Deck Heroes Legacy Guide

Construct the ultimate deck with an amazing horde of Heroes and magical Creatures to save a threatened kingdom. With hundreds of cards to collect, every deck is unique. Feast your eyes on spectacular HD graphics, get lost inside thrilling battles, and delve into majestic and mysterious lore! War has come to the world of Deck Heroes! The Neander, Human, Faen, and Mortii are marching into battle! Build your very own faction from Heroes of all races, and lead them to glory! Enter the world of Deck Heroes: Legacy! Deck Heroes is a new fantasy card battling game available on iOS and Android. It features an enjoyable experience tailored towards card collection, leveling, fusion and battling your way through the game’s single-player world as well as against other players’ decks in the Colosseum. Each battle takes 2-3 minutes at the most, making it easy to fit in a few quick games anywhere. Unlike many other card battle games available for tablets and mobile devices, Deck Heroes provides more strategy and interaction than simply sending in your cards to fight automatically with the outcome being revealed after a few combat animations and little to no player involvement. Even though your deck will only contain up to ten cards (the precise number depending on your Hero’s level), your deck is still shuffled and your starting hand drawn randomly. This means that you are not always able to play the strongest cards in the most ideal order, so you must think strategically about how best to send forth your units and navigate around whatever special abilities your opponent’s cards have. Cards themselves usually have three distinct abilities that are unlocked depending on what level they have reached through enhancement and evolving, which is the now common “fusion” mechanic of infusing a card with weaker ones in order to give it experience points and level up in strength. Creating a deck with card abilities that work together is 50% of the strategy of this game – the other 50% being the order you summon your units to the playing field to take advantage of the attack order in combat resolution, and triggering heals and blocks at the most beneficial time.

Deck Heroes: Legacy is a free-to-play card game. The game unlocks new power-up opportunities and PVP areas as you advance. It rewards players for reaching new levels by gifting important progression pieces. A good example is receiving a four-star rarity hero, like Predator, for simply sticking with them for 25 level ups. Players can unlock strong 5-star monsters by removing seals, and it never feels like your time is completely wasted when grinding for experience. That said, there’s still a lot of grinding to do. Collecting monsters, shards, equipment, and runes all feel like filling a canyon with a water bucket. In some events, like the arena, Deck Heroes runs similarly to Storm Wars CCG with no control over card placement. Usually you can control when you place a monster on the board in order to time special talents and skills. It takes a match anywhere from 10 seconds to ten minutes to complete start to finish. It depends on if you’ve unlocked the fast forward and skip options after player level 15. Some matches won’t allow the Auto-Battle function or skipping. Loading screens are short and will offer a bit of advice. Like most strategy games, your hero’s face is less important than your monsters health. You can keep your monsters in hand until your opponent places there monsters first. This gives you first blood on the creatures. Victory is reached when all a player’s monsters are destroyed or their health is gone. Hero health can reach insane levels so usually it’s the monsters who die first. Some quests require hero kills so you must play aggressively on those levels. I wondered what I could accomplish further in the game when all of a sudden, I’m rewarded with Predator. The increased health going from a 1-star Nightraider hero to a 4-star Predator was insanely important. I could wait to play my cards until the time was ripe. Predator also has a summoned bear.

Four-star monsters become easier to get, and just logging in rewards you with the Royal Dancer which has great synergy with Flame Brave.For the low cost of energy, you receive plenty of gold, XP, and essences for leveling your best monsters. It’s a solid move to invest in running mazes.3-star rarity cards are much better and more worth your time. Why? Because you can evolve them and gift them a fourth talent. Players don’t unlock Evolution as an option until level 30 so you won’t learn this for some time. Still, some quests for finishing campaign maps require your deck to have a few 2-star creatures.

Deck construction is quick and easy. You can have up to 10 cards in your deck. Each deck also has a chosen Hero character that brings another set of abilities to the table, triggered after a certain amount of damage is taken by your cards collectively. These can often turn the tide of a battle, so it’s important to use the right Hero for your deck. You can enhance your Hero’s abilities further with Glory Points earned in the Trials arena.There are four distinct Factions in the game’s card pool: the Faen, elven forest beings, the Humans as knights and clerics, the Neanders who are tribal warriors and beasts and lastly the Mortii, dark dragons, demons and various undead denizens. Nothing will prevent you from mixing Factions during deck construction, but I found some of them do seem to work best when played purely on their own, such as the Faen’s habit of healing and boosting the health of other Faen. The art style, world and characters of Deck Heroes is clearly very influenced by both World of Warcraft and Heroes of Might and Magic, yet it is some of the highest quality art I’ve seen in an Android card game. I cannot emphasize enough how fantastic the artwork is, and it is one of the biggest draws of the game for me personally. That said, there are some scantily-clad female characters which I tend to find a bit off-putting, but it is much milder than some of the other battle card games you can find out there.

The single player campaign requires the player to travel through a range of locations, fighting and exploring along the way. Quest battles are sometimes more than just the usual fight to the death, too. In order to complete the higher difficulty version of each stage, you must attempt to complete the level with a unique goal such as not letting your Hero’s health fall below 90% or not letting more than one creature die during the battle. This adds a further dimension of strategy needed in order to win the levels of higher difficulty. As the quests continue, the difficulty increases and you’ll find it necessary to change up your deck to meet the challenges of facing different deck types by navigating around their own strengths and weaknesses. Also, once per map a unique dungeon called a maze will appear. This offers an extra style of exploration resembling a simple board game. Moving along a set track of tiles with die rolls, different events trigger depending on the symbol you land on and you can find chests with slightly rarer cards than usual as you fight your way to the maze’s boss.

Each day you log in, there is more than enough to do without ever needing to spend real cash. You can explore locations you have already completed up to five times a day, and each time you explore you are rewarded with gold, experience points, random card drops and also shards used to construct more valuable cards when you have a specific number of them. There are timed events throughout the day which make it worthwhile logging in to gain some free energy or see what’s come up in the newly refreshed Bazaar. One other unique feature of the game is called ‘Remove Seal’. Here the player has the opportunity to unlock a powerful creature card “sealed” into the middle of a pentagram by sacrificing five different cards specifically required by that seal in order to release that creature.

While those cards are destroyed in order to do this, it is definitely worth it to obtain the powerful 5-Star card within. I liked the thematic style of the mechanic and it really feels like you’re summoning a powerful entity by sacrificing smaller units to it.In the Colosseum, your deck is pitted against others’ automatically rather than in a player-controlled duel. This has several advantages, however. It makes it fairly quick and easy to raise your rank and earn yourself some free gems to spend elsewhere. As you cannot select the order your cards are played in this mode, you’ll have to pay close attention to the construction of your deck and how well your cards work together using their special abilities. While thankfully the game does not force any kind of Facebook or Twitter integration upon you, you’ll find that social interaction within the game is extremely limited. Friends are usually randomly added people in the game with whom you can send and receive small amounts of energy each day, but this can be helpful when you’re in need of a boost to keep playing. Lastly, the music is of an extremely high quality, being composed of fantasy-tinged orchestral themes that suit the style of the game perfectly. However, playing for long periods can render some of the songs a little bit repetitive as they are looped constantly in the background. I turned off the music eventually because of this and just left on the combat sound effects instead. Overall, the user interface is extremely well polished, giving the impression that the developers wanted to craft the most enjoyable player experience possible and this really shines through. Deck Heroes is clearly aiming for a spot in the market between more simple card battle games of the Asian variety and those games which require a bit more strategic engagement in combat. However, this game is not as complex as a fully fledged trading card game and thus may disappoint those looking for such a game. Nevertheless, Deck Heroes fulfills its purpose in being a simple time waster while also offering a broader experience which has seen me playing it even at home happily for several hours at a time until I’ve been forced to stop due to running out of energy.