This is a clever trading card game you won't believe comes from Avalon Hill in which the players are early American alchemists who are trying to create sets of jewels in order to accumulate the most Dave Eggers novels.

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Thanks to the following BGGers for their help in adding words and phrases: ben_ethus, chaddyboy_2000, derscheid, dodonna, pronoblem
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