Wildcard

What is Wildcard?

Wildcard is a card-based MOBA from Playful Studios — a team-versus-team arena game in which the cards you bring are the units and abilities you summon, not a hand you resolve turn by turn. The studio pitches it as a spectator sport: matches are framed as arena events, with champions, summons and a competitive season structure built around them. It entered Early Access on Steam in 2025 after several alpha waves, and organised play began with a multi-phase series building toward DreamHack.

How to play Wildcard

Players pick a champion and take direct control of it in a third-person arena, then use their deck to call in summoned creatures and effects during the match. Winning is a matter of both mechanical play — positioning, timing your champion's abilities, fighting for objectives — and deckbuilding, since the summons you brought decide what tools you have available when a fight turns. Collections are managed through the game's WILDFILE and WILDPASS systems, and cosmetics and cards are earned through play, community reward programmes and organised events rather than being the point of the game.

What makes Wildcard different

The hybrid is the reason it exists. Collectible card games ask you to build the perfect list and then watch it play out; MOBAs ask for reflexes and map awareness but hand you a fixed roster. Wildcard puts the deck inside the arena, so a match is decided by what you built and how you play it in the moment. Playful Studios is an established developer — the team behind Lucky's Tale — which puts this in a different category from most blockchain-adjacent card projects: a conventionally-produced PC game with a collection layer, rather than a collection with a game attached.