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Theme:
Florence, fifteenth century. The inventors of the Renaissance created amazing machines for the Lord of the city. Become the protagonist of this age of unbelievable discoveries by realizing your inventions! You'll direct your team into the laboratories, workshops, among the shops and perhaps learn the intrigues of the palace. Only the best can rival the great Leonardo!
Summary:
A worker-placement game for 2-5 players with an interesting bidding mechanic. In many other worker-placement games, if an opponent beats you to a spot, you're out of luck. Not so in Leonardo de Vinci. Here, you can bid more workers to jump ahead in line. And people at the back of the line, can still get something, but they have to pay more to get it. The competition for resources is very dynamic and fun.
Your same workers that compete for resources may also power your laboratory, so you must balance acquiring resources with working in the laboratory so that you can complete inventions and not run out of Florins (i.e. manage cash-flow).
The key is planning your resources and production capacity to maximize the number of inventions you can make and therefore maximize the amount of Florins you can earn. The last two rounds of the game require extra careful planning because new resources cannot be acquired.
Meta:
A "gamers' game" by Acchittocca (a team of Italian game designers). Nr. 1 in the QWG Master Print Edition series
- Can pump Thopters
- Draws a card and discards a card, with potential for graveyard exiling and token creation
- Cannot cast permanent spells.
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card draw — Ability to draw cards.
- Commander — The commander is identified as Leonardo da Vinci.
- Graveyard Interaction — Ability to exile cards from the graveyard and create token copies.
- token generation — Ability to create Thopter tokens.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
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- And Avacyn, Angel of Hope, an 8 8 with flying and vigilance. Avacyn, Angel of Hope and other permanents you control have indestructible. Oh.
- During your turn, your opponents can't cast spells or activate abilities of artifacts, creatures, or enchantments.
- It's now Swords to Plowshares forever.
- So, it's an 8 8. 8 8 with flying and vigilance. has myriad. Okay. They will die because they It is legendary when the myriad Uh except it isn't legendary.
- This deck is so funny. I love it.
- The angels and the demons were not on our side. They're on the side of the spooky man and the red lady with the hair.