Showing posts with label Games. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Games. Show all posts

Sunday, May 24, 2026

Blazing Dominion


Are you a conqueror? Do you want to dominate everythng and everyone around you? Does your ambition seem like a fire that cannot be quenched?

If so then Konami’s Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Blazing Dominion is the perfect vehicle by which to do so.

The new 1st Edition Box, containing 9-Card Packs with one Exclusive Card Blazing Dominion, will light up your game with fantastic and fearsome new Cards such Fairy Tails, Anna Kaboom, and the Master of Faster.

Just look at what you get:

  • Jack-themed Synchro Monsters.
  • Quick Effect.
  • A Level 7 Synchro Monster with endless potential.
  • Two Level 10 EARTH Machines.
  • Two new Rank 10 Superdreadnought Xyz Monsters.
  • New Spell Card.
  • New Equip Spell Card.
  • A Rank 4 Xyz Monster.

Blazing Dominion contains:

  • 10 Secret Rares
  • 14 Ultra Rares
  • 26 Super Rares
  • 50 Commons
  • 25 Cards available as Starlight Rares!

Get ready to set fire to your game with Blazing Dominion. It’s hot! It’s powerful! It’s ready to dominate your YGO gameplay!

Jeremiah 29:11For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Pandora’s Box

Picture a world where crime, hate, sickness and war did not exist. Mankind lived in a paradise. Everyone worked together for the greater good. People cared for one another and selfishness was a foreign concept.

Now imagine a box-but not just any box. In that box everything evil and destructive resided. One day the box was opened and humanity and the world were forever changed. 

Every evil, vile, disgusting, destructive and loathsome thing imaginable was released. It spread and affected everything and everyone. Murder, lust, theft and every bad thing there was infected the whole world.

Thames & Hudson presents Pandora’s Box The Card Game, created by Jen Russell, where players compete to see who will be the last to survive the onslaught of evil creatures, curses and catastrophes.

Can you survive and bring Hope to the world?

The Game comes with 54 Cards, takes 20 minutes+ to play and can be played by 2 to 5 gamers ages 7 years old and up.

Included with the boxed Game is a Game Booklet. It, along with Game Cards (wrapped in a black strip of paper) rest in the heavy paperstock Box decorated with mystical creature and gods illustrations by Jesus Sotes. Inside the Cards and Booklet are held securely in place by a heavy paperstock deep insert.

It’s a fast and furious Game as the fate of humanity weighs in the balance and Hope is the only solution.

For mortals with a god complex.

Leviticus 22:31Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.


Friday, April 24, 2026

Rarity Collection V


Yu-Gi-Oh! The Trading Card Game from Konami is a big hit with gamers. Like all Trading Card gamers most relish the thought of acquiring rare YGO Rare Cards from the series. Some fetch a considerable amount of cash-not that most YGO players would sell them.

What if I told you that one Box contains five Packs with five Foil Cards each-not just any Cards, but Rare, Ultra-Rare and Starlight Rare?

Would you be interested! Would it get your heart pumping? Is it really real?

I’m here to tell you that Konami’s Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Rarity Collection V is a fact. It’s real! It’s no illusion!

Five All-Foil Packs come per Box: one of which is either Ultra Rare or one of two special variant Starlight Rares art styles like you’ve never seen before. The other four Cards in the Packs come from YGO’s most popular Cards.

So what are sitting around for? Hurry, get out and buy your Box(es) today before they’re all gone!

Ephesians 4:29 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Sunday, April 5, 2026

Legendary Modern Decks 2026 1st Edition


What’s rectangular and black with varnished black highlights and silver images? Why Konami’s Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Legendary Modern Decks 1st Edition of course! Duh!

Legends live in this brand new Deck Set that is sure to have every YGO gamer rushing to the store to grab a Box.

This Set packs some serious punch as three Legends live again in a no-holds barred battle for the supremacy of the YGO game battleground!

Just look what you get:

  • Three new Legendary Decks: Sky Strikers, X-Sabers and Misurugi.
  • New Sky Striker Ace – Camellia, Prototype Sky Engage Zero!
  • Combine Mitsurugi with other themes like “Fiendsmith”, “Ryzeal”, “Orcust”, and more Three complete, ready-to-play Decks, each with 55 Cards .
  • 1 Secret Rare, 6 Ultra Rares, 48 Commons.
  • A bonus 56th Card.
    A bonus chance to upgrade to Starlight Rare.
  • Tournament-ready.
  • Doubles and triples of critical Cards.
  • Multiples of staple Cards that go great in any Deck.
  • Contains 168 cards:
    • 3 Secret Rares
    • 18 Ultra Rares
    • 144 Common
    • 3 bonus Secret Rares
Let the Legends show you how it's done!
Hebrews 4:12 - For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Thursday, February 12, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation Playing Cards

Imagine playing Fish, Rummy and other Card Games with Star Trek The Next Generation Playing Cards.

You read right, Enesco presents Star Trek: The Next Generation Playing Cards in a tin Box.

Two plastic wrapped full Decks feature images from the TV series on their fronts with traditional playing Card characters and numbers on their reverse sides.

The two sealed Decks come in a cool tin Box with an image of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D on its lid.

The Cards are wrapped in plastic and comes in a special lidded Tin Box.

Go where no one has gone before--Star Trek Playing Cards! Make it so!  Anyone for a game of Fizzben? 

Proverbs 30:5 - Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

Monday, February 2, 2026

The Secret Valley



I’m a sucker for books or movies that involve hidden lands, mysterious locations and adventure.

Rock Manor Games just recently released an English translation of The Secret Valley on Kick-Starter originally released and written in Spanish, French and German.

The Secret Valley is a Game that feeds my hunger for adventure, exploration and mysterious and sometimes dangerous locations.

In The Secret Valley up to four gamers play clans who compete to see who will be the highest ranking clan.

Start out with four to six Tokens and five to seven Cards per player. The Game goes three rounds.

Each player plays one Card and Token on their turn looking for best possible position on the grid.

Cards are played in these configurations; Adjacent, Surrounding, Row and Column.

Card types are The Thousand Steps, Sun Stone, Western Torrent, Fist Of The Giants and Mouth Of The Mountain.

Whoever has the highest score of points is the winner.

The game play heats up and the action is fast. Will you be the leader of the clans and claim the best location in The Secret Valley?

Rules can be found on the Rock Manor Games website.

John 16:33 - These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Monday, January 26, 2026

The Lost Island


Imagine yourself with a group of explorers. Your assignment is to explore a mysterious lost island that is both feared and avoided by fisherman and explorers who have all disappeared when they dared to explore the island.

Legends say that The Lost Island (from Rock Manor Games on Kickstarter) is populated by amazing and unnatural creatures and its landscape is a hodgepodge of mountains, woodlands, rivers flowing backward and who knows what else.

The player who survives and sees through the island’s illusions and creates the most accurate map is the winner.

Players (two to four) get a game sheet choosing either the A or B side. They choose their Territory Type. On each turn players draw symbols of the Territory Type of the active player.

The active player throws three dice and then announce the Territory Type. The chosen dice represents the number of spaces to draw with the Territory Type.

Each player must update their maps of the chosen Territory Type.

Through a number of Territory Types, numbers are drawn and areas are filled on the maps. Highest score wins. There is a lot of player interplay, strategy and clever maneuvering throughout the game.

Player pits against player and only the smartest, craftiest and cleverest player completes their map and wins the game.

Rules can be found on the Rock Manor Games website.

Ephesians 4:29 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Sunday, January 11, 2026

Star Trek TOS The Card Game


Join Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy, Mr. Spock and other members of the Starship Enterprise in some exciting adventures with the Star Trek TOS The Card Game 
released by Fleer/Skybox in 1996.

Besides the Core Crew Cards there are Crew and Episode Challenge Cards.  Sixty-Five Cards come in the Deck.

Players can play classic episodes or create ones of their own.

Along they way they battle space aliens, survive catastrophies, battle Klingons and Romulans and lead their crew through to completion.

Don’t forget about seductive alien women, power hungry rogues and more.

The first player to complete 25 missions is the winner.

Set Phasers on stun, get ready to transport to adventure and to go where no one has gone before.  Full game and strategy instructions also come with the Game Cards. 

Psalms 28:7 - The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Doom Of Dimensions


Are you brave? Do you have what it takes to survive and defeat your foes?

What if you suddenly found yourself floating through different dimensions with no idea of what to expect?

Konami's Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Doom Of Dimensions sends duelists on a quest spanning dimensions where only the resourceful, clever, brave and cunning can survive.

  • A full Box contains 24 Packs, 9 Cards per Pack with 1 Foil Card per Pack. A four 9 Cards per Pack with a token Card Box is also available.
  • Doom waits around every turn.
  • New Cards serve definitive devastation and defeat all defenses.
  • Declan’s “D/D/D” Deck ARC-V are powerful as they shatter the walls between dimensions.

Doom of Dimensions contains:

  • 10 Secret Rares
  • 14 Ultra Rares
  • 26 Super Rares
  • 50 Commons
    • (25 Cards are available as Starlight Rares!)

Get ready to hop between dimensions in one of the wildest scenarios ever devised for YGO!

2 Timothy 1:7 - For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Mega-Bundle and Mega-Tin

Have you ever wanted to go big? I mean real big! Tremendously big! Huge! 

Here’s your chance with Konami’s Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game with its 2025 Mega-Pack Bundle and 2025 Mega-Pack Tin!

Check out what you get! It’s big-really big!

In 2025 you have a choice: the annual Mega-Packs with or without the metal Tin.

Whatever your choice (Tin or Bundle) you get 3 Mega-Packs inside, each Pack with a guaranteed variety of Card rarities.

Either way, you still get your 3 Mega-Packs, but the 2025 Mega-Pack Tin has a couple extras:

  • 1 Metal Tin, “Heart of the Cards.
  • 3 Deck Dividers.

The 2025 Mega-Pack Bundle and Mega-Tin come with:

  • 3 Mega-Packs, each containing 1 Starlight Rare, 1 Prismatic Secret Rare,
  • 3 Ultra Rares, and 8 Common Cards-13 Cards in total.

Save a little cash and buy the Mega-Pack bundle or if you like a few extras: the Mega-Tin.

Either way you get a load of goodies, lots of cool Rares and exciting game play!

Ephesians 4:29 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Justice Hunters

There are certain laws-written and unwritten that every civilization sets in place that protect the innocent and punish the guilty.

Without them chaos and anarchy would rule.

In Konami’s Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Justice Hunters, those that are guilty are sought out and held accountable for their misdeeds.

It takes a special type of person (uh, monster) to mete out justice. Best beware because Justice Hunters have a ‘dogged’ determination when it comes to doing what’s right and punishing those that do wrong.

Justice Hunters provides three brand-new themes focusing on a different type of Extra Deck monster!

  • New Fusion Monsters and Fusion Spells.
  • Dracotail monsters empower your Fusion Summons.
  • The K9 team lets you pop out quick Level 5 monsters and Xyz Summon.

The Justice Hunters Set contains 60 Cards:

  • 10 Ultra Rares
  • 10 Super Rares
  • 40 Rares (some also available as Super Rare upgrades)
  • 15 Cards also available as Collector’s Rares
  • Additional Cards also available as Starlight Rares

24 Cards come per Box

Each Pack contains 7 Cards:

  • 1 Foil Card per Pack
  • 6 Rare Cards per Pack

1 John 2:3-6 - And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Duelist’s Advance

Have you ever wanted to make something of yourself? Do you feel like that you are right on the cusp of something big? Do you know deep down inside that you have what it takes to be great?

If so, then Duelist’s Advance from Konami’s Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game is just what you’ve been looking for.

Get ready to take the next big step in your search for greatness as you take on other Duelists in a no-holds-barred competition with the winner claiming the number one spot!

Feel the flow and get ready to go as you take on one of the greatest challenges of your life in Duelist’s Advance.

Each Box contains 24 Packs with nine Cards per Foil Pack.

Be prepared to move ahead and high five the sky with the latest Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Core Booster Set, Duelist’s Advance! 

The path to victory consists of:

  • Brand-new Cards inspired by Yuma’s Deck from Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL.
  • A plethora of new monsters including a new Rank 4 Gagaga Girl Xyz Monster.
  • A brand-new Link-2 Monster from the Deck or Graveyard.
  • A new maneuver that will help you replenish your monsters and Spells.
  • Teleport Cards.
  • New Fusion and Synchro Monsters.
  • Monarchs band together.
  • A brand-new Monarch.
  • A new Squire.
  • Some exciting Spell/Trap Cards.
  • A brand-new World Premiere theme.
  • The return of Starlight Rares.
  • You could find Quarter Century Secret Rares.

Duelist’s Advance contains:

  • 10 Secret Rares
  • 14 Ultra Rares
  • 26 Super Rares
  • 50 Commons. (24 of these Cards are also available as Starlight Rare and 1 special Card is only available as a Starlight Rare!)

It’s up to you. Do you retreat or advance? 

1 Corinthians 16:13 - Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Monster Mayhem

Everyone needs a little mayhem and wanton destruction once in a while. Throw in a few monsters and you’re guaranteed a lot of mayhem on a huge scale.

In Konami’s Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Battles Of Legend Monster Mayhem duelists get their chance to cause some real damage as monsters duke it out in some of the wildest, destructive and rampaging mayhem monsterfest imaginable.

In Monsters Mayhem look for a few surprises.

  • 10 cute-as-a-button “chibi” variant arts of popular monsters Cards.
  • Emblazoned Ultra Rares: Dragonmaid, P.U.N.K., Orcust-themed Ultra Rare Card. There are 51 emblazoned Cards total.
  • Starlight Rares are back.
New Cards for your Decks, and always all Foil: Nekroz, Gem-Knight, Jurrac, Fabled, D/D, and Magistus Decks, plus a lot more.

The Monster Mayhem Set consists of 177 Cards (52 Secret Rares, 51 emblazoned Ultra Rares, and 74 other Ultra Rares). 25 of these Cards are also available as Starlight Rares.

24 Packs come per Box with 5 Cards per Pack that contain:

  • 1 Secret Rare
  • 1 emblazoned Ultra Rare (always a Dragonmaid, P.U.N.K., or Orcust-themed Card)
  • 3 other Ultra Rares

So what are you waiting for? Gather your monsters and get ready for a whole lot of mayhem!

Ecclesiastes 12:7 - Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Alliance Insight

One can never be too careful when one forms alliances. It takes patience, persistence, research and most of all insight.

Just because someone or something seems to be on your side it may not always be the case. Especially when it comes to playing Konami’s Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Alliance Insight.

Who do you trust? Are they for you or against you? Do they side with your opponents? Duelist beware, take care and be aware that alliances don’t always go they way you might think they will.

In Alliance Insight here’s what you can expect:

  • Booster Boxes contains 24 Packs of 9 random Cards per Pack.
  • A 101-Card Core Booster Set.
  • The last appearances of the popular Quarter Century Secret Rare Card rarity.
  • New “@Ignister” Cards.
  • New Link Monster.
  • New Cards for the age-old Skull Servant Deck.
  • New “Dragon Ruler” monsters.

Alliance Insight contains:

  • 10 Secret Rares
  • 14 Ultra Rares
  • 26 Super Rares
  • 50 Commons
    • 24 of these Cards are also available as Quarter Century Secret Rare
    • 1 special card is ONLY available as a Quarter Century Secret Rare!

Psalms 34:4 - I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Friday, April 25, 2025

Star Wars Reflections II


Decipher Games
at one point was producing an incredible amount of Star Wars Collectible Card Games: Star Wars Reflections II was one such expansion.

As the popularity of Star Wars has escalated over the years the discontinued star wars CCG from Decipher Games have shot up in value.

One set exceeds over $8,000 for a Box.

Refeolction II included previously released Cards.

It was the first reflective-style Set to include new Cards.

The Set contains a total of 105 Foil Cards: 

  • 4 Ultra Rare
  • 62 Super Rare
  • 34 Very Rare
  • 5 Premium Foil Cards 
    • Boba Fett with Blaster Rifle
    • Darth Vader (Japanese)
    • Han with Heavy Blaster Pistol
    • Leia with Blaster Rifle
    • Obi-Wan with Lightsaber

Reflections II was known as "Expanding the Galaxy" as it included 54 New Premium Cards based on the Expanded Universe, and was the first to introduce such Cards. 

As the popularity of Star Wars grows due to new movies and Disney+ streaming series older Star Wars merchandise (including games) have become hot collectibles.

Psalms 126:5 - They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.


Thursday, April 17, 2025

Quarter Century Stampede

Imagine! Konami’s Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game has been around for 25 years-a quarter century-a long time!

I wish I was 25 years old!

Celebrate the big 25! It’s official, Quarter Century Stampede delivers the best-of-the-best Yu-Gi-Oh! Cards and fans had I lot to say about what would be in this commemorative Set.

Just look what you get!

  • More than 10 Cards with new variant artwork.
  • Two different Card Pools:
  • A 200-Card Nostalgia pool.
  • A main pool of 80 tournament-level Cards.
  • 7 different varieties:
    • Super Rare
    • Ultra Rare
    • Secret Rare
    • Quarter Century Secret Rare
    • Platinum Secret Rare
    • Collector's Rare (Japanese version)
    • Ultimate Rare (Japanese version)
      • Variant art versions of existing Cards are only available as Quarter Century Secret Rare.
  • Each pack contains 5 Cards with 24 Pack per Box (the guaranteed Platinum or Quarter Century Secret Rare is from the nostalgia pool and the remaining 4 are from the main pool):
    • 1 Platinum Secret Rare or Quarter Century Secret Rare
    • 1 Super Rare
    • 1 Secret Rare (1-in-4 chance of being a Platinum Secret Rare or Quarter Century Secret Rare)
    • 2 Ultra Rares (1-in-6 chance each of being a Collector's Rare or Ultimate Rare)

So get ready to celebrate! Hurry just like any stampede it only lasts for a short time!

Psalms 34:4 - I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Friday, April 4, 2025

Maze Of The Master

Are you ready to be A’maze’d? Konami presents the ultimate YGO Deck exploration with its new Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Maze Of The Master.

Isn’t it time that you ‘master’ your own fate? But, can you navigate your way through the ‘maze’ of battle strategies and ideas from past Duelists?

It won’t be easy, but with a little determination, new Cards and imaginative thinking and strategizing you can come out on top.

Just look at what you get with Maze Of The Master:

  • 10 new Egyptian and Trap Monster-themed Cards
  • 7 new Cards inspired by Mizar’s Galaxy/Tachyon” Deck
  • 7 new Cards inspired by Kaiba’s X-Y-Z monsters from Battle City
  • 7 new Trickstar Cards inspired by Blue Angel’s Deck
  • 7 new Performage monsters from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V!
  • Plus so many more
  • 60 new Cards in all

The Maze of the Master Set contains 112 cards

  • 6 Secret Rares
  • 13 Ultra Rares
  • 21 Super Rares
  • 70 Rares
  • 2 Quarter Century Secret Rares
    • (16 of these Cards are also available as
      Collector’s Rares)

Each Booster Pack contains 7 Cards:

  • 1 Foil Card
  • 6 Rare Cards

24 Cards come per Box

Isn’t it time to take a chance, learn from the past and dominate the future!?

Ephesians 4:29 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

Friday, March 28, 2025

Between Two Castles Essential Edition


Growing up I was (and still am) fascinated by castles. Medieval, Middle Ages, Renaissance, European, British Isles, Middle East, Far East-it really didn’t make a difference.

There’s just something about castles that fascinates me. Perhaps it is their massive size, maze of rooms, defenses, décor and the people who populated them-a little of each.

I could just imagine exploring each room, hidden passageways, dungeons, throne rooms, living quarters and armory and so much more. Each turn of the corner reveals new and surprising discoveries.

My castle fetish has been appeased with Stonemaier Games/Atoma Factory’s Between Two Castles Essential Edition that combines the best of a board game and a trading card game.

What makes it a great game is you don't have to be an expert gamer in order to play.  Whether you're a novice or game veteran this game is fun, fast, full of surprises and best of all-easy to learn!

Made for one to eight players, ages 14 years old and plus and averaging 45 to 60 minutes of game time, Between Two Castles Essential Edition offers plenty of excitement, quick game movement and lots of cool surprises and more.

My review sample arrived via Fed-Ex and came in an oversize cardboard box, securely sealed shut. The game came snug in bubble wrap. Nicely done.

The game box itself is constructed of heavy box paper. The top of the game box features a beautiful full-color painting of a castle complex in a stunning castles in a mountain/valley landscape. The painting extends down to all sides of the top lid.

Inside the box are three game trays: purple, red and yellow. Each tray holds game components for one Multi-Player Mode and Two Solitaire modes.

The Multi-Plyer Mode includes 194 regular game room tiles, 16 secret room tiles, 64 specialty room tiles, 8 throne room tiles, 48 regular room type tokens, 8 player aids, 28 royal attendants, 28 bonus cards, 8 castle tokens and 1 scorecard.

The two Solitaire Modes (Automa and Introvert Variant) includes 24 Automa cards, 4 room type cards, 1 double-sided turn order card and 3-double-sided player aid cards.

Game play for each version of the game is easy to understand and provides fast set up.

The Automa version pits you against two artificial opponents and the Introvert Version pits your single castle against an artificial opponent's one castle.

The multi-player version uses 3 to 8 players where players team with one player to their right and left to construct a castle.

How the castles are built are determined by the cards. Some cards attach from below, right, left and above.

Where cards are placed is determined by the symbols on the cards. For example only certain cards can be placed in the lower levels, some on upper floors as determined by the cards below them and so on. It’s very challenging.

At the conclusion of the game castles are scored. Personal final scores is the lower of the two castles you helped design and the player with the highest final score wins.

Instructions make game play easy, fun and challenging. You never know what to expect.

The game is well designed with easy-to-follow instructions using illustrations and symbols. Game pieces are small but solid and are easy to distinguish as to the type of object they represent.

Game cards feature beautiful miniature paintings accompanied by easy to decipher location and type symbols. Game pieces (tiles) and token tiles come on full heavy card stock sheets. Pieces pop out of the sheets.

Game components store in the game trays and are easily seen through the game trays' clear plastic covers.

As a graphic designer and artist I really appreciate and marvel at the amount of detail the game has. Selection of paper stocks, materials for the trays, game tokens and pieces, instructions and other components were well thought out and selected.

The art is first-rate and the overall design of all the game contents complement each other from the game box to the game components.

Stonemaier Games also provides a how-to-play video online, downloadable rules, Q & A on Stonemaier’s Facebook and even an online way to calculate and save your score.

Replacement parts are available as well as monthly updates on Stonemaier’s e-newsletter.

Isn't it time to build your own castle?

Psalms 37:4 - Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

Sunday, March 9, 2025

Blaze Of Glory


In the Star Trek Universe the Klingons prize an honorable death above all else.  Often referred to going out in a “Blaze Of Glory” the Klingons prefer to die rather than to be captured.

Close to 20 years ago Decipher Cards obtained the rights to a create collectible Card game based on Star Trek.

It did so and it was extremely popular.  Unfortunately due to some rather dubious and questionable business practices Decipher Games went out of business leaving Star Trek fans hungry for more Cards.

Now those original cards are much sought after.  For example a single Foil Pack of Blaze Of Glory Cards will cost you close to $100.

When Decipher Games was at its zenith I used to literally get boxes full of Cards to review.  I still have all of them.  

At one point I used them to make makeshift bases for bookcases to put shelves on.  That is, until I found out that I was sitting on a goldmine.  Some of the Star Trek (and Star Wars) Cards are worth a small fortune.

About two years ago I contacted a game card dealer about purchasing the Cards.

We settled on a price.  But, here was the kicker.  The company wanted me to send the Cards to them and once they got them they would then send the money-if they approved of the Cards.

See something wrong there?  Sorry, no cash, no carry.

Here are a few stats I pulled on the Blaze of Glory Cards:

Blaze of Glory was an expansion Set released in August 1999. 

It focused on combat with the introduction of the "Tactics" side. 

Attention was given to the Klingon affiliation, which gained bat'leths, d'k tahgs, and mek'leths in game play. 

It enhanced players’ ability to capture opponent's ships and personnel. 

Blaze of Glory was also the first set to offer Foil Cards. 

The set consisted of 130 Cards contained fifty Rare, forty Uncommon and forty Common Cards, eighteen Foils and was sold in nine-Card Booster Packs. 

It was the most popular Star Trek expansion Set with players to be released for the First Edition. 

The complete printing has the distinction of being sold in less time than any other expansion set. 

Deuteronomy 20:4 - For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Sunday, February 16, 2025

Supreme Darkness and Jaden & Yubel


There’s darkness. There there’s extreme darkness. And there’s the stygian, bump-in-the-night, can’t-see-your-hand-in-front-of-your-face Supreme Darkness.

Prepare yourself for the brand-new Evil Hero monsters coming in Konami’s Shonen Jump Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Supreme Darkness!

Just when you thought it was safe to go out in the dark, Supreme Darkness strikes! Monsters lurk in hidden darkness and there’s no way you can know when they will strike. Unless...you’re the one controlling them.

Do you have what it takes to muster the courage and enter the dark and control the monsters that lurk within?

Look what you can expect in Supreme Darkness:

  • Evil versions of Elemental Heroes Bubbleman and Prisma. are coming.
  • A new version of Neos.
  • Lots of Fusion Monsters to choose from.
  • Speedroid” Cards that make Synchro Summoning a breeze.
  • Two new Pendulum/Tuner Speedroid Monsters.
  • New Synchro Monsters.
  • New Crystron Monsters.
  • New Level 2 Tuner that can Special Summon a Crystron.
  • Continuous Trap Monsters straight into the Spell and Trap Zone.
  • 101 new Cards in total.
  • A brand-new World Premiere theme.
  • 25 Quarter Century Secret Rares, including 1 Special Card.
  • 10 Secret Rares
  • 14 Ultra Rares
  • 26 Super Rares
  • 50 Commons
  • (24 of these Cards are also available as Quarter Century Secret Rare and 1 Special Card is only available as a Quarter Century Secret Rare.
  • Nine Cards come per Pack.
  • 24 Cards come per Box.

Are you afraid of the dark?

Do you need someplace to store your Cards?

How about the Jaden & Yubel Card Case that holds over 100 Cards?

The Jaden & Yubel 9-Pocket Duelist Portfolio with anti-slip pockets holds 180 Cards and don’t forget the Jaden & Yubel Game Mat that is cushioned and rubberized and measures 24 inches by 14 inches.

Play it safe, protect your YGO Cards and avoid damage by playing YGO on the Game Mat.

Ephesians 4:29 - Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.