Disney Sorcerer’s Arena Review

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We review Disney's Sorcerer Arena, a family weight skirmish game published by The Op. In Disney's Sorcerer Arena, players will assemble a team of familiar Disney characters and battle it out for supremacy.

There are a few things that are basically unavoidable in this world; most notably death and taxes as Benjamin Franklin once said. Another one is Disney as the family entertainment giant gobbles up intellectual properties in its own corporate version of Pac-Man or the Borg. Kind of weird that I couldn’t think of a Disney example of this but let’s move on.

Disney’s Sorcerer’s Arena is the Op’s take on the video game of the same name which is a skirmish game using characters from various TV shows and movies in a family-friendly version of Unmatched.

In full disclosure, I am employed by the Walt Disney Company as an engineer at one of the theme Parks. I don’t work with anyone in any gaming or consumer products groups, but I’m still going into this review with an open mind. Even with that potential bias, the BGQ HQ felt like I had fewer conflicts of interest than even the stay-at-home dads among our other writers. My biggest concern with reviewing the game was actually the words “core box” written on it. But I’m sure it’s just a casual game, like X-Wing and Marvel United and I have nothing to worry about.

The rules are set up to slowly introduce players to the game a few pieces at a time over four chapters. For this overview, I’m going to jump to Chapter 4 is also how most people will generally play this game.

For a typical two-player game the two teams of three heroes are serpentinely drafted from the eight available characters in the core box (or more if you add an expansion). Character card decks are shuffled together