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Redemption is a Collectible Card Game based on the Bible. It involves Biblical characters, places, objects, and ideas. The object of the game is for your Heroes (good characters) to rescue Lost Souls by defeating your opponent's Evil Characters. more...

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The first player to rescue 5 Lost Souls wins the game. Redemption was published in 1995 by Cactus Game Design. Redemption's creator, Rob Anderson, continues to develop and produce the game and is the final authority on rulings.

Game play

To rescue a Lost Soul, a player must initiate a rescue attempt by placing a Hero into battle. The opponent then places an Evil Character in battle to block the rescue attempt. Based on strength and defense numbers of the characters, players take turns playing Enhancement Cards to make their characters stronger. Eventually, one character wins the battle. If the Evil Character is defeated (by being discarded, converted, captured, ignored, removed from the game, etc.), the Hero rescues the Lost Soul.

Redemption divides the Characters and Enhancements (and other types of cards) into brigades. A certain color Enhancement may only be played with that color Character. The Heroes and corresponding good enhancements are divided into Blue, Gold, Green, Purple, Teal, Red, Silver, and White brigades. The Evil Characters and their evil enhancements are divided into Black, Brown, Crimson, Gray, Orange, Pale Green, and Gold brigades.

Other types of cards include: Dominants, Sites, Artifacts, Fortresses, and combinations of these (a Covenant is a combination of an Artifact and a good Enhancement and a Curse is a combination of an Artifact and an evil enhancement).

Distribution

As with other Collectible Card Games, Redemption was first distributed as a set of 2 starter decks (50-card decks A and B) and a Main Set of cards. The game was developed by releasing expansion sets and other starter decks, including, in order of release: Prophets, Women, Warriors, 2nd Edition Starter Decks (decks C and D), Apostles, Patriarchs, Kings, 3rd Edition Starter Decks (decks E and F), Angel Wars, 10th Anniversary Starter Decks (decks G and H), and Priests, a brand-new 251 card expansion released in the beginning of September. The Main Set included many re-releases of the cards from the first Starter Decks, as well as several other cards. Cards were included in booster packs in three different rarities: common, uncommon, and rare. The next set of cards, the Prophets followed the same distribution. Then, the Women's Set was released as all common cards. In all subsequent sets, Ultra-Rare cards have been released, which have half the distribution of rare cards. In addition to the regular sets of cards, exclusive promotional cards have been released at tournaments and in other Redemption Gift Sets and other Cactus products.

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