Welcome to the Boards!

[Mr. Mouse]

Hi there, I'm Stu, I just started playing The Spoils about two weeks ago, it's a very intricate game and I have enjoyed it immensely. I started a gaming club in my hometown here in Ireland February just gone and we have been looking at different CCGs to adopt as a sort of Club Game that we could draft and play together without having to worry about peoples current collections and layers of old releases and cycles, this lead us to The Spoils and it is fast becoming popular in the club.

Anyway that's enough for my rant, hope to have good conversations here and keep abreast of the goings on of the game.

[N1ghtfox]

Hello! Well, I got introduced to the Spoils this year at GenCon and I must say my girlfriend and I were hooked. Now that I'm in college, I don't get to play with her anymore, but I must say it is one of the things that we do talk about. I entered my first Spoils tournament at GenCon, and after that I hadn't found many people to play with. Now that I've moved, I have found some really neat guys to play with, and I do hope that I'll have many good times to come playing the game. I'm not very good yet, but I'm sure with practice I'll be doing better.

P.S. Seed is awesome... adds a whole new level to the gameplay

[doc8466]

Welcome N1ghtfox! Glad to have you. Where are you going to school?

[N1ghtfox]

I'm going to school at Digipen in Redmond, WA in the RTIS program. Sadly, not too many of my classmates play the game.... but I hope that changes

[adamsharizman123]

If you'd know the game rules join Ambassadors and judges.. :P

[Glax]

Alex here, I live in Southwest Georgia. Not a player, just here checking on things.

[Bizze]

Hi!

I've been playing CCG since 1994 (Magic), with some longer breaks during times when I had to look cool (mostly high school) ^_^. I started playing competitively during 2005 and my game of choice then was Yu-Gi-Oh! It was a fairly new game in Sweden at that time and it was Japanese in origin (I love Japanse stuff).

I was placed 4th in the Swedish National tournament 2005 and thought "Man, I'm good at this! I'm gonna put some more time and effort into the game.

2006 I was ranked 6th and my ego screamed at me that I was going the wrong way. However, I won the Sweden Nationals 2008, but lost a lot of focus after that and thus made a poor European Championship appearance. I decided to quit and sold most of my cards, but got back into the game during 2009 thanks to a number of really good trades. I needed a hobby and couldn't find anything else that kept me interested long enough.

I was placed 10th in the Nationals 2009 and, analyzing the game at present feel that there is too much netdecking going on and the game is far too speed-oriented. Players look at the Japanese meta from a year ago and build those decks now (Japan gets most cards earlier than us). Yu Gi Oh! also must be one of the most expensive card games there is, with some cards worth close to $200, and the booster packs are a joke, with horrible rarity classes and very few good cards in each booster series.

So, with one game reduced to a few playable decks that allow for poor innovation and money being one of the sole factors that create good players (or at least good decks), I got convinced to try the Spoils.

As of yet, I've bought some boosters and created my first very mixed Rogue/Gearsmith deck.

I've also played my first match (or at least two duels or whatever you call it in Spoils). I lost the first because of my inability to grasp speed correctly but won the second one due to a timely Rapine. ^_^

I really like the game and its mechanics, as I think it's an evolution from Magic but still a game in its infancy, with a lot of potential and almost no netdecking whatsoever in Sweden (almost no players as well, but I hope that's going to change).

So, that's me.

As a forum member, I tend to write long posts...
...but I feel we need to get some activity in this forum anyways, so I hope you won't mind. ^_^

[La_Sin_Grail]

Welcome aboard! I hope there get to be some more players in Europe this time around... hopefully since AT is based there, there will be

If you have any questions about the game etc., I'm happy to answer them via PM. I check mostly every day (except I won't until Sunday because I'll be out of town). Enjoy the best game on Earth!

[horowits]

Ahoy spoils community.
I found the spoils on a random website and decided to order some cards. My wee gaming circle in Pocatello, ID took to it right away. It was quite easy to learn the basics with some prior CCG experience and learning the strategical aspect of the game should be fun. I'm looking forward to spreading the word and expanding the player pool in our area.

[OnBoardGames]

you're playing it totally wrong...