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It seems that every game has an expansion, if not multiple expansions. I am told some are integral for an even better game. I have been told there are ones that are blatant cash grabs and they ruin the game if used. I have bought both. 

My "Must Have" is the 1910 Expansion. After a number of games it is easy go know where routes are going. Adding this in gives a larger variety and makes it harder to guess routes. 

My "Worst" is one of the many DC Deck Building Game ones. They add different mechanics mixed in that are applicable to the decks. 

What about you?

<div class="md"><p>It seems that every game has an expansion, if not multiple expansions. I am told some are integral for an even better game. I have been told there are ones that are blatant cash grabs and they ruin the game if used. I have bought both. </p>

<p>My &quot;Must Have&quot; is the 1910 Expansion. After a number of games it is easy go know where routes are going. Adding this in gives a larger variety and makes it harder to guess routes. </p>

<p>My &quot;Worst&quot; is one of the many DC Deck Building Game ones. They add different mechanics mixed in that are applicable to the decks. </p>

<p>What about you?</p>
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With an infinite number of expansions now, what is your "Must Have" and your "Worst ever made?"

Four-player games is where I would only recommend if you get the expansion. I am not a fan of the four-player experience in the Res Arcana base game. It turns this wonderful game into a bloody mess due to a lack of everything. Someone in that four-player game isn’t going to get the good bits of Res Arcana and will leave on a sour note

Despite what you might have heard, this is not a deck builder. Those eight artifact cards are all that you are working with. Before the first turn is taken, Res Arcana demands you figure out what your plans are. You will need to target a Place of Power or two and find an optimal route to get them before other players do like a hungry banker going after a foreclosed home

 Some places of power might require a dragon artifact card, a creature artifact card, or a certain combination of essence to spend in order to get points. If your deck doesn’t match the requirements of the places of power, the session ends up being an exercise of frustration as you try to spin your deck much like a car tire spinning through a Canadian winter. This is not to say the game becomes impossible to win since I have done it on several occasions, but the lack of a safety net mechanism or alternatives makes it very hard for even experienced players to trudge through a tough situation.

 Let’s say you have a Dragon’s Lair, you can exhaust the Dragon’s Lair and the Illusion magic item to get your two points instead of exhausting a Dragon card. Nice touch.

Res Arcana Review – Wizards Being Wizards For 30 Minutes – Meeple...

 It’s a testament to his balanced design, which reveals itself to true believers who have put in the time. Even the simple act of passing can become a game of chicken or nuclear brinkmanship to the attentive player. At some point in the round, you must pass, and now have a deceptively difficult decision to make. If there’s a Magic Item you know may benefit you, or perhaps may greatly benefit an opponent, you may find yourself making the decision to pass early—possibly leaving actions unplayed—to claim it, and possibly even claim the First Player Token, netting you a temporary point in the process

 Everything fits neatly and tightly into the box’s insert. There’s a tray included in the game for all the resources and pulls out of the box and can be set in the center of the table. I mean hell, there are spots in the base game box for the Lux et Tenebrae expansion! I’m of the mind that, nowadays, there is no excuse for a sloppy insert. The days when we used to toss shoddy inserts for new games as soon as we bagged up the components is over

Players take the role of asymmetrically powered mages and, after drafting (hmm, there’s that emphasis again) a deck of 8 Artifact cards, must use those cards, and little else to build an engine that will crank out and convert resources, acquire point-scoring Monuments and supercharged Places of Power, which will, in turn, be used to crank out points, until one player ends the round with 10 or more points.

Res Arcana Review

  The 8 Item cards and Essence tokens are placed in the center as well. Each player gets 1 of each resource, a hand of 8 artifacts and 2 mages. Players are allowed to look at their artifact cards before shuffling them and drawing a hand of 3 cards.  Then, once they see their initial hand, they choose to keep one Mage card

  The rules suggest that this will likely be between 4 and 6 rounds. There are 3 phases in each round:  Collect Essences, Take actions, Clean Up.  To Collect Essences, all players look at their cards in play and take any resources given to them by those cards.  At this time, you may also (but are not obligated) to take essences off your cards, but if you do so, you must remove all essences from that card

  You must pay all the costs on the left side of a triangle in order to get the effect shown on the right.  Some effects might cause you to tap the card (yes, I know, WotC will try to sue me now). Some effects may cause opponent to lose life (green wooden bits).  Players must discard those bits, or if they do not have any, they must discard any 2 other essences for each green

 Or, if another player has the tile you need, you need pause moves to outlast them so they have to pass and you can get their tile for the next round. I don’t see it played out for ages and know there is an expansion in the works. Alan H: This is my most played new game of 2019 for several reasons.Firstly, it’s a really good game and each game presents a different puzzle to solve

Dale Yu: Review of Res Arcana

 Cards that simply fit together very well. With one card you can quickly get resources of which there are five different kinds. And then you find out that one card in your deck matches the resource you just collected perfectly and you have a combo in your play area that will quickly bring you gold and the associated victory points.

 Although there is the possibility to attack other players, these attacks usually fizzle out and don’t hinder the other player to the point I might imagine. Because most of the time players have a shield to block attacks. Or they can use a card to deliver an essence that they have in masses to weaken the attack. But sometimes these attacks are annoying because I can’t fend them off

 Or they can use a card to deliver an essence that they have in masses to weaken the attack. But sometimes these attacks are annoying because I can’t fend them off. And then the just collected essences, which I actually need, are already gone again.

Board Game Review: Res Arcana - With 8 cards to victory

Not necessarily looking for personal recommendations but more of discussion. I haven't played any 2021 games so I was wondering what you have discovered and might share with others. 

What theme or mechanic is it that stands out in this game to you and/or your group? Did you find it to be better at a certain player count than the game suggests?

<div class="md"><p>Not necessarily looking for personal recommendations but more of discussion. I haven&#39;t played any 2021 games so I was wondering what you have discovered and might share with others. </p>

<p>What theme or mechanic is it that stands out in this game to you and/or your group? Did you find it to be better at a certain player count than the game suggests?</p>
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What new board games (2021 release) have you tried and you or your group have enjoyed?

 Got to play Res Arcana last night (I know, I'm late to the party), and I really enjoyed it!   
I still can't believe that one can build an engine with just 8 cards (when I first heard it, I was like, "what?"), but in the end the engine worked! I had no clue what I was doing when I was drafting the 8 cards, but managed to get to 11 points at the end.  The winner had 21 points and 2nd place had 16.   


I really liked how the spell books and the big cards (forgot the name) added to the different combination of things you can do with the engine, and the monuments provided another method of gaining points.   


The components were very nice and the turns went very fast without any downtime.   


I liked the game so much I bought it right afterwards, including the expansion! Can't wait to play this again!

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<div class="md"><p>Got to play Res Arcana last night (I know, I&#39;m late to the party), and I really enjoyed it!<br/>
I still can&#39;t believe that one can build an engine with just 8 cards (when I first heard it, I was like, &quot;what?&quot;), but in the end the engine worked! I had no clue what I was doing when I was drafting the 8 cards, but managed to get to 11 points at the end.  The winner had 21 points and 2nd place had 16.   </p>

<p>I really liked how the spell books and the big cards (forgot the name) added to the different combination of things you can do with the engine, and the monuments provided another method of gaining points.   </p>

<p>The components were very nice and the turns went very fast without any downtime.   </p>

<p>I liked the game so much I bought it right afterwards, including the expansion! Can&#39;t wait to play this again!</p>

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I really liked Res Arcana!

Chime in here, your weekly place for all things two-player! Sessions, strategy, game recs, criticisms, it all flies here.

<div class="md"><p>Chime in here, your weekly place for all things two-player! Sessions, strategy, game recs, criticisms, it all flies here.</p>
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Two-player Twosday - (June 29, 2021)

 The components at first blush kind of gave you this a little bit of an underwhelming feeling right you're, like oh, only 12 new cards. That'S a decent amount of the deck of cards uh, but uh. It didn't feel like a new. You know, sort of like this is the new era of res arcana, but i very much like it the new one, though i like, even better

 You know very good card or or uh location to have, especially if you can load it up. So we've got that one and then over here we've got this one that lets you put out creatures at a discount uh, it's all about the creatures and then scoring the creatures and scoring the calm. Essence, if you've placed that on here very nice and then on the opposite side, again very much about the new pearls getting gold and pearls which you put on here or just getting pearls straight into your supply. So that's the the alchemical workshop

 You have one even if it's just sitting on a component in the game, it's worth a victory point. You can at any time get rid of a pearl and take a gold or take two other essences from that and then down here. They explain that you know if you are getting some sort of discount or something or you know anything like that, any conversion and it does not apply to gold. Then it also does not apply to these pearls

 I'M not saying it's suddenly way way better, but some of the pieces in here are really stunning pieces of artwork. So aesthetics also gets a big thumbs up from me, replay value you're, going to get some interesting new combos in here you're going to get some interesting new avenues for strategy in here. The way things interact but then also the pearls are such a a powerful thing that you will find yourself discovering by the very nature of their existence, new paths. You might not even have a deck that utilizes a lot of the pearls

Res Arcana: Perlae Imperii Review - with Zee Garcia

I’m a long time MTG player and I’m really after a competitive card game that has set decks to play with that don’t require collecting and trading etc.  I’ve been looking at Epic and Keyforge so far and wondered if anyone had any recommendations?

<div class="md"><p>I’m a long time MTG player and I’m really after a competitive card game that has set decks to play with that don’t require collecting and trading etc.  I’ve been looking at Epic and Keyforge so far and wondered if anyone had any recommendations?</p>
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