Star Wars has an extended, lengthy historical past with the collectible card sport medium, however because the likes of Magic dabbles with high-profile crossovers and Disney itself will get in in the marketplace with the wildly popular launch of Lorcana, its almost time for the galaxy far, far-off to return to the card-covered tabletop with its personal evolution.
That evolution comes within the type of Star Wars Unlimited, developed by Fantasy Flight Video games and Asmodee—the present dwelling of myriad Star Wars tabletop merchandise, from the newest iteration of the franchise’s TTRPG guidelines to miniatures video games like X-Wing, Armada, Shatterpoint, Legion, and extra. After teasing the brand new sport over the previous few months, the writer has now confirmed that Limitless’s first set, Spark of Rise up, will launch on March 8, 2024.
Drawing on characters from throughout Star Wars’ comics, books, video games, movies, and reveals, Limitless sees gamers construct 50-card decks of heroes and villains primarily based round one main “Chief” character that instructions your forces as you defend a base from floor and aerial assault. Apart from launching with a starter set together with two decks constructed round Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, Spark of Rise up will launch with over 200 playing cards, some obtainable solely within the starter set, with the remainder present in Limitless’s 16-card booster packs—every of which comes with a assured Chief and Base card, so gamers can begin constructing decks with a number of packs of boosters as an alternative of needing to depend on the prebuilt ones launching in Spark.
Though there have been a number of Star Wars card video games lately, Limitless marks the franchise’s first foray into TCGs since Fantasy Flight’s personal “Dwelling Card Recreation,” merely titled Star Wars: The Card Recreation, wrapped up a six-year-long run in 2018. Fingers crossed this new sport has as a lot endurance—in a world the place licensed TCGs are dealing with one thing of a resurgence, Star Wars has loads of alternatives to develop its personal presence within the house once more.
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