Card Wars: Basic Rules
Ive seen numerous interpretations of the rules of the Card Wars
game played in the Card Wars episode of Adventure Time. This is my
interpretation/adaptation of how I think the game should be played
and the PC game Im developing will follow these rules, for the time
being. These rules will be revised as development progresses and
testing reveals areas/rules that dont work.
Deck Makeup:The starter deck is technically made up of 41 cards;
6 land, 1 stronghold, 6 building, 14 creatures and 14
spells/abilities/items. Since the land cards are drawn at the
beginning and then taken out of the deck and so is the stronghold,
there are really 34 cards to work with in the starter deck,
however. Eventually, players will be able to edit their deck,
choosing between pre-made decks as well as customizing their own. A
tentative deck limit is 60 cards for now.
Victory Conditions:To win a game of Card Wars, one player must
destroy their opponents stronghold as well as all of their
creatures. Once a players stronghold is destroyed they can no
longer play new creatures, however they can use any creatures they
already had out and can continue to draw cards and play
spells/abilities/items until their last creature is defeated.
Setup Phase:The player is presented 4 cards from their available
land cards (there are 6 in the starter deck at the beginning of the
game). The player then has the option to redraw or floop. Flooping
their land will make the land appear on the board and give the
player the choice of where to place their stronghold. Depending on
the deck, the stronghold can differ but the starter deck has a Keep
as a stronghold. Once the stronghold is placed, the opponent will
place their land and stronghold. Once setup has been completed,
each player will draw five cards to start with and determine who
will go first. A single turn will consist of:1. Draw one card.2.
Play one building or one creature (cannot use buildings or
creatures the same turn they are played).3. Activate/Floop
creatures/buildings already on the board (this includes special
abilities, learning and/or moving creatures into/out of
buildings).4. Once creatures have been committed, if the opposing
player wishes to defend they will select their defenders and the
combat phase with begin, wherein players can play spell cards,
abilities or items to augment their creatures.5. If a building or
creature was not put into play previously, one can be played at
this point.6. End of turn, if a player has more than 5 cards in
their hand they must discard down to 5.Play proceeds to the next
person.
CombatSo combat will go sort of like this, and this isnt a final
setup: Player chooses attacking creature Opponent chooses any
number of un-flooped creatures to defend. Each successive defender
adds their defense together, ex. Two defending pigs (def. 2) would
have an overall defense of 4 The attacking creature compares their
attack to the overall defense and any remaining attack points are
subtracted from the attackers target, ex. Player Pig attacks (att.
2) opp. Pig, Opp defends with two pigs though so the overall
defense is 4, therefore the players attack does no damage. The
attacking creature is then flooped until the players next turn. I
realize there is a lot of room for this system to not work, so it
will take some testing and tweaking before the final combat system
can be set in stone.
