JoyRide Entertainment has announced the second and third 110-card expansions for its Full Metal Alchemist trading card game.  The FMA TCG debuted earlier this month with a 240-card Premier Edition, which will be followed by the first FMA Expansion, Blood & Water, which is slated for November and will add 110 cards to the game.  ICv2 has learned that a second 110-card expansion, Artificial Human, is slated for January with a third release, Alchemist's Gate, ready for release three months later in April.

 

The fifth volume in the Full Metal Alchemist DVD series from FUNimation Productions, Full Metal Alchemist: The Cost of Living, which is due to be released on September 20th, will contain an exclusive FMA TCG card, and the third volume in Viz's extremely popular FMA manga series (the first volume of the FMA manga is the best-selling graphic novel in bookstores in 2005 so far) will also come with a FMA TCG card.  New episodes of the FMA anime series debut on the Cartoon Network on September 17th.

 

The Full Metal Alchemist TCG also had a successful GenCon debut last week with hundreds of fans learning how to play the game and 85 players turning out for the Alchemist Challenge Tournament on Friday Night.