Determine who will hav the first turn, then shuffle your starting deck. Once the starting decks are given to each player, set aside any remaining Gold, Short Swords, and Daggers, as you won't be needing them.

How is such a feat accomplished, you might ask? Easy, with money (and no shortage of violence!) Each player is given a starting deck consisting of ten cards, broken up into 7 Gold, a Ruby, a Short Sword, and a Dagger. Play your Champions and your Action cards to generate even greater amounts of Gold and Combat to overtake your opponents! The Setup Whenever a player purchases a card, it goes to their discard pile to be used again in the future (more on that later). A sixth item, a stack of 16 Fire Gems, is also placed here as an option that's always available to players. These are shuffled at the start of the game, and the top five are revealed at the start to create the Market Row for players to shop from. There are also 80 cards that are used to create the Market deck. The objective of the game is simple: reduce your opponents Life to 0, and be the last one standing to win! Your cards can either generate you Gold, Combat, or Life, and these are used to purchase new cards, attack your opponents, and heal yourself, respectively. Hero Realms is a fantasy-themed, compact deck-building game that's easy to pick up and play in short sessions.