Ah and another case of black bordered cards… some of the cards Tom has shown, have allready been damaged. When will htey learn, when will they ever learn?!

Seems like a weird mash of munchkin and mtg. I like both a lot, but never felt they needed to be combined.

Thanks for the review and kind words Tom! Eric and Kevin made a very cool game, we’re glad people are enjoying it.

Also digging the purple beard! -HS

This looks God awful. “Bluffing” alone isn’t really a mechanism. It’s guessing. If you want a two player game where some bluffing is baked in but you have interesting choices to make, get Raptor.

When I read Eric Lang on the design I thought “oh well, here we go for another clone of some other famous game” and I was not mistaken. It’s sad to see Kev’s name on the design as well. Kevin designed good games and this looks like a stain on his reputation.

The game is awful. Don’t know what’s the target audience but I’m not seeing average players or people new into the hobby getting into this one. It looks like a dumbed version of Magic: The Gathering…again… it was already done before. And guess what? Magic still stands, the other games flunked.
The artwork is hideous. The tongue-and-cheek saturates really quickly… a game that has some tongue-and-cheek and had a brief period of fame, The Spoils, got saturated by it’s humorous approach. A “silly” game will always be silly and that’s why the original Munchkin is still played, because the original Munchkin is not trying to be some game else. And Munchkin is a game you play once or twice and move on. This one… dunno what they want from it but it will be in the same level of Munchkin replay.

I’m a sucker for xCG. I’ve played almost every xCG game in the market. I look into this game and I see The Spoils again (a M:TG clone that wants to be better and cheaper than M:TG). And in 2018 I don’t want to see a cheap knockoff of a previous and/or successful game… for that we already have the CMON latest trends.

Such a well presented overview and review. Well done! I loved the art, the game looked fun. I was thinking of dipping my toe back into a CCG, but then I saw how much bluffing was involved. Alas, the game appears to have a mix of things I like but also things that turn me off. Nothing about the game would outright ruin the game for me. However, since there are so many games out there that I’m eager to purchase and play, this one won’t make it into my collection. Thank you again SO MUCH for the great review!

only one damage for cheating I think 🙂 I agree that this game is really good. I was never really a munchkin person, but this game is great 🙂

Something looks different. Tom did you get a haircut?

Worst. Game. Ever. IMHO.

Munchkin is the absolute worst game I have ever played so I am staying clear of anything Munchkin related. Really dislike the art style also.

Aaaaand Tom has a purple beard… Just felt like pointing that out.

I never played Munchkin, but what I’ve seen from the artwork, I really liked. Looked like a zany Fantasy parody in the vein of Donjon, though without animal characters. Now the new look is rather incoherent, and in particular the 3D designs looked more like the aseptic 3D animation movies like Madagaska. Game might be better and different then original Munchkin, but based on this video I really would have prefered, if they would have stayed with the original style of artwork.

I’ve been playing munchkins for 7 years now. Anyone who hasn’t played it should definitely try

I don’t need another CCG, and I won’t support Steve Jackson Games. All the company does is stand on the shoulders of other Giants, rehashes its own work, or pedals to nostalgia. None of it with much Innovation. None of it with great artwork. None of it with great production value. Very little of it with replayability. I find all of this company’s games shallow and condescending. This particular graphic design and symbol layout are dated dreck.

Unsure…I would probably just get it to play with my brother but it doesn’t look that great. Couldn’t this have just been a 2 player card game with some mini expansions? The booster boxes are cheap but the cards are worthless. We still have yet to see if the game will stay consistent like Magic or if it’ll go down the path of poor management like yugioh or cardfight. Those games are good but poorly managed.

Ugh. Not mtg is not mtg.

This looks like a physical Hearthstone clone.

“ZAP” and “UNZAP”? Really guys? REALLY?!

First. RIP.

It’s 2018… who’s stupid enough to put out yet another TCG?
(Sees Steve Jackson’s logo on the box) Oh, of course… go figure…