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ArenaNet reveals Mistbound, an official Guild Wars card game
Mistbound aims to give fans "a new way to play together," ArenaNet says. The digital CCG adapts Guild Wars' card-game roots into a tactical, moveable-board format.
Mistbound aims to give fans "a new way to play together," ArenaNet says. The digital CCG adapts Guild Wars' card-game roots into a tactical, moveable-board format.
ArenaNet and parent company NC have announced Mistbound, an official Guild Wars card game, coming alongside the recently revealed Guild Wars 3. Licensed by ArenaNet and developed by NC with involvement from bilibili, Mistbound is billed as a way to bring the series into a competitive CCG space. "We felt it was time to give Guild Wars fans a new way to play together, inspired by the card game roots of the franchise, where they could compete in a competitive PvP arena in a CCG game space," said ArenaNet studio head Colin Johanson. Guild Wars' "card game roots" trace to influences from Magic: The Gathering. Mistbound's key twist is a dynamic 5x3 tactical grid where units and commanders—deployed as cards—can reposition turn-by-turn, a system NC calls "dynamic movement gameplay" intended to make deep strategic combinations more intuitive. "One challenge with pursuing deep strategic combinations in card games is that the cards themselves can easily become overly complex," Johanson added.
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