Colt Express

July 11th, 1899: 10 A.M. The Union Pacific Express leaves Folsom, New Mexico, with forty-seven passengers. Yet after mere minutes, the sound of rapid footsteps is heard from overhead, followed by the jarring staccato of gunfire. Heavily armed bandits have boarded the train and begun robbing honest citizens of their wallets and jewelry! Though the bandits attacked together, greed will quickly triumph over fragile alliances in the presence of so much money. After all, only one bandit leaves the train richer than all his former allies…

Colt Express is a board game of schemin’ and stealin’ for two to six bandits aboard a three-dimensional steam train. You play as one of a group of ruthless bandits, dead set on grabbing as much loot and shooting as many bullets at your former companions as possible. Every round, you must determine what actions your bandit will take, whether you’re grabbing loot, firing bullets, punching another bandit, or running along the roof of the train car. If you can predict what your opponents will do, you can respond to their actions and stay one step ahead, but if you’re knocked off-track, you’ll find your shots flying wide. Only the richest bandit can claim victory on the Colt Express when the train pulls into the station!

This weekend we will be getting in copies of this great game along with a few special free give aways. We will be arranging a time for people to come along and try this game for themselves. (More details to follow soon)

Pokemon Go - Shiny!!!

There are only two available for now: the gold-coloured Shiny Magikarp, and it's evolution, the Shiny red Gyarados.

Players will likely recognise the Gyarados in particular from their time with Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal in the main series: red Gyarados is the first canonically recognised Shiny Pokémon, appearing in the anime series as well as at the Lake of Rage in a scripted encounter within the games.

Rumours of the Shiny Magikarp's existance began to float about on the internet last night, after the latest update went live under the guise of a Water Festival event.

There's also a snazzy Magikarp hat for your avatar, which is free to wear and makes you look rather dapper or something less complementary...

The Water theme ties in with World Water Day on 22nd March (thanks commenters!) - but it seems as though this was also something of a way to sneak the two Water-type Shinies into the game at the same time, for the die-hard fans to discover.

The Water Festival itself will bring an increased number of Water-type Pokémon to the game for a limited period, finishing on 29th March, and working in a similar way to the Valentine's Day and Halloween events that went by over the past few months.

Deadpool Heroclix

Released this week ...

The Marvel HeroClix: Deadpool and X-Force Fast Forces features 6 all-new dial designs including Deadpool along with members of the X-Force – Wolverine, Fantomex, Psylocke, Cable, and Domino! This Fast Forces Pack is an excellent product for new and established players offered at an impulse-friendly price point!

HeroClix Fast Forces Packs are designed for quick play and easy team-building for both tournaments and casual games.

The Marvel HeroClix: Deadpool and the Mercs 4 Money Fast Forces Pack includes 6 all-new dial designs featuring Deadpool along with his new group of mercenaries – Foolkiller, Madcap, Slapstick, Solo, and Stingray! This Fast Forces Pack is an excellent product for new and established players offered at an impulse-friendly price point!

The Marvel HeroClix: Deadpool Dice & Token Pack contains 2 custom dice featuring a Deadpool icon and 6 action tokens featuring the Merc with a Mouth himself!

The Marvel HeroClix: Deadpool Dice & Token Pack is a great way to enhance your HeroClix experience!

New Pokemon Tins

Due this week ...

Capture the newly discovered Pokémon of the Alola region!

Harness the sun and steel fury of Solgaleo-GX, or uncover the moonlight mysteries of Lunala-GX in the Pokémon Trading Card Game: Legends of Alola Tin!

Each of these beautiful tins contains all the astonishing power of a Legendary Pokémon-GX—a power that’s new to the Pokémon TCG!

In this tin, you’ll find 1 of 2 foil Pokémon-GX cards: Solgaleo-GX or Lunala-GX, 4 Pokémon TCG booster packs, a code card to unlock a playable deck in the, Pokémon Trading Card Game Online!

Split cards in Amonkhet?

Is this the new split card format for Amonkhet? It has been leaked in the last couple of days and looks like it may be legitimate. If so what are you thoughts?

Dusk  - 2ww
Sorcery
Destroy all creatures with power greater or equal to 3
Dawn  - 3ww
Sorcery
Consequence - Cast this spell only from your graveyard, then exile it.
Return all creature cards with power less than or equal to 2 from your graveyard to your hand.

The design of the card maybe so that when it goes to the graveyard you can place it on its side so that the graveyard cast is still visible.

Duel Commander

This Saturday we will be running our first Duel Commander Tournament at KD Games in Shoreham...

The event will start at 11am and should be finished by the latest 4pm. Entry to the event is just £3 which will add one booster to the prize pool. The winner and second place will both get boosters (quantity depends on the amount of entrants)

Duel Commander follows the exact same rules as classic multiplayer Commander, except for the following...

First, players start the game with 20 life.

Second, in addition to the ability to put the Commander back into the Command Zone if it would go to the graveyard or be exiled, you may do so also if it would be put into your library.

Third, new cards are legal on release day (Friday following the pre-release).

Finally, there is a specific banlist. The ban list is currently ...

The following cards are banned in Classic Duel Commander:

• Ancestral Recall
• Ancient Tomb
• Back to Basics
• Black Lotus
• Channel
• Chaos Orb
• Dig Through Time
• Entomb
• Falling Star
• Fastbond
• Food Chain
• Gaea’s Cradle
• Gifts Ungiven
• Grim Monolith
• Hermit Druid
• Humility
• Imperial Seal
• Karakas
• Library of Alexandria
• Loyal Retainers
• Mana Crypt
• Mana Drain
• Mana Vault
• Mind Twist
• Mishra’s Workshop
• Mox Emerald
• Mox Jet
• Mox Pearl
• Mox Ruby
• Mox Sapphire
• Mystical Tutor
• Natural Order
• Necrotic Ooze
• Oath of Druids
• Protean Hulk
• Sensei’s Divning Top
• Shahrazad
• Sol Ring
• Strip Mine
• The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
• Time Vault
• Time Walk
• Tinker
• Tolarian Academy
• Treasure Cruise
• Vampiric Tutor

Ante cards are also banned. The following cards are also banned from being played as a commander :

• Derevi, Empyrial Tactician
• Edric, Spymaster of Trest
• Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
• Marath, Will of the Wild
• Oloro, Ageless Ascetic
• Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
• Tasigur, the Golden Fang
• Yisan, the Wanderer Bard
• Zur the Enchanter

For tournaments:

• Matches are best-of-three.
• Since games can take more time than smaller formats, the time limit is increased to 60minutes
• No sideboards are used.

Apart from the points mentioned above, all the rules of Duel Commander obey the rules of classic multiplayer Commander. This includes poison counters rule (10 counters needed to kill a player).

Mind vs Might

Due in at the end of this month is ...

Mind vs. Might represents the age-old clash between mages and warriors, brains and brawn. Clever plots or raw power-which will you choose?

Netrunner Terminal Directive

Terminal Directive is an upcoming narrative campaign expansion for Android: Netrunner that allows players to enjoy a constantly evolving murder mystery in the Android universe.

Corp and Runner compete in a thrilling race for the control of valuable data that plays out over the course of an extended campaign. Each match impacts the larger shape of the investigations. Each data set unlocked leads players in a new direction. They may have run before. They may have pursued corporate agendas. But nothing players have done has yet prepared them for Terminal Directive and the narrative-driven campaign play it brings to Android: Netrunner.

As a completely new way to play Android: Netrunner, Terminal Directive will allow players to immerse themselves in the Android universe, allow a new story to unfold, and create a truly memorable gameplay experience.

So, of course, the Event Kit provides some fantastic prizes for players to take home and keep as a memento of their gritty murder mystery investigation. At the beginning of the event, each player will receive two double-sided extended art ID cards. These double-sided cards feature the new Runners and Corps from Terminal Directive—Steve and Ayla on one card and Siedr Laboratories and Skorpios Defense Systems on the other.





Each player will also receive a double-sided Directive card, representing additional goals for each side. As they play in the event, they will be able to meet certain objectives (in addition to winning, of course) and check the boxes as they are completed.

It should be noted that attendees will need to play multiple games in order to complete the objectives on the Directive card. Once a player has finished playing and completing objectives, they can turn in their Directive card to claim up to three copies of both of the extended art cards, one for Runner and one for Corp, more details of the event will be published once we have a better idea of timecale.

Deadpool and X-Force

Players will have an opportunity to get a sneak peek at the figures from Marvel HeroClix: Deadpool and X-Force! set before official world-wide release!

Originally planned for early February the set we have all been waiting for is finally going to be with us next week.

Provisionally we have book the Royal British Legion for a prerelease event next Friday, the 17th. Unfortunately I will not be able to confirm the event details until next Wednesday, but for now put the date in your dairy and let either Elliot or myself know that you are interested in taking part.

Spaces will be limited for this event.

Dice Masters Nationals

It's the big one! Which lucky player will be crowned UK National Champion 2017?

Entry Fee: Free for qualified participants

Format: Unlimited Constructed

Pairing Structure: Multiple Swiss Rounds followed by a Single-Elimination Top 8 Cut

Prizing Structure * (All prizing is cumulative):
Winner
Most Recent Dice Masters Factory Set Available at the Time of the Event
...
Top 2
Most Recent Dice Masters Super Rare Set Available at the Time of the Event

Top 4
DC Comics Dice Masters Constantine: Hellblazer Foil Card
Marvel Dice Masters Green Goblin: "Gobby" Foil Card
DC Comics Dice Masters Constantine: Antihero Foil Card
Marvel Dice Masters Captain America: Super Soldier Foil Card

Top 8
DC Comics Dice Masters Scarecrow: Hallucinogenic Vapors Foil Card
Marvel Dice Masters Punisher: War Journal Foil Card
DC Comics Dice Masters Wonder Girl: Cassie Sandsmark Foil Card
Marvel Dice Masters Ronin: Lone Warrior Foil Card
World Championship Qualifications

For every eight players entered into the event (rounded up), one player earns a 2016-2017 Dice Masters World Championship Qualification. If a player is already qualified, their qualification passes down to the next highest ranked player who does not already have a qualification.

QUALIFIERS SO FAR ARE ...

DiceMasters Qualified List
1) NATIONAL WINNER – Ben Said Scott

12/11 – SETTLERS – 9 (2)...
2) Michael Jonstone - godrickinomoto
3) Mark Mulholland - typhoonking

13/11 – CHEAP THRILLS (CLIX FOR CANCER) – 9 (2)
4) Andy - spug
5) Andy England - andyE

20/11 – CHIMERA NOTTINGHAM – 27 (4)
6) Michael Power – MickeyP2K
7) Jonathan Ellis – Ricamros
8) Rhys White - Chubs25991
9) Daniel Lloyd – DRL_1990

03/12 – BEANIE – 6 (1)
10) Seth Fullwood – FanBoySeth

4/2 – KD GAMES 18 (3)
11) Roxanne Mitts – Roxcake
12) Phillip Ball – BallyBall3
13) Olly James Dare - KIDSDREAMS01112

11/2 – ATHENA – 8 (1)
14) Gareth Thomason – Wightwulf

5/3 – FAN BOY THREE – 12 (2)
15) Paul Fullwood – FanBoy Paul
16) Christopher Williams – TrueMisterSix

Modern Masters 2017

We are now taking pre-orders for Modern Masters 2017.

Each booster will cost £10 and a box will cost just £195 (but only if paid for in advance)

Modern Masters 2017 Edition takes players back to some of the most remarkable sets from recent history, representing everything from Eighth Edition through Magic 2014–including trips through Innistrad and Return to Ravnica.

Featuring new artwork on a number of cards, every card in Modern Masters 2017 Edition can be added to your favourite Modern-format decks. But first, enjoy a fresh Limited experience that combines some of Magic's most iconic cards in new ways.

Every box of Modern Masters 2017 Edition contains 24 booster packs–each with fifteen randomly inserted game cards, including one premium card in every pack–making it perfect for exciting Draft play

We will be aiming to run at least one draft for this product (but that will depend entirely on the amount of stock that is available.

New Tabletop Episode

Vanguard League

On Tuesday nights at the Royal British Legion in Shoreham we hold our weekly Vanguard League. The event cost just £2 to enter and players will need a legal Vanguard deck. We play a number of rounds depending on the amount of players and generally these are best of one game with no time limit. Everyone that attends get a participation promo card, which for March is 'Catharsis Vivid' ...

The winner will get a special promo card with date and 'Congratulations' printed on it as well as at least 2 boosters. Prizes for the other places are based on attendance.

A FB event is created each week for you to confirm your attendance.