Troll & Toad Podcast #2

Take a look at the latest T&T video cast… thing.. here!

Worldwake Pictures

Magic the Gathering is on the cusp of releasing the Worldwake set & to help you prepare here are all of the pictures from the expansion.

Worldwake

Grand Prix – Oakland

Grand Prix Oakland Coming Soon!

Troll & Toad will be in attendance buying & selling CCG products at the Oakland Grand Prix. For location, format & schedule details click here.

Thunderstone Review – Troll & Toad Podcast #1

Troll & Toad is now broadcasting over the interweb with our brand new weekly Podcast! Each Podcast will feature news & reviews on the latest products and hobby gaming industry news… Now, listen to our review of the Thunderstone board game.

Thunderstone Review

Troll & Toad CCG Tournaments

If you live in Southeastern Kentucky or you’re visiting the area I have exciting news for Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic players! We will be hosting Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic tournaments every Friday and Saturday at our store located in Barbourville Kentucky across the street from Subway.

Schedule:

• Friday – Friday Night Magic – 7 PM – Standard Format – $5 Entry Fee
• Saturday – Yu-Gi-Oh! – 12 PM – Standard Format – $5 Entry Fee

Location:

222 Knox Street

Barbourville, Ky 40906

Tournaments will be held every weekend!

Rise of Angels – Battle Spirits TCG Pictures & Information

Rise of Angels….

Bandai recently released the expansion for their popular TCG, Battle Spirits.  The new set is dubbed Rise of Angels and contains 115 all-new cards.  The packs for the set will contain 8 cards per pack & 32 packs per box with an MSRP of only $2.99.

Additionally, Bandai is giving away 2 free demo decks as of this writing.  If you would like to get your 2 free 50 card demo decks here is a link to the form.

Oh yeah.. here are high resolution pictures of all 115 cards from the set:

Scourgewar – The Latest set for the WoW TCG

Scourgewar, the 1st of 3 sets from the newest World of Warcraft (WoW) TCG block is finally out and I have information & pictures of the complete set for you to use!

Scourgewar contains 270 cards broken down into 120 commons, 60 uncommon’s, 60 rare’s, 10 epics & 20 heroes.

Additionally, the latest expansion places heavy emphasis on the class of your hero.  Scourgewar is also the first set to fully integrate the Death Knight class!

The new set will have 3 new keywords as well; Mend for the healing classes, Assault for the DPSers & Deathrattle which allows you to interact with the graveyard.

Now on to the image gallery!:

5 Easy, Fun & Cheap card games!

If you’re anything like me then poverty & gaming are both major aspects of your life.  I have combed through a vast amount of card games to make up this list of 5 awesome card games that won’t break the bank (and you have probably never heard of).

Coloretto

5.) Coloretto

Like a Chameleon, a player may change his color many times during the game.  However, players who change colors too often will not do well and may even earn minus points for doing so.  This means, that a player must wait for the proper time and place to make the change, but do it before his opponents do.

Depending on where you pick up the game you can usually get it for under $10.

Also, check out the Coloretto review over at BoardGameGeek.

Contents: 90 cards, 1 rule booklet

Age: 8+

Time to Play: 30

Players: 2 to 5

Family Business 2008 Edition

 

4.) Family Business (2008 Edition)

Be the boss in this fast-paced card game of survival on the mean streets.  Family Business pits mobsters against each other-all working to make sure theirs is the last family standing!

Your gang members get placed on the Hit List. Can your “Family Influence” save them? Will they “Take it on the lam,” seek “Police Protection,” or perhaps up the ante with a “”Double Contract”?

Family Business is fast, furious, and fun! Your goal is survival! What’s in the cards for your gang?

The AP actually has a nice description / review of most of the games attributes for Family Business.

Family Business can be picked up for around $9.75.

Contents: 56 action cards, 54 mobster cards, R.I.P. card tray, simple rule book

Age: 5+

Bell Bottomed Badasses

 

3.) Bell-Bottomed Badasses on the Mean Streets of Funk

The back of the box on Bell-Bottomed Badasses comes in basically has zero information at all except to say “Who’s the Private Dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks? Who is the man who would risk his neck for his brother man? Copyrights won’t let us say, but he may be in…” I’m guessing they are referring to Shaft but in my mind I pictured Samuel L. Jackson.

The ’70s are back and we got ‘em! Can you dig it? From gritty cop flicks to blaxploitation movies, we present 120 all new funky cards for your B-Movie pleasure.

Players are making a B-Movie by playing Characters, Props, and Locations in their movie and sending Creatures to attack the other players’ movies in order to kill off their Characters. SFX cards can modify attacks and do other wacky stuff. When Roll the Credits is played, the player with the most points wins!

Compatible with all other B-Movie games from Z-Man Games.

You can pick up this game in various places for around $12.

Additionally, you can find a solid review of BBB over at RPG.net.

Contents: 120 card stand-alone game

Players: 2 to 6

Time to Play: 20 to 40 minutes

Age: 13+

Corsari

 

2.) Corsari

Each player is a pirate captain, trying to find a complete crew in port.  The first captain to set sail will have an advantage, of course, but will not win unless he has the best crew.

Corsari is currently the cheapest but one of the best games on this usually selling for under $9.

It was fairly difficult to find a Corsari review but I hunted down a forum post over at BGG that did a fine job and getting in the key points.

Contents: 110 cards, rule booklet

Players: 2 to 4

Age: 8+

Time to Play: 30 min.

Tichu

 

1.) Tichu

Over 642 million Chinese play Tichu nearly every day! The goal of the game is very simple: just get rid of your cards.

Tichu is primarily a partnership game for four.  The game comes with two complete decks of cards, so players may alternate playing decks when playing with four or play with larger groups.

The groups, however, should not exceed 10 players.

It would be safe to say that Tichu is the most popular game on this list with the huge Chinese following it enjoys & at under $10 you can’t go wrong.

(Even though all of the info. on the Chinese player base and the games origins are a lie)

You can find a good Tichu review on the Amazon page for the game written by a fan (its currently the first review).

Contents: 112 playing cards, 2 complete decks, 1 rule booklet

Players: 3 to 10

Time to Play: 30 to 90

Age: 10+

Thanks for reading and feel free to comment with any other your favorite but cheap card games. Additionally, you can take a look at other card games on our retail page.

Dragonball – Clash of Sagas’ Pictures & Information

DragonBall Clash of Sagas'

Clash of Sagas’ is the fifth release for the Dragon Ball CCG and introduces over 100 brand new cards with all new artwork never released in the United States.

This set has been completely redesigned from previous sets so it will be an interesting mix of retro cards.

Additionally, I have a complete set of pictures for you take look through…Awesome, right?

DragonBall Clash of Sagas’

Oh yeah, take a look at the Clash of Sagas’ singles (opens in a new window) on our main site.

Pokemon Arceus TCG – Pictures & Information

Hello All,

Today I have a gallery of all of the Pokemon Arceus pictures! In this set there are 100 cards in total.

Additionally,  according to Go-Pokemon.com here are the features of the new Pokémon Trading Card Game: Platinum—Arceus:

• Introducing new Pokémon Arceus!
• Collect multiple Energy types of Arceus cards
• Discover new Pokémon LV.X cards, including 3 Arceus LV.X!
• More than 100 different cards

You can also check out the Pokemon Arceus singles (opens in a new window) section of our retail site to tie the pictures with the names.  I am just too lazy to do it here.