# Which Munchkin expansion should I get?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 7, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-munchkin-expansion-should-i-get/459148 "2008-08-07T09:52:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-munchkin-expansion-should-i-get/459148/1 "2008-08-07T09:52:17Z")

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I’ve gotten really hooked on Munchkin over the last few years, but have just recently started buying the packs myself. Have then realized that there are quite a lot of different expansions available.

Having only played the regular Munckin and “The Good, the Bad and The Munchkin” I therefore turn to you for my next purchase.

Are any of the majorly different expansions way cool, or should I stick to the regular expansions before I go off into space/Cthulu/espionage/Kung Fu?

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**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-munchkin-expansion-should-i-get/459148/2 "2008-08-07T09:56:53Z")

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I just started another collection since mine have “disappeared” … whatever you decide, a must have is Munchkin Blender. I also really really like Cerical Errors

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**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-munchkin-expansion-should-i-get/459148/3 "2008-08-07T10:51:39Z")

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I’ve not really understood what the Blender does?

New rules?

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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-munchkin-expansion-should-i-get/459148/4 "2008-08-07T11:27:38Z")

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[QUOTE=WormTheRed]  
I’ve gotten really hooked on Munchkin over the last few years, but have just recently started buying the packs myself. Have then realized that there are quite a lot of different expansions available.

Having only played the regular Munckin and “The Good, the Bad and The Munchkin” I therefore turn to you for my next purchase.

Are any of the majorly different expansions way cool, or should I stick to the regular expansions before I go off into space/Cthulu/espionage/Kung Fu?  
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There are two questions: which of the basic games, and which expansions to add to them?

Which basic game is basically a matter of which kind of genre jokes you appreciate – the gameplay is mostly the same (each has a few specific wrinkles, but the basic game mechanics is the same for all of them).

As for expansions, most of them just add a batch of cards and another minor game wrinkle. The one sorta-exception is the “Demented Dungeons” expansion for the basic game; that adds a bunch of double-sided “Dungeon” cards that add some global rule change.

The Blender expansion adds a few cards (extra “Cheats”, more low-level monsters, etc) that help mitigate one significant problem with mixed-deck games (with more races/classes/whatever in the deck, items that are tied to a race/class/whatever are less likely to be actually useful, so it’s harder to build up strength).