Why You Should Start Playing Dice Masters?

Hey guys, in this post I will be sharing with you the reasons why you should start playing Dice Masters. Just a gentle reminder that this is purely my opinion, I have no dislike for any other games that I will be comparing Dice Masters to.

Anyway before I start, I just want to let everyone know that this site is based on Singapore context, players from around the world can still read my posts but it might not be applicable to you.  

What is Dice Masters?

Dice Masters is simply a game where you are your opponent uses superheroes from the DC, Marvel or Ninja Turtles universe, or even creatures and characters from Dungeons and Dragon and battle. The first person to bring their opponent’s life to 0 will be the winner. You will start with 8 non-superhero (known as sidekicks) dice and throughout the game, you will buy characters and hopefully you are able to use them. I will be posting an article on how to play the game so don’t worry about that.

Cost

I am going to start on this point, simply because most of us aren’t very wealthy. Most players are either working adults or youth that are studying, so most of your money or allowances are spend on your daily necessities, which mean you don’t much left for other stuff.

But fear not, because Dice Masters is one of the cheapest board games you can find.

The starter for example, cost less than $30 or at most $30++, and this includes everything you need to play the game! Each starter comes with 44 dices, 34 cards, 4 action cards indicator, 2 dice bags and an instruction manual that can also be your play mat!

If you are sick of playing the same cards from the starter, you may want expand your game by buying foil packs. Each pack cost around $1.60 and at most $2, and comes with 2 cards and 2 dices; I think that is really cheap for a booster pack!

If you are not the kind who likes to buy booster packs, then you can buy single cards and dices from other players. A common card is so common that I can give you one for free if I have a spare, uncommon cards cost less than $1 (good ones might be more but no more than $3), rare cards usually cost $5, super rare prices varies but you don’t need all of them to play the game. Older series are more expensive though as they are harder to find, but you can definitely build a good team using only cards from the latest series. Dices are cheap as well, they usually cost $0.50 and rarer ones $2 at most. So with less than $30, you can build a competitive team!

It is not expensive to play the game, it is only costly to complete the collection in this game, which is not mandatory, but completing a set is not as expensive as other trading card game, a series of all cards and dices will cost you around $200-$300, but don’t worry, series are usually released quarterly or tri-annually, so you are like spending $75-$100 per month, that is if YOU WANT TO COMPLETE A SERIES. I forget to mention that if you are not a fan of DC, you can skip the DC series, similarly for non-Marvel fans, dice masters also features Dungeons and Dragons and Yu-Gi-Oh, so if you are not a fan of these series, you can skip them as well.

Collection

Now I will talk about the collection part of the game. Maybe Dice Masters doesn’t offer fantastic sculpt for like X-wing Miniatures, Heroclix or Warhammer 40K, but it does offer something unique.

Dice Masters do offer a wide variety of dices; each character dice is unique so you can enjoy the collection. You may think that for a cheap game like this, the quality of the dice would sure sucks; well that’s not the case here. The dice given have really cool design such as the character’s face printed on 3 sides of the dice. After playing Dice Master for almost 3 years, I am still using the same sidekick dice that have drop on the floor for more than a hundred times (I am serious), the dice is still in playable condition! So the quality of the dice is really good. 

Don’t forget about the cards! Each card may have the same art but the effect of the card sure differs in the game. Being able to collect cards AND dices is really fun and exciting.

You realized that there are 2 different Emma Frost card in the series, that is because 1 of them can be obtain from the booster pack and the other can be obtain by playing events. This makes your collection even more exciting! Alternate arts can be obtained by playing event, winning an event or simply buying the collector storage box. Some alternate art have the same text as the ones in the booster pack, while some has different text, but if you don’t like the alternate art, you can skip it.

With so many things to collect, you might think that storage for the items would be ridiculous right? Well that’s not true, if you are really into the game and a big fan of dice masters, you can buy the Storage Box, which includes 20 dices that have different colour from the ones you get in starter, 10 cards, 4 action cards indicator, 1 alternate art card, 1 fabric dice bag, storage trays for your dices and cards, and 4 booster foils. Or you can get a storage box from Japan Home at less than $5! There are many other places that sells storage box, you can pick them up and store your dices. As for the cards, you can get a $12 card album to store them or simply get a deck case that cost $5 or less! This isn’t just for storing; you can also bring your collection around and play with your friends.

Community

Now what’s a game without a community filled with people who shares similar interested in the game. Since Dice Masters is one of the newer games, our community is really small, we have less than 6 active players, used to have more, many left, but throughout the years, the community have been really friendly and it’s really hard to get a community with this many nice people. You have to join us to believe it. Not to forget that in the community, not everyone is a collector, so you can definitely trade or sell off your unwanted stuff to someone who might be interested in them, so if the community grows, there are more people to trade your stuff with! 

I like to give credit where credits are due. We do have shops that have supported the game despite the number of players that shows up every week. There are days where we have only 4 people for an event, but still, the event goes on. So we do have committed shops that are willing to do events for the community, so you don’t have to worry about the community dying anytime soon.

Every month has an organised play (OP) event for dice masters. So you will definitely get a chance to play almost every week. Participation fee for an event is usually $6, and even if you lose all your games, you get to have 1 booster pack, 1 participation card and 1 lucky draw for the competitive prizes, that is so much for just $6. Not to forget that if you are really lucky and manage to win all your games, you get more boosters and the competitive prize! Check out the Dice Masters Singapore Facebook group for the any upcoming event for the game. 

Well, to show you how sincere I am in growing this game; I will offer Tutorial session to anyone who wants to learn about the game. It’s not free though, you have to PAY attention. Don’t worry, I really wouldn’t charge you anything for some tutorial lesson.  Just contact me via Facebook if you want to learn about the game in person, I will let you know when would be the next tutorial session I am holding, I will be more than happy to teach you.

Controlled System

Have you played a game before where that rich kid from a wealthy family or that guy who have all the cards in the game is always the person winning? Those games are really broken; I don’t think really fancy a game whereby the winner is always the one that spends the most in the game. However, in dice masters, using an affordable team without any rare or super rare cards can actually be as powerful as teams with rare and super rare cards. Whichever cards that my opponent has, I can buy them as well. Plus all cards in the game have a counter against them, so no 1 card in the game is invincible.

But if you are really afraid of all the Super Rare in the series, fear not, because shops that organized the event will usually prevent super rare from being used by any players, so you are new to the game, you don’t have to worry about getting thrashed. Plus, shops will create themed events such as only avengers, x-men, Justice League, Villains, common cards and etc. can be played, so everyone will have to play something different from what they usually play.

   

A game of cards is usually dependable on a good deck and a good hand, if you have both; you probably will win the game. However, in a dice masters, the game really depends on your luck and your skills. You need some tactics to plan a good team, and then you need the luck to get the rolls you desire, so if your luck is bad, you need to change your tactics halfway in the game. Your game play will change in the middle of the game and can even change when you played the second time with the same team against the same opponent, so that’s the fun part of the game.

It really doesn’t matter who is the veteran player on the table, because the game favours those with good rolls. It gives a beginner as much chance to win as a veteran, so the game is fair.  

Conclusion

I know I may sound like I just sugar coated the game, so I going to be frank with you on a few things, Wizkids(producer of the game) does make mistakes on their card, they do delay some of their sets, they do make some of the rules very confusing and they do produce a lot of super rare just to make you buy more. Wizkids is after all another company that create products to sell and make profits, but isn’t every single game company the same?  People make mistakes too, so don’t expect perfection for this game just yet, but they do help us by providing the Wizkids events system website that shows the errata to a card which they had made mistakes, and also answering questions about the game. I believe you play a game because you like it, and for me, I like this game so much that I can oversee all their flaws.

After reading my post, if you still think that you are not financially capable of buying this game, or if you have other collectibles that is ongoing and you do not wish to start on any other game, or you simply don’t like this game, that is perfectly fine, I am not forcing anyone to start this game, neither can I promise that this game will do very well in the future without any hiccups in between, but I am just sharing my wonderful experience with you regarding this game. So hopefully my post helps and I would see more of you joining our community soon. Thanks for reading!