Monkey Card Game

Hey everyone
I’m working on an idea for a card game. Quick premise, you and your opponent each have 5 monkeys (basically cartoon monkeys, pirates, cowboys ect.) The object of the game is to knockout all 5 of your opponent’s monkeys before he does the same to you.

Each monkey card has 4 symbols that represent the 4 seasons. On those symbols is a number 1-4. Example: Pirate monkey (Summer) 1 (Fall) 3 (Winter) 2 (Spring) 4. This means that this monkey is the strongest during spring and the weakest in the summer. There would be a card visible to all players that displayed the current season.

Gameplay:
Each player puts 4 monkeys forward and one in back. The monkey in the back is the captain. The captain’s stats determine your team’s strength, so say we were staring in spring, you want a captain that is strong in spring.

Each player is then dealt 5 cards. These cards consist of numbers 0-5, wilds, change captain, change season. The rest is put in a draw pile.

The captain cannot be attacked until the front 4 monkeys have been knocked out.
Attacking: To knockout a monkey you place number cards in front of them starting with 1 and going to 5, once a 5 card is placed in front of a monkey, that monkey is knocked out. You get to play cards equal to your current strength amount. For example if the pirate monkey mentioned above was your captain “Pirate monkey (Summer) 1 (Fall) 3 (Winter) 2 (Spring) 4” and the current season was spring, you could play up to 4 cards from your hand on your turn.

Healing: On your turn you can choose to use some or all of your cards for healing. You do this by placing numbers counting down on your own team. Example: If you had a monkey that had a 3 card placed in front of him, you could play a 2 and so on. To clear damage completely you would place a 0 on 1.

Change Season: With this card you have the option of changing the current season to something that might be more of an advantage for you.
Change Captain: This card allows you to swap your captain with one of your front 4 in order to achieve an advantage over your opponent.

Captains Last Stand: When only your captain remains, that monkey receives a 4 regardless of the season.

Play continues until one player is out of monkeys.

Any ideas, questions, or comments would be greatly appreciated, I’m not married to the battle mechanic by any means.