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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
- Personalized and unique copy of the game.
- New artwork, abilities, and events.
- Standalone expansion with all components needed to play.
- Includes a two-part neoprene play map.
- Features a new insert and dividers for organizing factions.
- Accommodates sleeved cards.
- Uncertainty about the 'card tearing' mentioned in a signature.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Allied Factions — The set combines 16 existing factions into eight new allied factions with 'completely new cards, unique to these Allied factions'.
- Card Tearing — One signature on the box mentions 'card tearing', though the reviewer hopes the cards are not pre-torn.
- Deck building — The reviewer mentions that players can get 'reinforcement packs to do some deck building if you want'.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- Oh those turkeys they did it they signed the whole cover.
- He handcrafted the Masterpiece within.
- See he wrote Colby's daughter here and a personal message she loves stuffed animals and her dad.
- This is a standalone expansion meaning that yes it does expand the Summoner Wars universe but everything you need to play is contained within this box.
References (from this video)
- fast-paced
- great party game
- some clues can be cryptic
- communication and clever clues
- teams guessing coded words
- Dixit
- Monikers
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- word-guessing — Clues connect multiple words for teammates to guess.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- this is the board game quiz show
- it's a board game play through series that's over 400 episodes now
- we're rough on you but we're having fun today