KARDS - The WWII Card Game News

Hello KARDS community!

We are super excited to share with you all the details for the second KARDS Open!

Back at it again: 1939 Games presents the Kards Open #2 powered by 983 Media. In this tournament, you bring your three best decks to the battlefield and fight for the top with a $1000 prize pool. Who will reign supreme as the ultimate tactician? Join the fight with Swiss spread across two days (August 29th - 30th). Then, qualifying Top 8 finishers will battle for the prize pool on September 5th with the Top 8 live stream on September 6th.

For more information Join the 983 Discord: https://discord.gg/dAbfkYF or sign up and check out all the details on the tournament here:

👉 KARDS Open #2 Signup

We can’t wait to see who will come out on top this time around. Previous KARDS Open it was the veteran Darkness taking on the relative competitive newcomer Terror DE in the Grand Finals, with Darkness closing out the tournament with a clean sweep.

Will we see the old guard at the top again or can the new dogs take a bite for themselves? Sign up and put your name on the pages of KARDS history!

[h2]Format[/h2]

• Bring three decks from three different main nations (HQ)
  
• Win with two of your three decks to win the swiss round. NO BANS.
  
• Best of Three Conquest
  
• Day I: first rounds of Swiss play (amount of swiss rounds pending final entries)
  
• Day II: Second half of Swiss play (amount of swiss rounds pending final entries)
  
• Day III: Top 8 Single Elimination Bracket - Best of five with four decks.
  

IMPORTANT: You will NOT need to submit your decks for the Swiss rounds. Top 8 qualifiers at the end of swiss weekend will need to submit 4 deck lists.

[h2]Time and date[/h2]
Day I - First Half Swiss Rounds: 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST on August 29th
Day II - Second Half Swiss Rounds: 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST on August 30th
Day III - Top 8 Single Elimination Bracket : 11am EDT / 3pm UTC / 5pm CEST on September 5th

[h2]Prize pool[/h2]
The KARDS Open #2 will feature a 1000$ Prize pool as well as in game items and be completely open for everyone with free registration. Prizes will be distributed in the following way:

• 1st - $400 + 30 Packs
  
• 2nd - $250 + 30 Packs
  
• 3rd - $200 + 30 Packs
  
• 4th - $150 + 30 Packs
  
• 5th-8th - 30 Packs
  

[h2]Bonus[/h2]
🔥 All participants that sign up and play in the tournament will also receive 1 Allegiance Pack. Remember, the sign-up is free.

Get your decks at the ready!

The end of Season 16 in KARDS is filled with action! Climb the ranks, enjoy the finals of the first KARDS Open, and tune in for the next developer AMA.

Climb the ranks now and get bigger and better rewards. Extra rewards for those who have reached the Officer Club.



Use the remaining time to gain as many ranks as you can to get a big payout! You advance ranks by winning PVP matches. This is the perfect opportunity to get a nice boost.

[h2]Reward details[/h2]
With the end of the season, you will receive rewards such as card packs and cards. After you have received the prizes and your season's rewards, your ranks will be lowered by one (except for Field Marshall, that rank will drop to Major 5 stars).

To qualify for the seasonal rewards, you need to have won at least 5 PVP matches during the season.

Check the rewards you will get currently and what you need to do to reach the next better rewards. Simply log into KARDS and go to PROFILE -> RANKS.


[h3]Special rewards[/h3]
The best ten players of the season will qualify for the KARDS World Championship 2020 tournament. Read more about the KARDS World Championship 2020.

The best eight players of the Officer Club also qualify for the monthly Officer Club tournament with a $1000 cash prize.

The next season, Season 17, will start on August 1st at 00'00'01 UTC.

[h2]Developer AMA on July 31st[/h2]
Another developer AMA is ahead this Friday, July 31st! Ask all the question and see what the KARDS developers have to say.

Due to the holiday season, this AMA will be held in a unique format. Don't miss it!

Dev AMA on Twitch at 16:00 UTC on July 31st

[h2]KARDS Open #1 - Finals[/h2]
The first KARDS Open tournament goes into the final rounds this weekend! After a thrilling opening weekend with swiss-style elimination rounds, we are now heading into the elimination rounds between the remaining top eight players.

Check out the current standings and get ready for great fun, entertaining action, and potentially surprise decks which you can use in your own matches as well.

KARDS Open on Twitch at 14:45 UTC on August 2nd


Good luck, and have fun!

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Hello Kards community!

Now that the last Friday of the month is rapidly approaching again, it’s time to start collecting your questions for the next AMA session that will take place on the 31st of July at 16:00 UTC.



This time around both, Olikrummi, our host, and Gummi, our Creative Director, will be on summer vacation when the AMA is scheduled, but that won’t stop us from sitting down and spending some quality time with the community answering your questions. So wherever we might be in Iceland, we’ll be live on Twitch answering your questions on Friday the 31st of July.

You can submit your questions for the devs to answer during the AMA in the Steam comments or on the official AMA reddit thread here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kards/comments/hwg7a1/developer_ama_july_31st_1600gmt/

We appreciate all of your questions and comments for these AMA’s and thank you for helping us better develop and deliver KARDS for the future!

Tune in to the Developer AMA live at 16:00 UTC on the 31st of July at KARDS on Twitch, KARDS on Facebook, or right here on Steam!

Hello Kards community!

The second Officer Club Championship was held on the 18th of July where the top 8 players from the previous season battled it out for their share of the 1000$ prize pool.

The competition was fierce and we had some amazing games. In case you missed it, you can catch the VOD on our YouTube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nylsnPBp7CA

We heard a lot of you asking to see the decks and we are happy to share them with you. Please check out the full deck lists from all competitors in the tournament! Maybe you can get some inspiration from it?

Officer Club Championship July 2020 - Decklist

Enjoy!

This summer has been a weirdly good time for abstract World War II card games. Early this month saw the release of the much-lauded deck builder Undaunted: North Africa as well as the announcement of the first expansion set for the series Undaunted: Reinforcements. The end of June also saw the release of Theaters of War, a set of single-player campaigns for KARDS - The WWII Card Game.

For the uninitiated, KARDS is a World War II-themed, free-to-play, digital card game from the relatively new indie development studio 1939 Games. It both looks and plays very much like Blizzard's smash-hit Hearthstone, albeit with a 1940s skin. Players have a steadily increasing currency to play cards onto the three-rowed battlefield, fighting for control of the middle row (the "front line") in order to attack and ultimately destroy the opposing player's HQ.

Despite these superficial similarities to Hearthstone, KARDS stands on its own as a well-constructed, fast-paced, almost painfully addicting card game based around a simple premise.

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