House of Cards

Set within the world of war, War? WAR!! You sit at the head of one of the families within the faction 'Houses Of The Red Mountains'. You must build the strongest House comprised of Royals and their Entourage whilst being a little sneaky and assassinating, blowing up or being a general pain to the other Houses. The 38 character card deck is made up of 38 unique character portraits and once it is empty and you cannot draw the round immediately ends. Each player counts the points in their House, the highest one wins 1 Victory Point. The first to 3 is overall Monarch and winner of House Of Cards. With simple pick up and play mechanics, on your turn you will draw 1 card and play 1 card, easy, right? "You've drawn The Wise Old Empress, nice" Add that card to your House, increasing your points or "You have just drawn the Plague Emperor" throw it over into an opponents House and it will actively slay a Royal in their House. With three types of characters, Royals will be used to increase your House hold strength by adding points, Entourage stay within your House and can deviously change the flow of power (whilst occasionally costing some points to do so) and then there are the others, general weird and wonderful workers - from Onion Smugglers to Crimson Witches. -description from publisher