A Song for Winter: A Child's Card Game

Chapter 78: A Child's Card Game

Sunlight from the evening sun filtered through the window of a teenage boy’s room as he sat at his desk. On the desk were small piles of cards from the Paper Demon collectible card game sorted into piles by element. There was a big tournament in a few days, and the teenager needed to find a deck that might get him to second place. He had long since given up on doing any better than that. One of the adults that played Paper Demon always seemed to have the newest best cards and always won. Rumor had spread that they had acquired a copy of the latest version of The Matriarch, Mistress of Flames card. Against that card, there was little hope of victory. A sigh escaped the boy’s mouth as he wished he was old enough to get a job to buy all the cards he wanted. His door suddenly flew open to reveal another teenage boy mildly out of breath.

 

“Scott, I got it,” the new boy gasped as he tried to catch his breath. “My grandma bought me a box of cards for my birthday, and he was in one of the booster packs.”

 

“Got what,” Scott asked as he got up from his desk, “what card did you pull, Ben?” Ben’s only answer was to hold up a card in a rigid plastic sleeve. Light reflected off the holographic letters and pictures to briefly obscured the identity. When his friend turned the card slightly, it revealed a grey and white furred arctic folf in silvery blue armor with a black eyepatch over his right eye. It was a copy of William Wintersong-Drackonas, Avatar of the Wintersong. This one card was from the new set of Paper Demon cards and was more difficult to get than The Matriarch card. It was also the one card that Scott needed to make his deck work perfectly.

 

“Trade me all those druids that I need to finish my Archdruid Violet deck, and he’s yours,” Ben offered once he caught his breath. Scott took a moment to contemplate the offer on the table. He could swap out his old William Wintersong-Drackonas, Hand of Vengeance, with this new card if he had that card. It had a magic pool that was quite a bit higher plus, when played with the Wintersong Witch Knife and Raven Familiar Viggo cards, it allowed the player to play Wintersong spell cards directly from the deck. The Matriarch, Mistress of Flames, could view cards in the opponent’s hand but not the deck, so a spell card played directly from the deck might be enough to catch an opponent off guard.

 

Scott made the deal, but he also wanted the sleeve with the card. Ben sorted through Scott’s cards to get all druid cards out. After his friend eventually left, this new card filled Scott with a new hope that he might be able to win the upcoming tournament. It wasn’t a guaranteed victory, but all that could stop him now was random chance.

 

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