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2015 Ranked #18,610

Magical Treehouse

This real-time drafting and building game has apprentice witches gather plans, construct treehouses, and score the most points after four rounds. Magic can interfere with rivals, while familiar help preserves forest resources for later value.

Fantasy Real-time Open Drafting Set Collection

Players

3-4

Play time

30-60 min

Age

14+

Complexity

2.2/5

Rating

5.84

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

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 does it play?

It's magic school's graduation season. You are one of apprentice witches and to pass final exam to become a respectable witch.

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It's magic school's graduation season. You are one of apprentice witches and to pass final exam to become a respectable witch. The contents of the test is to make a comfortable village to live for your familiars! While collecting the wealth of the forest, you will build magical tree houses. Let's build the tree houses more and higher. The game based on card-drafting in real time. In the planning phase, you will gather planning documents(cards) to your drawer and can occasionally use magic to influence other players. Then you can build magical houses in your village by setting these documents in the construction phase. Your familiars can sometimes help you to keep resources in the forest. This may be important for earning more VPs at the end of the game. After repeating 4 rounds of this, you will gain VPs from your buildings, the ability of those and the challenges that you could achieve. The player with the most VPs wins the game!

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Play and group

Players
3–4
Best with
2
Play time
30–60 min
Age
14+
Complexity
2.2/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Hiroki Kasawa

Artists

1
TANSAN Inc.

Publishers

1
One Draw

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