Marvel Dice Throne Board Game Review

I recently introduced you here to the card game Kingdom of Valeria, which combines dice and cards. The format is popular, so today we have a text game full of Marvel Dice Throne heroes, which came in two versions. The following lines will tell you what heroes you will meet in them and how this play is played out.

Number of players: 2-4 (4-8 if you have both sets)

Play time: 30 minutes

Price: 1599 CZK (Alsa)

Age: 8+

Each Marvel Dice Throne pack gives you specific heroes.

Many comics and their adaptations clash with characters from the Marvel Universe. It is always a worthy battle that you want to experience with your own eyes at some point. The Marvel Dice Throne card game gives you such an opportunity. It can be found in two formats. One features Loki, Thor, Miles Morales, and Scarlet Witch, and the other features Captain Marvel, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, and Black Widow. In total, eight characters await you.

Each of them is actually unique in every way here. Each of them has its own dice, cards, and a game board that shows its abilities that you can implement. And what’s worse, there is also a status table where you can again find certain skills and statuses of the characters. You probably won’t be surprised that, for example, Thor has a favorite hammer, Miles Morales has invisibility, and Black Panther has his suit and kinetic force in this space. Once you’ve determined who suits you best, the game itself begins.

First, there’s the Maintenance phase, where you basically evaluate what happened the previous turn. Then there’s the Receiving phase. Heroes need battle points for their actions, which you always get at the beginning of this part along with a card from your deck, which is basically a lot of cards unique to each character. Sure, you have a few of the same cards, but they’re mostly made up of the parts you work on in the Main Phase.

In it, you can sell cards and turn them into battle points. If you want, you can play some of your cards. Some ask for battle points, while others have other requirements. Some of them are for actions, while others improve your hero. The palette of abilities is really diverse and there are enough options, so you will definitely not get bored. The improvement itself can subsequently affect the next phase of the action dice roll. With it, you roll five dice, and then you have the opportunity to re-roll all or part of them twice.

Once you have cast the spell, it is time to choose the ability your hero has. I really like that skills can be modified with buffs, so they require different dice than if the ability was not buffed. Your roll can be modified by the participants using cards. When you are done, the chosen attack ability is activated. What is interesting is that here, with more opponents, you determine the target by rolling dice. The attacked person then has the opportunity to roll a dice or dice to defend, which can reduce damage or, if lucky, injure the attacker. Then comes the Main Stage again, built on the same site as the first.

The eighth part of the game is the discard phase, where you sell cards until you have 6 or fewer in your hand. Then you put them all in a storage bag. The game itself ends in Marvel Dice Throne when you take away 50 life from your opponent, such as during a clash between two players. Since you can bet on different heroes and strategies each time, this is always fun.

When Marvel Dice Throne Twice

There are quite a few Marvel games out there, but I wouldn’t exactly call most of them crap. In the case of Marvel Dice Throne, you get an interesting game that effectively combines cards with dice and lets you battle with uniquely designed heroes that are handled very well. Overall, there’s not much to complain about in terms of components and insertion. In short, it’s a complete satisfaction.

I would probably approach this differently in a different card game, but in the case of Marvel Dice Throne, it makes sense to me that if he’s going to play this game, he’d be better off taking both sets. There are two reasons why. First, you’re increasing the player count by taking the second set. Second, you’re expanding the hero pool and allowing for a total of eight players to play, as each hero has their own dice, cards, and components, so taking one doesn’t limit the other, and vice versa. Personally, I really enjoyed playing it, so if you like fast-paced dice games, I wouldn’t be afraid of it at all.

We would like to thank Czech distributor REXhry for providing us with a copy of Marvel Dice Throne.