Shadow Blades

In Shadow Blades, you step into the shoes of a spymaster, tasked with building an underground intelligence network and dominating the world of espionage. To achieve this, you'll need to recruit agents from various fields and coordinate their actions to complete vital missions. The game, playable individually or in teams of two, challenges participants to gather information, recruit the best agents, and disrupt opponents' plans with clever plays and impeccable coordination. The goal is to rise through the intelligence community and become an unstoppable force in the world of covert operations. The Shadow Blades deck consists of agent, funding, and mission cards. The core card drafting mechanic is quite engaging: players choose cards from a line-up of face-down piles. You can look at the first pile and take it or pass it to look at the next, and so on. When you take a pile, you add a card to the empty spot and to each pile you passed over, enriching the options for the next player. Agents are color-coded and represent four areas of expertise: tech, infiltration, counterespionage, and enforcement. Funding cards can be applied to any agent, and some agents have special powers that activate when played. To complete a mission, your strength in its specific field must be superior to all opponents. Get ready to bluff, plan, and dominate the espionage underworld!