Artifact is a board game based on the card game created by valve. The objective of the game is to destroy your opponent's ancient or 2 towers. The board is divided into 3 independent sections called lanes. Each one of these lanes contains a tower . You deal damage to the enemy's tower by playing cards. When any one tower is destroyed, the controlling player's Ancient is exposed in that same lane. The first person to destroy either two towers or one ancient wins.
PLAYING THE GAME
Both player have a deck of 40 cards and 18 creep cards. The game starts with 3 creeps and 3 heroes and after every turn 1 hero and 2 creeps are added. Players take turns and play different cards to gain advantage over the opponent and damage their tower. The game is played simultaneously on 3 different lanes and you have to manage everyone of them. Will you divide your resources evenly on every lane or will you go all in on one lane and hope for the best?
THE BOARD
LABELLED BOARD
CARDS
Divided into decks of 2