Thinking Outside the Box

For reference purposes, I wanted to post up a list of formats available for play. I'll link it to the side panel and maintain as necessary. Age Formats Modern Age: - DC Legends (includes DCX) - Marvel Universe (includes MUL and MEQ) - DC Universe - Marvel Factions Silver Age: - Legion of Super-Heroes - Marvel Team-up (includes Hellboy) - World’s Finest - Marvel Legends (includes MAA, MCG and MEX) - DC Legends (includes DCX) - Marvel Universe (includes MUL and MEQ) - DC Universe - Marvel Factions Golden Age: - All sets are legal in Golden Age. Banned cards may not be played. Block Formats Origins Block: - Marvel Origins - DC Origins - Web of Spider-Man - Superman, Man of Steel - Marvel Knights - Green Lantern Corps (includes Batman TCG starter set) Crisis Block: - The Avengers (includes Fantastic Four TCG starter set) - Justice League of America - The X-Men (includes The X-Men TCG starter set) - Infinite Crisis - Heralds of Galactus - Legion of...

Hm...that title is better than the first one I almost went with, but on second thought, not by much! What I meant by that is that it seems most of the trading card games I like playing, or have been recommended, seem to die. With VS System in our area, the resurrection came through my refusal to let a good gaming group die. We still have weekly tournies with a decent turn out, prizes and good times for all. I hope this will continue for a good long time. Call of Cthulhu died as a TCG and was brought back as a living card game by Fantasy Flight. I ran a weekly league for about six months, but attendance was a problem. I still love the game and we do get to play occassionally. Seems everyone I introduced the game to enjoyed it as well, and we'd all like to play it more often. The GIJoe TCG , well, it just died, but I still bring it back to life a few times a year at home or the local game shop. Good mindless fun with beloved characters from the 80s. Warhammer: Invasion , is s...

Last Friday was a great event. We had eight players some out for our DCU tournament. We were missing a regular player as well, which was too bad but it was still great to see so many people come out for the games. We all built sealed decks using mock-packs from DCU. I had a ton of locations, but was pretty light on plot twists. Given that...I decided to play a mixed deck of Green Lantern, Anti-Matter and a few JSA characters thrown in for good measure. My mock-packs only had one team-up card (Janus Contract?), which was good for a three-way team up...but if you didn't choose Suicide Squad it got replaced at the end of the turn. My first game ended in a coin-toss as Jason arrived too late to play (technically we should have given me a bye and he a loss for being late), but since we're pretty informal I just decided to flip a coin. The second game against Nathan was a tight race, with the health gains from my early Central Power Battery nearly being the difference. In the ...