The best merchants are those who understand the desires and demands of their customers long before those customers even ask. It turns, out the illegal arms trade works with a similar model. In Battle Merchants, players have to carefully manage...
Read more »
When you’ve been around Magic long enough to see dozens of sets come and go (or you’re a drafting type), how you look at a set changes over time. You’re still able to stare at a completed list of cards...
Read more »
Before Battle Merchants joined the Minion Games library, before the pair of Kickstarters were run to fund it, and even before players were exchanging sharp axes and hefty hammers with anyone willing to pay, Battle Merchants once looked very different....
Read more »
Dave of the Five Rings is an ongoing series chronicling David Gordon’s return to the Legend of the Five Rings CCG after several years. He will be tracking his progress from the launch of the game’s new core set, Ivory...
Read more »
Progress is like a river: it’s rarely in a straight line, and it doesn’t always behave the way you’d expect. Sometimes progress is a meandering stream, slowly working its way along. Other times it’s like quick-moving rapids, with radical direction...
Read more »
As part of our September Spotlight on Battle Merchants, we strive to inform the readers of little extra tidbits surrounding the game. Games are made by people, and one of those tidbits we enjoy is learning a little bit more...
Read more »
There is a grand force always at work in the game of Magic. Beyond the deck construction, close calls, and one-sided roflstomps lies an ever moving tide. Past the myriad of planes visited and the worlds explored inside and out...
Read more »
You Should Be Playing… Our Last Best Hope It was not an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. The most powerful, dominant collection of species this world had ever seen fell not to some chance teleological disaster. No, the extinction...
Read more »
If you’ve played Commander for more than 15 minutes, you’ve likely run into one of the most asked questions you can hear in the format: “Did you pay one?” This seemingly innocuous question is only outmatched by players asking whose...
Read more »
Dave of the Five Rings is an ongoing series chronicling David Gordon’s return to the Legend of the Five Rings CCG after several years. He will be tracking his progress from the launch of the game’s new core set, Ivory...
Read more »