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Star Wars: The Card Game

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Star Wars: The Card Game is a Living Card Game produced by Fantasy Flight Games and published from 2012 to 2018. It is a game for two players set in the time of the original Star Wars trilogy, with one player commanding the light side of the Force and the other the dark side. Each player builds a deck by choosing objective cards, and every objective brings a fixed set of five player cards into the deck. During play a player deploys units to a tableau, attacks the opponent's objectives, defends their own and commits cards to the Force struggle. The dark side wins if the Death Star dial reaches twelve, while the light side wins by destroying three dark side objectives first. Content arrived in cycles of six force packs with larger deluxe expansions between them, and the Balance of the Force expansion allowed multiplayer games.

Facts
Origin Year
2012 1
Playing Time Band
30 to 90 Minutes 1
Playing Time
60 2
Skill or Luck
Mixed 1
Age Suitability
Family 1
Designer
Eric M. Lang 2
Publisher
Edge Entertainment 2
Publisher
Fantasy Flight Games 2
Publisher
Galakta 2
Publisher
Giochi Uniti 2
Publisher
Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2
Publisher
Hobby World 2
Publisher
Korea Boardgames 2
Publisher
Wargames Club Publishing 2
Publisher
White Goblin Games 2
Game Category
Card Game 2
Game Category
Collectible Components 2
Game Category
Movies / TV / Radio theme 2
Game Category
Science Fiction 2
Game Mechanic
Card Play Conflict Resolution 2
Game Mechanic
Force Commitment 2
Game Mechanic
Hand Management 2
Game Mechanic
Variable Player Powers 2
Minimum Players
2 2
Maximum Players
2 2
Classification
Player Count
Two-Player 1
Sport
Game Type (category)
Card Game 1
Connections

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1. Star Wars: The Card Game (Wikipedia)
  • Lead paragraph
    produced by Fantasy Flight Games published from 2012 to 2018
  • Lead paragraph [game-type-category]
    It is a two-player card game set in the Star Wars universe.
  • Infobox: random_chance
    Some
  • Infobox: ages
    10 and up
  • Infobox: playing_time
    60 minutes
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2. Star Wars: The Card Game (BoardGameGeek)
  • Playing Time: 60
  • Designer: Eric M. Lang
  • Publisher: Edge Entertainment
  • Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
  • Publisher: Galakta
  • Publisher: Giochi Uniti
  • Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag
  • Publisher: Hobby World
  • Publisher: Korea Boardgames
  • Publisher: Wargames Club Publishing
  • Publisher: White Goblin Games
  • Game Category: Card Game
  • Game Category: Collectible Components
  • Game Category: Movies / TV / Radio theme
  • Game Category: Science Fiction
  • Game Mechanic: Card Play Conflict Resolution
  • Game Mechanic: Force Commitment
  • Game Mechanic: Hand Management
  • Game Mechanic: Variable Player Powers
  • Minimum Players: 2
  • Maximum Players: 2
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