Category: News & Updates

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…

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…

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…

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…

You find a booster pack of the hot new set on the shelf at a retailer. It has a price tag of $9. Hamilton warns you it’s not a good idea, but you promptly trade him for those sweet 12 additional game cards, and reap your reward. You wade through the commons and uncommons, pretending…