Commander Spotlight: Cascading Cataracts

Welcome back to week fifty-seven of Monday Magic: COVID Edition. It’s been 436 days since my last summoning. While the larger world context around such a now-prolific game-playing drought continue to show improvement in the country week over week (thankfully),...
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The Laurels: Best Architect Games Of 2020

The Cardboard Republic has rolled out the annual Laurels of the Republic awards, celebrating the best new games released in 2020 for each of the gamer archetypes. What follows are the finalists for one of those groups.  Whether it’s amassing...
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Commander Spotlight: Etherwrought Page

Welcome back to week fifty-six of Monday Magic: COVID Edition. It’s been 429 days since my last summoning. Like several numerical reportings that have come before this one, 429 isn’t exactly all that interesting of a number. Aside from a...
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The Laurels: Best Striker Games Of 2020

The Cardboard Republic has rolled out the annual Laurels of the Republic awards, celebrating the best new games released in 2020 for each of the gamer archetypes. What follows are the finalists for one of those groups.  Always looking for...
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Commander Spotlight: Demon of Dark Schemes

Welcome back to week fifty-five of Monday Magic: COVID Edition. It’s been 422 days since my last summoning. In and of itself that number isn’t at all significant except in that it’s a stepping stone towards the quickly approaching number...
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The Laurels: Best Socializer Games Of 2020

The Cardboard Republic has rolled out the annual Laurels of the Republic awards, celebrating the best new games released in 2020 for each of the gamer archetypes. What follows are the finalists for one of those groups.  There are few...
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Commander Spotlight: Ral, Storm Conduit

Welcome back to week fifty-four of Monday Magic: COVID Edition. It’s been 415 days since my last summoning. Following the events of the last article I’m happy to report, well…anything positive with respect to this massive interlude I’ve been chronicling...
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Commander Spotlight: Reverent Mantra

Welcome back to week fifty-three of Monday Magic: COVID Edition. It’s been 408 days since my last summoning. After the momentous, if sobering, milestones of last week, one can’t help but feel like this week is more of an also-ran...
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Commander Spotlight: Havoc Festival

Welcome back to week fifty-two of Monday Magic: COVID Edition. It’s been 401 days since my last summoning. One full year of what was supposed to be an interim series. 400 days of separation from one’s Magic-playing cabal. Either of...
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Announcing: The 2020 Laurel Nominees

Well, here we are for the next annual Laurels of the Republic! The Laurels are our way of highlighting and rewarding some of the best games of the last year among their respective gamer archetype categories. Just like our reviews,...
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