Category: News & Updates
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Fast and Elegant Turns
This is a child post of Manifold Foundations Manifold TCG has short, fast-paced turns, and simple actions, but offers a tremendous amount of depth in the permutations. The order in which you take your actions, and maximizing the exceptions to the “do one thing, then your opponent goes” rule will often give you minor advantages…
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Forms and Types
This is a child post of Manifold Foundations. The beauty of Manifold TCG is how much information is safely locked away so that you can access it when you need it, but it doesn’t overload you when you don’t need it. A major example of this is Forms, Types, and Subtypes. Every card has a…
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Everybody Loves Rolling Dice
This is a child post of Manifold Foundations. I’ve seen great changes in my time as a hobby store proprietor. I’ve seen the climax of MCU phase 3 give way to the wasteland of phase 4. I’ve seen the dramatic conclusion of Magic: the Gathering IP in War of the Spark transition into Universes Beyond,…
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Choosing Heroes and Finding Your Niche
This is a child post of Manifold Foundations. In a game of Manifold TCG, players start with a team of heroes and a deck of support cards. The game’s fundamental win condition is to defeat your opponent’s heroes before they defeat yours. This means that at every point during a game of Manifold you have…
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Pretty Cardboard and Math Rocks
This is a child post of Manifold Foundations. Manifold TCG combines two of my favorite things, cards and dice, into the best TCG you’re going to play this decade. We’ve expertly combined modern game design theories with classic distribution sensibilities. And the cherry on top; you get to roll dice. Warhammer players love rolling dice.…
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Manifold Foundations
Manifold TCG is going to be the best kept secret of 2026. This is a fast paced deckbuilder that has revolutionized the TCG space by incorporating a dice element. Magic: The Gathering Commander players will love building decks around heroes, Warhammer and Dungeons and Dragons players love rolling a bunch of dice. And disgruntled TCG…
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The small TCG problem
The prevailing opinion is that launching an indie Trading Card Game is a fool’s errand. You’ll spend a small fortune printing your game, but you simply cannot print enough to justify randomized product, you wont get enough rares into the communities, and communities will be too small to actually facilitate trading. I laid out in…
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Why TCG?
Being a TCG is a divisive decision, and one that immediate splits the community into passionate groups. TCGs are expensive, booster packs are predatory, and new sets mean you constantly need to keep up or you get left behind. Why can’t you just buy the game? Well, at the risk of repeating what I said…
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Meet the dream team
In why we choose trust I talk about how we are committed to supporting the hobby store and we’ll publish easily fathomable print runs, and plenty of other things which could easily be ChatGPT drivel. You can also look carefully at our cards and figure out our dirty little secret. One could easily dismiss us…
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A Perfect Balance
Collectors want their cards cheap when they buy them, and expensive when they sell them. Retailers want high margins on their collectibles, but don’t want any issues restocking their games. Trading card games are too expensive, but cheap games don’t sufficiently support play spaces. These forces are constantly at odds with each other. Relatively subtle…