The Connection Games Blog - Issue 24 (Nov 10th) Submitted by admin on Thu, 11/10/2011 - 17:58.
There wasn't a lot of new stuff in last week or placed on pre-order this week, so I'll spend most of my time talking about things that are coming out next week (Nov 13-19) or later.
On Tuesday Nov 15th, the new Yu-Gi-Oh! Booster pack: Photon Shockwave will be in-stores. This 100 card set adds powerful cards useful in many decks and gives you another chance to pick up a Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon, or the new level 8 Xyz Monster - Thunder End Dragon. We're sold out of the new fall tins (again), I will try to source some more, but don't hold your breath. We did manage to get a small re-stock of the Legenday Collection #2 in at both stores. Price point is slightly higer, but still reasonable (in my opinion) given what you get.
On Wednesday Nov 16th, the new Pokemon set: Noble Victories goes on sale. We'll hopefully have our singles open by the weekend (Nov 19th), and we'll be running a Draft-a-Paluza on Sunday the 20th at the Cambie store. 8-man booster drafts will start as soon as they fill from open till close (while supplies last). Hopefully the new Challenge Boxes will also be in, but I am less sure about the release date for them. Good luck to all the Vancouver area Pokemon players heading down to Regionals in Portland this weekend.
On Friday Nov 18th, the new Magic the Gathering Premium Deck: Graveborn arrives. This 60 card all-foil deck contains Exhume, Entomb, Re-animate, and many large gruesome creatures from all the colours of Magic. A great Christmas present for the Magic Player on your list.
On the board game front, not entirely sure if all of these will arrive this coming week or just soon, but we're expecting: Ora & Labora, Power Grid: First Sparks, Stone Age: Style is the Goal expansion, Quarriors: Rise of the Demons, Belfort, and The Rivals of Catan: Age of Darkness expansion. Special note about Belfort: Jay (one of the designers) was showing me a copy on Monday night at Renfrew, and I am totally stoked to pick this game up for my personal collection. The art work is fun and has tons of hidden gems, and the game play looks both straight-forward and strategically deep. I.e., not hard to learn, but difficult to master. Hopefully I'll be able to coordinate with Jay to set up a meet the designer day in the near future so you can come in and learn how to play from the guy that invented the game! I'm just waiting to get my hands on some copies before I start looking into dates.
We have a ship date for the new A Game of Thrones Board Game (2nd Edition) - I'm hoping it will arrive in time for my end of the month border run, if not it will be 2 weeks after that. Should be in the store by Friday December 2nd, or December 16th at the latest. We've also order the new league kit for the Game of Thrones Living Card Game - watch out for more information on a league night coming soon.
Next week on Wednesday at both stores, the new season of D&D Encounters begins: Beyond the Crystal Cave. Renfrew will be running this starting at 4th level, and Cambie at 1st level. It's a great jumping on point if you've been thinking about getting into D&D. Subscribe to our D&D Weekly e-mail newsletter if you want to be reminded each week about encounters and other RPG events going on (enter your e-mail in the box on the bottom left hand side of this page).
I did add the Super Dungeon Explore with the Candy & Cola Promo figure ($12 addition to the game) to the pre-orders page this week.
And watch out late next week for the launch of our new loyatly rewards program - I'll post more information next week, but we're looking to offer something special for our loyal customers whether you buy from us once per year or once per week.
There are no special events scheduled this weekend for either store, so feel free to drop-in. There should be lots of room.
Cheers and Happy Gaming everyone,
Mike J.
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