Potions of Azerland Components Overview and Impressions
While there is a nice, deluxe version of Potions of Azerland with nice little wooden components, we had a chance to check out the retail release at GenCon 2025, and even went home with a copy thanks to Lucky Duck Games! It was the first title I dove headfirst into when I got home, and the presentation didn’t disappoint.
It’s not all good though, as the mixture of character cards between fantasy characters and real life people – Kickstarter reward, may be? – feels a bit off. It’s all done really well, and Andrew Bosley (Everdell, Rivervalley Glassworks) does a fantastic job here with the art. But it is the only thing that perhaps feels a bit off in this production.
It’s all uphill from there, though. The cardboard quality is really great, with perfectly thick cardboard tokens that nicely pop out of the punch boards – no token tears here! Still, when we still aren’t getting great cardboard quality as a standard in board games in 2025, it is still worth highlighting the companies going above and beyond. Truthfully, this “above and beyond” should become the industry standard. I would have preferred cardboard token shaped resources instead of them all being round, but that’s a minor gripe for sure.
I love a central board that holds almost all the game’s components, and Potions of Azerland seems to do this fairly well. You will have piles of tokens off to the side, but it’s nice that the row of guest cards you can select each round are nicely displayed on the central board. That makes setting up the game a lot easier as “extra” room at the table is kept to a minimum.
The highlight in this production are the priority boards. Each player has a board with five available actions, and they rank them in the priority of which they want to do the most (1-5). As this changes round to round, the tokens marked 1-5 need to slide into the appropriate column for each action.
To do this, the design team has created a three layer cardboard priority token holder that is incredibly well built and very usable. The openings for the priority tokens are a bit wide so the tokens can fall out easily, but as the rule book suggests, a little care when flipping should keep any falling tokens to a minimum.
I’m very excited about Potions of Azerland and this fantastic production only makes me want to table it even more. We will have a full review of the game in a while, but rest assured the production quality is top notch!
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Article By Adam Roffel
