 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. Today we're going to talk about play mats and other accessories for collectible card games. Let's go All right, so in a couple of my other CCG videos talked about play mats. I wanted to go a little bit more into that especially in how that relates to Dice Masters because I'm filming this after we did the Dice Master review And so we just want to add some of the things that I'm doing with Dice Masters So see if that might help you out who knows and then maybe cover some other things About some of the other CCGs I've mentioned in my other videos. All right. Hope that makes sense. All right So play mats, play mats. Not everybody gets play mats I kind of first got into the idea of using play mats with Pokemon Because I was trying to figure out how to play Pokemon and I couldn't I just couldn't get it Like I was watching several videos It just didn't make any sense and then when I got the starter pack when I got the starter set it came with a folded paper play mat and it was for two people which was awesome so I could see my opponent's side and my side and we rolled the play mat out and It bam it just it all the lights all came on and we we figured it out And so I started thinking well other play mats for the other games that I play or play mats You know out there and so it started to see just a whole myriad of play mats that are out there And maybe you've always kind of looked at it as an extra expense like I don't need it But let me just give you the argument for play mats. Okay, number one the good play mats So that's what you want to get if you're gonna spend money spend money on something good Don't get something thin something cheap something made out of paper fabric. Okay, you want to look for neoprene? Okay, and this is what neoprene looks like all rolled up. It's the same material that you would think of Being maybe on a wetsuit or a mouse pad. All right. So neoprene it is at the family of Polly Chloroprene, okay? It's a synthetic rubber that's produced by the polymerization of chloroprene So neoprene exhibits a really good chemical stability Maintains flexibility and shape over a wide temperature range now when I roll mine all up I roll all mine together So I have five play mats I roll them all up together into one tube and I store them like that they maintain their shape And I live in you know, a really hot area really warm humidity and it still maintains that shape when I unroll it they roll out flat and so The neoprene is good for that maintaining its shape and it's also good for your dice So if you're rolling dice, you don't want to be rolling your dice on a hard surface like a wood table or Concrete or something like that Especially with like destiny you're gonna bang those dice up and scratch all your pain off You're gonna lose your rare and ultra rare dice and you're gonna be very very very sad So you want to roll your dice on something that's gonna neoprene surface I know they have dice boxes out there But then your dice don't have as much freedom I just feel like you have to aim for the box then you got to carry a box around I think that the play mats work so much better For your dice long jevdive your dice you you you spent money on those dice All right, you spent money in your dice you spent money in your cards You want them to last think about getting a neoprene play mat. All right for dice masters I have the spider-man Neoprene play mat. It's 24 by 13 and it cost me 12 bucks and again I got two of them one for me one for my opponent and they they're beautiful. They have all the color Imagery from spider-man in the comic books. There's you know great Indicators as to where the lay to lay the cards down to lay the dice down where everything goes I like the little thing in the center the little you know little map that tells you the rotation of your turn play there's even a little turn-by-turn Helpful hints over there in the left corner. So yeah, it has your counters lined up at the bottom so that you can track your life Definitely, totally helps During gameplay. All right, so we're talking about destiny. This is the play mat. I got for destiny It's a much larger mass. So if this is 26 by 26 and it's for two players Now the reason why I got it for two players is because well, you always play destiny with another person I know there's ones out there for single player And if you're you know by yourself certainly go look and pick up a destiny play mat for a single player But I thought you know what the double allows our dice to kind of go off the play mat a little bit There's some extra space and the other thing about this play mat is it's generic So it's not just destiny specific So there's other card games that I have that are also Star Wars based I even have some other dice games that are Star Wars based. I can use this play mat for all of them Because it has you know generic logo on it There's nothing there's nothing specific or you know too specific This was 38 bucks. So it's about $40 $40 for like I said a 26 by 26 All right, so this is the boss monster play mat It is 24 by 14 and this for two players obviously they don't make a single player boss monster They only make a double make a double player actually now they do they do have a four player mat now If you go out and look I saw one on eBay. There's a four player boss monster mat now for about 50 bucks this 24 by 14 sells for about $13 and it'll totally Enhance your boss monster play time. All right counters Sometimes games ask you to have counters and you don't have counters They don't come with counters, let's say and you're forced to go out and buy your own a lot of people use like just glass beads Colored glass beads those are fine But I just figure if you're gonna get into it, right? You should feel like the game It should feel like the game your plague. So it's spider-man. I play the spider-man amazing spider-man dice masters So I thought I want to get spider-man counters. So I went out to eBay and I looked around and I found metal Spider-man game tokens for monopoly. There was a spider-man series of monopoly out there and there's spider-man tokens The little game pieces that you can play as and so this is what they look like They're really cool. They actually fit on the life circles, right? So you can track it the three-dimensional so they kind of stand up So when you look across to the second player, you can see kind of where their life is And they're you know, they don't move easily So you're not gonna knock them or push them around with during gameplay You'll specifically move it down the row as your life ticks off. So that was fun Boss monster now also says hey, let's use dice. Let's use counters And so I wanted to get something for that as well Boss monster has kind of like a green aesthetic like a lot of their graphics and things are done in green or a light green So I went out in eBay and again. I found green bingo chips green clear acrylic bingo chips I got like a whole bag of 50 for like a couple of bucks. So those are my counters and then I found green gamers dice green gamers dice came in a little plastic box They were perfect. They were great. And so I have those accessories and I stick those in my collector's box Hey, since this video is attached to the dice masters video I just want to say one more thing about dice masters before I go One of the bad things about dice masters was that the cards come with kind of like a warp to them You notice that I don't know why they can't stay flat. I love how destiny packs their cards They make sure that their dice are in good condition and their cards are flat But the dice masters Cards have a little bow in them. What I do is I stick all of my cards in a clear acrylic box Collector's card box and then I rotate it so that the cards are down and they're being compressed And then I stick a whole stack of extra cards on top of them to squish them into fat under flatten them out And so I've done that I've stored mine like that Horizontally so they're all on top of each other and then a huge weight on top of that just to kind of flatten them out And I found that over time they do flatten out and they do feel and play a lot better All right, so I hope I answered some of your questions about different accessories that'll help enhance Your CCG game time make it more fun Of course if you have any tips or suggestions for people who might be watching this definitely Tell us in the comment section below. We want to hear your input your ideas. It'll only help us all get into it So maybe you another game you play you found some a creative way to do counters or play mats Definitely let us know or you find a way to make your own play mat. Oh hook us up. Tell us all about it I'm sure we'd love to glean that advice from you. Hey, thanks for watching and I'll see you guys next time. Thanks. Bye