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“…and then we fought about the rules so we put it back in the box and gave up.” If I had a string of lights for every time I heard this shared memory I’d be able to decorate the Rockefeller Christmas tree three times over. Getting your family to agree on anything can be tough, […]
Finding the right gift for the board gamer in your life can be daunting. There’s over 100,000 unique board game items, so we’ve curated a list of our go-to recommendations for different types of board game fans. Consider this list to be your industrial strength neodymium magnet, because it’ll pull a needle out of the […]
A riddle as old as they come: In front of the door stand two guards. One can only tell the truth, and the other can only lie. Wait a minute, YOU’RE one of the guards! And hang on, that’s not a door, that’s a card game! Welcome to Unrest, a new two player asymmetrical card […]
Photo credit: whitewhiskermusica I’ve been in your seat before. You overhear your friends talking about mana, lands, something called a Myr Retriever, and you think to yourself: “what the heck is a planeswalker?” But since you’re reading this article, that means you’ve got at least enough interest to poke your head in the door to […]
I get it. A dedicated group that consistently wants to jam some board games can be tough to come by. People come and go, move, get married, have kids, and embark on all sorts of other lame adult quests that get in the way of what we’re all REALLY put here on Earth to do: […]
Do you feel that? How the air has become so crisp it sends chills straight to the bone? How the leaves begin to turn, crinkle, and fall to the ground, returning to the earth the precious nutrients their tree had stolen? Our planet’s eternal cycle of life, death, and decay marches onward with or without […]
This article is about our Wed / Saturday ongoing commander achievement league, styled around a bingo-style grid of achievements. How to play Commander you can see the Wizards article. For how to build a commander deck, go here. Ah, Commander. The objectively goofiest format in all of Magic. A lawless land where even the tiniest […]
It’s a tale as old as trading card games themselves: a Magic player rolls up to game night with their carefully crafted crab/snake/Rebecca Guay themed deck and faces an insurmountable wall of combos and tremendously powerful cards. The goofiest cards of Magic unfortunately fall flat in the face of Thassa’s Oracles and Dockside Extortionists. By […]
There is nothing on this earth more horrifying and nerve-wracking than reaching the front of the line at a sub shop. You’re about to be bombarded with 16 questions about exactly what you want on your sandwich, and to be fair, you know exactly what you want on your sandwich. But if you say anything […]
