As we continue to make improvements to The Cardboard Republic while we grow incrementally, we’re always looking for new ways to bring our voice on the gaming hobby to a wider audience. One such way is through what you see...
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We gamers like to think of ourselves as highly rational creatures. We pride ourselves on our logic, our strategic victories, our tactical know-how, but how sensible are we, really? Not very, it turns out. Humans, while having the unique opportunity...
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With the rotate of Magic 2014, all sanctioned formats as well as the group that oversees the Commander format announced their updates to banned and restricted lists. The following changes are: Standard, Extended, Modern, Legacy, Vintage No changes ...
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In the Commander format, the single most visual component to most are the legendary creatures themselves. They sit apart from the rest of the other 99 cards, patiently waiting for the moment when they can enter the fight for (or...
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During the 80’s and 90’s, board game developers discovered a new competitor in the growing influence of household digital games. People had been playing in arcades for years at this point, but they usually had to leave their house in...
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You Should Be Playing… Wraith: The Oblivion This was not what the afterlife was supposed to be like. If there is a heaven or a hell, it is in a place far from where this is. Death may have...
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Sometimes, a card has a singular purpose. The hope is that it will do that purpose well, and in a beneficial way to you. There is a reason, after all, that some of the classic core set spells (, ,...
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Weekly News 6/28/13 New Games: Coinciding with the release of the movie, there are two new World War Z games hitting shelves. The first is a competitive card game, and the second is a co-op board game. One neat mechanic...
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Hey – it’s halfway through 2013. If you haven’t figured it out by now, we all survived the Mayan Apocalypse! Well, except no such thing existed. It was a poor misinterpretation that sort of sunk into the cultural psyche. We...
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As we approach the last days of our Indie Spotlight on Stonemaier Games’s Viticulture, we thought about what we could have done to highlight this wonderful game. Some of the things we came up with included: Filming a meeple aria,...
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