Fantasy Flight Games announced a new rotation policy for its popular Living Card Game titles, which will limit the lifespan of the existing cards in each game’s standard card pool for use in Organized Play. The new policy limits the standard card pool for Organized Play to the game’s Core Set, Deluxe Expansions, and the latest five to seven cycles of monthly packs, depending on the game’s release schedule. This will give each pack an average lifespan of three to four years.
Since FFG launched the LCG format in 2008 (see "FFG Retools CCGs"), several of the games have "reached maturity," the company said, and others are still growing with expanding card pools. This has caused problems for store owners who have had to stock a continuingly expanding line of tournament-legal product for each game they support, as well as discouraging new players from joining games due to the escalating purchase cost to become competitive.
The policy will affect the following games: A Game of Thrones: The Card Game, Android: Netrunner, Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game, Star Wars: The Card Game, and Warhammer 40,000: Conquest. As a cooperative game, The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game is excluded from rotation.
Introduces New Rotation Policy
Posted by ICv2 on November 6, 2014 @ 4:14 pm CT
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