Magistrat is an expansion to SPEICHERSTADT HAMBURG and consists of 35 action cards, which give the players additional options to take control over their success. The cards are shuffled with 15 Storehouse cards and from that pile you take 10 cards in each harbour phase, one to each package of 2 ware cards to create a three card set. Likewise the basic game each player buys two of these sets in the harbour phase. New options of the Magistrat cards are for example: - exchange cards from the sets in the harbour phase - take your own cards into account only when evaluating the income - increase the value of your gift to the senate - get more victory points for your gift - count MAGISTRAT-cards to get victory points at the end (the more cards the more efficient are they) The expansion was distributed at Essen 2012 and is now available everywhere you get the base game. The expansion comes along with short rules. Complete rules are on the website for download.