At the start of the battle, mages start with a grimoire of six cards; as mages study more spells during play, their grimoire will increase. Every spell in Black Rose Wars has two different effects, increasing a player's adaptability during a fight.

Mages fight each other in a modular arena of hexagons called "rooms". They summon powerful creatures, cast destructive spells, or devise dark deceptions with their enchantments. The game system is divided into different phases. Each turn, after choosing new spells from the six schools of magic, players plan their strategy in advance, placing cards face down. Later, they reveal the played cards to kill each other, solve missions, summon creatures, or destroy the prison rooms, one against each other and against the Black Rose (the playing system).

After being killed, mages are reborn immediately, allowing them to re-enter the fight without delay — although their death still fed energy to those mages who caused it.

The mage with the most power at the end of the battle will be crowned Supreme Magister of the Order by the Black Rose itself.

SLEEVING:

694 cards size 63,5x88mm (standard)

246 cards size 45x68mm (mini Euro)

22 cards size 70x120mm (Tarot)

GAME COMPONENTS:

1 Power board

1 Event board

4 Mages sheets

23 rooms

130 cubes

238 Spell cards

11 Reference cards

30 Evocation cards

30 Evocation miniatures

12 Moon Influence tokens

60 Quest cards

60 Event cards

24 Rose pins

4 Mages miniatures

120 additional counters and tokens

1 Rulebook

Codex Arcanum

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