51st State: Master Set

About this board game

51st State: Master Set is a card game for 1–4 players, with a playing time of about 90 minutes. Set thirty years after the war that destroyed the United States, it places players in control of powers competing to establish a new order in the ruins.

Build a new country by putting locations into play, hiring leaders, and sending people to work in buildings. These choices help you gain resources and develop new skills as you expand your influence across the devastated nation.

Every card offers three different ways to use it, creating meaningful decisions throughout the game. You can choose to:

• Raze a location to gain many resources once.
• Deal with a location to gain one resource every turn.
• Build the location so you can use its skill each turn.

The Master Set marks the rebirth of the 51st State line and brings together material from the original game and two expansions. It contains 88 cards from the original base game, plus 50 cards from New Era and 50 cards from Winter.

One expansion can be mixed with the base-game cards at a time, but both expansions are not used together. The entire collection has been rebalanced to provide a cohesive experience regardless of which expansion you choose, making 51st State: Master Set a unified way to explore the struggle to create a new state from the ruins.