The Haunted Game Cafe

MtG: Graveborn Now on Sale

Legions of corpses await your sinister commands. This 60-card, all-foil deck entombs, exhumes, and reanimates some of the most powerful Magic creatures from all five colors of mana. Harvest your graveyard for an assortment of these face-beaters as you walk over a field of bones to claim your victory.

Key Features

* 60-card premium foil deck, including 8 rare cards – 3 cards featuring new art!

* This product sees the return of some of the most gruesome creatures from Magic history.

* Ideal for new players as well as Magic veterans!

* Exclusive Spindown life counter, foil deck box, Magic strategy insert, and Magic learn-to-play guide!

Now on sale for $34.99.

The Haunted Game Cafe will be closed Thanksgiving Day

Since we’ll be closed on Thanksgiving day this year, we’d like to give you a list of some great games to see you through. These games rank very high on many “best of” lists.

Twilight Struggle – A two player game of the Cold War.
Through the Ages – The classic game of civ building.
Puerto Rico – Perhaps the ultimate resource management game.
Agricola – A five hour game about Medieval farming. What could be better?
Power Grid – Buy power plants, manipulate the fuel market and power cities.
Le Havre – A huge variety of possible actions in this simulation of a busy harbor.
Dominion – The game that started a whole new genre, deck building games.
Caylus – The original worker placement game, and still one of the best.
7 Wonders – A card drafting game of civ building
Brass – Designer Martin Wallace’s game of the industrial revolution.

If you’re not exactly looking forward to spending your holiday with your in-laws, check out or list of Games for People Who Hate Their Relatives.

Malifaux Mondays

Malifaux continues to run strong on Monday nights. Bring your crew or borrow one of ours.

New Season of D&D Encounters Begins Nov 16th

The new season of Dungeons & Dragons Encounters begins November 16th. As always, we will take reservations for 5 people to play the entire season. The sixth seat will be left open for new players on a week-by-week basis.

Please come into the shop to make your reservation.

New to Dungeons & Dragons Encounters? Check out our description.

Magic Game Day – Innistrad

Game Day for Innistrad will be held:

SUNDAY, OCT 30 at 1pm.

This will be a $5 Standard Constructed event. Participants will recieve a full art Diregraf Ghoul. Top 8 finishers will recieve a full art foil Inquisitor. Prizes will be in the form of packs or store credit.

Extra Life 2011 Wrap-Up

The Extra Life Gaming Marathon ended Sunday morning around 2:30 am. An amazing list of games got played, we met new and friendly people and we raised some money to help kids in need. How much money?

$77 in cash donations
$16 from the Magic Tournament
$279 from the Haunted Game Cafe Team
$343 from the Worthy Boardgamers Team

For a total of: $715

THANK YOU

Overall, Extra Life gamers across the country raised over One Million Dollars for their local children’s hospitals.

Also, I’d like to encourage everyone who participated to send me a mail at ghosts@hauntedgamecafe.com or post on our Facebook Page any suggestions for things to make next year’s event even better.

Here’s a list of the games that got played:

Malifaux
Star Trek The Deck Building Game
Setters of Catan
Magic The Gathering
Set
Dominion
Quarriors
Command & Colors Ancients
Black Gold
Shogun
Star Fleet Captains
Blood Bowl Team Manager
Exalted RPG
Homesteaders
Munchkins
We Didn’t Playtest This
Gears of War

Star Trek Deck Building Game

Ban Dai is very close to releasing their latest Deck Building Game – Star Trek.

AND WE’VE GOT A DEMO COPY!

Here’s a synopsys from the publisher:

The STAR TREK DBG brings the Star Trek: The Next Generation® universe to life in a game of strategy where players construct their card decks while they play. In the STAR TREK DBG you are the Captain of a small starship with a standard crew and basic weaponry. Will you use your crew’s experience to improve your ships systems or to recruit more experienced crewmen to your ship? Will you form diplomatic relationships or conquer civilizations in battle? Build your deck and explore the Star Trek universe!

Anyone who pre-orders a copy of Star Trek the Deck Building Game will get two exclusive promo cards.