White Wizard GamesEpic Card Game

Te gusta Yu-gi-oh pero ya se ha vuelto muy complicado y ya no es divertido? Este juego trae de vuelta los dias de gloria cuando todo lo que tenias era ataque, defensa, efecto, carta trampa y hechizo. Es muy divertido de jugar una y otra vez, para toda la familia, realmente una buena compra.

Collecting Game Cards like these can be an expensive hobby, specially if you're determined to track down every available card for a vast and ever-growing plethora such as the leading brands tend to have.Epic provides a single 120 card stack, with no duplicates save the 8 'token' cards. Whilst there are expansions for Epic, you don't NEED them - they just add some extra variety. The set is divided into four alignments (essentially wild nature, evil, good and arcane), making it readily suited to two to four players. It's equally easy to use dice or some other means of random choice to simulate an opponent(s) if you wish to play singly.The cards in this set feature attractive artwork and a clear, pleasing design. The deck is divided between Champion cards - assorted creatures - and Event cards which are used to cast spells, transform lycanthropes, cause lightning storms, etc, etc, and effect the creatures and thus the course of the game.The creatures are of a wide variety including Medusa, Dinosaurs, Fairies, Demons, Angels, Dire Wolves, Minotaurs, Dragons, knights, wizards, Vampires, Unicorns, Trolls, etc, etc - along with the unwelcome and perplexing silliness of sticking King Kong in for no very legitimate reason.One thing about the creature cards perplexes me. Most games of this type tend to throw up some slightly odd combat ratings for characters in the interests of making the game "balanced", but Epic has a few real oddities. Such as the Winter Fairy. This is a Fairy - a Fairy, no less - who has exactly the same combat rating as a gargantuan subterranean worm monster that must be close to two-hundred feet long to judge by the artwork and has individual fangs bigger than a man. And this Worm that Arrakis Forgot has the same combat rating as a Fairy. The same Obviously Lethal Fairy also has an identical combat rating to the "Dark Leader", a hulking, armoured knight presumably relatively high in the hierarchy of evil.Odd that.The shockingly dangerous Winter Fairy is one of my favourite cards in the set, actually.And there are plenty of other values on some of the characters that seem totally out of proportion, one way or the other.But these are the kind of quirks that only bother people like me who spend FAR too long considering how a Fairy takes on a two-hundred foot long monster fang-worm on an equal footing.The game play basics are straightforward, and the more detailed elements are easily picked up with a little practice. Also, as with most such games, you can always bend the rules to your own preferences anyway; I usually do - it even says as much in Epic's included instruction guide.For anyone looking for an engaging fantasy card game neatly contained in one simple package, this is a good option. Especially if you like Killer Fairies and giant worms that would make Graboids turn tail.

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Ho incominciato a giocare a Magic sulla Playstation dopo un pó volevo acquistare un Deck per giocare con mio cugino, ma ho visto che la scelta e quasi troppo grande e bisogna spendere abbastanza per avere due deck carini per giocare.. sapendo poi che esistono sempre carte piú forti in circolazione che costano un casino.. Rovistando in Internet ho scoperto Epic the Card Game che é stato inventato da Rob Dougherty,Ex giocatore professionale di Magic.Per questo il gioco e molto simile a Magic ed é addiritura piú divertente e veloce,siccome non si deve aspettare ad aver abbastanza Mana/Land per giocare le carte forti..Il gioco si trova normalmente a sotto i 15€ e al interno si trova tutte le carte per giocare tantissime partite divertenti.Se si vuole si trovano i expander pack a 5€ senza sorprese di trovarsi carte scarse,siccome viene scritto sul pacchetto quali carte si trovano al interno.Le carte hanno dei disegni stupendi che hanno nulla da invidiare a quelli di magic.In poche parole Epic é una validissima alternativa a Magic,per persone che vogliono divertirsi subito senza diventar matti a fare del deckbuilding e a spendere somme esagerate per un pezzetto di cartone..Fra un pó uscira anche la versione digitale del gioco per cellulari, al momento si trova in fase beta.A chi piacciono i gioci fantasy consiglio anche "Hero Realms" della stessa dittá.

Update:Ich habe grössten Respekt vor den Designern dieses Spiels. Ich spiele es immer wieder zu zweit mit meiner Freundin seit ca. 11 Monaten, mit der Tyrants Expansion seit 5 Monaten. Es macht immer noch Spass, in den 120 Karten lassen sich immer wieder Synergien und Spielstrategien entdecken. Und Da es nur 120 Karten plus ca. 48 Karten pro Expansion sind, ist das Management der Karten ganz einfach. Ein paar Magic-Spiele kamen mir geradezu langweilig vor, da die Karten dort so viel schwächer sind und das Spiel nicht so abwechslungsreich.------------------+ Hohe Spieltiefe+ Viele verschiedene Spielarten (Sealed, Draft, Constructed, 4 Pre-Constructed-Decks zum Losspielen)+ Eine kleine, ehrliche und praktische Box für die Reise (bei anderen Spielen wird viel Inhalt mit einer großen Schachtel simuliert)+ tolles Artwork+ Sehr gut für 2-Spieler geeignet+ Sehr an Magic angelehnt, aber mit wesentlichen Unterschiedeno Mir machte es aber erst so richtig Spass nachdem ich die Karten besser kannte und eine Strategie verfolgen konnte. Es ist von Vorteil wenn Freunde auch Lust haben da tiefer einzusteigen. Es ist wie beim Schach, mit einem Neulig zu spielen ist nicht dasselbe wie mit einem gleichwertigen Gegner.