This new card game is Magic: the Gathering meets Guitar Hero

By Nick Pino

If Magic: the Gathering doesn’t have enough sick beats for you, Hasbro is teaming up with Harmonix, the creators of Rock Band and Dance Central, to introduce a new collectible card game that has you combining tracks from your favorite songs to outscore your opponent.

The game is divided into three parts: collectible physical cards, a game board that has the ability to read what the cards are and a mobile app that provides the soundtrack for the game and the scoreboard that keeps tally for you.

Each card represents a different part from one of your favorite songs – like the lyrics from Bruno Mars’ “24k Magic” or the bass from Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” – that can be combined to create weird, wonderful mixes which then play from the mobile app.

There are five types of parts (bass, beat, loop and lead, plus a dynamic wildcard) and span different genres like Pop, R&B, Dance, Indie, Rock and Hip-Hop.

The cards also have points values on them, which are important as the goal of the game is to outscore your opponent by replacing lower-value cards on the board with higher-level cards from your hand, which then begets you points and …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming