Summary

The Lightseekers trading card game is part of the larger Lightseekers line of toys, which also includes video games, action figures, and other media (such as comics). TCG cards can be scanned by the app for additional effects. The goal of the card game is to deplete your opponent's hero's health while protecting your own hero, and the game features a unique card rotation mechanic for its buffs. The game was available as booster packs and starter decks.

Card Types

• Hero - Cards representing leaders, each belonging to an order, and having health, an ability, and several element icons. Decks are built around a hero.
• Combo - Stronger abilities, which can be attacks, defends, or buffs. Each has an ability and required elements, and belongs to an order. A deck must have exactly 5 combo cards.
• Attack - Cards representing offensive abilities. Each has an ability and required elements, and may belong to an order.
• Defend - Cards representing defensive abilities. Each has an ability and required elements, and may belong to an order.
• Buff - Cards representing ongoing abilities, which rotate across turns. Each has an ability and a number of rotation corners, determining how long the effect lasts. They also have required elements, and may belong to an order.
• Item - Cards representing items used by heroes. Unique in that they do not require elements, and are equipped on heroes. Each has an ability, a value, and belongs to an order.

Sets and Decks

The game had four sets released: Awakening, Mythical, Kindred, and Uprising. Additional promotional sets (Rift Pack, Shadow League, and Origin) were also available.

Starter decks were only available for two of the sets: Awakening and Kindred. Both sets of starters had the same format, although the Awakening starter decks had more "extras" than the Kindred starter decks. The standard four sets were available in booster packs.

(Interestingly, the booster boxes do not indicate how many packs are included anywhere on them, which is unusual for card games.)

Deck Composition and Contents

Starter Decks

Starter decks were available for two sets: Awakening and Kindred. In both cases, the decks were themed around a specific order and hero, and came with a hero, 5 combo cards, and 30 other ("action") cards, which is a full deck for the Constructed format.

Starter deck contents were fixed, and the boxes indicated which deck you would get. The decks themselves are a mix of common and uncommon cards, each with 5 starter-exclusive cards (marked as "rare" rarity).

All decks also included health counter tokens and a playmat. The Awakening starters additionally included a printed rulebook, a storage box, and a trading shield (covering the scannable portions of the card, to prevent them from being scanned by others when you shared photos of them). Every deck also contains a booster pack, and a "tribute card" or "booster card" that can be scanned into the video game (and has no card game effect). Interestingly, Kindred starter decks do not include rules, although the playmat includes a general summary of gameplay.

One particularly interesting thing about the Kindred decks is how strong the theming is within each deck. The additional components (playmat, health tokens) were colored to match the deck's order. (For example, the Astral decks included a yellow playmat and yellow health tokens.) This theming is extremely unusual within TCGs, with most games having a single playmat or health token that is common across all starters. (The Awakening starters have themed health tokens, but the other components are the same across decks.)

Deck Rarity Analysis

Lightseekers decks include rare cards, but does not duplicate them in the deck. Combined with the fact that all starters are clearly marked, this doesn't spoil rare pulls from boosters too much, and limits duplication of cards from starters unless you want to.

Alan's Thoughts On The Game

Will be updated once I have played the game.

Resources

• Official Website
• Starter Deck Card Lists (AlanvDotOrg Randomjunk)