Build Your Deck and Play the Perfect Hand! Poker Roguelike Deckbuilder Backed by a16z Speedrun, 'Heroes of Magic and Cards', Comes to Steam
'Heroes of Magic and Cards' puts you and your poker deck up against the mighty forces of evil in this nifty deckbuilder. Draw powerful straights and pairs to unleash combos, and leverage your abilities and synergies to take down bosses! 'Heroes of Magic and Cards' arrives on Steam September 17th.
[September 15th 2025]: Play your hand from encounter to encounter in Heroes of Magic and Cards, a new Poker-themed roguelike deckbuilder from First Day Entertainment. Collect relics and enchantments which change the poker you thought you knew, synergizing with your character's innate class abilities to reuse or even copy cards. Carefully build up your hand towards powerful poker-combinations to destroy your enemies!
Bide your time in battle, playing dead-weight cards to do light damage as you build up your hand for truly devastating combos. When the moment is right, unleash the two-of-a-kind, three-of-a-kind, four-of-a-kind, straight, or even flush that you've been sitting on to activate your most powerful abilities and leave your opponent as nothing but ashes. Card-enchantments fill this process with twists and turns, adding extra draw-power, or changing the values or suits of cards to build up to the perfect hand!
Backed by a16z Speedrun, Heroes of Magic and Cards comes to Steam September 17th, with a demo to follow shortly after.
Key features of Heroes of Magic and Cards include:
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Poker Roguelike Power. Build your perfect deck as you traverse the world, ensuring that by the time you fight the next boss, every draw is a guaranteed powerhouse! Crush your opponents with straights and pairs!
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Customize Your Plan of Attack! Every run offers a different assortment of enchantments and relics through a series of random encounters. Make the most of what you find, putting together your strategy one shift at a time. Will you focus on healing? Changing your card values to maximize your combos? Will you just aim for raw damage? Every find has its uses!
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Choose Your Class! Each class has its own unique abilities to push the flow of combat even further! Powers like Chain Lightning, Hell Fire, and Shield Burst completely change the flow of combat and set you up for devastating finishers on the most powerful bosses!
Heroes of Magic and Cards is coming to Steam on September 17th, with a demo following shortly.
About First Day Entertainment
First Day Entertainment is a small U.S.-based indie game studio with a passion for both cards and roguelikes. Heroes of Magic and Cards is their first major release, backed by the prestigious a16z Speedrun startup program, and is coming to Steam on September 17th.
About Heroes of Magic and Cards
The first title of First Day Entertainment, Heroes of Magic and Cards is an innovative Poker Deckbuilding Roguelike. Players choose their class, each with a set of unique abilities, and travel across a randomly generated world-map, collecting powerful relics and enchantments to completely change the flow of battle. The game, which is backed by the prestigious a16z Speedrun startup program, comes to Steam on September 17th.
