For example, the Duke of Crows patron and its cards are distinguished by the color purple. The patrons are Tales of Tribute’s version of mana types (a la Magic: The Gathering) with each ‘color’ corresponding to a specific playstyle or tactic. Case in point, the patron Saint Pelin’s ability is to move an agent card from your discard pile to the top of your deck at the expense of using up two Power for that turn. Each of the four patrons chosen for a match have a unique ability that can be used at the cost of a resource. It’s an effort in maximizing the amount of resources you can generate so as to have the most options available for your turn, whether it is for acquiring more cards or by leveraging the abilities of the patrons.
Prestige is earned by converting ‘Power’ at the end of each turn, although a few exceptions allow you to build up Prestige directly such as using a patron’s ability. In order to win, one player must either accrue at least 40 Prestige during the course of the match - and keep it more than their opponent’s by the next turn - or by gaining the favor of each of the four patrons.Įach turn is an exercise in resource management between balancing gold and Power, with the ultimate goal being to increase your Prestige. In this way, players begin customizing their decks by adding cards from the center area and shuffling them into their own deck. These cards come from a universal deck, determined by which two patrons each player chose at the beginning (more on patrons later). Using those cards, you can gain gold each turn to buy cards from the center of the table called the Tavern. The way that Tales of Tribute starts is each player has the exact same small starting deck of cards. Instead, Tribute feels like a game of Chess in that both players have access to the same “pieces” on the table, but it’s a matter of foresight and planning (and a little luck) that separates the novices from the experts. There’s no new packs to open, or deckbuilding, or theorycrafting to be had here before matches, so if you enjoy that level of meta in your card-games then Tribute might feel lacking. You see, Tribute is neither a CCG nor TCG since there’s no collecting or trading element to it it’s just a CG. What I did not expect was how much Tales of Tribute (or just Tribute as they often call it in-game) would captivate me with such a relatively simple premise. Did I purchase the High Isle expansion just to play this new minigame? You bet I did. But my passion has, and always will be, video games - so when a game includes a card-based side activity ( Gwent, Triple Triad ) you can be sure that I’ll get invested – sometimes to a fault (I still haven’t beaten The Witcher III because I spend all my time playing Gwent instead of progressing the story). I also enjoy digital collectible card games, such as Hearthstone and Legends of Runeterra. I’m usually a sucker for TCGs in real life, such as Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, and even Final Fantasy’s own TCG. That is, until the latest expansion High Isle introduced a new card-based minigame: Tales of Tribute.
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