Inspiration
I’m a MTG player and i paid a lot of time playing the Midnight Hunt draft on MTG Arena. Midnight Hunt’s story happens in Innistrad，where is a world with human, zombie, vampire and werewolf. One of the main mechanic of the series is “Day&Night”, which means that a creature card has both human side and werewolf side, they will transform to other side as the day’s changing. It’s really a inspiration for me that I want to make some Two-sides card to develop a tabletop card game in the background of human and werewolf.
Early design
I created 3 human classes and 3 werewolf classes at first, then I get 9 different cards by combining them in pairs and double them to get 18 cards.
Target: Protect as many villagers as possible to get enough point to win the game. The final point is the total points of villagers minus the total points of werewolf on Ground.
Action:
- Firstly, player should cast a card from top of the deck to ground as the human side or the werewolf side and cover the previous card.
- If a human is covered by werewolf, put the human card to the graveyard.
- If the card has abililty, cause the ability.
- Player can only cast both human and werewolf 9 times.
- If there are 3 continuously werewolf or human cards on the ground, player will lose the game.
- Repeat the process until there is no card in deck.
Mid-term-developing
| Class | Abilities | Point |
| Hunter | When it is casted from the backside, kill the wolfwere on the top of ground. | 1 |
| Civy | No ability. | 3 |
| Prophet | When it is cast from the backside, look the back side of card on the deck. | 1 |
| Head wolf | Every wolfwere’s point plus 1 when check point. | 1 |
| Young wolf | When Young wolf kills a human, add 2 points when checking. | 1 |
| Cursed wolf | When it is casted from the backside, Cursed wolf become human and cause the human side ability. | 1 |
Play testing
I took several times of play testing among hard-core card games players and people who are not familiar with board games.
During the play testing, I got some suggestion and feedback. The game has been updated three times basis on the feedback.
- Players will play the game for 3 nights, each night needs to use 6 cards, of which 3 are human cards and 3 are werewolf cards.
- Civy’s point changes from 1 to 3.
- Young wolf will permanently add 2 points when kills human.
I also upload the game to the Workshop of Tabletop Simulator, so you can now click the link to play Midnight Survivor on computer.
