Star Realms: High Alert – Tech
2021 / Deckbuilding card game expansion / 2+ players / USA
My mild, nagging curiosity over this new card type wasn't going away, but the sole reasonably-priced listing would one day, so I gave in when a jigsaw auction I'd already approved for indulgence exceeded my thrifty threshold. Those things take up too much shelf space anyway.
You're basically buying permanent coin-op power-ups without the spaceship packaging, but they can make all the difference to a successful turn. They also get their own special bench off to the side, like depersonalised Heroes if you don't like humanising your zap pow spaceships game. They really have run out of ideas.
Value-wise, it continues the lazy decline with more duplication and only seven unique card types in the pack of 12. They are nice to have though, especially compared to the superfluous Explorers they've usurped in the bursting boxes.
