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Mysticana: Element of Surprise is a pre-order. Orders including pre-orders are held until everything is available to ship together. If you add additional items to your order, your entire order will be held until Mysticana: Element of Surprise arrives. It is estimated that Mysticana: Element of Surprise will ship in March 2025.

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Living elements interweave throughout the realm. A water guardian extinguishes a roaring wildfire that leaves behind unrecognizably scorched earth. The seared avatar of that earth rises and consumes the water of a dozen seas. With infinite variations on their eternal cycle, no element can ever reign supreme.

Mysticana is a Foundation Deck: an 18-card deck that includes multiple core games using just the base cards with even more games added through small expansions. The deck features cards with 6 ranks across 3 suits (elements) which have a “rock-paper-scissors” hierarchy. While each game might make use of the deck’s design in different ways, the flexible foundation enables new games to fit in seamlessly alongside previous entries.

The base deck includes rules for three core games: Nine Perils, Sorcerers' Showdown, and The Path Ahead.

Element of Surprise is a 1-2 player expansion to the Mysticana deck. In this game of strategy and manipulation, players battle to control the shifting power among the factions.

The game is played over a series of battles. For each battle, players first build up the three elemental factions by allocating cards from their hand to the three elemental factions. Next, they secretly assign two cards to the shadows and select a Herald by placing a card face-down, which represents the faction they wish to support.

Battle is then joined: each player reveals their Herald, totals the value of their chosen faction, and multiplies that value by the lowest matching element card in the shadows. The player with the highest total wins the battle, and the first player to win 3 battles wins control of the realm!

• Players: 1-2
• Length: 20 minutes
• Age: 8+