Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game
{{Short description|Collectible card game}}
{{About|the 1997 collectible card game||Shadowrun (disambiguation)}}
{{italic title}}
{{Infobox_game
| title = Shadowrun:
The Trading Card Game
| image_link = File:Shadowrun cardback.png
| image_caption = Card back to the Shadowrun TCG.
| date = {{Start date and age|1997|08}}
| designer = Mike Nielsen
| publisher = FASA Corporation
| players = 2+
| ages = 12+
| setup_time =
| playing_time = Approx 1–2 hours
| complexity =
| strategy =
| random_chance = Some
| skills = Card playing
Arithmetic
Basic Reading Ability
| footnotes=
}}
Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game is an out-of-print collectible card game, released by FASA in August 1997 as a spin-off from FASA Corporation's Shadowrun role-playing game and used the same scenario,{{cite magazine|title=Success in the Shadows|last=Milliken|first=Matthew E.|issue=36|magazine=InQuest|publisher=Wizard Entertainment|pages=20|date=April 1998}} a cyberpunk setting with fantasy elements – an apocalyptic near-future Earth, with advanced technology (bio-engineering, robotics, virtual reality) which was also populated by magic and supernatural beings such as elves and dragons.
Gameplay
Each player assumes the role of a "shadowrunning" group, enlisting mercenaries with several different skills, and acquiring equipment, contacts, technology or mystical items to complete several types of missions.
History
There are only two sets released for the game. The base set, simply titled Shadowrun, and one expansion set, Underworld, which focuses on the criminals, such as Mafia and Yakuza, and the police that tried to bring them down.{{Citation |last=Varney |first=Allen |title=Game News and Updates |date=March 1998 |work=The Duelist |issue=#23 |page=67}} Despite its initial success and awards, no further expansions for the game were released.{{Citation |last=Miller |first=John Jackson |title=Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist & Price Guide, Second Edition |pages=513–515 |year=2003 |postscript=.}}
The Underworld set consisted of 141 cards sold in 15-card booster packs and was released in March 1998.{{cite magazine|title=Underworld|last=Kenson|first=Steve|issue=39|magazine=InQuest|publisher=Wizard Entertainment|pages=29|date=July 1998}} It introduced the four factions Gangers, Lone Star, Mafia, and Yakuza.{{cite magazine|title=Game news & update|last=Varney|first=Allen|authorlink=Allen Varney|issue=23|magazine=The Duelist|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|pages=67–68|date=March 1998}}
=Canceled sets=
A second printing of the base set, called Second Running replaced 39 cards and changed the art for 12 more.{{Citation |title=Game News & Updates |date=January 1998 |work=The Duelist |issue=#21 |page=87}} This edition also updated the text for clarity and clarified some rules.{{cite magazine|title=January releases|issue=34|magazine=InQuest|publisher=Wizard Entertainment|page=25-28|date=February 1998}}{{rp|26}} The set was ultimately canceled in October 1998.{{cite magazine|title=Card game news|last=Herndon|first=Cory|magazine=The Duelist|issue=32|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|pages=78|date=November 1998}}
A 90-card expansion set Corp War was planned for release in July 1998 to be sold in 15-card booster packs.{{cite magazine|title=Game news & updates|last=Herndon|first=Cory|magazine=The Duelist|issue=28|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|page=70|date=August 1998}} It was later postponed to 1999,{{cite magazine|title=Card game news|last=Herndon|first=Cory|magazine=The Duelist|issue=31|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|pages=76|date=November 1998}} then ultimately canceled.{{cite magazine|title=Card game news|last=Henrdon|first=Cory|authorlink=Richard Garfield|magazine=The Duelist|issue=34|publisher=Wizards of the Coast|page=74|date=February 1999}}
Reception
Shadowrun: The Trading Card Game won the 1997 Origins Awards in the categories "Best Trading Card Game of 1997" and "Best Graphic Presentation of a Card Game of 1997".{{Citation |title=Origins Awards winners |date=6 July 1998 |url=http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/press/press.449.html |publisher=Origins Awards, RPGnet |access-date=29 December 2011}}
Reviews
- Backstab No. 5{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/backstab-magazine-french-05/page/n43/mode/2up|title=Shadowrun C.C.G.|magazine=Backstab|lang=fr|issue=5|date=September–October 1997|page=44}}
- Backstab #9 (Underworld){{cite web | url=https://archive.org/details/backstab-magazine-french-09/page/n27/mode/2up | title=Backstab Magazine (French) Issue 09 }}
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2123 Boardgamegeek entry]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061209150438/http://www.intercom.net/user/logan1/srccg.htm Description, some card images]
- [http://www.allenvarney.com/av_shadow.html Preview of the game]
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Category:Card games introduced in 1997
Category:Discontinued collectible card games