Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Take a (planes)walk on the wild side!

Well this weekend was the Planechase release event weekend and me and a couple friends went over to my Ita's store (Sunrise Games and Comics) and had ourselves a mini Planechase event.


i myself picked up the Strike Force and Metallic Dreams decks.

Strike Force had awesome cards included and was built fairly well as i can tell (as i didnt get to play it much; i lent it to a friend to use in our 3-way game) but the Metallic Dreams was a must because it had the Planar cards i wanted most.

Anyways, Planechase was hilarious and fun.

Game 1 went well enough. i was taken out a little early on, but the game started to get interesting when we all exchanged life totals a million times due to the Cliffside Markets in Mercadia.

Game 2 saw all players near crying as 50-60% of everyones librarys got milled cause of Arkhos's Lethe Lake, and our unluckiness of not being able to planeswalk away for several turns. needless to say the Zombie Empire player took that win >.>

And dont even get me started on our 3rd game,the Sea of Sand in Rabiah killed us off after a player used Bond of Agony (we started using our own decks instead of playing the preconstructed ones at this point)

The 4th game was hilarious simply because we had goats everywhere, and my 17/17 Lorescale Coatl was the only thing dealing damage when I put down Segovia's Hippodrome! not to mention the Malestrom is always fun when it throws an Ascendent Evincar on the table and does a mass slaughter on goats, board-wide!

All in all the game is great, there arent really many new things to learn, just very briefly about how to use the Planar deck and the only other thing to really keep in mind is that the first player does draw a card in multiplayer games of Planechase. its really something that Magic needed, someting new that didnt seem forced or gimicky.

and thankfully Planechase delivers just that!

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