I haven’t played too much Mage Knight recently. I played with the TaoLing¹ a few times last summer. But at a recent convention one of the Wiz Kid reps asked me if I wanted to try Mage Knight Emergence: The Portal to Power,² which is apparently a Res Arcana Duo like product. A game that can serve as a 2p introduction to the system, or an expansion you just shuffle in. I’m not a completist (I didn’t buy the ultimate edition, so my set is 4-5 cards short of complete), but I just shook me head “No thanks, I’ll just buy it when it comes out.”

So he gave me a few preview cards from the expansion. Thankfully I have a few extra sleeves of the various correct colors so I could just add them in. (I’m pushing 500 plays with my set³, wear is definitely noticeable on components. I sleeved my game after 100 ish plays⁴). I use dice to randomize tiles and chits, but the cards would be gone without sleeves.

And there is MK: The Apocalypse Dragon, coming out sometime this year, according to BGG.

All of which is to say, I don’t write about Mage Knight often, but after that convention I set up a solitaire game and played it, and I’m looking forward to more content for it.

1. Who has graduated college, moved out, gotten a job, etc … yet will still be referred to as such for consistencies sake. ︎
2. Stop with the damn subtitles! Apparently its the day for that rant. ︎
3. Although that does count solo games, which probably represent ~300 or so. I don’t normally track solo games any more, but I was back then so I’ve continued. ︎
4. I use dice to randomize tiles/chits, because the wear is obvious and its easy to tell which ones are newer. I’m considering using coin chips for the tiles (then I could bag them) but the space increase would be significant, I think. I don’t normally use the Shades of Tezla chits. ︎

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Dreaded continuity! We’re following up Episode 41 from seven years ago about the games that started our love for board games! After those first loves, what really got our hearts aflutter with the joy that the hobby had to offer? Before we yearn, we talk about Der Fliegende Holländer, and The Hobbit: There and Back Again.

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Timecodes:

02:52 – Der Fliegende Holländer
16:03 – The Hobbit: There and Back Again
27:14 – The games that made us
29:11 – Deception: Murder in Hong Kong
32:54 – Mage Knight Board Game
36:33 – Francis Drake
39:33 – Two Rooms and a Boom
42:44 – Survive: Escape from Atlantis!
46:46 – Grand Austria Hotel
49:53 – Dead Last
55:26 – Rising Sun

Thank you to Heart Society for generously letting us use What’s On Your Mind, Kid? from their album Wake the Queens.

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