u/Sessomaggico27

During these years I created some party games and board games around cards, but I never tried to create a full tcg. During the last two weeks, I created rules and cards for a first set of what I hope will become at least am interesting game for me and my friends. I'd like to share with you rules and cards to get some feedbacks!

The game is named Logos: both players start with a deck of 50 cards and 30 Logos points. The first one to go down to zero, loses.

There are 4 categories of cards (with their own colour to make it easier): Metaphysics (Purple), Epistemology (Blue), Ethics (Green) and Logic (Red). Purples are themed around ramp and healing, Blues are for disruption and dynamic plays, Ethics are about discarding, drawing and playing with your own Logos points, and Reds are Aggro and buffing your Philosophers.

Among these cards there are Philosopher, who are stable on the board like planes walkers or monsters, and have a Debate X effect (other than their base effects). Each turn, the player that's playing can start up to one Debate Phase: he can play a card with the Debate X effect or use one of his played philosopher to start a Debate with his X amount. If the other player doesn't respond, he loses X amount of Logos. If he responds (with a card or a philosopher Debate Y amount), the player with the lesser Debate amount will take Y+X damage. If the losing player used a philosopher to debate, he can discard it from the board in order not to lose Logos. There are a bunch of cards with an Objection effect that can alterate the Debate X and Y values while debating.

The energy system is what really makes the game stand out: once a turn, every player can put up to one card from his hand to his Library (ik magic name but that's the theme I'm looking for!), and to generate energy of its type the card must be Read (tapped like in magic). Every card can be put in the Library, so you can have a full deck with playable cards, and if you can't play em you can just put em in the Library. There is a Study effect who activates when the card is put from your hand to the Library and a Read effect who activates when the card gets tapped.

There are some other keywords but in order to gather some feedbacks I think this is enough. Tell me if you like this or think it's crap, if you want to see some example of cards. Now that I have a complete set of 120 cards and 40 philosopher it's time to see if it's a big thing or just a thing for me and my friends.

Thx!