Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Player-count sensitive
Deep strategy
More strategic control
How it plays
How does it play?
Build an elemental atlas, summon hand-painted creatures, and maneuver across a tactical grid to destroy the rival Avatar.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Read the full game description
Sorcery: Contested Realm is a two-player collectible card game that turns the battlefield itself into a growing atlas. Players build separate decks of sites and spells, place locations into a shared grid, then summon minions, cast magic, and move across those sites to attack the opposing Avatar. Position, adjacency, elemental thresholds, and the difference between surface and underground regions make spatial planning as important as card advantage. The recommended Beta Four Elements box contains four complete preconstructed decks, giving two players several ready-to-play matchups before either begins custom deck construction.
