Masters of Exarch

a deck builder for 2-4 players

Masters of Exarch is a tactical deck builder about decisions and what you are willing to sacrifice to win. The main mechanic of the game is its energy system, where each turn the players need to decide which cards to discard to play the other cards. The second important mechanic is the action system where some cards have strong effects but have an additional cost of action points. Players start with a deck of random low impact cards and 2 permanent hero cards. They then need to build their deck up over time by buying new cards from the treasure chest. The card mechanics in Masters of Exarch are heavily themed around deck and card manipulation, so that each turn every card and decision matters.

While currently not in the rule book, the game cannot only be played as a deck builder. You can use the same set of cards to play constructed formats and drafts. To play those formats each player can choose their deck by the following rules. 

Constructed:

2 x 5 energy cards, 3 x 4 energy cards, 4 x 3 energy cards, 5 x 2 energy cards and 6 x 1 energy cards

Draft:

Each player draws 2 cards of each energy level and chooses 1 card to keep, then the players switch the remaining cards with each other and again choose one of those cards to keep. The players repeat this until no cards are left. The last round of draft (round 9) contains no 5 and 4 energy cards, just evenly split the remaining 3,2 and 1 energy cards. Then each player creates a constructed deck from the cards they chose.