This site is still alive and kicking. Apologies to anybody who has tried to download the game during the month of March. I have permanently moved the domain over to Shandalar.net, and didn't realize that I broke the form in the process.

posted by Nils Devine  # Sunday, March 21, 2010 1 Comments Links to this post

Late summer was an active time for fans of this game. I got a bunch of very helpful emails. Thank you all and keep them coming!

Maarten F. sent in some awesome links to The Kitchen Table casual deck design column over at Star City Games where Abe Sargent has deconstructed each of the computer computer opponents in the game.

1. Green Shandalar Decks
2. Red Shandalar Decks
3. Black Shandalar Decks
4. Blue Shandalar Decks
5. White Shandalar Decks
6. Allied Multicolor Shandalar Decks

Ivo P. pointed me to another forum which provides support for this game: Collectible Card Game Headquarters Manalink 2.0 discussion.

Josh F., a fellow BGG member, pointed out that back in 2006 when I picked up this domain, I spelled it wrong! The game is Shandalar, but I own Shalandar.com.

So, this leads me to my big question for you all, should I keep this website up when the domain expires in the spring? If so, should it be at this domain, or should I try to fix the name? The only reason that I would not keep the site up is if the Collectible Card Game Headquarters forum has a better installation of the game, making this site both misspelled and obsolete.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Thanks!

posted by Nils Devine  # Tuesday, September 08, 2009 0 Comments Links to this post

Welcome to this, the new version of Shalandar.com. I've moved some stuff around, featuring the navigation in the middle. Experimenting with some technology that lets me use the actual font from the game in the headers.

Tell me what you think. Is the text easy to read? Were you able to find the instructions and install the game?

posted by Nils Devine  # Sunday, July 12, 2009 2 Comments Links to this post

When I quite playing the actual physical version of this game I kept three decks, a 4-color counterspell deck, a land destruction deck, and a Necropolis deck. A few years later I went back and replaced the rather dated and gimmicky Necro deck with card denial / nevinyrral's disk deck that closer resembled what I won my Black Lotus tournament with, minus the 3rd color via dual lands. I also scrounged together a few type 1 (vintage) restricted cards to make it a little more like it was back in the day, e.g., demonic tutor, mind twist, sol ring, etc. (sorry, no "Power 9"). Here are photos of the decks and their contents:

• 4x Stone Rain
• 4x Thermokarst
• 4x Strip Mine
• 4x Kird Ape
• 4x Woolly Spider
• 4x Fyndhorn Elves
• 4x Llanowar Elves
• 4x Lightning Bolts
• 3x Fireball
• 3x Stunted Growth
• 2x Icy Manipulator
• 11x Forest
• 9x Mountain

posted by Nils Devine  # Saturday, March 01, 2008 0 Comments Links to this post