Mage Knight Update

I haven’t played too much Mage Knight recently. I played with the TaoLing1 a few times last summer. But at a recent convention one of the Wiz Kid reps asked me if I wanted to try Mage Knight Emergence: The Portal to Power,2 which is apparently a Res Arcana Duo like product. A game that can serve as a 2p introduction to the system, or an expansion you just shuffle in. I’m not a completist (I didn’t buy the ultimate edition, so my set is 4-5 cards short of complete), but I just shook me head “No thanks, I’ll just buy it when it comes out.” So he gave me a few preview cards from the expansion. Thankfully I have a few extra sleeves of the various correct colors so I could just add them in. (I’m pushing 500 plays with my set3, wear is definitely noticeable on components. I sleeved my game after 100 ish plays4). I use dice to randomize tiles and chits, but the cards would be gone without sleeves. And there is MK: The Apocalypse Dragon, coming out sometime this year, according to BGG. All of…