Last night was the weekly Fenland Gamers lcg/ccg/tcg club night.

Our game for the evening was Dice Masters.

Earlier in the day I prepared two “welcome to Dice Masters” packs for Diego and Marcin who were playing for the first time.

The welcome packs are basically a set of sidekick dice, a set of basic action dice, set of basic action cards, and a wax dice bag.

I’d done similar for Dave last time we played the game.

The only thing missing are play mats. Need to find a solution.

After a learning game for Marcin and Diego using the Secret Wars Origin packs (I keep these in a deck box precisely for this reason) I have we went on to draft from the make shift cube.

Franklin’s Galactus was in my starting hand of the draft. I had to draft the card even if I wasn’t going to put it in the final team. I just couldn’t run the risk of having to face it across the table.

After building our teams and selecting our basic actions we paired up to play.

It was myself vs Dave, and Marcin vs Diego.

Here are the teams for my match with Dave.

My Drafted Team

• Franklin’s Galactus: No Mercy
• Iceman: Mr Ice Guy
• Psylocke: Telepath
• Namor: Leading the Cabal
• Jean Grey: Xavier’s Dream
• Cyclops: First Class
• Mr. Fantastic: Brilliant Scientist
• Angel: Jean Grey’s School

Basic Actions

• Making the Team
• Escape!

Dave’s Drafted Team

• Apocalypse: Wicked Supremacist
• Forge: More Than Firepower
• Invisible Woman: Regents of the Uhari Throne
• Mister Sinister: Bar Sinister
• Bishop: Time Traveller
• Namor: Warring with the Surface
• Beast: Olympic Athleticism
• Falcon: Take Flight

Basic Actions

• Power Bolt
• The Siege Perilous

Whilst Marcin and Diego were battling away I managed to smash Dave convincingly with a combo of Psylocke, Namor, Iceman, and my big threat Franklin’s Galactus.

Unintentionally I had drafted a pretty lethal four cards. Namor punished Dave for blocking, so once out he just sat there. Psylocke was my early buy and didn’t come into her own until I got Franklin’s Galactus out. Up until that point I kept her fielded as a blocker. Once the big guy was out I wanted her to do that get knocked out, and refielded thing so I could give the level 3 10A 10D Franklin’s Galactus overcrush. Which with the Iceman energise was lethal and got me a very emphatic victory.

So after obliterating Dave in game one, we went onto game two because Marcin and Diego were still battling it out.

This time Dave tried to disrupt my plan and take me out before I got a chance to get those lethal four cards working together.

And his plan was working he had me down to four life before I got Franklin’s Galactus out, and pulled off one of the nastiest bits of shenanigans going. Earlier in the game I had bought basic action die for Making the Team. With the thought of getting Namor out quickly.

However this particular bit of shenanigans had me rolling that basic action die, along with enough dice to give me the energy to buy Franklin’s Galactus. The basic action die came up with the side to activate the basic action ability. So I bought the big one. Then did the basic action, rolled Franklin’s Galactus and got its level 2 face.

Dave was impressed and disgusted at the same time.

I survived Dave’s next go, and was rolling a lot of dice once more that included the basic action die.

Not only did I have enough energy to get the second Franklin’s Galactus, which rolled into its level 3 face. I had the energise side of Iceman and fielded a Psylocke. That level 3 was now 20A 10D with overcrush and I swung in with everything.

Good night Dave.

Onto game three.

Dave came a lot closer to defeating me, getting my life down to 2. But a last ditch turn of mine that saw two basic action dice for Making the Team allow me to get both of my Namor dice fielded, another Iceman energise, fielding a Psylocke, and an already fielded Iceman and a couple of sidekicks sitting as 2A 1D swing in to get exactly twelve points of damage that I needed to grab the win after Dave had allocated blockers.

That was a much closer game. Dave’s plan of using Mr Fantastic’s global against me to force my fielded Namor to attack really worked.

Near the end of the third game the epic battle between Marcin and Diego ended. Sadly I didn’t get who the victor was. Hopefully Diego will add a comment with the result.

So a clean sweep for me against Dave.

Diego and Marcin really enjoyed playing Dice Masters. Which was good to hear. Maybe next time we will try the new cube I created using just commons from Uncanny X-men and Avengers vs X-Men. Which I need to do a post about the cards selected.

I thought this cube was fun. It does need some tweaking. But I need one or more draft packs to be able to do that. One or two of the cards are pointless because they have things trigger if there is a Wolverine fielded. So I either need a Wolverine card or replace these with others.

I know I’m sounding like a broken record but this was another really fun evening.

Finally…

Over on my favourite Dice Masters podcast A Double Double ‘n Dice Podcast they have once again read my comments out on the show. This time they also link to the blog and my posts to do with Dice Masters. Which was kind of them to do. I appreciate this blog is very niche at best, and certainly not to everyone’s taste.

So at some point I might see people who know Dice Masters much better than myself calling me out for my errors.

But in the meantime you can listen to the latest show (at time of writing) here on YouTube.