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Year
2019
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Description
"Arcana Magica" is a card/dice game that uses a Poker deck and the cards from the Tarot Major Arcana (the full standard Tarot deck) along with five symmetric dice.
Players use the Poker playing deck from their hand to Summon Tarot Units and Activate them to Attack opponents. Based on the Roman symbols on top of Tarot cards they roll different dice attacking the opponents armies.
It's about a 60 minute game that requires just the two decks and 5 dice and could be played anywhere between 2 to 4 people.
If you want to experience the full beauty of Arcana Magica you can purchase the decks at the official website and roll the needed dice using a helper web-app done by the creators.
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positive
Pros
- Tarot-based thematic hook
- Deeper strategic potential than expected
- Clear suit-value balance between red and black
- Flexible player counts including two-player and four-player modes
- Solo mode variants planned via stretch goals
Cons
- Prototype components and non-final rules/artwork
Thematic elements
- Tarot cards are used to form warriors and playing cards are used as currency to recruit and summon them.
- like roleplay or DMD (D&D-like) with dice checks
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cards as currency — Playing cards are used as currency to recruit and summon warriors.
- combat resolution — Attacking costs align with recruitment costs; dice results must meet or exceed a card's health points to defeat it.
- Dice Rolling — Dice are rolled to resolve combat and skill checks; exploding dice mechanic is mentioned.
- draw to four — After playing, players draw back up to four playing cards.
- End Game Bonuses — Endgame is triggered by specific conditions; scoring involves points from defeated warriors and surviving cards.
- endgame tokens — Players collect tokens that contribute to endgame triggering.
- Endgame triggers and scoring — Endgame is triggered by specific conditions; scoring involves points from defeated warriors and surviving cards.
- Hand Management — Players manage a hand of playing cards used for actions.
- pool building — Players build pools combining cards and dice to perform actions.
- pre-rolls — Low-cost cards allow pre-rolling dice in combat.
- red vs black suits values — Red suits have full value for recruitment; black suits have half value.
- rounds determined by die — A d8 roll determines how many more rounds remain after an endgame condition is reached.
- tarot cards as warriors — Tarot deck cards represent warriors that can be recruited and deployed.
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- arcana magica from 89 visions
- two to four players
- with mechanics such as dice rolling hand management and pool building
- the game is of light to medium complexity
- the red suits to do so as the black suits only have half of the value
- like roleplay or dmd where you have your dice and roll to fulfill skill check
- exploding dice mechanic
- solo mode
- this game plays great with two players
- the components featured in this video are prototype so rules and artwork are not final
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