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Cartref

Medium-weight, passive-aggressive city-builder

$42.00

You are a goblin land baron and member of the Hut Barons guild–purveyors of magical real estate for weefolk, bigfolk, and everyone in between. Use your wits and magic to amass the greatest wealth in the budding city of Cartref.


If you enjoy building a city as in Suburbia, or displaying and manipulating a tableau of cards as in Magic: The Gathering, then you’ll probably enjoy Cartref, winner of the 2023 BoardGameGeek Two-Player Print-and-Play Contest.

1-3 players / Ages 13+ / 33-53 minutes


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Expansion: Places of Prosperity

The guild creates Monuments and Dens that constrain construction and karma, while emissaries of exotic Peoples erect Embassies providing new paths to prosperity. Take advantage of these new opportunities to score points, obstruct your opponents, and win!

This expansion has 3 parts: Dens, Embassies and Monuments. Each is optional. For example, you can play with Dens and Monuments but omit Embassies.

  • Embassies are a new type of building permit to be constructed by you or an opponent.

  • When a Den is surrounded, all players may gain the reward shown for that Den. Then, flip the Den face-down. This Den will pay even bigger rewards after the game.

  • Monuments enhance or constrain your abilities, changing the rules of the game each time that you play.

Dens and Monuments are owned by the guild – a new type of player who is not an opponent.

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Acknowledgements

Thank you to everyone who tried Cartref as a submission to the 2023 BGG design contest. Special thanks to Federico and Nani for thorough playtesting.