Blue Moon (game)

Blue Moon, published by Kosmos and Fantasy Flight Games in 2004 is board game designer’s Reiner Knizia's take on the living card game (LCG) genre.

This article is about the card game. For other uses, see Blue Moon (disambiguation).

Genre

Blue Moon is a card game for two players that bears some resemblance to the well-known Magic: The Gathering card game, even though the game mechanics are quite different. Blue Moon is not a Collectable Card Game; although each player has to use their own deck, and there are no booster packs. Apart from a few promotional cards, all cards are sold in decks of fixed composition so that there are no rare cards. In total, there are 344 different cards.

Gameplay

Based in a fantasy setting, Blue Moon simulates the struggles of the various characters who live in the fictional ‘Blue Moon’ world. Each characters has their own unique traits and game play mechanics. This is represented by a 30 card deck (plus a "leader" card).

The base Blue Moon game box contains a small game board and three small plastic dragons[1] which are used for scoring counters during the game. The base box also contains two complete decks for the Vulca and Hoax characters. Blue Moon cards are large (120mm × 70mm) and resemble tarot cards; they need uniquely sized card sleeves to protect them.

The following additional characters are available to be bought separately:

  • Mimix
  • Flit
  • Khind
  • Terrah
  • Pillar
  • Aqua
  • Buka (Buka Invasion)

In addition, there are two more decks titled Emissaries & Inquisitors: Allies and Emissaries & Inquisitors: Blessings. These decks contain additional cards which can be used in at least two ways. Advanced rules in the basic set can allow players to have more freedom in constructing their own decks. Each deck is based on a single character with imported cards from other characters (limited by the deck construction costs of the cards measured in "moons"). The Emissaries & Inquisitors decks allow additional deck building possibilities.

Many Blue Moon cards carry text to specify the cards' influence on the game (sometimes overriding the game rules). The game is therefore very language-dependent. Known available editions exist in English (Fantasy Flight Games), German (Kosmos), Dutch (999 Games, excluding the Buka Invasion), French (Tilsit, incomplete) and Japanese (Hobby Japan) . Artwork for the game boxes differs. Some promotional cards have been released and given as gifts at various gaming events.

Publication history

In 2006 Fantasy Flight Games published a Blue Moon-related board game called Blue Moon City. While it is not compatible with the Blue Moon card game and is a complete German-style board game for 2 to 4 players, it is set in the same Blue Moon world. It also shares artwork with the Blue Moon card games, but apart from some fairly tenuous thematic links, it is a different game.

During the 2007 edition of the Lucca Comics & Games Italian comics and games convention, Reiner Knizia himself confirmed that no new decks for Blue Moon were under development, as the publisher was no longer interested in publishing them.

Illustrators

Reviews

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