魔剑王牌 CharmEdge Deck

This sure is a game. It is kinda a deckbuilder, but you start with like 1-10 in 4 colors and go from there. There's crazy amounts of redraw. my first run basically involved constantly redrawing until I had a straight flush of the super effective suite and then one-shotting the enemy. I'm sure the game has more depth as you proceed, but it wasn't the vibe for me. It also has a really aggressive Japanese Gatcha kind of aesthetic that hurt my eyeballs just a little. Its fine, so consider this a very soft "no" from me, but playing one run (23 battles) did not convince me I wanted to play a second run

CharmEdge Deck is a turn-based roguelike deck-building game that takes familiar card-game concepts and reshapes them around elemental magic and sword combat. Developed and published by ChuQingHun, the game presents itself as a relatively relaxed and humorous alternative to more intimidating deck-building roguelikes. Its premise casts the player as a talented mage-swordsman apprentice taking an entrance examination, only to meet a young-looking mentor who immediately begins teasing and provoking them. She summons magical creatures as part of the Trial, giving the protagonist a straightforward objective: defeat the monsters, strengthen their abilities, and eventually become powerful enough to confront the mentor directly. The defining feature of CharmEdge Deck is its elemental card system. Mana is represented through cards rather than a conventional resource bar, and those cards must be combined into recognizable hand types such as pairs, straights, and flushes. Successfully assembling these patterns allows the protagonist to perform sword-art attacks. This creates a satisfying mixture of deck building and hand management because individual cards matter not only for their immediate …

Battles are turn based, which means you first take your action, then the enemy side performs its own, and then it’s your turn again. You repeat this until one of you is dead. Fighting is done with cards, but it’s all very simple because the majority of cards have a value on them from 1 to 9, and you deal damage depending on what you choose. You gain new cards each round, so nothing goes to waste, but you can attack with a maximum of five cards per turn. Any card can be used for an attack, but to deal the most damage, you need to create pairs, triplets, or sequences. You also need to pay attention to a card’s suit, which is associated with one of the elements, such as fire or thunder. That’s because enemies are weak to certain elements, and picking the right cards does more damage. If you pick three cards belonging to the same suit, you will additionally enchant your attack for the current turn. The three cards will be removed, and you can still attack with the rest within the same turn. There are all kinds of multipliers involved, and if you also manage to create a sequence or find a pair that matches an element the enemy is weak to, it’s very possible to take it out within a sin…

YES. DYNAMIC LITTLE SYTEM / LONG LOOP / ASYMETRIC PLAYABLE