April 1, 2021 Rules of Play

This week's new releases!

Brand new games coming next week

ashes reborn

2 - 4 players | 30 - 120 minutes | £50

Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn Master Set features version 1.5 updated rules and cards. Choose from six Phoenixborn in this set, using imaginative cards and custom dice to summon faithful allies, combine powerful spells, and outwit your opponents in a fast-paced back and forth barrage of well-crafted magic and strategic skill. Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn brings a pile of unique twists to the customizable card game genre, putting the control of the powerful Phoenixborn into the hands of the players.

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Ashes Reborn: Ashes 1.5 Upgrade Kit

2 - 4 players | 30 - 120 minutes | £30

This Upgrade Kit is a very cost effective way for any player of the original Ashes to upgrade their entire collection to be ready to play with the Ashes Reborn rules and products. Every card in the Ashes card pool has been revised, rebalanced, simplified, or otherwise changed to fit in with the goals for the new ruleset: Make the game more accessible and intuitive without losing any of what makes it fun and rewarding to play.

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Ashes Reborn: The Law of Lions Deluxe Expansion Set

2 - 4 players | 30 - 120 minutes | £30

This deluxe expansion set gives players an all new Ashes deck ready to play out of the box, or with which to begin deckbuilding. It not only introduces a new Phoenix born and new cards to the game, but also includes ten new Divine Magic dice and a stylized deck box which neatly organises a sleeved Ashes deck, ten dice, and all the tokens from the base set.

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Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Alchemists

2 - 5 players | 45 minutes | £22

The Quacks of Quedlinburg: The Alchemists introduces nightmares, obsession, and hysteria to The Quacks of Quedlinburg base game, with players working in new laboratories to distill essences that can free the citizens of Quedlinburg from these afflictions. The Alchemists can be played with only the base game or combined with The Herb Witches expansion.

a little wordy

A Little Wordy

2 players | 30 minutes | £15

A Little Wordy is a tile-unscrambling game for aspiring geniuses and would-be word wizards. Offering a fresh take on the genre of tile-based word games by focusing on players' ability to make clever choices rather than rewarding the player with the biggest vocabulary, it's a thoughtful and strategic game that challenges players to figure out their opponent's chosen secret word.

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Cryo

2 - 4 players | 60 - 90 minutes | £60

In the engine-building, worker placement game Cryo, leaders of separate, hostile factions compete to survive and claim control over the underground caverns on a remote icy planet. You need to act quickly and strategically to avoid further sabotage from other factions. Send drones out from your engineering platform to scavenge resources and save your crew still in cryostasis.

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Pokemon TCG: Sword & Shield Elite Trainer Box Plus Zacian / Zamazenta

£65

When you choose a set, you'll get a special golden-hued card featuring either Zacian V or Zamazenta V. You'll also find 65 card sleeves featuring that set's star Pokémon. As a nod to the strength of these Legendary Metal-type Pokémon, this Elite Trainer Box Plus contains a variety of shining metal accessories. Look for a metal coin featuring either Zacian or Zamazenta, six metal damage-counter dice, and a set of metal condition markers. Not only that, but the set includes a Pokémon TCG: Sword & Shield Series player's guide, a Pokémon TCG rules booklet, and a whopping 12 Pokémon TCG booster packs from the Sword & Shield Series!

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