CivTCG
The Civ Trading Card Game (CivTCG) is an in game card game based mechanically on Hearthstone, Magic The Gathering and Pokemon, but set in Minecraft, the civclassics server in particular.
Cards and officially licensed accessories can be bought from the main shop in Westminster, Gensokyo or from Civmall.ml
CivTCG's official Discord opened on July 14th 2018, and the game was officially announced on Reddit on August 7th 2018. CivTCG was invented and developed by Lodish
Competition History
The first official tournament to be held was the Pre-release Tournament on October 19th[1], it lasted several days and Swiftfizz won first place, with BorderTage in second and ShinjiruMC in third.
How to play
Each CivTCG match is a 1 vs 1 battle between two opponents representing two different nations. Gameplay in CivTCG is turn-based, with players taking turns to play cards from their hand, either to cast a powerful effect or to summon a minion to fight on behalf of their nation. Each nation has 20 Health, and if their health is reduced to zero that nation loses, cursed to be a deserted ruin.
At the start of each turn, the player draws a new card from their deck - a collection of 27 cards selected before battle. During their turn, each player can choose to play any of their cards, activate card abilities or command minions to attack targets, however most actions require the player to spend Materials. Each player starts the game choosing 1 Material out of the 5 base materials, and gains one more of their choice at the start of each turn. All of a players's Materials regenerate at the beginning of their turn (all their Materials become 'replenished').
Drawing your entire deck does not cause the player to lose. However, once a player has no more cards to draw, later attempts to draw an additional card from their empty deck will cause them to suffer 5 damage from Fatigue.
Cards
Players can currently choose from 96 official cards, with more cards always being added through future expansions.
Official Sets
There are currently 2 major sets on sale with cards from the Promo Set also Tournament legal. There is also an upcoming set currently in the prototype stage called Duels. Sets vary in size
Classic Set
Released first, the Classic Set is the original core of cards. It was officially released [?]. The classic set cards can be identified by their ❒ symbol on the card. There are 40 cards in the Classic Set listed alphabetically. Famous CivClassics players have cards based on them: ComradeNick, Frensin, Gantoe_, Gjum, LordofMarzipan, ProgramMC, Sintralin, TangentalThreat. Famous buildings from Civclassics also have cards: Gingyoukage Bathhouse of Gensokyo, Ironbank Vault of Hexcorp, Meditat Ziggurat of Meditat, Shardore Tower of Mount Augusta and Yoahtl Olympic Stadium of Yoahtl.
Beginner Set
The second CivTCG set was aimed at newer players and has more basic designs and all cards only have one material type making it easier to creat mono-type decks. The Beginner Set has 45 cards total, 9 of each material type, each type with one rarer 6 cost card. The Beginner set cards can be identified by their Ⓑ symbol on the card
Promo Set
Promotional cards made for CivTCG are labelled as their own set, unlike other sets promo cards don't list how many cards are in the set. Currently there are .The Promo set cards can be identified by their ㏚ symbol on the card. The Promo set is currently the only set with reprints, for example reprints of Shardore Tower and Meditat Ziggurat. Unlike other sets, Promo cards can't be bought, all are obtained in different ways.
Duels Set
The Duels set is an upcoming set currently in the prototype stage, there currently is no announced release date. It will consist of 27 cards, including the Swiftfizz card won at the first CivTCG Tournament. Pre-release matches with the cards can be done in Westminster and Gensokyo if you message Lodish.