Re: WarCry
Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2019 3:44 am
I totally get where you're coming from, and certainly I very much enjoy longer games like 40k or even AoS. There's an aesthetic pleasure in seeing a big army all laid out on the table. I think though the idea of a 30 min lunch hour game is somewhat misleading. Given the imbalance in the scenarios, that would actually make WarCry (or Magic, for that matter) very swingy. I think the idea is that players should play multiple "rounds" to get the final result of the day's play.
also, fwiw, Bo3 in Magic is a very different animal, but quite liberating, actually. All those games you've had where you were like "dammit! where's (insert-card-name-here) when you need it!?!?" become "aha, you may have me now, but come round two there shall be a reckoning, oh yes...."
Then, of course, they sideboard out the stuff you came loaded to kill, and have a deck full of counterspells or summat
Jesse, btw, swears by Bo3, and from reading online I think a lot of people consider Bo1 to be "not real Magic". Certainly , correct building and sideboarding is a high level skill, to be sure. I most always play Bo1 myself, but I'd say it's worth having a gander at Bo3. Doesn't cost anything, so why not give 'er a whirl?
also, fwiw, Bo3 in Magic is a very different animal, but quite liberating, actually. All those games you've had where you were like "dammit! where's (insert-card-name-here) when you need it!?!?" become "aha, you may have me now, but come round two there shall be a reckoning, oh yes...."
Then, of course, they sideboard out the stuff you came loaded to kill, and have a deck full of counterspells or summat
Jesse, btw, swears by Bo3, and from reading online I think a lot of people consider Bo1 to be "not real Magic". Certainly , correct building and sideboarding is a high level skill, to be sure. I most always play Bo1 myself, but I'd say it's worth having a gander at Bo3. Doesn't cost anything, so why not give 'er a whirl?