Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! This week we’ll continue our survey of Commander themes, and take another look at new cards for Dragons of Tarkir which have been spoiled in the last week. If you missed them, here are the other two theme articles: #1 (Intro, Blink, Equipment, Tokens), and #2 (Sacrifice, Artifacts, and Tribal). Ramp/Big Mana …
Recently the folks at Board Game Geek got a chance to do a play through of Pandemic: Legacy. A picture of some of the games components were posted onto Twitter. Here are some speculations of things to come! Being able to name your characters is a really cool feature. It’s just one aspect that shows …
Welcome back to Spells and Whistles! Two weeks ago we used Karla Ortiz’s fine work on [mtg_card]Liliana, Heretical Healer[/mtg_card] and [mtg_card]Liliana, Defiant Necromancer[/mtg_card] as a jumping off point for talking about Liliana as a character and her presentation throughout the years. But time flies in the Multiverse! This week, previews for the upcoming Dragons of …
FINALLY! The exciting conclusion to our battle against Timamat! Will we prevail against a Goddess? Listen to find out. This week we are joined by Nika Howard (@nika_howard), Sam (@creeptasticsam), Matthew Morris (@matthewmmorris), Fred Greenleaf (@IThinkImFred), Phillip Canada (@canada_phillip), Dylan Ekren (@dekren), and Michael DiMauro (@thriftynerd) as they take on our DM for this session: …
While the rest of GeeklyInc.com is off at PAX East this weekend, trying new games and writing them up on the website, I’m stuck at home. Fortunately, that meant I was able to dodge the crowds and catch the livestream of the Magic: The Gathering panel. It was a doozy! Let me tell you all …
Welcome back to Magic Gatherings! Last week we started a long-term project: examining themes you can use to build your Commander decks. As we mentioned, themes help you wrap your mind around the deck itself, and choose the right cards for it. They also help you explain what the decks do, and give the deck’s …
Explaining the rules of a new board game to other people can be one of the most challenging aspects of board games for players. The task usually falls to the owner of the game in addition to the blame if a minor rule is forgotten or misinterpreted. The following are some tips to help improve …
Why do all these strange things happen to us? We just want to have a nice night with friends, maybe save the world. Nothing big. Nothing special. But no! We have to go deal with this zany necromancer. Why does he have so many weird rooms? This is zany. The adventure continues with Titus Harper …
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. Losing, it’s one of those things that pretty much everyone hates. Most board game enthusiasts will say that playing the game is what’s …
In last week’s article about preconstructed Commander decks, I mentioned that among the best features of these decks (as well as a source of a few of their flaws) was that each deck supports multiple themes. By “theme,” I mean a set of cards in each deck which all support a common strategy or gameplan—they …