As this particular style of play has never interested me, I can’t comment on how well the revision has worked. This requires each player to have their own set of cards & “build” their deck. With the release of Age of Darkness, the revised rules for the Tournament version of The Rivals for Catan were published online. If you have the entire set, you have 9 different Theme decks to choose from… and when you use the Duel of the Princes ruleset (included in the base game), you have another 84 different possible decks to play! The underlying game system is not changed by either of the expansion sets – in fact, what each box offers is 90+ cards divided up into three Theme decks. I’m going to take this opportunity to review both of the expansions, giving an overview of the changes incorporated into the game as well as a brief stroll through Catanian history. Well, two years have passed… and in that time span, Herr Teuber & the good folks at Mayfair have managed to put out two expansion boxes: the Age of Darkness (which was released in the fall of 2011) and the Age of Enlightenment (which just hit your local game store in the last week or so). I praised the quicker game play, the cleaner card interactions, the new structure of the game (particularly separating out the city cards into the theme decks), and then yammered on a bit about how much fun I was having getting a better version of a well-loved Euro classic to the table. Nearly two years ago, I reviewed the reboot of the Settlers of Catan Card Game for the Opinionated Gamers blog – and I gave The Rivals for Catan a glowing review. Reviewer: Mark Jackson (review copy of Age of Enlightenment was provided by the publisher) Times Played: 23x (Rivals for Catan), 10x (Age of Darkness), 3x (Age of Enlightenment).
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