Friday, September 24, 2010

Makeshift Tokens


T-Rex! Noooooooooooo~!

As much as I wuv my Myr tokens and hope to use them tomorrow, I've been tempted to bring along my T-Rex to Magic tournaments to be used as a creature token for a while now. His mouth opens and closes, so there's an easy way to make if he's tapped or untapped, and it would be cool if he represented my Avatar should I get one out with Ajani Goldmane. So long as I didn't make an ass of myself by making it literally trample or otherwise interact with the cards themselves (i.e. nothing like what's pictured here), I don't think anyone would mind.

Sadly, there has rarely been a scenario where he'd actually work as a token. I mean, imagine if I used him to represent a Myr or a cat token. Not even his being inanimate would stop his biting me. Given that he most likely wouldn't get used and he effectively takes up more space than the box I carry cards in, I'll probably leave him behind. Or not. We'll see.

That said, what's the most interesting "token" you've ever used in a game?

Note: The above photo was carefully taken by a dude pretending he knew what he was doing. Exercise caution when taking stupid photos of your own cards, or they could easily become damaged. Thank you.

8 comments:

  1. Speaking for myself, probably the most interesting token that I've used was a D&D figure, a knight of the chalice, I think ,that I used to represent a soldier, or the occasional avatar. I mainly use glass beads or coins, but I find that every now and then a figure can add a little life to the play. Its more fun to watch their expression as I put down a stone giant for my new giant token instead of a piece of glass.

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  2. I've used dinosaur toys from around the house before! Granted, these were in casual games *at* the house, but still. (Also: SD-Gundams.)

    And you could use it as one of the 3/3 Golem tokens from Golem Foundry and Precursor Golem, or maybe one of the Deathcoil Wurm halves.

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  3. Torn up Yu-gi-oh! cards. Oh, and fruit.

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  4. Most interesting thing I've used? People. Not dead people, living people. There was a big tournament at my school's gaming club and I was playing in the finals with my G/W tokens deck. So I called people from the audience to act as the tokens for my deck. It was fun.

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  5. My best 'token' is actually a proxy I used for Warhammer 40K. Since it's a REALLY expensive game I didn't have a lot of pieces, but wanted some more heavy firepower. I pulled down a Gundam model or two and used them as Ork Dreadnoughts.

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  6. I once tried to use my Arming Sword as a token. I thought it wood be cool to play my White Knight/Angel deck dressed in my Crusader gear, and the sword happened to be the closesst thing lying around. First time I tapped it it cleared the table. :(

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  7. For me, Its a shoe, or a lunchbox, or a french fry, depending on which one you think is most interesting. I play during lunches at my school a lot, and sometimes people forget to bring things like tokens

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