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Designed By
Art By
Published By
Year Published
2003
# of Players:
2 − 4
User Suggested # of Players
(Not best with any number)
Recommended with 3 players
(2 voters) [poll]
Playing Time
20 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages
9 and up
User Suggested Ages
8 and up
(2 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence
No necessary in-game text
(2 voters) [poll]
Category
Mechanic
Primary Name
Magdar
Alternate Names
Магдар
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Magdar is a light game of risk management with a board that is slowly destroyed over the course of play. Players control dwarves mining mithril and gems on a randomly assembled tile-based board. After each player's turn, he or she rolls a die and chooses a tile with that number on it at one end of the board for Magdar to destroy. Any dwarves on the destroyed tile are sent back to the cavern entrance and lose anything they were mining at the time. The game ends when one row of tiles has been completely destroyed. Scoring is based upon having a good mix of mithril and gems. Other elements such as claim jumping are added in the advanced version of the game.

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Components

  • 1 rule book (in Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish)
  • 1 cave entrance base
  • 1 cave
  • 1 six-sided die
  • 1 magdar base
  • 1 magdar entrance counter
  • 2 plastic stands
  • 4 ruinic circle counters
  • 4 berserk counters (with dwarf symbols)
  • 4 lure counters (with magdar symbols)
  • 4 special boulder tiles (adamantine, gemstone, exploding, and salamander)
  • 8 dwarf tokens (2 blue, 2 green, 2 red, and 2 yellow)
  • 11 mithril counters
  • 23 gem counters (3-2s, 5-4s, 7-8s, 5-16s, and 3-32s)
  • 32 basic boulder tiles

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1 Magdar Play Summary
Includes author modifications from the "Second Age" rules. Doesn't cover the "Dwarven Dodgeball" rules, which I consider anti-thematic.
2008-09-03
0 Magdar Component List.doc
Magdar Component Manifest
2005-02-20
3 Magdar-2nd-age-tiles.pdf
Magdar 2nd Age Tiles. Downloadable expansion.
2004-09-13
4 Magdar-2nd-age-rules.pdf
Magdar 2nd Age Rules. Downloadable expansion.
2004-09-13
0 magdarrules.pdf
Rules in PDF. From FFG Website.
2004-09-13
Statistics
User Rank: 4854
Num Ratings: 343
Average Rating: 5.35
Standard Deviation: 1.42
Num Views: 29280
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Fans: 0
Personal Comments: 166
Users Owning: 552
Users Wanting: 14
Users Trading: 58
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 0
Price History: View
Total Plays: 394
Plays This Month: 0
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