A Star Wars CCG Player Strikes Back
A Star Wars CCG Player Strikes Back is a letter in The Duelist #10 (May 1996, page 6). It answers Allen Varney's Premiere review A Forced Effort in issue 9.[1]
The letter sits in the magazine's Letters column. The printed column ends mid-sentence at the foot of the page.
A STAR WARS CCG PLAYER STRIKES BACK
All right, you hacks. I'm sick of all the bad reviews Star Wars® CCG™ is getting. Allen Varney, in Duelist #9, addressed two main complaints about the game: starter decks being unplayable and the main characters being too hard to find.
The starter decks are playable. My friends and I played several games with thirty-card decks to get the feel of the game before we went out and bought any more cards. While these games weren't the best in the world, they were intriguing enough to convince me that this is a great game. At this point, I have bought two starters and about fifteen boosters.
Allen Varney also wrote that the main characters were too hard to find. He seems to think that the main characters should be common or something. This is a collecting game, and part of the game is the excitement and thrill of getting a really cool card. He also mentioned that the cards can only be played if you have a main character. But Star Wars cards are not totally worthless without a main character. I have often been thankful that I had some less-than-fantastic card in my
See also
External links
- The Duelist #10, Internet Archive (Wizards of the Coast, May 1996)
References
- ↑ "A Star Wars CCG Player Strikes Back", letter, The Duelist #10 (May 1996), p. 6. Scan: The Duelist #10, Internet Archive.