Shades Of A 033
Epic card battles are only epic to those playing them. I don’t know how YuGiOh managed to make an entire TV series out of watching people play card games.
In real world news, I’ll be at london expo this weekend! Come see me because if all goes as planned, you can be some of the first to buy the brand new Tom and Alex books : D.
Bad Anwar, jumping to conclusions like that. Who’s to say that’s what he meant? (Even though it very well might have been on some level.)
Well, considering on the previous page the dude seemed interested in JD, it stands to reason that he wants Anwar to throw the game so he can go out drinking with “her.” I’m guessing Anwar probably knows him well enough to know what he’s thinking, too.
Hah I know, I just wanted to take the opportunity to say/type “Bad Anwar.” I haven’t had a chance yet. :P
XD well why the hell not
New Tom & Alex! *suppresses little girl squee’s*
Ahem. Perhaps I shall attend. Perhaps to, in a mature and measured manner, express my admiration for your art and storytelling. And not gush. Totally no gushing. At all.
Love past Anwar’s haircut!
Will you be in the Glasgow comic con on 7th September?
I miss card games XD
I don’t play MtG as much as a lot of people do, so please let me know if I have the wrong of it, but I find it rather hard to believe that this game could be going on for “hours”. Unless both of them are running prismatic decks (250 cards), or Anwar and JD are both just taking really long time deciding on what they’re going to do, I would think that either one of them would have run out of cards by now (which would have ended the game).
The whiny friend could also be making a hyperbolic statement because he’s simply bored of watching, but I really can’t tell from the way the panels transition. I am really enjoying the facial expressions on this page, though. JD looks so intense!
Maybe they’ve been playing multiple games: best 2 out of 3, then 3 out of 5, until eventually 51 out of 100 or something :).
(I’ve never played Magic, so I’m just speculating.)
I had a game of magic that went for a couple hours because neither of us could do anything and took forever about deciding if we couldn’t do anything.
Eh, they could be playing EDH/Commander – those games always take a while, especially if there’s multiple people involved. But I’m more inclined to believe that Whiny Guy is exaggerating.
Years ago, our games would last for ages with a lot of back and forth. These days, they are pretty fast with all the added abilities and pumped up cards.
My friend was home for his birthday a month ago. We played Magic. We played for something like four hours, switching decks and modifying them to improve on design flaws.
One of them could always be playing an Eggs deck. Those take an eternity to play.
Eggs is fast enough in the hands of someone who knows the deck by heart. Turbo fog takes forever in anyone’s hands, when i ran it at a PTQ i had to speed play every turn to avoid going to time every round(still did once).
Whoa whoa whoa, wait.
Let’s not forget Hikaru no Go. They managed to make a _Game of Go_ epic to watch.
But let’s not forget Death Note, where __WRITING ON A NOTEBOOK__ is epic.
Are you implying that Go isn’t epic? :|
To watch?
Rarely.
A good rivalry can make any game epic.
Digging the long hair, Anwar. :D
What?! Who WOULDN’T want to watch grown men and women play children’s card games with each other whilst completely ignoring the rules and occasionally mind crushing their enemies?
Screw the rules I have money!
Yu Gi Oh! made it fun to watch by having the cards become giant holographic monsters, and by making the games easy to follow so you knew what was going on and why they were doing what they were doing. Characters would draw and play cards in a dramatic exaggerated matter so to make it seem exciting, where as in real life people look a little more relaxed playing cards, and generally won’t dramatically explain what they were doing lol.
Psh! Dramatic explanations are half the fun! >:l
What are you saying, I yell “YOU ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD” even when I’m playing card games without trap cards. Like poker.
I don’t know but I was (er… am) totally obsessed with Yu-Gi-Oh!. Granted, the ancient Egyptian spirits is what really did it for me.
Chihayafuru is essentially based around a card game, and a card game based on classical poetry at that, but its matches are just INCREDIBLY tense!
*High 5!* I LOVE Chihayafuru!
Just wondering but are they playing Magic?
There appears to be land tapping for mana so one is lead to assume; though i have a feeling Tab doesn’t care about which card game and intentionally left it out.