Tagged collectible card game

Collectible Card Garbage: The Austin Powers Game

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me was released in 1999 to minimal acclaim, but enough box-office that a few years later it merited another sequel. It also evidently merited a collectible card game. Magic: The Gathering and Austin Powers were both at the height of their respective popularity that year. That might explain why…

The Goofy Vampires of Jyhad (Vampire: The Eternal Struggle)

Vampire: The Eternal Struggle is a collectible card game from White Wolf based on their popular tabletop game Vampire: The Masquerade. The card game began life in 1994 as Jyhad, but quickly changed names to prevent people from confusing it with the Islamic term Jihad. The game was created by Richard Garfield, creator of Magic:…

WTF, D&D: Magic: The Gathering’s “The Dark” (1994)

We covered the original Magic the Gathering cards and the “Arabian Nights” set over on Something Awful, now we turn our attention to 1994’s “The Dark” expansion set. This set delved into the gloom of darkness, adding the word “shadow” before various monsters and the set included numerous goblins, witches, and bogs. The art was…