Mistborn: Deckbuilding Game Review
Blog Andrew Joseph 02 Aug , 2025 0
I love it when the passion of the mind mixes together. So as a man who loves theatre games and books for epic fantasy writers, Brandon Sanderson (especially Cosmere series), Mistborn: Deckbuilding Game does hit that best position. Era 1 characters Marsh, Shan, Vin and Kelsier all showcase people, places and activities in the book with beautiful works of art and over 100 cards, and Mistborn is a treat for fans like me. Thankfully, it has some reliable game backups.
Mistborn: Deckbuilding Game
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What's in the box:
- 1 Rule Manual
- 4 character cards
- 4 sets of 8 metal tokens
- 4 healthy dials with 4 matching colorful cubes
- 8 mission cards
- 4 entry decks
- 82 market cards
- 36 Lord Ruler Challenge Card
- 1 Lord Ruling Card
- 1 Advantage Track Card
- 16 Atium Token
- 14 Boxing Tokens
- 1 target rack
- Ruler Dial Lord with 8 Tracking Cubes
design John D. Clair And publish Brothers GameMistborn: The deck game as the name implies is a Deckbuilding board game And have many staple foods of this type. Players start the game with weaker small cards, and they will slowly increase the game process by purchasing new cards from a shared store, which enhances their deck with new abilities and better resources. Just because it uses many traditional systems for deck builders doesn't mean Mistborn doesn't offer anything new!
Pulling out of the original material, here the big elements are the idea of burning and flaming metals – Signature Features Alloomcers From Scadriel World. At this round, the card you can play requires you to burn one of eight possible metals to use the card. As the game progresses, you will become a trained sympathetic. You can burn more metal every turn, but at the beginning you can only do it once, which is where metal and playing cards work as resources.
The flare lets you use a metal instead of counting on the turn burn limit; however, take a special “refresh” action at future turns, discarding cards that match the metal from your hands and you won't regain this metal. Additionally, you can spend a card on your hands the metal cost required to match the type shown in the vial at the bottom of the card, which makes each card you put on the deck not only a potential move, but also a resource. I’m a big fan of board games, including risk reverse rewards into gameplay, and the fact that toy cards adds an extra strategic element in the economy I just swallowed up.
Before each match begins, three tasks are selected and players will be able to move forward, win prizes, and complete permanent buffs. These allow you to draw extra cards during the turn, provide static attack bonuses per turn, and even a one-time healing. There are eight possible mission cards to choose from, which helps keep the game fresh after multiple plays, and I have never been able to shy away from games with more repeatability options.
In my experience, trying to make their games tend to end up being inclined toward one or the other in terms of competitive and collaborativeness, an option feels like an add-on after the fact and doesn't provide the same depth or enjoyment in their gameplay. Thankfully, Mistborn managed to avoid this, which is an option for two audiences who want to cry with each other and those who want a team, in which case it is immortal Lord Ruler He himself.
Competitive matches are very simple, and everyone tries to be the last person standing because they beat each other, with only one small change – only one person, the target, can attack at any given time. Once that person is attacked, they can pass the target token to anyone they choose, or if they choose, they can continue to stick around, allowing them to attack anyone they want. I think it's a very interesting idea, and initially, it's very unfair to the target person. But the fact that once they are attacked, the target can be made into other people has led to some very interesting negotiations during the game where people try to do outline transactions so that they don't become targets. I kind of dug it.
As fun as competitive rule sets, I found myself preferring co-ops. It’s actually quite challenging to compete with the ruler, and it’s more branded than the ones fighting each other than the ones who fight each other! Lord Tourer comes with his own card cards filled with minions and decrees, with annoying effects such as eliminating huge damage, killing your allies (in front of players who trigger various effects when burning certain metals, a persistent card) or completely healing the Lord Ruler. While this is my preferred method of playing Mistborn, I do find it more appealing to the experience of low-level players. With four players, I don't feel the ruler can offer the same challenge exactly, so I suggest maybe choosing to collaborate on a lower number of players. Solo, the main ruler is terrifying, as few people in history Solo board gameI think Mistborn is a great solo game.
My problem with Mistborn has nothing to do with the game mechanics, but with the fact that I want the game to contain further. These four characters are good, but I'll love a few more options, so when playing four players, the roster isn't always the same. While the representation is good, the more I play, the more I always want to have some kind of rule representing Feruchemy and Hemalurgy, why not allow someone to actually play the main ruler? The more I've played impborn, the more my mind wandered and brainstormed how all of this stuff works in a fraternity-built system. I can only hope Mistborn does so well that we will get extensions at some point, maybe stand out in Wax and Wayne's Era 2, which will introduce some of these features, or better, or better yet, the idea of Twinborns can both make allogeneic and do it. Oh, my brain is already thinking about ideas.