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The Healing Blade, by two doctors/geeks who operate Nerdcore Learning, is a card game that looks as much like a modern fantasy warfare card game as possible. Except that one side plays Latin-named infectious diseases (made up to look like scantily-clad fantasy women, dragons, etc.) and the other a team of apothecaries looking to cure them (made up to look like heroes, scantily-clad female warriors, etc.)
It’s not a trivia game, but players learn or put into practice real-world knowledge of fighting infections during game play (there is no drug-resistance modeling in Pandemic, as far as I know).
Theoretically Healing Blade is available for purchase on Amazon, but it doesn’t appear to be in stock, which means it’s either sold out or has not yet arrived.
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Update: One way to fight infection is to stop walking around scantily-clad.
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I think that there was a printing error on the part of the company that they had used, so the cards have been put on hold while the problem is fixed and the first round of customers are given a new set of cards. Stay tuned! I know I will :)
Hi Shadejon – thanks for the awesome writeup! Let us know if there’s any more info you need on the game. We’re looking at a Sept 1st re-release – once we’ve finished squashing some bugs and updating our databases. FOR SOMA!! :-) arun