Summertime Boardom - Part 2

Foxboy and I have watched Adventure Time together since he was about 3 years old. We acquired a few Card Wars decks a few years back, but this has been his first chance to play. He had to wait until his reading skills were good enough to comprehend the card instructions

For those unaware, Card Wars is a game played in Adventure Time (an animated series). They don't explain much about the game on the show, so we just see some of the main characters laying cards down. That left plenty of room for creativity when bringing Card Wars to market!

These "vs" packs come with two premade theme decks, life/hit counters, instructions, and 8 lands. Lands are important as they make up the lanes and one must control a matching land to play creatures of a given land type. The creatures don't have to play onto the matching land, but there must be a matching land in the player's control. Lane-based attack helps distinguish the game a bit, as well as simplify combat - pretty handy for playing a CCG with a 7-year-old

Resource management is simplified all around, which makes for a good contrast against Starship Catan (my favorite 2 player game). Each player starts with 25 HP and creatures have their HP printed on the card. Aside from HP and land, the only resource to manage is "actions" - each player gets 2 actions per turn. Most cards cost one action, some cards cost 2 actions

There are no designated blockers, creatures attack the creature in the lane opposite them. If there is no creature, then the damage applies to the players HP. Ye olde tap mechanic is in place for both actions (called "flooping") and exhaustion from combat