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Village of Familiar

Treehhouse building exam

Final exam at the magic school, you must pass your exam. To do so you build a village of tree houses, using the resources from the forest, for your familiars. The magical forest is laid out, a green and a brown objective tile are laid out and each player draws his own personal objective tile. You play rounds, comprises the phases Preparation, Planning and Building.

In the Preparation phase all remaining cards are split into as many stacks as there are players and each player takes a stack and draws eight cards face-down.

In the planning phase all play simultaneously: If you hold cards, you can place a planning card on your working board on the drawer space and put cards remaining in your hand onto the currently active carriage card. Or, if you hold a spell card, you can discard all cards, spell card on top. Or, if you have a spell card, you cast a spell, all interrupt drafting to resolve the spell effects. If you hold no cards, you take cards from the carriage or draw cards from your own deck or pass and take a biscuit. This is repeated until all players have five cards in their drawers.

In the building phase in turn you take cards from your drawer and add it to your village. For cards with the respective marking you place a Familiar into the magical forest and get the corresponding resource. After four rounds you score the top card in the houses, abilities of houses, completed objectives and collected biscuits.

An unusual drafting mechanism – all at the same time – and an equally unusual mix of collecting resources, build houses and complete majority objectives; despite the target age much more a game with friends than for families.

Players: 3-4

Age: 6+

Time: 60+

Designer: Hiroki Kasawa

Artist: Goo, Tansan & Co

Price: ca. 32 Euro

Publisher: One Draw / Japon Brand 2015

Web: http://japonbrand.myshopify.com/

Genre: Card drafting, placement

Users: With friends

Special: Many players

Version: multi

Rules: en jp

In-game text: no

Comments:

Very unusual mechanism mix

All draft simultaneously using an interim deposit

Needs consideration of many individual factors

Gaming experience recommended

Compares to:

Card drafting games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 1

Strategy (blue): 1

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0