International Table Top Day 2017

This Saturday it is International Table Top Day!

To celebrate we will be running some special events over the weekend both in the shop on Saturday and at Gambit Games on Sunday!

First up we have BIOTIX at the special introductory price of just £10. Have a look at our blog on the game ...

Next we have LUCHA JEFE at £7 - Grey Fox Games has partnered with Geek & Sundry to bring you a brand new microgame for International Tabletop Day 2017! In Lucha Jefe, players become luchador managers going head to head to recruit the best fighters and maintain the best record. You never know who your opponent will bring to the ring, so out-thinking them will be the key to victory. Each round players will secretly choose which luchadors will be active, which will be sidelined, and which will be retired. If your fighter can best your opponent’s fighters three times, you win and earn the title of Lucha Jefe! 

The last of the special offer games is GAME MANIFESTO at just £2 - “GAME - Most Popular Game in all Mother Russia: Not Really” is a simple, fun game you can use to enhance the gameplay of other silly, nimble games around your table that are less important than GAME! Using GAME, create house rules for your favorite titles. GAME is very small in size and easy to bring to parties where potato water is abundant. GAME is the most exclusive Microgame for International Tabletop Day 2017, and will not be available in stores again!

For anyone that plays Zombicide we have a limited Lea the Teenager Figure for sale at just £15

As well as these special weekend exclusive offers we will have a couple of special events...

For MTG as part of the DRAFT WEEKEND we will be offering players a chance to get one of these very special playmats...

The draft event will cost £12 per player and in addition to the playmat all players will get an extra booster after the event has finished as well as a draft weekend promo card. There will be two events one on Saturday at midday and one on Sunday at 3pm.

For Dice Masters we will be offering the chance for one lucky player to get hold of a Squirrel Girl. We will be running a rainbow draft on Sunday as part of Gambit Games and in addition to this special first place price all players will get some promotional cards. (More details of the sets that we will be drafting and the promo cards that will be available will be announced on a separate blog entry!)

For Heroclix we have some great promo items to give as prizes for anyone playing in a Battle Royal this weekend including a KINGDOM COME HAWKMAN

For Force of Will we have some promo cards that were formally a Valentines Day offer, which will be handed out to anyone that plays a game during the two days!

We also have some great items to give away!!!

We have sample versions of the popular games Dobble, Timeline and Cortex from Asmodee which you are free to pick up from either event.

Some special additional cards for the game Fluxx featuring some of the names you know from the show!

We have some special International Table Top Day tokens (one per person) which again are completely free and are great for using in D&D or other roleplaying games.

For those that play Aeons Endor Castle Panic we have some special Table Top Day items (please only take these if you have the game or are thinking of buy it as there are not many of them)

For those of you that play some of the Mayfair Games we have a range of special expansions for you to choose from.

For players that have the game UNLOCK we will have a special free mini adventure.

ALL OF THESE ITEMS ARE FIRST COME FIRST SERVED! ONCE THEY ARE GONE THEY ARE GONE!!!!

Biotix

Play Dirty. Get a Reaction

You can pack a lot of fun into a small box, especially when you pack it full of microbe meeples. I’ll say it again. Meeple Microbes (squeeee!)

In this nasty little 2-5 player game, your boss, Dr. Lillian Johannae has made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of microbiology. She has discovered a new breed of extremely unstable, highly volatile microorganisms, BIOTIX™ (patent pending and pronounced ‘biotics’) that can uneasily coexist within a small system. But science can be a brutally competitive field. What began as an innocent pursuit of discovery has quickly devolved into self-centered posturing and ruthless backstabbing among her lab personnel, all vying to have their name attached to the research paper, thereby rocketing you into scientific superstardom.

Your mission, carefully grow the largest culture of BIOTIX you can in your petri dish – and sabotage the work of others by pushing their microbe populations above their limit, causing them to explode and bio-react in all sorts of fun ways.

Game play is simple: on your turn, draw two BIOTIX from the specimen bag and place them, one at a time, either into your own dish for points or into an opponent’s dish to try and force a bio-reaction to destroy their work. Each of the five BIOTIX species has a different trigger number and a unique bio-reaction when they ‘go off’. The BIOTIX are in a constant state of flux throughout the game, as is your score, because at the end of the day you gain points for the BIOTIX remaining in your dish, with the most volatile BIOTIX being worth the most points.

Wizards Announcement

Felidar Guardian is being banned effective Friday, April 28.

Why are we making this call now and why didn't we make it in our regular B&R announcement on Monday? The answer is data. We knew going into Monday that the Saheeli-Felidar combo was a significant issue for Standard and were watching it closely. Our rationale for waiting was to make sure we only needed to take one and only one action to correct the Standard environment. Our plan was to monitor early play behavior and pro competition and make a call following Pro Tour Amonkhet.

Since the initial announcement, for the first time ever, we pre-released a new card set on Magic Online before the formal release date. This happened on Monday. What we expected to take a few weeks to understand has ended up taking two days to form a clear picture of a metagame unbalanced by the Copy Cat combo, as even its natural predator, Mardu Vehicles, fell behind. Couple this with consensus among a wide sampling of pros and feedback (and pizza) from our community and we decided to take action.

Saheeli-Felidar's win-loss ratio and metagame share has actually increased since the release of Amonkhet. In Magic Online Standard Leagues since Monday, Saheeli combo has made up approximately 40% of 5-0 and 4-1 decklists—up from prior to Amonkhet's release. While we never take decisions like this lightly and recognize this is a change from the norm, when a plurality of the data points in a clear direction, we will take action.

We also understand we shouldn't let combos like Saheeli-Felidar get out the door in the first place. For that we take ownership and are making changes to try to prevent this from happening again. But our highest priority is keeping Magic fun and enjoyable for our players. We believe this banning coupled with a number of internal testing process improvements will be significant steps toward making Standard the fun, dynamic format we all want it to be in perpetuity.

Pokemon Guardians Rising

 Visit Alola for Pokémon fun, from the beaches to the mountain peaks—and discover new traditions and new challenges! Meet the island guardians Tapu Koko-GX and Tapu Lele-GX, and sharpen your skills with Kahuna Hala and Captain Mallow! Be amazed by the secret powers of Kommo-o-GX, Lycanroc-GX, Metagross-GX, Sylveon-GX, Toxapex-GX, Vikavolt-GX, and many more! Come to the islands, and seize the power of the Pokémon TCG: Sun & Moon—Guardians Rising expansion!

The Pokémon TCG: Sun& Moon—Guardians Rising expansion includes:

Over 140 cards

12 new Pokémon-GX

12 full-art Pokémon-GX

3 full-art Supporter cards

The complete Sun & Moon—Guardians Rising expansion will be available in store from May 5th 2017

MTG Amonkhet TRAILS

Amonkhet Story

"When the Gatewatch arrive on the harsh desert plane looking for Nicol Bolas, they discover a shielded city-oasis being protected by five gods that walk among the people. There, citizens devote their lives training for the trials of the gods to ultimately earn a place in the promised Afterlife."

Following the prerelease this weekend all players will get their own "trials" which will start from from next Friday's FNM (when the set is released)

In your Prerelease Packs, you will receive a trials checklist card that lists five challenges:



These challenges sync-up with our organized play programs. For each trial that you complete, we will hand out one of the rare four-sided dice (while supplies last). Please note the supply of these is limited so please remember to present your card at the relevant events to get it ticked off and receive your dice.

Hero Clix 15th Anniversary

The DC Comics HeroClix: 15th Anniversary Elseworlds Starter Set includes the most iconic DC heroes. A great introduction to HeroClix for rookies, a useful teaching tool for experienced stores, and a fresh look at iconic characters for HeroClix veterans!

Dragon Farkle

New TableTop episode where Wil Wheaton Plays DRAGON FARKLE with guests Brandon Routh, Derek Mio, and Neil Grayston!  

MTG Open House

Players of all levels can come together to play Magic, say farewell to Aether Revolt, and look ahead to the next exciting release—Amonkhet.

We will be introducing new players to the game and welcoming them into our Magic community with learn-to-play sessions, using Welcome Decks. Veteran players can join the fun by bringing a friend or helping to teach new players. Doors open at 10am.

Starting at 12:00pm, we will have a  tournament encouraging new players to test their new skills and meet the community. All players will use an MTG welcome deck which will be provided. All players who attend will be rewarded with a promo full-art basic land.

Entry for the tournament will be £3 and we will have booster pack prizes based on player record.

Run Rabbit Run!

For a while now I have been thinking of making a Bunny themed Force of Will deck and with Easter just around the corner it seemed like now was the time to actually put one together.

Last week I came up with version one and tried it out on Sunday against one of our local players.

The deck is based on the three rabbit cards in Force of Will ...

and my personal favourite...

As you can see each has a single will casting cost and has a banish ability. The idea of the deck is simple. Cast early rabbits, block and banish to prevent damage and trigger effects then bring them back with either a trap or ...

Which would also be my main win condition!!! A simple plan that would see me protect myself with bunnies, then get a little girl, make her stronger and attack! I just needed a few ways to find her and protect her!

A simple plan, so what could go wrong. It would appear a fair bit. Resonators that fly for starters, oh and the fact that I only have one little girl and when I searched for her she was promptly discarded.

In short it did not go well, apart from the bunnies, they did manage to stall the game and give me some card advantage. So with that in mid I have gone back to the drawing board and created 'Run Rabbit Run - Version 2"

There have been a number of key changes which include an extra two Rabbit Princesses, changes to the will in the stone deck, a flying version of Kaguya and a change of ruler. So who is up for a game at tomorrow nights KD GAMES NIGHT?

Echoes of the New World

Announcing Echoes of the New World, the Final Lapis Cluster Booster Pack

The end is here. The lines for the final battle have been drawn. The forces of hope seek to save the world and bring about a new one, but it seems even old allies have joined the forces of despair to snuff out the light once and for all. Alice, Millium, and Kaguya lead the final, desperate charge against the overwhelming power of the enemy, now aided by former comrades. Is the only way to save the future to embrace destruction?

Booster Pack Contents Breakdown:
5 Kinds of J/rulers
5 Kinds of Basic Magic Stones
10 Kinds of Additions
2 Kinds of Special Magic Stones
22 Kinds of Chants
61 Kinds of Resonators
105 Unique Cards In All!

Coming June 2017

Vanguard Sneak Preview

This weekend we will be running the Sneak Preview event for ...

The event will start at 6pm at the 3rd Sea Scouts Hut on the Adur Recreation Ground in Shoreham. Entry will cost £17 per person.

Each player will get 6 boosters and will get a chance to DRAFT a pool of cards from which they will make their tournament deck. We will then play a series of best of three SINGLE ELIMINATION rounds. For each match you win you will not only get to go through to the next round but you will also get an additional booster!!!

The winner and one other lucky player drawn at random will also get a great Cardfight Vanguard playmat...

Standard Series

As our store has reported enough STANDARD events in February and March we have been given some special promo items and we will be giving these away this weekend at one of two events.

Every player that attends will be able to choose one of these rare lands.  (one per event, subject to availability)

There will also be a special playmat for the winner ...

The events will cost £3 per player and we will have booster prizes for the top place players. Both events will be the STANDARD format.

Saturdays event will be at the shop in Tarmount Lane from 12pm and Sundays will be at the 3rd Sea Scouts on the Adur Recreation ground from 6pm.

Return of the Dragon Emperor

Return of the Dragon Emperor is the latest expansion in the Trading Card Game and is the thirteenth English expansion.

Our heroes have lost a valuable ally and a dear friend, but there is little time to mourn. Alhama’at has come.

Hope rests on a power forgotten by time, and the rescue of a mysterious princess.

This is the third set in the Lapis Cluster.
Contains powerful cards with dual attributes! Lots of exciting dragon type cards!

Introduces the Dragonoid, Moon Princess, and Treasury Item races.

Includes support for the Ancient, Angel, Beast, Demon, Divine Beast, Dragon, Elf, Emperor, Fairy Tale, Heroic Spirit, Human, Machine, Mermaid, Myth, Rabbit, Shadow, Six Sages, Soldier, Spirit, Twelve Apostles, Vampire, Wanderer, Wererabbit, Wizard, and Zombie races.

It contains 105 cards
5 J/Rulers
10 Magic Stones (5 basic, 5 special)
8 Additions
27 Chants
55 Resonators

Card List

Card No.	Name	Type	Attribute	Rarity
RDE-001	Dragon Power	Chant (Ancient Magic)	Light	Rare
RDE-002	Guardian of Altean Law	Resonator	Light	Uncommon
RDE-003	Rachel, Nephilim Commander	Resonator	Light	Rare
RDE-004	Ryula, Alabaster Dragon Princess	Resonator	Light	Super Rare
RDE-005	Shield of the Nephilim	Chant (Ancient Magic)	Light	Uncommon
RDE-006	Tiny Alabaster Drake	Resonator	Light	Common
RDE-007	Unleashed Dragonoid	Resonator	Light	Common
RDE-008	Zero's Wrath	Chant	Light	Common
RDE-009	Fiery Soldier of Milest	Resonator	Fire	Uncommon
RDE-010	Memory to Memoria	Chant	Fire	Common
RDE-011	Milest, the First Flame	Resonator	Fire	Super Rare
RDE-012	Reincarnation	Chant	Fire	Rare
RDE-013	Rising Fire Strike	Chant	Fire	Uncommon
RDE-014	Salamander, the Spirit of Fire	Resonator	Fire	Rare
RDE-015	Sprinting Flame Horse	Resonator	Fire	Common
RDE-016	Vengeful Attoractian Wizard	Resonator	Fire	Common
RDE-017	Apprentice Wererabbit	Resonator	Water	Common
RDE-018	Charlotte's Water Dragon Technique	Chant	Water	Uncommon
RDE-019	Dragonoid Jailor	Resonator	Water	Common
RDE-020	Eia, God of Water	Resonator	Water	Super Rare
RDE-021	Kaguya's Decision	Chant	Water	Rare
RDE-022	Manservant to the Water God	Resonator	Water	Uncommon
RDE-023	Undine, the Spirit of Water	Resonator	Water	Rare
RDE-024	Water Kimono of Twelve Parts	Addition (Treasury Item)	Water	Common
RDE-025	Divine Bird of Attoractia	Resonator	Wind	Common
RDE-026	Gilgamesh, Immortal Hunter	Resonator	Wind	Super Rare
RDE-027	Heavenly Ox	Resonator	Wind	Uncommon
RDE-028	Miracle Millennia Medicine	Addition (Treasury Item)	Wind	Common
RDE-029	Research!	Chant	Wind	Uncommon
RDE-030	Silph, the Spirit of Wind	Resonator	Wind	Rare
RDE-031	Spinning Myths	Chant	Wind	Rare
RDE-032	Wind Clad Elf	Resonator	Wind	Common
RDE-033	Alhama'at's Purge	Chant (Ancient Magic)	Darkness	Uncommon
RDE-034	Buer, Great President of Hell	Resonator	Darkness	Uncommon
RDE-035	Demon Captain, Eligos	Resonator	Darkness	Rare
RDE-036	Demon Orderly	Resonator	Darkness	Common
RDE-037	Fury of the Obsidian Dragon	Chant (Ancient Magic)	Darkness	Rare
RDE-038	The Insane Dark Hatter	Resonator	Darkness	Common
RDE-039	Viola, Obsidian Dragon Princess	Resonator	Darkness	Super Rare
RDE-040	Viola's Machinations	Chant (Ancient Magic)	Darkness	Common
RDE-041	Alabaster Dragon Knight	Resonator	Light /Water	Common
RDE-042	Alice's World of Madness	Addition	Light /Darkness	Uncommon
RDE-043	Almerius, Summoner of Spirits	Resonator	Light /Water	Super Rare
RDE-044	Black Heart Alice	Resonator	Light /Darkness	Super Rare
RDE-045	Black Hole of the Spirit World	Addition	Fire /Darkness	Uncommon
RDE-046	Blazer, Prisoner of Flame	Resonator	Fire /Darkness	Rare
RDE-047	Burning Pot	Resonator	Fire /Wind	Uncommon
RDE-048	Concord of Saints and Beasts	Chant	Fire /Wind	Uncommon
RDE-049	Cryptid of Tenacious Fire	Resonator	Fire /Darkness	Common
RDE-050	Door of Time	Chant	Water /Wind	Rare
RDE-051	Dragon of Fire and Wind	Resonator	Fire /Wind	Common
RDE-052	Earthfallen Giant	Resonator	Fire /Darkness	Common
RDE-053	End of Days	Chant	Fire /Darkness	Rare
RDE-054	Erasure	Chant (Ancient Magic)	Light /Darkness	Common
RDE-055	Fallen Angel	Resonator	Light /Darkness	Uncommon
RDE-056	Fallen Saint	Resonator	Light /Darkness	Common
RDE-057	Fiery Bird of Reincarnation	Resonator	Fire /Wind	Rare
RDE-058	Fiery Fox of Reincarnation	Resonator	Fire /Wind	Common
RDE-059	Forest Spirit	Resonator	Fire /Wind	Common
RDE-060	Gill Alhama'at Ebon Dragon Emperor, Gill Alhama'at Gill Alhama'at, He Who Grasps All	Ruler J-ruler J-ruler	Light /Darkness	Ruler
RDE-061	Gill Lapis, Conqueror of Attoractia Gill Lapis, Rebel of Darkest Fires	Ruler J-ruler	Fire /Darkness	Ruler
RDE-062	Glistening Chick	Resonator	Water /Wind	Uncommon
RDE-063	Gnome, the Spirit of Earth	Resonator	Light /Water	Uncommon
RDE-064	Kaguya, Tears of the Moon Kaguya, Millennium Princess	Ruler J-ruler	Water /Wind	Ruler
RDE-065	Kaguya's Pictorial Scroll	Addition (Treasury Item)	Water /Wind	Common
RDE-066	Kingdom of Spirits	Addition	Light /Water	Uncommon
RDE-067	Mariabella, the Machine Hearted	Resonator	Fire /Wind	Super Rare
RDE-068	Mermaid of Lifegiving	Resonator	Light /Water	Common
RDE-069	Millennia Bond	Chant	Water /Wind	Uncommon
RDE-070	Millium, Successor of the Dragon Crest Millium, the Sacred Dragon	Ruler J-ruler	Light /Water	Ruler
RDE-071	Millium's Roar	Chant	Light /Water	Common
RDE-072	Moon View Rabbit	Resonator	Water /Wind	Rare
RDE-073	Moonlit Treasury Tree	Resonator	Water /Wind	Common
RDE-074	Mystia, Manager of the Treasury	Resonator	Water /Wind	Super Rare
RDE-075	Nightmoon Blossom	Resonator	Water /Wind	Common
RDE-076	Pricia, True Beastmaster Reincarnated Maiden of Flame, Pricia	Ruler J-ruler	Fire /Wind	Ruler
RDE-077	Pricia's Leap	Chant	Fire /Wind	Rare
RDE-078	Rain of Light	Chant	Light /Water	Rare
RDE-079	Rapid Shot	Chant	Fire /Wind	Common
RDE-080	Schrödinger, the Cat in Flux	Resonator	Light /Darkness	Rare
RDE-081	Schrödinger's Observation	Chant	Light /Darkness	Rare
RDE-082	Searing Dead	Resonator	Fire /Darkness	Common
RDE-083	Secret Messenger of the Mikage	Resonator	Fire /Darkness	Uncommon
RDE-084	Sissei, Pricia's Barrier	Addition	Fire /Wind	Uncommon
RDE-085	Spirit of Sacred Rains	Resonator	Light /Water	Common
RDE-086	Swirling Demon Dimension	Chant	Fire /Darkness	Common
RDE-087	The Alabaster Dragon Princess' Rescue	Chant	Light /Water	Uncommon
RDE-088	The Dark March Hare	Resonator	Light /Darkness	Common
RDE-089	The Dark Sleeping Dormouse	Resonator	Light /Darkness	Common
RDE-090	The First Moon	Addition (Moon/Treasury Item)	Water /Wind	Uncommon
RDE-091	The Two Dragon Princesses	Chant	Light /Darkness	Uncommon
RDE-092	Unending Hatred	Chant	Fire /Darkness	Uncommon
RDE-093	Valentina, the Twilight Passion	Resonator	Fire /Darkness	Super Rare
RDE-094	Water-Wind Knight	Resonator	Water /Wind	Common
RDE-095	Will o'the Wisp	Resonator	Light /Water	Rare
RDE-096	Ancient Magic Stone	Special Magic Stone	Light /Darkness	Rare
RDE-097	Kaguya's Stone of Sorrow	Special Magic Stone	Water /Wind	Rare
RDE-098	Magic Stone of the Ebon Home	Special Magic Stone	Fire /Darkness	Rare
RDE-099	Memoria of Reincarnation	Special Magic Stone	Fire /Wind	Rare
RDE-100	Stone of the Dragonoids	Special Magic Stone	Light /Water	Rare
RDE-101	Darkness Magic Stone	Magic Stone	Darkness	No rarity
RDE-102	Fire Magic Stone	Magic Stone	Fire	No rarity
RDE-103	Light Magic Stone	Magic Stone	Light	No rarity
RDE-104	Water Magic Stone	Magic Stone	Water	No rarity
RDE-105	Wind Magic Stone	Magic Stone	Wind	No rarity