Had some fun this afternoon brewing up a funky Devoid list. We're running Morophon naming Eldrazi as the commander, and the gimmick is that we only have colourless lands and everything is Devoid!
There's not much in the way of Annihilator - we're actually trying to combo off with Displacer instead and then sink either infinite ETBs or mana into some of the OGW Eldrazi to give us a win.
As I knew I was on holiday for soft freeze I got all my #qemu maintainer PRs in early for 9.0. It is now released to the wild. The big #arm64 update is FEAT_NV2 emulation as well as a number of enhancements to various board models (and some deprecations of the older unloved code). For #tcg#plugins we now support reading register values as well as a new thread-safe inline ops API. The #gdbstub also saw a number of tweaks. More to come for 9.1 and the tree is now open ;-) https://www.qemu.org/2024/04/23/qemu-9-0-0/
Pokemon cube v1.0 in its entirety, featuring Base, Jungle, Fossil, Rocket and Promos. All that's left for this now is to spend the next few months getting the real cards to replace the proxies of the expensive stuff.
Next year will be the year of adding in Gym Heroes and Gym Challengers to complete the full G1 experience, and then I might move onto Gen 2 since that's still WotC and not power crept yet
Mail day! Latest round of Pokemon cards for the cube - this time its from Team Rocket so we get the powerful but lower HP Dark monsters. We've also got our first promo for the cube, the Mew in the lower right which is from around the release of the first movie
@euphoriagremlin Nightly Garbage run is a must have for any pre-Neo deck, since the biggest danger of base-fossil/rocket/gym is decking out. Oak and bill just make it too easy.
@Roundcat That's interesting! I suspect it'll actually be a little more like "useful utility" in my cube since it's singleton, so card draw effects like Oak and Bill are a touch harder to come across!
Check out Six Forms, "a 'chess style' trading card game crafted for players with a competitive spirit and desire for evocative high-fantasy art," which launched today on Kickstarter. Congrats @kevindees!
Jestem po pierwszych testach karcianki Flesh & Blood z sąsiadem i powiem tak - gra się fajnie, ale mam wrażenie, że twórcy stwierdzili, że dwie średnie (pod kątem skomplikowania) talie i filmiki internetowe to odpowiednie wprowadzenie. A niekoniecznie tak jest.
Taki Magic: the Gathering, który jest skomplikowany, miał piękne, proste talie do nauki (przynajmniej kiedyś) i nawet przygotowane startery z kartami w odpowiedniej kolejności, aby kroku uczyć zasad. Dzięki temu człowiek nabierał kolejne poziomy wprawy i nawet bardzo skomplikowane mechaniki były logiczne.
Tutaj też tak pewnie jest, ale trzeba wykonać większy wysiłek i znaleźć dobre tłumaczenie zasad. Które jest, ale mam wrażenie, że byłoby lepsze, gdyby omawiało przykładową rozgrywkę prawie jak dla kretyna.
Jeśli chodzi o charakter rozgrywki, to o ile MTG był jak batalia dwóch magów, którzy rzucają czary i stwory do walki, tak FAB jest pojedynkiem dwóch szermierzy, którzy uderzają i blokują się nawzajem, a od czasu do czasu rzucą swoje kreatury. Ogólnie fajne, ale mówię - mam wrażenie, że mimo wprowadzenia popełnialiśmy z kolegą masę błędów z interpretacją zasad (szczególnie Go Again).
Hey anybody on the Fediverse got experience with the #pokemontcg ? I got the My First Battle box for my 5 year old and he loves it. We played for two hours and he wanted to play more today. He rarely does anything longer than an hour before wanting to move on.
Question I have is where I should go from there? He’s fairly good a remembering details and rules but I don’t want to start dropping a bunch of rules on him right now away. I can see the starter decks get tired after a bit though so I am wondering what’s the best slow growth path for him?
I also want to try to stave off the addiction that is opening boosters. I know it’s a feature of TCG but I also know how easy it is to fall into the hole of MORE and I’m trying to teach him consuming with purpose, not just getting stuff to have more stuff you know? So things that provide the most bang for your dollar would be best.
@grubbslinger the iPad app is pretty good, so he can get more experience. Buying a box of booster packs is much better value than buying one at a time, and a great time! The pre-made decks have difficulty ratings 1-3 on them, stick with 1s to avoid the most difficult rules. It’s like two Joeys battling Rattata rather than fighting though Battle Tower. #pokemontcg