Category: Card Games

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Arcana

By Fantasy Flight Games The city of Cadwallon is renown for its intrigues and power struggles. Within the most exclusive circles of Cadwallon, numerous merchant corporations, known as guilds, compete to control the city’s vast resources. Arcana is a card game of power and intrigue for 2-4 players. Assuming the role of a guild master,…
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Heroes of Graxia

In the beginning, there was Dominion. And it was good. Very good. So good, in fact, that plenty of others were inspired to explore this “deck-building” genre that had been created. Thunderstone may have been the most prominent response to Dominion’s popularity before this year, but Origins and GenCon showed that there’s plenty more on the way. While I’ve heard a few good things about Ascension, it simply does not look (or sound) like a game I would enjoy. Heroes of Graxia, on the other hand, piqued my curiosity…

The Order of the Silver Twilight

Their world is forged of privilege, lubricated by money, and polished with the prerogatives of the upper crust, yet no depth where power might be found has gone unexplored. Human sacrifice, unnatural tortures, perverse and hedonistic practices… all are brought into the service of the Order’s relentless pursuit of power.

Onirim

By Guy Mullarkey As previous reviews of mine will attest to, I am becoming a real fan of the Z-Man Games range of card games. Previous games reviewed from their series’ can be found here Queen’s Ransom – A Simple Review, Court of the Medici – A Simple Review,Chaos Card Game – A Simple Review.…
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Space Hulk: Death Angel

By Eric Newland “There’s movement all over the place” – Aliens That quote says it all. This game with the right group of friends is very exciting! I picked this game up from Gen Con a week or so again. Here is my review. Components: The box contains a large amount of cards. The card…
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