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2009
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Description
Court of the Medici is a casual card game of politics and intrigue at the Medici court.
In Court of the Medici, you play the leader of one of the powerful factions in the city of Florence. Your faction’s power and prosperity in Florence are tied to your favor with the city’s ruling family, the Medici. Favor with the Grand Duke de Medici comes from having the nobles of your faction present at court. However, with nobles from all the other factions at court as well, your influence on the duke is limited.
Through wisely using the nobles you send to court though, you may be able to reduce your rival’s influence while increasing your own faction’s prestige.
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Drive Thru Games Top List at 2:49 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Crafty and deep despite simplicity
- Room for advanced play
- Can be found cheaply
Cons
- Can be a little rare
- May feel like it explodes or ends abruptly on early plays
Thematic elements
Comparison games
- Scopa
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- bluffing — Players try to faint and bluff by counting cards and managing their plays.
- Card game — It is a two-player card game with identical decks.
- Set Collection — Players aim to have the highest stack of cards in one of the courts by the end of the game.
- Stacking — Players stack cards on the table, and then can target other stacks that equal a certain number to 'zap' and delete them.
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No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- hey everybody welcome to another top 10 list today as you can tell from the title we are covering the top 10 misfit games
- jamie from the secret cabal he's a friend of mine and he's struggling right now he's recovering from esophageal cancer he's on the mend
- these are games that for whatever reason kind of just flew under the radar didn't really make a splash there's something kind of weird about them but games that i really would enjoy and recommend
- the order is actually i'm going to go from oldest to newest so we're going to go way back way back when
- this is the one game on the list i do not think you will be able to find if you can find it good luck to you
- it's hard to explain in short summary
- i think the best resident evil style board game that i've played
- i loved it and had a blast with it so there you go
- i think all these you can get on the cheap
- it's going to take a couple of plays but the rest of these it was like huh this game's kind of weird let's play this again this is weird and then we'd play it a couple times and then then actually this is actually really neat game really different and kind of a unique experience
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Drive Thru Games Top List at 9:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Very unknown little two-player card game
- Pure fun
- Can be played a lot back and forth
- Dollar store bargain bin find
Cons
- Hard to find
- Hated it the first couple times
Thematic elements
- Two families in warring houses
- Renaissance Era / Post-Renaissance / Baroque Era
Comparison games
- Linko
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — and they have this inner and outer Court type of thing going on
- Card game — two-player card game that is gussied up with some you know like uh Renaissance Era post Renaissance Baroque Era uh artwork
- Hand Management — and stuff like that because some of the low numbers have a little bit of an effect
- Set Collection — you play these cards and they just have big numbers on them and you build little sacks of cars and try to match your stack of cards
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Quotes (from this video)
- these are my favorite games these may not be like the best quality games in some cases
- it's a really really cool mechanic and then it has all the fun scoring stuff of the original Seven Wonders game
- it's a two-player game two-player game only there's not really anything else to talk about player count wise with this one
- it's just a really cool tight experience great production all this stuff
- there's been tons tons of stuff for it and it has been like six starter sets and then all this little like packs of uh you know different War bands and stuff that you can buy
- yes that bugs me I really like the game that really bugs me
- artistically graphic design wise is my favorite just because there is just a lot going on on this game
- I just prefer it mechanically just that much better
- galors and venos bear like a nice perfect marriage of theme and mechanics
- and gosh if it ain't thematic I'm telling you it's thematic
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All You Can Board Discussion at 2:23 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
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Mechanics unknown.
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Quotes (from this video)
- This is in lieu of us doing our yearly top 10; it’s a category-based discussion.
- I think this format is more interesting and adds flexibility in terms of the games we’re talking about.
- Anyone who says this game is luck-based, you’re just wrong.
- Through the Desert is one of the greatest designs ever in my opinion.
- Magic's back in my life now because of drafting.
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Drive Thru Games Top 10 List at 20:08 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Two-player elegance with a tournament vibe
- Fast to teach and quick to play
- Historically rich setup with accessible rules
Cons
- Limited player density (2-player only)
- A bit dated in production aesthetics
Thematic elements
- Renaissance-era prestige and backroom politics
- Two-player dueling courtly intrigue with court factions
- Classic, quick-contrast duel game with elegant scoring
Comparison games
- Scopa
- Different two-player duel games
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Courtier-stacking / zapping — Building stacks to influence outcomes and knock out opponent options.
- Two-player only drafting and play — A compact duel with central card-play and scoring that hinges on card interactions.
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Quotes (from this video)
- Arboretum is an absolute perfect game and I just it comes out and I play and this is why it didn't have my top 50
- this is exploding kittens this stays in the collection
- it's the most back project ever in the history of Kickstarter
- the shifting team Alliance thing is the best part of Chimera
- Arboretum is an absolute perfect game
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