Play continues until someone’s Authority is reduced to zero. When you run out of cards in your deck, you shuffle your discard pile (but not any scrapped cards) and this becomes your new deck. If your opponent does damage to your base equal to its defense score, that base is destroyed and placed in your discard pile. If your base is an Outpost, your opponent must overcome its defensive value in attacks before dealing damage to your Authority. There are also double-ally abilities that require you to have three cards from a single faction in play.Īt the end of your turn, discard all your purchased cards and ship cards your base cards stay active in front of you. This means if you have two or more cards from the same faction in play, these ally abilities become active. These are the blue Trade Federation, the green Blob, the red Machine Cult and the gold Star Empire. Some cards are aligned with one of the four factions of Star Realms. Some add to your Authority (and yes, it can go above the starting amount). Some cards give you a choice between Trade or Combat power. As you purchase cards from the Trade Row, replace them with new face-up cards from the Trade Deck.Įvery point of Combat power in the cards you drew allows you to remove a point of Authority from your opponent. Every point of Trade allows you to purchase cards from either the Explorer deck or the Trade Row. You place ships and bases face-up on the table. The cards you draw come in two types: ships and bases. The player going first draws three cards from their personal deck. Shuffle your personal deck of Scouts and Vipers and you’re ready to play. Next to your face-up Explorer cards is the Trade Row: five face-up Trade cards and the face-down Trade Deck. Scrapping a card removes it from the game. On the board, you’ll have a deck of face-up Explorer cards these cost 2 Trade to purchase and give you 2 Trade when you play them, or you can scrap them for 2 Combat power. Each player also starts the game with eight Scout cards (each having a Trade value of 1) and two Viper cards (with an individual Combat power of 1). The value of this pool of hit points usually starts at 50. The goal of the game is to wipe out your opponent’s Authority.
And if you’re an old hand, you’ll find some neat multiplayer and solo-play treats to change your game up.
If you’ve been curious about Star Realms, Frontiers is a great way to get started in the game. It’s a stand-alone box game called Star Realms: Frontiers. We got to sit down with their latest Star Realms release at GenCon this year. One of the more popular deck-building games of the past few years has been White Wizard Games’ Star Realms. Deck-builders combine a strategic element with randomness that keeps games fresh and allows neophytes to surprise more skilled players. There are a lot of great deck-building games out there and it’s easy to see why.
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