Brand new TCG/MMO game that currently has a kickstarter running. Made by Cryptozoic who makes the WoW TCG.

http://hextcg.com/

Beta starts in late summer and the game will be released in the fall. The main page goes more indepth and has examples of cards.

Hex Kickstarter

Kickstarter is 30% funded less than 24 hours in.





Gameplay should be familiar to anyone who has played Magic before. Here is a alpha test video of a game being played in the client, which reminds me of the Duels of the Planeswalkers client (which is excellent).





Game combines aspects of TCGs and MMOs:

- 350+ Cards in Set 1. Game is F2P. You get a 60 card starter deck on account creation. 15 card booster packs can be bought for $2 or ingame gold.

- An auction house where you can buy/sell/trade cards/gear/packs/etc for either real money or gold.

- Tournaments. 8 player on-demand Constructed, Competitive draft, Casual draft, and Swiss play tournaments. Daily tournaments starting every 4 hours. Weekly and monthly tournaments. Guild only tournaments. Coming in the future All Common tournaments, Highlander tournaments, Marathon Tournaments, Pre-release tournaments, 2v2 and 3v3 tournaments, PVE tournaments, etc.

- Create a Champion from 8 races and 6 character classes. Champions level and have talents that can change gameplay.

- Dozens of Dungeons (single player PVE) and Raids (3 player PVE)



- Cards are either PVP or PVE.

- Join a guild. Guilds have Guild Banks where players can create decks and register them, then other members can practice against these decks.

- Hundreds of pieces of gear that can change how cards work. Gear is PVE only.





They are taking advantage of being a fully digital TCG:

Some cards have sockets so you can customize them with gems.



Cards that transform when certain conditions are met.



Cards have a Double Back. Flip once to see the pack, flip twice to see the Double Back. Achievements, stats, and experience are per card and persist through selling and trading cards.

Cryptozoic said they will release new info each day the kickstarter is running. Some of the tiers look amazing. I got in on the King tier at the early bird price, seriously debating getting a higher tier. They have also said they will have a bunch of stretch goals after they reach 300k.

I am excite

Thinking of free draft/week...

Guild Leader thing is really cool if you know you have time to take advantage of it.

YOLO

Upgrading to Grand King.

Daer now nominated as 2+2 Guild Leader

Actually since I was an early-bird King I decided that was too much value so I just made a second account. King and Grand King. I'll be knee deep in boosters, bitches love boosters.

It is known.

You know, even in the worst case scenario where the game is just horrible, we will still have RAIDS jokes.

Let's go on card-based RAIDS.

Anyway.

Hopefully the game isn't horrible, shoudn't be since it has major similiarities to Magic and Cryptozoic makes the WoW TCG so they know how to design and balance a game.

At least with spending all this money on this I now have an actual reason to stop buying Steam games. I solemnly swear to not purchase a game on Steam (at least until the Christmas Sale). May God have mercy on my soul. Amen.

I think I'm gonna drop some bones on the kickstarter as well. I've wanted a good competitive game for like a decade now.

Way, way back in the day I was in the competitive Myth 2: Soulblighter scene. Won some tourneys and had an absolute blast. Been missing that experience ever since. Pretty much requires you to get in on the ground level though, catching up with deep games is almost impossible because of the learning curve.

What's the point of so many boosters if there are only 350 cards?

I recently bought 49 boosters ( 11 cards x booster ) for Call of Chtulhu ( old CCG format, not LCG ) and I have enough cards for a good mono-deck for 6 factions + extras.

Extra cards may even have 0 resell value if there are so many boosters floating around.

Gotta bink those legendaries yo.

That is true too.

120$ seems like a nice level tbh.

Plus you can enter draft tournaments with boosters. You could also save the boosters and trade them with other players for boosters when new sets come out, I'm assuming they won't sell boosters from all sets all the time. Maybe they'll only sell boosters from the last 3 sets or something.

How do draft tourneys work? Are you using your own cards or do you pay the fee and "draft" the cards offered by the tournament?

Pay the fee and draft new cards. You get to keep the cards you drafted them.

The fee to enter is 3 booster packs. 8 people enter. You open 1 pack and pick a card, then pass the pack. Pick a card from the next pack, then pass it, etc. Continue until all cards are gone.Continue this with packs 2 and 3. Then you make a deck with the cards you drafted and play a tournament. You keep the cards you draft.

That's the advantage of the Pro Player tier. One free draft tournament/week for life is basically 3 free booster packs a week for life.

EDIT: Here is an example Magic Draft Simulator: http://www.wizards.com/mtg/flash/dra...icdrafter.html

Seems like once you get the Lotus Garden thing you're already ballin'

EDIT: $120 is the value there. On the other hand, Dragon Lord is pretty awesome.

Do it, then I can console myself that at least I'm not the top spender here.

At launch everyone will have tons of boosters but it might be nice when new sets are released to get a steady stream of new cards for cheap.

So the Pro package gets you guaranteed lifetime boosters basically.

Yes, at 3/week. Keep in mind you'll have to draft the cards you keep so it isn't really true boosters. But then just say **** it and take the most valuable card every time you pick and tank the tournament portion.

Or you just say **** and go on and actually win the tournaments, so you get even more boosters

Aint' nobody got time for that.

So serious question, will there likely be a 2+2 guild?

Note that the Guild Master +10% EXP doesn't stack.

I'd be down for one.