I finally received my copy of
Summoner Wars 2nd ed from Plaid Hat games. I also signed up for online play. Both are fantastic.
It's just a straight 2 player game with each person taking a different faction and the prebuilt deck for that faction. The setup is kind of like chess except each faction has it's own starting setup.
From there it plays pretty quickly with the winner killing the leader of the opposing faction. Cards aren't reshuffled in so you can run out of a draw pile. It's strategic, pretty fast, and there is some luck (dice rolling) which I don't mind, each faction deck plays differently. I can safely say this is going to be a staple game in my collection for a while.
The only big downside. It ain't cheap for smallish decks of cards. It starts with 6 factions in the base box ($50), they are adding 2 factions (in an expansion) every couple months for $30. Honestly the best value is probably just to do online play.