Matt Bassil

16 hours ago | wargamer.com | Matt Bassil

We're always on the lookout for great board game deals, and this one's so cheap we just had to cover it. Right now, you can pick up a copy of Black Hole Buccaneers, a card-drafting game by publisher Pegasus Spiele, for just $4. That's 75% off the normal asking price of $16.18, which, I'm looking it up now in the Great Board Game Deals ledger and… yep, officially qualifies as a steal. Now admittedly, I've never played Black Hole Buccaneers.

19 hours ago | wargamer.com | Matt Bassil

The Magic: The Gathering card Quicksilver Elemental has shot up in price thanks to a brand new infinite combo with perhaps the greatest Commander in the Final Fantasy set. On May 11, this card cost $0.50, according to MTG Goldfish, but just four days later copies are selling for as much as $14.99. Released in the Mirrodin MTG set in 2003, Quicksilver Elemental has an interesting effect. Pay one blue mana and it gains the activated abilities of one other creature on either side of the battlefield.

1 day ago | wargamer.com | Matt Bassil

In case Oricorio's antics didn't make it obvious, Celestial Guardians is a fantastic set for enabling trolls. The new Pokémon Pocket set has allowed fans to create some of the meanest decks we've ever seen. From making every attack a miserable chore to stopping you from attaching energy altogether, these builds seem a nightmare to play against. I pray I don't come up against either deck on the Ranked queue.

1 day ago | wargamer.com | Matt Bassil

The Magic: The Gathering card Moonmist is spiking and spiking hard, thanks to a neat interaction in the upcoming Final Fantasy set. This pretty obscure Innistrad common cost just 30 cents a couple of days ago, but now it has metamorphosed into a $5 card – a price spike of 1566%. Foil copies have seen a big increase as well: from $6.20 to $17.50. Only printed once (outside of the List) in the 2011 gothic horror MTG set Innistrad, Moonmist has a pretty unique effect – it transforms all humans.

2 days ago | wargamer.com | Matt Bassil

Right, it's been two weeks. I think we can officially call it. Giratina ex is still the best Pokémon in Pokémon Pocket, and nothing in Celestial Guardians can hope to dethrone it. Not even Oricorio, a widely played new Celestial Guardians card that can't even be damaged by Giratina ex, can stop the dominance of Pokémon Lucifer. To be clear, I'm not just griping after losing to Giratina decks on the Ranked ladder (although that has been happening).