Quick Verdict
Mushoku Tensei TRicKGEAR (無職転生 トリックギア): a trump-based battle royale board game from Algernon Product at 1,650 yen tax included. Seventeen character cards plus a rulebook — but no trump deck in the box; each player needs their own 54-card deck. The quality is genuinely good. The problem: every card’s skill text is in Japanese, and if you can’t read it, you cannot know what the fun is. This is a play aid, not a collectible — I’d steer clear unless you really love Mushoku Tensei.
What Is It?
A battle royale game fought with trump cards, split into two parts: the “Select” phase where you pick your characters, and the “Battle” phase where you fight with them. Win by keeping your character alive last. Play runs in two stages. First the Select: character cards are shuffled and drafted — each player ends up with four, keeps three for battle and one face-down. Then the Battle: your trump deck becomes the mountain, LIFE cards go face-down in the LIFE area, you draw your HAND, and rounds run through four phases — set, action, damage, cleanup — until one character stands. The 17 character cards each show the character’s name, a suit and rank (the trump card it symbolizes — a matching trump can be used as a “third Joker”), a skill, LIFE and HAND values, with effect text along the bottom.
Wait, No Trump Deck Included?
Correct — the box holds 17 character cards and one rulebook, and it feels half empty. The back states it plainly: each player needs a separate 54-card trump deck (including 2 jokers) to play. It pairs naturally with the Mushoku Tensei playing cards from the same maker that I reviewed separately — same company, same series logic, and now I see why both exist.
The Box
The front shows Rudeus, Eris, and Sylphiette under the TRicKGEAR title. The side marks AGE 10+, 2–4 players, 20–40 minutes. The back lists the contents (17 character cards, 1 rulebook), the separate-deck requirement, the maker (株式会社アルジャーノンプロダクト), the 1,650 yen tax-included price, MADE IN JAPAN, Game Design: Studio OZON / 仙望廊, and the ©理不尽な孫の手／MFブックス／「無職転生Ⅱ」製作委員会 notice, plus a KADOKAWA hologram sticker (45721481).
The Rulebook Is Thorough — and Unreadable to Me
Eight dense pages: how to read the cards (name, suit and rank, skill, LIFE, HAND), the standard select draft (each player drafts four character cards, keeps three plus one face-down), battle setup with a card layout diagram (field, rate, charge, cost, LIFE, and hand areas), the four-phase round flow, and a glossary. The set phase has everyone play a field card face-down, with a clash check for ties. The action phase runs skill use, raises, and passes in turn order. Damage goes to the round winner’s rate value. The glossary covers costs (paid in suit cards), charges, life, reloads when the mountain runs out, and jokers — any trump card can serve as one, and a character card whose suit and rank match counts as a “third joker.” The structure is genuinely well-made. I’m studying Japanese hard, but I’m still at the baby-babbling stage — I couldn’t understand a single line of the effect text, which stung. That’s the core of this review: the quality is real, but it’s locked behind the language.
Worth Buying?
The quality is good, but if you can’t read Japanese, you can’t access the fun — the skills, the play flow, all of it stays behind the language barrier. This is a play aid rather than something to collect and admire on a shelf. Unless you really love Mushoku Tensei — enough to learn the rules, ideally with people to play with — I’d advise passing. For the right buyer (a Japanese-reading fan with a play group and a trump deck), this could be genuinely good.
Facts and How to Check
- Product: 無職転生 トリックギア (TRicKGEAR), 17 character cards + 1 rulebook.
- Requires a separate 54-card trump deck per player (not included).
- Price: 1,650 yen tax included.
- Maker: 株式会社アルジャーノンプロダクト.
- MADE IN JAPAN.
- Ages 10+. 2–4 players. 20–40 min.
- Game Design: Studio OZON / 仙望廊. ©理不尽な孫の手／MFブックス／「無職転生Ⅱ」製作委員会.
- Official JP name: 無職転生 トリックギア
- Search: 無職転生 トリックギア
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