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#10 - Marvel Dice Throne
My Score: 7.0
BGG Link: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/438727/marvel-dice-throne-x-men-iceman-v-psylocke-v-storm

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Dice Throne was right! King of Tokyo would have also fit, but I didn't play it at the convention, and I have played it once before but almost a decade ago at this point.

Anyways yea I have somehow never played Dice Throne before. I'm generally lukewarm on dice game (but craps is the best casino game). But It was set up in the hot games area and my one friend wanted to try it. This was actually the last game I played at the convention as well.

We were joined by a nice fourth who actually owned one of the sets but never had a chance to play it before and wanted to learn how to play. And there was a guy who taught all four of us how to play and had played extensibility before (he's really big into the co-op mode which he largely does solo).

I'm sure a lot of you are familiar with Dice Throne so I'll just give a higher level overview. Each player plays as a character with their own board and deck of cards. On their board are various abilities that correspond to rolls (such as 3 of one symbol, 4 different symbols, a small straight, or all 6s for your ultimate). Characters then also have some status effects that they can apply, sometimes have passive effects and a defensive ability.

You take turns being the attacker. On your turn you will draw a card, gain a CP and can play cards from your hand for their CP cost (You can also discard a card for a CP). It has some similarities to Magic in that you have various kinds of cards with different timing windows that determine when you can play them, with some of them being playable on opponents turns. An example that I think every or most characters have is to change a dice to a 6. Some cards are upgrades to your abilities, making them stronger, some are income based. It seems like the decks have like 10-15 cards that are universal and 15-20 cards that are character specific.

Anyways after your first "Main" phase you now roll to attack. We played 2v2 where who you attack is determined by a dice but this is most commonly played 1v1. Anyways you roll your dice, and can reroll some of your dice up to two times, ala Yahtzee. Once you are done rolling you decide what attack your going to do, people can change your dice if they have a card to prevent the attack and if not the attack resolves. Then effects occur depending on the attack, there's different damage types and for some of them the defender can roll their defense ability. And you pretty much do this until someone wins.

I will say I have played this 1v1 after since my friend bought 5 characters. It's definitely better once everyone knows what they are doing and with smaller player counts. I have since upped my rating to 7.5 for this but I'm keeping the list as-is for my DTE Experience.

Overall though I like the game, and I feel like it doesn't take too long for what it is. It seems fairly well balanced and I like the character variety with different playstyles. Not something I want to play for hours on end but I don't mind a game here or there.

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Likely to Trend: positive
Future: My friend bought some characters so we will be playing this in the future
Next Game Hint: A sports game, an auction game, a dice game. All in one package