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Mysticana: A Foundation Deck is live on Kickstarter! Here are your discount details.

Added 2024-05-28 12:30:04 +0000 UTC

Living elements interweave throughout the realm. A water guardian extinguishes a roaring wildfire that leaves behind unrecognizably scorched earth. The seared avatar of that earth rises and consumes the water of a dozen seas. With infinite variations on their eternal cycle, no element can ever reign supreme.

The first important thing is the campaign link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/239309591/mysticana

WHAT WILL BE IN FUTURE PACKAGES?

Supporters of levels including a wallet game ($18/$28):
Mysticana: A Foundation Deck will be offered as the Featured Wallet Games in a future BGotMC package. The Mysticana: Cave of Djinns and Mysticana: Arcane Artifacts expansions will also be included in a future club package. You do not need to pledge at Kickstarter unless you wish to receive more than one copy of the Foundation Deck, or swap it for an alternative game in the month it is the Featured Wallet Game. All of the planned future expansions will also be included in future packages.

Button Shy Supporter ($5) and Digital Only levels:
The links to the PNP files for Mysticana: A Foundation Deck, Mysticana: Cave of Djinns and Mysticana: Arcane Artifacts expansions will be shared here at Patreon. The PNP files for all of the planned future expansions will also be shared here at Patreon.

The Mysticana: Expansion Games wallet will not be in any future packages. These empty wallets are available to pre-order from our website now, and they will be available to purchase for as long as we have them in stock.
https://buttonshygames.com/products/mysticana-empty-expansion-games-wallet
UK Members only use this link: https://buttonshygames.com/products/mysticana-uk-only

As a member you will receive a discount, and all of the details are below. Any questions, just ask either in the comments here or on our Discord server.

Here's how to pledge at Kickstarter as a US/UK member

For this campaign, we will NOT be using a pledge manager for US or UK backers. You will need to calculate the amount to pledge based on the reward you wish to receive.

Choose the $1 Board Game of the Month Club Members reward level and adjust your pledge amount by adding bonus support. Find the reward level that you would like in the table below, then add the cost of shipping and subtract the discount for your patron level to find out how much to pledge.

Here's how to pledge at Kickstarter as an INTERNATIONAL member (not US/UK)

For this campaign we will be using Gamefound’s Pledge Manager again. Simply pledge for Mysticana (for International Backers) $12 reward, do NOT use the Board Game of the Month Club Members reward. Choose any add-on content you wish to include with your pledge, and you’re all set. You will be able to upgrade to a higher reward level in the pledge manager if you wish to.

Shipping will be collected in the Pledge Manager, and your club discount will be added using your email address to link your Kickstarter and Patreon support. The items pledged for at Kickstarter will be transferred to your cart in the Pledge Manager and you will be able to finalize the content of your reward there, adding any games from the Button Shy catalog and making an additional payment for content and shipping if required.

When the Pledge Manager opens, if you do not see the credit, we will be able to update it manually; this will most likely happen if your Kickstarter name and email address is different to your Patreon name and email address. Please email buttonshyhelp@gmail.com when the pledge manager opens if you need us to apply the credit to a different Gamefound account.

Any questions, just ask either in the comments here or on our Discord server.

Mysticana is a Foundation Deck: an 18-card deck that includes multiple core games using just the base cards with even more games added through small expansions. The deck features cards numbered 1-6 across 3 suits (elements) which have a “rock-paper-scissors” hierarchy. While each game might make use of the deck’s design in different ways, the flexible foundation enables new games to fit in seamlessly alongside previous entries.

In the Mysticana deck, every card is attuned to one of three magical elements: Water, Fire, and Earth.

Each of these elements is strong against one of the others while weak against the third. This 3-element cycle is woven into the system, but still allows for each game to use it in different ways.

Each card also features a rank to indicate its general power level. These values are spread evenly throughout each element and range from 2 to 6, subdivided into two types: odd values are Creatures, while even values are Locations.

The base deck includes rules for three core games: Nine Perils, Sorcerers' Showdown, and The Path Ahead. Two additional expansion games, Cave of Djinns and Arcane Artifacts, are available in this campaign. More expansions will come out over the course of a year.