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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn Crossfire, players are not eliminated when they control no heroes. Instead, the game ends when the Mark is defeated. Players accumulate points equal to the amount of damage they deal to enemy heroes or to the Mark. The game ends when the Mark is defeated, and each players\u2019 point total determines their finish place. Or, to put it plainly, whoever had the most point when the Mark is defeated wins!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Crossfire:
– Damage dealt in excess of a hero of the Mark’s health does not accumulate points.
– Players can Shield both the Mark and enemy heroes as if they were objects they controlled.
– Players can Heal the Mark, but this does not change any player’s point total.
– All except the last player may Dig In each round. The player who Digs In first during a round becomes the active player to start the new round.
– The Initiative is passed in a simple clockwise fashion. Any player who has dug in passes the initiative on each of their turns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crossfire can be played in an instance-based fashion, where you determine the winner of each game, or it can be played in a league format where you get league points based on final score or finish position. This format can be played using either a standard deck (45 hero points \/ 45 support cards) or with an expansion deck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a ton of strategic depth to Crossfire, as players who are behind seek out ways to grow their score without enabling the player who is in the lead to end the game. Give it a shot! I think you\u2019ll find it a brilliant new challenge in the familiar and robust Manifold TCG engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We’ve been in the lab working out the ideal ruleset for free-for-all play, and we are excited to announce Crossfire! Crossfire is a free-for-all format for 3-5 players. In addition to the players, there is a non-player hero called the \u201cMark\u201d. The Mark has 20 health plus 10 per player, for a total of 50 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-designer-theory","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.mountbakergames.com\/manifold\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Take-Aim-1024x760.png\")
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