Shadow Era - TCG for PC, iOS & Android

1. Choose Your (First) Platform

Shadow Era is free to play and available on a wide variety of platforms, so you can seamlessly switch between them with a single player account. For this reason, it doesn't matter which platform you choose to start off with, so you might as well pick whichever is most convenient for you right now:

Web browser
iPhone/iPad/iPod
Android
PC
Mac
My personal favourite is the iPad version because the game looks gorgeous and the user interface is very slick, but I have also used the Mac application and the web browser version on Chrome and Firefox.

2. Choose an Email Address and Password

This is pretty self-explanatory, but I'll offer some advice anyway.


3. Choose Your (First) HerO
You are now presented with ten Hero cards to choose from (there are 20 Heroes in total). You can flick through them by clicking on the cards to the side of the central one.


The Hero you choose here will depend on a few factors:

If you are planning to buy or earn some in-game currency right away, the Hero you choose now will have little significance, since you will soon collect all of them with minimal effort/expenditure. Just pick whoever you like the look of.

If you are undecided about the game for now, and you are not sure if you will be expanding your collection quickly, I recommend picking Eladwen Frostmire or Boris Skullcrusher.

Note: You can only get Human Hero decks when signing up. Shadow Hero starter decks can only be obtained later.

4. Become Familiar With Your Deck
Each game you play will involve you and your deck of cards, which you build from your collection. Before each game, you are free to make whatever deck changes you want, providing you have the required cards in your collection. Let's see how this works now.

From the world map screen, which should currently be in front of you, toggle the main menu with the icon at the top middle position, and choose DECK.



You will now see the Deck Builder, where you can click on each card in your current deck (the one that came free when you signed up) to see it more closely.

If you have played Magic: The Gathering or World of Warcraft TCG before, the card meanings should be relatively intuitive to you. If you've played any other collectable card games before, the cards should still make some kind of sense to you.

Warrior
Mage
Hunter
Priest
Rogue
Wulven
Elemental

The Warrior, Mage and Hunter classes are available to both Humans and Shadow. The Priest and Rogue are only Human classes, while Elemental and Wulven are only shadow classes. Below you can view those icons and which class each represents.

- List of Abilities, conditions and basics
- Shadow Era FAQ
- Shadow Era Dictionary

Amber Rain + Show Spoiler +
Boris Skullcrusher + Show Spoiler +
Eladwen Frostmire + Show Spoiler +
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Gwenneth Truesight + Show Spoiler +
Victor + Show Spoiler +
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