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.
JustinRRizzo
Update : So far, I'm not seeing loads of new ideas. Still lots of "helmet" strategies. I'm not sure this box is worth it. Everything can fit into the base box if you remove the insert (I own everything as of Jan 2019). The conclaves are ok, but are really brought down by the fact that you are going to have to sift through every damn card at the end of your game to rebuild the conclave sets. Loads of work to do that. What they should have done, is release this box once ALL content for the game has been released, and then released "fixed conclaves/cubes" to be used. That would have solved everything, and *might* have justified the large box - which is still only 1/3 full. Before Conclave, I was able to fit all things MV in the base box, with room to spare for TG. With Conclave, 1/3 of the box is used up. I sure hope they release enough (good, fresh, and new mechanics) content to fill the other 2/3 of this box. I paid $23.50 for a ding dent copy, and thats about what its worth to me. If AEG was kind enough to release the conclaves info, you could easily homebrew everything meaningful in this "expansion". The $36 price tag would have been justifiable if they had included all the promos.
sbsimp1
Box 34 Includes Mystic Vale, Mystic Vale: Harmony, Mystic Vale, Mana Storm, Mystic Vale, Nemesis, Mystic Vale: Twilight Garden, Mystic Vale: Vale of Magic, Mystic Vale: Vale of the Wild