Trading Card Games / Living Card Games

Recently Fantasy Flight Games announced they were abandoning the Collectible Card Games, Trading Card Platform. Basically, the said Magic the Gathering rules it, and it's just impossible to break in, except for a few small kid anime card games (like Yu-Gi-0h). In it's place, they have created a new 'type' of game called a Living Card Game. Basically it's like a traditional trading card game, except that you buy a boxed set that has all the cards in it that you need, and you buy supplemental packs of 40 cards that are all the same. No rares. No random booster packs.

So far the experiment has been a success. No... not like Magic the Gathering sized success, but sizable so that they keep putting out card packs.

The first two games they released were Call of Cthulhu and A Game of Thrones. These were based on their previous Collectible Card Games of the same names. But this fall the put out Warhammer Invasion, the Living Card Game, and it has been quite a success. We have sold it very well.

Dogstar Games is no committed to supporting Fantasy Flight Games in this endeavor. Enough people like them that we are going to stock the games and the packs that back them up. We started today by putting up all the Call of Cthulhu stuff. We have the base game, and we have many of the card packs that go with it. The base game is deeply discounted, and the card packs all have free shipping.

When you think about getting into another card game, after being involved in Magic, it's always kind of rough because you have to put so much money into it! Well... not so with the Fantasy Flight Games Living Card Games. It's much cheaper. And... the games are really good! Warhammer has sold really well, and Call of Cthulhu is just awesome in it's creepiness (I'm a big H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu fan!).

You might not be interested in this stuff, but I thought I would let you know about it in case you were looking at 'expanding' past your Magic the Gathering horizons! :)