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Blue Moon is a Reiner Knizia card game which conjures up the battles involving alien races. The base game involves two decks of cards that permit two players to battle out duels involving the Hoax and the Vulca.
On the other hand, the Mimix is the second of quite a few added decks of cards, each of which permits for a game including alternate people, still making use of the base Blue Moon rules.
The Components
In the same manner as in that of all the Blue Moon decks, The Mimix contains 31 cards. These cards are composed of 30 play cards wand one leader card. The cards are all printed on strong Tarot-sized cardstock.
Todd Lockwood, popularly known for his fantasy art, served as the artist for Mimix. Lockwood assisted in the providing definition for the style for Dungeons & Dragon Third Edition and also contributed work for Magic:
The Gathering.
A tribe of Amazons was given to Lockwood to portray. In such case, Lockwood’s passion for such turned out to be evident. Intricate tattoos cover the Mimix’s chiefly naked forms, which are if not covered merely by scraps of leather or furs, or even hair that’s placed just fine.
The Mimix could be taken into account as human pinup girls. Essentially they are beautiful however they could also tend to become somewhat recurring.
The greatest delineation between the cards could be observed in the vibrant backgrounds, which are colorful and fundamentally monochromatic.
Together with the Amazons, the majority of male shamans comprise a minority of the deck.
In general the art in the Mimix could be considered remarkable, even though it could also be observed that it is a little more standard fantasy as compared to the majority of other Blue Moon decks.
Apart from this, it is also adequately risque that there are instances wherein one might be hesitant to use the cards in some company. The same high standard evident on the original Blue Moon could also be observed with the card usability as well as component quality of the deck.
The Gameplay
The Mimix includes a new deck of 30 cards which could be played Blue Moon. The deck comes with 23 characters, 2 boosters, 3 leadership cards, and 3 support. At present, this deck contains more character as compared to any other deck that was released.
The first deck that was released only contains 18 each whereas The Flit came with just 14. On the contrary, there’s hardly any emphasis shed over to either the support or the boosters.
The majority of the character cards that could be found in the Mimix come with special icons: 13 posses the “pair” icon while another 3 is provided with “free” icon.
With the observation of these prominent components from the deck-design standpoint, the weakest pairable cards, referred to as “Young” and “Wild” are just 0 moons, whereas the most commanding ones, the “Virgin”, the “Heroine” and the “Amazon”, accounts for about 2 moons each, rendering the pair to be comparatively costly.
Tips and Strategies for Experienced Players
Posted by oscar in Blue Moon, Card Games on January 18th, 2009
Deck #1: The Hoax
The strengths of this particular deck could be located in the special effect characters, a number of retrievables, and some nice support cards. The weaknesses of this deck could be found in its commonly low-value characters. The decks’ strengths could also be considered as a limited resource. There are several cards to be noted in the Hoax deck. These are:
1. Brain Drain (Support). This prevents your opponent from playing more than one card during their turn. This could restrain the majority of the decks except if they have a leadership or character card that castoffs support. Therefore it is best to play when you’re already guaranteed of a 6-card win.
2. Duplicator of Strength (Support). This is a powerful card since it has the ability to double the Earth value of your character card. Regrettably, the Hoax are commonly pretty weak. There’s a 5, Catsuan, the mutant is a 4, then you’re down to 3s. On the other hand, you could make use of this as a one-two arrangement particularly because the Duplicator is a support. Play the Duplicator of Strength on one turn, and then play a character with whichever the Potion of Prodigious Passion (increases value to 5) or the Battling Boomerang (2/2) booster on the next turn. This could provide you a 10 total, or a 14 with Catsuan and the Boomerang.
3. Hank Highflyer Hawk (Character). Although this character is from the Flit deck, it’s nevertheless considered as one of the best defenses in the deck. You get to disregard the value of your opponent’s character and also whichever special effects they have with their card, which could have you out of many a jam. This could be considered a great card to grab onto until your opponent actually thinks they have already gotten you.
Strategy: The Hoax deck is somewhat subtle. As it has previously noted, its characters are feeble, typically running 1-3, with only some higher values in fire and just Catsuan’s 5 in earth. It only makes up for that when it comes to its support as well as special effects.
Nonetheless in the Hoax deck you in fact have the chance to play them afterward in a duel in case you’re constructing up support, which could itself provide you a fairly good total even earlier than you playing a character.
Of these 5 special characters you have one superb defense, which is Bethenitana, this character restrains your opponent from attacking dragons, and ought to be played one turn prior to your retreat. In the Hoax deck, you also have a strong attack in the form of Genathones, this character permits the play of an added support.
Aside from this, you also have 3 that you only want to play in case you think you’re going to stop off the duel right away: Thirkomedas, this character thwarts the play of leadership/booster/support), while Redamikanas, draws an added dragon in case you win, and Demegodas, the character that doubles the value of your support.
Each character posses quite pretty apparent times to play. For instance, you play Thirkomedas in case the opponent is only matching duel values through the play of boosters and Demegoas in case you’ve by now got out a good set of supports.
Blue Moon FAQs
Posted by oscar in Blue Moon, Card Games on January 16th, 2009
Below are some of the frequently asked questions when playing Blue Moon. This article may serve as a helpful guide in order to understand the game basics easily.
Q: Do all the decks have the same identical name?
A: Yes, as well as those decks in the basic set. For instance, all Mimix decks have the same 30 cards and the same leader, although there are no rare cards in the decks.
Q: Are there any available rules aside from those that are found in the basic set?
A: Yes there are. Emissaries and Inquisitors decks have new rules and each contain the same supplementary rulesheet or known as E&I rulesheet. Buka Invasion deck also has a new rulesheet called the Buka Invasion rulesheet.
Q: Is it okay if a player will play only with the pre-assembled decks as sold?
A: No, it’s not. The Advanced Rules show that deck construction is allowed although this is not “free for all” deck construction. It provides rules where deck construction is allowed while the essential characteristics of each people will remain. Decks such as the Emissaries and Inquisitors and the Buka Invasion provide more ways to play the game as well.
Q: How many different deck matchups are there?
A: There are 28 different pairs of decks in eight people decks. It can be also 56 if playing in each way is allowed. When you add the Buka Invasion deck, it could be increased to 36 or 72. When playing the Advanced Rules, the number of possible matchups is too large to calculate.
Q: Does all of the nine people decks’ matchups are tested?
A: Yes, it does.
Q: How to deal with a complicated situation in the game?
A: The first thing to do is to read the rulebook carefully as well as the E&I rulesheet and the Buka Invasion rulesheet upon using those decks. Reading the Special Rules will help you how to cover all cases that may turn up.
Next is reading all special power texts. Once you have read carefully all special power texts on cards, you have to apply them straightforwardly.
Lastly, once you have finished reading the rules and cards carefully as needed, the questions found in main section “Specific Cases” should help you on how to reason from the rules.
Q: Does Blue Moon have “banned” cards?
A: No, it doesn’t have. But according to the unofficial online Blue Moon League, they have banned Chosen of Nature (Mimix 32, E&I:A deck) leadership card from their play.
It’s not yet officially banned but according to Reiner Knizia, there is no need to ban any Blue Moon cards.
Q: Is there a Blue Moon online game?
A: Yes, there is. You can log in to www.blue-moon-liga.com to play Blue Moon online. It’s a peer-to-peer service where you can find your opponent through the Chat or even IP exchange services.
You can download its software called “CardTable” for free. The images of the German cards are used and you have to use “pop up” text to read them.
Blue Moon: Terms and Terminologies
Posted by oscar in Blue Moon, Card Games on January 16th, 2009
Blue Moon is a card game for two players where each player has to use his own deck. There will be no rare cards because all cards are to be sold in decks of fixed composition.
Blue Moon has eight players to be represented by their own deck of cards. Before the game starts, each player is entitled to select the decks to be able to enter a battle.
Each player is required to take control over one of the main Blue Moon peoples such as the Vulca, tall, angular humanoids that erupts multicolored fire from their heads and the Hoax, the elderly scholars.
The Vulca people’s advantage is fire, which is the greatest among any other people deck while the Hoax people are playing straightforward and their cards contain special power texts.
Additional people that can be bought (each sold separately) are:
-Mimix – are female warriors which are able to play multiple characters on their turns although they only have special-power tricks.
-Flit – are strange, taciturn bird-men with an ability to go back into one’s hand for reuse when their turn begins.
-Khind – are childlike creatures which can be played along with others and their added powers.
-Terrah – are strong North American men and women and serves as the mirror image of the fiery Vulca.
-Pillar – are grim, wire-haired humans where some of their Boosters serves as potions to increase their strengths.
-Aqua – are made up of amphibian women and the undersea creatures and the most subtle of the decks.
-Buka (Buka Invasion)
There are four kinds of cards which decks are made up of:
-Character – The most important type of card because this will be used by the player in order to do the battle.
-Booster – This could come in the forms of weapons, magic, monsters, forces of nature and other elements to provide the character’s additional powers and any other special advantages. The effect lasts only for one turn.
-Support – Same thing as the Booster but its effect is different. Supports last throughout the fight and will be discarded if a player decided to retreat.
-Leadership – A powerful card with one-time advantages more than the scope of power values.
In addition, each character has fire and earth powers, for instance 4 fire and 6 earth, or 3 fire and 2 earth or could be 0 fire and 0 earth. The numbers indicated depend upon the way how the battles are fought.
Either Booster or Support may be played by players together with their character. Only one Leadership card may be played by players when their turn starts, it may also depend if they wish to continue or not the current battle.
During the series of fights, the players will lay down the most powerful cards of their choice. The winning player will earn advantage in the tug-of-war in the favor of the three dragons.
In the event that a player has insufficient cards, the player who has swayed the dragons to his side will be awarded with crystals while the first player to collect five crystals is the winner.
Oscar
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