All the Fun of “Magic the Gathering” Without Actually Having to Play It.

MillenniumBlades

“Millennium Blades”

designed by D. Brad Talton, Jr., published by Level 99 Games

A board game that simulates the buying, selling, trading, and playing of collectible card games. Using stacks of paper money (to make you feel rich), buy and sell fun cards with great parodies of popular franchises and try to build the best hand for use in the upcoming tournament. Buy from the main marketplace, or sell the card on the secondary market, or trade cards for more powerful bonus cards.  Collect cards for fighting, or even keep cards for your collection and earn bonus points.  All this takes place in a slightly frenzied 20 minute, real-time trading round.  Then pick some cards to fight in a tournament!  Do this for two more rounds, with ever more powerful cards appearing.  Trade, fight, rinse and repeat. Most points earned from collecting cards and placing in tournaments win! But mostly stare at the cards and try to build a good deck with combos that make sense and watch the whole thing get undone anyway by your opponents during the tournament.

So much variety in this game with all the different parodies of famous franchises.  So much symbology as  you try to put together a small tournament deck that actually makes sense in the limited time allotted.  It’s almost overwhelming, but you really get to live out your fantasy of buying and trading all those CCGs!  Oh, wait, not your fantasy?  Never mind.

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