Aeon's End: War Eternal
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Does a random market have to be 4 spells, 3 gems and 2 relics?
The designer answered this directly on BoardGameGeek.
- Aeon's End: War Eternal rulebook · Rulebook · Supply Setup
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- wpflug13 · Community · 2026-08-02
No, but the designers recommend it. The rulebook calls 3 gems, 2 relics and 4 spells a guideline, and the designers say 4 spells, 3 gems and 2 relics is the intended default, best kept until you are more experienced. Hand-picking or putting a card back is not cheating. A market with a decent spread of costs and at least a couple of gems and spells is how the game was designed to be winnable; extreme markets (for example all 6-cost cards) are not. As a sanity check on a random draw, make sure it includes a 3 or 4 cost gem and a 3 or 4 cost spell.