Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! Last week we finished up our short series on themes. This week we’ll put some ideas from that series into practice as we look at my Selvala, Explorer Returned deck. This is a deck I was excited about, but it didn’t work out. I’ll talk about what was going on …
You can usually count on Amazon for substantial sales of board games and card games, but they have stepped it up for International TableTop Day. There are plenty of games on sale including classics like 7 Wonders, newer games like Splendor and Five Tribes, and even indie games like The Resistance and Love Letter (including the …
Geekly Essential means that something is so good that it deserves to be discussed long after it was released. It may be 10 years old, but it is still worth your time. When I was introduced to Euro-style board games, the first game we played was Settlers of Catan. It was eye-opening. The step up …
International Tabletop Day this year falls on Saturday 11th April and to celebrate this event we are hosting a 24 hour live stream of tabletop gaming on the Geekly Inc Twitch channel (www.twitch.tv/geeklyinc). This will be a charity event and we are proud to announce that the proceeds will benefit The Trevor Project, which is the leading national organization …
Disclaimer: the board game is massive and currently has 4 expansions. I will be giving a brief overview of how to play the game and highlight from each expansion the main differences. “Sometimes you have to roll the hard 6”. Vipers zoom past and dodge shots from incoming Cylon raiders, trying to eliminate the …
Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! This week we’re wrapping up our extended look at themes in Commander decks. In case you missed the previous installments, here are some links: Part 1: Series intro, Blink, Equipment, Tokens Part 2: Sacrifice, Artifacts, Tribal Part 3: Ramp, Fatties, Pillowfort, Lifegain Graveyard and Recursion One of the most robust …
At some point we have all felt the frustration of losing a game and wanting to just knock all the pieces off the board. Not all of us? Okay, well I have at least, so when I got to play Cube Quest: Clash for the Crown at PAX East this year, I knew it was …
Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! Last week, we took a look at the new set, Dragons of Tarkir, and tried to figure out what sorts of limited strategies its cards would encourage. Today, we’ll have a bit of a grab bag: first, having actually now played the cards at the prerelease, we’ll refine our picture of …
We are proud to announce that our International Tabletop Day charity stream will benefit The Trevor Project, which is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people from ages 13-24. You can find out more about this organization on their website www.thetrevorproject.org For more information …
International Tabletop Day this year falls on Saturday 11th April and to celebrate this event we will be hosting a 24 hour live stream of tabletop gaming on the Geekly Inc Twitch channel (www.twitch.tv/geeklyinc). This will be a charity driven event and we will be announcing the charity very shortly. The stream will begin at …