Arcana Rising

In Arcana Rising you step into the shoes of a wizard hungry for knowledge and power. Together with up to five others, you gather magical items and cast powerful spells. While you bring your mystical treasures together, you keep an eye on the moons. They strengthen certain kinds of magic, so you can use your spells at their strongest. The game is all about picking cards and building a smooth-running machine. Over three rounds you put together a set of items that scores points for you at the end. Each turn you take one card from the small stack handed to you and pass the rest to the left. Then you choose: do you add the new card to your collection, or discard it to make your machine run and cast a spell? The moon tokens decide which spells you may use at that moment, so timing is almost as important as the cards themselves. The cards belong to different schools: Incantations, Herbalism, Blood Magic, Potions, Alchemy and Items. Each turn you can only cast one type of spell, depending on the order in that round. After three rounds you count your points based on the items you have collected. Whoever has the most points wins the game and may call themselves the mightiest wizard at the table.