In Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn collection, some individuals have the facility to metabolize metallic to work magic, burning pewter to reinforce themselves bodily or brass to appease another person’s feelings. However probably the most highly effective characters on the earth are the Mistborn, who can use many forms of metals and mix their powers to successfully fly and even see the long run.
Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Sport faucets into Sanderson’s clearly outlined magical mechanics to permit gamers to point out off the facility of a Mistborn by constructing advanced combos utilizing their metals as effectively as potential. The purpose is to both full three missions, which offer rewards for reaching milestones alongside the way in which, or to remove your competitors by decreasing them to zero well being.
Characters get extra highly effective as the sport goes on, unlocking the power to burn extra of the sport’s eight metals every flip, that are used to activate playing cards that may permit them to maneuver up mission tracks, assault different gamers, or sculpt their deck by shopping for playing cards within the middle row or eliminating weak beginning playing cards. Many playing cards have kickers that produce extra highly effective results should you can burn extra of the identical kind of metallic, which inspires specialization. You may take a broader technique by flaring metals, successfully placing them on cooldown till you refresh them with a card of the identical kind on the long run flip, and I really feel like I didn’t use this technique sufficient within the early recreation to ramp up my deck.
One novel facet of the sport is its strategy to wreck. In a three- or four-player recreation, one individual is the goal and is the one participant who could be attacked. It’s not all draw back for the reason that goal will get to do injury to all their opponents at any time when they assault. At any time when the goal is broken, they’ll select to cross the token on to a different participant or maintain it. It’s intelligent in that it prevents gamers from all ganging up on the one who’s forward on the board nevertheless it may also be strategically stored by somebody who’s taking part in a extra aggressive deck.
I’m keen to check out some extra methods and check out the sport’s co-op mode, which feels extra trustworthy to the collection’ plot in that the Mistborn workforce as much as tackle the tyrannical Lord Ruler. The sport additionally feels ripe for growth, introducing extra characters from the collection and story parts past its first ebook.