Artifact Prepares Launch This Month - briefly

(hx) 08:45 AM CET - Nov,03 2018 - Post a comment

Valve announced the DOTA 2-based card game Artifact earlier this year, revealing that the development team is collaborating with Richard Garfield, the creator of Magic: The Gathering, to design this new project. Today, Valve set the ball rolling for Artifact's release on November 28, 2018, by launching the full website. The new Artifact website doesn't feature a whole lot right now, but does have a couple of stories to look at. One is about the hands-on debut at PAX West 2018 and another is a post about strategy written by Richard Garfield himself. The site is far cry from Magic: The Gathering Arena's site, but players should expect similar additions including tutorials, event schedules, and more. At launch, Artifact will ship with more than 280 cards and 44 heroes. It will be supported through expansion, competitive events, and additional gameplay features throughout its life. It will cost $20 and will operate like more like a living card game (LCG) vs a trading card game (TCG), simply meaning the all of the packs or expansions for the game will be defined collections and not random like Magic: The Gather, Pokemon, etc.







In other news, the Artifact Beta is coming soon. On November 10-11, the Artifact Preview Tournament will feature 128 players competing over a prize pool of USD $10,000. Hosted by Beyond The Summit and broadcast on SteamTV, the all-draft event will feature a 7-round Swiss bracket on Saturday. A top 8 single-elimination bracket will decide the winner on Sunday. Both days begin at 9AM PST. The tournament will be run entirely through an in-client tournament system which will be available for everyone to use on launch day, November 28th.