Alan's Card Games

Summary

Superheat (Skateboard Trading Card Game) is a card game featuring skateboarders and their moves. The game emphasizes collectability, with starters including randomized "collector's cards" which are printed on extra-thick cards (with glossy highlights) but which are not usable in the game. The game itself involves playing cards to form "runs" based on physical positioning on a card, representing chains of moves that a skateboarder would perform.

Card Types

Pro Card - Cards representing the skateboarders themselves. Every deck is based around one, and the card features an ability and three "slots" to start runs.
Trick - Cards representing different skateboarding tricks, which are played as parts of "runs" on either a pro card or another trick. Trick cards all feature a skateboarder (although any trick can be used with any pro card), some lines to build from/to, and a point value, and some are printed with a self-proclaimed "throwback" styling (which has no impact on gameplay). Some tricks also have powers that trigger when they are played.
Throwdown - Cards that have one-time-use effects.

Sets and Decks

The game only had one set (sometimes called Throwdown), which was available in five different starter decks and booster packs.

Deck Composition and Contents

Starter Decks

Cards: Fixed
Decks: Box Indicates Contents
Players: One or Two
Size: Full Legal Deck or Two Half Decks
Rarities: Common and Uncommon
Rulebook: Included
Playmat: Not Applicable
Other Items: Collector's Cards, Checklist Cards, Reference Card, Sticker

Each of the five starter decks features two different skateboarders, and the decks are numbered 1-5. The starter deck can either be used as a full legal 41-card deck by removing one of the two pro cards, or used as two separate 21-card decks for learning the game.

Starter deck contents were fixed, and the box number indicates which deck you would get. However, the two skateboarders within the deck are not indicated on the box itself.

In addition to the 42 game cards, the box also includes two randomized collector's cards (not usable for the game, and printed on thicker cards) with different skateboarders and their bios and stats, a collectable card checklist, a sticker, a gameplay reference card, and deck checklist cards (for separating the two 21-card decks apart if needed). The rules sheet had a poster on the other side (the same poster for all decks).

Note: The game does not really explain the rarity icon (I'm assuming common is silver, uncommon is gold, and rare is foil), so I'm assuming the starters consist of common and uncommon cards.

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