How to play this game (noobs)

Seeing the explanation/walkthrough at this point seems to be quite lacking I figured I would start a guide for people unfamiliar with cardgames.

Introduction

Basically there are 3 boards, each board has towers (one is yours, one is the enemies) and you need to destroy eachothers. To do this, there are heroes (5 each) that battle each other, using anything from special cards, to grunts/creeps, to healing cards or specialty cards.

When you first start this game you will have two example decks (a set of cards) and be able to play two tutorial games against the AI/bot.

You will also receive 10 "Call to Arms" packs of cards, which contain 10 cards each. Open them and start building your own deck!

Solo, Social, Casual or Expert?

The game lets you choose the following game modes.

Solo

The aforementioned bot games.

Social

You can tell your friends, Steam groups here that you are looking to play or directly invite a friend. You can even start your own tournament!

Casual

You can matchmake against people of your skill level, start a casual constructed game or a phantom draft.

Expert

Here you can play to win rewards, a 5 win series will net you 3 (?) and 2 decks!

The game itself

When you play the game, you've 3 boards. On

Building a Deck!

When you buy the deck, you get 10 unopened packs. You can open these and start building your own decks. Alternatively you can buy or trade specific cards through Steam.

It is recommended to have your deck make sense and to keep your decks balanced. For example, having black cards in your deck does not make sense if you don't have any black heroes. You can only play cards on a lane after all if you've a hero on the board, and it has to be the same color.

It's also advisable to keep them balanced, each card comes with a number that shows the amount of mana you need to play the card, so if your deck for example is stacked with cards requiring 7 mana you won't be able to play any cards for the first four rounds.

There is a counter that helps you determine the balance per round, on the right side with numbers from 1 to 8+.

[class101 [OLED deck]]

My dream gift for christmas would be for you to allow guides in the Steam Deck hub, I'm frequently asked to make one but I don't find reddit or gist really adequate and motivating to create it, but Steam guides are cool

[ᴀᴄᴇ]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME ? I REPORTED BUT VAC DONT SEE IN REAL TIME I WRITE HERE
WHY YOU DONT SEE WHY YOU DO NOTING why you delete my link are you seriously we lose the game we lose and why we lose because your VAC system doesnt worked your system broken he is playing another game now and using wallhack why you try do something .

[KillahInstinct]

SnEHnESnE: How did that work out for you? I'm guessing enforcing the rules isn't actually bad moderation?

Dakuwan: Cheers, albeit admittedly I haven't done as much for this guide as I wanted/should.

[Dakuwan]

Thanks for all you do Killah. Glad to have you here.

[KillahInstinct]

Still beats not doing anything but bitching about minor typos.

[ClaRitY]

"so if your deck for example is stacked with cards requiring 7 mana you won't be able to play any cards for the first six rounds"


You mean the first "FOUR" rounds??? Fml...... At least get it right if you're making guides!

[Dysmetria]

Biggest ca$h grab $cam in PC Gaming history. Valve claimed Artifiction would be a trading card game for years, waited not even a month until the market bottomed out and all 150 million dollars of trading card player's buy orders had been filled, and then said "no it is another collectible card game and we are going to nerf cards and and give away free cards after all, here's pennies on the dollar in Steam funny money if you don't like this decision. How may pennies you ask? I cannot tell you. Two days of trying and cards I bought for a dollar haven't sold for .04 cents. And if they do Steam keeps .02. But then who would actually pay for cards now? Hopefully not you.

[KillahInstinct]

Manlufo: Right, fair point. I'll edit that to correct it.

[Manlufo]

"if your deck for example is stacked with cards requiring 7 mana you won't be able to play any cards for the first six rounds."

Not really, you start at 3 "mana" in each tower so only the first five rounds

[Phantom]

I'm not into card games, but this looks like something that will get me hooked.