Retro Revival

Trading Card Game

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Retro Revival is a retro-futuristic Sci-Fi card game with retro style art tcg which aims to deliver a simple and fun tabletop gaming experience.   Join our discord playing group or watch demo games! Click the link: Retro Revival Official Discord

The Generals

Meet the Generals. Generals start the game in play to represent players. When a general dies, the controller loses the game. Ranking counters can be purchased by players to promote their general. Ranking counters increase the power of each card within a player’s hand and deck. This mechanic ensures all cards will play differently throughout the game. As the game matures more Generals will be released to enhanced theme-based play.

A fantasy-style digital illustration of a female character with green skin, long blonde hair, and a braid, wearing futuristic armor, set against a starry space background with planets and cosmic clouds.
A green-skinned, muscular humanoid with a beard, wearing an orange tank top and a high-tech glove emitting blue light, set against a dark, cracked background with glowing particles.

Runeera

Motarro

Digital illustration of a humanoid character with green skin, sleek helmet, and futuristic armor, standing against a dark purple cosmic background with clouds and stars, with the word 'NEAR' in the bottom right corner.
An animated green-skinned woman with blonde hair, dressed in a red top, holding an ace of diamonds in a poker game, sitting at a table with poker chips.

Neero

Lyneera

CONSTRUCT

Constructs are crafted machines and geographical places, which provide a range of unique once per turn abilities. Constructs have stats like Units but cannot declare an attack.

A futuristic digital card game interface featuring a yellow energy bank called 'Barrier Wall' with options to 'Play,' 'Guard,' or 'Lethal,' and a description to deposit energy into a bank.
A card from a game featuring a sci-fi theme. It displays a circle with spikes and lightning, with a portal emitting a red laser beam onto a cracked, fiery ground. The card is titled 'Terror Platform' and includes game statistics such as '12' at the top left and '12/12' at the bottom right. The card description notes that it ignores shields and deals 12 damage, with an additional 12 if the target is a unit or construct.

Construct

Construct

A robotic alien lander in outer space with planets and stars in the background. It displays game instructions for a sci-fi themed game featuring a robot called RUNEerian Lander.
A futuristic artillery cannon firing blue energy bursts during a sunset with clouds and a city skyline in the background. The image contains game instructions and statistics with text overlay for a sci-fi card game.

Construct

Construct

ACTION

Action cards provide range of benefits and their duration varies. Some actions last the entire game and increase the value of each additional card played. Other actions resolve immediately. Action cards with ranking provide the player with 3 separate actions (Rank 1, Rank 2, & Rank 3). This provides an incentive for players to rank their generals.

Digital illustration of a female character with purple hair and glowing green skin, dressed in a dark hooded coat and pants, standing in a futuristic cityscape at night with vibrant neon lights and a spaceship-like structure overhead. She holds a card and displays holographic interfaces on her forearms, with instructions for a game or mission.
A game card titled 'Fission Power' from Retro Revival, depicting a circular device with metallic segments and a blue lightning sphere at the center. The card has a black action button at the bottom and text explaining its effect: 'Deposit X energy into your bank. If X is 6 or greater, each player draws 3 cards.' The background is a starry space scene with yellow and orange hues.

Action

Action

Illustration of a woman with green skin and blonde hair playing cards at a table, holding an ace of hearts. She wears a red top and colorful jewelry, with poker chips on the table. The background features purple smoke, and a game instruction box is at the bottom.
A futuristic video game scene with an alien spaceship abducting a person in mid-air. The background shows a city skyline with tall, modern buildings, and colorful neon lights. The game offers options to steal a unit, give a shield, or give a guard, with instructions and game rank displayed.

Action

Action

RESOURCE

Retro Revival uses a unique set of resource features to make every game fun and engaging, while giving players more control over their experience. Each player starts the game with 6 facedown Reactor cards. At the start of each turn, one reactor is zoned into play (turned face up). This ensure each player always has 6 resources to play cards from their hand. Players may add more reactors to their deck. Each player also starts the game with an energy bank for storing a secondary currency called “energy”. These energies can be spent like resources but provide a way for players to carry over unspent resources.

A digital graphic with a large black lightning bolt in the center, set against an orange and red textured background. The top left has a blue circular icon with the word "SPEND" in white, and the bottom right has a similar icon with the word "DEPOSIT." The bottom center features a gray, flat, rectangular button labeled "BANK." The bottom left includes a copyright notice that reads "© 2022 RetroRevival."
Futuristic digital game interface showing a glowing white circular core with circuitry around it, labeled 'Reactor' with a level indicator '2', and a power button icon below.

Energy Bank

Reactor

A neon-colored sci-fi game card showing a particle collider image, with options to disengege and construct, and instructions to deposit energy into a bank to gain shields.
Digital game card with a futuristic, neon-lit space theme, featuring instructions to deposit energy into a bank, with options for discard cards and move energy deposits, labeled with Rank 2 and Rank 3, and an 'Action' button at the bottom.

Construct

Action

AMBUSH

Retro Revival has a unique set of mechanics based around ambushing your opponent. Ambushing is a unique way to delay your opponent from drawing their better cards by shuffling AMBUSH cards into their deck.

A futuristic robotic figure in a cityscape attacks with a laser beam from its hand, with a fiery explosion behind it and neon lights illuminating the scene.
A card from a game featuring a futuristic weapon named 'Lobotomizer' releasing a pink energy beam. The card explains game mechanics where opponents discard cards unless they shuffle an ambush in their deck, with options for replay to rank 2 or rank 3.
Digital card featuring a sci-fi style robotic alien with four tentacles emitting glowing blue energy, set against a fiery, space-themed background. The card is titled 'Blaster Walker' and includes game instructions, rank icons, brand logo, and copyright information.
A colorful card titled "Quantum Entanglement" with the number 2, featuring game instructions about playing "Ambush" cards and shuffling into opponent's decks, against a vibrant cosmic background.

Retro Revival has different control mechanics to keep the game balanced. The first control mechanic uses lock counters to turn off a card’s abilities. This a super powerful effect and players are encouraged to run a few sources of lock counters. Players may pay 2 resources to remove a lock counter on their own turn. Lock Counters allow attackers to sneak by units with guard or deny an opponent a reward.

LOCK COUNTERS

A young boy in a red hoodie and pants is surrounded by multiple orange octopus-like robots with black rings around their arms and legs. The robots are emitting electric sparks. The background is dark with colorful streaks of light. There's a game card overlay with instructions to place a lock counter on an enemy unit, and options to rank the play and replay the game, labeled as a robot card from Retro Revival.
A futuristic soldier in shiny armor standing against a colorful sky, featuring a card with the title 'Chromatic Interceptor' at level 3, belonging to the 'Soldier' category, with game details about forcefield guard, its effects, ranks, and artist © 2023 Retro Revival.
A game card featuring a female character with purple hair, dressed in futuristic armor, holding a weapon. The card states a game action involving placing a lock counter on an enemy unit or construct, then dealing damage, with options for rank 2 or rank 3. The background is a space-themed design with a large sci-fi gun emitting blue laser beams.
Futuristic game card featuring a character in a hooded jacket with glowing blue eyes, set against a city skyline at dusk. The card is titled 'Stealth Sniper' with a rank of 3. Instructions explain that players can place a lock counter on an enemy target when playing certain actions. The card has options for placing lock counters at ranks 2 and 3, and includes game branding and copyright information.

The second control mechanic uses tax counters. Tax Counters prevent opposing generals from attacking. Players must pay 2 resources to remove a lock counter. This mechanic forces players to make difficult resource management choices.

TAX COUNTERS

Futuristic city skyline with tall, sleek buildings under a blue sky, featuring a large spaceship or structure hovering above the city with a saucer-shaped design.
A futuristic tank with purple and black accents, firing a purple laser beam, set against a space background with stars and orange energy bursts. The card features game instructions and stats including a level 2 Blitz Raider, with options for expiring, ranking, and armor.
A futuristic robot spider with a metallic body and multiple legs, situated in a neon-lit cityscape, from a card game.
A sci-fi video game card featuring a character wearing a yellow mask with blue goggles, orange hair, and a purple outfit. The background shows a futuristic landscape with a dome structure. The card has a black header labeled 'Psychotic Vision' with a level indicator saying 4. The card's abilities include stealing or constructing enemy units at a cost of 4 or less, and giving an enemy general a tax counter with options for rank 2 and rank 3. The card is marked as action and includes copyright information for Retro Revival 2023.

The third control mechanic uses an ACTION STACK. This is one of the most advanced mechanics in the game because it triggers on a specific set of game conditions. The Action Stack allows a player to create an open ended action such as “counter the next card played by an opponent”. What if you wanted to copy this effect 5 more times? The action stack allows a player to create an open ended action then copy the action several times. Although there is more than one copy of an action on the action stack, only ONE action can be used per triggering event. The other copies of the action are saved. Players use action counters to track the number of uses per action stack. Therefore, an action stack with 5 “counter the next card played by an opponent” will counter FIVE SEPERATE cards played by an opponent.

ACTION STACK

A futuristic scene with a glowing blue laser beam shooting into the sky over a city, with neon lights and a dark sky.
A digital illustration of a female character with white hair, dressed in a black suit, holding a whip, surrounded by blue lightning effects, with a futuristic background. The image contains a game instruction overlay that reads: 'Create an action stack: counter the next card played by an opponent, add an action counter, add an action counter,' with labels for RANK 2 and RANK 3.
A digital game screen displaying a holographic DNA double helix with bright sunlight in the background. The game is titled 'Convergent DNA' and offers options to choose an action stack, which grant action counters at various ranks.
A futuristic, neon-colored digital screen displaying game instructions for an energy action card. The background features a burst of purple and pink light radiating from a central point. The text guides players to deposit energy into their bank, create an action stack, and increase damage for the next action card, with options to add action counters for specific ranks. There is an 'ACTION' button at the bottom and game branding at the lower left corner.

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Mission Cards

Mission cards are similar to Quests in Hearthstone. I say similar because they do not translate 1 for 1. MTG players will need a little bit of training on how to use them.

Mission cards provide extreme value to the player. Mission cards will state how many things are required to complete them. Usually, the requirements are between 5 and 7. For example, if the mission states “give your general seven shield counters” then the player must continue to give their general shield counters until they reach or exceed their target.

The player is rewarded for each triggered ability on the mission card. This provides an incentive for players to contribute to their mission. Lastly, you get a "completion bonus" that should offer the player a unique reward.

This cycle of mission cards will have a focus on supporting the rank mechanic. The rank mechanic gives players up to two bonus abilities for acquiring rank counters on their general. This first set of cards has many cards with the rank mechanic so this will provide a lot of value and synergy deck building.

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