Mage Knight Update

I haven’t played too much Mage Knight recently. I played with the TaoLing¹ a few times last summer. But at a recent convention one of the Wiz Kid reps asked me if I wanted to try Mage Knight Emergence: The Portal to Power,² which is apparently a Res Arcana Duo like product. A game that can serve as a 2p introduction to the system, or an expansion you just shuffle in. I’m not a completist (I didn’t buy the ultimate edition, so my set is 4-5 cards short of complete), but I just shook me head “No thanks, I’ll just buy it when it comes out.”

So he gave me a few preview cards from the expansion. Thankfully I have a few extra sleeves of the various correct colors so I could just add them in. (I’m pushing 500 plays with my set³, wear is definitely noticeable on components. I sleeved my game after 100 ish plays⁴). I use dice to randomize tiles and chits, but the cards would be gone without sleeves.

And there is MK: The Apocalypse Dragon, coming out sometime this year, according to BGG.

All of which is to say, I don’t write about Mage Knight often, but after that convention I set up a solitaire game and played it, and I’m looking forward to more content for it.

1. Who has graduated college, moved out, gotten a job, etc … yet will still be referred to as such for consistencies sake. ︎
2. Stop with the damn subtitles! Apparently its the day for that rant. ︎
3. Although that does count solo games, which probably represent ~300 or so. I don’t normally track solo games any more, but I was back then so I’ve continued. ︎
4. I use dice to randomize tiles/chits, because the wear is obvious and its easy to tell which ones are newer. I’m considering using coin chips for the tiles (then I could bag them) but the space increase would be significant, I think. I don’t normally use the Shades of Tezla chits. ︎