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Tyrants of the Underdark 2nd Edition (Updated)

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  1. 10 out of 10

    Awesome combination of Deckbuilder and Area control with multiple paths to Victory. Great mechanics and a great theme on top.

  2. 8.5 out of 10

    The only one deckbuilder that I enjoy. Really good. Above is no longer true, with Clank!, Supermotheload and Star Realms around.

  3. 8.7 out of 10

    [size=16]❦ [/size] [b]Solo Mode[/b] // [filepage=227352]Unofficial Solo Variant[/filepage] [size=16]❦ [/size] [b]Required Play Space[/b] // 32" x 30" [size=16]❦ [/size] [b]Setup Time[/b] // 10 Minutes [size=16]❦ [/size] [b]Play Time[/b] // 50 Minutes :thumbsup: Building a deck is fun, yet is also augmented by promoting cards to remove them for more victory points. :thumbsup: The area control mechanics are fairly simple and straightforward with interesting decisions around total control. :thumbsup: All of the artwork is beautiful and excellent, bringing in some small story elements about the board state. :thumbsup: Play time goes pretty quickly with very little downtime, with the end game triggering before gameplay drags on. :thumbsup: Variety with the possible faction decks adds a lot of possibilities to what might happen with the market. :thumbsup: Many strategies feel viable with the way victory points and control are split among many different elements. :thumbsdown: Although designed to be a closer matchup, the solo mode doesn’t use the entire map and leaves out a lot of sites. :thumbsdown: There are some instances where decisions for the solo opponent aren’t clear, although they’re easy to resolve. :thumbsdown: The box insert is useful but just barely holds all of the components, while a lot of empty space is wasted. :thumbsdown: Not all of the faction decks are great to use solo, leading to slightly less variety than the multiplayer game. [url=https://gamewardbound.com/tag/tyrants-of-the-underdark/?utm_source=boardgamegeek&utm_medium=comment]Read the Session Reports and Review at Gameward Bound »[/url]

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Tyrants of the Underdark is a territory control game with a deck-building element.

Each player leads a house of Drow in a section of the Underdark below the Sword Coast. The Drow house is represented by a deck of cards, with each card being a minion in that player’s deck. Each minion belongs to one of five aspects of Drow society, and those aspects correspond to different strategies in the game, e.g., malice minions excel at assassinating opponents’ troops, while ambition minions are best at recruiting additional minions and promoting minions to your "inner circle", which is a special zone that increases their value at the end of the game.

When you set up the game, you create an 80-card deck by shuffling two 40-card half-decks together, with the half-decks being Drow, Dragons, Demons, and Elementals.

A central marketplace has new minions that can be recruited through influence, one of two resources in the game; purchased cards are placed in your discard pile, then shuffled together with other cards in your deck when needed. The other resource is power, which allows you to place troops on the game board, expand your forces across the map of the Underdark, manipulate happenings in the city, and assassinate enemy troops.

Players gain points by controlling sites, recruiting valuable minions, promoting minions to your inner circle, and assassinating troops, and whoever ends the game with the most points wins.

Ages

14+
Players

2 Players, 3 Players, 4 Players
Play Time

60m – 60m
Designer

Andrew Veen, Peter Lee, Rodney Thompson
Mechanics

Area Control / Area Influence, Deck / Pool Building, Take That
Theme

Fantasy
Publisher

Gale Force Nine, LLC, Kronos Games (Krogam), Heidelberger Spieleverlag, Wizards of the Coast
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