My first weekend playing Gods Unchained

Legends, Glory, tricks, bugs and new legends.

This article does not serve as a guide, perhaps I will create one in the future. I am not affiliated with GU, Immutable or Apollo and the only possible profit I make by posting this consists of tips from generous viewers. That being said, this is the first post I have ever created here.

Enjoy.

Boy, I sure do love card games. You can plan, you can make strategies, but all that changes when one of you just gets lucky and picks the right card for that moment. This combination of careful planning on the one hand and unpredictability on the other makes for excellent entertainment and, I dare say, satisfaction. The same goes for your opponent of course, and only one of you can win. This way satisfaction can turn into sourness and saltiness. Two excellent flavors, but I prefer them on my tongue instead of my mood.

For a good while I was an avid Elder Scrolls Legends player with an ultra strong deck (Daedric invasions for the win baby). But all that changed when Bethesda pulled a Fallout-76 on Legends. For those of you who do not know what this means: Fallout-76 is the video-game variant of Chernobyl (and I am not talking about the HBO series either). Yet I digress, you will find enough posts about that game.

The point I am making is that Development for Legends has stopped and now the once beloved yet not that well known card game is dead. Press F my bois.

What is a man without a card game? Am I supposed to drink beer while playing Doom? I can't do that, I need two hands to play it. So I went and started looking for another card game.

I was never able to get into Hearthstone. The game was way too big for new players unless they were willing to spend a lot of money on cards.
I never paid a penny for Legends and I sure was not going to start now.
Then I started researching blockchain games. I was lucky to stumble upon them the same time I stumbled upon this website. I saw a few images of Gods Unchained in relatively early development. My curiosity was triggered. I went there and looked. Apparently there had just been a pretty big event where players could win premium cards just by playing. Shame I missed that.

Regardless, I started playing and I found myself having a blast. My favorite starter deck, focused on messing with your opponent and dislocating their best efforts at doing what the do best.
For example, The Goddess of Death focuses on the strongest creatures in the game, and often sacrifices creatures to get them.
In one weekend and with only the free deck I have reached rank 8. For the records, there are 12 ranks with 1 (rusted Bronze) being the worst and 12 (Mythic) being the best.

There are still some bugs, and one in particular has made me lose quite a lot of matches. Sometimes, your game just stops working during a turn. You can still view your cards, but you cannot play anything. Quite frustrating, especially when you're about to smash your opponent.

I call this bug the Eternity Turn. Image kindly provided by Lewnatic.

On the positive side, the game is easy to play and enjoy. The rules are simple: both players start with 30 health. The goal is to deplete the other's health to 0. How you intend to do is is all up to you. Deck dominance, mana efficiency, card advantage and the order in which you play cards are as important as in Hearthstone. There are differences, of course. For example, in the beginning of the match you get a number of charges. You can use one charge to change one of the three cards in your hands. If you are satisfied, you can also keep them.

The community is open and even have their own discord server. I was able to make small talk, share successes and losses (after which the big players often share advice), to my surprise there even was one player who was gifting cards for free! That's right, you can trade cards in the marketplace. For now only the Genesis cards, later on (perhaps from the end of this month I heard some say) you can fuse core cards and trade them. Now that is what I call a marketplace. Instead of buying packs for bucks you can buy them from each other with Ethereum (it is a blockchain game after all) or have a good old fashioned trade. Your Tyet, Heir to the Sky for my Dick Puddlecote.

Dick, you legend.

With this I conclude my (and maybe even your) introduction to Gods Unchained. Seeing that the game is still in early development with the beta being released to the public previous decade (I mean 2019 of course, forgive my silliness and impudence for reminding you that the time ticks ever on) Gods Unchained does a good job at being the first of its kind using new blockchain technology. Which begs the question: is blockchain truly the future for gaming? Ach, my post is getting too long already. Consider this a vague promise for updates in the future.

Gods Unchained can be downloaded here: https://godsunchained.com/.