Fate of Heroes is a fantasy CCG (Collectible Card Game) released in 2009 by Xemytica™. Xemytica™ is a card game rule system that is very quick paced and quick to play. It is simple and minimalistic, but instead, very quick and easy to get into.

Xemytica™ is used by Fate of Heroes as the rule system, but other games (as 1910) also use the same rules (with slight modifications).

Fate of Heroes comes in a Starter Pack (you will need to buy this first to play the game) and add-on packs (which adds more cards to your starter pack). The Starter Pack has 17 Fighter cards, 17 Fate cards and 17 Gear cards. The Fighters are blue, the Fate cards red and the Gear cards purple.

The game play is very simple. Everyone first makes a deck with a value of 30 points. To do this, you look on the top right corner of each card. Here you will see one, two or three dots. This is the value. You add cards together until you reach 30 points – no more. This will make a deck for you with between 10 to 30 cards. Each player then seats the deck in front of him (or herself – I will use he/him for the rest of this article, but always implies she/her), facing down. Then draw eight cards.

You may draw cards at any time, and you can even discard to draw new cards. But, you may never pick up a discarded card.

Now, the battles start! And this is how you play it (and now I will also show you a few inside tricks).

First place out a Fighter (a blue card). On the bottom of this card are three squares with a point value for Strength, Speed and Skill. These are your Attack Values, or Action Values. The purpose of the game is to get one of these values as high as possible – it doesn’t matter which, the Fighter with the highest in any of these values wins that battle.

Now place a Fate card (red). Add any modifications listed on the card, or do as the card rules say. Sometimes, card rules contradict main rules (for instance, there are cards that in fact allow you to pick up discarded cards!).

Last, play a Gear card (purple). Add modifications and now see which Fighter has the highest value of any of the Action Values. That Fighter wins.

The beauty of Fate of Heroes (and the Xemytica™ rule system) is that each player plays out their Fighter, Fate and Gear cards simultanously! You play each card at the same time as the other players! This makes it more real time, and you can’t change you mind ones you have played out your Fighter. This really adds to the fun of the whole game!

The player that wins the battle can place all the played cards back into the deck. The loser(s) but, discard all played cards.

When there is only one player with Fighter card(s) left, that player wins the whole game!

This is how easy it is to in fact play Fate of Heroes. But now, how do you really trick the other player so you can win all the time? It all comes down to two things: making a killer deck and before a live audience the cards in the right manner.

For instance, if you have a Fighter with Strength 7, Speed 5 and Skill 3, your opponent will probably believe that you will boost the Strength value. Hence, he might put out a Fate card that in fact lowers your Strength!

But if you have been prepared for this, you can already in the Fate phase play a modification to Speed – and in fact win the game because you have the highest notch on Speed, and not Strength!

Before a live audience the game like this in fact makes a more income and fun game
session.

Also, wisely check the Fate cards that can be played before the Fate phase, or that can in fact be played at any time. These are valuable cards and can seriously confuse your opponent’s strategy.

Here are a lot of things you can do with Fate of Heroes, and since the rules are so simple and easy to know, you will very quickly find it a powerful game and start tuning your deck.

Now have fun and go out there and play a lot of card games!

anders dent.

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