56%Good matchMind Over Magic
87%5k87% positive reviews, Very Positive across 5k reviews·Survival · Building
—







Every run in School of Magic is about building a new hack and slash character from scratch, but the level system is a deckbuilding card game. With each level, your spell pool grows and mutates into a unique skill tree, leading to outrageous broken builds.
School of Magic: Deck and Slash Prologue
Steam
School of Magic lets you create a new character every run and carve through enemies for loot and power.
Leveling is its own deckbuilding system:
Do you play it safe or push your luck for something bigger?
The result is a unique skill tree in every run.

Before each run, you don’t pick a rigid class — you build one yourself. By assembling a spell deck, you decide which abilities can appear, almost like crafting a personal Magic deck. This freedom adds a whole new layer of metagame strategy to the deckbuilding genre. Every decision shapes not only how you carve through hordes of enemies, but also how you’ll survive the bosses that push your build to its limits.

School of Magic brings its world to life as you experiment, fail, and try again. Every run unlocks new cards and new story fragments, so even defeat pushes the tale forward. With endless combinations and broken builds waiting to be discovered, no two runs will ever feel the same.
Steam data © 2026 Valve Corporation. Trademarks are property of their respective owners.
All matches
Finding similar games…
Mind Over MagicShares Choices Matter · Stylized · Fantasy , adds Survival87% · 5k positive reviews56%Good match—
Dungeon DraftersShares Dungeon Crawler · Card Game · Roguelite , adds Tactical RPG76% · 532 positive reviews56%Good match—
SpellRogueShares Roguelike Deckbuilder · Card Game · Perma Death , adds Dice87% · 2k positive reviews56%Good match—
Spellcaster UniversityShares Choices Matter · Magic , adds Colony Sim84% · 3k positive reviews56%Good match—
Lost For SwordsShares Roguelike Deckbuilder · Dungeon Crawler · Card Game , adds Turn-Based Tactics89% · 237 positive reviews56%Good match—
DungeonTopShares Roguelike Deckbuilder · Dungeon Crawler · Card Game , adds Card Battler81% · 447 positive reviews55%Good match—All matches
The best games like School of Magic: Deck and Slash Prologue are Mind Over Magic, Dungeon Drafters, SpellRogue, Spellcaster University, and Lost For Swords.
Match on: filter matches for School of Magic: Deck and Slash Prologue by tag