Reboot Mother – Value Worlds 2017 Report
Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) hosts their World Champs the first week of November every year, and this was my fifth consecutive time that I would be experiencing it. It is a great time, but…
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Everything is Maw-some – Worlds 2017 Hype Preview
Simonmoon stared at the screen. It remained blank, despite his hoping otherwise. ‘Some Worlds-related content is needed, and soon, damnit!’, he told himself. Ever since selling a secret majority stake of the Stimhack editorial control,…
Scoops and Ruses: 4 Days in Netrunner – A Worlds 2016 Report by Aaron Andries (@aandries)
Warning – everything in this report is either the truth or a lie. Written for posterity, to answer questions, but mostly for laughs. Told in bullet points in honor of Josh.0’s Codenames fail (not his…
Worlds 2016 Predictions – Live by the Dice, Die by the Dice
Last year, I was excited enough for Worlds 2015 that I wrote a hype piece for it. Although a few of my solid, guaranteed, Stimhack Lock of the Year <tm> predictions fell somewhat flat, the…
Post-mortem – Current Thoughts and Foreshadowing of the MWL by Guest Author Asher Stulman
We’re now two weeks into the Most Wanted List metagame, but people have been testing for it for a month and a half now. I don’t know if the metagame is fully explored yet, but results of multiple post-MWL events are in, and it appears that there’s less diversity at the top tables than there was before the MWL was published.
On the Lam – Musings on the NAPD MWL
The MWL has reinforced that a Core 2.0, or Core reprint, or even Core erratas, are not forthcoming. FFG is not in the card game business; they’re in the game business. They don’t want to touch their Core product, and that’s fine. The INF system in ANR is elegant, and works really well. The MWL is a great way to utilize INF to modify the meta landscape.
Worlds 2015 – Predictions and Useless Banter to Bide Your Time
I have decided to put forth some predictions for Worlds. Some of these will be quite accurate, while most are just jokes or dead wrong. Let’s dive in, shall we?
Anarchy in N.A. – 10 Things I Like and Don’t Like About Order & Chaos
Our first article from a new author but longtime community member Spags on Order and Chaos. Spags was first place seed at the 2014 World Championships and is a legendary internet troll.