Component & deck catalogue

The playable map of Hogwarts castle and grounds.

Setup: Place centrally; shield, token and pawn setup is described separately.

Contains the Dark Arts Path, Hogwarts Loyalty Track and shared card spaces.

Setup: Place above the Main Board and prepare its card rows and tracks.

One board for each Hogwarts house.

Setup: Use only the chosen houses; return unchosen house components to the box.

Personal board for the one Dark Arts player.

Setup: Give it to the Dark Arts player and prepare their starter deck.

The room is revealed and removed as the Loyalty conditions change.

Setup: Keep near the Main Board initially; it is not revealed at setup.

Four decks, each containing seven cards. The count is physical copies, not 28 different named cards.

Setup: Each chosen House player shuffles their matching deck and draws five cards.

A shared source of cards acquired by House players. The card guide shows Filch’s Keys as an example.

Setup: Shuffle it; reveal two cards in the Advanced Acquire Row and two in the Acquire Row.

Book cards have immediate effects and are one of the required shield components.

Setup: Shuffle the deck and reveal two books on the Side Board.

Location objectives are exchanged in pairs to obtain Parchment Scrolls.

Setup: Shuffle it; each House player draws three Location Cards.

The Dark Arts player’s initial personal deck.

Setup: Shuffle it and draw five cards as the starting hand.

The bump acquisition reward uses this deck. Its card guide shows Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder.

Setup: Shuffle it and place it within the Dark Arts player’s area.

Provides the location objective when the red Progress Token is taken.

Setup: Shuffle it and place it face-down on the Side Board; do not draw the target at setup.

Three separate colour decks: five white, five orange and five red Event Cards.

Setup: Separate by colour and shuffle each deck independently.

Four pawns per house, across four houses. One pawn per participating house tracks Loyalty.

Setup: Per chosen house, place three in the Great Hall and one on the first Loyalty Track space.

The box contains seven; use four to seven depending on the number of House players.

Setup: With one/two/three/four House players, use four/five/six/seven pawns. Deploy four; keep any remainder off-board in the pool.

One per house; these are not Hogwarts Tokens.

Setup: Each chosen House player starts with their own marker on their Player Board.

Tracks progress along the Dark Arts Path; it is not a pawn moving on the map or one of the three Progress Tokens.

Setup: Place on the first Dark Arts Path space, at the top left.

One for each of the seven card categories. Each House player can hold only one in total.

Setup: Place all seven on their respective Main Board spaces.

Three require the Dark Detector and three require a D.A. Coin; all also require a book and scroll.

Setup: Shuffle and place one face-up on each Defence Shield Space.

A single shared component awarded under the Loyalty Track rules.

Setup: Place it on its Side Board space before anyone earns it.

Each House player can hold one; obtained in the revealed Room of Requirement.

Setup: Keep by the Main Board with the Room of Requirement piece.

Earned through paired Location Card objectives; each House player can earn two.

Setup: Stack on the Side Board’s designated space.

White Giant, orange Acromantula and red Dementor tokens. These differ from the single Dark Arts Marker.

Setup: Place each on its corresponding Dark Arts Path space.

Reference aids, counted separately from the 148 cards in the game decks.

Setup: Keep beside players for convenient reference.