Game Info
Year
2019
Players
1-4
Age
14+
Playtime
60 min
Collection
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Description
Spellcrafting engine-building game where players control elemental dice chaos to craft spells and perform heroic deeds in solo competitive or cooperative modes
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Meeple University Review at 0:04 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Breathtaking artwork
- Strategic card play for desired elements
- More challenge and complexity than similar games
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- Mages performing heroic actions, inflicting magic, and performing quests
- Valonia
Comparison games
- Century: Spice Road
- Century Golem Edition
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Asymmetric powers — Players each start with slightly asymmetric power and starting cards.
- card drafting — Mentioned as one of the mechanics in the game.
- Deck building — Mentioned as one of the mechanics in the game.
- Dice rolling — Mentioned as one of the mechanics in the game.
- Resource management — Players can take white acuity crystal resources, and there's a limited amount that can be held.
- set collection — Players can get set collection points for collecting certain sigils on heroic cards.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- hi graduates it's stella from meeple university and this is stella's short and sweet preview for mercurial from hyperlexa
- in mercurial players are mages trying to clack alteration cards and spell cards to cast spell to complete missions and to win the game
- the alteration cards you play though more of a sideway building to get the exact elements you want
- the breathtaking artwork
- so thanks for watching folks check out mercurial on kickstarter i'll put the link in the description below
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Board Game Garden Top 10 List at 28:38 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
- Rich, thematic spell-crafting loop
- solo mode available
Cons
none
Thematic elements
- spell-crafting and elemental dice manipulation
- Fantasy/arcane spellcraft universe
- mythic, adventurous
Comparison games
- Century Spice Road
- Res Arcana
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- card drafting — draft spell cards to deploy effects
- dice drafting — draft and modify dice to meet spell requirements
- dice drafting / dice manipulation — draft and modify dice to meet spell requirements
- resource exchange / conversion — convert cards into dice and vice versa to power effects
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
- it's a space themed game and I'm just not the biggest fan of that theme but really enjoyed my play of it
- two-player only game
- I love tile placement games
- the look of the game is not my favorite it is very beige
- I am so happy that I have a physical copy of this one
- I love the theme I love the art
- multi-use cards
- this is a tableau building engine building card game
- I think this one has a solo mode
- this game is so good I enjoyed it so much
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