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What happens if I become an illegal target of Cruel Entertainment?
Cruel Entertainment is a card from Commander 2016 that says:
Choose target player and another target player. The first player controls the second player during the second player’s next turn, and the second player controls the first player during…
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In Diplomacy, Should You Have Separate Country "Draws" For Players of Different Experience?
Once I was in Diplomacy game with two experienced players, one intermediate (me), and four people who had never played the game before.
As it were, the two best players drew England and Turkey, and ran all over the board. Two of the new ones ended…
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In Axis and Allies, what US strategy has the highest win rate? Why?
Everyone knows how the United States REALLY won World War II. It concentrated first in North Africa, then the Mediterranean (Italy), and closed with the cross-channel invasion at Normandy that ended in Berlin. That is a viable strategy for the U.S.…
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Do Go players play to minimize score difference after realizing they cannot win?
I would expect that players might opt for a strategy with a higher chance of winning despite having a greater chance of losing by a greater point difference. But after they see that they will lose, do they continue to play their best to score as…
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Where can I get these Carcassone expansions?
Where can I find the mini-expansions for Carcassonne? I've seen there are several such as "The Cathars" and "Crop Circles" but don't know where to get them, my local board game store doesn't have them.
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What happens when a non-creature receives "+1/+1 until end of turn" effects, then later becomes a creature?
A recent question, Can Disallow prevent me from crewing a vehicle?, brought up the following scenario: Veteran Motorist is tapped to crew a vehicle, but the crew ability is countered by Disallow. The vehicle remains a non-creature with no power or…
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Can you crew a Vehicle that is already a creature?
Let's pretend I control a Mobile Garrison and a Veteran Motorist.
I crew the Garrison with my Motorists (sweet +1/+1 bonus).
I attack with the Garrison, and I untap the Motorists with the triggered ability.
At this point, can I tap the Motorists to…
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Are there any legal go arrangements that can never occur in an actual game?
Are there any arrangements of stones that are:
legal, because all groups have at least one liberty, yet
impossible, because no sequence of moves could possibly result in such an arrangement.
I'm definitely not looking for illegal arrangements…
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What would happen if you made Spellskite Hexproof?
I would like to know if making Spellskite hexproof would render him useless or make him ultra effective at fizzling spells?
I'm thinking about his activated ability: if he was hexproof, would I be able to pay the cost to change the target to him…
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What Dominion cards have artwork featuring different versions of the same object?
In the Dark Ages expansion of Dominion there are several cards that feature artwork with run-down versions of the artwork on previously released cards. Examples are "Pillage" - featuring "Village," "Ruined Library" - featuring "Library", and "Ruined…
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What is this Soviet Russian game featuring a complex path on a black background?
A Russian friend found this game from his grandmother, but doesn't have the name or any other details. A reverse image search didn't turn anything up. What is it?
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Can I play Gonti, Lord of Luxury's exiled card after he leaves the battlefield?
I'm interested in using Gonti, Lord of Luxury as my commander. If I summon him and exiled a card with him, and then he leaves the battlefield (is destroyed, exiled, etc), can I still cast that exiled card? Can I do it if he then returns to the…
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The fear of door knobs and being moved by the keeper
There is an insanity card (one of my favorite as a keeper) that says that the investigator has to roll will+2 everytime he/she walks through a door. What me and my players haven't been able to agree upon is whether the investigator should roll the…
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What is the board game featured in this Houkago Saikoro Kurabu picture?
Can someone identify the game in this picture? It comes from the manga Houkago Saikoro Kurabu, which has a history of showcasing real board games (particularly eurogames) so it is very likely not just made up for the manga:
Here's a…
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Scythe: Can I leave resources in the lake?
Playing with the Polania faction in Scythe, I built the mech than unlocks "Submerge". This allows my leader and mechs to travel in and out of lakes. At one point my leader was carrying resources with him during a lake-walk and I didn't want to bring…
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