The ABCs of GMing The ABCs of GMing is an ongoing series about the different skills and ideas needed to run a successful tabletop game. Dedication Any veteran tabletop gamer will tell you that merely just playing a tabletop...
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Deck building in Magic is not an easy thing to accomplish, regardless of what your format of choice is. Whether you’re designing a deck for Standard, or Legacy, or EDH, the formats have different conditions on what you can –...
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You Should Be Playing… Fiasco In a nice Southern town, a web of infidelity, drug abuse, and old feuds twists into a single moment of desperate violence. During the opening night of Eidelsburg Repertory Theatre, a villainous stage manager...
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After our miniseries on two-color cards was wrapping up, we knew we didn’t want to jump right back in to any particular color just yet. Part of this was to avoid possible color favoritism, but, mostly, it was because after...
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There are few areas where humans need the help of the gods more than in the arena of luck. You can plan and work and plot, but if the dice are against you, it’s game over. Luck features prominently in...
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Here we are friends, at the end of the whirlwind party that has been the guild Commander picks. And who better to end the party – and start the afterparty – than the wild and hedonistic Rakdos? These are the...
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Race for the Galaxy is a card game of interstellar development, with various factions sprinting to acquire the most economic, social, or military power to emerge as the dominant civilization in the galaxy. Since it’s release in 2007, it has...
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You Should Be Playing… Unhallowed Metropolis The world ended in 1905, but life continued on. The dead began to rise from their graves, and science was at a loss to explain it. The animated dead surged forth across civilization,...
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We cordially invite you back to us winding down our guild-focused Commander picks. It seems like a whole plane or two ago when we first started this series, and we led off with most secretive guilds going in the Dimir....
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Please forgive a brief diversion. It’s relevant, I swear! In addition to my job as Gamer-At-Large here at the CR, I’m an avid reader. If I’m not gaming or asleep, I’m likely buried in a book. Reading can be lonely...
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