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Myths at War

The end of the age of Men

Set collecting and deck-building game in a world where different mythologies exist side by side; in this edition you find Nordic, Egyptian and Japanese gods with two pantheons each and cards for the respective Gods deck with characters, events and resources as well as cards for the Designs deck with actions, equipment and summons.

You assemble your deck, including one pantheon, 20 Gods cards and 30 Designs cards, stack the Gods deck in four stacks for oracles and draw five cards from your Designs deck.

In a round you reveal the top card of each oracle and resolve events; then you can discard a card, can relocate power markers between stacks and stock and also enter cards into the game on which there are power markers equal to the cost of the card. Then you alternate with your opponents to resolve influence actions until all have passed, using either Equip or Meditate. Then the Confrontation phase begins with moving characters to the battle fields, and then resolving confrontation and evaluation, followed by a clearing up phase for power token distribution and card preparation.

If at the end of a round you have 30 or more points, you win; if you have 0 or fewer points, you lose instantly. In a game of more than two players there are special winning conditions.

Basically, Myths at War is a 2-player confrontation game in which you need to know the cards very well to use their interactions best. The topic is well-supported and nice, the cards are nicely illustrated, the mechanisms well-known, all in all a well-made clone of trading card game mechanisms for fans of that type of games.

Players: 2-5

Age: 10+

Time: 40+f

Designer: Francisco Gallego, Maria Pérez

Artist: Roberto Martinez

Price: ca. 40 Euro

Publisher: GDM Games 2015

Web: www.gdm-games.com

Genre: Deck-building, collecting

Users: With friends

Special: 2 players

Version: en

Rules: en es

In-game text: yes

Comments:

No pre-constructed decks

Works for up to five players

All the same a game best for two

Compares to:

Magic The Gathering, other deck-building and set-collecting games

Other editions:

Spanish language edition, GDM

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 2

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0