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expansion to fit pictures
together. All three plains in
Ice Age make one picture.

Ray Alcorn
Allentown, PA

Whoops. You're right - it's a Frozen Shade that
can be pumped +1/+1 with a swamp, not a Hyp-
notic Specter. And it should be a Thallid, not a Thrull,
that receives the Willow Priestess' protection from
black bonus. Take comfort in the fact that we
drowned all of our copy editors' house pets to teach
them a lesson.

In the Red Zone

I was recently introduced to the new
Red Zone C.C.G. football game from Don-
russ and was pleasantly surprised by how
solid the game is. I particularly love the
way the game includes actual N.F.L. play-
ers, the strategy element in terms of play-
calling and just the simple fact that it
seems as if it were carefully designed by
a guy who really knows his stuff.



As a sports card collector, I never
really got into Magic and have become
quite sour on the sports card market.
Red Zone re-vitalized my interest in cards
and I now can't wait to try out the next
C.C.G. sports game on the market. Can
you tell me what sport C.C.G.s are com-
ing down the pike?

Timothy Grumblink
Tolland, CT

So far there are games like Playoff's One on One
Hockey, Upper Deck and Precedence's Upper Deck
Gridiron Fantasy Football CCG. and Donruss' Top of
the Order baseball game and Red Zone football game.
Down the road we're also looking at a WildStorm
basketball C.C.G., Fast Break (see "InQuest News"
and "On the Shelves" for details on this and other
new games). In the earliest top-secret stages of design
are overseas versions of croquet and curling.

H-less Bastards

Okay, I'm much better at collecting
Magic cards than I am at playing the
game and maybe this is very old news,
but where is the capital H on all Magic:
The Gathering cards? I noticed the other
day while going through some new
Homelands boosters that the cards that
begin with H were all lowercase. Then
I realized that all the cards I have (start-
ing with the Revised Edition) are like



this. Is there some curse on the font
used at W.o.t.C. or do they just have
something against capital H?

Timothy Mori
State College, PA

The story goes that W.o.t.C. headquarters was built
on an ancient Indian burial grounds...no? How
about that's just the way that quirky font is?

Message in a Bottle

What's the deal?? How long will you
continue to ignore the Elkin Bottle?

Sure, the Island Sanctuary/Mystic
Decree combo is great, but why would
you use a Howling Mine to get your one
card per turn? With an Elkin Bottle, you
don't need to give your opponent extra
cards. You also don't need an Icy Manip-
ulator, Relic Barrier or Elder Druid to turn
the Bottle off. Plus the Elkin Bottle never
hurts you when facing a Black Vise and
it allows you to completely shut down
your opponent with a Zur's Weirding.
The Island Sanctuary/Elkin Bottle also
allows you to face an Underworld
Dreams without even drawing a card.



Are you starting to get the idea??
The Elkin Bottle has won me more
games than any other card, and it's high
time that it gets the attention it deserves.

Long live the Bottle!!

J.T. Lone Wolf
North Wales, PA

The Elkin Bottle sucks. Live with it.

Debunked Biases

As you have debunked biases about
game-playing and those who participate,
I thought you might find some research
a colleague and I did of interest.

We compared roleplaying gamers
to nongamers and found - contrary to

common belief but consistent with other
scientific research - that gamers were
more sociable than and just as well-
adjusted as nonplayers. The study is in
press at this time.



Clearly, the objective evidence,
though sparse, is consistent and does
not support the notion of players being
neurotic adolescents or worse.

Barlow Soper, Ph.D.
Ruston, LA

Thanks. I think.

WEDGE O' CHEESE

Cheeseheads Anonymous

Forgive me for I hath sinned. My
friend Troy plays a red deck with lots of
artifacts. My undefeated friend Larry
plays a black deck containing the best
demons and monstrosities available. His
cousin Willy plays a user-friendly, life-
giving, annoving Circle of Protection
deck. I play a blue deck. I never win!

I finally snapped the other day. I
committed the ultimate sin: cheese.
Thirty-two mana, 32 cheesy cards, no
creatures. I dubbed it the Super 60-Sec-
ond Deck. I play them for ante, usually
beat them in less than a minute and
take their cards away from them. If by
some reason I lose, they only get a 50-
cent card; I just reach into my plethora
of direct-damage cards to replace it or
grab another mana out of my hoard.




Please forgive me, or crown me King o'
Cheese. Whather Cheeseheads Anonymous?

Erik Becker
Westfield, WI

You have sinned, Erik. Winning without honor just
isn't winning in our book. To atone, you must play
the next 25 games with our specially crafted Keep-
ers of the Faith/Piety/Aysen Abbey deck. Good
luck, hotpants.
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