Sample Maid cardThe private maids are special. Playing cards in the proper order to maximize their potential is therefore very important.
If you chain several of these together you can do even more. For example, playing a maid card that gives you +1 serving means that you’ll be able to play another maid card on this turn. It’s beyond the scope of this review to detail what all of the cards do, but learning how they interact with each other is crucial to winning the game. Some cards are also worth victory points simply for having them. Certain cards you purchase may grant you additional bonuses, such as additional servings, additional employs, the ability to draw cards, or extra love. On each turn, a player is allotted one “serving” (which means playing one maid card) and one “employ” (which means buying a new card with “love” cards). A turn is divided into four phases: the Starting phase, the Serving phase, the Employ phase, and the Dismiss phase. Every player’s initial hand has 7 “1 love” cards and 3 “Colette” maid chief cards which do little but are worth 1 Victory Point (VP) at the end of the game. The Event cards include Bad Habit and Illness cards. The Love cards have a value of 1, 2, or 3 “love”. The Maid cards include maid chiefs, general maids, and private maids. In Tanto Cuore, there are three categories of cards available in the “town” (play area): Maid cards, Love cards, and Event cards. The mechanisms for this vary by game, but in the end the idea is usually the same: build an efficient yet powerful deck that will yield you the most Victory Points (VP) at the end of the game. Therefore, another important goal is getting the weaker cards out of your hand or upgrading them to better cards. If your deck gets too big, it might take you too long to get the cards you need and the chances of getting all of the ones you want in one draw get worse. The strategy is building a deck that contains cards that will help you achieve your goal of getting victory points. Thus, you know which cards are in your deck but not where they are or what order they will come up in. I ♥ you!When you need to draw a card and your deck is depleted, you shuffle the discards. Each player then repeats these steps in succession. Each turn you start with a hand of cards drawn from your deck, play some cards from your hand, perform actions based on what you play, and then move the used and unused cards to your discard pile and draw a new hand of cards. Everyone starts out with the same cards in their deck generally weaker cards that will be used to gain more powerful cards. However in a deck building game, constructing the deck is actually part of the game as opposed to the precursor to the game. Tanto Cuore addresses all of these issues.īut first, a primer on the mechanics of a deck building game.ĭeck building is something that players of collectible card games (CCG) and trading card games (TCG)-such as Magic, The Gathering and Pokémon-are very familiar with. There is little player interaction (although later expansions addressed this somewhat), the art is not particularly to my tastes, and the game play feels very mechanical and dry with few paths to victory. Personally, I was not very fond of Dominion. Since then, the genre has exploded with many other titles using this mechanism. But is it a good game? Yes!ĭeck building games came into popularity with the creation of a game called “Dominion” by Donald X. While I was admittedly uncertain that the theme was something that I would be interested in, after playing it I discovered that with only one minor exception the fan-service is minimal, the cards are tasteful, and on the surface the theme is rather innocent. The players play the “masters of the house” and will employ maids and use their services to help them expand their mansion to ultimately win the game and become the “greatest master”, the proclaimed “King of Maids”. Tanto Cuore (Italian for “Much Heart”) is a deck building game originally released in Japan by Arclight Games with the English edition published by Japanime Games in the US.
Do you have what it takes to be crowned “King of Maids”?
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