7 Wonders

Lead one of the seven great cities of the Antiquity. Develop your civilization's military, science, culture, and economy. Once built, will your wonder bring you glory for millennia to come?

7 Wonders is a strategy card game for 3 to 7 players.

This new edition features the following improvements:

*Larger wonder boards with new day/night artwork on opposite sides
*The iconography for the cost of each card has been relocated to improve clarity
*Player aid cards are included to better understand chaining
*The rules have been rewritten to make learning the game easier

From BoardGameGeek:
7 Wonders lasts three ages. In each age, players receive seven cards from a particular deck, choose one of those cards, then pass the remainder to an adjacent player, as in Fairy Tale or a Magic: the Gathering booster draft. Players reveal their cards simultaneously, paying resources if needed or collecting resources or interacting with other players in various ways. (Players have individual boards with special powers on which to organize their cards, and the boards are double-sided as in Bauza's Ghost Stories.) Each player then chooses another card from the deck they were passed, and the process repeats until players have six cards in play from that age. After three ages, the game ends.

In essence, 7 Wonders is a card development game along the lines of Race for the Galaxy or Dominion. Some cards have immediate effects, while others provide bonuses or upgrades later in the game. Some cards provide discounts on future purchases. Some provide military strength to overpower your neighbors and others give nothing but victory points. Unlike Magic or Fairy Tale, however, each card is played immediately after being drafted, so you'll know which cards your neighbor is receiving and how his choices might affect what you've already built up. Cards are passed left-right-left over the three ages, so you need to keep an eye on the neighbors in both directions.