This game is designed by several people (one of them with a comment here) and if remember correctly, Richard Garfield joined them later in the process. Saying just "designed by Richard Garfield" does not seem right to me, even if it may be that his name helps sell the game more than his fellow co-designers names..
I agree it slightly frustrates me every time someone acts like Richard Garfield made the whole game, I love him but it’s a team effort and he only joined later on
@@serd213 Don’t get me wrong, the game is great. The issue happens when people playing know all or at least most of the cards, as the game is not exactly balanced. This is mitigated by mindbugs. Don’t know exact name in english, but for example there is card like Girrafodyl (mix of girrafe and crocodyle) that returns all the cards from the players discard pile to his hand when this card comes to play.
Then again if you almost killed your opponent, having more cards isn't necessarily going to improve things. You might actually just need a sneaky or direct damage card in. I just got my copy and I cannot wait to sleeve it (card quality is meh) and play it. Such delicate and interwoven mechanics condensed from Magic but maybe also from a game as HearthStone. I never liked the feeling of being overwhelmed by some card I didn't know about that just totally destroyed me, I love the premise of a way smaller system that you can easily learn by heart, that is almost reduced to rock paper scissors, but not quite and still keeps a lot of tactics.
Just picked up the cheapest version in a Christmas order. Probably stick with the base version. Fun on the first play. Also picked up Wizards of the grimoire. I am looking forward to playing that in person. It has been fun on BGA with my partner.
Awesome game. I can only recommend it, since I have it from the start of the campain. PS. : You did 2 huge mistake in the beginning, forgetting to discard 2 cards (play effect of the ferret bomber). And playing the game alone, which is not that fun 🤣
This game is designed by several people (one of them with a comment here) and if remember correctly, Richard Garfield joined them later in the process. Saying just "designed by Richard Garfield" does not seem right to me, even if it may be that his name helps sell the game more than his fellow co-designers names..
I agree it slightly frustrates me every time someone acts like Richard Garfield made the whole game, I love him but it’s a team effort and he only joined later on
This has less luck in it than Radlands IMO, a lovely game
Thanks a lot for the review, Alex :)
Have only base game, but after few games we found some cards, where you have to play mindbug whenever these cards came to play 😅
I'd like to buy this game, but I'm wondering, what cards require a mindbug?
@@serd213 Don’t get me wrong, the game is great. The issue happens when people playing know all or at least most of the cards, as the game is not exactly balanced. This is mitigated by mindbugs. Don’t know exact name in english, but for example there is card like Girrafodyl (mix of girrafe and crocodyle) that returns all the cards from the players discard pile to his hand when this card comes to play.
Then again if you almost killed your opponent, having more cards isn't necessarily going to improve things. You might actually just need a sneaky or direct damage card in. I just got my copy and I cannot wait to sleeve it (card quality is meh) and play it. Such delicate and interwoven mechanics condensed from Magic but maybe also from a game as HearthStone. I never liked the feeling of being overwhelmed by some card I didn't know about that just totally destroyed me, I love the premise of a way smaller system that you can easily learn by heart, that is almost reduced to rock paper scissors, but not quite and still keeps a lot of tactics.
Just picked up the cheapest version in a Christmas order. Probably stick with the base version. Fun on the first play. Also picked up Wizards of the grimoire. I am looking forward to playing that in person. It has been fun on BGA with my partner.
Base version is really good, you don't really need more cards for this type of game.
The mind game sounds really interesting…
Awesome game. I can only recommend it, since I have it from the start of the campain.
PS. : You did 2 huge mistake in the beginning, forgetting to discard 2 cards (play effect of the ferret bomber). And playing the game alone, which is not that fun 🤣