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Shards of Infinity: Saga Collection Coming Soon from @StoneBladeEnt @UltraProIntl

One of the more exciting deck building card games that I’ve played is Shards of Infinity (and its two expansions). There’s just something about the game that’s attractive. It’s not hugely bloated with expansions, but the expansions it does have are very useful (including fixing one of my main problems with the base game). Now Stone Blade Entertainment has announced something really cool, or at…

Expansion Review - Shards of Infinity: Into the Horizon @StoneBladeEnt

I’ve playing a ton of the Shards of Infinity app and I finally played the card game last year at Dice Tower West. I liked it so much that I bought it during the pandemic lockdown for me and the wife to play. It really came into its own with the Relics of the Future expansion, though, fixing almost every problem I had with the base game. But when I saw there was another expansion coming, I had…

Shards of Infinity - Into the Horizon - Out Now! @StoneBladeEnt

Very quick post today to let you know that a new expansion to the wonderful deck-builder, Shards of Infinity, is out now and will hopefully be making it to your FLGS or online game store soon! It’s called Into the Horizon and has some cool new mechanisms. While the Relics of Infinity expansion is a must-have for this game, this expansion looks pretty cool as well. Continue reading

Expansion Review - Shards of Infinity: Relics of the Future @StoneBladeEnt @UltraProIntl

One of my new favourite deckbuilding games is the brilliant Shards of Infinity, a game I reviewed back in January. The game is published by Stoneblade Entertainment and Ultra-PRO and is Designed by Gary Arant and Justin Gary with artwork by Aaron Nakahara. One of my criticisms of the base game is that while each player is a character/faction, it makes no difference during the game. It’s all…

Review - Shards of Infinity #boardgames @StoneBladeEnt @UltraProIntl

There’s something to be said for a nice, simple deck-building card game that you can knock out in 15-20 minutes (maybe 30 if you’re unlucky). These games are perfect for a couple of games at lunch with co-workers, or maybe as a way to begin or end a game day. Ascension and Dominion are the grandfathers of the genre, but they require a bit of setup before you can get down to business. Then you…

New Ascension expansion announced @StoneBladeEnt

I’m a huge fan of the deck-building card game Ascension (as many of you who read this blog (hi Bob!) might remember), but I haven’t actually played it on the table in quite a while. The app is just so good that it’s hard for me to actually get it to the table.

Anyway, after the rather interesting Skulls & Sails expansion, the next expansion is going to use the same mechanic of a ship sailing…

New to Me #boardgames - May 2020 @GameSalute @StoneBladeEnt

We’re back!

Pandemic notwithstanding, I managed to actually get a new to me game (and a new to me expansion) play in with the wife this last month.

I have some new games coming so hopefully this trend will continue into June as well.

It does feel good to finally be playing games again.

It felt wrong to suddenly not be playing games, like watching Betwitched and then suddenly having the second…