Are you a Quiet Speculation member?
If not, now is a perfect time to join up! Our powerful tools, breaking-news analysis, and exclusive Discord channel will make sure you stay up to date and ahead of the curve.
After a long build-up and a slow reveal of Dack Fayden, we're finally here. Lots of anticipation led to the cracking of many boosters of the highly-hyped Conspiracy set, and I was lucky enough to open up an Exploration myself (except it was for a friend's draft, so that was a little less fun).
But seriously, drafting the set was a lot of fun, even if I ended up with zero Conspiracies at the end. I did, however, have the potential to have up to four votes thanks to Brago's Representative. Not to mention I drafted a sweet deck (that I won with) that had this opening hand.
Anyway, that was my experience, and it was a blast. How about you guys? Any fun stories?
No fun stories, but I just noticed that the actual Conspiracy card frames are scrolls. Kinda neat.
Had a great time playing all weekend. Even cracked a worldwake pack when i got to bring in a booster.
Funniest thing I saw all weekend was in a 4 player pod, one of our regulars was able to convince a younger player to so basically everything he wanted, even making the younger kid believe that what he wanted.
Example, I have 2 non threatening creatures, guy to my left has the regenerating color changing ogre, “villain” has reya dawnbringer and 5 other creatures in play. Kid plays the white card where we vote to exile a creature. Villain advises kid to choose the ogre, me and the other player are trying to convince the kid to pick Reya. After a long debate, kid bursts out “Im going to do whats best for my game, i vote ogre.”
So villain proceeds to win game. After getting kid to mill himself for no prizes…
The games where it was a true free for all were a lot of fun, but the games where it all comes down to player alliances and political power are miserable to me. I get enough of that at work and don’t like my casual games of magic decided that way. I mean if one player is overpowering and it’s everyone’s best interest to team up, that’s one thing. But wasting 45 minutes playing a game just to have one guy convince others to team up to get what he wants isn’t playing magic, it’s manipulating people is is the most unsatisfying way to lose a game, even over mana screw in my opinion.
Yeah, I didn’t love that aspect either.
i got a pick 4 pack 1 stifle and the muzzio i opened pack 1 tabled back to me and i got a reflecting pool in another draft