Month: September 2024

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WIZARDS OF THE COAST PREVIEWS ‘MAGIC: THE GATHERING – WELCOME DECKS’

Source: https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57741/wizards-coast-previews-magic-the-gathering-welcome-decks

One for Each Color of the Mana Wheel; Contents of Decks Revealed

Wizards of the Coast previewed the new Welcome Decks, for Magic: The Gathering, which will be headed to WPN retailers soon.

WotC announced the return of these giveaway learn-to-play decks over the course of the summer (see “A Welcome Return“).  Each deck comes with 30 cards of a single color, and there are five decks available (one for each color). Players can take two of these decks and combine them to make a playable two-color 60-card deck. The cards in the decks are reprints from past releases and have a Planeswalker stamp on them to set them apart from other printings of these cards.

WotC also released the contents of each deck:

White Deck

  • Savannah Lions
  • Alpine Watchdog
  • Linden, the Steadfast Queen
  • Search Party Captain
  • Mighty Leap
  • Territorial Hammerskull
  • Banishing Light
  • Aerial Responder
  • Odric, Lunarch Marshal
  • Valorous Stance
  • Search Party Captain
  • Canyon Jerboa
  • Serra Angel
  • Mesa Unicorn
  • Silverbeak Griffin
  • Pacifism
  • Alpine Watchdog
  • 13 Plains

Blue Deck

  • Cloudkin Seer
  • Vedalken Mesmerist
  • Academy Journeymage
  • Chart a Course
  • Chilling Trap
  • Frost Trickster
  • Cyclone Summoner
  • Metropolis Sprite
  • Gadwick, the Wizened
  • Archaeomancer
  • Serpentine Ambush
  • Vedalken Mesmerist
  • 2 Charmed Sleep
  • Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive
  • Quicksilver Fisher
  • Geistwave
  • 13 Islands

Black Deck

  • Cursed Minotaur
  • Grasping Scoundrel
  • Crooked Custodian
  • Reave Soul
  • Vampire Nighthawk
  • Final Reward
  • Bogstomper
  • Demonic Gifts
  • Disciple of Bolas
  • Vraan, Executioner Thane
  • Pharika’s Libation
  • Grasping Scoundrel
  • Bone Picker
  • Cursed Minotaur
  • Inkrise Infiltrator
  • Rise Again
  • Dreadwurm
  • 13 Swamps

Red Deck

  • Chandra’s Magmutt
  • Scorch Spitter
  • Kolaghan Warmonger
  • Mugging
  • Voldaren Duelist
  • Dragon Whelp
  • Scorch Spitter
  • Antagonize
  • Lava Coil
  • Demanding Dragon
  • Goblin Trailblazer
  • Flame Spill
  • Onakke Ogre
  • Volcanic Dragon
  • Subira, Tulzidi Caravanner
  • Goblin Trailblazer
  • Dragon Mantle
  • 13 Mountains

Green Deck

  • Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • Druid of the Cowl
  • Canopy Baloth
  • Wildwood Patrol
  • Clear Shot
  • Dawnhart Rejuvenator
  • Sentinel Spider
  • Giant Growth
  • Colossal Dreadmaw
  • Treeshaker Chimera
  • Druid of the Cowl
  • Crushing Canopy
  • Leatherback Baloth
  • Overcome
  • Snapping Gnarlid
  • Iridescent Blademaster
  • Snapping Gnarlid
  • 13 Forests
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NEW COMPANY PLANS TO REVIVE 90S TCG ‘OVERPOWER’

Source https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57810/new-company-plans-revive-90s-tcg-overpower

New company Lazarus Rising Games has announced plans to revive the 90s TCG OverPower, and has acquired Top Cow and Edgar Rice Burroughs licenses as its initial IPs.

LRG has acquired the rights to the OverPower Card Game, originally published by Fleer and eventually taken over by Fleer parent company Marvel (see “Marvel Returns to CCGs”), and plans to produce a new game with characters from the Top Cow and ERB licenses. Those characters include Tarzan of the Apes and John Carter of Mars from Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., and Witchblade, The Darkness, and Cyberforce from Top Cow Productions, Inc. Top Cow characters were included in an Image Comics OverPower set produced in the 90s; the ERB characters will be new to the game.

The game rules for the new version are “…an inclusive, creative set of rules for smooth, exciting gameplay,” the company said in its announcement.

Among the artists creating cards for OverPower are Philip Tan, Jim Chung, and David Nakayama.

Cartamundi will print the game for LRG, with the first core set rolling out in early 2025, and expansions planned for Q4 2025.