5. Adventure. Want to rule Wall Street? Colonize Mars? Trek through the Amazon? No matter what your preferred adventure, there’s a game for you. Even once you’ve picked your game, you never really know what it’s going to bring to...
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Speeding Around the Learning Curve Or, Introducing New Players to the Pleasure and Complexity of Non-Gateway Games Let me set the scene: its game night. The board is out, the pieces are distributed. You’re waiting on one more guy ....
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One of the most common things players run into when having decks of more than two colors is finding ways of reliably generating the mana they need when they need it (which is usually now ). In general, this is...
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No discussion can be made on rule variants without eventually bringing up Risk. This classic board game is iconic, right behind Monopoly as one of the most recognizable board games ever made. Risk is a game of global domination, with...
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With a regular game of two-player Magic, you have a lot to focus on. You have your hand, what you currently have in play, available mana for your spells, colors of mana for said spells, life total, possible cards in...
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Qualities to Look for in a Gateway Game Or, The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Newbs Gateway Game (n): 1. The first non-mainstream game played by a new gamer. 2. The first game played by a new gamer that...
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As the title probably gives away, we are going to talk about EDH / Commander for a bit. You should expect that here at the Cardboard Republic. When it comes to Magic: the Gathering, our focus is on formats and...
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I love Cards Against Humanity. I am glad there exists such a game that fuels that nasty side of me that appears when I play Apples to Apples. (You have no idea how many disgusted looks you can get...
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As a long-standing casual Magic player, I spent most of my time as avoiding the big tournaments. I never really got into the different formats (everything I play is technically Legacy, but nothing on a tournament level). As a result,...
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