Tournament of the Mythic Kingdoms: Mountain & Dungeon Decks
Created by Jim
Two new fantasy-themed playing card decks set in the Mythic Kingdoms world, illustrated by Greg Swearingen.
Missed the Kickstarter? Late pledges (called "Pre-Orders" here on Backerkit) are available for a limited time through this store. Orders will be shipped along with the Kickstarter rewards.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Quest Complete + Links to Bonus Content
10 months ago
– Sat, Jul 01, 2023 at 02:25:34 PM
Hi backers and fantasy playing card aficionados. Fulfillment is complete and we hope you are all enjoying your cards. Being the final update for this project, we wanted to include links to all the free bonus games, downloads, and printable content. Below you'll find overviews, rules, links and downloads for:
Mythic Quests The Card Game
Mythic Quests: Quest for the Frost Dragon's Treasure Expansion
Overview: Mythic Quests The Card Game is a trick-taking game for 2-5 players that is similar to the game Spades, but with a fantasy theme and some unique rules designed for the Mythic Kindgoms cards.
This expansion replaces the traditional pen-and-paper point tracking with a printable game board, so you can track your progress by moving your character along the quest map.
Quest for the Frost Dragon's Treasure Print and Play includes rules for the game, printable tokens, and an awesome printable game board illustrated by Greg Swearingen. Everything can be printed on 8.5x11 pages. When cut and taped, the game board is 11x17. For even higher quality color and paper, you could take this to your local print shop. It's 6 pages in total.
Overview: In Mythic Dungeon Crawler, the deck represents the dungeon and each room has 4 cards. You play 3 of the cards and the 4th remains and becomes one of the cards in the next room (You deal 3 more cards to lay out the next room). Clubs and Spades are monsters, Diamonds are weapons or shields or allies, and Hearts are health potions or Elven healers. Your objective is to
Overview: The goal for this expansion is to reach the Treasure Room, clearing the dungeon of monsters and looting everything along the way. How many delves into the deep dark dwarven dungeons does it demand to defeat the dragon and demand its diamonds?
Overview:Mythic Jester is based on the game President or Scum. Each game is made up of multiple rounds and ends when each player has gotten rid of all their cards. Rank and seating position for the next game is determined by the order in which players go out. Between each game there is a rearrangement of player seating positions based on the rank they acquired. The object is to become and remain the Champion, and you want to avoid being the Jester.
Note: Backers of the campaign received a bonus "Deck of Many Other Things" which has these cards. They aren't necessary to play, but are fun player aids
How to play Mythic Jester
Setup & First Game
Players sit around a table, and then randomly choose a dealer. The dealer shuffles and deals the cards clockwise until the deck is gone. The dealer starts the first round.
Each round, the first player plays a single card or a set face up in the center of the table. Play continues clockwise. On your turn, you either pass or play a higher valued card or set. The number of cards you play must match the first player. If a player passes, they may not play again for that round. Play continues until everyone has passed.
Example: The first player plays a pair of 3s. The next player may play a pair of 4s or higher, or pass.
The last (highest) card or set wins the round, then played cards are discarded and the winner becomes the first player of the next round. Rounds continue until all players have gone out (shed all their cards).
The first player to go out becomes the Champion, the second is Apprentice. The second-to-last becomes the Rogue and the last player becomes the Jester.
Games After Setup & First Game
After each player has their starting rank, they move seats so they are sitting around the table in clockwise order from highest to lowest rank. To help label the seat positions, place the player rank cards on the table in front of the seats in clockwise order starting with the Champion in chair 1, Apprentice in chair 2, Rogue in the 2nd to last chair, and Jester in the last chair. The Champion and Jester will be sitting next to each other.
The Champion deals cards for the next game. Before starting play, the Jester must give their 2 highest cards (except for the treasure card) to the Champion, who then gives the Jester any 2 cards. The Rogue gives the Apprentice their highest card (except for the treasure card), and the Apprentice gives any card in return. The Champion starts the first round.
Determine beforehand how many games you will play, or decide “we’ll play two more games” at some point.
Card Values from lowest to highest: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A, Joker, Treasure, Dragon
The Dragon is the ultimate high card and beats a single card or set. The Treasure does not need to be given to the Champion or Apprentice. The Joker can be used as a wild in a set or played as a single high card.
Printable Score Sheet for Other Games
You can use this Mythic Kingdoms themed score sheet for any card game you play with these decks. If you play games regularly, print a few of these right now to keep on hand.
If you have any questions or would like to see more Mythic Kingdoms games and printables, please share in the comments below!
Happy Gaming!
Fulfillment Update & Premium Tuck Photos
11 months ago
– Mon, May 22, 2023 at 08:42:18 AM
Hi Backers, We received the premium decks last week and couldn't be happier. The tuck boxes look amazing and with everything finally in hand we're full speed ahead with fulfillment. In fact, as of today all of the US orders will have shipped.
Now for a look at the premium tuck boxes!
Mountain & Dungeon premium tuck boxes with embossing and gold/blue/orange metallic foil stamping.
Premium Magic, Nature, Dungeon & Mountain decks
And here is a look at everything we were able to create in this campaign because of your support! Don’t forget to try out the free print-and-play Mythic Quests Game we created! Click here for details >
Everything from the Mythic Kingdoms 2 kickstarter campaign
Fulfillment
International Backers: We've sent everything (standard decks, premium decks, 4-color decks, bonus Deck of Many Other Things cards, art books, custom brick boxes, uncut sheets, Mythic Dungeon Crawler playmats, single & double deck sleeves, etc.) to Art of Play so they can begin international fulfillment.
US Backers: We've finished packaging up your orders and as of today, everything should be in the mail (or already in your hands).
Thank you for your support and patience.
Happy Gaming!
We received the decks!!!
12 months ago
– Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 02:48:49 PM
Hi Backers, We are extremely excited to finally have the Standard TMK2 decks in our possession! We sent USPCC the final art files for the decks last September, and we've wanted nothing more than to get these decks into your hands as soon as possible.
All the decks arrived on a large pallet, the top two boxes have the the uncut sheets.
Top: Mountain & Dungeon decks showing the Joker Dragons, Treasures, and bonus Joker Dragons. Bottom: All four tuck boxes side-by-side. They look magnificent as a set of four!
Premium Decks
Gamblers Warehouse (GW) received the decks from USPCC on Wednesday (4/19) and gave us an estimate of 8 business days to package them. Once complete, they will ship them to us, and at that point we will finally have EVERYTHING in hand!
Next steps for fulfillment
US Backers: Rather than wait to start fulfillment until GW gets us the premium decks, we'll optimize this time by packaging and shipping out as many orders as we can to US backers that didn't order premium decks. This will allow us to fulfill orders with premium decks much faster as soon as we receive them from GW.
International Backers: Art Of Play is our fulfillment partner for international orders. As soon as we get the premium decks from GW we will send Art Of Play everything they need to begin fulfillment.
We can't wait to share photos of the premium decks with you once they arrive. Until then, we have plenty of fulfillment work to do!
Happy Gaming!
Production Update & Mythic Quests Expansion: Quest for the Frost Dragon's Treasure
about 1 year ago
– Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 01:40:39 PM
Hi Backers, We wanted to share a quick production update with you, as well as a print & play game we've been working on while waiting for the decks to be printed. But first off...
Card Production: In spite of delays, the great news is the card sheets were printed yesterday! USPCC also already has the tuck boxes and seals printed.
Next up, the sheets of cards have to go through the machinery that crushes them to the exact thickness and adds the Air-Cushion Finish. Once that happens they will be added to the finishing schedule where the cards will be packaged in the tuck boxes.
Then USPCC will ship the majority of decks to us, but also ship a portion to Gambler's Warehouse who will package the premium tuck box decks.
Fulfillment: We have everything ready to go on our end, including all the shipping materials we'll need. So as soon as we get the decks we'll be able to start shipping. As always, a guess at the timing is still just a guess, but we've modified our estimate to be mid-April for the start of fulfillment (with international up to a month later).
In this print & play expansion, we've taken the Mythic Quests core rules to a new level of fun and interaction. This expansion replaces the traditional pen-and-paper point tracking with a printable game board, so you can track your progress by moving your character along the quest map. Instead of "first to 300 points wins," the winner is the first to reach the dragon's treasure.
Quest for the Frost Dragon's Treasure includes rules for the game, printable tokens, and an awesome printable game board illustrated by Greg. Everything can be printed on 8.5x11 pages. When cut and taped, the game board is 11x17. For even higher quality color and paper, you could take this to your local print shop. It's 6 pages in total.
If you enjoy trick-taking games like Spades, you'll love our Mythic Kingdoms take on the game. In fact, you can use the board spaces and threat tracker to play a regular game of spades, no new rules required.
Production Update and Teasers
about 1 year ago
– Sat, Feb 11, 2023 at 02:04:33 PM
Hello Backers, We have a quick production update to share with you and a couple of fun teasers.
Production Update
Until we get new dates from USPCC about card delivery (which we should hopefully get next week), any guess on our end would just be a guess... so our new best guess at the time frame for fulfillment is end of March (plus two weeks for international). The good news is USPCC has told us that the tuck boxes and numbered seals are being printed, and the cards are up next.
The Decks of Many Other Things are being printed now by DriveThruCards. We also got the shipment of deck sleeves, so it's only the cards now that we're waiting on.
This weekend we all met in Moab, UT to sign all of the art books! That's not normally why people visit Moab, but it's our annual game weekend ... with some book signing this time.
Getting ready to sign the books
Printable Board Game Expansions
You know those bonus cards with the foldable standees that each backer is getting? Well, they actually do have a purpose, and today we have a couple of teasers to share with you that show what we've had in mind.
Teaser #1: Mythic Quests Expansion
As I was working on the rules for Mythic Quests, it occurred to me that the scoring system didn't need to be just a score sheet. Instead, progress along the quest could be represented as spaces on a board game rather than accumulation of points. The fun part about having a map to replace the normal scoring system is the chance to add elements and rules related to progress along the path. I tested the idea with my family with some very roughly drawn maps and game pieces from other games, and it worked.
Close-up of a portion of the Mythic Quests map
We'd like to take the idea further, but for this Kickstarter we've decided to finish one map to go with the Mythic Quests game so that you (and we) can experiment with using a printable board to both replace and augment the normal scoring system. Above is a snapshot of Greg's iPad with a closeup of a few map elements.
When finished, we'll share it with you as a printable PDF file. The map won't be a physical pencil drawing like the cards (thus the iPad), but will have a similar look. The standees from the Deck of Many Other Things can be used as player markers on the map.
Teaser #2: Mythic Dungeon Crawler Expansion
Some of you may have already experimented with the Mythic Dungeon Crawler game that we described in Update #9. The game is really fun as-is, but if you want an extra challenge, we've got another treat for you. Instead of just imagining that you are traveling through a dungeon room-by-room, check out this printable map to track your progress:
Printable map expansion for Mythic Dungeon Crawler, with a standee character.
The goal for this expansion is to reach the Gem Dragon's treasure room, clearing the dungeon of monsters, and looting everything along the way. Each room of the dungeon has an environmental effect that modifies the basic rules for clearing the room.
The Rogue has given you a map of the dungeon, so you'll know the room effects in advance, but you'll need to carefully pick your route. Most effects are modifications to specific card types, or dark rooms where one of cards is placed face down (in the shadows) when filling the dungeon room. A single mistake can keep you from reaching the end. How many delves into the deep dark dwarven dungeons does it demand to defeat the dragon and demand its diamonds?
The rules for the printable map expansion will be included with the PDF, and shared in more detail later.
For now, we hope you've liked these teasers. And yes, these two printable PDFs will be available to all backers.
