The Spoils
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 The Spoils's card back design |
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| Designer | Tenacious Games |
| Publisher | Tenacious Games |
| Players | Two and up |
| Age range | 12 and up |
| Setup time | 3-4 Minutes |
| Playing time | Varies |
| Random chance | Some |
| Skills required | Card playing |
The Spoils is a collectible card game produced by Tenacious Games. It launched with a free open beta in August of 2006, and officially released for sale in November 2006. The Spoils was in development from 2001 to 2006. Jon Finkel, a prominent player in Magic: the Gathering's Pro Tour, aided the development team as an advisor since 2002.
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[edit] Gameplay and setting
The Spoils uses a number of mechanics in common with other collectible card games. Unlike many games of this kind, you start the game with a faction card in play, that determines how you begin your turn and which actions you are allowed to take. These factions have special abilities, unique to each faction card. Currently, only one faction is available to the public, the Tournament Faction. Special foiled versions of this card were given away at Gen Con.
Players need to amass resource cards in order to play characters, tactics, items and locations. Certain cards are "staple" resources and any number of these may be played in a deck. Most cards require between 1 and 4 of these staple resources in play, indicated by resource icons on the card. The resource icons come in the form of five trades, which are:
- Banker (Greed icon)
- Rogue (Deception icon)
- Warlord (Rage icon)
- Gearsmith (Elitism icon)
- Arcanist (Obsession icon)
To supplement the staple resources, players may play any card from their hand face down as a resource; however, cards played face down in this manner will not count as having any resource icons.
Playable cards come in several types: characters, items, tactics, and locations. Each of these types often have subtypes. To win the game, the opponent's faction must be reduced to 0 influence. The Tournament Faction starts with 25 influence. The faction's influence may be reduced by attacking it with characters, or by using tactics or special abilities. Characters have three stats: strength (amount of damage the character deals), life (amount of damage needed to destroy the character), and speed (faster characters deal their damage earlier).
[edit] Open beta tournaments
Starting August 1, 2006 and running through to the launch of The Spoils, Tenacious Games will support the release of the limited set of Open Beta cards of The Spoils Tournament Card Game with over 1000 free tournaments and over $60,000 in prize money.
[edit] External links
[edit] Unofficial sites
- Pojo.com Pojo recently started to host "The Spoils." The website includes card of the day reviews as well as a few articles.
- Spoils @ TCG Player One of the world's leading TCG fansite chains with arguably the best content out there for The Spoils with articles by the best known players in the game, sortable spoiler, great forums and the most up-to-date information to be found anywhere.
- TheTournamentFaction.com The Spoils Fansite, contains downloadable content pertaining to The Spoils as well as the most up to date Spoiler List for The Spoils as of August 14, 2006.
