The Spoils is a collectible card game produced by Tenacious Games. It launched with a free open beta in August of 2006, and officially
released in November 2006. Jon Finkel, a prominent player in Magic: the Gathering's Pro Tour, helped develop the game. A new company recently bought
the Spoils card game, so we hope to see competitive play again soon!
The Spoils uses a number of mechanics in common with other collectible card games. Unlike many games of this kind, you start the game with a
faction card in play, that determines how you begin your turn and which actions you are allowed to take. These factions have special abilities,
unique to each faction card. Currently, only one faction is available to the public, the Tournament Faction.
Players need to amass resource cards in order to play characters, tactics, items and locations. Certain cards are "staple" resources
and any number of these may be played in a deck. Most cards require between 1 and 4 of these staple resources in play to meet the threshold
indicated by
resource icons on cards. The resource icons come in the form of five trades.
To supplement the staple resources, players may play any card from their hand face down as a resource; however, cards played face down in this
manner will not count as having any resource icons.
Playable cards come in several types: characters, items, tactics, and locations. Each of these types often have subtypes. To win the game, the
opponent's faction must be reduced to 0 influence. The Tournament Faction starts with 25 influence. The faction's influence may be reduced by
attacking it with characters, or by using tactics or special abilities. Characters have three stats: strength (amount of damage the character deals),
life (amount of damage needed to destroy the character), and speed (faster characters deal their damage earlier).
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