Introduction
Hello, this is my first Gods Unchained article, and i intend to write others soon, my main goal is to elucidate common starter questions and give a general panorama about whats happening right now in the game.
Gods Unchained its a card game similar to the famous Magic: The Gathering card game and Hearthstone(PC) card game, what differs Gods Unchained from those games, is that it uses blockchain technology altogether with NFTs, to give the player ownership of their assets and the possibility to trade them without the need of centralized third part agents.
Wallet
The first step for owning your in-game assets its to create a wallet. The most used wallet right now its a web wallet called Metamask, it can be installed in most browsers by adding it as add-on on your browser library. It is a must to have your wallet linked to the game before you start playing, and there are a lot of guides all over the internet.
Card Rarity
There are four types of rarity, you can identify them by observing the colors of the two triangles on the side of the card name. The rarity level its more tied to the impact of the card on the deck, other than being a better card than the others.
Types of rarity: Gray: Common, Blue: Rare, Purple: Epic, Yellow: Legendary.
Quality / Shine
There are four types of card Quality: Plain, Meteorite, Shadow, Gold and Diamond. The card quality doesn't affect their stats, if you play a Diamond card or a Plain card, you will get the same effect. The advantages of owning a superior quality card, its how scarce they are, superior quality cards have limited supply. Plain cards are off-chain, meaning that you have to use two plain cards in the forge to create a meteorite quality NFT card.
Sets
There is a good variety of sets right now in Gods Unchained, i will not list all of them here due to simplification. According to Devs, it is expected to have at least one set launched per year.
Currently, those are the most relevant sets:
Welcome: Off-chain cards that you receive when starting the game and playing the tutorial. Those cards can't be commercialized.
Core: Packs from this set are received when a player gains a level inside the game, Core packs get replaced by a epic core pack each 10 levels and a legendary core pack each 25 levels.
Genesis: One of the first sets launched on Gods Unchained, a solid foundation of cards that are only accruing valor to this day.
Trial of The Gods: Introduces champions of each god, their relics, and their spells.
Divine Order: A set that introduces creatures and spells that uses Armor and Order traits.
Forge
(the forge isn't operational at this time, but according to Devs, it will be activated before the end of 2021.
The forge its a internal game resource that allows exchanging inferior quality cards for superior ones. You can, for example, destroy two off-chain plain cards to generate a on-chain meteorite card. From meteorite and above, five cards are necessary to forge one superior quality card.
In the near future, $GODS and FLUX will be necessary to forge cards. Flux its a in-game off-chain currency that can be obtained by playing different gods in a specific order.
Ranks
There are twelve ranks in total, you can go trough each rank level by winning an amount of games and filling the bar, if you pass the white bar, you gain a shield and don't get deranked in case your shield breaks. If you keep loosing after you shield breaks, you derank.
List of tiers and their names:
Tier 1 — Rusted Bronze (B)
Tier 2 — Purified Bronze (B+)
Tier 3 — Rusted Iron (I)
Tier 4 — Purified Iron (I+)
Tier 5 — Impact Meteorite (M)
Tier 6 — Astral Meteorite (M+)
Tier 7 — Twilight Shadow (S)
Tier 8 — Midnight Shadow (S+)
Tier 9 — Auric Gold (G)
Tier 10 — Solar Gold (G+)
Tier 11 — Ethereal Diamond (D)
Tier 12 — Mythic (M)
When playing, your opponent can be two ranks higher or two ranks lower than yours.
Events
There are currently two ongoing events, Blessing of the Gods and Weekend Ranked.
Blessing of the Gods: weekly event that will occur until the end of the year. You can earn $GODS tokens by completing those missions every week:
- Play 20 or more ranked games
- Win 7 or more ranked games
- Pass four rounds of each ranked game
- Be at least Rank 4 (Purified Iron) on Gods Unchained by the end of the campaign to qualify
- Play versus games with at least 17 unique opponents out of the 20 ranked games played
More info: https://blog.godsunchained.com/2021/10/29/blessing-of-the-gods/
Weekend Ranked: Event that happens every weekend that allows players to earn packs from the Divine Order and Core sets accordingly to their number of wins in their first 25 games.
More info: https://blog.godsunchained.com/2020/09/18/weekend-ranked-constructed-september-2020-update-3/
Buying and Selling Cards
Cards can be bough and sold trough two places right now, Immutable marketplace and Token Trove. Immutable its the company behind Gods Unchained, where you can see your NFT cards, deposit and withdraw ETH and see your transactions. Token Trove its a secondary market that shows exact the same thing as Immutable, but in a more friendly UI, where you can see the value of cards in USD, transfer assets and see for how much a specific card was last sold.
ImmutableX: https://market.x.immutable.com/
Token Trove: https://tokentrove.com/
That´s it!
I really hope it was a helpful guide, i am open to suggestions about this content and also about what i can bring on my next post!