Way back in the Before Times (December of 2017 to be specific) developer Rhino Games announced an ambitious new card battling game called Mythgard. It was ambitious because they directly mention two titans of the genre, Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone, and aimed to be somewhere in between the two. Basically the approachability of something like Hearthstone with the depth and strategy of Magic: The Gathering. A tall order to say the least. It’s always dangerous to mention popular and beloved franchises in a genre that you’re hoping to enter, but to their credit Rhino seems to have pulled off what they were aiming for with Mythgard. The game launched in open beta about a year ago on both Steam and mobile, and it has been updated on a more than monthly basis since then.
Those who have been playing the early release of Mythgard have had tons of positive things to say about the game, and now after a year the open beta period is about to come to an end and Mythgard is gearing up to launch for realsies. Alongside this official launch will be the game’s first major expansion. While this year’s Olympic Games have been postponed due to, well, all the things in 2020, the expansion’s theme is based around “Summer Games for the Gods." The expansion is called Rings of Immortality and will bring more than 100 new cards to the game, a new path and power to bring to the battle board, and “a new unique keyword in Forge, which takes ...