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Monster Hero Academy

Wanted: The best students

For testing purposes you are a teacher and choose the best students for a test and acquire a good reputation when they excel in it. Students have values for skirmish, magic and ruse and also a special ability that is triggered when the card is revealed. The rounds of the game are comprised of several phases that all players implement in turn. At the start of the round a test card is laid out, it shows the name of the test, a stat icon and a special bonus. The stat icon determines the student values that will be compared for the test. Then, you choose s student by drafting - you choose a card from the student deck and then hand the deck on to the next player. Then each player chooses one of his five teachers and lays him out face-down. Finally, each player takes Opponent deck, takes the top card and gives it openly to any player of his choice who does not yet have such a card. Now all players reveal their student and teacher cards; at this point you can use special abilities on those cards, followed by the implementation of opponent cards, which only happens when the conditions for activating the special abilities are met. The final score from the cards is calculated and the three players with the best results are receiving their rewards and advance their markers on the reputation track. After four rounds you win with the best reputation.

Despite drafting of the students all is rather chance-driven, as the teacher cards that were used are taken out of play, but test, opponent and student cards are all used in each round. The topic is wittily implement, the monsters are cute and the opponents evil in this nice filler game.

Players: 2-6

Age: 10+

Time: 30+

Designer: Abdul Rahman Ibrahim

Artist: Chan Woon Bing, Abdul Rahman Ibrahim

Price: ca. 12 Euro

Publisher: Blue Mana Games 2014

Web: www.bluemanagames.wix.com

Genre: Card comparison

Users: For families

Version: en

Rules: en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Very much chance-driven

Cute drawings and characters

Good for beginners and casual players

Compares to:

All games with summing of card values for a ranking

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 0

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0