Fantasy Flight is back in the Star Wars trading card game business

Fantasy Flight Games has a brand new Star Wars trading card game that will compete with other companies. Magic the Gathering The following are some examples of how to get started: Disney Lorcana. Called Star Wars: Unlimited, it will launch in 2024 with a full, 200-plus card set The following are some examples of how to get started: all-new art based on the original trilogy — alongside a full slate of organized play events. Speaking with Polygon ahead of Tuesday’s reveal, co-designer Jim Cartwright readily acknowledged that he and his team would be fighting an uphill battle to earn the hearts of potential players, especially those burned by past experiences with Fantasy Flight’s card game franchises.

Fantasy Flight’s reputation as a publisher of card games is a bit rocky following a series of high-profile cancellations — including Netrunner, Legend of the Five Rings, and Star Wars: Destiny. However, the most recent failure was a mysterious technical error that derailed KeyForge, the popular procedurally-generated card game that launched in 2018. The game was initially well received, but a mysterious issue halted production. A different company now owns and produces the game.

Cartwright added that Fantasy Flight has put all its resources at the ready to make sure it puts forth their best efforts this time. Star Wars: Unlimited.

“This is a game in which we have dedicated more resources than any other game in FFG’s history,” Cartwright said. “In the past for these kinds of games […]We had difficulty making regular [release] cadences. Anyone who’s played an FFG game like that knows that. [It’s] something that we’ve struggled with, and we are committed to putting this game out on time. It’s the way the industry works, now. If you want to do a TCG you have to be able to be committed to hit those dates.”

Cartwright describes Star Wars: Unlimited as a traditional TCG experience — a departure for a company known for its Living Card Game lines, and novel experiences like the Star Wars: DestinyCustom dice were used by.

“We’re not trying to get into anything crazy or fancy,” Cartwright said. “We wanted to focus all of our design on how do we make the best card game, specifically, and the focus on cards, and the focus on the interaction of those cards and the kind of unlimited possibilities you get from being able to play with all of the Star Wars toys. So it is a non-gimmicky TCG.”

Cartwright said the game was fast-moving with a lot of back and fourth between players during a round.

“It means that you’re not waiting for me to think about all of the different things I have to do, play out my whole turn, maybe ruin the experience for you in a short burst of time,” Cartwright said. “It really is about this constant engagement of I do a thing, you do a thing, that keep[s] everyone simultaneously focused on what’s going on.”

Also, just as Disney Lorcana, Star Wars: UnlimitedThe game has been built from the beginning for multi-player. The decks that are used for competitive play can be played in casual games.

“This was created as a very much a sandbox-style game,” Cartwright said. “We want you to play with your toys. This was a big part. [what]The original pitch and part of [the]Why? The number of people who can afford to buy a car is unlimitedIt’s a perfect title. It’s the idea of unlimited possibilities that you can bring to your Star Wars experience.”

Of course, the landscape for trading card games has changed dramatically in the three years since Cartwright’s team began working on Star Wars: Unlimited. As the TCG prices rocketed to the sky on the second-hand market, Magic the Gathering Has moved from one top-selling collection to another. Upstart Flesh & Blood keeps chugging along, Ravensburger’s Disney LorcanaIt is expected to take all the air out of the space when it debuts in a matter of months.

This sets up nicely for the release in 2024 of Star Wars: UnlimitedBut it raises the stakes. To hear Cartwright tell it, Fantasy Flight’s leadership is going all in.

“We have some of our most veteran card game designers working on this product,” Cartwright said. “Daniel Schaefer, who used to lead the [A Game of Thrones: The Card Game]You can also find out more about the following: KeyForge teams. We’ve got Jeremy Zwirn from Star Wars: Destiny. Tyler Parrott was the person who led the [Legend of the Five Rings]. They are some of our best-known designers from the world of card games. [and] we made sure that we were going to be ready to hit the dates that we need consistently by building up the resources that we needed to do it.”

You can expect to hear about Star Wars: UnlimitedDuring the summer, tabletop gaming events will be held all over the country. More details about the release of the game in 2024 will come later this year.