Rokket Recharger
Exploderokket Dragon
Checksum Dragon
Anesthrokket Dragon
Autorokket Dragon
Magnarokket Dragon
Shelrokket Dragon
Metalrokket Dragon
Rokket Synchron
Gateway Dragon
Defrag Dragon
Background Dragon
Labradorite Dragon
+Paladin of Felgrand (not in the OCG Deck)
Dragon Knight of Creation
Keeper of the Shrine
World Chalice Guardragon
Raiden, Hand of the Lightsworn
Borrel Supplier
Rapid Trigger
Squib Draw
Quick Launch
Boot Sector Launch
Borrel Regenerator
Dragon Shrine
Ruins of the Divine Dragon Lords
Return of the Dragon Lords
Polymerization
Twin Twisters
Execute Protocols
Red Reboot
Link Turret
Mirror Force Launcher
Mirror Force
Magic Cylinder
Imperial Order
Konami announced a Yu-Gi-Oh! Chaos Impact Special Edition box for this Fall’s booster set (see “‘Chaos Impact’ To Shake Up ‘Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG'”). Each box will contain 3 booster packs of Chaos Impact as well as 2 of 4 Super Rare variant cards. Super Rares included in the box will be unveiled on Yu-Gi-Oh!’s web site in the coming weeks leading up to the product launch. The Special Edition Box will have a MSRP of $99.90.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Chaos Impact Special Edition is scheduled for December 6.
Konami unveiled the latest expansion for its Yu-Gi-Oh!trading card game, Chaos Impact. With 100 cards supporting new and classic strategies, the set is designed to shake up the format and has an October 25 street date.
Players will be able to destroy their own cards to Summon Monsters, and a new Level-8 fiend absorbs opponents’ Monsters as Link Material. Other highlights include support for Marincess, new Gladiator Beasts including one that negates all Monster effects, and new cards for decks Aromage, Dinowrestler, Evil Eye, Salamangreat, Tenyi, and more.
Chaos Impact’s 100 cards include 48 commons, 28 rares, 14 super rares, 10 ultra rares, and eight secret rares. Name and content are tentative as of this date.
Konami will release Legendary Duelists: Immortal Destiny on September 27 (see “Dark Duelists Featured in New ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ Set”).
Circulating the web right now is a clip from Channel Fireball showcasing a new card back with six colors instead of the traditional five. The hype is real, but is Purple really going to happen? The whole ordeal happened during a Twitch stream where Maria Bartholdi showcased the new Sol Ring promo card for the viewers. Observant viewer @TheMaverickGal noticed something weird about the back of the card before the reveal happened. It clearly had an extra Purple color!
Interesting card back…
So it really did happen, multiple people starting speculating, retweeting and got hyped. Tolarian Community College jumped in and retweeted the news too and it started gaining real traction all over social media.
Wizards have been talking about the sixth color of MTG earlier. Back in Planar Chaos, it was going to be added as a color between blue and black making it WUPBRG. It was intended to only be in that one set, but in the end, they decided to not follow through with it. The reason was that they did not want players to get invested in the color and then never be able to update their purple decks.
Purple would open up a lot of cool possibilities and be a refreshing addition to the established color wheel, but it does sound like a really hard challenge with how balanced the game is right now. We also “recently” got Colorless cards in Battle for Zendikar which do kind of represent a sixth option in the color wheel. So it is also a bit weird for them to go in that direction now.
Fake News?
Maria did comment on the thread with the following
So, unfortunately, this is all because of a goof when googling for a card back image to use for their Sol Ring Promo, which does look amazing by the way. Oh well, it was a fun little hype train to jump on even if just for a little while. What do you think about a new color? and what mechanism would it have?
So, this one really came out of nowhere! Just last night, video game personality Maximilian Doodstreamed an early build of a brand new Capcom game called Project Battle. This is a card battling game where you play using classic Capcom characters like Ryu and Mega Man X. Franchises shown off in the stream include Street Fighter, Mega Man, Darkstalkers, Resident Evil, Monster Hunter, Devil May Cry, and probably more. No platforms, pricing, or even a final name for Project Battle have been revealed yet.
YouTube channel Duel Links Meta is revealing details about how the game plays though, which you can view below. The game seems comparable to Hearthstone. You select a Capcom character, each of which has three special abilities. Then you build a 30-card deck. The short, 1:48 video describes it a lot better than I can, because the truth is I’ve never played of any these digital card battlers.
Apparently, in these previews Project Battle is being played on a custom emulator that demonstrates how Capcom would desire the game to look. So this game is genuinely very early in its development.
Well, in any case, consider my curiosity piqued. Capcom has a bunch of beloved franchises (Mega Man!), and I might consider knocking them around in a card battling format.
Stay tuned for more developments, and check out images below.
GameStop’s collectibles business was the only real sales bright spot in its down fiscal Q1 ended May 4, as restructuring of the category continues.
The chain retailer reported a 13.3% overall decline in sales (11.5% in constant currency), driven by comp store sales declines of 10.2% in the U.S. (and 10.4% internationally).
Collectibles sales were up 10.5% to $157 million for the quarter. The only other up category was accessories, which was up less than 1%. New hardware was down 35%, software sales were down 4.3%, pre-owned sales were down 20.3%, and digital receipts were down 6.7%.
The troubled ThinkGeek online operation, which exhibited its first signs of trouble last quarter (see “GameStop Coillectibles Sales Up, But Overall Sales Decline”), continued to have problems. Sales in the collectibles category would have been up 16% rather than 10.5% if not for ThinkGeek.com, COO/CFO Rob Lloyd said in the conference call.
The company is consolidating the ThinkGeek web operation with GameStop’s, with a redirect for ThinkGeek maintaining the brand “at least initially, while we consolidate the backend operation,” CEO George Sherman told analysts.
Top categories in the collectibles category are Funko POP! figures, statues, and t-shirts, Sherman said.
While the company underperformed on sales, it beat net profit projections with a $6.8 million profit (on its $1.5 billion in sales), still down substantially from $28.2 million in the year-ago quarter.
GameStop has a number of initiatives to try to continue to respond to the digitization of its core videogame software business, according to its executives in the conference call (transcript via Seeking Alpha). It’s eliminated its dividend to conserve capital, has brought in a top tier consulting firm to help with restructuring, has begun expense reduction efforts, and deployed a special management team to manage the process. It’s already begun expense reductions; tests of experiential retailing in a number of areas, including collectibles; focusing on decluttering stores to give more attention to the best sellers; and expanding its exclusive collectibles.
“The challenge is a significant one,” Sherman told analysts. “We must immediately address SG&A [sales, general, administrative expenses – ed.] that’s been allowed to deleverage, execute on opportunities to optimize the current business and develop new revenue streams for our future. Doing so will require immediate action on our part and an ongoing sense of urgency that is off the chart.”
Bandai has revealed details for the Dragon Ball Super Card Game: Magnificent Collection.
The Magnificent Collection will be available in two separate editions, one featuring Gogeta and the other featuring Broly. Each comes with a deck comprised of reprints with a new look similar to Event Pack cards. The Gogeta and Broly Leader Cards have new art and feature the same silver foiling and finish as tournament pack cards.
Each version contains two copies of 18 new non-foil promo cards, for a total of 36 cards. Each set will include five of the 18 promos randomly included in foil, for a total of 41 promo cards in all.
Each set contains a total of 92 cards. There are 6 sets per box, and 4 boxes per case.
Dragon Ball Super Card Game: Magnificent Collection releases in October and has an MSRP of $39.99.
On October 11, Konami will release the all-Ultra-Rare Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Devastator boxed set, featuring new alternate art for popular cards and a new Ultra Rare monster card. Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Devastator is intended for players who want some of the game’s more popular cards for their Extra Deck and Side Deck. This boxed set comes with a total of 56 Ultra Rare cards, including 20 Extra Deck monsters, 30 Side Deck cards, and 6 Ultra Rare monsters. The cards for the set were chosen based on the top winning tournament decks from the past year, and will include cards like Saryuja Skull Dread, Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier, Abyss Dweller, Tornado Dragon, Inspector Boarder, Spell Canceller, Solemn Strike, Super Polymerization, Typhoon, and Wave-Motion Cannon.
Five of the Ultra Rare monsters are variant versions of cards with new artwork: Ash Blossom & Joyous Spring, Ghost Ogre & Snow Rabbit, Ghost Reaper & Winter Cherries, Ghost Bell & Haunted Mansion, and Ghost Sister & Spooky Dogwood. The sixth card is a brand new Ultra Rare monster whose identity has not yet been revealed, but it will feature two Special Summoning abilities.
Each set will also have four out of 12 possible Field Center cards. Six of the cards will have new monster artwork from the Duel Devastator set, while the other six will depict characters from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! series: Yugi, Kaiba, Joey, Pegasus, Mai, and Ishizu.
The cards will be packaged in a heavy-duty storage box featuring the new monster artwork. MSRP is $39.99.
Duel Devastator will release about a month after the Rising Rampage Special Edition set (see “‘Rising Rampage’ Makes Waves in ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’ TCG’”).
Brother Of Runes 