The world of magic is a dangerous one and the mages of the Black Rose are rebuilding their lodge which was destroyed in this follow-up the deck building programming game Black Rose Wars from Ludus Magnus Studios.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lmstudio/black-rose-wars-rebirth?ref=discovery_category_newest

Pros

• Theme
• Based on a Proven Game
• Proven Company
• Shipping
• Aesthetic

Cons

• Price
• Different Aesthetic From Original Game

The Page

This is a well done page. I appreciate the fact that Black Rose Wars: Rebirth isn’t a minis heavy game. There are minis for the monsters, at least on the Kickstarter but it isn’t all giant minis. While I love my giant minis, it’s nice to see a game that doesn’t highlight and put all the focus on that.

They also do a solid job of telling you about the game play and giving you a lot of content creators you can checkout for it. This is not a simple game, I’ll get to that more below, so laying out what it does is important. And the section on it is nicely placed on the page. It isn’t too low on the page, some, again, because they don’t have a ton of minis.

However, the price for this game is high. Now, from what they say on the page and what I’ve seen, this game to track down everything for it after the fact will cost more. So the price is good that way. And as stretch goals unlock the value will get better. But for the base of this game, what you got when you first pledged it at the start, the price is extremely high. And for me, it’s a tougher sell because I am making an investment on faith that I’ll want everything and play with everything.

The Game

So the game of Black Rose Wars looks very cool and Rebirth also looks very cool. Mainly because it combines a lot of different mechanics. You have deck building which I love and it’s deck building that has you adding cards as you go, not having to buy the cards, really. So the building part is a constant in the game. I like when deck building games just give you that forward progression in what you are doing.

Plus, you then program out those cards so that they might trigger in a certain order and you can take the various actions on them. But let’s hop back to the cards, because when you program them, you pick which of two different things your spells will do. You can flip the cards over and it’s a different spell when you hold it upside down. That is a cool way with a limited number of cards to increase the options.

This is however a tactical fighting game as well. Now, I really like tactical games, but I’ve found that tactical fighting games tend not to get played as often in my collection. My collection has moved away from so much confrontation, but I still enjoy that when the game does it in an interesting way. Black Rose Wars definitely seems like it does.

Back or Brick

For me this is a Brick simply because of the price point. It’s not just that it’s expensive, but with owning Black Rose Wars, I see how much comes in retail. I don’t know that I’d ever see all of that games content as I play the game. So do I need to spend about $170+ on the game to get everything extra.

Now, I don’t think you’ll regret it if you get this game. Everything I’ve heard about the original, still need to play my copy, and what I’ve looked at with the new version, I think the game looks amazing. It might be a little messy in what it does because there are a lot of moving pieces, but when you get it down, it looks like so much fun.

Is this game a Back or a Brick for you?

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