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It's not exactly cube related, but I did my second playtest of a board/card game prototype I've been working on last night. Still very rough, but it was already infinitely more fun than the first playtest, which only went a few turns before I scratched my head and had enough feedback to know to...

Actual Single Card Spotlight: Thoughtseize

I think we all have our own tolerance for variance. On the Hearthstone subreddit, I often see people bemoaning my favorite cards (Discover effects, random card generation). These are the cards that often make watching a stream (or better, playing the game) so enticing, because they create...

Hearthstone is infinitely more watchable on Twitch than MTGO, or worse, the Pro Tour. That said, I'd still much rather just watch a player's stream than a tournament match. For games that I consider "proper" eSports (Melee, CSGO), it's very much the opposite.

I think if people hate variance so much they should pick a different game.

I really quite like the Thoughtseize family of cards, but that may be a personal bias towards cheap hyper-efficient 'interaction'. It feels great to cast, and yes sometimes it sucks to be on the receiving end, but I don't personally find it more negative of a feeling than other scenarios.

How easy is deckbuilding, etc?

Just by how much the whole thing felt like a farce. Dare to dream, etc. And because it's like, MTGO is such a shitcan that it's borderline impossible to get a draft going on there unless WOTC hosts it.

Prepare to Start. Fight to Finish.

I kind of hated that "duet".

I still feel like that "You Make the Cube" contest sucked away part of my soul.

I watched it. My girlfriend and I did the whole "guess the Top 3" thing, and I already had Belgium and Sweden in, debating between Portugal and Italy. I didn't actually like the Italian entry, but the Belgian commentator kept saying that it might be the winner, so I wrote that down. Whoops...

Legitimately forgot this was the Cycling thread.

My experience with Molten Tail is that there are random games that it completely takes over, and some times those outlier BCS examples can warp my view of the card. When I actually put it in my cube, it was such a dud.

I would argue that in constructed you usually figure out what deck someone is playing just by like, their Turn 1/2 plays anyways. The value of the information is in knowing whether specific cards from that archetype are among their holdings.

Has anybody played any of those other deck-based card games? I saw some in a board game shop in Utrecht yesterday (I think Game of Thrones, LOTR, a Cthulu one), but wasn't sure if they were any good.

For me it feels a bit analogous to like... cubing with a random pile of cards vs. cubing with a tailored list. Like in the beginning, my cube was just a box of borrowed cards, but the result of this is that the drafted decks were not as rich with interactions. It tended towards "good stuff"...

Maybe it's just the type of player that I am, but I find the "recommended" kingdom sets way more fun than the randomly generated ones. The random ones often are missing something critical that allows you to build any sort of synergy-based engine, and attempting to do so usually results in a...

Aston and I played some games. Pretty fun, if you don't mind being patient and waiting for my turns that take forever. There are so many deep interactions, and I'm still such a noob that it's hard for me to have much of a gameplan. Like, I go in blind and sometimes I figure out an engine, and...

What's even going on there?