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Card City Xl box art
2017 Ranked #6,497

Card City Xl

This city-building card game has mayors develop a city using modular rules, variants, and changing victory conditions. Different complexity levels and interaction options let players tailor how they build, manage pollution, and compete for urban success.

Strategy Games Card Game City Building I Cut, You Choose Open Drafting

Players

1-4

Play time

20-60 min

Age

12+

Complexity

2.9/5

Rating

6.31

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Card City XL is the ultimate evolution of Card City.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Open Drafting

Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Tile Placement

Place tiles to build a shared or personal spatial arrangement.
I Cut, You Choose

One player divides resources and another chooses which share to take.
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Card City XL is the ultimate evolution of Card City. CCXL features 240 ways to play: Choose one level of complexity among 3 Choose one victory condition among 5 Choose how many variants and which of them among 4, which means 16 combos and you have 3x5x16 = CCXL ways to play CCXL The game contains 188 cards in 7 colors, new drafts possibilities, new city size, new bicolored cards, new rules for more interaction during the building phase, new Pollution cards, new Parc cards... You are still the mayor of a city, but now you have new abilities and new powers.

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Type

1
Strategy Games

Category

3
Card Game City Building Territory Building

Mechanism

3
I Cut, You Choose Open Drafting Tile Placement

Family

3
Digital Implementations: Tabletopia Players: Games with Solitaire Rules Series: Small City Trilogy (Alban Viard)

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1–4
Play time
20–60 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.9/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Alban Viard

Artists

1
Sarah Ponceblanc

Publishers

2
AVStudioGames LudiCreations

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