Friday, January 31, 2014

New from Alderac Entertainment Group! Smash Up: Science Fiction Double Feature!

Coming in March!

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Smash Up: Expansion 3: Science Fiction Double Feature
$19.99 SRP
SDI

Smash Up is back with even more wild factions in the mix!  Science Fiction Double Feature brings four new decks to the base-smashing business with abilities unlike those seen before.  Time Travelers allow you to reuse your cards time and time again. Cyborg Apes take actions that attach to your minions to a whole new level.  Super Spies use their mojo in espionage to plot out the future of you and your opponents, while finally the Shapeshifters could be anyone...

Science Fiction Double Feature is an expansion to the wildly popular card game Smash Up. This expansion features enough for two players right out of the box, and can be combined with any Smash Up set to support up to 4 players.

Contents:  
4 new factions with 88 cards
VP Token sheet
Rulebook

2 players (up to 4 with additional sets)
Ages 14+
45 minute play time

Don’t Forget the Base Game – Available Now!
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Smash Up
$29.99 SRP
SDI

The “shuffle building” game Smash Up starts with a simple premise: take the twenty-card decks of two factions, shuffle them into a forty-card deck, then compete to smash more Bases than your opponents! Each faction brings a different game mechanism into play; pirates move cards, zombies bring cards back from the discard pile, dinosaurs have huge power and every combination of factions brings a different play experience.

During play, Base cards (each with their own difficulties and abilities) are in play. You attempt to have the most power on the Base from your minions when the Base is smashed. Sounds easy? How easy is it when an opponent’s Alien-Ninja decides to Beam Up your minions to other Bases - flat out Assassinate them? What about when the Pirate-Dinosaur player Full Sails in and releases King Rex to stomp your minions into the ground, or when the Wizard-Zombies use their Mystic Power to create an Outbreak, suddenly flooding minions onto the Base from the discard pile? Or what if you faced a Zombie-Dinosaur player instead and he created an Outbreak of massive beasts all at once?!?

When a Base is smashed, each player in first, second and third place scores points.

With eight different factions, Smash Up includes dozens of combinations to try. Pirate-Aliens play different than Ninja-Aliens, for instance. Which will you use to smash up your opponents?

Thursday, January 30, 2014

New from Iello! Fun Farm!

Coming in February!
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Fun Farm
$29.99 SRP
NPI

The animals have escaped from the farm! You need to bring them back before they get into trouble and you want to do so faster than your opponents so that you can save more than they can!

In the fast-catching game Fun Farm, players compete to spot and catch the animal shown on the cards before all their opponents. Each round, the active player reveals the top card from the deck, placing it next to any others still on the table. Each card depicts an animal, a black die (showing one color on this die), and a white die (showing one color on this die). The player then rolls the black die and the white die. If a die depicted on a card matches the color rolled on that die, players race to grab the animal toy from the table that matches the animal depicted on the card. Whoever does so first claims the card, and once the deck runs out, whoever has the most cards wins!

2-10 players
Ages 6+
15 minute play time

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

New from Cool Mini or Not! KaosBall Core Box - Season 1!

Coming in February!

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KaosBall Core Box - Season 1
$99.99 SRP

Kaosball is a new kind of fantasy sports game, combining rugby-style passing finesse and first person shooter domination-style scoring. The result is a tense game of skill, bluffing, luck, and lethal brutality like you’ve never played before!

Brought to you by acclaimed designer Eric M. Lang, Kaosball uses exciting card-based play mechanisms to put players in the role of a coach, managing their unique, game-altering team from scrimmage to sudden death period to outscore their opponents. Players need to balance scoring and killing their opponents, using powerful cheating effects all the while – as long as you have the money to pay off the ref. No two matches will play the same!

Kaosball includes multiple modes of play: traditional head-to-head, partnerships-based alliances, and “Maximum Kaos” three or four-player mode; 30-60 exhibition games complete with a pregame draft for ringers and team upgrades; and league play with up to eight players and upgrades that stay in place from game to game, creating a unique sense of progression.

Contains:
-1 game board
-60+ plastic miniatures
-4 unique teams (Demons, Amazons, Vampires, & Ogres), each with a magnetic player board
-Magnetic team upgrade tokens, for customizing your team
-60 cards
-At least *6 superstar ringer figures, with their own game cards (*final number to be determined)
-Plastic tokens for fire, scoring zones, walls, injuries and more
-Rules

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

New from Wyrd Miniatures! Malifaux 2E Box Sets: Open Graves, Latigo Posse and Witchling Stalkers!

Coming in February!

WYR20202
Resurrectionists: Open Graves (6)
$40.00 SRP

Resurrectionist Box Set, containing six 32mm ‘heroic’ scale miniatures made of high quality plastic, Stat Cards and six Upgrades. Will require some preparation and assembly.

Set Contains:

Models:
-Nicodem
-Vulture
-Mortimer
-3 Punk Zombies



Stat Cards:
-Nicodem
-Vulture
-Mortimer
-3 Punk Zombies


Upgrade Cards:
-Undertaker
-Reaper Grin
-My Favorite Shovel
-Love Thy Master
-Shadow Embrace
-Necrotic King

WYR20103
Guild: Latigo Posse/Perdita Ortega Box Set (6)
$45.00 SRP

Guild Box Set, containing six 32mm ‘heroic’ scale miniatures made of high quality plastic, Stat Cards and eight Upgrades. Will require some preparation and assembly.

Set Contains:

Models:
-Perdita Ortega
-Enslaved Nephilim
-Santiago
-Nino
-Francisco
-Papa Loco



Stat Cards:
-Perdita Ortega
-Enslaved Nephilim
-Santiago
-Nino
-Francisco
-Papa Loco



Upgrade Cards:
-Os Veo
-Trick Shooting
-Tormenta De Plomo
-Diestro
-Aura Ancestral
-Wade In
-Hermanos De Armas
-Hair Trigger

WYR20105
Guild:  Witchling Stalkers (3)
$18.00 SRP

Guild Box Set, containing three 32mm ‘heroic’ scale miniatures made of high quality plastic. Will require some preparation and assembly.

Set Contains:

Models:
-3 Witchling Stalkers

Stat Cards:
-3 Witchling Stalkers

Monday, January 27, 2014

New from Game Salute! Countdown: Special Ops!

Coming in February!

GSTGMCS01
Countdown: Special Ops
$50.00 SRP
NPI

In the modular game Countdown: Special Ops, you are in charge of a special ops team with a special mission! Find hidden bombs and dismantle them, help hostages into safety, or take out terrorist leaders. Due to the high variation in goals, targets, threats and specific circumstances, players need to choose their set-up and strategy each time they start a mission or a campaign. Don’t just throw in grenades with your buster at public places such as airports and train stations, or else civilians might get hurt, resulting in negative points on your mission balance. Develop your primary skill, but don’t neglect your attack power, defense power and other skills if you want to stay alive in this thrilling new game.

Countdown: Special Ops is fully modular, with players being able to create their own game by adjusting four different aspects of play:

1.       Game situations: With more than 200 playing cards, the challenges and threats are different each time you play.
2.       Game mode: You can play a single mission, a campaign or a scenario; each game mode has its own level and duration, and you’re advised to start with a single mission on the lowest level (green).
3.       Level up: Did you succeed a few times on level green? If so, you might want to try the next (orange) level or even a scenario, that is, three missions in a row with increasing difficulty!
4.       Goals: Even players’ goals can be altered. Countdown: Special Ops is a co-operative game, but if you’d like to change the rules, you could add one or two traitors to the team and play “Traitor Mode”.

You can develop your own Special Op by improving his or her skills. This is done in scenario or campaign play. This brings out interesting aspects of the game in which you have to choose how many risk you want to take to gain extra experience or if you want to move slow and stay alive at all cost...

This variation, combined with the 30-minute time limit per mission, makes the experience of a mission “feel” like an actual PC game in many aspects. Smart development is essential to survive the missions on higher threat levels.

1-6 players
Ages 12+
30 minute play time

Saturday, January 25, 2014

New from Asmodee! Lewis & Clark!

Coming in March!

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Lewis & Clark
$49.99 SRP

On November 30, 1803, the United States purchased Louisiana from Napoleon. U.S. President Thomas Jefferson decided to send two explorers – Meriwether Lewis and William Clark – to discover this huge terra incognita. Lewis & Clark is a board game in which the players manage an expedition intended to cross the North American continent. Their goal is to be the first to reach the Pacific. Each one has his own Corps of Discovery that will be completed by the Native Americans and the trappers met during the journey. He has to cleverly manage his characters and also the resources he finds along the way. Beware, sometimes frugality is better than abundance.

Lewis & Clark features dual use cards. To be activated, one card must be combined with another one, which becomes unavailable for a while. Thus, players are faced with a constant dilemma: play a card or sacrifice it. During the game, each player acquires character cards that enlarge his hand, building a crew that gives him more options but it needs to be optimized as he will recycle his cards more slowly. This new “hand building” mechanism fits strongly the historical background. Since the aim of the game is to be the first on the Pacific coast, the timing and the opportunistic use of the other players’ positions are crucial.

1-4 players
Ages 14+
30 minute play time

Contains:
Game board
5 scout figures
5 camp tokens
100 resource hexagons
8 resource multiplication markers
5 expedition boards
12 boat tiles
18 Indian figures
84 character cards
10 route change tokens
8 resource badge tokens

Friday, January 24, 2014

New from Catalyst Game Labs! Shadowrun: Spell and Gear Cards!

Coming in February!

CYT27502
Shadowrun: Spell Cards, Series 1
$9.99 SRP
SDI

Everyone in the Sixth World wants to geek the mage first. Your job is to make sure that won’t happen by being faster, deadlier, and more powerful than they are.

Shadowrun Spell Cards, Series 1 make spell casting faster and easier, with easy-to-reference game statistics for 54 different spells. Grab a pack and use it to call down a whole hellstorm of mana when you need it most!

Shadowrun Gear Cards, Series 1 are for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

Tuckbox containing 54 cards.
CYT27500
Shadowrun: Gear Cards, Series 1
$9.99 SRP
SDI

If you’re a shadowrunner, you know that danger is always waiting around the next corner. You better be ready for it. The right gun, the right vehicle, or the right piece of equipment can be the difference between life and death. So make sure you have what you need and can use it fast.

Shadowrun Gear Cards, Series 1 provide quick reference to 54 different pieces of gear, making it easy to use them in a game. Containing game stats and illustrations of guns, vehicles, drones, and more, these cards are a handy reference to keep the game moving and make sure characters have what they need to come out on top.

Shadowrun Gear Cards, Series 1 are for use with Shadowrun, Fifth Edition.

Tuckbox containing 54 cards.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

New from Pokémon America! Pokémon XY Trainer Box!

Coming in March!

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PKM: XY Trainer Box
$9.99 SRP
SDI

Your favorite Pokémon will show you how to battle one card at a time! The Pokémon TCG: XY Trainer Kit gets you playing from the very first card you draw. And with powerful Pokémon like Sylveon and Noivern at your side, you’ll be a Pokémon Trainer in no time!

The Pokémon TCG: XY Trainer Kit contains everything you need to learn, train, and win! Play both decks against each other, then combine them to create one bigger deck. Or test your deck at a Pokémon League near you and online in the Pokémon TCG Online: Trainer Challenge!

This step-by-step Trainer Kit includes:
• Two 30-card decks, each with a specially selected holographic foil card
• Two guided game booklets to teach you how to play card by card, step by step!
• 2-player playmat with great game tips and rules on the reverse side!
• Damage counters and Special Condition markers
• Illustrated deckbox to keep your new cards in
• One special code card for the Pokémon TCG Online!

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

New from Konami! Yu-Gi-Oh!: Dragons of Legend Booster Display!

Street Date: April 25th!

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YGO: Dragons of Legend Booster Display
$95.76 SRP
NPI

The wait is finally over! Dozens of famous cards from all four Yu-Gi-Oh! TV series come together in print for the first time ever!

Over the years, thousands of cards have been used by characters on the Yu-Gi-Oh! TV series, and found their way into eager Duelists’ decks in the real world. But thousands more cards have appeared on TV but have never made it into print as actual cards.

Time to start reversing that trend! Some of the most popular and fan-requested TV cards from all 4 Yu-Gi-Oh! series make their long awaited debuts in this set.

The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME Dragons of Legend includes dozens of brand new cards from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! TV series, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s, and Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. Each pack is guaranteed to contain 4 powerful Super Rare cards along with 1 Secret Rare-the perfect power-up for any Duelist’s collection!

5 card pack contains:
1 Secret Rare foil
4 Super Rare foil

24 packs per display

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

New from Wizards of the Coast! Kaijudo: The 5 Mystics!

Street Date: March 14th!

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Kaijudo: The 5 Mystics Booster Display
$95.76 SRP
SDI

The time has come for Kaijudo duelists to save the world from destruction!

The 5 Mystics introduces 60 new cards to Kaijudo, including five new Very Rare Absolute Spells. There’s an Absolute Spell for each Kaijudo Civilization and they all have massive potential to swing the outcome of a duel to their caster’s favor.

The 5 Mystics, one from each Civilization, appear as creatures in the set and their combined power results in guaranteed victory for the duelist that has all five in his or her Battle Zone. The set also includes two powerful new cards that were designed at the 2013 Kaijudo Summer Championship!

Contains:
9 cards per Booster
24 Boosters per Display

Monday, January 20, 2014

New from Wizards of the Coast! Magic: The Gathering: Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska!

Street Date: March 14th!

WOCA78350000
MTG: Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska
$19.99 SRP
SDI

The ultimate mind mage faces the master assassin!

Jace vs. Vraska pits fan-favorite Jace, a specialist in illusion magic, mind reading, and memory modification, against the mysterious gorgon Vraska, Ravnica’s master assassin. Each deck contains cards carefully selected
from past Magic sets that match the theme and style of each powerful Planeswalker.

Everything for an epic two-player battle all in one box! Duel Decks are a great way for two players to experience the thrill of Magic: The Gathering by facing off against each other with ready-to-play 60-card decks that contain some of the best cards in Magic history.

The Duel Decks: Jace vs. Vraska box set contains ten rare cards and two mythic rare cards: foil alternate art versions of Jace, Architect of Thought and Vraska the Unseen. In addition, there are four other cards featuring all-new artwork.

Contains:

2 ready-to-play 60-card decks
2 deck boxes
3 creature tokens
1 strategy insert
1 learn-to-play guide

Sunday, January 19, 2014

New from Queen Games! Tortuga!

Coming Soon!

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Tortuga
$49.99 SRP

In Tortuga, you are a swashbuckling buccaneer trying to safely transport your acquired treasures to the legendary pirate haven of Tortuga before other buccaneers (your fellow players) try to capture them from you.

As the dice roll, you can almost hear the crash of the cannons and the smash of the sabers. Tortuga rewards players who exhibit traits of a good pirate (sorry, buccaneer!): adaptability, greed, decisiveness, and luck!

Tortuga has very little downtime as buccaneers roll their dice (a unique color for each player) behind player screens and decide simultaneously what resource to place on their player board: treasure, crew, ships, sabers and cannons. All are important, and you need to watch what your opponents are doing lest that treasure you just acquired find its way to another “rightful” owner!

2-4 players
Ages 8+
30 minute play time

Thursday, January 16, 2014

New from Plaid Hat Games! Dead of Winter!

Coming in February!

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Dead of Winter
$59.95 SRP

Dead of Winter is an experience that can only be accomplished through the medium of tabletop games. It is a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony’s morale up.

Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily-thematic, wildly-varying decisions, that often have them deciding between what is best for the colony and what is best for themselves.

2-5 players
Ages 13+
60-90 minute play time

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

New from Yemaia Games! Al Rashid!

Coming in February!

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Al Rashid
$65.00 SRP

Harun al-Rashid was the fifth Great Caliph of the Abbasid Dynasty, and he ruled over the Middle East between the years 786 and 809. His reign was full of prosperity in all areas, like culture, science and politics. His life and his famous court are said to be the inspiration for the “One Thousand and One Nights” collection of folk stories.  This game allows you to play the role of a faction whose life, trade and intrigues have only one purpose: to grow rich and powerful, and to ensure the favor of the mighty ruler.

In Al Rashid, players will take the role of the heads of powerful families, and will use the members of their families for trading, traveling, and ultimately trying to exercise influence over the court of the powerful ruler. Of course, there are costs to sustain, so you will also have to turn part of your efforts to the trade of luxury wares: a profitable, albeit dangerous, activity! Will you have what it takes to turn the court in your favor?

Al Rashid is a strategy game of trade, intrigue and power play for 2-5 players.

Contains:
48 “Title” Tiles
16 “Credit Note” Tiles
24 “Political Influence Token” Tiles
14 “Dishonor Token” Tiles
20 White “Silk” Luxury Ware Tokens
25 Orange “Spice” Luxury Ware Tokens
30 Purple “Pottery” Luxury Ware Tokens
15 “Pasha” Pawns (3 per faction, 5 different colors)
20 “Merchant” Pawns (4 per faction, 5 different colors)

30 “Sage” Pawns (cylindrical: 6 per faction, 5 different colors)
6 Wooden Markers (for keeping track of gaming order and turns)
11 “Crisis” Tiles (3 black “Setup” tiles, 8 white “Turn” tiles)
32 Red “Mercenary” Tiles
32 Blue “Mercenary” Tiles
1 Game Board
1 Rulebook 

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

New from Asmodee! Splendor!

Coming in March!

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Splendor
$39.99 SRP

As a wealthy Renaissance merchant, acquire mines and transportation, hire artisans and woo the nobility. Create the most fantastic jewelry to become the best-known merchant of them all! Acquire precious stones to trade them for development cards. Use development cards to acquire more gem stones. Use your gems and gold to create the most fantastic jewelry, and appeal to the nobles to gain the prestige you need to win.

Splendor is a fast-paced and addictive game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops; all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you’re wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige.

On your turn, you may (1) collect chips (gems), or (2) buy and build a card, or (3) reserve one card. If you collect chips, you take either three different kinds of chips or two chips of the same kind. If you buy a card, you pay its price in chips and add it to your playing area. To reserve a card, you place it in front of you face down for later building; this costs you a round, but you also get gold in the form of a joker chip, which you can use as any gem.

All of the cards you buy increase your wealth as they give you a permanent gem bonus for later buys; some of the cards also give you prestige points. In order to win the game, you must reach 15 prestige points before your opponents do.

2-4 players
Ages 10+
30 minute play time

Contains:
35 precious gem tokens
5 gold tokens
90 development cards
10 noble cards
Rules

Monday, January 13, 2014

New Products from Ultra PRO! Grumpy Cat, Dead Wake, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and More!

Coming in March!

ULP84314
Play Mat: Grumpy Cat: R U DUN YET?
$17.99 SRP
NPI

Play mat with premium fabric top to prevent damage to cards during game play. Dimensions are approximately 24” X 13-1/2”. Rubber backing lets the play mat lay flat and prevents the mat from shifting during use. Made in U.S.A. featuring Grumpy Cat!

ULP84312
Play Mat: Dead Wake: Comic Panels Chapter 1
$15.99 SRP
NPI

Play mat with premium fabric top to prevent damage to cards during game play. Ultra PRO original series Dead Wake featuring Courtney’s story. Dimensions are approximately 24” X 13-1/2”. Rubber backing lets the play mat lay flat and prevents the mat from shifting during use.

ULP84324
DB: Novelty Food: Diner Sideload
$2.99 SRP
NPI

Deck box for holding cards in Deck Protectors sleeves. Acid free, durable polypropylene material. New full-view style closer for better art representation. Includes one divider. Features Ultra PRO original Food Products series.

ULP84321
DP: Novelty Food: Ramen (50)
$3.99 SRP
NPI

Deck Protectors with Ultra PRO’s hologram quality seal. Sized to store and protect standard sized cards. All Ultra PRO Deck Protectors are archival-safe and acid-free. 50-count pack, features Ultra PRO original Ramen design.

ULP84322
DP: Novelty Food: Burger (50)
$3.99 SRP
NPI

Deck Protectors with Ultra PRO’s hologram quality seal. Sized to store and protect standard sized cards. All Ultra PRO Deck Protectors are archival-safe and acid-free. 50-count pack, features Ultra PRO original Burger design.

ULP84323
DP: Novelty Food: Bacon Donut (50)
$3.99 SRP
NPI

Deck Protectors with Ultra PRO’s hologram quality seal. Sized to store and protect standard sized cards. All Ultra PRO Deck Protectors are archival-safe and acid-free. 50-count pack, features Ultra PRO original Bacon Donut design.

Top loading Deck Box with full flap cover. Holds 82 cards in Deck Protectors sleeves. Acid free, durable polypropylene material. Includes one matching divider.

Features Trixie, Rainbow Dash and Rarity!

ULP84285
DB: MLP: Trixie
$2.99 SRP
NPI

ULP84286
DB: MLP: Rainbow Dash
$2.99 SRP
NPI

ULP84287
DB: MLP: Rarity
$2.99 SRP
NPI