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Just in time for Attack on Titan ending, the anime is getting a collectible card game next year
Dedicate your cards!
Trading Card Games (TCG) (Page 3)
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Android: Netrunner creator loves the fact fans have kept the cancelled LCG alive - and has "considered" designing more cards himself
Richard Garfield says it’s “very satisfying” to return to games supported by passionate players.
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Magic: The Gathering creator Richard Garfield looks back on five of his card games, 30 years after inventing the TCG
“We knew we had a special game when we published it.”
How To
Disney Lorcana: Rise of the Floodborn - Everything we know so far about Lorcana's second set
Learn more about the new 204 cards, the Resist keyword and when you’ll be able to buy them.
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Magic: The Gathering changes more card wordings to keep the TCG as "inclusive and welcoming as possible"
Naga can finally be snakes, and Rakshasa can retire their litter boxes.
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MTG and Baldur’s Gate 3 pull Hasbro’s bacon out of the fryer as toy giant doubles down on tabletop brands
Hasbro will continue to rely on the “long term, multi-property strategy” of Universes Beyond.
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A New York board game cafe is joining the wave of unionisation across TCG, RPG and tabletop companies
Workers cite unfair wages, lack of job security and “ineffective grievance procedures” as catalysts for unionisation.
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Product delays hit MTG’s dinosaur and exploration-themed set Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Collector boosters and preconstructed commander decks apparently also lost in those caverns.
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Announcing our judges for the Tabletop Awards 2023
The best and brightest from across the industry.
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Disney Lorcana card featuring Frozen's Elsa sells for over $7,000
This D23 Expo version might be the most expensive Lorcana card sold to date
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Magic: The Gathering’s animated Netflix show still lives - if barely
Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks gave a brief nod to the neglected project in a recent investors meeting.
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Yu-Gi-Oh!'s new Diabellstar archetype could flip the TCG’s meta upside-down
Introduced with just a single monster in the latest Age of Overlord set, this archetype already has huge potential.
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Star Wars: Unlimited TCG announces competitive play details and how to earn Tournament Points
Imagine Duel of the Fates playing over a table of cards.
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Disney Lorcana will begin hosting competitive tournaments and fan events in Summer 2024
Prize fights in the House of Mouse.
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Jeff Goldblum’s Jurassic World character will appear on at least two cards in Magic: The Gathering’s new set
Dr. Ian Malcolm is looking a little flat.
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MTG Lost Caverns of Ixalan Mechanics: descending into the depths, crafting treasure and exploring a new world
A new perspective on an old world.
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Marvel’s pop culture domination spreads to Magic: the Gathering in 2025
The Avengers (and other superheroes) will assemble for at least one tentpole set crossover with the trading card game.
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Magic: The Gathering’s Fallout crossover includes TCG forms of Dogmeat, radstorms, Caesar and the Mothman
War never changes, but MTG sure does.
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Flesh and Blood TCG packs its 2024 calendar with two international events and new set Heavy Hitters
Heavy Hitters will get a first look at its first organised play event of the year in Aotearoa
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This revolutionary trading card game wants to fix one of the worst things about Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon
Altered TCG will let you print as many copies of a card as you like.
Opinion
Magic: The Gathering's uncanny celebrity cameos are the worst part of its great Doctor Who set
Bradley Walsh, Game Show Host.
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Magic: The Gathering’s head designer says new Play Boosters will "save" TCG's Draft and Limited formats
“If we didn't do anything, draft boosters were going away. This whole change was to save drafting.”
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Star Wars TCG Unlimited already has its first nine sets planned, with releases due through 2027
Fantasy Flight says its biggest team ever is working on the upcoming trading card game, but promises that won’t affect development of its other games.
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Here’s how MTG’s Play Boosters will change The List
One of Magic: The Gathering’s more confusing features gets simplified in 2024.
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Magic: The Gathering’s new Play Booster will increase the cost of limited events, but WotC isn’t worried
The “increased value” of cards included in the new booster pack will presumably make up the higher price of entry
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Star Wars: Unlimited TCG could include characters from video games, comic books and novels on top of the movies and TV shows
Anything from “modern Star Wars” is game, says maker Fantasy Flight.
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Van Gogh Pikachu promo card to disappear from Pokémon museum exhibit following scalper frenzy
The Van Gogh Museum blames a “small group of individuals creat[ing] an undesirable situation.”
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Don’t expect another MTG set like March of the Machine: Aftermath anytime soon, lead designer suggests
Mark Rosewater admits it’s “pretty unlikely” the criticised Epilogue format will return.
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Pokémon's sold-out Van Gogh Pikachu card is coming back, god help us all
After “overwhelming demand” demolished stock of the promo at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum.
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Disney Lorcana, Cyberpunk and Critical Role’s Matthew Mercer head to PAX Unplugged in December
The Critical Role DM will open the tabletop convention with a Storytime keynote.
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Star Wars: Unlimited will release the core set for its Light vs Dark trading card game in early 2024
March the 8th be with you. Wait a minute…
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Surprise, surprise: sold-out Pikachu Van Gogh promo card is already being resold for hundreds of pounds online
Merchandise from the museum exhibit crossover is also popping up at exorbitant mark-ups.
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Magic: The Gathering Doctor Who set will feature cards based on lost episodes
Blast from the Past.
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Here’s every legendary Doctor card from Magic: The Gathering’s Doctor Who set
That’s 60 years of television history.
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Join us at Essen Spiel 2023 for four days full of LIVE board game news, reveals and previews!
We’re trying something new for this year’s German board game extravaganza.
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Essen Spiel 2023 Day 4: News, reveals and previews live from the world's biggest board game convention
It's the last day of Essen, but there are always more games to be played!
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Essen Spiel 2023 Day 3: News, reveals and previews live from the world's biggest board game convention
We roll into a weekend of gaming at the massive Germany tabletop event.
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Essen Spiel 2023 Day 2: News, reveals and previews live from the world's biggest board game convention
Get that Friday feeling as we return to Germany's enormous board game fair.
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Essen Spiel 2023 Day 1: News, reveals and previews live from the world's biggest board game convention
Join us on the show floor as we give our thoughts on this year's must-see releases.
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Tabletop Awards 2023 return to celebrate the year’s best board games and RPGs: nominations and People’s Choice voting open now!
With designer and publisher categories for both established and up-and-coming talent, as well as a new award for Best Art.
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Pokémon apologises for "disappointment" after Pikachu Van Gogh promo card sells out in museum chaos
More cards featuring Pikachu in a grey hat will be available at Pokémon Centres in the future.
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Disney Lorcana's First Chapter reprint lands sooner than expected, with Rise of the Floodborn included in plans
Ravensburger’s Ryan Miller tells ComicBook the Disney-themed TCG will be injecting plenty of both sets into retail.
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Pokémon’s latest promo card turns Pikachu into Van Gogh - and it’s already ridiculously popular
Follows Edvard Munch-inspired cards released in 2018.
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Star Wars Unlimited’s prerelease sets and starter kits cleave close to MTG’s well-trodden ground
Organised play for Fantasy Flight and Disney’s upcoming TCG looks mighty familiar.
Best Games
The best reprints in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 25th Anniversary: Dueling Heroes Mega Tin
Along with the three new World Premiere cards.
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How Yu-Gi-Oh! took its iconic Egyptian God cards from their legendary anime appearance to the TCG
A decades-long journey via limited availability, counterfeits and tournament absence.
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Ravnica Remastered cards show what a Magic: The Gathering anime could look like
Follows anime treatments and trailers for Kamigawa and Wilds of Eldraine.
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Magic: The Gathering’s Jurassic World cards will let you fight a dinosaur with commander Jeff Goldblum
Ian Malcolm can face off against Indominus Rex in upcoming set Lost Caverns of Ixalan.
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Magic: The Gathering is getting Evil Dead, Princess Bride and Doctor Who Weeping Angel cards in a spooky Secret Lair
Along with a Creepshow crossover and pixel lands.
Opinion
Don’t be a bore in MTG Commander: build your next deck to win with weirdness
Winning with something unexpected is far more satisfying that just copying the latest meta.
Deals
Here’s your chance to win a copy of Yu-Gi-Oh!’s 25th Anniversary Tin, including some of the TCG’s most iconic cards!
Plus a brand new Quarter Century Secret Rare card.
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Magic: The Gathering will pay tribute to late Commander creator Sheldon Menery in an upcoming card
Commander Rules Committee co-founder passed away earlier this month.
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Pokémon TCG’s nostalgic Classic set - featuring OG Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise cards - will cost you an eye-watering $400
Vintage pulls, plus six new cards and the first international release of a Mr. Mime.
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Pokémon Trading Card Game Classic luxury set to be released later in November
Featuring pre-built Gen 1 starter decks.
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Magic: The Gathering is getting more Lord of the Rings cards that form gorgeous scenes and give its characters the rock-star treatment
Four new scene boxes on the way, plus Special Edition Collector Boosters with ‘60s music poster-inspired art.
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Star Wars: Unlimited reveals flashy Hyperspace and Showcase card variants, along with booster pull rates
Here’s how likely you are to find one of the Star Wars TCG’s artwork variants.
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Netflix’s live-action Monkey D. Luffy graces his own card in the One Piece Card Game
Straw hat, cardboard.
Opinion
Wilds of Eldraine’s new damage-slinging MTG commander is even more busted than you think
Burn baby burn.
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My Little Pony’s return to Magic: The Gathering brings Rainbow Dash, Applejack and more to a charity drop
Proceeds from Ponies: the Galloping 2 will benefit Extra Life charity in MTG’s tenth year of collaboration.
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Evil Mickey Mouse, mysterious seaweed and different timelines: what’s going on in Disney Lorcana’s secret story?
Everything we know so far, and some theories of our own as to what comes next.
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Pokémon card featuring real-life Pokémon player - one of only around 20 ever made - sells for record $132,000
Division runner-up Takahiro Ikeda was immortalised on this one-of-one Trainer card during a 2001 competition in Japan.
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MTG’s latest Festival in a Box is a better 30th anniversary celebration at a quarter of the price
Dan Frazier art on classic cards and a Mystery Booster box without the four-figure price tag is still damning with faint praise.
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Disney Lorcana’s Rise of the Floodborn will introduce six alternate artwork cards with artists’ signatures
Two sets in, Lorcana upgrades its collectibility game with signed, holofoil cards in a limited edition release.
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Indie designer with a tabletop game the world should see? PAX Unplugged’s Rising Showcase is open to submissions for another two weeks
A chance for unpublished and independent games to shine.
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Rare silver trophy Pikachu card from Pokémon TCG’s second-ever tournament sells for $444,000 at auction
Gem Mint quality is highest rated of four catalogued copies of the Pikachu No.2 Silver Trophy.
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Creator of MTG’s Commander format Sheldon Menery has passed away
“Godfather of Commander” remembered by family, friends and TCG players worldwide.
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MTG kicks off Wilds of Eldraine with an anime trailer from Naruto studio and composer of Attack on Titan
Wizards of the Coast pulls down the studio that produced Naruto and the composer of Attack on Titan for three minutes of promotion.
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Board game designer duo charged in Gen Con theft of Magic: The Gathering cards worth $300,000
Alleged thieves could face up to six years in prison alongside $10,000 in fines.
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The Pokémon World Championships’ transformation of Japan into a real-life Pokémon world was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced
Yokohama’s hosting of the TCG and video games’ prestige tournament put celebration and community first.
Best Games
12 best Disney Lorcana cards in The First Chapter
The characters to look for in Lorcana’s debut set.
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Pokémon TCG Halloween event features Trick or Trade BOOster bundles with exclusive cards
Get ready for Pokéween.
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Lorcana’s latest story reveal teases more of the lore behind the Disney TCG
How DID Hercules get here, anyway?
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Wilds of Eldraine is a triumph of fairy tale card design and the first set in new era of Magic: The Gathering
Putting the magic in Magic.
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PSA: Disney Lorcana gets its full release today, which means you might be able to actually find it
If you’re fast and lucky, that is.
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Disney Lorcana will reprint The First Chapter set to combat widespread shortage, massive retail price hikes
Second chance at The First Chapter.
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Flesh and Blood team with YouTube’s Tolarian Community College for a Commander-esque multiplayer set
The beginner friendly set enshrines Brian “The Professor” Lewis on his own hero card.
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MTG Arena will let you earn XP by playing in your local store next month
In time for Wilds of Eldraine’s release.
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Almost 40% people are playing more tabletop games since before the lockdown, with interest in D&D increasing to 85%
Interest in Warhammer also up.
How To
Disney Lorcana draft rules: How to draft Lorcana
Crack a pack and jump in with our guide to Lorcana’s Booster Draft format.
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The world's best Pokémon TCG players on the decks, lucky draws and near-defeats that led to their World Championship wins
This year’s world champions reflect on their winning strategies.
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A weekend with Jessica Robinson: the expectations and pressures of the record-making British Yu-Gi-Oh! pro at this year’s World Championships
The TCG’s first female European champion and first woman to compete at Worlds recalls her journey to the top.
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Magic: The Gathering isn’t in a rush to try and top its ‘intensely ambitious’ Avengers: Endgame moment from March of the Machine
“It definitely pushed our team to a level of world-building that I wouldn’t be eager to return to.”
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Pokémon's new animated series Path to the Peak is a charming introduction to the trading card game
A short but sweet inspiring tale of taking your TCG talents to the next level.
How To
How to play Disney Lorcana: TCG’s rules, how to build a deck and how to win explained
Get started with the new collectible card game from the House of Mouse.
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Fan-made Lorcana digital app gives the Disney TCG the Hearthstone treatment
Disney lawyers: do not interact.
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Challengers followup opts for beach-themed name for standalone competitive deckbuilder
Sand, surf and sequels
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Next Pokémon TCG expansion features cards inspired by Scarlet & Violet Paradox Pokémon
Past, ancient and future.
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Disney Lorcana releases in local gaming shops and Disney Times Square store today
Coming to Disney Parks “soon.”