Mise En Place

Mise En Place - a retheme of Ascension

PLAY IN FULL SCREEN

A two-player deck-building card game set in a fantasy kitchen. This is based on the cardgame Ascension : Chronicle of the Godslayer

Both players run competing kitchens, hiring Chefs and buying Tools to generate resources — then spending those resources to serve Recipes and claim Fame. The player with the most Fame when the kitchen runs dry wins.

How to Play

  Each player starts with a 10-card deck (8 Kitchen Hands, 2 Trainee Cooks) and draws 5 cards. Six cards from the shared

House Deck are laid out face-up on the Pass, available to both players.

On your turn:

  1. Play Phase — Play any Chefs from your hand. Each generates Ingredients or Reputation. Tools you've already bought  contribute automatically.

  2. Spend Phase — Use your resources in any order:

    - Spend Reputation to hire a Chef or buy a Tool from the Pass

    - Spend Ingredients to serve a Recipe from the Pass and claim its Fame reward

    - Chefs go to your discard; Tools stay in play permanently

  3. Cleanup — Discard your hand, draw 5 new cards. Reshuffle your discard if your deck runs out.  The game ends when either the Fame Pool or the House Deck is exhausted. Most Fame wins.

 Key Rules

  - Recipes never enter your deck — serve them from the Pass and they're gone

  - Ingredients and Reputation are separate — you can't convert one into the other unless a card says so

  - Unused resources are lost at end of turn

  - Bin a card to remove it from the game permanently — the key to slimming your deck

 Cards

  Four factions with distinct playstyles:

  - Gilded Scroll — card draw and free Recipe serving

  - Verdant Table — Ingredient generation and free hiring

  - Iron Forge — Tools that synergise and snowball

  - Ashen Pit — raw Prep output and deck thinning