Weiss & Ramblings

For me, one of the most defining features of Weiss Schwarz is the importance of being able to mill your own deck. It plays directly into one of the game’s most unique qualities when compared to other TCGs: when you deck out, you shuffle up your discard pile and call it your new, second deck. No longer is throwing mountains of cards away from the top of your deck a terrifying scenario, but a regular and expected part of usual play. Anyone who’s played the game more than a handful of times knows that this is a major part of what constitutes strong deck manipulation. At this point, that’s become a bit of a community catch-all term for tools that allow players to command their gamestate, but today I’d like to focus in on self-mill. And mostly how I think a lot of people do it wrong. “Up to” This little preposition appears on countless Weiss cards, and more often than not, it has to do with mill. For just two words, the modifier holds a lot of power; it allows you to look at cards in seque