Duel Monsters. It used to be, it was THE game. As in if you were a name to know in the TCG world, it was because that was your game. Of course, other games overtook it in popularity, mainly due to all the bad ban lists favoring the japanese meta, and then the lawsuit.
The lawsuit pretty much killed the tourney scene, and any chance of any more cards being sold along with it. For some of you, you're used to the rejection. However...not every monster shares that opinion, and because of them, the store owner is lying dead behind the counter.
Twenty-One of you are still here to unravel the mysteries. Less will live to tell the tale.
In Play:
archmage Eternal
TheArtistCurrentlyKnownAs
Other Cards in Play:
None
Graveyard: Alpha_Werewolf - Dark Ruler Ha Des -- Neutral Serial Killer -- Lynched Day 7
The Inexperienced Spy
Bark of Dark Ruler Infinis - Jack's Knight -- Townie Mason -- Killed Night 6 Apokalypse_Kid - Reflect Bounder -- Townie Mirror --Lynched Day 6
Magical Arm Shield
The Inexperienced Spy
Bark of Dark Ruler
Magical Arm Shield
Dark World Lightning
Labyrinth of Nightmares Id_Ego - Terrorking Archfiend -- Mafia Roleblocker -- Killed Night 5 Claytonthegreat - Scarr, Scout of Dark World -- Mafia Scout -- Lynched Day 5
Dark World Dealings
The Inexperienced Spy
Dark World Lightning
Respect Play Jerubbaal -King's Knight -- Townie Mason -- Killed Night 4
Bark of Dark Ruler Anaklusmos761 -Chaos Sorcerer -- Townie Scrambler -- Killed Night 4 Red_0mega - Old Vindictive Magician -- Townie -- Lynched Day 4
Offerings to the Doomed Zindabad - Summoned Skull -- Mafia Goon -- Killed Day 3
Soul Exchange Buranri - Caius the Shadow Monarch -- Mafia Goon -- Lynched Day 3
Dark World Dealings
Magical Arm Shield
Archfiend's Roar
Fuhma Shuriken joboman - Celtic Guardian -- Townie -- Killed Night 2
Bark of Dark Ruler AsianInvasion - Queen's Knight -- Townie Mason -- Killed Night 2
Dark World Lightning
Solemn Wishes iPot - Injection Fairy Liliy -- Townie Doc -- Killed Night 2 gleng - Reign-Beaux, Overlord of Dark World -- Mafia Godfather -- Lynched Day 2
Raigeki Break Blue_Ghost4 - Dunames Dark Witch -- Townie -- Modkilled Day 2
Dark World Dealings
Soul Exchange
Archfiend's Roar
Dark World Lightning
The Eye of Truth DYH - Judge Man -- Townie Cop -- Killed Night 1
Fuhma Shuriken tchoob - Dark Magician Girl -- Townie -- Killed Night 1
Bark of Dark Ruler cantripmancer - Magician's Valkyria -- Townie -- Killed Night 1 ZDS - Familiar-Possessed Wynn -- Townie -- Lynched Day 1
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I'm amused that [Shalako], of all people, are talking about terrible reasoning. "Hey, PF's RVS daykill must be serious, therefore I should shoot him to prove that I have a daykill!"
The lot of you are standing or floating around, assessing the scene. Some among you are responsible for this, but exactly who is in doubt. Of course, that's what you're all trying to figure out.
It's time to hunt some wild dogs.
It is now Day 1. With 21 monsters Alive, it's 11 to lynch.
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a quick glance at the wiki says it has both players with their hands revealed.
As for in this game, that's for the players to find out. At least one player knows what it does, as well as me. However, I'm not gonna comment on the matter.
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a quick glance at the wiki says it has both players with their hands revealed.
As for in this game, that's for the players to find out. At least one player knows what it does, as well as me. However, I'm not gonna comment on the matter.
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I'm amused that [Shalako], of all people, are talking about terrible reasoning. "Hey, PF's RVS daykill must be serious, therefore I should shoot him to prove that I have a daykill!"
Also, it's fitting that you were the player to post after my vote, being the recipient of Zebi's affections.
So, you are still assuming I'm scum huh?
Not sure why I thought it would be too powerful, because it wouldn't. For some reason, in my very tired, early morning mind, I thought that possibly a scum and town would learn of each other. I know, that makes no sense. I'm going to quit posting in the early morning lol.
Not sure why I thought it would be too powerful, because it wouldn't. For some reason, in my very tired, early morning mind, I thought that possibly a scum and town would learn of each other. I know, that makes no sense. I'm going to quit posting in the early morning lol.
While setups including a scum mason is not unheard of, it's one bastard of a mod who'd actually put that into a game, especially a Normal.
Asian, stop speculating about the set-up with Anascumos, before I decide you are his scum-buddy.
Clever play on his name.
To be fair, I'm only trying to figure out what do make of the public information our mod has presented us, namely what impact the Respect Play card has on the game. If it's widely assumed that it's related to masons and has no other significance, I'll leave it at that.
If it's not widely assumed to be related to masons, you won't leave it at that?
It depends on how active of a role people think the card will have on the game. If it has some bizarre effect then we might want to figure out how to maximize our benefit while cutting our losses with regard to said card. Since we don't know what the card does, I'm just making sure people don't forget about it in case something strange happens and we have no idea why.
you're absolutely correct, it does nothing. you each are cards and therefore don't have a hand to view.
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Interesting. Any particular reason you chose Infinis or did you just pick a name more or less at random?
It's his avatar. No other reason
What are DM staples though? I know Pot of Greed because they play it in every single episode of the anime (even when they don't play the card game), but that's all I know. I have no idea if my card is a staple or not.
Pot of Greed is banned. Dunnow if this means anything though.
MONSTER REBORN, Black hole, Mirror Force. Raigeki, torrential tribute.
Out of these, I believe only Mirror Force and Torrential Tribute aren't banned.
Some monsters I can recall being staples nowadays: Dark Armed Dragon, Sangan, Gladiator Beast cards, most Synchros.
Anaklusmos was overly defensive as ZDS pointed out. I really hate the "I shouldn't post when {insert excuse here}". I hate it because is often scum excusing behavior they can't otherwise rationalize.
AsianInvasion is trying too hard to look townie, and is a bit too interested in what the mechanic is about. Shifty.
@Tchoob: How many games have you played in?
We're officially out of the random phase and have entered "Top Three Scum" time. That didn't take long.
Anaklusmos was overly defensive as ZDS pointed out. I really hate the "I shouldn't post when {insert excuse here}". I hate it because is often scum excusing behavior they can't otherwise rationalize.
I would agree, but because his comment was essentially a game theory question ("Are masons broken?") as opposed to something observable and/or immediate in this game ("What does Respect Play do?"), I'm less inclined to find his behavior scummy. I do think that the emotion behind the post was defensive, though, especially the bit about whether he's still perceived as scum.
AsianInvasion is trying too hard to look townie, and is a bit too interested in what the mechanic is about. Shifty.
I disagree on both counts. I'm trying to learn as much about the current game state as I can while keeping the discussion relevant, which is something that benefits the town.
Everyone in this game who has yet to do so should read LotR II. I think you'll find it enlightening.
I agree that Anak's first two posts are very scumlike, but seeing as he hasen't posted since, I think there is more to learn from the rest of the group than him himself. I will FoS Anaklusmos with intention to vote pending his responses. Not liking what I'm seeing though.
Why, as town, would you ever want to? People coming out and saying some of the "staples" of the game is terrribly dangerous to the town. I know nothing about the game, and the only thing I have to go off of is my pm. That information could reveal a lot about my role and help the scum to victory. So please, as ZDS said, nobody answer this.
Wow 40 posts in and looks like one scum reared his ugly head. I agree with ZDS. Vote Anak
FOS Zindabad, 'cause hes sneaky
What?
FoS Archmage Eternal for a terrible reason to vote. No analysis of his own, no personal breakdown, just simple barning someone else's theory. The list on Anak's head grew quite a bit very fast, and this is the weakest vote on said list. Once random phase ends, the scum have to quickly either lay low (which looks shady) or man up and act like town, however weak their acting skills may be. In short, I really don't like AE's vote here.
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The lawsuit pretty much killed the tourney scene, and any chance of any more cards being sold along with it. For some of you, you're used to the rejection. However...not every monster shares that opinion, and because of them, the store owner is lying dead behind the counter.
Twenty-One of you are still here to unravel the mysteries. Less will live to tell the tale.
In Play:
None
Graveyard:
Alpha_Werewolf - Dark Ruler Ha Des -- Neutral Serial Killer -- Lynched Day 7
The Inexperienced Spy
Bark of Dark Ruler
Infinis - Jack's Knight -- Townie Mason -- Killed Night 6
Apokalypse_Kid - Reflect Bounder -- Townie Mirror --Lynched Day 6
Magical Arm Shield
The Inexperienced Spy
Bark of Dark Ruler
Magical Arm Shield
Dark World Lightning
Labyrinth of Nightmares
Id_Ego - Terrorking Archfiend -- Mafia Roleblocker -- Killed Night 5
Claytonthegreat - Scarr, Scout of Dark World -- Mafia Scout -- Lynched Day 5
Dark World Dealings
The Inexperienced Spy
Dark World Lightning
Respect Play
Jerubbaal - King's Knight -- Townie Mason -- Killed Night 4
Bark of Dark Ruler
Anaklusmos761 - Chaos Sorcerer -- Townie Scrambler -- Killed Night 4
Red_0mega - Old Vindictive Magician -- Townie -- Lynched Day 4
Offerings to the Doomed
Zindabad - Summoned Skull -- Mafia Goon -- Killed Day 3
Soul Exchange
Buranri - Caius the Shadow Monarch -- Mafia Goon -- Lynched Day 3
Dark World Dealings
Magical Arm Shield
Archfiend's Roar
Fuhma Shuriken
joboman - Celtic Guardian -- Townie -- Killed Night 2
Bark of Dark Ruler
AsianInvasion - Queen's Knight -- Townie Mason -- Killed Night 2
Dark World Lightning
Solemn Wishes
iPot - Injection Fairy Liliy -- Townie Doc -- Killed Night 2
gleng - Reign-Beaux, Overlord of Dark World -- Mafia Godfather -- Lynched Day 2
Raigeki Break
Blue_Ghost4 - Dunames Dark Witch -- Townie -- Modkilled Day 2
Dark World Dealings
Soul Exchange
Archfiend's Roar
Dark World Lightning
The Eye of Truth
DYH - Judge Man -- Townie Cop -- Killed Night 1
Fuhma Shuriken
tchoob - Dark Magician Girl -- Townie -- Killed Night 1
Bark of Dark Ruler
cantripmancer - Magician's Valkyria -- Townie -- Killed Night 1
ZDS - Familiar-Possessed Wynn -- Townie -- Lynched Day 1
Rules (Stolen From AsianInvasion, who stole them from Toastboy, stolen from Ecophagy, stolen from loran16, stolen from Some One, stolen from Stormblind, stolen from CropCircles, stolen from carrion pigeons, who stole them from loran16, who then stole them from SorryGuy, who retrieved them courteously from Xyre, who jacked them from Jobie, who stole them from Puzzle, but Puzzle stole them from Crippled_Fist, who stole them from Ljustus, who stole them from carrion pigeons, who copyrighted them from CropCircles, who first pirated them from Puzzle, who got them in a private message from Halo_Freak):
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The lot of you are standing or floating around, assessing the scene. Some among you are responsible for this, but exactly who is in doubt. Of course, that's what you're all trying to figure out.
It's time to hunt some wild dogs.
It is now Day 1. With 21 monsters Alive, it's 11 to lynch.
The following cards are also in play:
Respect Play
Currently Playing:
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Vote: Zebi
He did it anally to the scum.
a quick glance at the wiki says it has both players with their hands revealed.
As for in this game, that's for the players to find out. At least one player knows what it does, as well as me. However, I'm not gonna comment on the matter.
Currently Playing:
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RBWModern - Mardu PyromancerWBR
RLegacy - Good Old Fashioned BurnR
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Cool, I like mysteries.
You might be onto something, though I'm not sure why that would be too powerful, seeing as how masons have even shown up in Basic games.
Also, it's fitting that you were the player to post after my vote, being the recipient of Zebi's affections.
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Because that is so late 90's and for having too many secondary characters in his/her banner (Too many dudes as well :rolleyes:)
12-11? I'm losing track
So, you are still assuming I'm scum huh?
Not sure why I thought it would be too powerful, because it wouldn't. For some reason, in my very tired, early morning mind, I thought that possibly a scum and town would learn of each other. I know, that makes no sense. I'm going to quit posting in the early morning lol.
you suck.
Vote: ZDS
I dunno. Are you?
While setups including a scum mason is not unheard of, it's one bastard of a mod who'd actually put that into a game, especially a Normal.
Lemme try something.
Look at Infinis' hand.
Probably won't do anything, but worth a try!
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Clever play on his name.
To be fair, I'm only trying to figure out what do make of the public information our mod has presented us, namely what impact the Respect Play card has on the game. If it's widely assumed that it's related to masons and has no other significance, I'll leave it at that.
Interesting. Any particular reason you chose Infinis or did you just pick a name more or less at random?
Not a scum tell. I find it hard to believe that you did register some sort of mild surprise when you read Alpha's post.
This game is starting to remind me of Inheritance. "Let push random buttons and see what happens!"
No one answer this.
you're absolutely correct, it does nothing. you each are cards and therefore don't have a hand to view.
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Wow 40 posts in and looks like one scum reared his ugly head. I agree with ZDS. Vote Anak
FOS Zindabad, 'cause hes sneaky
What?
They hate us cause they ain't us.
Why do you think?
Is your vote serious?
None of those are monster cards, and I think all of us are monsters.
It's his avatar. No other reason
Pot of Greed is banned. Dunnow if this means anything though.
Out of these, I believe only Mirror Force and Torrential Tribute aren't banned.
Some monsters I can recall being staples nowadays: Dark Armed Dragon, Sangan, Gladiator Beast cards, most Synchros.
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AsianInvasion is trying too hard to look townie, and is a bit too interested in what the mechanic is about. Shifty.
@Tchoob: How many games have you played in?
We're officially out of the random phase and have entered "Top Three Scum" time. That didn't take long.
Vote: Anaklusmos761
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You should answer DYH's question first.
I would agree, but because his comment was essentially a game theory question ("Are masons broken?") as opposed to something observable and/or immediate in this game ("What does Respect Play do?"), I'm less inclined to find his behavior scummy. I do think that the emotion behind the post was defensive, though, especially the bit about whether he's still perceived as scum.
I disagree on both counts. I'm trying to learn as much about the current game state as I can while keeping the discussion relevant, which is something that benefits the town.
Everyone in this game who has yet to do so should read LotR II. I think you'll find it enlightening.
Huzzah is a fantastic word, and I totally washed my hands like five minutes ago! LIES!
I agree that Anak's first two posts are very scumlike, but seeing as he hasen't posted since, I think there is more to learn from the rest of the group than him himself. I will FoS Anaklusmos with intention to vote pending his responses. Not liking what I'm seeing though.
Totally.
Why, as town, would you ever want to? People coming out and saying some of the "staples" of the game is terrribly dangerous to the town. I know nothing about the game, and the only thing I have to go off of is my pm. That information could reveal a lot about my role and help the scum to victory. So please, as ZDS said, nobody answer this.
FoS Archmage Eternal for a terrible reason to vote. No analysis of his own, no personal breakdown, just simple barning someone else's theory. The list on Anak's head grew quite a bit very fast, and this is the weakest vote on said list. Once random phase ends, the scum have to quickly either lay low (which looks shady) or man up and act like town, however weak their acting skills may be. In short, I really don't like AE's vote here.
and can anyone link to the card already in the graveyard? What does it do?