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Vault cards are discovered by delving the sealed vaults, adventuring, or buying them from Student Stores. Each gives a new and potent power to candidates.

Voters use their criteria to decide who will win at the end of the game. You will need to send your apprentices to spy on the consortium and find out scoring conditions!

Images of various supporter cards. Some cards have no effect, but they still count for triggering the voter conditions at the game's end, so taking one is a huge tell as to your plans.

Components overview of Argent: The Consortium.

Preview of the starter spells for the five standard candidates in the game. These are still subject to change.

The Adventuring Room gives you a choice between the three major types of cards in the game: Spells, Supporters, and Vault Cards.

Argent: The Consortium (2015)

Players

2–5

Best: 3, 4

Playing time

60–150 min

Age

10+

7.60

Average rating

4,793

Ratings

3.75/5

Weight

#646

BGG rank

Top 1,000

Alternate names:Аргент: Совет магов

Designer:Trey Chambers

Artist:Eunice Abigael Tiu, Jennifer Easley

Publisher:Level 99 Games +2 more

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy9.0

Luck3.0

Interaction9.0

Complexity7.5

Theme6.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

PoliticalFantasyModular BoardVariable Player PowersArea Majority / InfluenceWorker PlacementTake ThatWorker Placement, Different Worker Types

Overview

The time has come for the selection of a new Chancellor at Argent University of Magic, and you are among the likely candidates for the job. Gather your apprentices, ready your spellbook, and build your influence, while secretly discovering and competing over the votes of a limited Consortium of influential board members. Only the one who is able to fulfill the most criteria will claim the title of most influential mage in the World of Indines!

Argent: The Consortium is a cutthroat worker-placement/engine-building game of manipulation and secrecy in which the criteria for victory are secret and the capabilities of your opponents are constantly changing. You'll need to outwit the other candidates, use your spells at the right moment, and choose the correct apprentices to manage your plan.

Argent: The Consortium is a European-style game that minimizes luck and focuses on player interaction and strong core mechanisms that allow new strategies to emerge each time you play.

The designer keeps an updated Official Errata/Typo/FAQ thread on BGG.