![]() However, they have actions on there which you can use (I think they are all one-time use) to gain an edge during the battle, allowing you to lean into the damaging effect and capitalize upon it. So Instability is a bad thing, inherently. If your traveler gets knocked out while you have 3 Instability, you lose the game. I almost “finished” this review without mentioning one of the other interesting and important things in this game: Instability. Added to that, the theme of this game is incredible, and is the hook I’ve used at the start every time to raise my opponent’s interest before diving into how to play the game. The team behind this did a fantastic job overall, and I was pleased to hear that a good number of the characters in here are also in Chris Solis’ first game: Terrene Odyssey. I love the artwork and the graphical layout in this game. Such a clever decision here, and it is probably my favorite part of the game. Excellent decisions to be had here, as you are considering what you want, what needs to be removed, and what you want your opponent to see is available on their turn. One you select to place in your hand, one you discard permanently from the game (Banish it), and the other returns face-up to the top of the deck. ![]() In this one, you do that at the end of your turn, choosing one of the three decks (Past, Present, or Future) and take the top three cards. Then you regroup the units and draft three cards from a single time period deck (more on that next!) Simple turns, which keep the action flowing fast and help make it streamlined to play cards and resolve attacks. Most turns will be playing a card and doing 1-2 attacks or abilities. You use the other side of the AP token to indicate attacks. Some cards have an ability that can be triggered by spending AP. Cards brought into play cannot be used to attack. Spells, Artifacts, and units have an AP cost to bring them into play. You have four AP to spend (there are a few exceptions) on your turn. It wasn’t the power of his cards that cost me the game, but my own decision to attack with my traveler rather than trying to use my other units to take out his threat. A miscalculation here, as I discovered this week, can be very costly in the end. However, any unit you attack with has to be at the front of a grouping, meaning you need to weigh the decision to attack against whether you need to defend that unit. The game skips over the slow build-up to power and lets you dive right in, letting the crazy cards and combos fly.Īdding into the Regrouping phase, there are units you obviously want to have behind another unit so they cannot be targeted with attacks. You can draft a card on your first turn that makes you do a double take before laughing manically at what is about to hit your unsuspecting opponent. There is no holding a card until you get X lands out, or have a resource match, or whatever blocks a game naturally places on power cards. This game does something so wonderful that I rarely see in this style of game: it gives you access to wildly powerful cards and you can play any of them on the next turn after you acquire them. 7/10 rating on the rules, as it can be taught from with relative ease but isn’t great for referencing on-the-go and for the errors in the rulebook. ![]() That is the biggest detriment is trying to find what you need when searching to answer a question: there is a lot of space to look through to try and discover that answer. A small 4-8 page rule booklet would have been much better, allowed more examples, an index to help find specific concepts, and more. However, I really dislike the format of the large sheet folded up, as it is a hassle to unfold it and find the space to look at it and try to find what you’re looking for. ![]() There are some areas in the rules that are contradictory and/or needed clarification, and there is an official FAQ with those corrections thankfully, many of those are very minor involving setup. The rules are straightforward enough to grasp after two readings with minimal questions. Overall, this was not a difficult game to learn and teach. There are no differences, as the 2-player experience is the core experience packaged in the game.
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