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Mono Green Aggro (2021)
I’m back running a mono green aggro deck. I had a really good run with another variant on this theme back in Fall 2020, when I made it to Mythic two months in a row. I haven’t seen Mythic since. I wanted to give green aggro a go, and found this deck online. I’ve been…
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Mono Black Tergrid Discard
The Kaldheim set introduced in February 2021 added some interesting cards to Magic: the Gathering, and one of them inspired me to create a deck. The deck turned out to be decent enough, fun to play and probably quite frustrating for opponents. The key card here is Tergrid, God of Fright, one of the new…
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Gaming Year 2020
2020 was a weird year. Covid-19. Let’s get the big one out there first. Covid-19 was a big thing, and wasn’t. The total amount of games I played was about the same as it has been in previous years. The ten year average is 751, I played 753 games in 2020; in hours the average…
A Feast for Odin, Abandon All Artichokes, Altiplano, Animal upon Animal, Attika, Cartographers, Caverna: Cave vs Cave, Cities: Skylines, Coconuts, Conflict of Heroes, Connect Four, Dale of Merchants, Decrypto, Everdell, Fort, Hallertau, Just One, Love Letter, Magic: The Gathering, Merchant of Venus, Merkator, MicroMacro: Crime City, Minecraft: Builders & Biomes, Nusfjord, Q.E., Res Arcana, Second Chance, Spirit Island, Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza, The Crew, The Mysteries of Peking, Tiny Towns, Trails of Tucana, Twin It!, Tyrants of the Underdark, Undaunted: Normandy, Undaunted: North Africa, Underwater Cities, Valley of the Vikings, War Chest, Wavelength -
Small city full of crime – Interview with Johannes Sich
MicroMacro: Crime City has been one of the weird highlights of the 2020. It’s a puzzle played on a big black and white city map, full of detail. There’s a bunch of cases, a crime mysteries you have to figure out. Who was murdered, who did it, what was the motive? The key to these…
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Unlock! Star Wars
Unlock! Star Wars Escape Game by Cyril Demaegd and Jay Little, published by Space Cowboys in 2020. I received a review copy from Asmodee Nordics. Elevator pitch: Three Unlock! escape room puzzle scenarios set in the Star Wars universe. What’s in the box? This is a typical Unlock! three scenario box: there’s three decks of…
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Mono Black Peer into the Abyss
I got beaten by the key combo of this deck and thought this might be a fun deck to play. Alternative win conditions are fun. Well, alternative – this deck certainly kills the opponent by wasting all life, it’s just that it’s mostly done at once, and it doesn’t really matter how much life the…
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Mono Green Aggro Stomp
Since I’m playing lots of Magic: The Gathering on Arena these days, why not post a few words about the game. I’ll post some of the decks I play. If you want to be my friend on Arena, I’m Hutilointia there. This has been my go-to deck. It started as the preconstructed green deck provided…
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Copenhagen: Roll & Write
Copenhagen: Roll & Write by Daniel Skjold Pedersen and Asger Harding Granerud, published by Queen Games in 2019. I received a review copy of the Nordic edition from Lautapelit.fi, the publisher of the Nordic edition of the game. Elevator pitch: The roll & write version of Copenhagen is a simpler, faster version of the original…
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My top 100 games in 2020
I just finished my Top 100 list for 2020. It’s on BGG: Mikko’s Top 100 – 2020 edition.
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Dale of Merchants 3
Dale of Merchants 3 by Sami Laakso, coming to Kickstarter on May 1st 2020. Sami Laakso was kind enough to send me a preview version of the game. I know Sami and have helped promote his games before, but I’ve also bought the published versions of all his games and will buy this one as…