Month: October 2013
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Murder in Baldur’s Gate–D&D Encounters S15 S11
Another great week of D&D Encounters at Mercenary Market in Costa Mesa. Scott was there when we arrived at the shop–ready for his amazing Bard to continue his party leadership. Brian was in rare form this week–I think that the your mom joke meter hit 15–some of them were fantastic, but he did fall back…
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Face The Hydra
As part of the Theros Game Day, Wizards of the Coast released the Face the Hydra deck. The Deck is this awesome play experience that Jack and I have been dying to try & we finally got a chance at Mercenary Market in Costa Mesa.WotC released this fantastic promo video that kind of explains what…
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Lee’s Sandwich Show Down
On Monday, Tuesday, & Thursday I take Jack to Water Polo practice at UCI. This week, while I was waiting for him Brian came by for some Magic. He has a ton of cards in this bag. We set up on a small table outside of Lee’s Sandwich’s which is sadly being turned into a…
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Review Icosahedrophilia Podcast, Episode 170: From Beyond, Part 4
I listened to this late at night while on a load test conference call.It is a fairly entertaining brawl from start to finish–in fact the fight is still raging when the podcast ends.Good fun.
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Time to Feed Attack
So I guess the question here boils down to is “Fight” the same as the “Attack” Step. During our Theros Game Day Draft, Briannah played Time to Feed and had her Polukranos, World Eater Fight Andrew’s Gray Merchant of Asphodel. Andrew Responded with Divine Verdict. Does this work? Is the Polukranos destroyed?I ruled that it…
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Ender’s Game Game
We are going to play Numenera in Line to see Ender’s Game at the Irvine Spectrum IMAX at 8:00 PM on Friday 11/01/13. Team Lower Table, one of my favorite Gamer Groups, has a tradition of playing D&D in front of movie theaters that goes back to the Harry Potter films–recently we have had huge games…
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Who Goes First
At Theros Game Day we had an issue regarding who plays first.The players shuffled & cut and agreed to high roll. Evan, won the high roll decided to go first, then looked at his hand and mulliganed. Andrew decided to keep.Evan reshuffled, cut, and drew six cards. When Evan looked at his hand the second time…
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Theros Game Day Draft @ Magic and Monsters
For the Theros Game Day I took the Tuesday Morning with Magic Crew to Mission Viejo’s Magic and Monsters card shop for the Draft. The shop is a little further than a lot of other shops–we are blessed to live in a MtG Mecca with five shops within 20 minutes. But it was an easy…
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Guardians of Meletis Update
My current favorite Magic card is Gaurdians of Meletis which is so rad it had its own episode on the Geek and Sundry Vlogs station http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/abMlIZ07ioU&source=uds In the Comments, the point was raised that I may be reading to much into this card, so I dropped Magali Villeneuve, the artist a note and asked her. Here is her response…
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