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Arkham Horror: Before the Black Throne
Expansion of: Arkham Horror: The Circle Undone
60m - 120m
1 - 2 Players
Ages 14+
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Before the Black Throne is the sixth and final Mythos Pack in "The Circle Undone" cycle for Arkham Horror: The Card Game.
After your battle to close the rips in reality in In the Clutches of Chaos, you have left your city and your world behind, traveling an impossible distance, and yet you are still many leagues from the nighted throne where your ultimate foe stirs. As you are chased by your fate across the cosmos, you may be forced to bring "empty space" into play, losing the top card of your deck as you place it facedown to embody the seemingly infinite space that divides you from the rest of humanity. This is not a location; it cannot be entered or investigated, and the only way to reclaim your lost card is to fill the empty space with a Cosmos location. These impossible places, drawn from the new Cosmos deck, do not have set places they must connect to. Rather, each Cosmos card has a connecting instruction you must obey in order to place it. Torn from all you know, it may be easy to surrender to the existential dread, but even if all you can do is delay the inevitable, the battle is not over yet!
—description from the publisher
| Ages | 14+ |
|---|---|
| Players | Solo, 2 Players |
| Play Time | 60m – 120m |
| Mechanics | Cooperative Game, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Hand Management, Variable Player Powers |
| Theme | Card Game, Expansion for Base-game, Novel-based, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror |
| Publisher | Asmodee Italia, Asmodee, Edge Entertainment, Fantasy Flight Games, Galakta |
Razoupaf
Interesting but massively swingy and fiddly. Doesn't save Circle Undone for being a very disappointing campaign, sadly.
Mozzik
There's some nice, unique mechanics in this scenario (Though really it's more a refinement of what we've seen in the Pallid Mask and a few others - which continues the theme we've seen in TCU of scenarios feeling like refinements of earlier scenarios). It also manages to not overwhelm you with static effects and memory issues which threatened to overwhelm some of the scenarios earlier in the campaign. It also handles Azathoth in an appropriate way. Update: My observations above hold up - though I didn't note at the time that it can be very random depending on how the locations come out and how early you pull some of the doom enemies. But it's a final scenario and it feels like a final scenario. The player cards here are amazing - chock full of traits that let them slot into multiple different investigators in interesting ways, introducing the bonded mechanic, and introducing a few build-around cards. The worse of them (Lure and Wither(4)) are still cards I can see using with the right deck.
Bayushi Sezaru
Arkham Horror: the Card Game is an awesome crossover between RPG and card game, thriving in atmosphere character development. No need to point out that expanding the card pool (both with new scenarios and new investigator cards) is a great way to keep it fresh and enticing! Before the Black Throne is the sixth in the fourth cycle of Mythos Packs, and contains the final scenario of the Circle Undone campaign. In addition, of course there are a few new tasty player cards.