Game of Thrones

All Things Shagga - Gameplay Variants Pt. 1

Welcome back once again, intrepid explorers of All Things Shagga. This week we continue our efforts to expand the ground which a Shagga directed column is able to cover. Once again, we’re passing on a decklist for this week and instead are taking a look at a much larger Shagga perspective on the game. What might that be, you ask? Gameplay variants. Being a Shagga player generally means a love of all things awesome, exciting, inventive and unusual- and it’s hard to find something much more inventive and unusual than an entirely different way to play the game that we all know and love.

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Metaphysics - Rochester Regional Part II

Welcome to Metaphysics: Rochester Regional Edition Part II. As promised, I'm going to look at the other decks from the Top 4, highlighting some interesting card choices and talking a little bit about how the decks performed overall. For space reasons, I am not going to write out the entirety of the decklists here, just focus on some specific things that were interesting about each. The skeletons of the decks are familiar (KotHH Martell, KotR Stark, and Baratheon Rush), but a few of the card choices (and omissions) were interesting. In my case, I’ll offer some additional commentary on some of the changes I would make to the last minute Baratheon pile I ended up with.

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Quill & Tankard Regulars - Issue 2

We return this week with our inaugural Beware the Sphinx. In it we look at the rules interactions of the new charagendas. We also go over this weeks interesting rulings from the FFG rules forum in Dear Archmaester.

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