by Boardgameduck

Pixies is a light drafting/set collection game that sees you gathering cute little creatures into your play area over 3 rounds. Cards are openly drafted each turn. You place the creatures depending on their number in a grid. You score points in a few ways: validating cards (placing a card onto of another (in correct number order), swirls on cards, largest contiguous area of the same colour scores an amount of points per card depending on the round, there are also negative points for each X shown on cards. Points are counted up over 3 rounds, and whoever gets the most points wins.

Things I Liked:
🌰 Cutest art! I love art that makes things from other items. The little acorns and leaves etc are really magical!
🌰 Good player interaction from open drafting. You can take cards to hinder other players as well as help you.
🌰 Lots of replayability as the cards aren't guaranteed each round, so you don't know what you'll get.
🌰 Awesome small box game, super portable. The rules are easy to learn, but there's a decent amount to consider when playing, so it's a good little strategy game, too.
🌰 Something to note about player count, at 3+ players, you draft 1 card from the display. At 2 players you draft 2 (in turn). The strategy differs a little in 2 player to 3+. I enjoyed the feel of really considering what benefits you most based on yours and your opponents cards at 2 players. You feel like you have more control over outcomes almost. At 3+ you hope other players actions benefit you somewhat which is still good, just a different strategy depending on player count.

Things I Liked Less
✴️ Scoring for the largest area, each round has different point scoring. In the last round, this can make the difference between being last and coming first. I'd prefer the scoring to be the same for this each round. Otherwise, it means luck is more prevalent for scoring this.

Overall, Pixies is a really solid little card game. I really enjoy playing it at varying player counts. The strategy shines in different ways depending on player count which I really like.

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