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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..
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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Various Spoils Trades
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 Banker/Greed
Banker (Greed icon) as a trade are heavy influence gainers and spenders. For instance, not known for their COVERT characters playing one such
as "Concealed Goon" will cost you 5 influence. Where "Nasty Butler" will gain you 4 influence.
Bankers also like to draw a lot of cards and have direct character removal with some benefit/choose
to their opponents.
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 Rogue/Deception
Rogue (Deception icon) as a trade try to use their opponents discard pile against them. And the way they facilitate this is to mill their opponents
library. One particular card, "Pluck" can snatch opponents discarded cards for his controllers use. But it doesn't end in the discard pile,
Rogues can take control of some cards their opponents control. Another trait of this trade, high speed characters,
speed manipulation and removing opponents discard cards from the game.
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 Warlord/Rage
Warlord (Rage icon) as a trade are the straight forward beaters and damage dealers. They want to lay down efficient
characters to attack with while using damage dealing sources to clear the way. They also have cards that will help them to overwhelm their opponents
with a sizable board control.
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 Gearsmith/Elitism
Gearsmith (Elitism icon) as a trade use cost reduction in many ways to help spur them ahead. As well as possessing selective tutoring, the highest
number of "ITEM" cards, and character token creator cards they have a "node" theme that can become quite powerful but are
vulnerable.
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 Arcanist/Obsession
Arcanist (Obsession icon) as a trade they sport the most COVERT characters. They can use bounce and discard against their opponent aswell as generate
tokens that can be used from certain cards to bounce cards or cause their opponent to discard cards. Another ability of these arcane experimenters is
too manipulate the top deck of librarys and to retrieve specific "type" cards.
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Photos
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Spoils Invitational I
Season 1 Champion:
Timothy U. Lyons
Tim (left) at the top table
at the Spoils Invitational
Spoils Invitational II
Season 2 Champion:
Valerij Petrulevich
Valerij (right) at the top table
at the Spoils Invitational
Spoils Invitational III
Season 3 Top 4 Champ:
Drew Buccicone
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