The highest score wins. I would now consider Magic the be a BUILT deck game, where in games like Thunderstone and Dominion you are required to build your deck as a part of the game play.

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Thunderstone est un jeu pour 1 à 5 joueurs. Similarly, the heroes will be available to fight monsters during the game. Hired heroes and purchased cards are immediately discarded along with all of the cards from the player’s hand whether they were used to make the purchase or not. What could go wrong!” I thought to myself. When the Thunderstone which has been randomly inserted in the last few cards is flipped up in the dungeon and advances to the first level, the game is over. Award winning Fantasy RPG Deck Building Card Game

Today you can play Dominion with much more interaction and strategy, while the lack of theme is still heavily present.Then came Thunderstone, a game that promised to be a solution to the deck-building format and even more, with a really good theme applied, that would allow a greater immersion. I love the game and probably have the plan to get a copy of all the expansions (already got the hold of the ‘For The Dwarf’ Promo Card from Geek Store and the promo card 1 & 2).Note: I have only played the base game and none of the expansions.Thunderstone is a great game right out of the box for people who have played a lot of deck building games like Dominion but are looking for something with a little more theme or depth to it.

Some monsters are stronger than others; some a more difficult to defeat with magic, some more difficult to defeat with weapons, and so on.With all the variables – the deeper you go into the dungeon, the more light you need; the heavier the weapon, the more strength, and so on – this game has a lot of replayability. And Thunderstone fulfilled all these things! The game also uses the same setup for any number of players, which ranges from an embarrassment of riches for two players, to an epidemic shortage for five players.Despite its flaws, there’s a lot of good stuff going on in this game, and for those who like it conceptually, they will find that the expansions help address some of these balance issues and add more punch to gameplay.

But even if that’s what you’re looking for, surely there’s a game that provides it with less number-crunching and errata than Thunderstone?When I was in my local game store I happened upon Thunderstone, a deck building game that was Non-collectible. “Deeper, more themed deck building; some confusing mechanics”

Comparing this to Ascension on the iPad, you will definitely get more for your $ with Ascension.Skirmish allows the selecting of cards (but only the basic cards unless you have purchased card packs) to compete in a game versus 1 to 3 other AI computer opponents. The light and level mechanism really adds to the immersion in the theme.

You aren't registered on Tric Trac? This also means the game turn goes faster.As in Doninion the greatest flaw is the lack of player interaction, and personally I would also have appreciated if the expansions offered some more variation in the game play. You can also trash cards from your deck so as to thin out what you don’t want to be cycling and drawing repeatedly.While my experiences with this game tend to lead me to think of it as a pretty well balanced game there are times when the monsters and the available cards just don’t mix or it would be significantly easier to face certain monsters with certain heroes. The point of using your deck in Thunderstone is to attack monsters in the dungeon, and its these monsters that grant victory points. 2010 Edition: Top 100 Board games of all Time - # 66 - # 70 Thunderstone Review - with Tom Vasel. Thunderstone was not just a card game, but one with a central mechanic that is known to obscure theme.

Now anytime I pick up this game after not playing it for awhile, I have to reference which symbol means what because they are in no way intuitive. The market for purchasing additional card packs for campaigns beyond the first (free) campaign has yet to work for me, and the open campaign is getting a bit stale (you don’t always have the same cards, but the pool of available cards in the free mode is quite shallow—if there’s a card you don’t like, sorry, you will be seeing it a lot).Overall, I’d recommend this game for iPad. The art work is beautiful the cards are well designed and laid out. The good news: I was wrong.

Imagine playing a version of Dominion where you could plausibly buy Gold on The combat portion of the game has the opposite problem. As with all versions of this genre, Thunderstone can occasionally suffer from the degenerative combos that the random deck design spawns. “Thunderstone on Facebook - is it worth it?”