August 17th, 2009

Fantasy Card Games

If you like card games, and want to try something special, you can play some fantasy card games. These games can be found online, on the Internet, and I have selected three nice fantasy games which I liked very much, and I think you will also find interesting.

Elements is a cool fantasy card game, in which the player is an elemental ( a spirit composed of an element, which are the fundamental blocks of nature). Each elemental has his arsenal of skills which can be used in a duel with another elemental. The skills have corresponding cards, and the player has the possibility of choosing which card to pick in a duel, and how many cards to use in the fight, and also to collect them in a card deck.

The players receive 100 health points in the beginning, and the duel is over when one of the elementals has reached 0 HP ( health points ), or ran out of cards. In the game, there are three types of cards, and these are: creature cards( this kind will summon a creature which will fight for the player, and the creatures have certain amount of attack power, health and special skills), spell cards (they have an immediate outcome, and they are discarded after the effect took place) and permanent cards( permanents are artifacts, equipment or anything that remains in play for an indefinite amount of time).

In Spectromancer, the player participates in a duel against another player, a magical duel, in which summoning creatures and casting spells can be used. Each player can use five magical elements during a duel (Fire, Water, Air, Earth and the fifth related to the magic type). In the game, there are six mage types: Clerics, Mechanicians, Necromancers, Chaosmasters, Dominators and Illusionists.(each of them uses something in the duels: holy power, mechanics, death, chaos, control and illusions).The player can play against another player, online, or against the computer.

Astral Masters combines the best features of the game called Astral Tournament and collection card games. This game is between two players and each of them can use various spells and fantastic creatures. It can be played against the computer and against other people This game is easy to play, and it doesn't require any other skills acquired in other games. The players carry each a deck of cards and in the beginning of the duel they get seven cards out of it. While playing, one more card can be taken in the beggining of each turn. The player receives cards as an effect of the spells and also some creatures' abilities. The maximum number of cards a player can have in his hand is 8. The cards can be two types: spells and creatures, and it is quite easy: spells cause an impact on the game situation, and the creatures fight on player's side. Cards have a cost number and the player must spend X Mana points, if the cost is X. When one card is used for a creature or for spells, the card disappears form players hand. The players can also sacrifice cards, and in this case the card disappears and the Mana and Astral Power grow with 1 unit.