In Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn sequence, some individuals have the ability to metabolize steel to work magic, burning pewter to reinforce themselves bodily or brass to appease another person’s feelings. However essentially the most highly effective characters on the planet are the Mistborn, who can use many varieties of metals and mix their powers to successfully fly and even see the long run.
Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Recreation faucets into Sanderson’s clearly outlined magical mechanics to permit gamers to point out off the ability of a Mistborn by constructing complicated combos utilizing their metals as effectively as doable. The purpose is to both full three missions, which offer rewards for reaching milestones alongside the way in which, or to eradicate your competitors by lowering them to zero well being.
Characters get extra highly effective as the sport goes on, unlocking the flexibility 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 if you happen to can burn extra of the identical kind of steel, which inspires specialization. You possibly can 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 method to break. In a three- or four-player recreation, one particular person is the goal and is the one participant who might be attacked. It’s not all draw back because the goal will get to do harm to all their opponents every time they assault. Each time the goal is broken, they will 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 that’s forward on the board but it surely can be strategically stored by somebody who’s enjoying 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 sequence’ plot in that the Mistborn group as much as tackle the tyrannical Lord Ruler. The sport additionally feels ripe for enlargement, introducing extra characters from the sequence and story parts past its first e book.
