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<\/p>\nA day after its crowdfunding launch on Friday, October 10, Archon Studio’s Heroes of Might & Magic: The Card Game has already amassed over $800,000 from backers on Gamefound, having hit its initial $58k goal in just over five minutes.<\/p>\n
If you’ve somehow never heard of Heroes of Might & Magic, it’s a collection of PC strategy RPGs known for their expansive maps, grid-based tactical battles, and spending\u00a0hours and hours scouring the land to find deposits of sulfur so that they could finally afford to upgrade their red dragon caves.<\/p>\n
Many of the series’ later, 21st century instalments met mixed reviews, but 1999’s Heroes of Might & Magic III was a trailblazing success that still holds up pretty well, with a loyal legion of fans. So loyal, in fact, that over 25,000 of them backed Archon’s HoMM board game to the tune of $8.3 million, over the course of two separate Gamefound campaigns.<\/p>\n
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Now, after that rip-roaring success, Archon is returning to the HoMM well with a lower cost, strategic card game, trading massive boxes of hex boards, tokens, and plastic minis for, well, massive boxes of cards instead. But it does look cool.<\/p>\n
Launched for crowdfunding on the PC series’ 30th anniversary, Heroes of Might & Magic: The Card Game sets out to mimic the Heroes III Experience. Two players slide their cards onto a 7\u00d77 grid, deploying units and locations to populate the map, and casting spells to buff their own soldiers or to harm the opposition. Each player controls a hero (of might and\/or magic) and they lose when that hero is slain.<\/p>\n
Importantly, it’s\u00a0not a trading card game<\/a> built on random boosters. You’ll buy specific expansion based boxes to add new factions’ unit, spell, ability, artifact, and location cards to your overall pool – then build decks and face off.<\/p>\n In this initial Gamefound campaign<\/a>, the game’s factions are tied to different pledge tiers. Backing at the $56 (\u00a342) “Adept of Might and Magic” tier only grants two playable armies: castle, and necropolis (in other words humans and undead). It takes backing the $149(\u00a3112) “Queen of Might and Magic” tier to unlock every race from Heroes III.<\/p>\n What are some classic PC titles that you’d like to see adapted into card games? Personally, I’d love to see some sort of Grim Fandango deck builder, even though I have no idea how that would actually work. Let us know your choices in the Wargamer Discord community<\/a>.<\/p>\n There are plenty of other great tactical titles out there, as you can see on our list of the best strategy board games<\/a>. To take it up a notch to the real cream of the tabletop crop, check out our picks for the best board games<\/a>\u00a0ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after its crowdfunding launch on Friday, October 10, Archon Studio’s Heroes of Might & Magic: The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17995,100775,49,48,95173,100776,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-206039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-board-game","9":"tag-board-games","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-card-game","13":"tag-card-games","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"YouTube](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760219588_836_sddefault.jpg\")
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