Perhaps you, reader, are a fan of card games. You regularly log onto Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel and chain together combos that take up 20 minutes before your turn ends. Maybe you’re a Magic: The Gathering player who gets really, really mad at blue decks — I don’t blame you, either. Or perhaps you simply enjoy a more casual, but no less cutthroat, type of game, such as Settlers of Catan. Regardless of what flavor you prefer, Tales of Tribute, the new card game found in the Elder Scrolls Online chapter High Isle, may be up your alley.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Elder Scrolls Online, but Tales of Tribute is so good, it should be a standalone game. Tales of Tribute is a deckbuilding game designed around collecting resources and denying your opponent from doing the same. You do so in the goal of either collecting 40 Prestige, or having all four Patrons favor you — either of which will win you the game. This article will delve deep into some of the Patron decks and play styles you can expect to see in Tales of Tribute.
A quick note: this article is based off of an early preview build of High Isle, which will likely be different from the final release that players will have access to on High Isle launch. We were not able to capture footage or screenshots of this preview build, so any numbers listed in this article may be different from what you see on release.
The BasicsAfter completing the tutorial quests, you will be given four Patron decks with which to start playing. Each of the Patrons focus on a specific theme — Duke of Crows, for example, is designed around accumulating huge amounts of gold and converting them into Prestige, while Saint Pelin allows you to cycle Agents to generate resources and set up guards. We’ll go into
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