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Star Realms: Colony Wars

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Published
2015
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Players
2–2
Play time
20 min
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Main mechanics

  • Deck / bag building
  • Hand management
  • Drafting
  • Direct conflict
  • Deck / bag building: You shape your own deck or bag of resources as you play.
  • Hand management: Timing which card to spend is the core puzzle.
  • Drafting: You pick from a shared pool and pass the rest along.
  • Direct conflict: Players attack each other head-on.
Full publisher description

Colony Wars is a deckbuilding game in the Star Realms series which is both a standalone box set for two players (featuring an 80-card trade deck, as in the original) and an expansion for the base Star Realms set that allows it to be played as a four-player game. In Colony Wars, as in Star Realms, players will start with a fleet (deck) of 10 basic ships, and can spend Trade to acquire more powerful ships and bases from a central trade row of 5 cards. This row is continuously replenished by random draws from the trade deck. Many ships and bases deal Combat damage which you can use to attack your opponent and/or destroy their bases. When you reduce your opponent's Authority to zero, you win.

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