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Motto Tanto Cuore

GarDenparty and Chief Maids

Tanto Cuore is a card game featuring Manga style illustration and is based on the mechanisms of Dominion and other deck building games. Playes are lords of the manor who hire servants for an optimal service crew, that is, their optimum deck. Those maids can get ill or develop bad habits, but also earn you victory points. If you collect most of them you win. 16 maids are available, 10 are chosen for a game, supplemented by decks for the Head Maids Marianne and Colette as well as decks representing Bad Habits and Sickness. You play cards from your hand, use them and discard them into your personal discard pile, draw cards from your personal draw pile, buy cards, etc.

Motto Tanto Cuore is not an expansion, but a variant of Tanto Cuore on the topic of a big garden party. The deck building mechanism in Tanto Cuore is supplemented with a sort of worker placement mechanism; in each round you choose one of the available Chief maids in order to assistance with Food, Decoration and Cleaning. At the end of the game cards in those categories, all in all called Preparation cards, are scored and also some of the maids themselves. If you have the highest score you contributed most to the party. You can play Motto Tanto Cuore as a stand-alone game or combine it with cards from other Tanto Cuore Sets, for instance adding 10 maids of any kind for a general stack.

If you like Manga, deck building and worker placement mechanisms you will have fun with Tanto Cuore, but you will have to get the card translations and rules from the internet, the box version is Japanese language only.

Players: 2-4

Age: 13+

Time: 60+

Designer: Masayuki Kudo

Artist: Tohru Adumi, Akira Hayase und Team

Price: ca. 50 Euro

Publisher: Arclight 2012

Web: http://japonbrand.gamers-jp.com/

Genre: Deck building

Users: With friends

Version: jp

Rules: jp + de en

In-game text: yes

Comments:

English card texts and rules available for download

Recommended for owners of Tanto Cuore

Variant, not an expansion

Can be expanded with cards from Tanto Cuore

Compares to:

Dominion and other deck building games

Other editions:

Currently none

Chance (pink): 2

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 1

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 1

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0