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Players
2-5
Age
12+
Playtime
30 min
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GTS 2014 - The Spoils
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Community involvement in card design with credit given.
- Players have control over deck building and resource management, mitigating randomness.
- Flexible turn structure with no phases.
- Dynamic combat system with a speed stat.
- Well-developed organized play system (Spoils League Gaming) with monthly promos and rewards.
- Good entry-level product with new player kits containing multiple intro decks and unique resources.
Cons
- Characters with lower speed can lose battles before dealing damage.
- A player can be at a disadvantage if their character's speed is outmatched.
Thematic elements
- A satire on our own world, involving politics, greed, gambling, drug dealing, hedonism, and conflict.
- Lorithia, our world many millennia after humankind met their own natural ending. The world changes, the universe changes, the laws of physics change.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card types — Includes Faction cards (rules cards), Characters, Tactics (one-use cards), Items, and Locations.
- collectible card game (CCG) — A community-focused collectible card game where players build decks.
- Combat System — Characters attack opponents, with Strength, Life, and Speed stats determining damage and the order of damage assignment.
- Deck building — Players use components to create a deck of 75 cards to fight each other.
- influence — The objective is to reduce the opponent's influence to zero.
- Mulligan — A partial mulligan allows players to replace three cards from their opening hand.
- No Max Hand Size — Players do not have a maximum hand size.
- No Phases — Turns do not have set phases, allowing for flexible play order.
- Resource management — Uses resource cards (elitism, rage, greed, deception, obsession) to play other cards. Players start with two resources and can play any card face-down as a resource.
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- It's a CCG, but the C is community.
- So The Spoils was designed from the ground up to put the player in control of the deck as opposed to the deck in control of the player.
- There are no phases in this game.
- We have a third battle stat called speed, which determines when damage is dealt in a battle.
- So, yeah. You'll assign your damage at speed four, which is four points, and I have four life, and I'm at speed three. And so, that gets dealt, my character goes to the discard pile, and I have successfully blocked you.
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