Gaming and Winning
After the base game in 2011 and the expansions in years after that, Mage Knight has received a repackaging in 2018. Everything in the same big box with a price tag of around 100 of your favorite currency. Quite an investment, but is it a good one? Is Mage Knight Ultimate Edition Worth It? Short … Read more
As I browse board game related social media, I find a lot of people have similar problems when deciding what their next board game should be. Mage Knight vs Runebound is one of those common questions. Both fantasy themed adventures (or so it seems), but when you look underneath, there are several differences that will … Read more
Mage Knight is a big game. When you first open the box, you’ll likely be overwhelmed by the sheer number of components, especially if you don’t have a lot of experience with such big games. While the original insert is decent, there are further benefits for organizing Mage Knight Ultimate Edition components. What is Mage … Read more
Dragons are the ultimate enemy in fantasy games. Those large, fire-breathing reptiles wait for you near the endgame, because they eat underdeveloped characters for breakfast. Mage Knight (board game) is no different. Unless well-prepared, draconum will inflict many wounds on you and your units before they go down. This article contains a full Mage Knight … Read more
One of the more common buying dilemmas I keep encountering is Mage Knight vs Gloomhaven. Deciding on buying new board games is always hard. Our time and money are limited, but there are a lot of choices, a lot of good games, that may even look very similar (at least on the surface). The dilemma … Read more
The base game of Mage Knight comes with four heroes (I’m going to use the word hero, although they often act anti-heroic) and expansions add three more, for a total number of seven. This article is an overview of Mage Knight heroes, their deed decks, and their personal skills. In my initial review, I stated … Read more
Let’s get this out right at the start: I love Mage Knight. I love its fantasy theme, its colorful characters, and the open world, infested with blood-thirsty enemies. But most of all, I love its brilliant deck-building puzzle-solving gameplay mechanics. So, to write a credible Mage Knight Ultimate Edition Review, I made sure I played … Read more
I’ve been getting deeper and deeper into Mage Knight Solo Conquest for the last couple of weeks. So far, I have around 20 hours of gameplay under my belt, but I have still only scratched the surface of this majestic game. Only played Solo Conquest mode with three characters, there is a whole world ahead … Read more
In this post, I’m trying something different. It’s about a highly rated game I got for myself and my humble beginnings with it. Perhaps a couple of years late to the party, I present you Mage Knight Ultimate Edition: Unboxing and First Impressions. Expectations I’ve done a few Top List articles on this website recently, … Read more
