"When God was making the months I think February was a mistake, like a burp. There it was, small, dark, and prickly. It had absolutely no redeeming qualities."

~ Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember ~

February. The shortest and most underappreciated month of the year. Frankly, I think it gets a bum rap. It's during this period in the Gregorian calendar that we embrace kissy-face fealty, celebrate Black History, and pray to a weather-forecasting, ground-burrowing marmot that it doesn't glance at its shadow. Babe Ruth, Charles Dickens, Galileo, George Washington, Jennifer Aniston, and Matt Groening were born under the sign of Pisces. And, don’t even get me started on National Jell-O Week.

We here at GTM give February the same respect, mindfulness, and due diligence as the eleven other months. In fact, we’re going one step further — we’re spoiling it. We’ve spared no expense as our Cover Story celebrates a decade of card play decadence with Arcane Tinmen’s The Spoils and its Victors Organized Play experience! February continues to shine as Hack and Slash Games reveals the future of gladiatorial combat with their resurgence of the fast-paced deck-building game, Ophidian 2035, while WizKids returns to the Forgotten Realms in Faerun Under Siege, the second epic expansion for Dungeons & Dragons Dice Masters, and Fantasy Fight unleashes Wolves of the North, the first deluxe expansion for A Game of Thrones: The Card Game Second Edition. Plus, we round out this February edition with articles and reviews galore spotlighting Mayfair Games’ Extra! Extra!, King Chocolate, and Steam, as well as Fantasy Flight's Warhammer Quest: The Adventure Card Game, Ninja Division's Ninja All-Stars, and Renegade Game Studios' Snow Tails!

With the seasonal holidays in our rearview mirror and 2016 barely in its infancy, February can still call dibs on ‘…the most wonderful time of the year’. Game On!

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GTM #192 is shipping to arrive in your store this week, and we encourage you to pass copies along to your gaming customers and hobby enthusiasts. And, point them (and your browser) to GTM's virtual hideaway at: www.gametrademagazine.com!