DC Crisis Expansion........ bleh

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I played this last night. Crisis; an expansion to the DC deckbuilding card game. And of all the card/board games I've played so far, I've never came across one that legitimately made me upset.

(For those of you who don't know what a deck building game is, the tl;dr is you start with a very basic deck, usually about 10 or 12 cards depending your game (DC, Marvel, Lord of the Rings, Penny Arcade, Street Fighter, Nightfall, so on and so forth). Each turn you buy card(s) to add to your deck in order to help you complete whatever the goal of the game is. )

Last week, we played the 2nd set of this game, Heroes Unite. It was aight, just had an absurd amount of draw power.

But then you add this nonsense in there....... *rolls eyes*

The expansion adds a new set of super-villians and like, a handful of cards to add to the main deck. However, ...... the effects of most of the things in this set are so devastating that it's possible that you'll sit around twiddling your thumbs for quite a few rotations.

There's an *absurd* amount of hand destruction in this expansion. I don't mean like a card or two like the core sets~~ no I mean there's a super-villian that straight says "Toss your hand to the side if you don't block the attack." And if you're not conveniently sitting on a defense card, it's totally feasible that anybody buying or playing one card can kill you for three turns. It's pretty ridic.

"You've got to be kidding, you're probably just salty about the games you played. It can't be that bad." Oh I'm bitter, but it's nowhere near the same kinda bitter from even the 2nd set. I was actually ok with watching and taking 10 minute turns in Booster-Gold-and-Friends (Heroes Unite) because, even if I was getting bodied, I still got to play the game. With Crisis cards, you're probably getting scraped because you start every turn with 3 cards .Just chuck them in the discard, draw five more, and hope. It's somewhat depressing.

All in all, the game's ok I guess. Everything still functions and nothing is (super) busted, but I wouldn't tell anybody they have to play Crisis.

I think I'd rather suggest book club meetings.