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- Sep 12, 2018
You know I think this game is really fun, but no one talks about it because the marketing director is out to lunch I guess. So I will try and make a thread for people who already like the game to talk about it, or to perhaps get people interested.
What is Sorcery?
Sorcery is a collectible card game that is played on a 5x4 grid. The player controls an "Avatar" that moves along the grid by playing "Sites" to create a map on the grid that the game takes place on. Like many card games, it obviously takes a lot of dna from Magic: The Gathering. The Avatars are similar to commanders, and the Sites are similar to lands. The card's resource system is mana, with all lands providing colorless mana, but also have a denotation called "threshold" that is colored. The amount of threshold is what usually denotes the colors you can play at any given time. Think of the game sort of like a simple magic with a positioning game added on. I think it makes the game very fun.
The aethestic of the card game harkons back to Magic prior to modern borders and Wizard's focus on digital art. With a lot of the artists being people you may recognize if you are familiar with fantasy art, or older Magic art. The game currently has 2 sets of cards. "Beta" which is about 400 cards, and Arthurian Legends being about 200 cards. As it stands it look like they are currently shooting for about 1 set a year. However they also seem to be wanting to put out very small specialty sets in between, one with dragons currently coming at... some point! The booster boxes come with a qr code on the box that you can redeem for "dust" to trade for thinks like promo cards, game mats, and tshirts.
How do I play?!
This video does a great job at introducing you to the rules of the game. The keywording is a minor learning curve, but after you get most of those down, then the game itself is mostly straight forward. But dont worry, there are cards that are interesting enough with their mechanics to make you actually think about the rules.
Where can I play?
Well, despite my opening to this thread being complaining about the advertising for the game being sub par, there are card shops that support it. So it is not a *complete* wast of time to look up related gaming shops in your area. However chances are a lot of your games are going to be done through tabletop simulator, which is a program available on Steam. Tabletop Simulator does exactly what it says on the tin and can simulate well... a lot of table top games, Sorcery has been pretty well implemented and you can get it here. I hope you all try the game, and enjoy it.
Other resources
Deck builder and card database: https://curiosa.io/
Event database and Dust renewal website: https://play.sorcerytcg.com/
The actual website for the game: https://sorcerytcg.com/
What is Sorcery?
Sorcery is a collectible card game that is played on a 5x4 grid. The player controls an "Avatar" that moves along the grid by playing "Sites" to create a map on the grid that the game takes place on. Like many card games, it obviously takes a lot of dna from Magic: The Gathering. The Avatars are similar to commanders, and the Sites are similar to lands. The card's resource system is mana, with all lands providing colorless mana, but also have a denotation called "threshold" that is colored. The amount of threshold is what usually denotes the colors you can play at any given time. Think of the game sort of like a simple magic with a positioning game added on. I think it makes the game very fun.
The aethestic of the card game harkons back to Magic prior to modern borders and Wizard's focus on digital art. With a lot of the artists being people you may recognize if you are familiar with fantasy art, or older Magic art. The game currently has 2 sets of cards. "Beta" which is about 400 cards, and Arthurian Legends being about 200 cards. As it stands it look like they are currently shooting for about 1 set a year. However they also seem to be wanting to put out very small specialty sets in between, one with dragons currently coming at... some point! The booster boxes come with a qr code on the box that you can redeem for "dust" to trade for thinks like promo cards, game mats, and tshirts.
How do I play?!
This video does a great job at introducing you to the rules of the game. The keywording is a minor learning curve, but after you get most of those down, then the game itself is mostly straight forward. But dont worry, there are cards that are interesting enough with their mechanics to make you actually think about the rules.
Where can I play?
Well, despite my opening to this thread being complaining about the advertising for the game being sub par, there are card shops that support it. So it is not a *complete* wast of time to look up related gaming shops in your area. However chances are a lot of your games are going to be done through tabletop simulator, which is a program available on Steam. Tabletop Simulator does exactly what it says on the tin and can simulate well... a lot of table top games, Sorcery has been pretty well implemented and you can get it here. I hope you all try the game, and enjoy it.
Other resources
Deck builder and card database: https://curiosa.io/
Event database and Dust renewal website: https://play.sorcerytcg.com/
The actual website for the game: https://sorcerytcg.com/
