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Review of Reversal of Deck - A Magical Journey Through Card Battles
Magical card battles in Reversal of Deck are much friendlier than other games, relying on... ma binh (or xap xam) as the foundation for combat.When mentioning magical cards, you will probably remember legendary sets like Yugioh, Hearthstone, Magic: The Gathering, or Cardfight Vanguard. But a thousand times you couldn't imagine that Reversal of Deck uses playing cards as magical cards. It sounds strange, but this game has ingeniously applied playing cards and the game of mậu binh or xap xam.
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Medieval hero storyline
The story of Reversal of Deck begins when the main character wakes up in a strange arena. Surrounding him are teammates urging to fight, and he has no memory whatsoever. According to explanations from fellow companions, everyone is participating in a military selection competition.
Those teams that pass the competition will become the main army of the kingdom sent to fight against the great demon king about to be resurrected according to the prophecy. Although he remembers nothing, with the enthusiasm of his teammates, the main character agrees to continue fighting in this competition.
Concise yet unique gameplay
Reversal of Deck is a compact game structure similar to the old King God Castle. You'll have a basic team and continuously battle in the arena against other players. Each victory will reward you with a treasure chest containing random rewards, including gold coins and some pieces of heroes.
The game will not have a gacha function to collect new heroes. Everything will be indirectly unlocked through these random treasure chests. Hero pieces obtained in these chests will fall into one of two cases. For heroes you already have, the number of pieces will serve as upgrade materials with the quantity increasing gradually. For heroes you don't have yet, the first piece will be used to unlock the corresponding character for use.
Each time you win, you will earn ranking points and based on that, you will rank up. Starting with the iron division, and then gradually climbing up, there will be many milestone rewards in this process. Treasure chests can be obtained not only through battles but also through daily mission milestones, battle pass milestones, ranking rewards, main character level up rewards, etc.
Reversal of Deck will have no activities other than the ranked battles and rotating event battle sections. Various battle events will open alternately with the main gameplay, but heroes will be provided for you to experience the highest quality ones.
Combat system based on hero cards and mậu binh
The most special core part of Reversal of Deck is the combat system. First, you'll have to take the game of mậu binh as the foundation. Each battle can be divided into multiple rounds, each round is a game of mậu binh played until one of the two sides loses.
HPBoth sides will have a bar similar to the original points if it is deducted completely, they will lose, then there is a default empty shield bar. A mậu binh game will be divided into 3 card combinations and you can choose how to arrange the cards freely. Each card combination will attach a representative hero to it. When the card combination wins against the opponent, the corresponding hero will attack the opponent's original points. If there is a shield, it will prioritize reducing the shield points first. Especially if one side wins all 3 card combinations, it will activate an additional powerful counterattack on the opponent.
The most important point here is that even if your card combination is losing, it is not necessarily that you will be at a disadvantage. Each hero attached to the card has its own skills, some activate when you win, but also have types of activation when you lose. It means there are skills that only come into play when you lose the card combination of the opponent, which makes the tactics very versatile.
For example, if you know your starting combination is too weak and will lose, you immediately put a hero with the function of counterattacking into play. You still have to endure the standard damage of the opponent, but in return, your hero also retaliates with a potentially even greater amount of damage than the opponent.
There are many effects and activation conditions. The condition is not only simply winning or losing, but sometimes it just requires the right designated cards in the combination like having 2 hearts, or cards counting the total number of buttons below 20… The effects are also numerous from counter damage, shield increase, HP recovery, weakening the enemy, mana reduction of the enemy, freezing enemy cards…
In addition, you also have 2 more amazing functions. One is the ultimate skill to draw 3 temporary cards, which is displayed by mana as the main character's ultimate move. When mana is full, you can draw 3 extra cards and use them to arrange mậu binh cards to gain an advantage. The second function is the card exchange spell, which will come from the special skill of some heroes. It allows you to exchange some cards in the currently playing deck for other cards, the number depending on the hero's skill.
Limitations
Reversal of Deck has some limitations. First, the activity is not very rich. You only have ranked battles and event battles. It will be similar to games focusing on online combat like Counter Strike or PUBG. You have to continuously enter battles and do nothing else, the interesting part lies in the journey of each battle instead of surrounding activities.
The second point is that the effects of the high-level cards you encounter in the event battle function will be shocking. From the basic hero set you own with very intuitive effects, when you switch to trying out the fancy heroes, it becomes too complicated and the effect is usually indirect. This makes you not feel the true power of those fancy heroes.
Conclusion
It can be said that Reversal of Deck is a unique game with gameplay based on the familiar mậu binh cards. With the combination of mậu binh cards and magical hero cards, the combat style of this product has a very unique and breakthrough feature. This will be a very interesting product for fans of trading card games, magical card games, and especially mậu binh games when enjoying an experience that is both familiar and strange.
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