Author:Brent Povis

Morels, a strategic card game fortwo players, uses two decks: a Day Deck (84 cards) including ten differenttypes of mushrooms as well as baskets, cider, butter, pans, and moons, and asmaller Night Deck (8 cards) of mushrooms to be foraged by moonlight. Eachmushroom card has two values: one for selling and one for cooking. Selling twoor more like mushrooms grants foraging sticks that expand your options in theforest (that is, the running tableau of eight face-up cards on the table),enabling offensive or defensive plays that change with every game played.Cooking sets of three or more like mushrooms – sizzling in butter or cider ifthe set is large enough – earns points toward winning the game. With poisonousmushrooms wielding their wrath and a hand-size limit to manage, card selectionis a tricky proposition at every turn.