WoW TCG Black Temple Raid Deck Now Out
WarCry Network : Latest News — ... Servants of the Betrayer TCG expansion with potent new abilities and allies, while the fixed 12-card treasure pack ensures that everyone will get their hands on some powerful loot -- including Illidan's legendary twin Warglaives of Azzinoth. Plus, for the first time ever, certain Raid Deck cards are playable in constructed decks. Head over to www.wowtcg.com to pick up the Black Temple Raid Deck or find out more about the best-selling TCG. The official trading card site can be found HERE .

WoWTCGLoot giving away more TCG loot
WoW.com — ... with all of that loot -- to celebrate the release of six (!) new tabards from Upper Deck, they're giving away twelve of them in total. To ...

Blizzard's version of RMT
WoW.com — Filed under: Patches, Odds and ends, Blizzard, Making money, Wrath of the Lich King, WoW TCG Real-money trading is one of the most debated aspects of MMO gaming at large -- some games don't actually charge a monthly fee, and instead what they do is sell ingame ...

Upper Deck Day coming February 7-8, 2009
WoW.com — ... Our good friends at Upper Deck have announced a day of tournaments, demos, and giveaways at a hobby store near you. Upper Deck Day is being held February 7-8, 2009, and the event will feature a WoW TCG beginner's tournament, as well as on-site demos of the new WoW minis game. If you've never played either of these games, this is the perfect chance to check them out -- mark your calendars now, and bring a friend to check out the other ways to play World of Warcraft. They haven't yet released the list of locations for the event, but Upper Deck ...

Breakfast Topic: So far, so good?
WoW.com — ... Wow. It's already the end of January. Time flies by so fast that one twelfth of 2009 is already finished. Now would probably a good time as any to ask how you've done so far in ...

What 3.1 means for PvP
WoW.com — ... Wow. Have you caught your breath yet? Patch 3.1 looks like it's going to be a massive one, with the promise of Ulduar and now a preview of some of the upcoming class changes. Things are to change quite a bit. While a lot of the changes apply to PvE, Blizzard ...

The Light and How to Swing It: What dual specs mean for the class
WoW.com — ... So. Dual specs. More than any other class except, perhaps, for those freakish shapeshifting Druids, dual specs will have a great impact on Paladins. For one, it will save a lot of money on respec costs. I spend at least 600 Gold a week on respecs ...

Blood Pact: What dual specs mean for the class
WoW.com — ... Welcome to another edition of Blood Pact! I'd held off writing one because we've got a surprise for you guys as a new, better, shinier Warlock columnist is coming on board to give you the all the infernal goodness (or badness, if you prefer) you need. But ...

The Light and How to Swing It: The Tankadin for Dummies
WoW.com — ... I know a lot of you have asked for this, and I know I haven't been delivering on the tanking front, so here it is. Today, we focus solely on Paladin tanks, who in my very humble opinion make the absolute best tanks in the game. With dual specs looming on ...

Hearthstones down to 30 minute cooldown in 3.1
WoW.com — ... Alright, so they killed ghetto hearthing. Blizzard never intended the instance boot system to be used as means to travel back to one's home city while Hearthstones were on cooldown, so they're setting things right in Patch 3.1 by making it port players to ...

Breakfast Topic: Wonderful toys
WoW.com — ... you see, so when there's an opportunity to exercise this little obsession, I indulge in it. So when I heard about the toy shop in Dalaran, I was absolutely thrilled. I got myself the Train Set (well, actually, my wife gave me the money to buy it), and proceeded to disrupt every raid I could. Of course, when the train destroyer comes to town, I'm picking one up, too, just to be able to make my own train wreck. What other toys would you like to see in-game? I mean, Upper Deck's next expansion, the Blood of Gladiators, has a bunch of new stuff for us to ...

Retribution should branch out
WoW.com — Filed under: Paladin, ForumsAfter admitting that Retribution DPS isn't quite where they want it to be in the current build of Patch 3.1, Ghostcrawler illuminates us a little bit about the direction they wish to take with the spec. He explains that the Retribution tree is one tree where players would go 0/ 0/ 71 if players could (if they put Divine Strength in the Retribution tree, he might even be completely right!). Blizzard would like to increase Retribution's DPS but are looking into making talents in other trees ...

Patch 3.1 PTR build 9658 Paladin changes
WoW.com — ... So the new PTR build dropped, and it doesn't look very pretty for Holy Paladins. Before we get into the grim side of things, it looks like ...

Patch 3.1 PTR build 9658 Warrior changes
WoW.com — Filed under: Warrior, Patches, Analysis / Opinion, PvPMatthew's caught up in the tangle of this thing called RL, so don't be surprised to have a different voice going over the Warrior changes this build. Don't worry, though, it looks as though most of the changes this round are aimed squarely at PvP, so I'm covering for him in the meantime. I'd like to call this build the Brown Pants Edition for PvP Warriors. Are you ready? Get a pair of brown pants, because you'll need them. Battle Stance - Increases the ...

The Light and How to Swing It: The Tankadin for Dummies Again
WoW.com — ... Where were we? Ah, yes, tanking. Last time, we took a look at some basics of Paladin tanking, namely a few things about survivability. That's just the tip of the iceberg. When I said tanking was the most technical play style in the game, it's because ...

New TCG expansion Blood of Gladiators out
WoW.com — ... Upper Deck has officially released the latest expansion in the WoW Trading Card Game -- the Blood of Gladiators is the game's eighth expansion set (can you believe this game has been around for three years already?), and features new PvP action, including a new Duel Faction Ally card and a new Arena setting in the Gurubashi Arena. There are three new characters in the game as well, coming straight from the pages of the World of Warcraft comic, with art by none other than Jim Lee. And of course it's ...

WoW Insider interviews WoW manga series editor Troy Lewter
WoW.com — Filed under: Features, Interviews, Wrath of the Lich King, Comics One of the most suprising successes of a franchise which includes the Trading Card Game, figures, books and even Mountain Dew is actually the World of Warcraft manga published by TOKYOPOP. Given that the game has actually been shaped by the characters and lore introduced in the manga (and vice versa), I decided it was high time we sat down with series editor Troy Lewter and writer Dan Jolley. We're posting Troy's interview today while the interview with Dan Jolley ...

Finally an answer on Gnomes in the cinematics
WoW.com — Filed under: Gnomes, Analysis / Opinion, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Odds and ends, Blizzard, NPCsWe've very closely covered the lack of Gnomes in any of Blizzard's major cinematic pieces so far. We had hoped to see them in the Wrath cinematic, but of course Blizzard went a completely new direction with that one (retelling the story of Arthas rather than showing players fighting), and so they weren't there either. In fact, the problem has gotten so bad that at least one person has remade the Burning Crusade cinematic, ...

Field of Heroes loot cards artwork revealed
WoW.com — Filed under: News items, Expansions, Mounts, WoW TCG Last week, we told you all about the giant chicken known as El Pollo Grande (now reincarnated as a mount). His presence was revealed thanks to a little datamining by MMO Champion's Boubouille. This giant chicken ...

Try out Fields of Honor loot on the PTR
WoW.com — Filed under: News items, Mounts, WoW TCG Reader Kongzai Normal 0 false ...

Death Knight class arrives in the TCG
WoW.com — ... Upper Deck has announced that the Death Knight class is coming to the WoW trading card game. Just like in the MMO, the class plays differently than any other -- their website has a series of previews posted that show ...

Fields of Honor on sale tomorrow
WoW.com — ... , Upper Deck International here in the UK have very kindly given us a set of shiny European loot cards. Isn't that nice of them? We certainly think so! We're going to give them away during this week's maintenance so check back then. ...

WoW TCG: Fields of Honor Released!
WoW Vault - The Ultimate Resource — WoW TCG: Fields of Honor Released! [ Comment [image] ] Print News | Category: World of Warcraft News - TCG Fields of Honor, the latest expansion to the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, has been released! With all new loot cards, hero cards, and resource cards based around the World of Warcraft battlegrounds. This expansion also includes weapon and armor cards for the Death Knight hero class. Head over to Upper Deck’s World of Warcraft Trading Card Game site to learn more ! [image] -- Sprawl @ Thursday, 2 Jul, 2009 [image]

DC Unlimited Premium Series 2 features Thrall and a Gnome Warlock
WoW.com — ... , we get multiple press releases and it gets posted on their main site, but whenever a new set of figures comes out, we always have to find it hidden in among all the ...

Blizzard fights scammers with TCG mount changes
WoW.com — Blizzard has confirmed what we have speculated about: the change to make Upper Deck Trading Card Game mounts Bind-on-Use instead of BoP is specifically to combat scammers. Currently, if you have a loot code, you redeem it and then "purchase" the mount from an NPC vendor. The mount immediately becomes ...

PTR Patch 3.2.2: New pets and mounts revealed
WoW.com — Once again, our friend Boubouille over at MMO Champion has been a busy boy. With the surprise announcement that the PTRs were up for the testing of the WoW Anniversary Patch (aka patch 3.2.2), he's been digging deep into the patch files and guess what he found? Well the big news is ...

Reminder: Come meet WoW.com at BlizzCon
WoW.com — One of the highlights of the past two BlizzCons for me is our annual reader meetup -- every Thursday evening before the show starts, we usually invite you all out to mingle and chat with us so we can all party in expectation of all the fun stuff we'll see at the show. This year will be no exception, though the meetup is definitely bigger and better than ever. As we've previously announced, we'll be at the Anabella Hotel in the Tangerine Patio, and the event will kick off this Thursday, August 20th at 7:30pm Pacific. If you're going to BlizzCon or if you're just in LA and want to come see us, feel ...

Upper Deck awards TCG and minis North American Continental Champions
WoW.com — ... there, there was just too much going on to pay attention to the 2009 North American Continental Championships for the WoW minis and TCGs, which took place right there in the TCG hall. Fortunately, the official site covered it all, so if you're a fan of the trading card game and want to know who the best current players in North America are, there you go. ...

Reminder: WoW.com BlizzCon meetup tonight at 7:30pm
WoW.com — This is it. The day has come. This evening at 7:30pm on the Tangerine Patio at the Anabella Hotel in Anaheim, we'll be hosting our annual BlizzCon meetup, and trust us: it's sure to be amazing. There's the people, for one thing: many of your favorite WoW.com writers will be in attendance, ready to talk some shop with you. Many of our friends and neighbors in the WoW community will be stopping by as well -- we can't name names, but let's just say that if you've ever seen or heard them on WoW.com, they'll probably be there. Then there's the prizes: Upper Deck, Steelseries, ...

Live Ustream of the WoW.com reader meet-up
WoW.com — Live Broadcasting by Ustream Looks like the gang's getting started at the Tangerine Patio of the Annabella Hotel, and we've got the live Ustream feed here so you can hang out virtually! If you're in the Anaheim area, swing by to say hello to the gang, and we've got prizes and giveaways from Upper Deck, Steelseries, WoWTCGLoot.com, Swagdog, and Creative Labs in addition to guests, a (we hope functional) kitchen and a cash bar! We may be able to give prizes away to virtual attendees as well, so hang tight. More ...

Patch 3.2.2 PTR: Confirmed TCG loot for Scourgewar, Ghostcrawler finally gives us that pony
WoW.com — With news of all these pets leaking out onto the interweb and the patch 3.2.2 PTR build being updated, I figured it was high time to nip to Booty Bay to visit Landro Longshot. He's usually a great source for finding out what we can expect in the Trading Card Game. Sure enough, he was updated with ...

The Art of War(craft): Absolute beginners' guide to Arathi Basin
WoW.com — Zach loves the Battlegrounds. He could probably play World of Warcraft entirely though the Battlegrounds, because he's kind of lame like that. If he could have the word 'Battlegrounds' tattooed on his rump, he totally wouldn't... because dude, that's just wrong. A couple ...

Breakfast Topic: An ode to the WoW TCG
WoW.com — I'll be up front and admit that I don't play Upper Deck's World of Warcraft TCG. If I had oodles disposable income and the time, though, I totally would. It's just that between the MMOG and, uh, real life it seems pretty difficult to find time to collect cards, build decks, and find people to play with or ...

Double Dipping: Greed or Necessity?
Yeebo Fernbottom's MMO Love In — Whether we like it or not, it seems than mainstream sub based MMOs are switching to a “double dipping” approach where they charge us a sub fee (or an enormous lifetime access fee up front) for access to their servers and then try to get us to pay for additional content and services on top of that. Sony has been doing it for years in Everquest II. They were the first to have paid “mini expansions” in between the release of full expansions, they were the first to have RMT servers where they take a cut of all the action, and they recently added trading card games ...

Local paper profiles TCG $50k winner
WoW.com — This is cool -- after local paper the Winter Park/Maitland Observer (near Orlando, Florida) heard that the winner of Upper Deck's last WoW TCG World Championships was from the same area, they went and found him, fittingly, in a game store. William Postlewaite, a.k.a. Billy P, won $50,000 just for ...