The Cards - Packs - and Card Game

The Battle Cards System is a rather complex part of game play in Storm Casters in that unlike a lot of other games, it is not so much a stand-alone mini-game within the game itself, but rather the cards effect how your game play unfolds thanks to adding different abilities, weapons, and the like, up to and including Legendary and Rare ones!

Before we progress deeper into this, there is an elephant in the room that needs to be addressed....

In-Game Card Packs Purchases

There are a pair of card packs that are the main focus for in-game purchases in Storm Casters - in spite of the fact that it is not a free-to-play title. That is to say you paid for the game, but it still has some in-game purchase elements - which is why we only scored it a 4/5 in our review.

The in-game purchase system uses premium currency called Warp Stones for which the player will have to spend real-world money should they want them in a quantity that will actually do any good.

Warp Stones will set you back .99 cents for 10, $4.99 for 70, $9.99 for 160, and $19.99 for 400.

Once you have them - if you decide to go that route, there are basically two options to spend them on:

Epic Packs, which cost 10 Warp Stones, and deliver 5 cards per summon, 2 Rare Guarantees, and 1 Epic Guaranteed.

And Legendary Packs, which cost 50 Warp Stones, and deliver 10 cards per summon, 3 Epic Guarantees, and 2 Legendary Guaranteed.

Now to be clear the game rewards cards in sufficient quantity and variety so that you do not actually have to purchase these if you don't choose to (or cannot afford to). It is purely optional. Really!

Cards you Buy or Collect

As mentioned earlier, you collect (or purchase) cards, and they are used by the game to determine the extras you may encounter in the game in terms of abilities, weapons and the like. So at the start of a level run the game automatically draws a number of cards and, depending on what you drew, that is what can appear as you play.

Obviously the more cards you have and the better variety - and the rarer the cards / weapons / abilities, the more varied your game will be and the more powerful your character will potentially be. Which is why buying Legendary Packs is actually sort of an attractive option. Just saying.

FUSE your Cards

Whether bought or found / won, you will eventually get additional cards that can FUSE with a card you already have! When you FUSE two cards, you end up with a more powerful card as a result, but of course that reduces the number of cards in your deck by one, so it is a twin-edged event.

Usually this happens when you have found a duplicate of a card - when that happens, the cute little dragonling helper will pop out and tell you "You have found more than one of a card! Now you can FUSE that card to make it more powerful! Give it a try!"

And when he tells you that, well, you should give it a try!

You do that by tapping the Battle Cards Icon, then selecting to sort your cards using the FUSABLE Icon. That will list any cards you have that are eligible for FUSING.

The cost to FUSE your cards is listed on the top-left of the screen - the first time around that turns out to be 100 Gold - and once you tap that the two cards you can FUSE do. For us that was the Hydra Card, and it took the stat from +40% chance for a Hydra Drop to +80% - which as far as we are concerned was a well-spent 100 Gold!

In addition to your new card being more powerful, the higher it is fused the higher its rarity score goes, so it will appear near Rare-marked cards in the list when you review your deck.

The Shuffle

When you begin a new Dungeon crawl the game will shuffle your deck and present you with the three cards that will apply to that crawl. If you don't like them, you can pay 25 Gold to shuffle the deck again, in the hopes of getting better cards.

Unless you have a rich deck with a lot of choices and variety, spending 25 Gold for a new shuffle is really not a good idea. You can end up going through a LOT of gold that way!