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For this edition of Crash Test Magic, I’ve put together a card inspired by an article in Discover Magazine that would probably require five pages of Oracle text and drive even Level 3 judges to drink.

This summer, indie CCG Conquest of Arthenia saw its initial release. Some familiar CCG tropes are blended with clever innovations that make for unexpected strategic twists.

Get up, eat your breakfast, ride the subway to work, fight some orcs with your enchanted Glock, then return home to your wife, who is an Elven princess. Just another day for an Aeternal Legend.

The intrepid Doug Mason is back with another Warhammer strategy guide, this one focused on Warhammer Fantasy’s Empire faction. You may be mere mortal men, but you have many guns and pointy things with which to fend off the encroaching darkness.

It’s time for another round of Crash Test Magic. This week, we aren’t debating the merits of a fictional card design — this week, we’re going to build a deck.

Collect virtual cards, then assemble a combat deck and face off against your online opponent in a duel of magic and swordplay with Rise & Ruin, a browser-based collectible fighting game that’s currently in open beta testing. That means you get to try this one out for free, too.

Indie RPG Aeternal Legends is being relaunched this week, giving players who missed its 2007 release another chance to explore a contemporary world that blends politics and modern culture with high fantasy and a barely concealed undercurrent of magical power. The entire rulebook will be available as a free download until the end of Gen [...]

Dungeon Twister 2 – Prison is ramping up for the game’s October release. The sequel to the popular European dungeon crawl board game features a constantly changing board and some detailed pre-painted miniatures representing the various characters and threats you’ll encounter in the labyrinth. We’ve got cool concept art from sketch to sculpt to painted [...]

Robot Viking headquarters has suffered some flooding. We will return to our regularly scheduled programming on Tuesday (or Wednesday, if it floods again tonight).

Change can be difficult, but it appears Magic: the Gathering fans new and old are hopping aboard the Magic 2010 bandwagon. Is it cool new creatures like Vampire Nocturnus, or unexpected reprints of classic cards like Lightning Bolt? Magic’s director of research & development, Aaron Forsythe, took some time to answer our questions about the [...]

The Arcane Legions demo kit arrived at Robot Viking headquarters last week, and last night we finally sat down to a serious army-vs-army test battle. The Romans won a narrow victory, and despite some finger-numbing assembly issues, we can safely say this: Arcane Legions is really fun.

Crash Test Magic returns with a vengeance this week with not one custom Magic card design, but a whole cycle of five cards. We’ve even created a new keyword: Cursed! See if you can break them, abuse them, create amazing combos or come up with some more card ideas using this mechanic.