Building Your Deck – Part 1 In my opinion the best part of playing LCGs is the deck building. I may not be good at it for some games but I have been known to put together some mean combos in other games. The awesome part of all LCGs is […]
The Skin Game A long time ago a friend and I were discussing B.F. Skinner and how his theories apply to some of our favorite games. Skinner developed the psychological theory of operant conditioning. The idea was that classical conditioning was not complex enough to describe human behavior. How does […]
The Apex of Competition Welcome back everyone. I would like to start off by saying once again that the FFG World Championships is awesome and everyone should do it once in their life if they love living card games! This article is going to review my experience playing Apex in […]
FFG World Championship 2016 Wrap-Up I have been playing LCG’s for about two years now and I made the decision earlier this year to go to The International World Championship hosted by Fantasy Flight Games at their Game Center in Roseville, MN. This was the first time I have gone to […]
Video referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yTVWXYctoY http://xkcd.com/657/ (it’ll make sense at the end, don’t worry)
A Game of Secrecy Recently the ever reoccurring topic of deck list secrecy was brought up again on A Game of Thrones (AGOT) LCG 2nd Edition group that I am part of. This not only spurred a lot of good conversation but also made me think about the attitudes toward […]
Big, Expensive, and Bad? Today I would like to focus on one of my favorite topics in card games: Big Cards. The ones that you see and you think,”Holy wow! That is a lot of (insert game’s currency here).” Today I want to talk about a few and try to […]
Warhammer 40,000 Conquest Deck Review To start off I know the picture is of the Emperor, but a corpse god sitting in a defamed throne is exactly what this deck aims to accomplish. Today I want to do my first deck review! I built a Warhammer 40,000 Conquest deck using Smasha Gun Battery […]
The Living Card Guy In this new segment, Boxed Culture author Kyle Hagan will cover all the cool stuff he does with Living Card Games (LCGs). Since Boxed Culture is more board game-centric, these articles are meant to pull the LCG articles out, so they can live free on their own. […]
Recently, the yearly LCG tournament circuit finished, or as far as I will probably ever go anyway. They hold Store Championships and Regional Championships in state, then the National Championships and World Championships are out of state. So, I will probably only ever partake in the Store Champs and Regional Championships as I am bad at saving for travel, haha. With the […]
