Tyrants of the Underdark

Players lead rival Drow houses vying for control of the Underdark by recruiting minions, deploying troops, and manipulating influence and power. The game combines deck-building—buying new minion cards from a central marketplace and shuffling them into a personal deck—with area control across a map of subterranean sites. Minions belong to distinct aspects that support different tactics: some excel at assassination, others at recruitment and promotion to an inner circle that scores end-game value. Players spend influence to acquire cards and power to place and move troops, perform actions on the board, and remove opposing forces; victory goes to the player with the most victory points from controlled sites, promoted minions, recruited cards, and successful eliminations.

Players: 2–4 best 4
Playing time: 60 min
Age: 14+
Complexity: 2.6 / 5

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Design: Rodney Thompson
Peter Lee
Andrew Veen
Art: Craig J. Spearing
Jim Nelson
Jason Engle
Todd Harris
Eva Widermann
Julie Dillon
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Tyrants of the Underdark: Expansion Decks – Aberrations & Undead2017

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350
Plays logged: 399
Players: 1h 25m
Average play: 59
In collections: 22
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Garfield8.0
#38 Entertaining area control game with deck building. [c] Theme: ★★★☆☆  Gameplay: ★★★☆☆  Interaction: ★★★★☆  Artwork: ★★☆☆☆  Luck: ★★☆☆☆  Strategy: ★★★★☆  Components: ★★★☆☆  Play duration: ★★★☆☆  Easy to teach: ★★★☆☆  Rules quality: ★★★★☆  Setup time: ★★★☆☆  No downtime: ★★★☆☆  Replay value: ★★★☆☆  [/c]
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Benjamín Amorín9.0
Very interesting deckbuilding with Area Control and majorities mechanics. Many ways to play, deep strategies. Love it!
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andycted7.0
Too long for what it is, but fun enough
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