Upcoming Card-games [2010]
Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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I'd like to use this list to group all the upcoming interesting card-games for 2010.
Please, help me to list here card-games, CCGs, LCGs and expandable ones, plus all the upcoming expansions for card-games.
NOTE: for the 2011 list go here 
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Andrea Angiolino
Italy
Rome
European Union
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Another soon coming card game (or maybe just arrived?).
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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From the game page:
Rome, 1655 anno domini. An announcement shocks the whole Christendom pope Innocent X is dead. With lightning speed cardinals travel to Rome, center of religious power and intrigue. Suspense is palpable, when the players in their role as Preferiti -- the most likely candidates to ascend the Holy See -- try to gain as much votes as possible, using bribery, beguilement and tactical calculation. In the end, only the cardinal with both: all the votes money could buy and a proven mastery on the political stage, will be elected pope. One is for sure, if the white smoke rises, it will be declared: "Habemus Papam! We have a pope!"
Content: 120 playing cards, 52 gems, 4 view screens, 1 card base,
1 rule of play, 1 information sheet."
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Andrea Angiolino
Italy
Rome
European Union
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A new card game from the Polish publisher Portal.
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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One of the most discussed new card games at recend gaming events. By Antoine Bauza.
From the game page:
"7 Wonders lasts three ages. In each age, players receive seven cards from a particular deck, choose one of those cards, then pass the remainder to an adjacent player, as in Fairy Tale or a Magic: the Gathering booster draft. Players reveal their cards simultaneously, paying resources if needed or collecting resources or interacting with other players in various ways. (Players have individual boards with special powers on which to organize their cards, and the boards are double-sided as in Bauza's Ghost Stories.) Each player then chooses another card from the deck they were passed, and the process repeats until players have six cards in play from that age. After three ages, the game ends.
In essence 7 Wonders is a card development game along the lines of Race for the Galaxy or Dominion. Some cards have immediate effects, while others provide bonuses or upgrades later in the game. Some cards provide discounts on future purchases. Some provide military strength to overpower your neighbors and others give nothing but victory points. Unlike Magic or Fairy Tale, however, each card is played immediately after being drafted, so you'll know which cards your neighbor is receiving and how his choices might affect what you've already built up. Cards are passed left-right-left over the three ages, so you need to keep an eye on the neighbors in both directions. (BoardgameNews.com)"
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Cristiano Cozzolino
Italy
Roma
RM
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The second new game from Adlung presented at Essen 2010. Italian author and artist...
From game page:
"The fantastic theme park Adlungland has been expanded for the past twenty years. Several investors work and plan the most extraordinary fairground rides and attractions in order to entice even more visitors. Whoever builds the most exciting attractions gets to become the new vice-president of the park and a new, spectacular plaza will be named after him."
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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Interesting japanese card game from the author of Gashbell the Card Battle.
It is a deck-building game based on space exploration.
From the game page:
"The adventure of Hayabusa is a co-operative deck-building card game for 1-4 players. The space probe Hayabusa has just fetched samples from another planet and is journeying back to Earth, when trouble after trouble occurs. The players play the roles of the crew and the mission is to overcome the problems and guide Hayabusa back to the Earth safely. All players draw cards from the same deck, and discuss which cards to add to the deck, all the while problem cards are gradually added to the deck."
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Board Game: Agoniste
[Average Rating:6.67 Unranked]
Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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New card game in the Pure Card line of Small Box Games.
From the game sheet:
"Agoniste is a Pure Card game from Small Box Games.
Agoniste is a quasi-historical game putting players in control of one of four powerful city-states of Ancient Greece. Their goal is to to control the most area of Greece by the end of the game.
Each player has a deck of cards representing different strength armies for their city-state. Additionally, a separate deck of cards represent different areas within the four areas of Greece. Gaining control of new region cards grants players staging grounds for conquest of additional regions."
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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Card game based on a TV series.
From the game page:
"Aguila Roja is a card game where you can play with characters from the hit television show. In each round, all players try to play the best card to earn as much as possible marvedies (money). They play several games in a row, and the player gets two cards wins the game Red Feather"
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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After a bit of waiting, at last another interesting card game from Adlung Spiele.
From the game page:
"Antigua in the year 1717: It is rumoured that the wild pirate Black Sam has hidden all the gold he captured when boarding the Whydah on the "islands in the wind." Only two men survived when the ship afterwards ran aground on a reef near Cape Cod. Black Sam took the map with him to his watery grave but perhaps the surviving navigator can help to find the treasure by locating the exact position of the islands. Is Antigua one of them?"
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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Second expansion for this Dominion clone.
Early information from the game page:
"This second expansion to Arctic Scavengers adds new tribe leader roles, new mercenaries, new equipment, and new levels of player interaction (i.e. new ways to make your opponents feel pain)."
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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First expansion set for this Dominion clone.
From the game page:
"In this first expansion for Arctic Scavengers, the concept of tribe leader roles is added, providing each player with unique capabilities. Additionally, players each maintain a base camp (HQ) that can be upgraded adding an additional dimension to the game. An official 2-player variant is included with this game.
The game consists of a 54-card deck containing:
ten tribe leader roles
four building types for your headquarters
three gangs (end-game victory condition similar to Catan's 'Largest Army' or 'Longest Road')
two new mercenaries (medic and engineer)
one new tool (Rifle)"
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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Interesting sci-fi card-game from Z-Man games.
From the official game page:
"In The Ares Project, 2-4 players are competing to see which of their factions will lead mankind into the future. Each faction has its own deck of cards, buildings, upgrades, attacks, special powers, and a screen behind which a player will play cards. Your opponents do not know what you are building. When a player lays down an attack card, he chooses an opponent, the players drop their screens, and they battle for control of the Frontier, i.e. the center of the table. Whoever controls the Frontier scores points and also has the ability to attack player bases directly. Eliminate all of your opponents to win instantly, or have the most points when the game ends."
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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Mystery and deduction card game published by KeejoDreams.
From the game page:
"Nobody knows who or when, but one player is going to be the killer! Discretion and assassination attempt on one side, and vigileance stalking each other. Suspense guaranteed!
Assassin X is based on a user specific trading card (55 originals cards) through which you build your game and influence your opponents. It is a game of strategy and psychology in which deception and bluff you will need to win!
The goal of the game is the first player to have 5 pts. You gains points if
1) Successful murder = 2 points
2) Countering murder = 1 point
3) Discover an assassin = 1 point
Each player receives 5 cards that they keep secret.
The rest is the deck face down. A sense of play is defined for a turn. It will be inverted at each new turn.
Each round takes place in two stages:
- A phase of trading between 2 players.
- A phase of action for any player
If you receive the card or draw Assassin
you become a murderer. Unless you try to get rid of it, you should prepare your murder by collecting maximum points with maps of Crime Guns, Approaches,and Masters. However, be careful not to be detect because it may well be another player sends you the Police and there, it would be over.
Assassinate when you're ready!"
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Andrea Angiolino
Italy
Rome
European Union
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Forward to the past!
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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A new expansion for this well known old west-themed card game by daVinci.
From the game page:
"Bang! Wild West Show! is "a little double-faced expansion that contains eight VERY wild new characters, like one that draws cards from the other players hands instead of the deck, one with 9 life points who cannot use Missed! cards, [and] one that "draws" when it’s killed and stays alive if you do not draw Spades, ’cause you need a Spade to bury him!, [plus] a set of cards that come in play when you play a Wells Fargo and change the rules of the game until they are discarded... [and] craaaaazy cards, like the Wild West Show that lets you play Missed! cards as BANG!s and vice versa, [and] one that lets you swap your position with another player at the table..."
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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Soccer card game.
"Football simulation for 2 to 6 players. The game consists of defense cards, midfield cards, attack cards and action cards. Each move is started by playing a midfield card. The cards have a color code that determines which kinds of cards can be played next (i.e. an attack card (red) can only be played if the previous card contains a red color code). Attack cards also show a number of balls that has to be surpassed by the next player. A player who cannot counter an attack card catches a goal and has to take all the cards from the current stack; the last player to play an attack card before that takes a scoring card. When the card stack is used up, the player with most scoring cards is the winner."
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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August Entry in the Pure Card Line of Small Box Games.
"Welcome to the coloful city of Bhazum! Ruled by the Councils of the four Cliques, the city is spilt into two prosperous disctricts. Players are in control of one of these two districts, and by drafting and playing cards depicting the city's Characters attempt to secure the support of the councils and have the best inhabitant"
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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No, it is not a card game about Bruce Springsteen...
From the game page:
"With each card play, you gain more information about the loot, or sanctions, that may be yours for the taking in different American cities. Basing upon this information you send out the members of your gang to those cities -- some are pros, some are wannabes.
Whoever has the most gang members in a city, cashes the loot or undergoes the sanction. When going to Chicago you have no choice but splitting your takings with the boss himself: Al Capone. The further the game progresses, the higher the stakes are getting, especially in Chicago.
The Boss is essentially a card game (but comes with small game board for keeping scores) of deduction, bluffing and a lot of backstabbing."
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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Griphon Game is printing a new edition of Loco! by Reiner Knizia, with a totally new setting and plastic animals as tokens...
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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2010 reprint of this 1995 card game. By Z-Man games.
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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New storytelling game!
From the game page:
"You sit in The Heroes Return, a tavern famed for its heroic clientèle. You're not a hero, but you talk a good game. You and your friends are holding court, regaling the crowds with your tales of derring-do. Can you fight your way through a drunken haze to concoct the best boast? The most believable? Or at least ones that are funny? Or will you be called out as the liar you are?
In Braggart, each round players play cards from their hand which each contain a part of their story to combine them into a compelling tale. Stories are by turns hilarious or awe-inspiring and other players can accept them or accuse them of lying, downgrading their boast into something much less impressive (though usually much funnier!)."
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Board Game: Capek
[Average Rating:7.33 Unranked]
Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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From the page on BGG:
"You are a young apprentice engineer, working for the most prestigious robotics company, Capek. To end your first year, you are given the task of building your own robot. This is what you've been working towards all year. All the long days and hard hours spent repairing old service bots and cleaning up other people's mess will finally pay off. Each year only one apprentice is accepted to carry on their studies at Capek, and work alongside the industry greats. Will you be the first to finish your robot and claim the prize, or will you be left scurrying about the factory floor as you watch your dream slip away."
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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September entry to the Pure Card Line of Small Box Games.
"2-4 players take on the role of a ruler of ancient Egypt in this textless deckbuilding card game. This compact game includes 144 cards in six different decks.
Each card represents belongs to one of six deity decks. Players draft a small initial Dynasty deck of six cards, and as the game progresses, players use their originally drafted cards to gain additional cards to add to their decks and attempt to ruin other player's plans of the perfect Dynasty.
Every card may be used to take cards from one of six Deity decks, or its special ability may be used. Additionally, each card has the potential to add or subtract from the player's score at the end of the game. The player with the greatest Dynasty scores the most points and wins the game"
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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Italian edition of this card-game is being released by daVinci.
Important note: this is NOT just a re-release: it will also include some rather important changes to the gameplay, so fan of the game should keep an eye on it.
To be released Spring 2010 in the WolfPack Collection line.
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Stefano Castelli
Italy
Rome
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Trick taking card game from Z-Man games.
From the game page:
"A trick-taking game with a dragon theme. You try to make sets of similarly-aged dragons or numerical runs of dragons. Lairs, Treasures, and Knights add special twists to the trick-taking.
Publisher Blurb:
Powerful, majestic, brilliant, conniving, & greedy, they live in a highly structured society centered around age. There are five different draconic races, each of a different color: red, blue, yellow, green and purple; and one all powerful prismatic Queen, the mother of all races. Each of the draconic races is subdivided into three basic age groups: drakes being the youngest, dragons being middle age, and wyrms being the oldest of all. The older the beast, the more powerful and greedy it becomes. In fact, the oldest of each race, called a Great Wyrm, is so consumed by its greed that its lust for treasure becomes its greatest weakness. Of all dragon kind they alone are willing to risk all to potentially increase their hoard size. This often leads to their downfall.
The object in this trick-taking card game is to be the player with the most points (indicating draconic power) at the end of six hands (referred to as cycles). You receive points by accurately predicting the number of tricks (referred to as gatherings) you will take and also by taking special card combinations. You want to avoid taking cards with negative points values."
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