| Derrick Graffius |
I just picked up Three-Dragon Ante after receiving my leftover Dragon Magazine subscription credit. Like many people have said, the box design is horrible, the cards bounce around in there, it doesn't actually stay closed, it was made extra big to fit the rulebook rather than sizing the rulebook down to match the cards and having a box that would actually fit. It would be nice if it would stay closed, you'd think that the company printing Magic would have plenty of experience making boxes and rulebooks that would fit together with the cards...
On a positive note, the game itself was really fun. Me and two of my friends spent a few hours sitting in Denny's playing it. I described it to them as being kind of like a cross between Poker and Uno. The game went on forever though, we ended up quitting without anybody really winning. Other than that it was really fun, actually, even that was fun, but in the future we may have to decide on a set number of rounds to play or something like the rulebook suggests for using house rules. Supposedly in larger games it goes a lot quicker, but with 3 people it seemed endless.
I give the box a 2/5, but the gameplay itself a 4/5.