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Faeries & Magical Creatures

Game ID: GID0447340
Game Info
Year
2023
Players
2-4
Age
10+
Playtime
45 min
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Description

Card drafting and deck-building game featuring magical creatures with artwork by Annie Stegg Gerard

Description

Card drafting and deck-building game featuring magical creatures with artwork by Annie Stegg Gerard

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Total mentions: 3
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Sentiment: pos 1 · mix 1 · neu 0 · neg 0
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Video qyY2YUwDANQ Rolling Dice & Taking Names Discussion at 39:17:40 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
  • Easy to learn.
  • Combines deck building, area control, and path building.
  • Actions selected by one player benefit others.
Cons
  • Felt too long for a light game, about 10-15 minutes too long.
  • Players may get stuck only performing actions that earn victory points, neglecting others like drafting cards.
  • Bert 'wiped the floor' with the other players, suggesting a need for different strategies.
  • Game stayed on the table longer than hoped for a light game.
Thematic elements
  • Building paths and gardens with plants and magical creatures.
  • Nature/Garden
Comparison games
  • Patchwork
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • action selection — When one player selects an action, others can also perform the same action, with the selector getting a bonus.
  • Area Majority — Players compete for influence in different creature areas on a central board.
  • Deck Building — Players draft cards from a marketplace to add to their hand or discard pile.
  • Path building — Players construct paths on their player boards.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • I mean it's a game that you're kind of managing the supply chain for the Allied invasion of Europe.
  • You're always on the edge of your seat.
  • You gotta manage your resources very carefully.
  • You've got to manage your troops and your supplies, and your transport.
  • If you roll bad and they get pushed back then you have to deal with that.
  • more Vanessa less Tony is how I was reading all those comments
  • It's not about the games it's the banter that you two brought to the show it's about the taste test it's about everything
  • Matthew Perry yes Matthew Perry 54 years old played Chandler Bing
  • he had started providing places for people who were dealing with the same thing to go to he was a philanthropist and trying to help others
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Video HykeFEB2EwU Watch It Played News at 3:46 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Features fairies and magical creatures.
  • Players collect fairies and build fairy gardens.
  • Uses polyomino tiles for garden building.
  • Drafting unique fairy cards for deck building.
  • Shared action selection mechanic.
  • Art by the artist of Raccoon Tycoon.
Cons
none
Thematic elements
  • fairies and magical creatures
  • mythical realm
Comparison games
  • Raccoon Tycoon
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • action selection — The action chosen by a player is the action everyone else must follow.
  • Deck Building — Players will be building their decks by drafting unique fairy cards.
  • Set Collection — Players collect fairies from five unique folk.
  • Tile Placement — Players build fairy homes and fairy gardens using polyomino tiles.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • the crate generation of board games is upon us
  • Challengers 2 has been announced by z-man games with what has to be the most eyebrow raising placement of an exclamation mark in board games since Clank in space
  • like how I want to one day oust the other members of watch it played together we can do it
  • this all just sounds cool to me I like spells
  • I'd have called it scrambley everyone else
  • this looks like a Nostalgia fuel fun time to me so I can't wait to play it
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Pros
none
Cons
none
Thematic elements
none
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • this is a deck building game that also features some area control as well as an action following mechanic
  • we're going to be building out our own individual Gardens using path tiles and plant tiles
  • the five different types of fairy and magical creature types
  • the game ends as soon as one of the four conditions have been met
  • it's on Kickstarter and you can check out the link in the description
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