A few years ago my boys’ friends started talking about Minecraft. After a few months of hearing this, we installed Minecraft on our computers, and my kids’ addiction to Minecraft started. They started incorporating it into their schoolwork, and they bought the toys with their allowance, and then a few months ago my boys discovered there’s a Minecraft card game, and they HAD to have it and add it to our gameschooling. They managed to sucker their aunt into buying them the game to play together, and it wasn’t all that long before they’d pulled it out and played several rounds.
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Setting up your Minecraft card game*
In the middle of the table set up four rows of crafting card cards that you can build with the crafting side up. Besides it are five rows of resource cards (I was just double checking the rules, and my son taught me the game wrong, they’re dealt face down, not face up like we played them, nevermind reread the rules and they taught me right), you know all those little blocks they spend time digging out when playing the game. Actually, I don’t know a thing about it because I get motion sickness watching Minecraft. Minecraft is the only thing that causes it for me. Go figure. Future Ticia 2024 has now figured out it is 1st person types of games. This is also why we don’t have much in the way of minecraft homeschool (much to my dismay).
Each player gets a small plastic card holder, you’ll see what you do with it during your turn in just a moment.
How your turn goes during the Minecraft game
On each turn you get two actions. There are three possible actions:
- mine- choose a resource, usually they go into your hands, but there are a few special cards
- craft- build something, trade in the resources you’ve collected and put them in the discard pile in exchange for the item
- reserve- choose a crafting item to build in the future and put it in your plastic card holder, you can only ever reserve one item, and you have to build it before you can get a new one
The special cards are wild card (self-explanatory), TNT (clears the board and you get two resources), and creeper (everyone discards a card, boo)
How you win
Remember how you’re crafting stuff, each of those items has a dual purpose. First, they give you points, next they let you perform special actions like being immune to a creeper or get some extra resources.
My tips and tricks for Minecraft Card Game
This is a resource management card game. It’s a great way to start your kids learning how to count cards. Not that I do that or anything…..
Be careful about reserving an item, if the resources to build the item are in the discard pile your reserve spot is going to be tied up for a long time.
It’s better to use the special ability than to save it for “just the right time”.
Honestly, that’s it, it’s a fun simple game you can play in just a few minutes. I love that kind of game because I can play with my boys and then go to work on dinner.
Some more fun card games
One more quick tip
I’ve been working on our board game storage, and I figured out putting giant rubber bands* around my card games help keep these smaller boxes together. Our My Dwarves Fly boxes are practically falling apart, and this keeps all of the pieces in the boxes.
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