Watch “Star Realms: Frontier | Game Review,” a board game review for Star Realms: Frontiers from Whose Turn? on BoardGameVideo.
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In this View Who's Turn Reviews the Popular Deck building game Star Realm: Frontiers. Star Realms is a Spaceship Combat Deckbuilding game Designed by Magic Pro Tour Champions and Hall of Famers Darwin Kastle and Rob Dougherty. Star Realms has won Several awards including the 2015 SXSW tabletop game of the year, four golden geek awards for Best 2-player game. to name a few. the Cards are beautifully illustrated by Antonis Papantonio and on high quality card stock. In star realms there are 4 main factions Each with their own specialization.
-The Trade Federation specializes in generating large amounts of Trade and in gaining Authority (increasing your score/health).
-The Blobs are best at generating massive amounts of Combat and at removing undesirable cards from the Trade Row.
-The Star Empire is a combat oriented faction that has lots of draw functionality and makes the opponent discard cards.
-The Machine Cult gains most of its power from being able to remove undesirable cards from your deck and from having a large number of Bases designed to defend your Authority from attack.
The main goal of the game is to use Trade to Purchase Cards and Combat to attack rival while the game does have some drawbacks the pros far outshine the cons and is definitely a game that you should have in your collection. Have you played Star Realms what was your thoughts on the game have you ever been able to make a heavy Trade Federation deck out heal the massive damage of the Blob faction, please leave a comment down below.
Mostly playthroughs and reviews. Star Realms: Frontiers is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 16 reviews, 4 how-to-play guides, 24 recorded sessions, 5 unboxings, and 11 other videos.
1 - 4 players
20 - 45 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Star Realms: Frontiers, from BoardGameGeek:
Star Realms: Frontiers is a new standalone Star Realms series game with an 80-card trade deck and new scorecards that's suitable for solitaire or cooperative play. It can be combined with Star Realms and/or Star Realms: Colony Wars.
Star Realms is a fast-paced game of space battles that combines the fun of a deckbuilding game with the interactivity of Trading Card Game-style combat. As you play, you make use of Trade to acquire new Ships and Bases from the cards being turned face up in the Trade Row.
You use the Ships and Bases you acquire to either generate more Trade, or to generate Combat to attack your opponent and their Bases. When you reduce your opponent's score (called Authority) to zero, you win! Battle your friends or team up to play cooperatively against the game!