Features
The Year of the 'Mech
BY RAIN O'BRIEN & KELLY BONILLA
WizKids ushers in an Age of Destruction with its latest MechWarrior release.

The War Rages On
BY STEVE OWEN
Top-down strategy advice for Nexus Games' War of the Ring board game.

Essential Sligh
BY CHAD ELLIS
Examining the building blocks of a legendary Magic: The Gathering deck full of "bad" cards.

Essential Burn
BY BEN KALMAN
How to light a fire under your Vs. System opponents.

The Traginium Within
BY JOE ALREAD, KENDRICK SUMMERS & MIKE GIRARD
Decipher Game Studio game designers and developers give you a guided tour of Nowhere to Hide, the first Wars TCG expansion.

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Reader mail, from readers just like you.

. . . LIKE A PRO 80 Back to Bases
BY MIKE & ALLISON MCVEY
Don't mount you precious miniatures creation on a mere blank slate.

WINNING TACTICS Bang! Zoom! . . .
BY M. JASON PARENT
Reign supreme over Risk 2210 A.D.'s Lunar colonies with this championship-caliber plan.

WINNING DECK The Prodigal Weenie Returns
BY BRIAN DAVID-MARSHALL
With Magic's Onslaught block out of Standard, White Weenie came off the bench for the first round of Champions of Kamigawa?legal Standard.

WINNING DECK Fire Princess Burn
BY MICHAEL SHINALL
The Yu-Gi-Oh! environment is still reeling from the void left by Chaos' demise. For now, duelists can easily fall back on burn.

WINNING DECK Towering Over the Field
BY BRIAN DAVID-MARSHALL
See how Ryan Jones took the Vs. System Pro Circuit Los Angeles with Teen Titans.

WINNING DECK Making a Splash
BY STEVEN MCLAUGHLIN
Blastoise pours on the power, Quagsire rinses off damage counters, and this Pok?on TCG deck fl oods the competition.

WINNING ARMY Dead Man's Gambit
BY F. WESLEY SCHNEIDER
It's a fact: this WARMACHINE army is dying to beat down its opponents.

WINNING SQUAD A Newer Hope
BY JEFF QUICK
A geezer, a hero, a wiseass, and cannon fodder?no, its not a Star Trek away team, it's a Star Wars Miniatures squad.

LAST PAGE Beat That!
BY JOHN ZINSER
The power of tech.

Reviews
A Clash of Kings (A Game of Thrones Boardgame)
Battlestations
Call of Cthulhu CCG
Champions of Kamigawa (Magic: The Gathering)
Chess Heads
Cloud 9
Collector's Tin (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Colossal Arena
Escalation (WARMACHINE)
Exile (Yu Yu Hakusho TCG)
FireRed LeafGreen (Pok?on TCG)
HeroScape
James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game
Keythedral
Khind & Terrah Decks (Blue Moon)
One False Step Home (One False Step for Mankind)
Paths of Glory (Game of the Year Ed.)
Rampage of the Super Warriors (Duel Masters)
Risk Godstorm
Shadowclash of the Blinding Night (Duel Masters)
Soul of the Duelist (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
Star Wars Miniatures
Station Master
The Big Idea
Ultimate Sucking Vacuum
Valyrian Edition (A Game of Thrones CCG)
War of the Ring
Warfare Incorporated
Wars TCG
Web of Spider-Man (Vs. System)

Previews
Army Builder 3.0
Betrayers of Kamigawa (Magic: The Gathering)
Clone Strike (Star Wars)
Conquest of the Empire
Death's Bargain (Warlord)
Frankenstein's Children
Gundam TCG
Legacy (DC HeroClix)
Marvel Knights (Vs. System)
Ogre Kingdom (Warhammer)
Nowhere to Hide (Wars)
Pirates of the Crimsom (Pirates of the Spanish Main)
Shaman King TCG
Survivors of the Megapocalypse (Duel Masters TCG)