Wiz-War (Eighth Edition)

Recommended optional rule: If both of a player’s treasures are in other players’ home base squares at the same time, that player’s wizard is immediately killed and the player is eliminated from the game. No player receives victory points for a wizard killed in this manner.

Ghosts have a base movement of 3, ignore everything when they move - all walls, objects, wizards, creatures and other ghosts. Ghosts ignore all spell effects and items. They cannot be targeted or affected by spells, pick up or carry items or treasures, etc.

If a ghost is in the same square as an enemy wizard, or in an adjacent square, the ghost may 'spook' the wizard. This attack is mundane as long as the wizard can be targeted. The wizard must discard one random card from their hand. This represents the wizard being startled by the ghost and losing their concentration, or wasting magical energy to ward off what seemed to be an enemy spell.

Note: For the first game, it is recommended that players use the following schools of magic: White Cantrip, Alchemy, Elemental, and Mentalism.

Draw Cards: The active player may draw up to two cards so long as he never exceeds his maximum hand size (which is normally seven cards).

Wizards may move through and even end their movement in the same square as another wizard. A wizard does not have to use all his movement points at the same time (for example a wizard could move, cast a spell, move again, and then attack).

The active player’s wizard can attack once during his turn. This may be done either by casting an attack spell or by making a physical attack (by using an item or by punching, see below) against another wizard or an object. A wizard cannot attack himself. Note: A wizard cannot attack during his first turn

A wizard may punch another wizard in his square or in an adjacent square to deal 1 physical damage. This attack does not require a card, but it does count as the wizard’s attack for the turn.

The active player may play any number of energy cards during a turn. An energy card may either be used to boost a wizard’s movement during his turn, or it may be used along with a spell to boost that spell’s effects.

Note: Some Magic cards display an energy value in the lower-middle area of the card. Players can spend these cards for their energy value instead of playing them for their effect.

Normally, a spell’s energy is “1.” However, when a player casts a spell, he may also discard one energy card to fuel the spell, which replaces that spell’s energy.

During his movement, a wizard may pick up a mobile object in his current square by spending 1 movement point.

Carried items count toward a player’s hand size

Picking up a treasure immediately ends the Move and Cast phase of the player’s turn, and he immediately proceeds to his Discard and Draw phase.

A stunned wizard may either move or attack on his turn, but not both. A wizard who chooses to move cannot make an attack that turn. A wizard who chooses to attack cannot voluntarily leave the square he’s in that turn for any reason (including by casting a spell that would move him out of that square).

Players are free to play as many counter spells in response to the same spell as they wish (for example, two “Shield” spells). A player may wait for his first counter spell to resolve before playing another one.