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Head to Equestria with the My Little Pony Adventures in Equestria Princess Pageantry Expansion

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Give a royal welcome as the Princesses join the roster of playable characters with the My Little Pony Adventures in Equestria Princess Pageantry Expansion! Visit festivals to earn useful gifts! New mechanics, challenges, and locations help round out your experience and help save Equestria!

Let’s give a royal welcome! Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Shining Armor join the roster of playable characters in My Little Pony – Adventures in Equestria. These characters will bring new mechanics and abilities befitting of their status to the game, along with new locations and challenges to overcome.

Features:

  • Play as Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, Princess Cadance, or the heroic Shining Armor!
  • Use Princess Power! Princesses Celestia and Luna can trigger additional abilities!
  • Power couple Princess Cadance and Shining Armor have extra starting cards that work on each other’s turns!
  • Attend Festivals using card Traits to earn useful gifts!

Rat Queens: the Board Game is Coming to Kickstarter from Deep Water Games this Summer

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Rat Queens: The Board Game

Deep Water Games is adapting the New York Times Best-Selling comic series Rat Queens into an official board game, coming to Kickstarter this Summer.

You know the Rat Queens. A pack of booze-guzzling, death-dealing battle maidens-for-hire, in the business of massacring monsters for money. When the darkly comedic sass-and-sorcery comic debuted in 2013, it put a “Bridesmaids” spin on “Dungeons and Dragons” and campaigned its way into the hearts of many. Now, it’s your turn to join the Queens on their ale-swigging misadventures in Rat Queens: The Board Game.

Rat Queens: The Board Game is a cooperative deck-building boss-fighter based on the award-winning Image Comics series Rat Queens, created by Kurtis Wiebe. It plays 1 to 4 players in under an hour with learn-as-you-go mechanics and loads of content for endless replayability.

Just like the comics, players will have to manage the relationships between the queens and suffer the consequences of their chaotic actions. Unique asymmetric powers immerse players in the role of each of the four Queens:

  • Hannah the Rockabilly Elven Mage, a black-haired necromancer with a bad attitude and a mysterious past.
  • Violet the Hipster Dwarven Fighter, a red-haired Dwarf of the Blackforge Clan who rejects her family’s old-fashioned traditions.
  • Dee the Atheist Human Cleric, a human ex-high priestess who left her faith and family after she became disillusioned with the horrors they worshipped.
  • Betty the Hippy Smidgen Thief, a lover and a fighter who is as dangerous as she is small.

Rat Queens: the Board Game is designed by Erica Hayes-Bouyouris and Sen-Foong Lim. Bouyouris is a game designer from Toronto, Canada, whose previous works include the Steven Universe Miniatures Game, Bosk, and Kodama 3-D. She’s part of the Game Artisans of Canada and co-hosts the Meeple Syrup show with Lim.

Lim is one half of the Bamboozle Brothers; the designers of award-winning games such as Belfort and Junk Art. Sen’s previous games also include Kingdom Rush, Legend of Korra, Godfather, and Mind MGMT.

Look for Rat Queens: the Board Game on Kickstarter, Summer 2021.

Power Rangers Deck-Building Game is Available for Pre-Order. It’s Morphin Time!

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Power Rangers Deck-Building Game

The Power Rangers Deck-Building Game is available for pre-order from Renegade Game Studios. Licensed by Hasbro, the game retails for $45 and allows you to battle your opponents with your favorite Rangers! The game allows you to play 1v1, 2v1, and 2v2 with asymmetrical battling where your goal is to crush the other players.

You play cards to generate shards which you use to then purchase other cards to build your deck. Energy is used to attack your foes while other cards are used to power up your cards in attack and defense. Once you attach four cards, you can flip over your card and morph into a Ranger unleashing even greater attacks including Zords!

The game features:

  • 70 Main Deck Cards
  • 40 Starter Cards
  • 12 Oversized Character Cards
  • 12 Signature Item Cards
  • 12 Stun Cards
  • 12 Blade Blaster Cards
  • 6 Zord Cards
  • 6 Master Cards
  • 4 Turn Order Tokens
  • 2 HP/Energy Status Trackers
  • 1 Megazord/Mega Dragonzord Card
  • 1 The Lair Tile
  • 1 Zord Bay Tile
  • 1 Rulebook

Currently available through CrowdOx, the pre-order closes on December 8 with shipping expected to begin in April 2021. Power Rangers Deck-Building Game is for 2-4 players ages 13+ with games taking 30-70 minutes.

The Realm of Kings Comes to the Legendary: Marvel Deck Building Game

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Legendary: Marvel Deck Building Game Realm of Kings

Upper Deck has released Realm of Kings, the latest expansion for the Legendary: Marvel Deck Building Game.

The Inhumans are a mysterious, powerful race living in the hidden city of Attilan, on Earth’s moon. Strongest of all the Inhumans are the Royal Family led by King Blackagar Boltagon.

Long misunderstood the Inhumans have been treated like a failed experiment and rejected as dangerous monsters. For them, the danger lies everywhere! Not only on the cosmic battlefields of space but it also lurks within the palace walls. While space fleets battle for the destiny of empires, Black Bolt’s brother Maximus schemes a betrayal to seize the throne. In Realm of Kings, players command the unearthly powers of the Inhuman Royal Family and fend off mutinous family members and cosmic conquerors. The challengers are many, and without mercy.

Though armed with new keywords and powerful heroes, this expansion also brings with it powerful threats, from Masterminds both within the royal family and without. Whether you encounter the Terrigen Mist or not, embrace your inherent potentials as you wield the magnificent and multifarious powers of the Inhumans against all comers.

The expansion features 100 playable cards, 5 heroes, 2 new masterminds and villain groups, and a rule sheet. A copy of Legendary: Marvel Deck Building Game is required to play.

Purchase: Game Nerdz – Miniature Market – Cool Stuff Inc

New Hero Realms is Here this Summer

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Hero Realms Ancestry Pack

New Hero Realms expansions are right around the corner with the first coming next week. The Hero Realms Ancestry Pack is out June 23, 2020 and retails for $9.99 per pack.

In this awesome new 20-card expansion pack, you can play Hero Realms as a Dwarf, Elf, Ogre, Orc, or Smallfolk. Each race comes with four cards.

You can use ANY race with a generic starting deck, or combine them with any character pack. So you could play as an ogre wizard, an elven ranger, a dwarven fighter, or any one of the dozens of new race-class combinations. That means tons of options for the makeup of your party for cooperative play, and literally hundreds of possible new PVP match-ups.

Hero Realms Journeys Packs

On July 21, 2020, Hero Realms Journeys Packs will come to stores. They retail for $4.99 per pack.

Journeys is a set of four 12-card expansion packs for Hero Realms! Conquest and Discovery add the new Quest and Artifact card types. Quests are secret objectives that players may complete to earn Artifacts! Hunters and Travelers add new champions and actions to the game.

The Hero Realms Adventure Storage Box retails for $29.99 and will be out July 21, 2020.

Every adventure needs a box for holding! Holds an entire Hero Realms collection, with or without sleeves, with room to spare for future sets and even a playmat! Includes 32 high-quality plastic dividers to separate cards by: Set, Market Deck, Fire Gems, Personal Decks, and Score Cards. Also contains 6 foam blocks to hold cards firmly in place and 1 promo card.

Hero Realms Adventure Storage Box

The Lost Village is out August 18, 2020 and retails for $19.99.

Part Two Of The Ruin of Thandar Campaign This cooperative expansion is part two of the Ruin of Thandar campaign. The Hero Realms campaign decks turn Hero Realms into a cooperative deckbuilding adventure game. Each player plays as the Ranger, Wizard, Cleric, Thief or Fighter and you work together to battle the villains! This expansion provides three unique missions for 1-5 players and contains 88 game cards, 14 oversized villain cards, and two booklets. Requires the Hero Realms Base Game, one Character Pack per player, and The Ruin of Thandar Campaign Deck.

Lost Village

Clank! Adventuring Party Expands Your Merry Band

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Clank! Adventuring Party

The thieves’ guild is recruiting! Clank! Adventuring Party expands your merry band to include up to six players in your dungeon run! Want a new thieving identity? Shuffle up as one of six unique characters, each with their own starting deck and special abilities!

• Lead Trusty companions as the Dwarf Agent
• Build Wonderous Collections as the Elf D’allan.
• Smash hordes of enemies as the Orc Garignar.
• Sling arcane spells as the mage Lenara.
• Amass primate power as the MonkeyBot Prime.
• Or stir up a paw full of trouble as the devious cat Whiskers.

Fans who pre-order the game from the Renegade Game Studios webstore or at their friendly local game store can get their hands on a special promo: Lightning Reflexes!

Expected for Fall 2020, Clank! Adventuring Party requires Clank! A Deck-Building Adventure a completed copy of Clank! Legacy to play.

Game Salute Partners with Stormcrest Games

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Tabletop Tycoon has announced that Stormcrest Games has joined the Game Salute publishing group with their first release, Master of Wills!

Master of Wills is a dynamic deck builder for up to four players. Check it out at Gen Con, in Booth #2965! For those who are not at Gen Con, Master of Wills will be launching on Kickstarter soon, followed by a release to distributors and stores around the world through Hit Point Sales in the coming months.

DC Deck-Building Game: Crisis Expansion Pack 4 Gets a Limited Release at Gen Con and Full Release August 8

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Cryptozoic Entertainment and Warner Bros. Consumer Products, on behalf of DC Entertainment, have announced the limited release of DC Deck-Building Game: Crisis Expansion Pack 4 at Gen Con, August 2-5, followed by a full retail release on August 8. The expansion can be added to any game in the popular DC Deck-Building Game series to introduce cooperative play, Unity cards that can combine for powerful effects, and Personal Crisis cards that directly affect the owner of the card.

In the expansion, the keyword “Unity” is found on several Ongoing cards. When a Unity card is played, the player gains the benefit of that card, as well as well the benefits of any other Unity cards that are already in play. Therefore, gameplay rewards teamwork, as players can take advantage of each other’s Unity cards.

The set’s Personal Crisis cards cause Ongoing detrimental effects that impact individual members of the team, frequently hampering them in some way. Despite being targeted at one player, Personal Crises can end up taking down the whole team by depleting the main deck. The other players can help a player overcome a Personal Crisis, underlining again that teamwork is the key to victory.

Though the game works with any DC Deck-Building Game base set, it is optimized to work with DC Deck-Building Game: Teen Titans. It features Crisis versions of eight DC Teen Titans Super Heroes and comes with six DC Super Hero cards based on the Titans, original members of the Teen Titans who are all grown up: Arsenal, Donna Troy, Nightwing, Omen, Tempest, and The Flash.

DC Deck-Building Game: Crisis Expansion Pack 4will be available in limited quantities at Cryptozoic’s Booth #601 at Gen Con before hitting retailers nationwide August 8 for a suggested retail price of $20.

The expansion is for 1-5 players ages 15+. Designed by Matt Dunn and Richard Brady, games take 60-120 minutes. The expansion includes 14 Oversized DC Super Heroes, 9 Impossible DC Super-Villains, 4 Crisis-Only DC Super-Villains, 12 Personal Crisis Cards, 32 Main Deck Cards and a rulebook. The expansion requires a copy of DC Deck-Building Game or one of its standalone expansions: Heroes Unite, Forever Evil, or Teen Titans.

The Tea Dragon Society Card Game Box Art Revealed!

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Renegade Game Studios and Oni Games have announced The Tea Dragon Society Card Game, an innovative deck-building game by Steve Ellis and Tyler Tinsley. Based on the Oni Press graphic novel The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill, readers and tabletop fans will appreciate the detail and care to stay true to the heart of the story.

Discover the ancient art form of Tea Dragon care-taking within this enchanting world of friendship and fantasy. Create a bond between yourself and your Tea Dragon that grows as you progress through the seasons creating memories to share forever.

Each player’s deck represents their own Tea Dragon. From turn to turn, players will choose to draw a card, triggering effects and strengthening their position, or buy a card, improving their deck or scoring points.

The game takes place over four seasons, starting in spring and ending in winter. At the end of winter, the player who has the most points is the winner.

Features:

  • Based on the Oni Press graphic novel The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill.
  • Beautifully illustrated with cute little dragons. Light card game with some deck building concepts.
  • No hidden information makes it kid-friendly.
  • Competition for Market and Memory cards, but no direct player-on-player nastiness.
  • Perfect for families.

Contents Summary:

  • Rulebook
  • Comic quick-start rules
  • 4 Tea Dragon cards
  • 1 Mentor card
  • 24 Memory cards (6 cards each for spring, fall, winter, and summer)
  • 28 Market cards
  • 48 Starter cards (12 cards each in 4 decks)

The Tea Dragon Society Card Game is in hobby stores summer 2018. This card game will have an MSRP of $20, is designed for 2-4 players to enjoy in 30-60 min., and will captivate gamers ages 10 and up.

Teen Titans Go! Deck-Building Game is Out November 29

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Cryptozoic Entertainment has announced the November 29 release of Teen Titans Go! Deck-Building Game. In this two-player game based on the popular TV show Teen Titans Go!, each player becomes a member of the team—Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, or Raven—and engages in a friendly competition to take down DC Super-Villains such as Blackfire and the H.I.V.E. Five. Each player starts with one DC Super Hero, but is able to recruit “Sidekicks,” other Titans who can help the player. Each DC Super Hero has a Sidekick version on the back with information on how to recruit it.

In the game, players can have multiple Sidekicks, gaining full access to the abilities on their cards. Potential Sidekicks are comprised of all the DC Super Heroes that are not chosen at the start of play. Players can recruit and steal them by playing specific cards, which can create an additional level of conflict as players take Sidekicks away from their competitors.

Teen Titans Go! Deck-Building Game will be available at retailers nationwide November 29 for a suggested retail price of $25. The game utilizes Cryptozoic’s popular Cerberus Engine, meaning it can be combined with other Cerberus deck-building games to expand gameplay.

The game is for 2 players ages 12+ and can be played in 30-45 minutes. The game was designed by Matt Hyra and Nathaniel Yamaguchi. The release includes 115 game cards, 5 double-sided oversized super heroes/sidekicks, and a rulebook.

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