Merchants of Magick details
- Designer: Anna Wermlund, Eilif Svensson, Helge Meissner, Kristian Amundsen Østby
- Artists: Dan Roff, Gjermund Bohne, Jessy Töpfer, Martin Mottet
- Publishers: Across the Board, Aporta Games, BGA Plus, Board Game Rookie, Boardgame Mall, Devir, Gém Klub Kft., Ghenos Games, Hobby Japan, Lifestyle Boardgames Ltd, Matagot, MINDOK, Pegasus Spiele, Rebel Sp. z o.o., Surfin' Meeple China
- Release Date: 2022
- Player count : 1 - 4
- Age range : 14+
- Time range : 90 - 120 minutes
- Mechanism(s): Deck Construction, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Map Addition, Network and Route Building, Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game, Tech Trees / Tech Tracks, Variable Player Powers
- BGG Geek Rating: 8.13641 - converted to Meeple Mountain scale: 4.0.
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Revive civilization, 5000 years after everything was destroyed. Lead your tribe and explore the frozen earth. Harness its resources. Recruit surface survivors to your cause. Build factories with powerful machines. And populate ancient sites to relearn your tribe's forgotten technologies.
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Revive is a game for 1-4 players with asymmetric player powers, highly variable setup, and no fighting or direct conflict. Playing through the 5-part campaign unlocks additional contents, and once all contents have been unlocked, the game can be replayed indefinitely.
At the beginning of the game, each player gets a set of citizen cards, a tribe board, as well as a huge dual-layer player board. The tribe board shows your unique tribe ability and the ancient technologies that you may relearn during the game. The dual-layer player board is where you place your custom machines and upgrade your card slots.
A main goal of the game is to reach and populate the large ancient sites. These ancient locations are randomized, and as they are important sources of victory points, they will shape your strategy differently each game. The game ends when all artifacts have been taken, and the player with the most points wins.
On your turn you take two actions:
Play a card (its effect is determined by which card slot you use)
Explore (reveal an area tile and recruit a new citizen card)
Populate (populate an ancient location to learn a new technology)
Build factory (the adjacent terrains determine which machine tracks you advance)
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