TCG Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/tcg/ Stories about Culture Tue, 19 May 2020 19:57:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://unwinnable.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-icon-1-32x32.jpg TCG Archives - Unwinnable https://unwinnable.com/tag/tcg/ 32 32 Losing the Magic with Arena https://unwinnable.com/2019/12/20/losing-the-magic-with-arena/ Fri, 20 Dec 2019 17:40:10 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=77040 In pushing so hard for a piece of the eSports pie, Magic Arena neglects the community that is the heart and soul of the game.

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]]> Can a Card Game Make You Cry? https://unwinnable.com/2017/07/27/the-board-soul-can-a-card-game-make-you-cry/ Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:00:19 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=64495 We’ve already hashed this tired question out in video games, but can tabletop game mechanics move us in the same way?

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]]> Disassembling the Deckbuilder https://unwinnable.com/2017/05/18/disassembling-the-deckbuilder/ Thu, 18 May 2017 19:00:31 +0000 https://unwinnable.com/?p=63472 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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