Samurai Spirit: The 8th Boss

About this expansion

Samurai Spirit: The 8th Boss is a single-card mini-expansion for 1–7 players, with a play time of approximately 30 minutes. Released in 2014, it adds one new boss card to the Samurai Spirit experience.

The card can be shuffled into the base game’s 6-value boss cards. Once included, it enters the game as part of the boss-card pool and may appear in the combat line during play.

This mini-expansion focuses on position and timing. When the 8th Boss card lies in the combat line to the right of a samurai’s board at the start of that samurai’s turn, the players sitting to the samurai’s left and right must each draw a Raider card.

• One single-card mini-expansion
• Designed for Samurai Spirit
• Shuffled with the base game’s 6-value boss cards
• Triggers Raider cards for the players to the left and right of the affected samurai
• Requires those players to add the drawn Raider cards to their combat lines and modify their battle tracks accordingly

The effect is tied to a specific arrangement in the combat line, making the boss card’s location important at the beginning of a turn. The neighboring players are directly affected when the condition is met, drawing Raiders and updating their battle tracks as instructed.

For players who already have Samurai Spirit, Samurai Spirit: The 8th Boss offers a compact way to expand the game with a new boss-card possibility. Its single-card format makes it a focused addition while preserving the base game’s existing 6-value boss-card framework.