PucaTrade Interview with Eric Freytag
Geekenstein interviews Eric Freytag of PucaTrade.com, a great website that allows you to trade your Magic: the Gathering cards online, for free! We talk up his site, and chat a little bit about our experiences with Magic.
Cards Against Humanity Interview with Max Temkin
There are card games and then there are games that transcend the boundaries of a party and ingrain themselves in your brain. The fact that Cards Against Humanity sells out the same day new copies are up for sale is justified in the quality of the game itself. We sat down with one of the [...]
Commander: Gatecrash In-Depth Set Review Part II: The Guilds
Review Part II:The Guilds This article is a continuation of the Gatecrash Commander Set Review. We’ll just jump right in, starting with… Dimir Dinrova Horror is another great utility card for the early to mid-game, slowing down your opponent and getting you some breathing room to build your own position. Dimir Charm is not the [...]
Commander: Gatecrash In-Depth Set Review Part I
It’s been a few months now since Gatecrash released onto the unsuspecting world. In those few months, I’ve been playing a LOT of Commander with the new cards. Gatecrash is one of the best sets for Commander in quite a while, so there’s plenty to talk about. In this article, I’ll be going through some [...]
Random Assault CONTEST “Win PULP the RPG”
The contest is simple: First, head on over to the Random Assault Facebook page and Like it. Secondly, Just create your own spell. What does it do? What’s it called? Bonus points if you include a host, but it’s not required. write them in the comments, send it to the Facebook, or email it to [...]
The Dead Shall Serve – MtG Commander Deck
This week on Geekenstein, I’ll be dissecting my favorite (and strongest) Commander deck, led by Sheoldred, Whispering One. My Sheoldred build is primarily based on the old Reanimator archetype, with elements of Mono-Black Control thrown in to keep other players from messing with it. The goal of the deck is to get its large creatures [...]
Dungeon Mastery Part I: Worldbuilding
So you wanna be a master? Specifically, a Game Master for a tabletop RPG such as Dungeons and Dragons, Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu, or so many others? Then you’ve come to the right place. Over the next few weeks, we here at Geekenstein will be publishing a series of articles walking you through the process [...]
PAX East 2013 First Look: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2014
There are a few inescapable facts in the Magic world: every summer will bring us a new Core Set and a new Duels of the Planeswalkers game. We got a sneak peek at the game at last weekend’s PAX East convention in Boston. While there, I received an exclusive demo from Wizards of the Coast [...]
Magic: The Gathering – Sorin vs. Tibalt Review
Twice a year, Wizards releases a Magic sealed product known as Duel Decks. This product contains two premade 60-card decks meant to be able to face each other on a relatively even playing field. The latest of these is Sorin vs. Tibalt, which is meant to simulate the battle these two planeswalkers had to determine who would control the plane [...]
Commander Profile: Wrexial, The Risen Deep
My personal favorite Magic variant is a format called Commander. Commander is a flavorful and incredibly fun format, where you build a deck focused around a single legendary creature, called your Commander. There are some restrictions and rules changes, but that is not the point of my article this week. If you unfamiliar with the [...]
