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Doctor Who: The Card Game – Classic Doctor Edition

Description from the publisher: Daleks, Cybermen, The Master – The list of threats is endless and no place in the universe is ever truly safe from danger, but there is one man who has made it his mission to defend the defenseless, help the helpless, and save everyone he can: a my...

Players

2-4

Time

20-60

Age

14+

Weight

2

Rating

5.96

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Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation, frequent interaction, and limited emphasis on cooperation.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 4.0

High replayability

Interaction 3.6

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 2.7

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a mix of direct and strategic confrontation, frequent interaction, and limited emphasis on cooperation.

Replay value

The Doctor Who: The Card Game - Classic Doctor Edition has a high replayability score, offering a great degree of variability in each playthrough with its diverse gameboard, expansions, and strategic depth. The game scales well with different numbers of players and is relatively easy to learn while still providing depth and challenge.

Luck profile

The Doctor Who: The Card Game - Classic Doctor Edition has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. While players have some ability to mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions, luck still plays a significant role. The game's outcome is a balanced mix of luck and strategy.

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Description from the publisher: Daleks, Cybermen, The Master – The list of threats is endless and no place in the universe is ever truly safe from danger, but there is one man who has made it his mission to defend the defenseless, help the helpless, and save everyone he can: a mysterious stranger, a force of nature who has seen his own planet die, a madman with a box. In Doctor Who: The Card Game – Classic Doctor Edition, players act as the Doctor and his companions to defend specific locations while sending the Doctor's enemies to conquer locations your opponents are trying to protect. Each player starts the game with one location, and cards in the deck consist of attackers, defenders, locations and support cards. To start a turn, you draw two cards, pick up any cards banked from a previous turn, and take the three cards passed to you earlier by the player on your left. You play or bank cards until you have only three in hand, then pass those to the player on your right and end your turn. Attackers target specific locations and earn points for the player wielding them if they're in play at the end of the game. Defenders try to remove attackers so that the location owner scores points for protecting the location. Support cards provide different abilities, such as enlarging your bank or providing time points (which can be used to draw additional cards). Whoever has the most points at the end of the game wins! Doctor Who: The Card Game – Classic Doctor Edition can be combined with Doctor Who: The Card Game.

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Designers

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Martin Wallace

Publishers

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Cubicle 7 Entertainment

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