Last updated 28 Feb 2003
The Eight edition is due out sometime in the future! Plus or minus some period of time of unknown length.
It's certainly close enough. It's got all 6 boards (includes the 2 from the old Expansion #1), and 156 full-color cards (56 more than the original). It'll cost more, too, of course. Here's a sneak peak at the new Wiz-War cards!
Here's a copy of a "new Wiz-War board" that never made it into the 7th edition, for some reason.
Wiz-War card design credit can be found here!
Thanks to all the great folks who helped design cards for this game!
Wiz-War 8th Ed.
Wiz-War is a card and board game of battling wizards and stolen treasures!
Each wizard starts with 2 treasures in his sector and 7 cards which represent
spells he or she can cast as the game progresses. As the Wizards use spells
against each other, they replenish their "spell hand" with fresh spells from
the deck of cards. Eventually one Wizard will move into other player's sectors
and steal away the two treasures needed to win the game, taking advantage of
his or her spells to perform such actions as becoming invisible, turning to
mist, creating walls, casting fireballs, making thorn bushes, forcing other
players to drop objects, along with numerous other actions available in the
deck of cards. Wizards have a chance to draw from over 90 different types of cards
as they combat one another (possibly to the death).
Components: 6 game boards, 6 wizards, lots of cardboard tokens, 156 cards, 8
page rule booklet, and treasure tokens!
Number of players: 2-6
Price: $ To be announced.
Wiz-War, Expansion Sets
These feature Monsters, Magic Sticks, and Artifacts, along with lots of other new spells. If you back up a page, there's another web page that describes these in much more detail.
In the works
Chessex will be bringing the very-long-awaited "deluxe edition" of Wiz-War out sometime, hopefully in 2003 (the eighth edition). Not only will the first two expansion sets be reprinted (later), but a brand new third expansion will also be introduced. Chessex intends to use "real playing cards" this time around, and nice artwork by David K. Wong. The third expansion set will feature something called "Magic Beans", which are like little objects that can be used as 1 point number cards in any quantity you wish, even added to other number cards. Watch out if you get hit by a "Bean Blast"!
Lists of Cards
Other people have created cards for Wiz-War, and while we still own the
copyright for the game, we encourage people to experiment with card ideas
for Wiz-War, and whenever the game is in print, Chessex also sells blank
cards with which you can try out these ideas.
Game Cabinet
has a number of card lists for Wiz-War that they've posted. Game Cabinet is also
one of the best places to go for game reviews and language translation for
foreign games. Check it out.
There are also some other sites;
Bankler's Wiz-War Card Variants
Cedric's Wiz-War Web Page
(one of the first and most extensive).
The Reed College Expansion
Another Bankler page, with some duplication, I think.
Lindsey's page, from the University of Washington, Seattle
There is also now has a "Wiz-War" site at www.wizwar.com. Is that amazing? And it isn't even run by us. Go take a peek; Wiz-War, the Web site.
