In 2019, crypto trading games are all the rage, and dozens of hugely popular new titles have been launched this year, bringing with them thousands of collectible non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
However, while dozens of crypto collectible games have come and gone, few are still as relevant today as they were when they first launched. Part of the reason behind this arguably due to the lack of scope, which eventually leads to a lack of variety, stalled development, and player disinterest.
All of this is about to change with the advent of Tides of Magic, a brand new trading card game built on the Ethereum blockchain that promises a boundless, ever-growing world comprised of your favorite crypto collectibles.
| Tides of Magic are also airdropping 3 standard packs exclusively to Steemians, read below to find out more!
Building a Bigger World
To practically eliminate the possibility of stagnating, Tides of Magic is unique among Ethereum games, in that it supports crypto collectible tokens from potentially any other game—making it essentially infinitely expansible.
“We want to join all of the crypto assets into our own game, or help others do it.”
Despite launching just days ago, Tides of Magic has already formed agreements with several major crypto collectible games to bring their in-game assets to Tides of Magic, these include;
- Ethermon
- Axie Infinity
- Crypto Punks
- Flowerpatch
- Ethercraft
So far, the team has confirmed that every single ether monster from Ethermon will be available to use in Tides of Magic. Not only this, but Tides of Magic will also be compatible with every asset from the wildly successful ‘My Crypto Heroes’ and is in talks with several other popular Ethereum games,
When a crypto asset is brought in from another game, Tides of Magic will decide which category it fits into, e.g. whether it is a minion, spell or habitat card, and will also decide its in-game stats. How will your external crypto assets play into your Tides of Magic strategy? Only time will tell.
Instantly Accessible
For anybody who has played other popular Ethereum card games, Tides of Magic will likely feel immediately familiar. The team has done an excellent job of making the game accessible to players of any experience level, having produced a simple to play game which can be grasped in just minutes.
In brief, these are the basic elements of the game:
Initially, there are five schools of magic available, these are Black, Blue, Green, Purple, and Red. Different schools of magic have different strengths and weaknesses. Standard and elite packs will only contain spell cards from a single school of magic, whereas legend packs can contain cards from any school of magic.
The number shown in the top left corner denotes the casting cost for each spell. The first mana used to cast the spell must be of the same type, whereas all subsequent mana can be of any type.
Ugil the Keeper—a legendary minion from the Horde faction.
Beyond this, there are 11 default factions. Each faction has a variety of minions, each with a unique combination of attack power, health, and unique abilities. Which faction/s will you align with?
These spell cards and minion cards can be combined with rare habitat cards, which are used to generate the mana needed to play spell cards. Each player can assign up to three habitat cards for each game, these are placed directly on the field, rather than forming part of the 40-50 card game deck.
Not all cards are built equal. Cards can be common, uncommon, rare or legendary. This is indicated by the color of the gem shown on the bottom of each card, though you will likely be more interested in the purple (rare) and red (legendary) cards. In general, rarer cards are more desirable in-game, but this isn’t always the case.
Early Bird Incentives
In total, Tides of Magic already has over 1,500 different cards available, including more than 850 minion cards, 700 spells, and a dozen habitats. The list of currently available Tides of Magic cards can be found on the game’s OpenSea marketplace, where they can be sorted by type, rarity, health, faction and more, allowing players to buy and build the perfect deck.
Although the game creator Alain Goldman isn’t available as a crypto asset for Tides of Magic (yet?), he does have his own Tides of Magic alias.
Uncommon Humanoid Minion—better known as Alain G, Tides of Magic’s creator.
Standard packs, such as the ‘Red Magic Pack’ can be purchased for as little as 0.04964 ETH, whereas the most expensive pack—the ‘Legend Magic Pack’, currently costs 0.272 ETH. With each successive pack order, the price of subsequent packs will rise by 0.00033 ETH each for everybody. This additional pack premium can be avoided by purchasing several packs at once.
Each Tides of Magic pack rewards five cards, and are available in three flavors: standard, elite and legend. Higher-level packs cost more, but also have substantially better drop rates, giving players the best chance of landing rare and legendary cards.
To get your hands on three free Tides of Magic standard packs, simply comment on this post with what you are most looking forward to about the game, and which assets you are most looking forward to using. Be sure to include your ETH address too!
Tides of Magic is now live! To find out more, check out these links:
Discord: https://discord.gg/9d9PT62
Website: https://tidesofmagic.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tidesofmagic
OpenSea: https://opensea.io/assets/tidesofmagic-1
Wow, Ethereum definitely seems to be shaping up as the platform for blockchain games now. Very nice looking game!
I'm highly looking forward to the development of this blockchain game as I think it could be one of the unified vision players to really come through and bring things together. Bitcoin games are one of the future rollouts and next major players onto the space for digital asset ownership and fair/transparent play. Once ease of use is incorporated it's just a matter of time.
Hi, so waht about quests like in HOMM3 (no card game, but you know, my love).
Looking forward to my Slinterlands assets...
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hmmmm... I agree... if Splinterlands could be included, that would really make things interesting.
My Address: 0xB1280cAa5c368FFaaa1ba6E74EE4F3ecD3530945
... I'm off to go check it out in more details now... thanks for sharing!
edit: OK, so I went and had a look, but I'm clearly misunderstanding... how will cards from different games (with different rules/abilities) be "brought in from another game"? I'm assuming these cards would need to be "adapted" for ToM?
i.e. How the hell are we gonna play chess with only checkers pieces? :P
Either way... looks interesting, and thanks for the heads-up.
Generally they have an A.P.I that can be pulled down. So, alot of these games can have their assets brought over manually. These need to be balanced our, and made sure that no one card has a huge advantage over the other.
Thanks for your time!
I'm really looking forward to using different gaming assets from my collection in Tides of Magic. I think it will be pretty neat to use my ERC collectibles especially any Enjin items. I already have my axies ready to go! 0x005C25473Bf2367Aa821A7072332820ac9902547
Great!
I am in.
My address:
0x63e8ACb0CBFa64DEC78D636EC26cc375EB8E330F
Airdrop
idea.
My ETH address to send airdrop to: 0x805629d20c15b4BA9CB07cf667eFeC0D24B5f6EA
You spelled fabulous incorrectly.
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Thanks but Catman purrrfically spells how he wants.
Gaming industry is huge, larger than hollywood. Only gaming can bring fast adoptation to crypto.
I love card games, deck building is my favorite part. Send some cards my way and I will definitely play.
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Count me in!
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Got you in the spreadsheet.
If its built on Ehtereum ill pass. Having to mess with Ethereum when im playing Gods Unchained is about as much pain in the ass i can handle.
35 fucking minutes wait time to take a card off the market, before that 15... Wanted to punch the screen. So no thx on the free cards, they arent worth the pain of having to use ethereum.
nice .. i'd like a free one. good stuff here
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Integrate SplinterLands please!
My ethereum address: 0x5ae9e3Dd118BB0EBCf3b2D87d06b964214CeF9fC
I want card i like play game
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My biggest hope would be so the Tides of Magic integrates the SplinterLands and Gods Unchained cards as well.
My address: 0x4689041337A8D44d5057e0B7B97C2C08Cc829b5C
Thanks in advance.
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It's not off the table to be partnered with Gods Unchained. Nothing official yet.
I’m more concerned with SplinterLands to be included than Gods Unchained.
And I left my eth address a while ago already but still didn’t receive the tokens that you promised.
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Amazing!
Address:
0xa8da576545B65c91fD04e517b22490Cd85DA501a
Thanks!
Im most exited for one of my dank memes making it on a card we all know its gunna happen the only question now is when?????? 0xA0ab8Eddf14a5174688E2eb1bdb69CDF377142C3
We have memes on the discord for days! Stop on by!
https://discord.gg/5ZUuVqK
pi现在还可以吗？
Bitcoin is our future.More and more there are games on the blockchain.This attracts not only experienced traders but also new users.Because in the game design are easier to learn to toregulate and be aware of what is cryptocurrency.
my address : 0x0a9eB0C4a56BBe1a39e974D4E8dac694bCD14bAF
i would also like to see splinterlands cards used, incorporating more blockchains can only benefit a game of this style and the whole ecosystem, good luck.
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Wow, seems amazing man! I would be very happy if you give me some candies..
My ethereum address: 0xbd85A830fA5381e2c80c276F5c258d2e9e59ad93
We will sort you out!
Would love to try it out and learn to play.
Address:
0xd3922e1cdaDB0cFB469F05e880502fB28B01eFb0
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Glad to have you.
When can we play this game?
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I would like to try it out!
I started playing WarRider the other day as they just launched the testing of mining BZN in the game yesterday. Just imagine how awesome it would be to have something like this on a card.
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Definitely most looking forward to using Splinterlands cards if that's an option.
ETH Address:
0x5CA323D77930c84524E9B06B20C5027ec4E54480Thank you!
May be in the future, we are always reaching out to other DApp's.
Integrating assets from Gods Unchained and Splinterlands would be great
ETH Address: 0x686ec32c61ae7d3ff16e26403ebea633274cdfb9
I want Tides of Magic too
Eth: 0x17059dAa913dF5fF19bc8589a84a02c007bCf081
@kadjar, At this moment when it comes to Collectible Games i am just playing Steemmonsters. Looking forward to see how this game will workout.
Kindly find my ETH Address.
0xb24E1FE05196e56Cc19B09cd93F5F0Ec89DB7168
Have a great time ahead and stay blessed.
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Sounds really like steemmonsters, would really like to try it out.
My ETH address: 0xdAE1251ba1b0585F9C6c6a986dc387887Fe2E933
Thanks.
I really like the idea about using different gaming assets from my collection in Tides of Magic. I think it will be pretty sweet and interesting to use my ERC collectibles especially any GU cards if its possible. Also wish me luck to win some PAX xd
my ETH adress: 0xeaa3F8a5881e686a5DBD3a2dFf65882494782EDC
love to go for f1 racing...
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My address: 0xC59C38C594125c08D2d75E2008F3dC43d04201c2
What I am looking forward is one of this days, a game built on blockchain will be on a news and tv news caster will be telling that a blockchain game rewards the winner of $50,000,000 dollar in cash, tax free. lol
I wanna give it a try
I have never tried the ETH game before, and looking forward to play the game!
My eth address: 0x56825637F57AF1d696878fC09B94A4Bb8336dE2d
Cant wait to try this game out, I have been playing Mythereum since it came out and think a partnership between Tides of Magic and Mythereum would be great.
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As do we, It's an amazing thing to be able to add in all ether game assets.
Its going to be exciting to see all the other game assets being used in this game.
I would like to see Chibi Fighters, WarRiders, PlasmaBears, Mythereum, CryptoSaga and Splinterlands( If you can use assets from other blockchains)
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We have alot of other DApp's we are looking at.
I like that it/they will be compatible with other games as well, which is also the feature I am most looking forward to.
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Cryptogames were always hyped up as to be able to use other assets in any game, most of the ones I know about were complete failures or scams, so it good to see a project that is actually making the most out of the capabilities of blockchain.
Keep up the good work Tides of Magic :)
I would like to be able to use my Mutant Monsters, CreepyCryptos and Mythereum assets in your game.
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Fighting with my ChibiFighters on Tides of Magic would be slick!
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Hope we can import our own assets, looking forward to playing with my axies
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sounds worthy of checking out...
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good news, more and more crypto tcg games accept the challenge to beat hearthstone monster.
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I look forward to destroying my foes on the battlefield!! lol
Having Steemmonster cards would be cool along with WarRider cards.
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Interesting! Would love to see some kind of partnership with Gods Unchained as well. It will be cool if all these crypto games on Ethereum can all linked up to become a "multi-verse". Looking forward to the game!
I'm using a ENS for my ETH address,
culgin.eth
Seems one more interesting game ✌️
Eth: 0x855be293e25E3e13A636Ebff93C14f91386390c4
I’m really interested to see how the different aspects of different card games can be melded into one...very cool, very meta idea!!! 😀
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I really want to try that too. Here's my ETH address 0xc7C4546787576e1011cBe38dFf6be5276bDd852a
Looks nice. I wanna try it.
My ETH address :-
0x04Da9bcFA14ED2d4aAf31DA45dfc18A150dE046F
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steemmonster, cryptokitties, chibifighter, mutantmonsters, dissolution, neon district, caesars triumph, creepycryptos, mythereum, axies, angel battles, warriders, darkwinds, chainbreakers, blockchain cuties.
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I am very interested about steem games...
Does splinterlands have an open API? We would love to look into them as well.