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How should I approach teaching Magic:The Gathering to a new player?
I've been playing MtG since Ice Age (mostly with friends) so I'm now sitting on a massive duffle bag of cards, plenty of decks, and quite some experience of the game.
I want to teach the game to someone completely new. I know there once was a set…
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How Unethical Is A Purely "Blocking" Move In Ticket To Ride?
Here's a scenario to illustrate my question. My wife and I were playing Ticket To Ride: Nordic Countries earlier this evening - apologies if you don't own this particular edition, but hopefully the basic situation will be obvious to anyone who's…
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Why do mana abilities not go on the stack?
Why this special treatment for mana-abilities? What are the design implications if they didn't go on the stack?
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Can you throw animals into the stewpot if you don't have enough pasture room for any of them?
In Agricola, the Fireplace and Cooking Hearth both allow you to convert animals to food "at any time." Can you use this ability to cook animals if you don't have room in your pastures?
In particular, if you have zero pastures and grab four sheep,…
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In Ticket to Ride, how do you overcome bad initial tickets?
I've played fewer than a dozen games but have noticed that I can now guess with about 75% accuracy whether I'll win or not just based on my initial 3 tickets drawn. If I have a long transcontinental route and a shorter one which partially overlaps…
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Is playing an illegal Wild Draw 4 considered cheating or a bluff?
From the official 2001 Uno rules (emphasis in original),
Wild Draw 4 card... You can only play this card when you don't have a card in your hand that matches the color of the card previously played.... If you suspect that a player has played a Wild…
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Can a player choose to not pay {0}?
I cast a spell, and then my opponent casts Thassa's Intervention targeting my spell, choosing 0 for X.
Can I choose to have my spell countered? Or have I automatically paid {0}. It seems that read literally; the spell will not be countered because…
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What is a safe and accurate technique for shuffling cards?
Especially for games which involve frequent card shuffling by multiple players of decks of uneven sizes is there is a technique for shuffling which is quick and easy for everyone to learn yet also reliably random?
Ideally this would work with cards…
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Can there be two winners at the same time in Catan?
Imagine the following setup:
Player A has 6 points, including the Longest Road.
Player B has 8 points with an equally long road.
Player C has 9 points with a shorter road.
Now what would happen if Player C places a village, breaking Player A's…
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How do you play the Master Spy in Guillotine?
Guillotine is a fun, quick, bloodthirsty little card game that would grace any group's collection. It is very simple, which is just as well, as the rulebook errs on the side of vagueness.
There is one card, though, where it's hard to work out how…
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Pandemic and Forbidden Island - How similar are they?
We have Pandemic at home. When browsing for some new games I stumbled over Forbidden Island made by the same designer. I thought it could be interesting to have another cooperative game but when I read about the gameplay I got the sneaking suspicion…
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What are the most busted cards in Agricola?
There's quite a few Occupations in Agricola that elicit a traumatized shudder from hardened Agricola players. I'm thinking of cards like the Taster, which basically allows one player to be in a position BETTER than being starting player during any…
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When you King's Court a King's Court, when must you pick the three target cards?
Bear with me here. In Dominion: Prosperity you can play King's Court and choose another King's Court as the target:
The rules are clear on the basics of what happens here: you pick three cards and play each one three times. My question is when,…
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What is the converted mana cost of a spell with {X} when cast with the Miracle mechanic?
Say I topdeck Entreat the Angels and cast it for its miracle cost of XWW. But my opponent wants to counter it with a CMC-based effect, such as Spellstutter Sprite or Spell Burst.
202.3. The converted mana cost of an object is a number equal to the…
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Why doesn't Undying trigger if a creature with +1/+1 counters dies from -1/-1 counters?
From the Dark Ascension FAQ:
If a creature with undying that has a +1/+1 counter on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, undying won't…
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