A NewStar WarsTrading Card Game Is Coming, and Wants to Stick Around

Fantasy Flight Games and Lucasfilm Ltd. have just announced an all - new trading card game based on theStar Warsproperties , call Star Wars : Unlimited . The game will set up globally in 2024 and , fit in to the press button , one of the main strategy for launching will be the availability of Organized Play at local game stores . This is a very strategic move , as set up acommunity of playersand collectors within the biz stores themselves has almost always been the key fruit to aTCG’sinitial succeeder .

Cards will boast “ iconic zep , villains , ship , and configurations ” from across a immense amount ofStar war property . “ including flick , TV series , comics , video games , and everything in between . ” Brian Schomburg , Visual Creative Director for Fantasy Flight Games , says that they have “ commission new artfor every lineup in this biz ” to give Star Wars : Unlimited a consistent style . to boot , Schomburg say that Fantasy Flight Games “ really thought about what the cards would seem like on the table next to one another . ” Collectors will be able to pursue alternate posting “ with especial discourse and variant visual designs . ” Fantasy Flight Games sound out that there will be three sets released per year .

The game has been in exploitation at Fantasy Flight Games for three year , and the company says that Organized Play has been the goal from the very kickoff , with OP events ready “ on day one . ” They hope to include a range of events for fans and collector from “ hebdomadal storage - spirit level community experiences to planetary large - scale of measurement events ” in lodge to ascertain that the game was “ accessible to all players , ” says Jim Cartwright , intersection Strategy Director for Fantasy Flight Games .

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There are a few things to note here ; this game seems to be a verbatim contender to Lorcana , Disney ’s own TCG from Ravensburger that ’s lay out to formally release later this yr , in August . Promotional Lorcana card are already in circulation and have beenselling for high prices — four to five figures — on eBay . There ’s also the fact that Fantasy Flight Games have been notable in the past not for their overwhelmingly successful TCGs , but , Polygon notes , a drawing string of less - than - inspire failures ; Netrunner , Legend of the Five Rings , and Star Wars : Destiny and KeyForge are all old projects .

Star Wars : Unlimited is poise to change that for Fantasy Flight Games . It ’s an established IP with a massive collector - oriented base that will jump at new artwork . But the key to longevity in a TCG will always be gameplay , and until we see more about the mechanics and strategies , the Jedi High Council will be out on Star Wars : inexhaustible .

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