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!
KageSasurai
So this box is a pretty mixed bag, but overall very positive. The box itself is great and almost a necessity for players who have been collecting the game up to this point. It is attractive and holds everything nicely. Unfortunately the rest is really a mixed bag. The night and day system is probably the best way to make an attempt to play a six player game of this, but really the proper way to do that is just don't. If you really must play with 6 players facing off, just have 2 x 3 player games and then have the top 2 players play a second game for the championship and the remaining 4 face off for 3rd place. It will be far less aggravating and probably faster too. The conclaves I can take or leave, mostly leave to be honest. I really like the idea behind selecting a few of them to pare down the now massive amount of cards the game has and set a theme for the match. But on the other hand, Mystic Vale has a substantial setup and teardown (Ye gods, the teardown!) time as it is, so I rarely bother. I almost always gravitate to playing these sorts of games in "epic" mode anyhow, but your personal mileage may vary on this one. Overall, worth it as a for a storage solution for collectors, otherwise a pass.
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.
gregoriomagno17
Conclave provides a great way to play with 5 or 6 players with little to no downtime, and a great big oversize box to hold all your cards and way more. The only thing I wish is that it included a way to organize the sets from the Twilight Garden Expansion which was released shortly after the Conclave box. Each of the other expansions can be mixed into different theme groups, and it would have been nice if they could have anticipated the next release with it in mind.