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Flamecraft Duals

A tiny grid full of generous dragons and awkward opportunities. Complete your own shop pattern without arranging the perfect answer for your rival.

Abstract Games Abstract Strategy Fantasy Pattern Building Tile Placement

Players

1-2

Play time

30-45 min

Age

10+

Complexity

1.66/5

Rating

7.95

Easier to teach Highly interactive Light strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 4.5/5

Easier to teach

Replay value 4.3/5

High replayability

Interaction 4.0/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 3.2/5

Player-count sensitive

Strategic depth 3.2/5

Light strategy

Player control 3.7/5

More strategic control

Setup time About 5 min
Teach time About 8 min
Recommended edition Flamecraft Duals – Cardboard Alchemy Standard English edition (2025)
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How it plays

How does it play?

Draw artisan dragons, fire their powers, and arrange the shared grid into shop-card patterns in a compact solo or two-player puzzle.

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Flamecraft Duals is a standalone pattern-building game set in the cozy world of Flamecraft. Players share a central board but pursue the secret shop patterns in their own hands. On a turn, the active player draws a dragon token from the bag and places it into an eligible space, then may fire that artisan’s power to draw, shift, swap, or otherwise reshape the arrangement. Rare two-colour Hydragons can satisfy either craft and make flexible links between patterns. Whenever three dragons match the layout and colours on a shop card, the card can be scored; the board then refreshes and the next placement begins a new puzzle. Coins permit carefully timed extra effects, while Fancy and Fountain modes add alternative scoring goals and constraints once the core game is familiar. Solo play uses the same spatial system against its own target structure. The game ends when the dragon bag or shop deck runs out, and the player with the most completed-shop points wins. Its small footprint and short turns make every placement easy to grasp, but firing one power can improve an opponent’s pattern as readily as your own.

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Editions

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Edition Year Language Publisher / Region
Flamecraft Duals – Cardboard Alchemy Standard English edition (2025) 2025 English Cardboard Alchemy / UK

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Play and group

Players
1–2
Play time
30–45 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.7/5
App
None app Source
Player elimination
No Source
Downtime
Low Source

Practicalities

Setup time
About 5 min Source
Teach time
About 8 min Source
Teardown time
About 5 min Source

Campaign and continuity

Resettable
Fully Resettable Source
Save system
No formal save system; photograph the central dragon grid, hands, scored shops, coins, and remaining decks to pause. Source
Consumable components
No consumable components. Source

Edition and product

Optional extras
Supports solo and head-to-head play; Fancy and Fountain modes add variety after the core game. Source
Recommended edition
Flamecraft Duals – Cardboard Alchemy Standard English edition (2025) Source
Language
English
Region
UK
Availability
Current
Current edition
Yes Source
Box weight
700 g Source
Box dimensions
16.4 × 20.5 × 7.0 cm Source
Consumable components
None. Source
Compatibility
Current Cardboard Alchemy Standard English Edition, Sku Carca06Duasen And Barcode 850076208035; It Is Standalone And Does Not Require Flamecraft. Source
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Manny Vega

Artists

1
Sandara Tang

Publishers

1
Cardboard Alchemy

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