Mantis draft

Draft individual systems, factions, and speaker positions. Keep three blue and two red tiles, then build your approach to Mecatol Rex.

Configure
Create lobby
Invite players

Create a shared lobby

Choose your settings and create the lobby, then share its link. Everyone enters their own name to join, including you if you are playing. Start the draft once everyone has joined. Each player’s recovery code and this browser’s saved access let them return later.

Use join order for the snake draft

Otherwise the initial draft order is shuffled. Speaker positions are chosen during the draft.

Prophecy of Kings

Thunder's Edge

Discordant Stars

Base game content is always included.

Factions in the public pool

30 factions available with the current content and bans.

Banned factions

Required factions

Enable a faction's content before adding it. Existing choices are kept when content is disabled.

Extra blue tiles

Extra red tiles

Build the map with your drafted tiles

If you draft extra tiles, choose which to discard until you have exactly 3 blue and 2 red. Once every hand is ready, map building starts automatically. The app sets the layout and home systems using your drafted seats and factions. On your turn, it draws one of your remaining tiles at random; you choose which highlighted space in your section receives it.

1. Collect your tilesPick individual tiles from the public pool: 3 blue + 2 red per player.
2. Keep your fiveKeep all 3 blue + 2 red. These same five tiles go into your own hand for map building.
3. Place them on the map
Seat 1: home H1 and the five matching spaces form this player’s slice. Place tiles only in this slice’s numbered spaces.
6-player map · H: home · M: Mecatol Rex
Draw one of your remaining tiles at random each turn. Place it in a highlighted space in your section. Fill your one space marked 1, then your two spaces marked 2, then your two spaces marked 3. Everyone completes each stage before the next stage begins.Optional mulligan. Each player gets 1 mulligan for the entire map build. Before placing your drawn tile, press Mulligan to draw a different tile at random from your remaining hand. The original stays in your hand to place later. You keep your turn and the same highlighted spaces. You need at least two unplaced tiles and a mulligan left.

Everyone fills their one stage 1 space, then their two stage 2 spaces, then their two stage 3 spaces, as numbered in the map above. The player with the most empty spaces in the current group places next; ties follow speaker order. All five of your kept tiles are placed, with your home system in a separate home position.

Mulligans per player

Total redraws per player for the whole map build. Draw a different tile from your remaining hand; the original stays to be placed later.