At Gen Con earlier this month, Stoneblade Entertainment was showing off the next Theme Pack for its popular deck-building game Ascension.  The Ascension Location Theme Pack will be available to retailers in early 2016.

The cards in this expansion are shuffled in with the cards from any Ascension set.  When a Location card is flipped into the middle row, the rules for that Location take effect, altering in some way the actual space in the center row occupied by the Location.

Stoneblade CEO Justin Gary explained an example of a Location effect.  “For example, they could make cards cost less there, they could give the cards a rally effect, which means any time a card of the same faction is revealed there, you’ll get to acquire that, too,” he said.

The Ascension Location Theme Pack can be combined with any Ascension set, but cannot be used on its own.  MSRP will be $9.99.

Two Ascension products from Stoneblade are scheduled to release in Q4 (see “Two ‘Ascension’ Products in Q4”).