What We Know About Magic: The Gathering

Well, some of it anyway. The first 7000 words.
Written for BGG, so you’ll find it here.
- Jan. 8, 2009

Totally Awesome Thread

Go read this.

Zendikar’s Basic Lands

Cthulhu And Pals

One of our intrepid correspondents, am statham, was experimenting with the idea of Lovecraftian planeswalkers. Here’s how some of them came out.

Five-Color Lands On A Budget

Conflux is going to make casual players want to play five colors.
However, really good five-color lands can set you back quite a bit. If you’re just playing casual Magic, City of Brass might seem a little expensive. Even just one Gemstone Mine, which only taps for any color a few times, will set you back [...]

Frankenstein’s Monster Math

For BB, what do you get with Frankenstein’s Monster? A 0/1.
For 1BB?  A 2/1, a 1/2 or a 0/3.
2BB: 4/1, 3/2, 2/3, 1/4 or 0/5.
3BB: 6/1, 5/2, 4/3, 3/4, 2/5, 1/6 or 0/7.
4BB: 8/1, 7/2, 6/3, 5/4, 4/5, 3/6, 2/7, 1/8 or 0/9.
5BB: 10/1, 9/2, 8/3, 7/4, 6/5, 5/6, 4/7, 3/8, 2/9, 1/10 or [...]

Surrounded By Humans

A Battlestar Galactica board game session report
For this game of Battlestar Galactica, we have five players.
Little Man chooses to play Baltar. This seems to be his favorite character or something.
Mike chooses Adama. Therefore he is the admiral.
I decide that it would be fun to play Starbuck, since I haven’t played a pilot yet.
Jose picks Boomer, [...]

Three Fundamental Magic Strategy Articles

Of all the Magic strategy articles that have been written over the years, like grains of sand, there are three that stand out to us like lost silver dollars at the beach.
Anyone who wants to improve his game or even understand the game would be well-served by reading them. There’s more dreamed of in heaven [...]

What We Know About Dungeon Twister

Dungeon Twister is an amazing kickass game about adventurer groups in a dungeon. It’s like Dungeons & Dragons, sort of, but instead of playing with people, you’re playing against them. There’s almost no element of chance in Dungeon Twister, so it’s pretty much skill against skill.
There is knowing how to play Dungeon Twister, and there [...]

Tsabo Tavoc, Herald

Continuing our fun with the Strange Eons freeware, here is our Tsabo Tavoc herald for the board game Arkham Horror. This herald requires a special monster token. Take a mask or spawn monster not in the current game and use it in the monster cup as a proxy. You’ve proxied things before, right?

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