Mag Blast

Mag Blast is a spaceship-themed strategy card game from the American publisher Fantasy Flight Games, built around fleet battles in which every player commands a flagship and a ring of escort ships. It plays with two to eight people, and the object is to knock out the opposing flagships by first stripping away the protective layer of attack ships around each one. A player whose flagship is destroyed is out, and the last player with an intact flagship wins. Ships sit in four quadrants of a player's battle formation and can only be fired on by attacks aimed at the matching quadrant, using three kinds of laser shot drawn as attack cards, with up to five cards drawn each turn. A running joke of the rules requires players to make a suitable sound effect when they play an attack card, or the shot misses. The first edition appeared in 1998 with artwork from the Twilight Imperium universe, a second edition kept that art, and a third edition in 2006 switched to comic artwork by John Kovalic, a change that long-time fans criticised.