy football team requires to put together a team both strong and balanced
References (from this video)
- Fantasy Realms (original)
- Fantasy Realms Star Trek Edition
- Red Rising
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- this is a pure hand management game
- plays very quickly
- it's probably the most playable of the three
- it's very easy to play
- icons make very easy to play
- the theme is powerful
- oh black panther look and then transform with two or more of this icon and then you flip it and then it becomes Iron Man how cool
- it's so cool seeing all these things from the movie comes to life in the game
- the peril that you always get with this Fantasy Realms games is that you have to ... it takes a bit to wrap your head around
- for entry level you just get onto it you just look at the icons