Thinking Outside the Box

Anyone who likes horror has probably heard of H.P. Lovecraft. If you haven't heard of him, you've likely heard of his greatest creation, Cthulhu. The Call of Cthulhu Living Card Game is a game where you control terrifying monsters, intrepid investigators, dark cultists trying to awaken the great old ones or stop them. I'm looking to start league play for this game. To play in the first phase (6 events), league players will need to buy one core set, and two asylum packs. If you are interested in a demo feel free to ask me for one. We need at least 4 to 6 players to get things started. Ideally we would run this game on the alternate Fridays from our VS events.

I tried posting something longer, but the interweb ate my text. So I'll just say congratulations to Roy, Sebastien and Vern for placing 1st thru 3rd on Friday night. And thanks to everyone else for coming out to play in the arctic freeze we've been experiencing lately!

Well the deadline has passed and here's the ban-list that was submitted: - Deadpool, Party Pooper - Flying Kick - Goblin Glider - Mobilize - Warp Shards - Weapon Plus Sattelite - X-Men Assemble If a card has been printed in more than one set consider ALL versions of it to be banned for the night. It looks like most of us aren't alone in thinking that the newer sets have some of the more frustrating cards to play against. :) Go to work gentlemen!

So tonight we had our second tournament in two weeks, and it was an interesting one. We had six players bring decks built around a single rule "characters in all zones lose and cannot gain team affiliations". We had Kang, Weapon X (Hunter is nice when reinforcement is unlikely), Future Foes and X-Force, MUN nasty characters and a Wolverine clone deck. Due to the lack of team attacking and reinforcement going on games went pretty quickly and we were able to play four rounds again. I'd have liked to squeeze in one more just so everyone could play each other player, but there just wasn't quite enough time. In my first round I was paired up against Scott, who thoroughly trounced me with his hunter effects. I think it was 12 to -16 after turn 6...so I wasn't off to a terribly solid start. Game two I was paired up against Harry, who had posted a loss against Will's Kang-craziness. My deck fired quite well this time around, if you don't count either of us b...

We'll be playing for a second consecutive Friday coming up on February 20th. The change should allow us to avoid several future scheduling conflicts coming up in the next few months. Really what it means to the players is that we get an extra night of card flipping! The format is something new. Build your deck as usual, but characters in all zones (hand, deck, KO pile, resource row, removed from game zone etc) lose and can not gain team affiliations. The important thing to note here is that they are NOT considered to be unaffiliated either. Any reference to a team affiliation on any card will be considered blank text.

With the long weekend and sudden cold snap our numbers were pretty low, but we still had an interesting mix of army decks in play tonight. We had some Damn Nazis, Random Punks, Manhunters, Multiple Men, Doom/Sentinels and Purifiers. After four rounds of play no player had an undefeated record. In the end Roy's Multiple Men took first place, followed by Will's Random Punks and Sebastien's Damn Nazis. Collin's Manhunters were fourth, I took fifth place and Harry rounded out the six. I think everyone had a good time and I had some of the MEQ cards to give out as prizes, which were well received. The themed deck-building events have been really well received and I intend to continue doing them to keep things as interesting as possible for all. This was actually the second event I have played my Purifier deck in. It's not ultra competitive, but when it fires it is a lot of fun to play. I don't have a lot of experience with army decks which makes this one all th...

With the demise of the support system for Vs. System by UDE, we see the final release get a rather short shrift. The Marvel Equipment (MEQ) prize support set looks amazing. Unfortunately, it also looks as though it will be amazingly difficult to get ones hands on them too. The first batch of prize cards did go out to most tournament locations, with the second and third boxes getting little to no distribution, falling so closely within the discontinuation announcement. A few places online do seem to have them available but they're not cheap, and aren't likely to get any cheaper. For anyone who likes playing equipment in their decks however, they may be worth the investment. Collectors like me will also be seeking them out. It's too bad that they won't be more readily available, because I think most of them are great looking cards. For those of you who might never get to hold them in your hands or decks, here's a look at what we missed out on.