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Via Magica

#300936BGG ↗

2020 · 2-6 players · 30min · weight 1.49 · 2,018 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
300936
Name
Via Magica
Year
2020
Rank
2834
Min players
2
Max players
6
Playing time
30
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
30
Avg weight
1.4898
Num weights
49
Bayes avg
6.06318
Average
6.74735
Users rated
2018
Num owned
2760
Wanting
61
Wishing
494
Num comments
343
Fetched at
Sat May 02 2026 15:54:55 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (4)
BingoOpen DraftingPush Your LuckSet Collection
Categories (1)
Card Game
Description (815 chars)

In Via Magica, a new version of Rise of Augustus, you vie with your fellow players to complete "objective" cards for special powers and ultimately for victory points. Each card has 2-6 symbols which you must populate with tokens in order to complete the card. These symbols are drawn one at a time from a bag, with all players gaining the benefit equally, but interestingly, the bag contains more of some symbols than others. So the pivotal skill you'll deploy is in making your choice of which three objectives you'll start the game with (you're dealt six) — balancing potential difficulty of completion against value of the reward — and then which of five available objectives you'll add to your plate each time you complete one of your three. The game ends when someone completes seven objectives.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.