Ascension: Rise of Vigil Deck-Builder

Stone Blade Entertainment will be releasing Ascension: Rise of Vigil expansion on April 3.  It will contain 259 cards and will have a new type of card called a “Treasure” card and also a new “Resource” energy card.  The suggested price is $39.99.  Late summer the will be an Ascension Apprentice set that will allow new players to try the Ascension deck-building game at a price of $10.00 and then in late summer they will have Ascension Theme Packs for $4.99.  So all you Deck-Builder fans be ready for you local specialty stores to get these in.

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New Yu-Gi-Oh! Booster Packs

Konami Digital Entertainment has announced that their new release Yu-Gi-Oh!: Cosmo Blazer booster packs will be released on January 25.  The set will only be available in booster packs and will contain 100 cards: 48 commons; 20 rares; 14 super rares; 10 ultra rares; and 8 secret rares.  So let all of your trading card gamers know and if your library hosts card gaming events you might pick up a few packs as give-aways or promos for the event.

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Cardfight Vanguard Trailer

In case you missed this will all of your holiday activities.  Cardfight!! Vanguard came out with a new booster set this past December, Eclipse of Illusionary Shadows.  Make sure your TCG gamers now about this and if you need them for your collection and gaming days.  Thanks to “CARDFIGHTVanguard” on YouTube for the following trailer:

Magic the Gathering Gatecrash

Magic the Gathering will have a release date of February 1 for it’s next expansion Gatecrash.  The set will have 249 cards which will be available in Booster Packs, Intro Packs, Event Packs, Booster Battle Packs and Fat Packs.  Wizards of the Coast is also planning to help sponsor some pre-release events January 26 and 27.  So TCG gamers might want to check out their local gaming store to see if they will be hosting one of these events.

Castle Game

Here is another forth coming card game that you might be interested in if you are a fan of the TV series Castle.  Cryptozoic Entertainment is going to release Castle: The Detective Card Game that can be played by 2 to 5 players.  The suggested retail will be $30.00, but there is no release date as of this posting.  Keep an eye on their Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/Castle?ref=ts&fref=ts, and it will probably be announced their.

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Pathfinder News

Paizo Publishing is working on two items for it’s Pathfinder Game.  So here you go gamers and libraries that support gaming.  Paizo is currently partnering with Mike Selinker and the design team at Lone Shark Games to create a deck building game, Pathfinder Adventure Card Game.  If plans progress the first set will be based on the Rise of the Runelords and it will have over 400 cards.  Paizo then plans to release another set of 110 cards on a bi-monthly schedule.  There is no release date set for the card game yet.  The second piece of news related to Pathfinder is that in April of 2013, Paizo plans to release Pathfinder Roleplaying Game: Ultimate Campaign.  It will be a 256 full color hard cover book and has a suggested retail price of $39.99.

DC Deck Building Game

Cryptozoic Entertainment is coming out with a DC Comics Deck-Building Game.  The deck will have 214 cards.  Release date for the game is for December 2012 and has a suggested retail price of $40.00.  So if any of the libraries out there are into card gaming and card gaming tournaments you might want to pick this set up.