You compete with another player to win "stories" by gaining success tokens. Five success tokens wins a story; three stories win a game. As with Magic, if you run out of cards to draw from you lose. This makes a mill deck a very viable option.
One of the things that makes Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game interesting is that there are factions to choose cards from. These eight factions give you the chance to mix and match cards from across the story to make a winning strategy. These expandable mythos factions include:
- Miskatonic University
- Syndicate
- Order of the Silver Twilight
- Cthulhu
- Hastur
- Yog-Sothoth
- Shub-Niggurath
The Call of Cthulhu Card Game is currently produced in the form of a core set, featuring cards from all 7 factions, neutral cards, story cards, success/wound tokens, a full-colour manual, a game board, and Cthulhu-shaped domain markers. The game is ready to play straight out of the box, and decks can be made quickly by combining cards from two of the factions along with several neutral cards.
Fantasy Flight Games produces booster packs called "Asylum Packs" designed to increase the players card pool in a balanced and affordable way. Each booster pack contains 11 cards (including 3 'uncommon' and 1 'rare'). This gives you the chance to form many different decks with plenty of different strategies to play with. I love that new collectible card smell.
Once I started playing I soon realized that this was just as addictive and exciting as Magic: The Gathering. I soon bought new boosters, turning my deck into an unstoppable force, of course this only lasted until I started my first tournament. Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game gets five out of five stars for being a good mental game complete with the Cthulhu Mythos that I love.
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