Fancy a game of Commander?

No not Magic the Gathering but Lords of War?

Its something that had not entered my mind until Martin (Black Box) mentioned it during a phone call on Friday! Even then I initially dismissed it, thinking that it would not make a great game, but then when I really started to think about it I reckon its worth a go!

So the idea is to play a game of Lords of War but with both players using all the command cards from all six decks! So that is the 6 commanders and 6 sets of 5 command cards from all the decks! That makes a normal 36 card deck, with the addition that none of the cards can be killed in one hit and there are no duplicate cards! The win conditions would be remove 20 cards in total or 4 generals! Players would select their starting general before the game starts!

Singleton decks make for a really interesting game as your draw is pretty much completely random, you will have no idea what you will get except it will be a good! In a game however where every card is good, it just might not be good enough! There will be a limited amount of calvary units and nothing that moves; and since no card can be removed without it being attacked by two of the opponents cards the game could potentially be very strategical and probably a little tense!!!

I will be giving the format a go tonight for anyone that is brave enough!