Mattel Minecraft Card Game

Really fun to play for adults & my kids (7 & 9).

my son loves this game. He is a huge minecraft fan and this game did not disappoint. You get one stack of cards of items to craft and one stack of items to use to craft. Each player gets 3 "moves" on their turn. You can pick an item to craft, pick cards to craft with, or even use the cards that you have already crafted to get another turn or take a turn away from another player. Whoever ends up with most points at end wins. Pretty simple game- not too much thinking involved. nice way to pass the time with kids by playing something other than video games! we play this at home often and also easy to take along on camping trips.

I got this game for my 8 and 6 year olds, but ended up playing it with them. Both kids and I enjoyed playing this game! The game is rated for 8+ but my 6 year old can play it just fine. The written instructions are a little too advanced for beginning readers, but any Minecraft fan can pick up the rules quickly and easily. Once you know the rules of the game, you just need basic counting skills to play. The game is about collecting resource (via cards) and using them to craft items (via cards). Each item you manage to craft has a point value, and the first person to reach a certain point value total wins! But watch out! There are Creepers and TNT that will thwart you along the way!

The Minecraft Card Game is a fast playing resource collection game based on the popular video game for 2 to 4 players. I give it an overall score of 4 out of 5. Now the detailed review. Game Summary: In Minecraft the idea is to do the two things the name states: mine (collect resources) and craft (complete recipes with the necessary resources in order to score points). Depending on the number of players the winner is the first person to reach a particular point threshold. In the case of all three games I have played so far we had three players which means the first to reach 20 points. On each turn a player can take two actions in any combination, including two of the same, from among three choices: 1. Mine – select the top resource card from among one of the five resource decks 2. Craft – use resources you have previously mined (perhaps on the same turn) to craft one of the patterns 3. Reserve – take one of the craft cards from one of the four craft decks and set it aside in your little plastic stand so it’s no longer available to your opponents until you are ready to craft it. The resource cards each show a type of material. The material choices are wood, stone, iron, gold, and diamond. Each card also has a number from 1 to 3 to reflect the quantity that card represents. Additionally the resource deck also has wild cards that can serve as any material, TNT cards and Creepers (Minecraft’s bad guys). More on the latter two in a moment. Each of the craft cards is a grid with a number of boxes some of which include a picture of a particular resource. So a card might have one stone and two wood for example which means in order to craft it (and add it to your score) you need to have previously mined at least one stone and two wood resource cards. You could use two one point wood cards or one two point wood card. If you use a three point wood card the extra point is wasted. You could also say a particular wild card represents wood but you couldn’t use a single three point wild card for both the one stone and two wood you need. The more resources a craft card needs to complete and the rarer the ingredients (less gold cards in deck than wood for example) the more points the card will be worth. I recall the value of the cards being between 1 and 5. Once you have crafted a card then you also have the chance to use the tool on that card once in the future. Different tools are shovels, hoes, pick axes, axes and swords. These let you do different things to help your game, for example using a shovel to take away an action from one of your opponents on their next turn or giving yourself an extra action using the pick axe. The special resource cards do the following. The TNT card blows up all of the five stacks so you get rid of it and then take two of the four other resources on top of the other decks. The Creeper when revealed when you mine a resource takes a resource card away from every player in the game unless they already have a craft card with a sword they haven’t used which defends them and prevents the resource loss. Product Design and Packaging: The game comes in a longer box with a cardboard insert with two slots for the cards for the two decks as well as a groove in the middle to hold the four plastic reservation stands. The cards themselves are square to fit the theme of the video game which makes them a little bulkier and harder to shuffle but since you pretty much only do that at the beginning of the game it’s not a real problem. Card quality is decent but not exceptional. The stands work well holding a card. The outer box is quite sturdy but I think the inner liner would have worked better as a molded plastic insert. Thoughts on the Game: This was a Christmas gift for a 14 year old who is also a player of the video game. I played with her and her eight year old sister who also plays the video game. I’ve never played the video game but have seen it being played. I felt this card game captured the theme very well and both girls immediately grasped the concept behind the game of obtaining resources and crafting. The bigger cards are quite easy to read and other than gold and iron bars looking somewhat similar it was not difficult telling what was out there. Speaking of reading, other than the instructions, there really is no reading as the cards use pictures and symbols for everything. I liked that the game played fast which is good for a game targeting a younger audience like this one does. It has enough depth of strategy however to make it interesting for older players too. Do you spend time mining resources early and then do a lot of crafting or do you try to craft as go? Older players can’t really run away with the game and tension as to who will win remains until the end. I won two of our three games but am an experienced tabletop gamer. The main reason they lost though is probably the fact that they kept forgetting about the tools on the completed craft cards. Remembering to take away an action from your opponent or give yourself an extra one is important. The youngest player also kept thinking she had to reserve a craft card before she could complete it which isn’t the case. The instructions could have used a little work to clarify a few things like can you reserve more than one craft card at a time? It never specifically states that so we didn’t play the first game that way but based on the stand not really holding two or more cards that seems to be the case. Otherwise you could horde the craft cards. Can you craft two things using one pile of resources with two actions? It seems clear after a few games you can’t split the cards and buy a stone/wood and diamond/wood/wood with a 1 point stone, 1 point diamond and three point wood. If you have gotten down to less than five stacks does a TNT card still give you two cards? We assumed so. If you get Creepers as the initial up cards in the resource stacks due to the shuffle, do you just throw them away? Some minor cleanup would have helped. For what it is worth, I believe the instructions were only in English with no French, Spanish or otherwise. In conclusion, this is a fun little strategy game that’s a step up from a typical kids card game. It has both random elements in the shuffling of the card stacks and strategy elements in planning your crafting and trying to prevent your opponents from doing the same. It can play in about 30 minutes. For $13 on Amazon it should find its way onto many game shelves.

This is a fun game once you figure out how to play it. I got it for a birthday gift for my granddaughter since she like MineCraft table game. The directions though are not very good. We spent some time reading them but didn't get the sequence of play is not given, so we went to YouTube and found a tutorial. After watching that it was easy to figure out the game. It is varied and lots of fun. Grandma, 13 year old sister and special needs 15 year old had a really fun time. And we will play it again and again, I'm sure. The kids say it is not very much like MineCraft table game. I wouldn't know, but I liked this game.

Got this to play with my son. I’ve tried to play the actual game, but must have been born in the wrong generation. Anyway, this allows us to connect without having to be on a screen.

It was missing a player cube.

My kids (6 & 7) have had a ton of fun playing the game, and it doesn't take very long to learn how to play and facilitate.

Ein einfaches Spiel, was den Kindern (10) wirklich Spaß macht. Es dauert nicht lange, vielleicht eine Viertelstunde. Man kann also schnell mal 'ne Runde zwischendurch spielen, so wie manche es vielleicht mit Klassikern, wie Mau Mau oder Skib Bo tun. Ein Spiel, das man, denke ich, jeden Alters spielen kann. Wer kein Mincraft-Fan ist, sollte sich allerdings von den Kindern erklären lassen, welche Bedeutung Spitzhacke und Co eigentlich haben, um zu wissen, worum es geht.

molto divertente, la confezione esternamente è splendida internamente un po scarna la qualità delle carte è medio alta i supportini della carta prenotata potrebbero lasciare dei segni sulel carte ma dasta una limetta per allargare un po le alette. mio figli osi diverte un sacco. x veri appassionati di minecraft (anche se non ne riprende le meccaniche)

A little tricky to understand the rules to begin with (although most likely because I don't actually play minecraft) but my kids picked it up really quickly and spent a good hour playing before getting bored. It now makes a frequent appearance on games nights, well worth buying.

Fue un regalo para mi hermano menor(12 años) que adora jugar el videojuego de Minecraft y ahora le encanto este juego de mesa!. El juego es parcialmente parecido al videojuego, ya que el objetivo del videojuego es crear y minar (mine-minar , craft-crear), y el objetivo del juego de mesa es alcanzar una puntuación, la cual para alcanzarla requieres de crear ciertas herramientas, pero para la creación de herramientas requieres de recursos, los cuales obtienes minando, lo cual volvemos a la similitud del videojuego minar-crear. Es un juego "rápido" a comparación del videojuego, ya que aquí hacen un mundo más pequeño de los recursos, herramientas y recetas para la creación de herramientas, a mí en lo personal me hubiera encantado un juego más amplio donde involucrará lo básico de estos tres aspectos como cuando Minecraft (videojuego) empezó.(Si lo he jugado) Es importante recalcar que es juego estratégico que permite que los jugadores, sobre todo si son niños, puedan agilizar su mente para encontrar mejores acciones para ganar el juego, que a diferencia del videojuego solo desarrolla la creatividad. Algo que no me convenció del todo fueron las instrucciones, ya que a mi parecer les hizo falta detallar más las instrucciones para evitar "colocar nuestras propias reglas o intuirlas" en situaciones que podrían afectar una partida, por ejemplo: -¿Cuántos turnos se puede reservar una carta de trabajo? Se podría asumir que todos los turnos que quieras al fin y acabo no podrás reservar más cartas. -¿Qué pasa si se acaban los recursos? Se asume que los recursos no se pueden volver a barajear para reutilizarlos y gana el que más se acercó a la puntuación o es un empate el juego. -¿Qué pasa si hay menos pilas de recursos (para este caso 3 pilas) minas un TNT y obtienes “forzosamente” un Creeper o un TNT? Aun no nos ha sucedido esto pero podrían activarse ambas cartas, o tal vez el único afectado seria el que mino, o tal vez hay pérdida de puntos, en simples palabras no lo sé ya que no viene en el instructivo. -¿Qué pasa si hay menos de dos pilas de recursos y minas un TNT? Podría suponer que ya no obtendrías los 2 recursos ya que la función de la TNT es tomar dos recursos de la primera capa de las pilas y el resto descartarlas. -Las herramientas tienen funciones que puedes utilizar en cualquier momento “según” el instructivo. ¿Pero qué prioridad tienen? ¿Puedo agregarme una acción extra con el pico en el turno de mi adversario y minar antes un recurso que sea de bastante valor para el o para mí? -¿Las cartas de recursos que obtengo tienen que estar ocultas o a la vista de todos? -¿Qué pasaría si alguien mina un Creeper y alguien no tiene recursos? Podría decirse que no pasa nada, pero hay que recordar que un Creeper(en el videojuego) siempre hace daño, por tal motivo creería que tendría que descartar alguna herramienta de tal manera que le descuente puntos al jugador. En palabras resumidas hay bastantes situaciones que podrían intuirse sin embargo hay que tomar en cuenta que siempre puede haber alguien que lo entienda diferente y por ende existan conflictos en que alguien quiera tomar ventaja sobre ese “hoyo” en las instrucciones. Finalmente creo que es un juego bastante entretenido, estratégico y rápido que apoya a que los niños dejen de estar pegados en los videojuegos con esta alternativa apegada al jeugo que conocen.

I gave this as a gift to a 10 year old boy who is a huge Minecraft fan and he started playing with them straight away with friends and they loved it!