AEG Black Box (2016) - Phase {C}
- Ages: 14+
- Players: 2-5
- Playing Time: 20-40 minutes
- Designer: Jeremy Holcomb, Bryan Reese
- Publisher: Alderac Entertainment Group
- More info/BGG link
Do you have what it takes?
Players take actions to bring powerful champions into the struggle to control the Nexus. These cards have a duality - good and evil, light and dark, etc. Cards "phase" from side to side as the game is played. This creates wild swings of power, allowing players to quickly shift from attack to defense and create all sorts of wahoo fun combos.
Because of this fluid game play, we know that this game will be familiar to people who were active card game players in the first years of the CCG phenomenon. Crazy combos that "break the game" will appear. People will figure out all sorts of strategies to use these cards in ways that the rules don't envision. We think that's a feature, not a bug. Phase is a game that celebrates the kind of overpowered, surprising, inventive player strategies that got left behind when CCGs "became so serious".
