Commander Spotlight: Game Preserve [Repost]

Editor’s Note: Due to a combination of local power outages from last week’s storms and game conventions attendances, we had to adjust our schedule a bit to compensate. In the meantime, enjoy this aptly-titled Monday Magic article, which was originally published in November 2017....
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March 2018 Games To Be Played

The next in our monthly To Be Played series has been posted. Check it out! We want to know if you’ve played any on our list or what you hope to get to your own table this month.

The Laurels: Best Socializer Games Of 2017

The Cardboard Republic has rolled out the annual Laurels of the Republic awards, celebrating the best new games released in 2017 for each of the gamer archetypes. What follows are the finalists for one of those groups.  There are few...
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February 2018 Board Game Haul

The next video in our monthly Haul series has been posted! With our busy schedule and very little coming in during January, we held off doing a haul…and even then after two months the influx is relatively small. Relatively. 

Commander Spotlight: Throne of the High City

As we approach the 25th anniversary of Magic, one of the most intriguing things to look back on is what the market was like when it first debuted. In 2018, the ever-dwindling subgenre of collectible card games effectively consists of...
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Vox Republica 162: Without a Fight: Aggressive Games

Episode 162 Length: 57:49 Show Links: RSS | iTunes | Stitcher | Download Episode   Welcome back to Vox Republica, the Cardboard Republic Podcast! We post new episodes every other Thursday, with each episode being about 45 minutes long. Vox...
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Commander Spotlight: Teleportal

A few years ago, when the big debate in the Magic community was ongoing between the use of Hexproof versus Shroud, one of the often cited arguments by Magic R&D in their decision to go ahead with the more intuitive...
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Lanterns – Digital

As interest in board games continues to rise, so too does the interest in exploring new ways of playing those games. One such way is through digital ‘ports’ of those games – translating them PCs, consoles, phones, and tablets. While...
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