Summoner Wars Card Game First Impressions
Summoner Wars game was bought by a friend. He picked up an extra board so we could 2 vs 2 team matches.
Players take on the role of Summoners: powerful beings who harness the power of mysterious Summoning Stones to lead their race to conquest on the war-torn planet of Itharia. These Summoners wield terrible magic on the battlefield, freezing their foes in place, draining their enemies of power, and even bringing rains of fire down from the heavens
Do I like the quality of the components? Yes
Do I think it’s a good game? The game only last 4 turns so maybe if it lasted longer I would have more of an opinion )
Ok, that’s not strictly true, I really enjoyed the game. I got pasted by a sneaky sneak attack which took my Summoner out very early on.
But that gave me the chance to read about the other factions. This made me excited to play the game again.
The teams on this Tabletop Day 2013 were…
Shadow Elves
Swamp Orcs
vs
Deep Dwarves – Me
Vargath
As I said, I got pasted early on and with my partner having an aggressive race he ran his Summoner in and it eventually got caught.
I’m looking forward to playing again so I can try out some different races and maybe last more than 4 minutes…
Summoner Wars Update: 15/05/2018
I did play it a couple of times later with different races.
So, there are a lot of ‘clones’ or other games that replace this instantly for me.
Firstly, I prefer the more standard ‘deck of cards vs deck of cards’ like Magic the Gathering or Ashes: Rise of the Pheonixborn.
If I want combat on a table why not do it with miniatures? Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire does it for me at the moment.
Arcadia Quest is another I would rather play over this game, even with 2 players.
Summoner Wars does reduce the cost of the miniature games and also gives you an extra dimension to the card-based games. But still, they do what they do better… In my opinion of course 🙂
But, the game and the system is good overall and I wouldn’t actively try to put people off giving it a go for themselves, it’s just not for me.
Jesta ThaRogue
