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Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set

#158889BGG ↗

2014 · 2-4 players · 45min · weight 2.76 · 1,854 ratings

v2 v3 fit 0.381

BGG raw

ID
158889
Name
Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set
Year
2014
Rank
471
Min players
2
Max players
4
Playing time
45
Min playtime
45
Max playtime
45
Avg weight
2.76
Num weights
50
Bayes avg
6.56511
Average
8.01148
Users rated
1854
Num owned
3576
Wanting
105
Wishing
570
Num comments
382
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:15:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (4)
Dice RollingGrid MovementHand ManagementVariable Player Powers
Categories (3)
Card GameFantasyFighting
Description (1338 chars)

Summoner Wars is a fast-playing, action-packed 2-4 player card game. Players take on the role of Summoners: powerful beings who harness the power of mysterious Summoning Stones to lead their race to conquest on the war-torn planet of Itharia. These Summoners wield terrible magic on the battlefield, freezing their foes in place, draining their enemies of power, and even bringing rains of fire down from the heavens. But most notoriously, they summon their great race's hordes of warriors to the battlefield, to clash in the never-ending struggle for supremacy. Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set, a big box starter set for Summoner Wars akin to the Summoner Wars Master Set, features eight complete faction decks and can be played on its own or combined with other Summoner Wars products. All sixteen factions in the SW world are represented as each new summoner is a hybrid of two existing factions, blending the themes of the two factions and expanding deck-building possibilities. The factions are: Fallen Phoenix: Phoenix Elves/Fallen Kingdom Cave Filth: Filth/Cave Goblins Tundra Guild: Guild Dwarves/Tundra Orcs Swamp Mercenaries: Swamp Orcs/Mercs Vargath Vanguard: Vanguard/Vargath Sand Cloaks: Cloaks/Sand Goblin Deep Benders: Deep Dwarves/Benders Jungle Shadows: Shadow Elves/Jungle Elves

LLM v2 (wide)

Core verb
summon unit, attack adjacent
Decision shape
mixed:spatial+combinatorial
Reward schedule
mixed:immediate+engine_compounding
Aesthetics
["Challenge", "Fantasy"]
Core loop pitch
Discard cards as magic, summon units onto a grid, move and roll dice to kill the enemy summoner.
Translation difficulty
Easy
Difficulty reason
Already digitized as Summoner Wars Online (PHG); the grid + card economy maps cleanly to touch and async play.
Direct digital port
Summoner Wars Online (Steam/iOS/Android, Plaid Hat Games)
Port kind
first_party
Closest loop translation
none yet
Primitive tags
["units_double_as_currency", "asymmetric_faction_decks", "kill_the_king_objective", "grid_skirmish_with_summon", "magic_pile_fueling"]
Confidence
0.7
Extracted at
Mon Apr 27 2026 11:40:03 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Raw v2 JSON (970 chars)
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  "name": "Summoner Wars: Alliances Master Set",
  "core_verb": "summon unit, attack adjacent",
  "decision_shape": "mixed:spatial+combinatorial",
  "reward_schedule": "mixed:immediate+engine_compounding",
  "aesthetics": [
    "Challenge",
    "Fantasy"
  ],
  "core_loop_pitch": "Discard cards as magic, summon units onto a grid, move and roll dice to kill the enemy summoner.",
  "mobile_translation_difficulty": "Easy",
  "translation_difficulty_reason": "Already digitized as Summoner Wars Online (PHG); the grid + card economy maps cleanly to touch and async play.",
  "direct_digital_port": "Summoner Wars Online (Steam/iOS/Android, Plaid Hat Games)",
  "direct_digital_port_kind": "first_party",
  "closest_loop_translation": "none yet",
  "primitive_tags": [
    "units_double_as_currency",
    "asymmetric_faction_decks",
    "kill_the_king_objective",
    "grid_skirmish_with_summon",
    "magic_pile_fueling"
  ],
  "confidence": 0.7
}

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).