Friday, July 10, 2015

Friday Favorites - Extreme Card Games

Today's prompt: What is your favorite multi-player card game? Describe a game as though it was an extreme sport.


Dan Christmann wrote:

This should be pretty easy for me, because Egyptian Ratscrew already is an extreme sport. The dudes and/ or dudettes divide up a deck of standard playing cards equally and then, one at a time, place the top card of their deck face up in the center. Their bodies are tense, their hands trembling in anticipation. Once a face card is played, the player after the dude/ dudette who played that card is totally in trouble, man. They have to play a certain number of cards down in the center equal to the corresponding face card. If it’s a king, say, you place three, a queen is two, a jack, which, brah, is like the worst thing to get ratscrewed on, is one. An ace is a measly four flips. If you get a face card in that time, then the flipping and the flopping transfers to the next dude and/or dudette. Once one doesn’t bring up a face card, the person before them gets all of the cards that everyone has previously put down. It’s like total card annihilation. But the best part is that if two people play the same card in a row, someone, and I mean anyone, can slap those cards, usually bodychecking all of the other dudes/ dudettes in the process, to get them an all of the others underneath it. Totally bogus, man! But totally awesome if it happens to you.

Basically, you win when you have the whole deck in your hand. A truly impressive feat, my friends.


Chuck C. wrote:

The cut throat world of Cards Against Humanity is a little known subculture that has been known to kill. Entering it puts you in the line of the arrows of sarcasm, extreme callousness, and brutal inappropriateness. Navigate it with caution, as it has been known to bring even the most kind and caring person to deep levels of depravity. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.


Pope Jon wrote:

Magic: The Gathering.



"Tonight we have a unique match for everybody!" Harry Harrison announced excitedly, "It's a family feud! For the championship! That's right, we have the two final Planeswalkers in the tournament remaining: Pope Jon, and Glomdi!"

The Planeswalkers approach the battlefield, with their decks strapped to their legs. The battlefield lights up, with a massive, globally sized colosseum as the setting for the final battle.

"Pope Jon is using is old-time favorite deck, a deck of burning, life gain, and aggression, The Corruption of the Burning Legion!" Images of the Pope's previous battles start to play, filled with fire and blood at the hands of angels, knights, and some darker creatures.

"Glomdi is also using her most classic deck, filled with Vampires, kill-spells, and the unexpected, Sorin Markov, Master of Vampires!" Glomdi's past battles of are displayed now. Savage kills, crafty turnabouts, and overwhelming power are all present in her highlights.

"Looks like Glomdi won the opening RPS game, and she has declined the first turn of the first game to the Pope!" Harry shouted.

After Pope Jon was forced to mulligan, both players were off to a slow start. By turn 4, both players only had land in play, but when Glomdi finally produced a creature, the Pope immediately wiped it out with a Lightning bolt, not wanting to wait around for the Bloodline Keeper's effects to come into play.

"OH! Looks like the Pope doesn't like how this match has gone so far! With all his land now untapped, the fifth turn begins! And Pope Jon got just what he needed to make a move! With black mana now at his disposal, he can put Ankle Shanker out onto the field and use haste to draw first blood!" Right on cue, the Pope attacks, not letting haste go to waste.

Now at 18 life, Glomdi begins her next turn.

The battle rages for quite some time, until the Pope manages to pull off a simple combination of a Crackling Doom with a Balefire Liege, dealing five damage and crippling Glomdi's forces. Within a few turns, Glomdi is burned for good and the Pope is the victor. But it was only the first game of a three part match, and Glomdi's eyes are burning with rage, a promise for vengeance.



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