Arcane Wonders Mage Wars Core Spell Tome 1 Game

I love Mage Wars, so more is better. For the price it seems like there could be more cards, but if you like to have several mages built at once and like multiples in your book you really need both tomes.

The Mage Wars: core spell tome is very useful if you want extra options when building your decks. it has most of the necessary spells in copies so you and your friends can make decks of any size.

You overpay for the amount of cards you get but it will give you the extra copies of cards you wanted in the original game. You might want to consider purchasing an entire second copy of the original game instead if you can find a good deal on it.

Great way to have additional cards for the core set. it allows for you to have more than enough cards to have as many repeats as desired.

It's frustrating companies do this. It's even more frustrating when it's a new company who can't stand to lose any potential fans with nickel and diming their customers.You get 110 cards, none of which are new, and most of which are additional singles. As example, this and the Spell Tome 2 each focus on different cards/sets. Tome 1 and 2 I cannot distinguish at this point without extra effort and poking around BGG. But, one will have additional cards of one set, like another bear, another gorilla, another hellfire trap, another blinding flash, etc. The other Spell Tome will focus on the others, like another of the angels, another Brogan, and other spells the first tome didn't focus on. Again, it cannot be stressed enough: these tomes offer (with very few exceptions, like jinx, mana flower, etc.) only singles of already existing cards you've gotten in the core set.I've caught a lot of flak over my opinion on stating I feel it might be more beneficial for potential buyers to purchase another of the core set instead of these spell tomes. However, I stand by my analysis, and my reasoning is this: not only do you get very similar sets of additional cards (in some cases more of a certain card, some cases fewer - there are spreadsheets you can find online which break down the differences) for only about ten dollars more here on Amazon, you also get an entire backup set of markers, additional tokens, and another board. Ten dollars and you're getting just about the same thing, card-wise, but a TON more in extra components.The bottom line is I feel duped into paying fifteen dollars for each of these spell tomes, which is five dollars off msrp, and receiving very little value from the product.(I have similar sentiments about the expansion - imbalanced price/value proposition)