Mystic Vale

Name: Mystic Vale
Price: 2.99 USD
Rating: 4.8 (1316 reviews)
Author: Nomad Games

The card-crafting deck-builder

$2.99 · In‑App Purchases

1.3K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Board
Developer

Nomad Games
Language

EN
English
Size

342.8
MB

Cleanse the curse upon the land! The award-winning deck-building Mystic Vale is now available to play on the go. Use a wide range of cards to heal the world, gain powerful advancements and improve your cards as you play. Choose your advancements wisely to make your cards as powerful as possible, through a unique ‘card-crafting’ system. Play online against your friends or other druids across the world! Mystic Vale also features the ability to battle computer opponents in order to practice your abilities! You can also expand your Mystic Vale experience with the Vale of Magic, Vale of the Wild and Mana Storm expansions. Adding new advancements, leaders, amulets and vale cards to the base game, each expansion adds extra depth and strategic choices. Are you ready for a new deck-building adventure? INNOVATIVE CARD CRAFTING SYSTEM Create your own powerful cards and uncover amazing combos! BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK AND GRAPHICS Discover a stunning world filled with fantastical creatures. DEEP GAMING EXPERIENCE Make tactical choices and spend your resources wisely. TREMENDOUS REPLAY VALUE Explore thousands of possible card combinations, with more added via expansions!

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

1.3K Ratings

Very fun game
01/01/2020

Purple Skates 88
My friend has this in table top version and invariably demolishes me when we play. I downloaded this to improve my real life game. I like the game play, the art, and the animations. Even the sound effects are cute. Dawnsinger’s song makes me feel accomplished every time I buy her. The online option is fun, but I wish there were a ranking system for players. I don’t mind playing any skill level, but every match I play, my opponent quits, with the exception of my real life friends when we set up a match. I do appreciate that they stick an AI in the quitters place, but still annoying. Also, there are not often online games available, people just have not caught on to the fun. Thanks for a fun and reasonably priced ap.Update: recently I was having some glitches. I deleted the app and downloaded it again. I thought the expansions were lost and Imwas sad. Then I found a setting tab that said restore purchases and they are back. Seems to be working well. I still love this game. I play nearly every day. I only wish there were more people playing online.
Very fun game
01/01/2020

Purple Skates 88

My friend has this in table top version and invariably demolishes me when we play. I downloaded this to improve my real life game. I like the game play, the art, and the animations. Even the sound effects are cute. Dawnsinger’s song makes me feel accomplished every time I buy her. The online option is fun, but I wish there were a ranking system for players. I don’t mind playing any skill level, but every match I play, my opponent quits, with the exception of my real life friends when we set up a match. I do appreciate that they stick an AI in the quitters place, but still annoying. Also, there are not often online games available, people just have not caught on to the fun. Thanks for a fun and reasonably priced ap.Update: recently I was having some glitches. I deleted the app and downloaded it again. I thought the expansions were lost and Imwas sad. Then I found a setting tab that said restore purchases and they are back. Seems to be working well. I still love this game. I play nearly every day. I only wish there were more people playing online.
Great game, but it crashes all the time
06/06/2020

Widdlewade
I absolutely love this game. I own a bunch of the actual cards, and was ecstatic to see the app. Only problem is that the game crashes constantly. I’m playing on an iPad Air, and it the crashes between turns a lot. Especially right before end game scoring. Nothing is more annoying than having to reload the game right at the end. I tried playing it on my phone, but the writing is too small for my old eyes. Would give it the full 5* treatment if the crashing issues were fixed. Oh, and I’d love to see more expansions!
Great game, but it crashes all the time
06/06/2020

Widdlewade

I absolutely love this game. I own a bunch of the actual cards, and was ecstatic to see the app. Only problem is that the game crashes constantly. I’m playing on an iPad Air, and it the crashes between turns a lot. Especially right before end game scoring. Nothing is more annoying than having to reload the game right at the end. I tried playing it on my phone, but the writing is too small for my old eyes. Would give it the full 5* treatment if the crashing issues were fixed. Oh, and I’d love to see more expansions!
Does not follow the rules
10/01/2020

Paramesis
On nearly all accounts, this is a great adaptation and a great app. The biggest problem I have is it does not respect the rules for the planting phase. The rules do not state that you are required to push until you have 3 decay symbols, but this is what the app will do automatically without your input and there is no way to disable it. Most of the time, this is what you want to do, but not always. If you have some cards in your deck with multiple decay symbols and you already have two visible, the app will force you to spoil. Some cards in the Vale of the Wild, namely Wolf Rider and Beastbrother Hunter, give you mana or VP tokens the fewer cards you have in your field. If this is the first card in your field, it could be a good decision to stop immediately, even if you have no decay symbols present, but the app doesn’t give you that option. This happened in my last game and was very frustrating. These aren’t rare edge cases; some cards and strategies around them are much weaker in the app than they are in the real game.
Does not follow the rules
10/01/2020

Paramesis

On nearly all accounts, this is a great adaptation and a great app. The biggest problem I have is it does not respect the rules for the planting phase. The rules do not state that you are required to push until you have 3 decay symbols, but this is what the app will do automatically without your input and there is no way to disable it. Most of the time, this is what you want to do, but not always. If you have some cards in your deck with multiple decay symbols and you already have two visible, the app will force you to spoil. Some cards in the Vale of the Wild, namely Wolf Rider and Beastbrother Hunter, give you mana or VP tokens the fewer cards you have in your field. If this is the first card in your field, it could be a good decision to stop immediately, even if you have no decay symbols present, but the app doesn’t give you that option. This happened in my last game and was very frustrating. These aren’t rare edge cases; some cards and strategies around them are much weaker in the app than they are in the real game.
Relaxing and engaging
05/14/2020

KiPhish
This game is such a pleasure to play. Although it may seem daunting at first, it’s easy to learn with plenty of depth. The AI seems to play at a great level and the graphics are gorgeous. I will be playing this for a long time and plan on buying all the expansions. I really hope they address the few issues listed below and release even more expansions.Pros:1. Amazing art direction (would love to have an option to always have the cards animate instead of only when it’s hovered over)2. Easy to learn, hard to master3. Great AI (I always love a challenge and appreciate when devs take the time to program competent AI’s)4. Unique deck building gameplay5. First expansion included for freeCons:1. Cannot lock camera onto middle overview position while scrolling through and buying cards (I really want to play with a zoomed out camera on my iPad to utilize the bigger screen space)2. Crashes in extended gameplay sessions (~1.5 hours with 3rd gen iPad Air. Memory leak? Game does do autosaves though)3. Cannot view deck composition (maybe intentional? You can see the discard pile and calculate. But if that’s the case, you might as well just let players see what’s left in the deck... I don’t particularly find digging through the discard pile to be fun)Even with these cons, this is definitely a recommended buy. I’m happy to have discovered it.
Relaxing and engaging
05/14/2020

KiPhish

This game is such a pleasure to play. Although it may seem daunting at first, it’s easy to learn with plenty of depth. The AI seems to play at a great level and the graphics are gorgeous. I will be playing this for a long time and plan on buying all the expansions. I really hope they address the few issues listed below and release even more expansions.Pros:1. Amazing art direction (would love to have an option to always have the cards animate instead of only when it’s hovered over)2. Easy to learn, hard to master3. Great AI (I always love a challenge and appreciate when devs take the time to program competent AI’s)4. Unique deck building gameplay5. First expansion included for freeCons:1. Cannot lock camera onto middle overview position while scrolling through and buying cards (I really want to play with a zoomed out camera on my iPad to utilize the bigger screen space)2. Crashes in extended gameplay sessions (~1.5 hours with 3rd gen iPad Air. Memory leak? Game does do autosaves though)3. Cannot view deck composition (maybe intentional? You can see the discard pile and calculate. But if that’s the case, you might as well just let players see what’s left in the deck... I don’t particularly find digging through the discard pile to be fun)Even with these cons, this is definitely a recommended buy. I’m happy to have discovered it.

Fixed: * Starting an online game would sometimes not show the expansions owned in the lobby * Combinations of advancements on one card that should bring up the same dialog multiple times are now fixed in all cases