Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Nightfall


If you've ever played Ascension, you know how awesome it is to build a deck with a lot of power; and how disappointing it is to have to hit the Cultist 10 times with all that power. When Night Falls, things change and your opponents become the targets of your attack.

AEG's new game Nightfall is now available in stores like Neverland Games.

Unlike most deck-building games, Nightfall allows you to attack your opponents; but unlike many popular Trading Card Games, players don't start with a life total. Instead, wounds are tracked by wound cards which are shuffled into your deck along with all of the cards that you bought.

The player with the fewest wound cards at game's end is the winner, but beware, the more wounds a player gets, the more ferocious they will become.

Every game is different as the cards that are used are drafted at the beginning of the game, so strategies are sometimes hard to develop since players have to work with what's available.

Gameplay works with a 'chain' which allows players to play as many cards as they wish during their turn or their opponents turn, so long as those cards can be 'chained' together. The chain also grants bonuses to certain cards, called kickers, if they're chained off of the right kind of card.

Overall, Nightfall is an excellent deck building game that fills gaps left by others and has great re-playability. And up until April 10th, head over to AEG's The First 100 Days and enter to win a free copy of Nightfall.

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