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Houserules & variants
Know a variant your table plays? Add it to Scythe.
The game ends when a player places their FIFTH star rather than their sixth. Scythe's last star is usually a formality the leader grinds out while everyone else watches, and cutting it takes roughly half an hour off.
Tby The-Archivist
Deal each player their faction as normal, then lay every player mat face up and let players choose one in reverse turn order. Scythe's random faction-and-mat pairings are famously uneven — the rulebook bans two outright — and drafting removes the lottery without the table having to agree a tier list first.
Play with objective cards revealed. Everyone can see what everyone is chasing, which makes the mid-game more interactive and less of a guessing exercise.
