Blue Moon (game)

Blue Moon, published by Kosmos and Fantasy Flight Games in 2004, is a living card game (LCG) designed by Reiner Knizia.

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

Genre

Blue Moon is a fantasy two-player card game made up of 344 cards. Apart from a few promotional cards, all cards are sold in decks of fixed composition so that there are no "rare" cards, and there is no luck involved in acquiring them.

Gameplay

The gameplay of Blue Moon simulates the struggles of various characters who live in the fictional "Blue Moon" world. Each character has their own unique traits and gameplay 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. All decks of cards come in cartons.

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 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 their influence on the game (occasionally overriding the game rules), making it 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). 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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