Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Board Gaming League News for Saturday, Jan 4th!


4PM: Illuminati is a social interaction game designed by the same people that did Munchkin. Each player will control one of the feared and rumored Illuminati. Ranging from the Gnomes of Zurich to UFOs, each Illuminati has their own special ability and goal. In order for a player to win, they’ll need to control Groups. To control a Group, you’ll need to make successful attacks. Attacks cost money. Fortunately, each Illuminati has its own Income and Power. With each Illuminati being able to interfere in every attack, you’ll have to make deals with your opponents!


7PM: Tomorrow is a game that presents a possible near-future scenario: Global environmental collapse. The only solution that seems doable in the short term is global depopulation on a massive scale. The players will be playing as various worldwide superpowers. Russia, The United States, The European Union, The Arab Caliphate, China, and India. The players will have to use the weapons at their disposal to try to eliminate as many pawns as necessary (with each pawn representing seventy million people). Each player will have to use the tools at their disposal (Biological attacks, nuclear attacks, military attacks) to gain as much Political Capital at the end of the game to become recognized as the world’s next great superpower. However, if the death marker doesn’t reach the end of the track by the ninth turn, then EVERYONE loses as the Earth’s collapse goes beyond the point of no return!

Monday, December 16, 2013

Board Gaming League Updates!

For Saturday, 12/21/13!


4PM: In GEARS OF WAR, up to four players take on the roles of the characters from the video game of the same name. The players must cooperate against the game-controlled AI to defeat the Locust menace and complete their objectives. Will you be able to defeat the Locusts?



7PM: Game of Thrones: the Board Game has each player take on the role of one of the Great Houses of Westeros. In this game, you must control areas in order to claim power, and victory points. The first player to take ten strongholds wins the game, but watch out! Players can make and break alliances at will, so you should watch your friend otherwise you’ll never see the knife at your back!

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

BOARD GAMING LEAGUE NEWS!

For this Saturday (12/14/13)

4PM:
Wiz-War: In this four player game, each player takes on the role of a wizard struggling to either defeat the other wizards, or steal their treasure in a big magical maze. The spells you can play will have the capacity to affect a lot of different things. Will you set traps for the other wizards? Or transform into a werewolf in an attempt to mangle them? Only you can protect your treasures from the other greedy wizards!


7PM:
Krosmaster: Arena: In this game, you’ll have a team of Krosmasters seeking to defeat the opposing teams. Each Krosmaster has a special ability, along with values for movement and action points. Should you lose all of your GG’s (Gallons of Glory), you lose! Cast your spells to defeat your opponents, and be the last team standing! With eight different Krosmasters, the game changes every time!

Thursday, December 5, 2013

BORN OF THE GODS PRERELEASES!


The next Magic: the Gathering set is right around the corner! We will be hosting SIX Prerelease tournament fights for Born of the Gods, the second set in the Theros block! Prerelease tournaments allow you to obtain new product an entire week before its actual release date, and are great for players of all skill levels!

The dates:
Preregistration is available and encouraged for all of these!
Friday, January 31st, as it becomes Midnight (Sealed Deck format)
Saturday, February 1st, at 1PM (Sealed Deck format)
Saturday, February 1st, at 6PM (Sealed Deck format)
Saturday, February 1st, at 11PM (Sealed Deck format)
Sunday, February 2nd, at 1PM (2-Headed Giant format)
Sunday, February 2nd, at 6PM (2-Headed Giant format)

How it works:
Each flight will be maximum 44 players. All spots will be made available for preregistration, and you may preregister for any/all in advance! Entry fee is $25, which includes a special Born of the Gods prerelease kit, which will likely* contain a unique 20-sided spin-down life counter, five sealed booster packs of Born of the Gods, and one sealed color-alligned booster pack of Born of the Gods which will also contain one of five possible prerelease foil promo cards.

You will build your deck exactly from the cards within your kit, aside from basic land cards, which we will happily provide if you need them. For 2-Headed Giant format, you will instead collectively share your kit with your teammate and build your decks from the combined pool of two kits.

Each flight of max 44 players will be four rounds, swiss-style tournament (you are not eliminated if you lose). Prize support will be delegated based on points earned. Example: every player that goes 4-0 will receive the same prize support, and every player that goes 3-1 will receive the same prize support among their record, etc. If you earn at least 2 wins, you will win at least one booster pack. Average length of each flight will be four to five hours.

All prize support will be made available in Born of the Gods booster packs, and other promotional material! There will also be door prizes for each flight :-)

*We don't know the exact contents of these kits yet, but we can assume they will be very similar in design to the last several prerelease kits.

We look forward to providing you with an awesome and exciting Born of the Gods Prerelease experience! Please feel free to contact us directly with any questions, and if you have not participated in a Sealed Deck tournament before, we will be happy to walk you through the process and even help with various forms of strategy!

Tuesday, December 3, 2013

BOARD GAMING LEAGUE NEWS!

This Saturday (12/7/13) introduces Kingsburg and Nothing Personal!


4PM: Kingsburg is a worker placement game that uses a randomized system to determine where you can place your “workers”. Interestingly, the higher your roll, the later your turn order is. The advisors that your “workers” influence give you resources to be able to construct buildings, but watch out! In Winter of each year, you’ll fight a Monster! Can your burgeoning city survive their assault? Can you build a city that the King approves while defending it from the rampages of Monsters? 


7PM: Nothing Personal, designed by Tom Vasel (of the Dice Tower board game reviews), is a very interesting worker placement game that uses influence tokens as your workers. You influence gangsters in order to receive the money and respect that they’re worth, but watch out! Too much influence and they’ve attracted the attentions of the Feds and get arrested! The Family with the most Respect at the end of the game wins!

Saturday, November 30, 2013

GOLDEN RAFFLE DRAWING RESULTS!



A biiiiiig thanks to everyone who came out and enjoyed our Black Friday & Saturday with us! We hope everyone had a splendid Thanksgiving with friends and family!

GOLDEN RAFFLE RESULTS:




Travis A. wins a Standard-legal Booster Box (or $75 store credit)!

Josh Mix wins an Innistrad Booster Box (or $100 store credit)!

Kody Hall wins a box of From the Vault: 20!

Nathan Lewis wins a Modern Masters Booster Box!

Michael Glass wins a COMMANDER'S ARSENAL!

Bonus:

Mansoor Riaz also wins a box of From the Vault: 20!


Congratulations to everyone that won awesome prizes! Our next regular raffle drawing is in a week!!!


P.S. We will hold your prizes for you indefinitely until you claim them!

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Attention all Role-Players!

Attention all Role-Players! Sunday, December 1st, Curio Cavern is looking to gather people interested in playing RPGs at the store. World of Darkness, Pathfinder, D&D (NEXT or otherwise), Edge of the Empire, or any of the many other options! If you're interested, please come in! We'd like to hold a small gathering so that people that are looking for groups can find them.

Additionally, we'll be looking for people who'd like to work with us to have a store-sanctioned Role-Playing game. People who wouldn't mind running games that will have a wide variety of people in them, with sometimes fluctuating numbers. Let us know what games you know how to run, and we'll be more than happy to work something out with you that will be mutually beneficial!

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Board Gaming League scoop for this Saturday!

For Saturday, 11/23/13: SENTINELS OF THE MULTIVERSE & THE PATHFINDER ADVENTURE CARD GAME!


Sentinels of the Multiverse
4PM: The very popular game Sentinels of the Multiverse has each player take up the mantle of a Hero. Using art inspired by the Golden Age of Comics, this fixed-deck card game pits the Heroes against a Villain. Each game, you’ll fight a different Villain in a different Environment, which will affect the game in different ways. Can you stop the Villain from achieving his dastardly plans and save the day?

The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game7PM: The Pathfinder Adventure Card Game puts you into the roles of the various heroes of the Pathfinder universe. You’re attempting to find and defeat a Villain, but they’re very crafty. You must stop them from fleeing your justice by closing the locations available for them to run to. In an interesting twist, this is not a deck-building game, nor is it a fixed-deck game. Your deck is your life, and should you be forced to draw on an empty deck, your character is dead. Can you defeat the Villain in the time allotted? Or will he escape justice? Only you can stop them!



Black Friday Sale is coming up less than two weeks away! Mark your calendars! Don't forget, all day Friday AND Saturday!

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Theros League Prizes & Standings!

THEROS SEALED LEAGUE PRIZE SUPPORT:
Promo Pack = 1 Full-Art Phalanx Leader, 1 promo foil Ravnica Plains, 1 Promo foil Bident of Thassa!
1st: (((Andrew Guseppi!))) Sealed Display of Theros Prerelease Kits, Full-Art Foil Nighthowler, & Promo Pack!
2nd/3rd/4th: (((Rob Orlick!))) Random Theros Prerelease Kit, 4 packs of Standard, Full-Art Foil Nighthowler, & Promo Pack!
2nd/3rd/4th: (((Brian Goodyear!))) Random Theros Prerelease Kit, 4 packs of Standard, Full-Art Foil Nighthowler, & Promo Pack!
2nd/3rd/4th: (((Phillip Shao!))) Random Theros Prerelease Kit, 4 packs of Standard, Full-Art Foil Nighthowler, & Promo Pack!
5th/6th/7th: (((Justin Louie!))) 3 Packs of Theros & Promo Pack!
5th/6th/7th: (((Tom Haid!))) 3 Packs of Theros & Promo Pack!
5th/6th/7th: (((David Lakhman!))) 3 Packs of Theros & Promo Pack!
8th: (((Sean Miller!))) 2 Packs of Theros & Promo Pack!
9th: (((Luis Carillo!))) 1 Pack of Theros & Promo Pack!
10th: (((Daren Carlstrom!))) 1 Pack of Theros & Promo Pack!

Random Prize #1: Random Theros Prerelease Kit (((Bao Chu!)))
Random Prize #2: Face The Hydra Challenge Deck (((Trevor Bumgardner!)))

The final standings for our Top Ten:
(Ranked by total wins, with total games played as tie breakers) 
1st: Andrew Guseppi: 15 wins, 15 games played
2nd: Rob Orlick: 11 wins, 15 games played
3rd: Brian Goodyear: 11 wins, 15 games played
4th: Phil Shao: 11 wins, 15 games played
5th: Justin Louie: 10 wins, 15 games played
6th: Tom Haid: 10 wins, 15 games played
7th: David Lakhman: 10 wins, 15 games played
8th: Sean Miller: 10 wins, 13 games played
9th: Luis: 9 wins, 13 games played
10th: Daren Carlstrom: 9 wins, 12 games played

We will hold your prize support for you indefinitely until you claim it!





Sunday, November 3, 2013

Our BLACK FRIDAY SALE:

Greetings ladies and gentlemen! Our Black Friday Sales for 2013, in full detail, are as follows:

When:
Friday (11/29/13) from 10:00 AM until 3:00 AM
Saturday (11/30/13) from Noon until 2:00 AM

The sales:
$100 booster boxes of Standard-legal Magic sets!
$140 Black Friday Magic Combo Deal:1x All-Foil Grab Bag, 1x Super/Mat KMC sleeves (or $5 off sleeves of your choice), 1x Standard Fat Pack, 1x Standard Booster Box!
$70 booster boxes of Cardfight Vanguard, $3 packs!
* Magic BULK CARDS SALE: 1 cent each, or buy a 550-count cardboard box for $5 and fill it to the brim (as long as it closes normally) with unsorted bulk cards for free!
* Buy any two board games, get a third of equal or lesser value (of the lesser of the two) for free!

GOLDEN RAFFLE TICKETS:
For every $20 you spend during Black Friday, in addition to the regular raffle ticket you receive, you will receive a special Golden Raffle Ticket. Golden Raffle Tickets will be immediately entered into a pool of collected tickets when you receive one (we keep half of the ticket, upon which you write your name). The Golden Raffle Drawing will take place on Saturday, 11/30/13, at midnight! If you cannot make it to the raffle drawing, don't worry- we will hold prizes for winners for as long as they need! It will contain the following items, auctioned off individually (you can indeed win more than once, and each ticket is removed from the pool upon winning):

GOLDEN RAFFLE DRAWING
When: Saturday, 11/30/13 at midnight!
How to enter: Every $20 spent during our Black Friday Sale (until midnight on Saturday) earns you one Golden Raffle Ticket, automatically entered into the Golden Raffle Drawing.
The Prizes:
* Sealed booster box of Theros, or $75 store credit
* Sealed booster box of Innistrad, or $100 store credit
* Sealed From the Vault: 20
* Sealed display of Commander Decks (1 of each of the five new decks)
* Sealed Booster Box of Modern Masters
* Sealed Commander's Arsenal
Additionally, every customer both entered and present during the Golden Raffle Drawing will receive a free little something extra!

To claim  your Golden Raffle Drawing prizes, please hold on to your half of each Golden Raffle Ticket you receive and present the winning ticket upon claiming your prize(s)!

Friday, September 27, 2013

THERE BE THEROS!


The latest Magic: The Gathering set, THEROS, is officially on sale, and we have quite the range:
-Theros Booster Packs ($4 after tax)
-Theros Booster Boxes ($124.99)
-Theros Fat Packs ($39.99)
-Theros Intro Decks, all five types ($14.99)


















-Theros individual cards (commons, uncommons, rares, mythic rares, & foils!)
-Theros UltraPro Deck boxes ($3.49)
-Theros UltraPro Binders ($24.99)
-Theros UltraPro Playmats ($21.99)
-Theros Sleeves ($8.99)












THEROS will also now be the default set of choice for our Booster Drafts (triple Theros packs), and is Standard-legal as of Friday, September 27th, 2013.

Theros Sealed Deck LEAGUE begins on Friday, October 4th!

Hello, Digital Multiverse!

Community, fame, fortune, romance, glorious battle, legendary jokes, and epic David Gearhart stories: welcome to a digital representation of all that is Curio Cavern. We, the crew of this flagship adventure into the unknown realm of good times, hope to present you with daily enjoyment on this budding website. We plan to nurture and grow this site like Audrey 2 from Little Shop of Horrors, minus the eating-people part.

This is our blog section, and you can expect an often-updated stream of posts and news right here. New products, lots of pictures, announcements on upcomming events and leagues, awesome stories; you get the point.

We also have some definite goals in the works for the development of this website. For sales, right now we are in the mode of phone-orders and in-store orders only (shipping anywhere and everywhere in the continental USA), but we most certainly will be implementing a complete inventory and shopping cart system for online ordering in due time. We want to make sure it is elegant and well-prepared before launching it. To all of you that come to enjoy this site, we look forward to brightening your each and every day. :-)