Ten years ago a tiny dragon named Nictotraxian started chewing up your clank cubes, and it has not stopped since. To mark the milestone, Dire Wolf Digital has revealed Clank! Master Thief Edition, a refreshed version of Paul Dennen's deck-building dungeon crawl that debuts at Gen Con 2026 (30 July to 2 August) ahead of a wider rollout. If your group has worn the corners off your original copy, this is the upgrade you were waiting for.
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Find events near youThe Master Thief Edition is more than a coat of paint. The board has been redrawn, while the Rage Track, Health Track and Market have all been split onto their own thick double-sided boards with inset squares for the cube trackers. Gameplay tweaks include nastier Ghosts, an improved endgame, and a sweep of card balance updates. Crucially, every box ships with the Wandering Monsters mini-expansion, an optional module that gives the tunnel monsters new icons, colours and rules.
For the uninitiated, Clank! is a 2-4 player race into a dragon's lair where you build a deck of thieves, weapons and movement cards while trying not to make too much noise. Every clank cube you generate goes into the bag, and the dragon eventually reaches in and starts pulling. It hits a sweet spot between Dominion-style deck-building and a push-your-luck dungeon crawl, and it is still parked in BGG's top 100 nearly a decade after release. The Clank! line has since spawned Catacombs, In Space and Legacy plus a digital version on Steam.
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Set up your group for freeIf you have a group that has not played Clank! in a while, this is a perfect excuse to dust it off, and a 10th anniversary night is exactly the sort of thing local clubs love to run. Plan one and post it on Backseat Gamer so the right people show up.
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