Trick or Treat!

 

 

Trick or Treat! is a fixed deck league where you control a trio of monsters that just want some candy. Each monster comes with a pre-designed deck to ensure that the battles are entirely symmetric and there’s no need to do any deck-building yourself.

 

 

Each player controls three trick-or-treating monsters—a Shade, an Ice Skeleton, and an Undead Priest—as well as the doors on one side of a row of houses. Your objective is to defeat the opposing trick-or-treaters, or bash down their doors and, uh, “collect the treats” from their houses by holding the victory squares!

The monsters each player has access to are identical. There are a lot of tricky interactions to watch out for. Your priest can heal, but your shade will often take damage from healing… on the other hand, your priest’s curses may combine with Unholy Energy to keep your shade regenerating! Skeletons have the most movement and the highest average damage, but they can’t hurt each other very effectively. It is up to you to figure out how best to deploy your forces! Will you defend your doors, go for your opponent’s, or just duke it out in the street?

Availability

This special league will be available during Card Hunter’s 2021 Halloween celebrations. It may reappear in future years but this is not guaranteed.

Structure

Trick or Treat! has small pods, with only five players per pod. That means a new pod will kick off for every five players who join and you’ll be ranked against the other four players in your pod.

Each instance of this league will be open for entries for an hour and a half and then run for another hour and a half with a maximum of four scoring games to be played in that time period (you can play more for fun and multiplayer chest rewards). To keep things moving along, each battle will only allow 10 minutes per player (instead of the normal 20 minute clock).

 
Here are the full deck lists for the league:

Shade Deck Card Name Count Negative Energy Being 3 Traveling Curse 1 Unholy Curse 1 Wail 1 Binding Shadows 3 Unholy Energy 2 Sorcerous Blast 3 Absorbing Block 4

Ice Skeleton Deck Card Name Count Unstoppable Chop 2 Freezing Blade 2 Frozen Solid 1 Violent Spin 1 Extra Hack 1 Only Bones 1 Icy Block 2 Chop 1 Run 1 Frost Jolt 2 Strong Chop 1

Undead Priest Deck Card Name Count Too Horrible 1 Mass Frenzy 1 Impenetrable Nimbus 1 Infected Bite 1 Brains! 1 Shuffle 2 Demonic Power 2 Invigorating Touch 1 Blight 1 Heal 4 Mighty Bludgeon 1 Cautious Sneak 2

 

We hope you enjoy Trick or Treat!

Prizes

League prizes include magnificent and epic chests as shown in the table below. You’re guaranteed a chest prize in this league regardless of how many games you win. It’s a great way to turn gold into epic or rare items!

In addition, the top player in each pod will win the special “Cardboard Shredder” Elf Warrior Trick-or-Treater figure! These figures are only available as prizes or for purchase from Cuthbert’s Costumes during our Halloween events. If you already have the figure, the top prize will include a bonus epic chest.