WAGON Webcomic Battle is a brand new collectible card game that is, you guessed it, entirely based off of webcomics and their contents. This covers all elements of webcomics, from their characters, to their story plots, and everything else that makes a webcomic uniquely what it is.

The game itself is played with three kinds of cards: Characters, Plot Devices, and Bandwidth. Characters are, obviously, based off the stars of their webcomics. Character cards are able to attack other cards, defend you from harm, and use various abilities to effect gameplay. Plot Devices are either objects or story points that can effect gameplay. This can mean anything from boosting a Character’s strength, preventing an attack, or destroying other cards outright. Essentially Plot Devices are used to support your Characters while hindering your opponents Characters. Bandwidth is the money system of the game, working like Mana or Energy that can be spent in order to use certain abilities or play more powerful cards.

The game is played by first dealing out 5 cards face down in front of you, which are referred to as “Comic Panels”. These cards represent your life points for the game… if all 5 of your panels are destroyed, you lose the game. Panels can be destroyed by attacks made by your opponents Characters when you have no Characters of your own to defend yourself, or by Attacks of Opportunity (which will be explained at another time). Each played then draws 5 cards as a beginning hand and take turns Drawing a new card, playing cards, making attacks, and building defenses until one or the other runs out of Comic Panels. The winner then gets to claim bragging rights.

In upcoming blog posts we’ll be covering various aspects of the card game: card type breakdowns, general gameplay strategies, and reviewing all the webcomics that will make an apperance in current and upcoming decks. Any and all questions can be asked here, and we’ll try to answer all that we can in future installments.