Battle Spirits Saga is a deeply strategic trading card game played with cards and cores. (TCG stands for TRADING CARD GAME) Do not worry, everything is included.
Use three types of cards to craft your deck.
Cores are the essence of Battle Spirits Saga's unique gameplay system.
How you make use of your limited cores during a game determines the flow of battle, leading to endless possibilities!
Games of Battle Spirits Saga are won in one of two ways.
The first is by reducing your opponent’s life total to zero by attacking them with your Spirits.
By hitting your opponent with Spirits, you reduce their life cores by the total number of symbols in your attacking creatures’ bottom right corner: for instance, if you hit with two creatures with one symbol each, your opponent will lose two life cores.
The second way will be one familiar to most TCG players, known as ‘decking out’. If you go to your start step with no cards left in your deck, you immediately lose the game regardless of how many life cores you had left remaining.
Of course, there are other potential outcomes, such as both players winning at the same time (resulting in a draw), or one player conceding the game and losing as a result.
Each turn is divided into seven steps:
Start Step: This step is more about checking the condition of the board. Any effects that say they happen in the Start step are resolved, and the active player must check to see if they still have cards in their deck. If they don’t, they immediately lose the game.
Core Step: The active player puts one core from their Void into their Reserve. Any effects that trigger now are also resolved. The first player does not have a Core step on their first turn.
Draw Step: This step is simple enough: the active player draws a card. If any effects trigger now, they are also resolved.
Refresh Step: In the Refresh Step, every currently-exhausted card (those turned 90 degrees) are returned to their normal position. Cores in your Trash area are moved back into your Reserve, and any effects triggered by this step are resolved.
Main Step: This is the earliest point in the turn where you can play cards. In the Main Step, you can play Spirit, Nexus, and Magic cards, level up cards already on the field, set cards in your Burst area, activate abilities on cards, or merely move on to the next step.
Attack Step: This is when combat happens, and the active player can decide which Spirits they are attacking with, while the defending player can choose their blockers. Alongside combat, this step also includes two Flash Windows where cards with flash abilities can be played.
End Step: In the End Step, any effects that specifically trigger during the end step, or last until the end of the turn, are resolved. After this, the turn ends, and the next player begins again at the Start Step.
That is quite a big and great game and one of the first of the genre to come to Board Game Arena!
Ready to build your deck and fight ? Click the link below to discover more about it and join a table right from your browser:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=battlespiritssaga
To customize your deck, you SHOULD start a SOLO game to be able to built it before a 2 player match.
We would love to thank everyone involved in this adaptation, and especially BANDAI Co., Ltd. for their authorization and confidence to bring their game on our platform.
Obviously, when there is a game on #BGA, there is at least one developer behind it, and this one is brought to you by LeSteffen. Let's also thank Michael Elliot and Mitsuhiro Nakazawa, the game designers, for their work done on this title.
That's it for this WRT (Wednesday Release Time)!
In an effort to bring various games and gameplays to you, we are all very happy to share you this unique one.
See you around in a few days!
Until then... take care and play fair! (always
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