Beast in Show

Fantasy monster pet deck builder. Create the ultimate team of monsters, beasts, and cryptic to compete in pet competitions. Collect pets, companions, and abilities of different elements and combine their powers to win the most trophies.

Each player starts with a deck of ten starter cards, and a starting pet. Your pet stays out on your player mat, ready to compete using its Beauty, Brains, and Brawn stats! Each turn, draw 5 cards from your deck. Some cards will add points to your pets' Beauty, Brains, or Brawn statistics. Others have money that let you buy more powerful cards or pets from the marketplace. Cards can also contain abilities that let you improve your hand, improve your pets, or sabotage your competitors! All cards also align to one of four elements. By pairing cards of the same element, you can activate even better abilities and add extra pets to your game board to help win competitions. After buying cards, placing pets on your mat, activating abilities, or any combination of those things, place your hand in the discard pile, and draw a new hand. As the game progresses, your deck will grow more and more powerful!

Once the pets on your player mat, with the assistance of any cards in your hand that turn, have enough Beauty, Brains, and Brawn, go claim your prize! Each trophy has a unique combination of statistics required to claim, and once you've claimed a prize no one else can claim the same one. Trophies also give you victory points to win the game. But be careful. Once your pets win a trophy, they retire and you will need to purchase new ones for the next competition.

Play until all the competitions are claimed, then add up victory points from your trophies. Be strategic: some cards, including pets, also contain victory points that count towards victory. So don't assume the person with the most trophies is always the winner!

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