Mahokenshi is basically Slay the Spire with samurai wizards, and that’s a solid selling point right there. It’s a deckbuilder, the kind of game where you start with a set of rubbish cards and accumulate better ones as you work towards your goal, but one that tweaks the genre conventions in some unusual ways. Plus, you get a katana.
The theme turns out to be the least impactful part of, a thin layer of second-hand Japanese folklore on top of the familiar elements. The mahokenshi are mystic
