Objective of the Game

In It's a Wonderful World: Corruption & Ascension, you are leading an empire through a period of rapid expansion and technological advancement. Your goal is to build a powerful civilization by constructing cards and managing resources. The player with the most Victory Points (VPs) at the end of the game wins.

Setup

To get your empire ready, follow these steps:

• Place resources on the game board (including Generals and Financiers); note that resources are not limited.
• Deal each player an Empire card. All players must select the same side of the card.
• Designate specific areas for your draft and construction.

Game Flow

The game consists of 4 rounds. Each round is divided into 3 phases where players act simultaneously:

1. Draft: Each player is dealt 7 cards (5 classic cards and 2 ascension cards). Players then proceed to draft them in the direction shown on the game board, revealing every card publicly into your draft area.
2. Planning: Each player decides which draft cards to Recycle (for its recycle bonus) and which to Slate for Construction.
   • When using a recycle bonus, place the cards on a card slated for production, or on your Empire.
   • If you finish a construction, use its construction bonus right away and place the card within your Empire.
3. Production: This occurs in 5 phases, ordered by the game board. Your constructed cards produce a type of resources.
   • Assign these to your cards slated for construction, or to your Empire card if unused.
   • If you produced the most resources of a type (not tied), you gain the corresponding Supremacy bonus.

Actions and How to Play

During the Planning and Production phases, you will manage several mechanics:

• Construction: You select cards from your draft to be built. Cards produce in the round they are constructed.
• Recycling: You can choose to Recycle a card to gain its recycle bonus instead of building it.
• Discarding: At any time, you may discard a card slated for construction. If you do, you discard any cubes on it, but you gain its recycle bonus on your Empire card only.
• Resource Management:
  • You may move red cubes (Krystallium) and characters off your Empire card to a card slated for production.
  • You may not move other cubes once they are allocated to a construction or to your Empire card.
  • Wild Cubes: 5 cubes of any type are transformed into a red (= wild) cube.
• Corruption: Corruption decreases production (which impacts Supremacy), though it cannot go below 0.

End of Game and Scoring

The game ends after the 4th round. Once the final round is complete, players tally their VPs based on the following criteria:

• Empire Card and constructions.
• Specific Card Scoring: Some cards provide VPs based on the number of constructions of a certain type, or the number of Generals/Financiers you control.
• Pair Scoring: Some cards score for each pair of other cards you hold.

Note: Other resources and unfinished cards hold no value.

Tips for Winning

Consulte o manual para detalhes sobre esta seção.