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Medici: The Card Game is a new design by Reiner Knizia that shares the setting and feel of the classic Medici board game, without using that game's auction mechanisms.
In 15th century Florence, players try to acquire the most valuable goods for their merchant ships by drawing 1-3 cards from a common deck each turn. After drawing, the active player must take the final card they drew and may select one or both of the previous two cards drawn (if available). They then load these commodity cards on their boat. Cards that are not taken remain available to future players. Once a player's boat is full (seven cards with two players, five cards with 3-6 players), they are out of the round and the day is scored.
Players score points for the value of their ships' holds, but also for the number of commodities of each type that they have stored in their warehouse. The highest earning merchant over three days wins the game. Some cards do not take up space on ships, while others contribute to the value of a hold, but cannot be stored in warehouses.
• Many Knizia games have been appearing and re-appearing in print from Japanese publishers in the past year, and Group SNE will debut the title above at Family Game Festival on June 19, 2016, with this event seeming to be (to my untrained eyes) something along the lines of Tokyo Game Market. (I'm not sure what Tokyo Armageddon is yet, so I need to investigate that...)In 15th century Florence, players try to acquire the most valuable goods for their merchant ships by drawing 1-3 cards from a common deck each turn. After drawing, the active player must take the final card they drew and may select one or both of the previous two cards drawn (if available). They then load these commodity cards on their boat. Cards that are not taken remain available to future players. Once a player's boat is full (seven cards with two players, five cards with 3-6 players), they are out of the round and the day is scored.
Players score points for the value of their ships' holds, but also for the number of commodities of each type that they have stored in their warehouse. The highest earning merchant over three days wins the game. Some cards do not take up space on ships, while others contribute to the value of a hold, but cannot be stored in warehouses.
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• Talton and Level 99 Games note that BattleCON: Trials, the next title in its BattleCON Universe, is getting ready to move to production.
• White Wizard Games plans to release the Star Realms expansion United in 2016, with this expansion including dozens of new cards, some of them multi-faction cards such as the one depicted below:
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As Mark noted in a June 4, 2016 Kickstarter update: "Two years ago today, on June 4, 2014, we launched the Game of 49 Kickstarter campaign with a goal of printing 1,500 copies. Two weeks from today, on June 18, 2016, Go49 goes on sale at 2,000 Target stores nationwide."
I played games numerous times with Mark in the late 2000s, mostly when he visited my game group in Concord, NH, where he almost always arrived with a plate of cookies in hand to share with everyone. He's got a great spirit that always came out while chatting and playing, and I'm pleased to see his game succeed. Congrats, Mark!
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