Invokers

***Invokers*** is a trading card game in *Magical Girl Policy*. It is one of the hobbies of Cory Frost and Eli Drake, who have played the game since childhood. The game is also popular among SFEERS's board gaming group. It is the series' equivalent to *Magic: The Gathering*.

## Description

*Invokers* is a two-player turn-based competitive game, with the rules considered very complicated to those inexperienced with the game. It simulates a battle, where cards, depicting art such as characters, represent units and trigger special effects. Cards are organized by color, which broadly corresponds with certain abilities, such as how units may be placed on the field or combat each other. As such, players often build their decks mostly around a single color in accordance to their preferred playstyle, and among the playerbase there exist stereotypes for users of each color. Like a typical trading card game, *Invokers* cards are usually purchased blindly in the form of booster packs.

## History

### Background

Cory and Eli started playing *Invokers* during their childhood. During middle school, they began attending tournaments for the game held at Dungeon Direct, a comic shop in Rale Valley Mall that is also their standard place to buy booster packs. They were initially considered annoying children by regular tournament attendees, but the two continued to play the game growing up. Their frequent visits to the shop for *Invokers*-related reasons saw them become familiar with employee Devon.

### Week 1

Cory and Eli, now in college at SAU, bring Robert along to Dungeon Direct, where Eli is made to pay for Cory's *Invokers* packs to make up for lending Cory's GameStation console to Kara without permission. The pair try to convince Rob to get into the game and even offer some of their old cards, but he declines, feeling it'd be too expensive to add a trading card game onto what he spends on *Aspect Realms* and *Collider*. After Day LaMode appears and Cory and Eli flee the mall, Cory is annoyed to realize he had lost his booster packs during the chaos.

### Weeks 2-4

During Club Week, Cory, Eli, Vivian, and Kara check out the SFEERS booth. Cory and Eli's interest in the club is piqued when they are told its board gaming group sees several *Invokers* players by Zemiron, one of the people manning the booth and the officer of said group.

During the SFEERS opening social, Cory spends much of the party playing *Invokers*. Robynne, Eli, Vivian, Kara, and Stacy stand around him and watch while they chat, with Eli fruitlessly trying to explain the rules of the game to Stacy. The friends split up after a while, and Cory eventually stops playing when he notices Vivian growing bored of watching the game, joining her in chatting with people around the venue.

## Notable players

* **Cory Frost:** Began attending *Invokers* tournaments at Dungeon Direct while in middle school, and now also plays it with SFEERS members at SAU. He uses a Gray deck, which allows for the summoning of units in large quantities.
* **Eli Drake:** See Cory. His deck is Purple, which is considered opposite to Yellow.
* **Zemiron:** The board gaming officer at SFEERS, which frequently hosts *Invokers* games at board gaming meets. His deck theme is "Yellow Tax", which is very unpopular among Purple players.