If you hadn’t noticed, Arcane Wonders has made an amazing game with Mage Wars!  We gave it out Game of the Year award for 2012 and if the first expansion is any inkling, they aren’t stopping there!  Their first expansion, the Forcemaster and Warlord adds more cards for the base set mages and two new mages!  Add to it a host of new creatures, spells, incantations and abilities and it’s an arena busting good time!

Great first update to an awesome game.

Joel’s favorite games from 2012. See inside for details on how to win Joel’s favorite game of the year!

Mage Wars Core Spell Tome 2

The best aspect of this game is how thematically driven everything is. Sure there are a good chunk of rules, but everything makes sense and integrates fluidly with the action on the board. This is something that other collectible fantasy battle games just do NOT even come close to meeting. Not Magic. Not Summoner Wars. Not Dungeon Command.

Essen! Woot!

“Everybody hates Jesse Dean, with Special Guest: Jesse Dean!”

 
Welcome back for our tenth episode of Wooden Cubes & Iron Soldiers!
In this episode we are joined by Board Game Blogger extraordinaire: Jesse Dean.  Before diving in to talk about some of the recent discussion/kerfuffle/hornet’s nest/meta-critique on board game criticism and analysis… which is all Jesse’s fault, we briefly discuss some games we have recently played including Descent, Hemloch, Mage Wars, Quebec,  and Le Havre.
During the show we also discuss some other recent blogs and articles on this subject. I have included them here …