Epic Card Game
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| Designer | Robert Dougherty |
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| Publisher | White Wizard Games |
| Playing time | 20 minutes |
| Website | epiccardgame |
Epic Card Game is a strategy card game created by White Wizard Games, the creators of Star Realms.[1] It was released in 2015 after a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. It is a sort of reboot of an old collectible card game with the same name (EPIC) edited in 2009 by the developer Darwin Kastle and the lead designer Robert Dougherty (the rules are absolutely the same, also the fantasy-appealing theme). [2]
Epic can be played with two or more players who act as gods in conflict, playing champions who fight against the other players. Unlike collectible card games, each set of Epic contains every card.[3] The game can be played as a drafting or sealed deck card game,[1] and preconstructed decks can also be used to play.[3]
In early 2017, another Kickstarter campaign was successfully funded for a digital video game version of Epic.[4] As of July 2018, the digital game is in alpha testing.[5]
Gameplay
Players begin with 30 health. If this health goes to zero, the player has eliminated all of their opponents, or a player goes to draw a card but has none left, the game ends. On each player's turn, each player has one "gold" point. Some cards cost one gold to play; others cost zero. At most one gold value card may be played by each play on each player's turn. Cards played may be events or champions. The events are discarded after use; champions stay in play until either "broken" (sent to the discard pile), banished (placed on the bottom of that player's face-down deck), or returned to hand. Players have many possible actions, depending on the combination of cards they play. These cards may do damage to the health of the other player(s) or their champion card(s) in play, cause a player to draw more cards, or bring back cards from a discard pile.[6]
Game continues until one of the end conditions mentioned above is reached.[6]
Expansions
Tyrants, the first expansion to Epic, was released in March 2016.[7] Each of four packs includes 12 new cards.[8] The second expansion, Epic Uprising, was released in December 2016.[9] Epic Pantheon was released in 2018.[10]
Tournaments
The 2016 World Championship of Epic was held in November in Massachusetts. The top prize was $25,000, and a total of $100,000 prizes were awarded.[11] The champion was John Tatian.[12]
The 2017 World Championship of Epic was held in November in Massachusetts. The top prize was $15,000, and a total of $50,000 prizes were awarded.[13] The champion was John Tatian again.[14]
References
- ^ a b "Epic Card Game | The future of strategy card games". White Wizard Games. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ^ "Epic Card Game by Robert Dougherty". Kickstarter. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ^ a b "Epic Card Game". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ^ "Epic Digital Card Game by Robert Dougherty". Kickstarter. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
- ^ "Epic Card Game Digital Alpha Access". White Wizard Games. Retrieved July 3, 2018.
- ^ a b "Epic Card Game Rules". EpicCardGame.com. White Wizard Games. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ^ "Epic Card Game: Tyrants - Raxxa's Revenge Pack (Preorder)". Miniature Market. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ^ Debbie Moynihan (February 27, 2016). "Epic Tyrants Expansion Coming to Stores March 22nd!". Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ^ "Epic Card Game: Uprising 4 Pack Bundle". CoolStuffInc.com. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
- ^ Adam Bowman (March 29, 2018). "Epic Pantheon: Gareth vs Lashnok and Angeline vs Scara". Retrieved July 3, 2018.
- ^ "Worlds | Epic Card Game". White Wizard Games. Archived from the original on 2016-03-20. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
- ^ Nathan Davis (December 12, 2016). "Epic World Championships Retrospective". epiccardgame.com. Retrieved February 13, 2017.
- ^ "Epic Championship Series". White Wizard Games. Retrieved November 27, 2017.
- ^ Adam Bowman (December 5, 2017). "2017 Epic Championship: A Quick Recap". epiccardgame.com. Retrieved March 14, 2020.