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First Look at Cryptozoic’s Justice Society of America Crossover Pack 1

Posted on March 13, 2015 by Brett

Cryptozoic has been on a role lately with their releases for their DC Deck-Building Game. In the last few months they released a new “volume” with Forever Evil, a two player version featuring Batman and the Joker, as well as a brand new Crisis Pack that compliments their second release Heroes Unite. Their next release adds a new expansion option for the game. The first Crossover Pack focuses on DC Comic’s Justice Society of America, featuring heroes, villains, equipment, and locations all a part of the history of the classic DC team.

The release features 7 oversized JSA Super Heroes, 8 Super-Villains, 10 main deck cards, and 1 rule card that explains how to use the cards as well as some errata to better clear up the cards. It’s a way to breathe new life into games, with the addition of a few cards. You’re encouraged to mix up the cards which helps change the games in mere seconds and adds new strategies and ways to play.

The new Super Hero cards don’t really have a theme to them. A few deal with “Punch” cards, but generally mixes things up, unlike the last Crisis Pack which went heavy on different game play using colors.

The equipment, heroes, super power, and location cards again don’t really have much of a unifying theme for gameplay. They vary greatly in the aspects they bring to the game. Again, a couple have to do with “Punch” cards, but it’s not enough to say this is a theme of gameplay.

The villains too vary in what they bring to the game, and the super-villains range in cost 8 to 15 to defeat.

All the cards together don’t seem to have one gameplay theme like we’ve seen in the past, instead each card enhances a certain aspect of the game, like the starting cards, or “Punch.”

Overall, the addition is welcome, not just adding some classic characters, but helping changing up the game even more. It’s a simple way to add more flavor and change the gameplay without releasing a much more involved Crisis release or new version. I can’t wait to see what Cryptozoic does next with this new addition to their release schedule. The Justice Society of America Crossover Pack will be released later this March.

Check out below for a full list of cards. You’ll need to highlight the Super-Villains to see who is included (didn’t want to spoil that for everyone).

Superheroes

Stargirl
Power Girl
Doctor Fate
Alan Scott
Jay Garrick
Wildcat
Mister Terrific

Equipment

T-Spheres
The Hourglass

Heroes

Liberty Belle
Dr. Mid-Nite
Citizen Steel

Location

Monument Point

Super Power

Girl Power
Mystic Bolts

Villain

Scythe
Per Degation

Super-Villain

Solomon Grundy
Mordru the Merciless
Icicle
Kobra
Ultra-Humanite
Gentleman Ghost
Eclipso
Gog

Cryptozoic provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Unboxing: Diamonsters

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Brett

From the designer and artist of the best-selling Machi Koro card game, Diamonsters, is a fast-paced monster collecting card game! In Diamonsters, each player begins the game with the same hand, and the first player to collect three identical monsters or five diamonds wins. But it’s not so simple, some monsters are more valuable than others, and some will eat the diamonds you fought so hard for! If you and your friends love Machi Koro, you’ll go into a frenzy for Diamonsters!

You can get a copy of Diamonsters now.

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Skybound’s Superfight Comes to Loot Crate

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Brett

Loot Crate and Skybound aren’t strangers. The comic company’s The Walking Dead had a special variant previously in a release from the delivery service. In this month’s box, Skybound’s game Superfight will see an exclusive deck released.

Honest Abe Lincoln with a Jetpack and Kitten Cannon vs. a Giant Octopus! It’s the former President’s birthday & he’s here to protect us from the wrath of a freakish cephalopod!

Superfight is party game of super powers and super problems. The game is all about arguing with your friends about ridiculous fights. The games uses similar mechanics to Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity and players use a hand of three white cards and three black cards, and choose one of each to beat the player next to them. Then they get a random black card before fighting. Players then argue their case for why they should win, and the table votes.

Loot Crate’s theme this month is “Play,” so not shocking to see a game like this included. Orders close for February’s Crate on February 19th, so don’t dilly dally.

Game Review: DC Comics Deck Building Game Crisis Expansion Pack 2

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Brett

I’m a fan of Cryptozoic‘s DC Deck-Building Game. While I’ll admit I didn’t get it when I first played it during its debut at Gen Con many years ago. It’s grown as one of my favorite board/card games to play in my free time. For those who have never played it the game is a card game where you spend points to build your deck. Each card bought increases the cards you can play, and then you can buy even better cards. You also use points to defeat villains, which then gives you even better cards to play and the game ends when the deck runs out, or all the villains are defeated. The winner is determined by who has the highest score.

So far, Cryptozoic has release three versions of the main game based on DC Comics, a two-player version, and one expansion. Each release can be combined, expanding the different combinations, and keeping the game fresh. Their latest release, DC Deck-Building Game, Crisis Expansion 2, continues upon that adding even more cards, and changing up the game play even more.

The first thing about each Crisis Expansion is that they allow for cooperative play. Instead of playing against opponents, you team up, working together to defeat even harder villains before time runs out (the deck runs out). Playing through, you absolutely need to cooperate, and we won our game with just one card left in the deck (and it was only there due to my partner’s ability to add cards to the deck). As the deck dwindled the pressure increased, and we scrambled to keep ahead to win. This alone is enough reason to grab the expansion for fans of the game (you need a copy of the main game to use it).

Like the first Crisis Expansion, this release compliments the main set that was released in the same order, in this case Heroes Unite. The Crisis version of the game features suped up versions of the characters that come with that game, as well as monstrous “impossible” versions of previous villains.

Beyond that though, the cards keep up the card flavor of Heroes Unite. The thing that stood out to me about that particular set was the heavy focus on the Green Lantern mythos, and that continues here, especially the DC Comics Blackest Night which featured the Black Lanterns. If you’re a fan of zombie versions of heroes, then you’ll love this set. I was giddy at a card featuring Black Hand holding the skull of Batman. I really enjoyed the DC story, so I particularly enjoyed the set.

What’s also interesting is the new heroes included and their abilities. While many have abilities we’ve seen in the past, the new Lanterns included, like Kyle Rayner, focus on card color. This is a new aspect which takes the game beyond its usual “super power,” “hero,” “villain,” “location,” and “equipment” focus. It’s something new and I hope it’s explored more down the road.

Overall, DC Deck-Building Game, Crisis Expansion 2 adds new gameplay options by continuing the cooperative gameplay, but also adding in this new aspect of focusing on the color of the cards, on top of the card type. For those who already enjoy the game, this continues the fun and expands the possibilities.

You can buy a copy and add it to your gaming fun now!

Check out the list of cards you get below as well as our unboxing video!

Wizards of the Coast Announces Magic Origins on July 17

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Brett

Wizards of the Coast announced today Magic Origins, a new Magic: The Gathering set releasing this July. This pivotal new set reveals the origin stories of five of Magic‘s most beloved Planeswalker characters.

In the Magic: The Gathering Multiverse, some mages are born with a rare gift, simply known as “the spark.” When such mages face a great ordeal, their spark’s potential is unleashed, elevating them to become Planeswalkers and travel between the planes of the Multiverse. Magic Origins will reveal for the first time these pivotal moments for five Planeswalkers: Gideon Jura, Jace Beleren, Liliana Vess, Chandra Nalaar, and Nissa Revane.

Doug Beyer, Magic‘s senior creative designer said:

Magic Origins is a different kind of core set than we’ve ever done before, one with ambitious story goals and deep creative impact. All core sets in recent years have had Planeswalker cards, but Magic Origins doesn’t just contain five Planeswalkers-it’s also about those Planeswalker characters. It’s about certain points in time in those Planeswalkers’ lives-the events that led them to become Planeswalkers-and is meant to set up a lot of our plans for Magic‘s future story. We’ll see these characters’ home worlds, learn about the joys and crises of their early lives, and discover how they became the Multiverse-traveling Planeswalkers we know today.

With an impressive 20 million players and fans worldwide, this sounds like a set whose release will be anticipated, adding even more depth to the Magic: The Gathering mythology.

Magic Origins will release worldwide on July 17, 2015.

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Unboxing: DC Comics Deck Building Game Crisis Expansion Pack 2

Posted on February 9, 2015 by Brett

Cryptozoic is adding a new expansion to their fun DC Deck-Building Game. The Crisis Expansion Pack 2 includes six new Super Heroes and main deck cards. The expansion also includes “Impossible Mode” Super-villains, and the eight Super Heroes and 12 Super-Villains from Heroes United have been revamped for cooperative play. That’s the same formula Cryptozoic followed for their first expansion which introduced cooperative play, and included new version of heroes and villains previously seen.

In the first expansion you had to beat various events based on some of the iconic moments in DC Comics history as well as defeat villains like you regularly do in the game. It changes up the main game enough and expands the already impressive replay value of the game.

Since it is an expansion, it requires the DC Comics Deck-Building Game, Heroes Unite, or Forever Evil base games to play.

We open up the box to show off the 61 game cards, 14 oversized Super Hero Cards, and rules.

The expansion will be released in February.

Cryptozoic’s DC Deck-Building Game, Which is the One for You?

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Brett

Cryptozoic has released four different versions of their popular DC Deck-Building Game, the DC Deck-Building Game, DC Deck-Building Game: Heroes Unite, DC Deck-Building Game: Forever Evil, and DC Deck-Building Game Rivals: Batman vs Joker. But what’s the difference between them? Besides the characters within. We take a look at all four releases, what the differences are, and which you should get.

DC Deck-Building Game Expansion Pack 2 is a Crisis

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Brett

Cryptozoic is adding a new expansion to their fun DC Deck-Building Game. The Crisis Expansion Pack 2 includes six new Super Heroes and main deck cards. The expansion also includes “Impossible Mode” Super-villains, and the eight Super Heroes and 12 Super-Villains from Heroes United have been revamped for cooperative play. That’s the same formula Cryptozoic followed for their first expansion which introduced cooperative play, and included new version of heroes and villains previously seen.

Since it is an expansion, it requires the DC Comics Deck-Building Game, Heroes Unite, or Forever Evil base games to play.

The release includes 61 game cards, 14 oversized Super Hero Cards, and rules. MRP is $20.00.

The expansion will be released in February.

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Chew: Cases of the FDA Out in May 2015. A Chew Card Game!

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Brett

Today, IDW Games announced the official release date for the first in a series of Chew tabletop games. Chew: Cases of the FDA will be available in May of 2015. This fast-paced, high-laughs card game features art by Rob Guillory, including a brand-new box cover, as well as text by Chew creator and writer, John Layman. IDW Games tapped designer Kevin Wilson to create an appropriately over-the-top card game worthy of the CHEW name.

Based on the Eisner Award-winning comic series, Chew: Cases of the FDA card game seats 2-5 players and is playable in about 30 minutes. Players compete to close cases pulled directly from the pages of the ongoing comic book. They’ll enlist partners like John Colby, Amelia Minz, and even Buttercup the lion, while simultaneously sending fiendish villains and cultists out to sabotage their rivals’ investigations. As an added bonus, all pre-ordered copies of the game will include an exclusive variant edition of Chew #1 featuring Guillory’s homage to Dogs Playing Poker packaging artwork, as well as 20 pink CHOG plastic minis that will change color in future printings.

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Unboxing DC Deck-Building Game: Forever Evil

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Brett

It’s fun to be bad! In the DC Comics Deck-Building Game: Forever Evil, players finally get to play the game as some of the most infamous Super-Villains in the DC Universe! With a name like Forever Evil, you can expect to find new and more dangerous Attacks, rugged Defenses and a number of nefarious ways to mess with your opponents. Card destruction is rampant in the set! Like every good Villain knows, henchmen you leave behind don’t count toward the bottom line. If you’re tired of ending the game with Starter cards still in your deck, then this is the set for you! Forever Evil introduces Victory Point tokens to DC Deck-Building Game! Just be on the lookout for lowly thieves who would steal away your hard-earned loot. While this game is a full-fledged stand-alone game, it can also be mixed with all previous releases in the line.

Cryptozoic provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review.

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