TCGs

Mikey Mouse Club #21 – Restricted Area!

As someone that was around when Magic: The Gathering first released, I recall when Wizards of the Coast/DCI started restricting the use of certain cards in deckbuilding. Granted, it was still very much a Wild West sort of atmosphere...

Mikey Mouse Club #20 – I Got Yer Be Prepared Right Here

I learned a few things at the recent Lorcana Set Championship events. One is that I absolutely do not want to sit and play Lorcana for eight hours straight, no matter how much I like the game. Another is...

Mikey Mouse Club #18 – My Store Challenge Deck!

Last week I promised to present you an expensive meta deck, just in time for the upcoming store championships that Ravensburger is running as part of their organized play expansion. I’ll be at my home shop Sunday morning to...

Mikey Mouse Club #17: Budget Deck 2- Duckburg!

I’ve seen comics artist Don Rosa a number of times over the years at Atlanta’s Dragon Con and it always tickles me to see the big hand-written sign that says “THIS IS NOT DUCK TALES” when clearly the pictures...

Mikey Mouse Club #16: Budget Deck 1- Jerkules!

The big Lorcana Challenge events as well as local official tournaments are firing up and…I couldn’t care less. I’m on vacation when the Challenge event rolls through Atlanta and the whole thing sold out in like a minute anyway....

Mikey Mouse Club #15 – Lorcana’s Best Art!

After assaulting your eyes and artistic sensibilities with Lorcana’s ugliest cards last week, let’s turn our gaze toward the best-looking cards released so far, shall we? Now, once again, I must remind you reader that all art is subjective...

Mikey Mouse Club #14 – Lorcana’s Ugliest!

Lorcana is a TCG filled to bursting with beautiful illustrations. Unlike so many other licensed games that have cheaped out on the art like those Legendary deckbuilding games that had some of the most atrocious illustrations I’ve ever seen...

Mikey Mouse Club #13 – Into the Inklands, Reviewed

As I write this edition of the Mikey Mouse Club, Lorcana’s latest expansion Into the Inklands has entered general release and considering I saw Troves on the shelf at Target last night, it seems that everything has normalized and...

Mikey Mouse Club #12 – The Underdogs

Lorcana’s Into the Inklands release almost went off without a hitch- everyone that wants cards should be able to buy them without submitting to scumbag scalpers or unscrupulous FLGS and, as late as this morning, I saw packs freely...

Mikey Mouse Club #11 – I Hate THE META!

When my kids and I first started playing in the weekly Lorcana league at our usual FLGS, it had incredible turnout- the first couple of weeks had attendance upwards of 80 players. This is an absurd number of players,...