Showing posts with label 6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 6. Show all posts

Inbox:Hardware: Munchkin - Boxes of Holding

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Hardware covers the technology of game playing, whether PC, consoles or figurines on a board.

While I do love me some Munchkin for its chaotic multiplayer fun, I admit that it's rather chaotic when it comes to storage. It's a lot of cards and they can get quite shuffled about and messed up in the original box that it came in, especially with the Door and Treasure cards getting mixed up. The easy solution, of course, is to get a pair of simple cardboard card boxes or, alternatively, fancier deck boxes that exist for trading card games.

Steve Jackson games actually deals with this problem too, by releasing its very own pair of deck boxes to hold all your Munchkin cards, separated into Door and Treasure boxes. These aren't actually significantly different from regular old cardboard card boxes, actually, being made of cardboard themselves, but they are printed all over with Munchkin graphics and come with a pair of exclusive bonus cards as well. For the high asking price of $9.99 that's really not that great of a deal. However, the glossy printing is a lot more aesthetically pleasing than a plain white or brown cardbox box with "Munchkin" scrawled in permanent ink on it and the bonus cards are nice too.

Still, for what you get, it's not that great of a deal. But a must for fans. 6/10.

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Inbox: Munchkin 7 - More Good Cards

Inbox features items that I have recently purchased or received.

When I got the first Munchkin game as a gift, I also received with it Munchkin 7 - More Good Cards. More Good Cards is a slim expansion set for Munchkin that doesn't add anything particularly new: no new mechanics, no new races, classes or treasure types. What it does provide is a small stack of highly powered cards that generally work to enhance the use of other cards.

This includes even more over the top versions of cards like Super Munchkin and Half-Breed, which let you stack three classes or races together, rather than just two. However, since the expansion includes a lot of cards that modify other cards, but no actual treasures, monsters, races or anything of the sort, it might actually be too much for those who are just playing with the basic box, because it throws off the ratio of enhancer cards to basic cards, which results in drawing a lot of cards that can't or won't be used.

That said, as you get more expansions and your decks become enormous, the more useful More Good Cards becomes, letting you take advantage of the three or four cards in your hand that you might not have otherwise been able to use. Bottom line: this is a good expansion for those who already have a lot of Munchkin and want More Good Cards. For those who only have the basic box, I'd look at buying additional expansions in numerical sequence to keep the card ratios even. 6/10.

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