Ming Dynasty

Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Campaign and team modes — one-to-five game campaigns and team play; map grows and stats change
• Competition (Compete) — attack other herds; fight by strength calculation using herd size, action frame value, and dice; nests stomped
• Event tiles and biome events — rolling biome die to place event tiles; onetime and permanent effects altering map/biomes
• Evolution (Evolve) — change action frames; upgrade one action while downgrading another; manage four core traits
• Herd management and spreading (Spread) — select a herd, add dinos or lay nests; eggs hatch if unopposed; nests create new herds
• migration — draw and place territory tiles; optionally move herds onto biomes; map building and map exploration
• Morph tokens — special abilities gained via morph tokens; tokens add to herd size, movement, eggs, etc.
• Tile-based map construction — placing biome and territory tiles to build the map during setup and play
• Tile/Map Shifting — placing biome and territory tiles to build the map during setup and play

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Quotes (from this video)

• Dino Dynasty is a tile placement dinosaur game
• not always the big and better fighting dinosaur that wins this game
• the theme is right on for me
• easy to understand rules
• there's good replayability in it as well
• you can play this game as a team mode
• it's not always the same thing over and over again
• there's a lot of variability with the different numbers of dinosaurs

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Dinosaur upgrading — Players upgrade their dinosaurs and traits.

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• Fiction: Banned Books, this is from All Play. I really like the first Fiction, guessing a five-letter word. If you like things like Wordle, um this is a good sort of one versus others game because one person is trying to stop you from guessing the word cuz they lie they have to lie about a letter each time, but you know they lie, so they're picking the right time to lie. But this offer this adds some special powers and things to it, so it's slightly better than the first one, I think, if you care about the stuff. If not, you can still play it normally, so great little game.
• Got 5, a great deduction game for kids, wonderful components. Basically, um you everyone can see your numbers and you're guessing if this is higher or lower than your numbers and where they fit on a grid really works well for kids. There's a lot of good deduction games for kids these days. Another 8.5.
• And Catan on the Road, what a glorious card game version of Catan, one one few games that I am going to get a copy of this for my house because my kids and family liked it so much. We can play this with anybody. It takes Catan, it distills it down into 15 minutes. What a wonderful thing. Like it a lot.
• So, almost 15 minutes for 36 games.
• If you have thoughts on these games, you disagree, agree, whatever it might be, let us know in the comments.
• Like I said, you can find more information about most of these games on the Dice Tower channel or you will hear more about them in the future.
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• Buff — Target creature gets +1/+1 for each card in hand and can't be blocked.
• Combat Damage Trigger — Draws a card when tapped creatures deal combat damage.
• Saga — A enchantment that has chapter abilities.
• Tap Effects — Taps target creatures.

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• Thank God for that last part.
• cuz it Yeah, you can exile lands, which is kind of nuts.
• This is a giant colorless draw engine, which there just aren't that many of.
• It draws you up to 10 and then on your next turn you cast a bunch of cards and it draws you up to 10 again.
• So, this is a growing flying artifact. Beardy
• Like are we running all of these? I feel like no.
• So, it's sort of similar to Iron Man Bleeding Edge, but it's interesting in a couple of ways. It's colorless.
• Non-creature spells you cast cost one less to cast and whenever you cast your first non-creature spell each turn. Dry card.
• This spot is really really crowded. I mean, it's competing with like the red and blue one that like doubles all of your payoff stuff.
• So, it is cascadeesque. It doesn't care about the mana value. It is just the next um spell off the top of your deck. The next non-land card off the top of your deck.
• But it was for five mana. Is it worth five mana?
• This reminds me a little of Sunbird's Invocation.
• It's living death, but instead of your graveyard, it's your hand.
• The fact that it's in Simic makes a ton of sense because they tend to have the biggest hands.
• I really like World Within Worlds. I think that card is just really fun and makes for a big moment in the last one we talked about.
• My favorite is Kang Dynasty.
• This card is just going to be very powerful and it's in blue is like sort of the weirdest thing.
• So, uh, let's start with our favorite. Um I I couldn't really settle on one that I liked, so I picked a few.

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• action selection — Players choose one of four possible actions: migrate, spread, compete, or evolve.
• Area Control — Players compete by moving herds into rival biomes to attack their herds or nests.
• Dice Rolling — Dice are used for various aspects like determining morph tiles to play, rolling for events, and in competition.
• Evolving — Players can move evolve markers to change action frames.
• Set Collection — Players collect morph tokens which can be used to gain abilities.
• Tile Placement — Players place map tiles which consist of biome tiles, one-time events, and growing events.
• Variable player powers — Players choose a dinosaur board with different starting numbers of eggs and meeples, and morph abilities.

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• Dino Dynasty a player's turn a player's turn takes four steps
• Keep in mind that if a dyo goes extinct you would start over on your next turn in an empty biome

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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)

• cooperative-leaning — Based on the box text, uncertain about co-op; included as potential team-based action

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• the most boring unboxing in the world
• I'm actually going to do this. It's the advent calendar. I can I'm going to do it in January
• Fu magnet needs its own bag

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