Dragon Line 2nd Edition (includes expansion)

Dragon Line is a simultaneous-turns card battle with neat dragon art. The rules are very easy, and games go fast, but there is a lot of complexity to uncover, especially in understanding the ability combos.

Each player builds a small army of dragons with which to face their opponent, chooses in which order the dragons approach the enemy lines, and attempts to be the player with dragons remaining in hand at the end.

With clever drafting rules and thirty-five (now forty-nine) unique dragon cards, every hand of Dragon Line is a different game.

This new edition of Dragon line has slightly updated rules, which reflect the data gathered from thousands of games played online over at boardgamearena.com (where anyone can try out the game for free). In addition, this edition contains the new expansion "Fade and Flow".

GAMEPLAY RUNDOWN:

Dragon Line is played with a 49 card deck. Seven dragons apiece in seven 'suites'. Each dragon has different stats (health and damage) and an ability depending on their suite. The game is divided into three phases:

In the 'build' phase, the players build their dragon army by taking turns looking through the split deck and drafting dragons into their hand until they each have six dragons.

In the 'line-up' phase the players choose their starting line of four dragons, which will face off against their opponent in the first round of the 'battle' phase.

In the 'battle' phase, the players secretly plan attack strategies, calculate the dragons' attacks, remove destroyed dragons, and replace them with dragons from their hand in a series of rounds. The winner is the player who doesn't run out of dragons in their hand first.

There are no dice in combat, so all of the battling is math and tactics. The dragons' abilities are straightforward and balanced, but the way those abilities can interact with one another can become more complex, and create interesting situations.