In Terra Mystica, you represent a faction that wants to expand and build cities across the land. You must transform the terrain into a liveable surface for your faction. Everybody knows that Mermaids don’t live in the mountains and that Dwarves don’t really like the desert.

As you build, your faction will be able to improve its buildings. The bigger your buildings, the better the reward is during the game. Beware of other factions that will want to come and change the terrain around your buildings.

Terra Mystica is a game with very little luck that rewards strategic planning. Each player governs one of the 14 groups. With subtlety and craft, the player must attempt to rule as great an area as possible and to develop that group's skills. There are also four religious cults in which you can progress. To do all that, each group has special skills and abilities.

Taking turns, the players execute their actions on the resources they have at their disposal. Different buildings allow players to develop different resources. Dwellings allow for more workers. Trading houses allow players to make money. Strongholds unlock a group's special ability, and temples allow you to develop religion and your terraforming and seafaring skills. Buildings can be upgraded: Dwellings can be developed into trading houses; trading houses can be developed into strongholds or temples; one temple can be upgraded to become a sanctuary. Each group must also develop its terraforming skill and its skill with boats to use the rivers. The groups in question, along with their home landscape, are:

Desert (Fakirs, Nomads)
Plains (Halflings, Cultists)
Swamp (Alchemists, Darklings)
Lake (Mermaids, Swarmlings)
Forest (Witches, Auren)
Mountain (Dwarves, Engineers)
Solitude (Giants, Chaos Magicians)

Proximity to other groups is a double-edged sword in Terra Mystica. Being close to other groups gives you extra power, but it also means that expanding is more difficult...

Content

•1 Game board
•1 Cult board
•7 Player boards
•56 terrain tiles
•85 Coin tokens
•65 Worker cubes
•65 Power tokens
•1 Starting player token
•17 action token
•1 Game end token
•5 ¨100 victory point¨ token
•28 oval Favor tiles
•238 game pieces in 7 colors
•10 Town tiles
•8 rectangular Scoring tiles
•9 Bonus cards
•5 ¨Actions¨ Overview tiles


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Released: 12 June 2018