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2016 Ranked #480

Mystic Vale

Card-crafting deck-builder where druid clans grow blessings to cleanse a cursed valley and restore its spirits. Push for more power too aggressively and decay ends your turn, making every advance a risk-management choice.

Strategy Games Card Game Fantasy Deck, Bag, and Pool Building Layering

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

14+

Complexity

2.26/5

Rating

7.26

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.1/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

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?

A curse has been placed on the Valley of Life. Hearing the spirits of nature cry out for aid, clans of druids have arrived, determined to use their blessings to heal the land and rescue the spirits.

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A curse has been placed on the Valley of Life. Hearing the spirits of nature cry out for aid, clans of druids have arrived, determined to use their blessings to heal the land and rescue the spirits. It will require courage and also caution, as the curse can overwhelm the careless who wield too much power. In Mystic Vale, 2 to 4 players take on the role of druidic clans trying to cleanse the curse upon the land. Each turn, you play cards into your field to gain powerful advancements and useful vale cards. Use your power wisely, or decay will end your turn prematurely. Score the most victory points to win the game! Mystic Vale uses the innovative "Card Crafting System", which lets you not only build your deck, but build the individual cards in your deck, customizing each card's abilities to exactly the strategy you want to follow.

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Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
45 min
Age
14+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
John D. Clair

Artists

4
Ralf Berszuck Storn Cook Andrew Gaia Katherine Guevara

Publishers

1
Alderac Entertainment Group

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