Turn base RPG style card game

That was the idea i was going for. I might put a limit on them though so i might have this

before the game starts you have a bunch of random cards in a pile, this is where the deck building come into play. Each card will have a rarity system or a number system, such as if a character card has a number 3 or something on it, then you can only have 3 of the same character in the deck, same as the action cards. Characters might have an effect too, it is just an idea i dunno if i mentioned it yet but my first idea was

having some action cards exclusive to a certain hero class, example the card called whirlwind, when you play it with a barbarian, the barbarian will attack all enemies on the frint line of the opponent's side.

The 2nd idea and less random is, some heroes will have abilties so take the barbarian again, the barbarian has an effect called whirlwind, it does the same thing, so to use the ability ill need to play maybe 2 assault cards and a caster assault card so in simple terms, sword,sword, fireball. I added caster assault so you can still use these cards to combo with other action cards to activate a heroes ability, and the caster assault cards are not exclusive to the casters

The game will be sprite themed, the characters will all look like those little sprite characters you see in games, that what makes it exciting for me since i love that theme especially on cards or tabletop games

It will have deck building element, there will be like 100 characters to choose from and i might limit the character deck to 20 or something

Even the action cards will have a deck building thing such as i might put a limit of rarity or each action card will have a number on it so you can only have like 4 cards with the number 4 on it or something and the common cards such as assault will be infinite so you can mix and match action cards to suit your characters and hopefully you chose the right ones against your opponent

Ok, I am thinking about a tiny change to the action cards, I think it is pretty silly that you would need to attack with action cards, so what I was thinking is, making the action cards optional. Ok so hear me out

Every unit card can attack for free, instead of relying on action cards to attack, (however you still need to use a taunt action card if you want to defend your units with your tank)

The purpose of action cards now are for your units special ability
You will need to combo with the action cards together with your unit to use a special ability, however, if you do use your units effect, it is considered tapped and cannot attack normally this turn. an example

A barbarians effect is called whirlwind and requires let's say 3 sword action cards. the whirlwind will damage every unit on the opponent's side for let's say 3 damage each. Also note, each unit has a universal passive effect so with barbarians they have a shield breaker passive which I mentioned before allows your barbarian units to bypass shields when attacking, so even if the opponent's tank taunts you, the shield stat won't affect the barbarian's damage. Also with the abilities, I would like each individual unit to have different abilities such as if I have 2 barbarian classes only 1 named barbarian will have the whirlwind attack, so let's call that barbarian The Hulk, and the other barbarian named Conan. Conan does not have the whirlwind effect, instead, he will have a bleed effect or something, when you combo action cards with Conan, target enemy unit loses 1 hp each turn. Even though barbarians each share the same passive effect such as shield break, they each have individual effects

I guess this way it would make more sense to add different classes to your deck, so as someone mentioned earlier why would I need a warrior when I have a barbarian, the warrior class ability might be something that is considered useful I just don't know what class effect the warrior should have, I guess maybe a rally effect? every time a warrior unit is on the field they gain like +1 ATK +1 HP for every warrior unit in play?

So if you happen to draw 5 warriors well then they will be pretty hard to take down. I dunno, if I should do separate ATK/HP numbers for the same class or not so all warriors, have 3atk and 3hp or should I mix the numbers up so 1 warrior could b 2atk while another is 4atk

Hmmm nah I think it will be a balancing issue if every single unit has different numbers, so I guess all warriors are 3/3 while all barbarians could be 5/3 and all mages 7/2 and all tanks 1/6 (i am just throwing numbers around)

On another note, one might help me with something else, we know there will be mages in the game but I don't want just 1 type of mage so I would like a fire mage and maybe an ice mage, a mana mage or electric mage etc etc. Since they are all classed as mages, they will have the same passive ability? I probably do not want that as I might have the fire mages passive ability called triple hit or something which will attack 3 units instead of 1, I guess I could have all the mages have triple hit, but I want a bit more diversity, since this is a deck building game I would like players to choose the units they would like to use, instead of I throw in 4 different mages even though they are different elements they will do the same thing, I want each mage to bring something special to the table and not just their special ability but passive effect too

Ok i have a plan on how this will go
Artstyle = pixel sprite
Theme = genre mashup
Lore= Universe is over populated so different era needs to battle it out and kill the opposing enemies
Mechanic = each era has a different play style but in the end, does the same thing
you can use 1 genre of 50 cards or mash 2 together with 25 of each side to form a 50 stack deck
mashing kind of contradicts the lore but mechanics and gameplay is more important, i could change the lore to fit with this style but i cannot think of any
Win condition= I have not come up with a win condition, do i create a leader card or base card such as mothership, pirate ship, castle etc etc, if so how do i implement it to the game
Possible genre
Aliens
Pirates
Medieval soldiers
Zombies
Super Heroes
Greek gods
Mythical creatures

So I am thinking of changing the core mechanic before it was 5 heroes on the field while you pick up action cards which are used to attack, I am scrapping that, however, the field will remain the same with additional content
The field has 5 hero zones, this is where you play your characters, 3 in the front and 2 at the back. It still has the same class type, however, i will change the class names but so far we have
Note: these names will change as i said but for easier understanding, the names have not changed for now
Barbarian= Melee only brute, can on attack melee range - Bonus these cards can ignore shields when attacking
Warrior= The staple of the deck, these are generic attackers which can only attack melee range - Bonus i have not come up with but if you are wondering why you should have warriors if you have barbarians, well warriors are more balanced and easier to summon (ill get to that later) While Barbarians have high ATK and low DEF, you would not want to have too many of these in your deck as they will be harder to summon and easier to kill
Mage= The mage might just be changed to Ranged as its default class, anyway the Mage has high attack but very low defence and instead of able to attack both melee row and back row, to balance it out the mages can only attack the back row
Tank= Can only be on the front melee row and cant be summoned in the back row, the tank heroes have low ATK but high DEF and comes with a shield stat, When attacked, you reduce the shields power (unless a barbarian attacks you) once it is reduced to 0, the tanks are vulnerable and can be killed. If you did not kill the tank on your turn then on the opponents turn, the shield is regenerated back to full however the DEF does not regenerate
Support= Not all will be able to heal but these cards give support to your field Instead of an ATK stat it will have a healing stat when you swing with a healer you choose a hero on your field to heal and the total HEAL stat = to the amount you heal. As i mentioned before some support won't be able to heal so, in this case, their HEAL stat will be 0, though usually, these cards come with a decent effect to compensate
So to be able to summon these heroes I decided to go down the Mana route, however, ill be calling it energy for now though at the end it wont be called mana or energy, it will have a different name, anyway there are 2 energy zones one that is horizontal and the other is verticle. Once per turn on your turn, you may place any card in your hand and place it on the horizontal energy zone, once the cards are placed in the energy zone, any stats or effects are negated and you cannot use the energy card other than a supply for energy. You stack energy on top of each other. Each hero comes with a level or something like that such as an example this hero has a level of 1, so on your turn you use an untapped energy to play the hero. the tapped energy are moved to the verticle energy zone and at the start of your next turn all of your tapped energy are then moved back to the horizontal energy zone and will be able to be used again. There are many reasons why i want this energy system, one is because of the barbarian and warrior class, the barbarian class will require a lot of energy usually 4+ and warriors will usually have a range of 1 to 4, however really strong warriors could require more energy to play.

So now that is out the way i need a win condition, should the top 10 cards in the deck act as life points or should a certain card act as a life point, or should it be invisible life point system like Yugioh (yuck) or a point system, for every hero you kill adds a point to your score, it is not really engaging if it is like that though

As for the different genres, I would like them to have a certain play style, ill give a few examples which may or may not be added to the game

Alien, usually likes to abduct people right? so i was thinking, these cards are able to take control over your opponent cards either permently or for 1 turn

Pirates, i dunno maybe some kind of backstabbing or stealing mechanic, either kill one of your heroes to buff a certain hero or, some kind of hand destruction mechanic such as stealing cards from your opponent's hand or forcing the player to discard a card

Dunno about the rest, maybe medival buffs your team or something i dunno

eh took a bit too long to get a reply, I have already gone ahead with my game

I did make some changes, unfortunately, the classes are staying in their certain rows, such as barbarians (now called brutes) and warriors are stationed in the front row while range and support are at the back row. It would have been a good idea that playing a unit in a certain row gives different benefits. But its too late to change it

the reason I stopped coming on here was cause I wasn't getting any replies so I decided to go ahead with my project.

as for the life point thing, I'm no longer using cards as life points, I am using a leader card with 8 lives, it is double sided so once that card reaches 4 life, you can flip the card over for a stronger card effect

I am also sticking to the genre-themed decks such as you can use an alien deck and your opponent is using a zombie deck etc etc

I also have a name for my game, it is called Genus War