Hero Realms: What do you think?

I have the star realm app (paid version) and I have Epic as card game, but did not have much chance to play.

Now Hero Realm is a littlerally a clone of star realm with little rule changes.The only rule change I found is that the first player draw 3 instead of 5 cards and they fixed it it the Star Realm app. Else the major changes besides the theme is the card design.

I had a few design issue with star realms, not sure I remember it all:

I disliked the common purchase pool and prefer player specific pool like rune age but that is just a preference.

The red faction was too strong since destroying cards in deck was very powerful. Was fixed in Colony Wars by making it more expensive.

Some cards are under or over powered according to it's cost.

Else I suggested having ships which could replace other ships in your deck by giving a rebate.

Vipers are not very useful too compared to scout. I suggested powering them up or adding python bombers that would do 2 damage and 2 authority as an alternative to the explorer.

The game can escalate drastically in damage, so you get a snowballing effects in the game.

I almost preferred the app because each unique scenario gave an interesting twist to the game by changing rules or giving different starting deck and health. Wish it could be usable in the real game.

It's also atype of game that forces you to focus in one thing only to be efficient. You cannot get a bit of this and a bit of that like in other card games.

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As for epic, I liked the idea of overpowerness that gives a Master of Magic type of feeling to it. I still think there could be balance issues but I have not played enough to know.

The only issue was with the non-intuitive keywords that you have to know or check out in the rule book all the time.