The Precursors (Fan Expansion for Magic: The Gathering)

What is The Precursors (Fan Expansion for Magic: The Gathering)

Magic: The Gathering - The Precursors is a cooperative board game and card variant of the classic, competitive card game that has players work together in an epic campaign that can span several gaming sessions. It utilizes a slightly altered Commander (EDH) format of MTG.

Similar to Dungeons & Dragons, a Dungeon Master — or a Game Master (GM), in this case — guides up to four other players on a series of six quests, each of which takes about two to three hours to complete.

The players start in one of the zones. If it’s the Red zone, they’ll be facing a Red or Multicoloured commander; the Blue zone, they’ll be facing a Blue or Multicoloured commander; etc. Each quest features a new enemy deck, so no two quests are ever the same.

The GM is given certain card and life advantages over the Precursor heroes, and it is the goal of the Precursors to defeat the GM while working together. Also of note is that the game allows the GM to also play as one of the heroes if they’re up to it. This means that the game supports up to five players.

Game details

Players

2–5

Age

+13

Duration

200 min

Difficulty

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Type

Expansion

Year

2020

Mechanics

Campaign / Battle Card Driven · Cooperative Game · Deck, Bag, and Pool Building

Categories

Expansion for Base-game · Card Game · Dice

Designer

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Publisher

(Self-Published)