MTG Commander Editorial: Cardboard Is Not an Asset Class

When Wizards of the Coast created a collectible card game, they were inventing something with potentially inherently toxic characteristics. The 30-year history of magic has included a lot of headlines about the real world value of certain magic cards, largely because the original print runs were small, and many problematic cards were printed in the early years of Magic, long before its designers understood the game they were creating, which would be fundamentally unbalanced. Black Lotus remains the most glaringly obvious example. Magic...

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Warhammer 40K

Vespid Stingwings and Tempestus Aquilons Hit 40k – the Goonhammer Hot Take

We take a look at the new datasheets for the Vespid Stingwings and Tempestus Aquilons in Warhammer 40k, their rules, and talk about how they'll impact the game moving forward.

Age of Sigmar

Goonhammer Examines the First Battle Scroll of Fourth Edition

It's been a huge week. Games Workshop finally dropped the first Battlescroll of fourth edition. While the core gameplay loop of the edition has been pretty solid, it hasn't been perfect. Manifestations have been a huge problem for the community, now being just a bit too easy to summon and clog up the board, turning battles into Pokémon battles of sending your manifestations at each other. A handful of factions are also really dominating the charts, Trogg Gloomspite Gitz, Hurakan Lumineth and of course Nighthaunt are demolishing the game as they...

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MTG Commander Editorial: Cardboard Is Not an Asset Class

When Wizards of the Coast created a collectible card game, they were inventing something with potentially inherently toxic characteristics. The 30-year history of magic has included a lot of headlines about the real world value of certain magic cards, largely because the original print runs were small, and many problematic cards were printed in the early years of Magic, long before its designers understood the game they were creating, which would be fundamentally unbalanced. Black Lotus remains the most glaringly obvious example. Magic as a game has always had to exist in an uneasy state of tension between its status as a game...

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Goonhammer Historicals Review: Turner Miniatures Blitzkrieg STLs

Earlier this year the Goonhammer Historicals team interviewed Henry Turner of Turner Miniatures, noted designer of STLs for a variety of different historical periods. Henry has been a busy lad since then and has just started a Kickstarter campaign for his latest project - Battleground 1940: Blitzkrieg! Disclaimer: Thanks to Henry for providing us STLs to use for review purposes. What All Is Included? The initial offering (prior to stretch goals and add-ons) is a full set of infantry and support miniatures for both British Expeditionary Force and German Heer. This includes a whole mess of men with rifles, as well as...

Kill Team 2024 Review: Exaction Squad

The 2024 Edition of Kill Team has overhauled the game, changing rules, datasheets, and bringing with it an updated set of rules for every team in the game. In this series we’re taking a look at each team, how they’ve changed, and what it means for how they play in the new edition. Attention troopers! Officer on deck! Get ready! Today, we're going to explore all the latest updates of our favorite enforcers of peace, the Exaction Squad. We are coming from dark times in KT21, but having received an almost complete rework, we're going to see that these guys now...

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