Shardbound

Shardbound

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By 厂尸升中
This guide can explain some features of the game and help new players understand it
   
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About game
Shardbound is a mixture of card games and TGS. Distributed system for free-to-play and only depends on you whether to buy additional cards or restricted free games.

Players have to assemble your own army from a huge number of units and face each other, cleverly using the terrain, the unique abilities of your units, proper positioning, and, of course, wit.
Basic Gameplay
In mechanics it's pretty simple, there's the battlefield, there are mana crystals that you put on the field of minions and use abilities.

Minions can deal damage in melee or ranged combat, depending on the creature type.

Your creatures can have the following properties
  • Ability - Can do something for X mana once per turn.
  • Bloodtoll - An additional cost that MUST be paid for play the card
  • Bounce - Return to it's owner hand
  • Charm - Forces a unit to move towards the charming a unit or tile
  • Charge - Can attack and move on this turn it is summoned
  • Choose one - Choose one of the available features
  • Damage Shield - Blocks the first damage dealt against this unit
  • Deepstrike - Can be summoned to any location on the battlefield
  • Deathhowl - Does something when it dies
  • Exile - Removed from the game. Prevents Deathhowls and doesn't enter the graveyard
  • Fear - Forces a unit to move away from the fearing unit or tile
  • Flying - Can move to any location on the battlefield
  • Loyality - Does something when next to your hero
  • Poison - After this unit deals damage to a minion, destroy that minion
  • Root - Cannot move
  • Splash - Also damages all enemies next to whomever it attacks on its turn
  • Stun - Cannot attack, conterattack, move, activate triggered effects, or use abilities
  • Supremacy - Does something when on High Ground
  • Uncontrollable - Not controlled by anyone, run from these as far as possible
  • Upgrade - May choose to pay extra mana to gain ONE of the upgrade options
  • Warcry - Does something when you play it from your hand
Factions
In Shardbound there are 6 unique factions, each with their own distinct units and strategies. To go into battle, you'll select a hero and build an army utilizing their faction's units and spells, along with a vast selection of neutral minions that can join any army.


Baroness Sabine and the Bloodbinders are able to transmute flesh into energy and vice versa, allowing them to sap others to heal themselves, sacrifice themselves to enhance their allies, or summon mindless thrall to overwhelm their enemies.

Her ability - Deal 1 damage to a unit in line of sight and restore 1 Health to your hero.

Director Petra leads the Steelsingers who can create the world’s most powerful technology and control it with their magic. Their versatile mechs and supporting exosuits units allow them to win in a straight up battle of minions.

Her ability - Add a Modular Gizmo to your hand.

General Vardan commands the Landshapers, who can sculpt the natural world around them to crush their enemies with overwhelming strength. They transform the terrain, control the map with deadly seedlings, and awaken stone tempests from the earth.

His ability - Add a random Blessing card to your hand.

Oathkeeper Juro is a Packrunner, one with the ability to resonate with intelligent magical beasts known as Primals. They can summon an army of them to their side in battle, and can buff them with bonus stats and abilities.

His ability - Dash up to two tiles, Transform into a Primal.

Professor Mori and the Fatekeepers have mastered the ability to manipulate time and space. They can control the flow of battle with tricks and debuffs, and are able to look into the future to secure the tools they need for victory.

Her ability - Teleport an enemy minion in line of sight up to two tiles.

Venerator Wynn and the Wayfinders can fabricate the energy of the Lifeweave into searing beams of energy, shields, and radiant golden wings. Their aggressive spells and minions can make it hard for opponents to keep pace.

His ability - Give a friendly minion +1 Attack this turn.
Overworld
In the overworld you can find air island on which you will run a campaign, a house is a place for the selection of maps, profile changes, and also a place to view statistics, open chests and training, and PVP island to battle other players.
Campaign
The campaign gives the opportunity to take a quest line, currently available only prologue
House
Home, sweet home
It not only provides comfort but also gives you access to valuable buildings
Profile
Its a personal statistics section, where you can see who played the party and add someone to friends
Household
In this place you can see a brief summary of your house and the roster
Different house ranks give different abilities:
Leader - promote/demote house member or kick him from house
Officer - promote or kick house member
Member - can only open the shards, as other people in house
Barracks
In the barracks you can change your decks and craft new cards
Training Grounds
Nothing remarkable here, just to make fun of bots
Treasury
All about boxes, buy and open boxes, more boxes.
Can get them for the exploring shards or buy in-game currency
Shards
Study of shards can be considered open, for filling up to 100% you will be able to get some gifts.
For compliance with the rules of execution of a specific shard, the fill rate increases
Don't forget about the first win of the day, it brings increase of bonus awards
Friends
Add to friends or in the home press the button in the lower left corner of the screen
Useful Links
Shardbound VK[vk.com]

Shardbound official site[www.shardbound.com]

Shardbound Wiki[shardbound.gamepedia.com]

Shardbound Wikia[shardbound.wikia.com]

Spiritwalk Games Twitch[www.twitch.tv]
Author's note
Thanks for checking out my guide! If you found anything useful, please rate it so that other players can easily find it too. Do you have any suggestions or questions? Just hit me up in the comments and I will try answer from time to time.
10 Comments
AI Pupils PalyGame 26 May, 2017 @ 9:44am 
l:steamhappy:
Lukav 7 May, 2017 @ 10:09am 
Some basic crafting info. Thought I'd share because the obvious in plain sight was still too hidden for me at first. Perhaps this'll help clear up any confusion for someone else.

In order to craft a minion you don't have, there's a "Show Unowned" checkmark box above the search bar ingame. Just right click a card to bring up its detail page and any info available, including crafting is listed there. These crafted cards require Royal Marks. Honestly wish I'd known beforehand so I didn't waste marks. lol

Rarity Costs:

Common (Green) = 50, Rare (Blue) = 100, Epic (Purple) = 400, Legendary (Orange) = 1200.
厂尸升中  [author] 2 May, 2017 @ 6:04am 
Royal marks are used to create unowned cards in the Barracks
DerekTheBold 1 May, 2017 @ 8:29pm 
I i may be dumb but i looked all over to figure out what the "royal marks" are for. literally looked all over everything i could in the game and any website i can find. one place said they act as chroma, but im coming up with nothing. what are they for?
厂尸升中  [author] 26 Apr, 2017 @ 8:52am 
In the process of development, like many other things in this game
poring 26 Apr, 2017 @ 8:17am 
Tagged as "Modding or Configuration" and has none of these...:steamfacepalm:
厂尸升中  [author] 26 Apr, 2017 @ 8:00am 
The game hasn't russian players... для русскоговорящих на стримах объясняю все в любом случае)
KOMAPOB_HET 26 Apr, 2017 @ 6:11am 
Why it is written not in Russian,aaaa почему?:steamsalty:
Vaarelsauce 18 Apr, 2017 @ 6:15pm 
Really good guide, keep it up! Also for the people that gets bored after like 5 minutes into the game with the tutorial, JUST. KEEP. PLAYING. It WILL get better and really juicy, trust me! Also, the game is in BETA, so give it some hearts and they'd rather have constructive critism than some lame ass remarks from a few of you weak F2Ps, kek~
Fem|Geek 15 Apr, 2017 @ 7:10pm 
Nice :) You can also mention that if you click and hold an enemy unit, all tiles that turn color is their current movement/LOS. There is an option in graphics to show your unit's LOS when summoning as well. I'm going to link this guide in our House Group - thanks!:tlove: