Richard Garfield’s Carnival of Monsters Deck Building & Set Collecting Board & Card Game — Explore Magical Lands & Gather Exotic Beasts — 240 Cards
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- AGES: 12+ | 2-5 PLAYERS
- DESIGNED BY RICHARD GARFIELD: From the creator of Magic: The Gathering
- STUNNING CUSTOM ARTWORK: Featuring artwork by seven renowned game illustrators
- A CARD-DRAFTING & SET-COLLECTING GAME: Visit distant lands and collect the most valuable monsters to earn a spot in the Royal Monstrological Society
- HOW TO PLAY: Players collect Land Cards to capture exotic creatures. Some monsters are dangerous so youll have to buy cages and hire staff to tame them. You may borrow money to fund your expedition but manage your Gold Crowns (coins) wisely since Loans will cost you more in the end. Secret Goals and Event Cards add to your wealth and enhance your Victory Points. You will have just four seasons to collect the most Victory Points and impress the Royal Monstrological Society with your bounty of beasts.
- INCLUDES: 82 Land Cards, 78 Monster Cards, 13 Staff Member Cards, 7 Season Cards, 21 Event Cards, 21 Secret Goal Cards, 17 Loan Cards, 60 Gold Coin Tokens, 15 Hunter Tokens, 3 Royal Hunter Dice, 5 Player Boards, 1 Main Board, 1 Score Pad, Illustrated Instructions
Description
Can you build the most magnificent menagerie of monsters the realm has ever seen? Explore magical lands brimming with exotic beasts, and try to capture the most impressive specimens to win the top award for your carnival. But the monsters aren't peaceful, so you'll need to hire hunters to keep them from escaping before you can put them on display for your adoring public. . . And achieve your secret goals. This masterful card-collecting and set-building game from the inventor of magic: the gathering is loaded with beautifully- illustrated cards and brimming with strategy, all packed into a 45-minute play time.
Brand: AMIGO
Material: Cardboard
Theme: Game
Genre: Strategy
Number of Players: 2-5
Product Dimensions: 11.75 x 3 x 11.75 inches
Item Weight: 3.21 pounds
Country of Origin: Germany
Item model number: AMI19718
Manufacturer recommended age: 12 years and up
Release date: July 20, 2019
Manufacturer: AMIGO
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This was our new 2019 Christmas game we played after opening presents. We are Richard Garfield fans and enjoy this one a lot too. Great artwork and quality of cards. The coin tokens are also nice thick cardboard, and the pictures are aligned (unlike 7 Wonders coins!) and each coin denomination is a different color with different artwork...even a Cthulhu-esque style art. My teens are daily players of Magic the Gathering (MTG) and so when reading the rulebook we translated terms into that. For instance, you have to spend land to capture monsters, thus we "tapped" the used land so we know it was used. We also recently played 7 wonders again and were translating terms, like Seasons in Carnival of Monsters would be Ages in 7W. On your turn, you either play the card you took (after passing the remaining cards) or pay 1 coin to keep it for a later time. Once played or kept, then you draft the next card from the deck passed to you. Having this "reserve" of saved/kept cards is really nice and the last season most of us are spending all our land to get out those last few "bigger" monsters to add to our menagerie. Just like 7W, there is a randomness that comes with the cards dealt and passed during the draft. But there is also a good strategy of do you go all one or two land types, or focus on objectives, or focus on capturing monsters, etc. One son went all monsters and would have won, but because he took the Danger penalty (the monsters he captured were more dangerous than the number of hunters he had available to contain them) that he had to go into big debt and lost the game for himself (even though he still beat me in points). My only negative is there isn't as much variety of ways to get points, as in 7W, so the strategy decisions are a bit less. But like 7W, you have strategy in seeing what types of cards others may take and do you keep it for yourself (you need to pay that 1 coin to do so or play it) or pass it and play a card that benefits you more instead (basically, block others or get points for yourself). The objective cards can really generate more points than you realize, so don't ignore them either. Even though this seems to have a lot of resemblance to MTG and 7W having had a baby, this doesn't replace either of those games and has a different enough feel that we enjoy it when in the mood for a different flavor drafting game.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2019 by LoveBoardGames LoveBoardGames
A huge amount of content, variability, steps to take and ways to go during the game. Carnival of Monsters gives me more enjoyment even than Res Arcana!
Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2023 by Maksym Litvinchuk
My family (all adult-aged) has fallen in love with this game. The artwork is stunning and really enhances the game. I introduced it at our weekly game night (4 player), and everyone requested to play it again the next week. Gameplay centers around card drafting, where you select one card and then decide what you want to do with it — play it now or hold it for later — before you draft the next card. Different types of land cards are collected, and the points from those cards are used to catch monsters that will provide you victory points for endgame scoring. Gameplay was about 1.5 hours, but will be less now that we’re all used to playing it. There’s not much player interaction, except maybe drafting a card so that someone else won’t have a chance to get it, but the game went over really well with our group and is now one of our all-time favorites. (As a point of reference, some of our recent favorites are Godfather, Ethnos, Dominion, and Isle of Cats.)
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Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2021 by Lynell Aycock
Little confusing to Begin but ding dang. It's one of my favorites now. It's a game of building a monster zoo. Highly recommend!
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2022 by hobbsdoyle
I enjoy this game very much in a group of 4. I was much less entertained with the 2 player version but that is usually the case with card drafting for me. The art work is very good. It is card drafting with some Victorian era monster hunting theme.
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2020 by Board Game Nurse
New family favorite. We would love some expansions with more cards and maybe bonus treasure of some kind, specific to each type of land.
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2021 by BookMama
A really fun card drafting game with great art, high quality components and rich strategy. The game is easy to learn (you play lands that then enable you to capture monsters worth points. The most points at the end wins) but has a lot of strategic depth as there staff you can hire and secret goals that award you points also at the end. Highly recommended.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2019 by Kindle Customer
Cool game. Unique concept with passing of the hands. Everyone in the family enjoyed playing.
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2019 by WET