You are a sorcerers apprentice. You send familiars to the forest to gather ressources and with them produce magic artifacts or simply extract mana from them. But other apprentices are also competing for experience: who will display the best result? in the magic forest is a mini-worker placement game, were you sent familiars (workers) either to gain ressources or to take one of three actions. Ressources can be used one-time or continuing, depending where they are stored.