In Cadwallon, the capital of Arcana is something powerful going on. Four guilds vie for supremacy in the city. They try to recruit agents to capture relics and places to check. Damien Desnous us being considered the players in the card game from the Pegasus publisher's role to lead this zänkigen guilds and make it as difficult as possible to the players.

When the game starts, each player gets a deck of its Guild (Guild of Blades, boatmen, the thieves guild, guild of usurers) and the market area will be built according to players. This stack of 12 cards will be prepared. The pile in front of the players here are the personal and the pile in the middle of the general market. This also includes the ticket for the end game. All cards have a name, an assigned district, a type, four so-called Arcanumwerte (military, political, spiritual, financial power) and a victory point value. One of these values ​​is golden. The following card types are included in the game:

Agents: These cards are used to conquer other cards.

Relics: These cards can be shared with an agent, to conquer a card by bribing agents

Places: These cards allow the player to perform special actions.

In a first round, each player draws four cards in hand. In turn, players can use one card to win an open map of a state mark. Tickets can be stored on personal markets covered. General market and the markets of the players are stored openly. Were all played cards, or stored, all cards are dealt face up to the markets and evaluated. If a player on the card with its gold market Arcanumwert the map, he has conquered them. Subsequently, all captured and played cards are placed in the discard pile. As new market cards are revealed and starts the next round.

This rhythm game is interrupted by one to probe the actions of the places and the extortion of agents. Also in Cadwallon money rules the world. Is adjacent to an agent in a market, an agent card and the player has a relic card in his hand, he may try to Erpessung. Exceeds the sum of the Arcanumwert the agent and the gold value of the relic of the gold value exceeds the agents to be conquered, as he is bribed. The player gets the card and places it along with agents and agent relic on the discard pile. All the other players clear the market and it is revealed a new card.

Shall run the game is revealed until the end of the game card from the general market. Then comes the final round. After all card points are added. The player with the highest score Cadwallon dominates and wins the game.

In the extended game, there are two additional rules. At the beginning of the game is prepared from the accompanying militia cards one face down. If a player has a relic card unused on the discard pile, he can take a militia and used them as an agent. After use the card moves, but again militia under the militia stack. In addition, the player next to the conquest of the city is still set another goal. Each player gets to start the game four job cards from which he must choose two. To fulfill the orders still need certain cards (district). The orders are fulfilled at the end of the game, there is the printed number of additional points.

Arcana Deck building awakens the known mechanism and the persuasive presentation great expectations. As for the graphics, they are also fully met. The cards are visually very appealing and decorated with beautiful illustrations. Unfortunately the game itself can not come close. Their own ways to vary his game tactics are still very limited. The results from the fact that there are only three types of cards. So if you expect a game with similar options as Dominion or Thunder Stone will not find that here. Arcana is more likely to see game as a starter for the genre. Clear and simple rules and simple game play speak for it. So anyone who is interested in the topic and does not shrink from the plethora of other genre representatives, may head off to conquer the city and Cadwallon.

Year: 2010
Publisher: Pegasus Games
Author: Damien Desnous
Players: 2-4
Age: 10 years
Duration: about 60 minutes
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Tags: card game , Pegasus