Cabals: Magic & Battle Cards Reviews

A well balanced card game

Beaker001

In my search for playable iOS card games, this one sticks out as a winner. I like the strategy and resource management, and the theme is unique and well done. There are endless way to play the game and the sets of cards are well balanced. Each of the four heroes has unique cards that can confer a specific advantage to the player, but none of them seem powerful enough to always be the winner. The ability to buy booster packs, complete play sets, and individual cards from the shop is very convenient and useful for deck design, and there is a lot of opportunity for expansion. My only criticism: Upon starting the app for the first time you are asked to choose a hero and then given a deck to go with the hero. It would be useful to know a little more about the hero and deck you will receive before being asked to make a choice. It's a great game and I look forward to hours of play in the future.

Where are my cards??

Kay Kay 22

This game is great very very fun. If you are a fan of tcg then I suggest you download this. You do have to spend real money for better cards as you would any tcg but just stick with the starter deck for a while and see if you like it enough to spend around 10$. Not bad IMO considering how much I've spent on magic the gathering lol

Great on iPhone

Ianfenn

Shadow Era has been my go to for years, however it just doesn't play well on iPhone due to the small screen. Cabals in the other hand, does. This is a great little ccg that employs a battle mechanic on a game map. The card set is currently pretty small but it is still a lot if fun to play.

Fun TCG, Card store is not do great

DJYeshua

I really enjoy this TCG and second what another review said, it looks great on iPhone which is really nice. The game play is fun and competitive, but you will NEED TO SPEND MONEY to really enjoy the cards. Do not however buy the booster packs, as there is no way to sell cards back, this in why I've only given 4 stars. You will get many cards you cannot use and be stuck with the, forever. But, if you enjoy the game play and don't mind spending $10 on a really good deck, it's a blast!

Great TCG, one of the best I

Chip H.

I was stupid huge into Magic: The Gathering in its early years, only quitting the game out of frustration with the endless money milking and mechanics recycling (but missing it over a decade later all the same). What made M:TG the game it was, as opposed to the countless wannabes that followed, was that the game design had come before anything else. So, it is no small thing when I say that Cabals is the first TCG that I've played since that first M:TG game in 1995 that I see the game comes before the setting and, most importantly, before attempting to milk the players of their money. This is a wonderful little game and it doesn't take long to grasp the fundamentals - a fine example of the "easy to learn, difficult to master" catch phrase. It plays tight and fast and is its own game. It's not trying to be M:TG (*cough*Shadow Era*cough), and it's not trying to figure out how to draw some nebulous link between an expensive licensed property and playing cards like so many of the TCGs that have come and gone in the past two decades, card games where the game was obviously an after thought to the commercial product. Instead, you can see that the designers had a cohesive vision for the game and have executed it near flawlessly with a stripped down set of mechanics that, instead of being bogged down in numerous turn phases and arcane timing resolutions, find their complexity through a set of varied game boards that change the way you need to approach each game. The artwork is distinctive and good stuff, albeit nothing amazing, and the back story, like M:TG, works with the card game to give it framework. The interface is about as close to perfect as you're going to get on a small screen like this (although there is room for improvement for some things like the opposing player name and a log of moves). The weakest point to the game is that it has a relatively small card set (~20 cards per faction) and not a huge variety of deck strategies. On the other hand, even with such a small card pool, factions are fairly distinct and there actually are balanced deck strategies. Still, an expansion is planned for early 2012 and the designers have a road map to carry this game through the foreseeable future. For the grand old price of $0 they set you up with a constructed starter favoring one of the four factions and enough premium currency to grab a booster and some singles. There is a solid single player "campaign" where you can take on ever increasingly better AIs. Playing through the single player portion of the game (while connected to the internet) earns additional free random cards, even uncommons and rares, and a future update will allow unwanted and extra cards to be traded in for cards you do need and want. If you do find you like the game and want more, the cost is very reasonable, and they sell singles and playable "box sets" at fair prices. It's a good compromise with most conventions of physical TCGs supported, but adapted to the digital existence. If you've ever enjoyed TCGs at all, give this game a chance.

Great

No one to be known

It,s no magic the gathering, but it is still a great game. It's one that I might get easily afdicted to. 5 stars for creativity, creating a hame it's own style card abilities could have an better explanation but easy to catch on. It's not a spinoff from magic but still has some basic ideas I vote DOWNLOAD

Addicting, once you know what

mniz79

Never have I been into card games or even board games really, but I must say this is an extremely fun game. Beware, all the free time you thought you had will now be consumed by this game. Only one complaint - needs a better tutorial. Reading the instructions won't get you very far. You'll have to read them, play some, scratch your head, then read them again to finally get it. But once you do, you'll be hooked.

One MINOR suggestion...

Revy AP

I REALLY like playing this game, even spent some cash on influence to buy new cards, buy WHY aren't the decks and cards I have purchased available in offline play mode? I'm not connected to wifi ALL the time. Make that upgrade to game play and earn the fifth star. This is a really good game to introduce players to TCG tablet games, and alot of fun for free.

Great

RLW100

Great game. One of the best tcg's i've played on iphone. However there is no way to sell back for influence the cards you don't want or need. Please, please, please make some sort of buy back update, especially since the cards you win every level aren't guaranteed to be from the set you're playing. Cabals would easily be worth 5 stars then.

Awesome

MCoverKT

I originally wrote a bad review. The game is awesome but I had some trouble in the online portion. Not 10 minutes after I posted on the forum my problem I was talking with someone who explained the problem, and although they didn't know what was causing it, they needed my help because I was the first person in this region to encounter it. So five stars for an awesome game, and for awesome customer service.