We are thrilled to announce Star Realms Arena, in-app digital tournaments for the award-winning Star Realms Deckbuilding Game, will be available in the latest Star Realms update today at 11 am EST. We will also be releasing the United Heroes expansion as part of this update. From its beginning in 2014, the Star Realms app has been a favorite for board gamers. It was recently selected as an Editor’s Choice Pick on Android, has been featured by Apple, has won the Best Mobile BGG Golden Geek Award, and was voted as the #1 “Top 10 Apps to Own for Board Gamers” in a 2018 BGG Community Survey.
Star Realms Arena Key Features:
- Free weekly entry into an Arena tournament
- Weekly formats to win prizes, including digital foil cards
- Ability to play with Star Realms expansions (without purchasing the expansions!)
- Race to the Stars to get the Brain World avatar
New Arena Tournament Play, Digital Foil Cards and Heroes in the Star Realms App!
Players can now compete in weekly online tournaments to win prizes in the widely popular Star
Realms app with a different format each week.
May 1, 2018 – Framingham, MA – White Wizard Games LLC, the company created by Magic:
The Gathering Hal of Famers Darwin Kastle and Rob Dougherty, today announced that the
United Heroes expansion and all-new in-app tournament play, Star Realms Arena, has been
added to the popular Star Realms app. From its beginning in 2014, the Star Realms app has been
a favorite for board gamers. The Star Realms app was recently selected as an Editor’s Choice
Pick on the Android Play Store, has been featured on the Apple store, has won the Best Mobile
BoardGameGeek Golden Geek Award, and was voted as the #1 “Top 10 Apps to Own for Board
Gamers” in a 2018 BoardGameGeek Community Survey.
United Heroes is a $2 expansion with a new campaign chapter and 8 powerful new Heroes for
your Trade Deck. More powerful than the heroes from the Crisis set, these cards generate a
powerful effect and trigger unused ally abilities of their faction twice, once when you acquire
them and again when you sacrifice them.
Star Realms Arena is a weekly tournament format with trophy stars and foil cards as prizes. In
order to play in the Arena, players can download the Star Realms update, and then click on the
Arena symbol in the top right-hand corner of the Play Online lobby. Each week, there is a
different tournament format, and players can win prizes based on how many games they win.
Once a player joins an Arena, they can play until they get 6 wins, or 2 losses, whichever comes
first. All Arena games will be real-time, and extra time has been added to the clock so that
players won’t feel too rushed.
Rob Dougherty, CEO of White Wizard Games says, “We are super excited about the new Star
Realms Arena. Not only will players get to compete for prizes with a different format every
week, but everyone will be able to play with all of our expansions in Arena.”
Arena will have a new format each week with its own special rules. Often these formats will be
from the Scenarios set. For example, one week Arena may be Flare Mining, which allows each
player to pay 1 trade to draw a card and then discard a card, once per turn.. The next week Arena
might be Rushed Defenses which makes bases cost 1 less and ships go on top of your deck when
acquired. Arena will also use specific sets each week, but players will be able to play Arena
using those sets even if they don’t own those sets! All players will get one free Arena
Tournament entry each week, and they can purchase or win credits to play in additional Arena
Tournament that same week. The first 100 players to reach 100 Trophy Stars will receive the
Brain World avatar in the app!
Arena prizes are awarded based on the number of wins. Some prizes are available in every Arena
tournament (like Trophy Stars). Other prizes are only available once per week (like Credits or
weekly digital Foil Cards) or once per season (like Season Avatars or Season Foil Cards).
The new Star Realms update with the United Heroes expansion and Star Realms Arena will go
live at 11 am EST today. Watch a livestream of Star Realms Arena play with the United Heroes
expansion tonight at 5:30 pm and 9:30 pm EST on the White Wizard Games Twitch Channel at
www.twitch.tv/whitewizardgames
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