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The only down side in the starter set is the fold-out battle grid. Save your magic to summon a big, bad champion or swarm the board with lots of weaker, cheaper cards? Discard cards from your hands to increase your magic but run the risk of running out of cards in your draw pile? I have played this with young kids AND older, seasoned gamers and all have enjoyed it.Įven though the rules are simple ( move two spaces, roll dice and wound on a 3), there are plenty of room for tactical play. The game is very easy to learn and plays very fast. This is not as easy as it sounds as he/she is protected by a small force of Common and Champion cards and the Summoner hurls spells that weaken his attackers or bolsters his defenders!Īttackers can attack an opponent’s Summoning Wall and destroy it thus, limiting where or, even if, a Summoner can bring reinforcements onto the battlefield. The object of the game is to defeat your opponent’s Summoner who starts the game at the opposite side of the battlefield. In this way,there are also elements of a war-game.

When cards enter, or are summoned,they are played onto a battlefield grid next to a Summoning Wall after which they can move about and attack their enemy. Spells come in the form of Special Events cards which can attack opponents or bolster the Summoner’s forces or additional Summoning Walls. Plus, once you use magic, it’s gone so it’s a limited resource.Įach Common and Champion card has a Summoning cost, it’s own unique special ability, number of attacks and amount of wounds it can take. Instead, you gain it by defeating your opponent’s cards or discarding cards in your hand and putting them into your magic pile. However, you don’t draw magic from your deck. There are slight similarities to Magic the Gathering in that you summon creatures and cast spells using magic that you accumulate.

Although primarily a two player game, there are rules for up to four players.

We all talk about the games we have been playing lately, including the upcoming Ashes from Plaid Hat Games. We don’t do a formal review this episode, but interview Colby, Emerson, & Isaac, asking them about their publishing background, their creation of Specter Ops and Ashes, and we had a ton of listener questions. Then we quizzed them on their knowledge of Canada in our trivia game, Know Your Neighbour to the North.Summoner Wars, released in 2009 by Plaid Hat Games, the brainchild of Colby Dauch, is a fast, card-based battle game. In our thirtieth episode, Quinten and Aaron are joined by Colby Dauch and Isaac Vega of Plaid Hat Games and Emerson Matsuuchi of Nazca Games. Episode 30 – Interview with Plaid Hat Games Colby Dauch and Isaac Vega, and Mazca Games Emerson Matsuuchiĭirect Download or Media Player or RSS Feed