Spellfire

Spellfire is a collectible card game that was developed by TSR and based on their popular role -playing game Dungeons & Dragons. The first cards appeared on the market in 1994, shortly after the release of Magic: The Gathering. Since 2000, officially released any new cards more.

History of the game

The first edition of Spellfire was still quite simple in design, many of these pictures were taken from Dungeons & Dragons and easily edited. Nonetheless, the first edition was very popular among fans of D & D. First, there was only the starter sets consisting of 110 cards that were mixed together at random from 400 existing designs and booster packs that contained 15 cards. These packs included mostly cards from the already known 400, with the exception of a few new ones. Each booster pack but there was a rare card called Chase Card.

The second edition of the starter kits corrected some misprints and replaced about 20 cards, but was essentially the same game as the first edition. Most of the players focused on the purchase of the cards on the shortly thereafter published booster packs of Ravenloft, Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms series.

The third edition of the starter kits undertook some significant changes to many of the cards, but kept most of the names and artworks at. There were other booster packs: The Artifacts, AD & D Powers, Underdark, Runes & Ruins and Birthright series. This made ​​the game far more complex and added a lot of new character classes and abilities.

Until the appearance of the fourth edition, the popularity of the game, however, was running out. This was because that the future of the publisher TSR was in the dark. Even the appearance of three additional booster Draconomicon, Night Stalkers and dungeons could change anything on the decline of the game. None of them sold more good, and when it was clear the TSR was purchased by Wizards of the Coast, determined that it would be no more Spellfire cards more stood.

There are no new maps be produced, fans develop still more cards that are published on the internet and (partly ) are playable on private tournaments (you will be glued to other cards).

Frequency of cards

A distinction was made between:

  • Common Cards
  • Uncommon Cards
  • Rare Cards
  • Chase Cards

These differ in their support for printing. While you could get Common Cards relatively easy, Chase cards were all the more rare. However, that did not mean they were the Chase cards better, some had only a summary value and were as good as useless for the actual game.

Aim of the game

The goal of Spellfire is to build the first player to six kingdoms (countries). Only an empire can be built per turn by each player. At the same time, players must try with the help of characters and their abilities to destroy the kingdoms of the opponents.

There are different characters:

  • Heroes (Heroes )
  • Wizards ( Wizards )
  • Clerics (Cleric )
  • Monster
  • Psionicists ( Psionic )
  • Regents ( regents )
  • Thieves ( Thieves )

These characters can conjure, use magic items and artifacts, and Blood Abilities and Unarmed Combat Cards. Also, countries may be attacked with event tickets. These in turn can be made with the help of Holdings resistant.

Spellfire in Germany

In German only the very first edition of the game was released. All other editions, it was only in English. German cards were therefore treated as rarities.

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