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For Honor and Small Plastic Rocks: Ascension’s Place in the Pantheon of Deck-Building Games

Orrin Grey — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:33:22 +0000

With so many deck-building games on the market, the aesthetic is going to be a big part of what draws a player to one over another.

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Disassembling the Deckbuilder

Sam Desatoff — Thu, 18 May 2017 19:00:31 +0000

In high school, much of your reputation rides on the groups you choose to associate yourself with. It says a lot about who I am as a person, then, that I spent lunch hours playing Magic: The Gathering with a small group of friends rather than in the cafeteria mingling with the rest of the “cool” population. Looking back on it, those lunch periods are probably responsible for a wide swath of my most cherished memories of the four years spent at that school. To this day, Magic holds a special, and permanent, place in my heart. However, as I grew

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Gaming While the Baby isn’t Looking

Gus Mastrapa — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:15:19 +0000

Last week, the Los Angeles Times informed me that I am weird. This, I already knew, but it is nice to see the confirmation in print. It turns out that only 1% of married couples with children of a certain age include a stay-at-home dad. Since this March (more or less), I have been one of that particular one percent. I wrote a little bit about what it’s like to be my particular flavor of new parent before. It involved much moaning and wailing about finding time to play videogames. I can report that a couple of months on, things

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