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!

YuGiOh: Warriors’ Strike Starter Deck

The Warriors’ Strike Structure Deck (Starter Deck) released today and I am totally prepared to show you some pictures and information.

Warriors’ Strike Structure Deck contains 37 common cards, 2 super rare cards, 1 ultra rare cards, 1 rulebook, 1 deluxe game mat & 1 dueling guide.

Additionally, I have some pictures of the starter deck to share with you in gallery form, check them out:

We have the Warriors’ Strike Structure Decks (opens in a new window) available.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Ancient Prophecy – Pictures of the Complete Set

Yet another set of pictures of whatever the latest CCG set is.  In this case it is Yu Gi Oh Ancient Prophecy!

Luckily, this is the last set of pictures I’m going to post until October when the new Magic the Gathering set known as Zendikar releases.  However, for now enjoy these Ancient Prophecy pictures!

One more thing, please don’t steal these images or the Troll will have my hide.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Ancient Prophecy

The biggest news with Yu-Gi-Oh (opens in new window) currently is the upcoming set called Yu Gi Oh Ancient Prophecy (opens in new window) which was previously set to release sometime in August, 2009 but the latest information I have found has the new release date set for September 1st, 2009. Ancient Prophecy will release with 10 TCG exclusives including some of the most powerful trading card game exclusives ever. Also, it will arrive with 10 bonus promo cards previously only available in Japan. That isn’t all, it will contain 8 new X-Saber cards to boost the X-Sabers release in the Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Starter Deck from 2009 as well as more Blackwing, Morphtronic, Earthbound Immortal and Koa’ki Meiru monsters.

In total the complete set will contain 100 cards, 48 common cards, 20 rare cards, 14 super rare cards & 10 ultra rare cards.

Enjoy!

Yu-Gi-Oh! CCG expansion Raging Battle set to release

The new Yu-Gi-Oh! set has been dubbed Raging Battle and is set to release May 12th, 2009. Raging Battle is the 4th set of the 6th series and features the Power Tool Dragon on the cover of each booster pack. This set is a continuation of Crimson Crisis and introduces all new traps, spells and of course synchro monsters. One of the most exciting aspects of this new set is that it comes with two new families of monsters. The first family called the Earthbound Immortals are powerful monsters based on the television series. The second family called Koa’ki Meiru monsters are based around countering the top decks currently being played in Yu-Gi-Oh.

For more information about Yu-Gi-Oh!  check out the Yu-Gi-Oh! section on TCGPlayer or our Yu-Gi-Oh! cards category at the official Troll And Toad website.

Best gaming websites round-up!

Welcome to the Troll and Toad weblog.  In this post I’ll round up the websites I use most for different types of hobby gaming.  I plan to update this list as I get more familiar with getting webbed up to netpages or whatever young people call using the internet, check it:

CCGs/TCGs

• TCG Player – TCG & collectible game news, reviews and resources
• Pojo’s Gaming  Site – Strategies, tips & price guides for various CCGs/TCGs

Board Games

• Board Game Geek – BGG is the authority on anything dealing with, you guessed it, board games
• About.com: Board Games – I’m not usually a fan of About.com pages but the board game information is updated often with quality information

RPGs

• Wikipedia – This probably isn’t your first thought when looking for roleplaying game information, but trust me it’s an awesome resource for finding info. on unusual RPGs
• Wizards: Official D&D Website – The official Dungeons & Dragons website is difficult to navigate but contains a lot of good information on the most popular RPG
• RPG Gateway – A very robust list of links to RPG websites

Video Games

• GameSpot – GS is probably the most popular video game website. My favorite part of GameSpot is the reviews section
• JoyStiq – In my opinion the best video game blog.  It is funny and updated several times per day
• IGN – Another very popular video game information website
• GameFAQ – GameFAQs is by far the best website to find video game walkthroughs
• Game Revolution – Very old video game website that provides cheat codes for thousands of games

I’m aware of many other sites for the related categories but these are my favorites.  If you know of one that you feel should be on this list feel free to send it to me, ryang@trollandtoad.com.