Drone Wars: Trading Card Game
Drones is a game of war between two robot-using armies in the future; One is the Drone Empire, the other being The Resistance. The Drone Empire has reined for years, giving classes to their territories. The lower classed, opressed territories have had enough of the Drone Empire treating them like dirt, and in turn decided to resist them, thus giving birth to The Resistance. The war between the Drone Empire and The Resistance has been going on for many years, and it's up to you to put a stop to either The Resistance's resisting, or the rein of the Drone Empire. Which side will you choose?
Deck Building
In the game of Drones, you have a deck of 55 cards, no more, no less, including your Commendations Card. In your deck you get to choose from a variety of cards that are stamped with the army to which the cards belong. In your deck you may only have cards that are stamped with one army, no mixed decks are alowed (Tournament play). Only Commendations Cards and Drone cards are stamped. Drone cards, Commendations Cards, Weapon cards, Deflector Shield cards, Tool cards, and Field Support cards are the different types of cards that a deck can have in it. A deck must have one Commendation card in it so you can mark your Destroys. You may only have one Commendations card in your deck. You also must have at least one Drone in the deck. All other cards are optional, but, of course, recommended to use.
Game Play
To start the game each player must search his deck for his Commendations Card. After they get their Commendations Card out and place it on their play area, they must shuffle their deck and offer for the opponent to shuffle or cut their deck; You may decline to shuffle or cut the opponent's deck if you wish. Once both players are done shuffling, they both draw 6 cards. Once they have drawn the cards, they check and see if they have a Drone card. If they do, they place it in the "Frontal" position. You may place all other Drone cards in the "Reinforcement" position. If you have no Drone card to place in the Frontal position, shuffle your hand into your deck and draw the 6 cards again (if this happens 2 times, your opponent draws a card, not counting as a turn's draw, and draws every time there after). Once all of these steps are finished, you go on with your turns. You draw a card at the beginning of every turn, before you play any cards. During your turn you may play down as many Drone cards and Field Support cards as you like. You may play only one Weapon card, only one Deflector Shield, and only one Tool card during one turn (limited to one of each). Once you have played the effects of your Field Support cards and attached all of the Weapons and Deflector Shields that you want to play, you have attack with either the standard attack that the card comes with built into it, or you can attack with a Weapon for damage, or use your Tool's effect as the attack. Then your opponent does his turn, doing the same basic things that you did in your turn. If, during you turn, you manage to Destroy an opponent's Drone, place a marker on your Commendations card according to the reward given for Destroying that Drone (reward is on the card itself). The first player to get 8 Commendations win. Other forms of winning is to have your opponent run out of cards to draw in his deck, and wiping out all of the your opponents activated Drones.
To retreat a Drone in the Frontal position to the Reinforcements, it costs Health Stacks. Obviously you will not retreat a Drone to make it lose all of it's Health Stacks, but it is possible. (Note: I am trying to think of a better system for retreating; Need help)
Possible Effects on Drones
Inactivated - The affected Drone is no longer activated, and can not use standard moves, nor Weapons, nor Tools. Turn the Drone card upside-down (180 degrees). Re-activates after 1 of your turns. You may not move the affected Drone to the Reinforcements for the duration of this Effect.
Virus - At the end of every turn, the affected Drone is damaged by a virus for 2 stacks of health. Turn the Drone card to the left side (90 degrees, left). Can only be cleansed if you move the affected Drone to the Reinforcements.
Malfunction - The affected Drone has a 50% chance to have it's attack's damage affect itself (you flip a coin for the out come, if it's heads, your safe, if tails, the damage affects you). Turn the Drone card to the right side (90 degrees, right). Lasts 3 of your turns.
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This is just a draft of what I want the game to look like.
I need some people to help me make art for the cards, once I have the first cards wrote out, if I can get some volunteers.
Any input is appreciated and will be taken into consideration.
Thanks for reading!