2024 · Card Game
Res Arcana Duo
Two players draft mages and build with five essences—Life, Death, Elan, Calm, and Gold—to craft artifacts and claim monuments and Places of Power. Play proceeds in short rounds: collect essences, take one action per turn (place an artifact, claim a monument or Place of Power, discard a card for resources, or activate a component), and pass to exchange items and draw. A new two-player drafting method and a compact set of artifacts streamline play; there are no attack actions. The game ends when a player reaches the victory threshold, typically after 4–6 rounds.
- Players
- 2
- Playing time
- 20–60 min
- Age
- 12+
- Complexity
- 2.7 / 5
About the game
- Design
- Publisher
Plays with
See them in Ludoya
Photos from Ludoya tables
All photos in Ludoya
Where to buy it
Shop prices and second-hand copies, checked every day.
On Ludoya's tables
Full stats in Ludoya- 4
- Plays logged
- 2
- Players
- 29m 26s
- Average play
- 14
- In collections
- 3
- On wishlists
Similar games
Gosu X2023
Heart of Crown: Fairy Garden2013
Elekt2019
Heart of Crown2011
Ascension: Dreamscape2015
Allegiance: A Realm Divided2015
Ascension: Gift of the Elements2017
Riftforce2021
Ascension: Darkness Unleashed2013
Ascension: Realms Unraveled2014
Ascension: Year Two Collector's Edition2015
Thunderstone: Dragonspire2011
Free, on web, Android and iOS
Play Res Arcana Duo with Ludoya
- Keep it in your collectionTrack your copy and its expansions, lend it to friends, or put it on your wishlist and get told when the price drops.Add it to your collection
- Log every playScores, winners, timers and photos, then your stats: win rate, favourite player count, best score.Log a play
- Score it without paperUse the community's score sheets and play helpers, and let Ludoya add up the points.Find score sheets
- Find people to play it withClubs, game nights and events near you that bring this game to the table.See events
Game facts (players, playing time, age, credits) from BoardGameGeek.