Episodes
Wednesday May 30, 2018
Schnell Reads the Rules: The Captain is Dead
Wednesday May 30, 2018
Wednesday May 30, 2018
We're back with another "Schnell Reads the Rules" edition of Beer'd Gamers this week. We'll be meeting up over the weekend to get some new game content recorded (FINALLY!!), but we still wanted to get this out to our audience, as it gives a preview of one of the games we have coming up!
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
Magic: The Gathering Commander 17
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
Thursday Apr 05, 2018
Vampires, cats, dragons, and wizards, oh my! This week we’re back with another episode of our favorite CCG, Magic: The Gathering. We have a ton of fun playing Commander format Magic when we all get together, so we thought it would be fun to showcase the latest precon decks in the Commander series, Commander 17.
Commander 17 focused on tribal decks, so each of these decks fit that theme. The new Eminence ability was also introduced, which allows for these commanders to start manipulating the battlefield before they even make it there. Teej is playing Draconic Domination, which is obviously dragon-themed. Schnell and his cats are running Feline Ferocity. Junior rolls with the patriarch of the Markov clan, Edgar Markov, and plays Vampiric Bloodlust. Nelson seeks to use wizards and countermagic to run everyone’s day, so he’s playing Arcane Wizardry. In order to show off how these decks play directly out of the box, everyone is playing a completely un-modified version of each deck.
This week in beer Teej steps up his game as he’s recovering from a nasty cold and goes with Maibock from Capital Brewing, Schnell channels his inner Ronald McDonald and drinks Ocular Pat-Down from Odd Side Ales, Junior throws a jab at Teej’s deck and drinks Magic Dragon Double IPA from Hop Haus Brewing Company, and Nelson aims to make his opponents suffer as he drinks Tears of My Enemies from Ale Asylum.
Thursday Feb 15, 2018
Ion: A Compound Building Game
Thursday Feb 15, 2018
Thursday Feb 15, 2018
Listen up, nerds, this week’s episode is all about science! We’re playing the card drafting game Ion: A Compound Building Game, which sees players playing cards of different elements in an attempt to bind them into compounds to score more points than their opponents. It may sound like a weird premise for a board game, but if I had this when I was in high school, I know I’d have done much better than that C (of course, studying would have helped, too). Thankfully I loved chemistry when I took it in college, so this game was a natural step for me, as you’ll hear in my review.
Ion is a great way that chem-heads and non-chem-heads alike can come together to play a quick game while still learning something. It’s a relative inexpensive game; it retails for roughly $20.
This week in inebriationland, we’ve got Schnell drinking Outboard from a Beer’d Gamers staple brewery, Milwaukee (MKE) Brewing, Nelson continues his run of Point Brewing beers with their SPA, Junior stays in Wisconsin and drinks Satisfaction Jackson from Ale Asylum, and Teej continues his descent into a life of constant debauchery and shirtlessness with Polygamy Nitro Porter from Wasatch Brewery.