Tabletop Simulator Draco Magi

Tabletop Simulator Draco Magi is a two-player card game that takes about 30 minutes. It includes Draco Magi and its expansion. You play an apprentice dragon mage competing to become the next Draco Magi after the Dragon King Myrgos dies. Each apprentice has a succession scroll containing a different Spell of Succession, which requires a specific combination of rare gems. Command your dragons to collect the required gems before your opponent does; the loser remains a novice, known as Novitius Eterna.

Dragons and battlefields

Each player chooses an apprentice and receives a deck containing multiple copies of four chromatic dragons—Green, Red, Black and Purple—four metallic dragons—Gold, Silver, Brass and Bronze—and two special dragons: the Battle dragon and the Polar dragon. Each dragon has its own strengths, weaknesses and special ability. You send dragons to capture gems on battlefields, whose different effects can advantage or disadvantage particular dragon types.

Battle for gems

Players take turns playing dragons, one at a time, until they have each played all eight of their Dragon cards. You can place no more than three dragons on a battlefield. When you play a dragon against an opposing dragon, you can immediately make a ranged attack if it has a breath weapon. Its breath weapon value sets how many battle cards you may reveal to try to hit; the defender can use cards up to the dragon's shield value. If you do not make the ranged attack when placing the dragon, you forfeit it for that round.

Once all the dragons are in play, the melee phase begins. Each dragon's melee attack value determines how many battle cards its player can draw. The melee system uses attacks and counters, with room for deduction, bluffing and combinations. Players also earn advanced battle cards to build up their decks over the course of the game. Whoever has the most dragons on a battlefield wins its gem; in a tie, the dragons and gem stay there for the next round.

Expansion contents

The expansion adds 24 dragon cards and 8 battlefield cards, along with new deck construction and drafting rules. These rules let players build a deck from the available dragons before facing an opponent.