Mystic Vale: Conclave
Expansion of: Mystic ValeMystic Vale: Conclave provides the ideal storage solution designed to hold all of the previous releases, with room to spare for future expansions!
45m - 60m
2 - 5 Players
Ages 14+
Mystic Vale: Conclave provides the ideal storage solution designed to hold all of the previous releases, with room to spare for future expansions!
duzzloe
Mystic Vale is a fun take on the drafting formula, and, importantly, the Conclave expansion is my first exposure to the idea of 2 players taking turns simultaneously in games with more players. The system is very clever, making 5 and 6 player games much quicker than they would otherwise be. Mystic Vale's fantasy theme is also very fun and makes for some really cool and powerful moments when your engine really starts coming together. Great game!
LabRat002a
A great deck builder where you don't add or remove card, but add transparent layers to existing cards so your cards get better as the game goes on. You can also push your luck drawing as many cards as you like, but you bust if your have 4 decay symbols. And the top card of your deck is visible and adds its decay to the chance you bust, but gives you a chance to see what symbols are coming up in case you want to push your luck. Growth symbols also cancel out decay symbols and so you could possibly end up drawing your whole deck in a turn by the end of the game. Turns can be quite thinky as you select which cards to buy, and for that reason I prefer this re-implementation that has day and night, so that two players can simultaneously take their turns at once.
Arkeas
Mostly just a large empty box with some dividers that makes storing everything together much easier. The 5-6 player mode is wholly unnecessary and is something we'll never play with. The only game-related content here we'd actually use are the new totems. As far as value goes, it's a pretty awful deal, but we managed to get it for a half-decent price when a store was clearing it out.