New game to try

[Dan Barrett]

I received a LOAD of product* for a new trading card board game, "X610z" from the game's designer to review and give feedback on, but need some other interested people to give it a spin with me for 2-3 hours in the next month sometime.

 

I've not read the rules in detail yet (see link above), however from the look of it a lot of the mechanics are similar to Magic (energy crystals=lands, summons=creatures), only your "summons" are also represented on a game board by plastic pieces, which you move around to do stuff. Oh, and it has a futuristic space theme.

 

Anyone up for it?

 

(* = 2 player starter box, 4 more starter decks with game pieces, and 2 booster boxes - If you give it a go with me, you can keep some of it for future)

 

PS: Apparently you can draft it!

 

 

 

 

[Dan Barrett]

Hey all - have now received the new version of this, now as a lightly customisable 2-4 player "out of the box" game rather than a full-on TCG, renamed "Existenz", and with a much nicer heavy playing board rather than the roll-up plastic-laminate thing from before.

Shout if you'd like to give it a go sometime. It basically plays like Magic, only you and your creatures move around on a board, and you have an additional (primary) victory condition of getting your own piece to an end dot.

[Philip Dickinson]

i am so game! i never got to play the previous incarnation but i love these kinds of games

[Ben Titmarsh]

Does it have any association with the TERRIBLE movie by the same name?

[Philip Dickinson]

existenz was the one where they are trapped in a lethal computer simulation or something, right?

[Dan Barrett]

None whatsoever!

Ben Titmarsh said:

Does it have any association with the TERRIBLE movie by the same name?

[Simon O'Keeffe]

Sounds a lot like Summoner Wars

[Glenn Goldsworthy]

Summoner wars looks good man.

Dan I recall playing that for ages with capain slow (Royde) in the Pendrall, I think we all said that it had potential but the board was hugely annoying, glad they listened to the feedback

[Daniel Royde]

I'm up for this in theory. Any chance of doing it the day before GP Manchester?