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Hero Realms

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Published
2016
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Players
2–4
Play time
20 min
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How it plays

Reduce your opponents’ health to zero by building a deck that generates gold, combat, and card effects. Each turn, play your five-card hand, buy actions and champions from the shared market, attack opponents or their champions, then discard and draw a new hand. The last player standing wins; in a two-player game, defeat your opponent to win.

Main mechanics

  • Deck / bag building
  • Hand management
  • 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.
  • Direct conflict: Players attack each other head-on.
Full publisher description

Hero Realms is a fantasy-themed deck-building game that is an adaptation of the award-winning Star Realms game. The game includes basic rules for two-player games, along with rules for multiplayer formats such as Free-For-All, Hunter, and Hydra. Each player starts the game with a ten-card personal deck containing gold (for buying) and weapons (for combat). You start each turn with a new hand of five cards from your personal deck. When your deck runs out of cards, you shuffle your discard pile into your new deck. An 80-card Market deck is shared by all players, with five cards being revealed from that deck to create the Market Row. As you play, you use gold to buy champion cards and action cards from the Market. These champions and actions can generate large amounts of gold, combat, or other powerful effects. You use combat to attack your opponent and their champions. When you reduce your opponent's score (called health) to zero, you win! Multiple expansions are available for Hero Realms that allow players to start as a particular character (Cleric, Fighter, Ranger, Thief, or Wizard) and fight cooperatively against a Boss, fight Boss decks against one another, or compete in a campaign mode that has you gain experience to work through different levels of missions.

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