Living Card Games

A Living Card Game® (LCG®) offers an innovative fixed distribution method that differs from a traditional trading card game model. While they still offer the same dynamic, expanding, and constantly evolving gameplay that makes TCGs so much fun, an LCG utilizes a “what you see is what you get” model, allowing players to engage directly with the content that excites them the most.

The Core Set is the starting point of any LCG, serving as the gateway into the game at large as well as the perfect place to learn the rules. Each Core Set comes with all the things you need to get started, including enough cards and materials for up to 4 players to jump in and try out any of the game’s primary deckbuilding archetypes. The box also has a handful of scenarios to serve as your first few games, forming a perfect, self-contained introductory experience. With all that, you can think of a Core Set as a toolbox that gives you everything you need to continue exploring the game line at your own pace!

A cadence of expansions, each with a full playset of fixed cards, provide ongoing and regular additions to the available card pool throughout the year. These expansions are divided into two main types: “player expansions,” which add new deckbuilding and customization options to the card pool; and “story expansions,” which primarily add new story and campaign content for players to challenge with their decks. Note that, in some cases—primarily with Marvel Champions: The Card Game—there may be some overlap between the two, such as a story expansion also containing some new player cards. Either way, these expansions all add more variety and an ongoing sense of theme to your experience with the game, ensuring that everything continues to evolve in new and exciting ways.

Our Living Card Game Catalog

Our current catalog of Living Card Games features three cooperative, scenario-based games in which players combine their efforts to face off against different scenarios that are all run by the game itself. Whether you want to join the fight against an ancient evil in 1920s Arkham, Massachusetts; build a fellowship to save Middle-earth from the threat of Sauron; or don the mask and cape of a superhero and thwart the schemes of notorious villains, Living Card Games deliver the experience you’re looking for.

Arkham Horror: The Card Game

The boundaries between worlds have drawn perilously thin. Incomprehensible monsters lurk behind every shadow, sinister cultists entangle innocent lives in their insidious plots, and all the while the world slowly creeps toward inevitable doom. Only a handful of intrepid investigators can solve these mysteries before it’s too late, but the question remains: are they up to the task?

Arkham Horror: The Card Game is a cooperative Living Card Game® set amid a backdrop of Lovecraftian horror. As the Ancient Ones seek entry to our world, one to four investigators work together to unravel arcane mysteries and conspiracies. Their efforts determine not only the course of each individual game, but carry forward throughout whole campaigns, challenging them to overcome their personal demons even as Arkham Horror: The Card Game blurs the distinction between the card game and roleplaying experiences.

The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game

The power of Shadow threatens to engulf Middle-earth, enslaving the Free Peoples to the Dark Lord's will. A glimmer of hope lies with those willing to stand stalwart against the influence of Sauron. However, it will take the combined might of many to stand against the Dark Lord's legions, and time is growing short.

Set upon the rich backdrop of J.R.R. Tolkien's renowned fantasy world of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game was the first of our cooperative LCGs, and its legacy continues even to this day. Designed for one to four players, The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game puts players in control of a customized party of heroes armed with a variety of allies, attachments, and events from four different spheres of influence. Through perseverance and teamwork, players coordinate their efforts and face down Middle-earth’s most dangerous fiends.

Marvel Champions: The Card Game

Iron Man and Black Panther team up to stop the rampaging Rhino from tearing his way through the streets of New York. Captain Marvel and Spider-Man battle the dangerous Ultron as he threatens global annihilation. There are powerful villains everywhere, plotting to take over or destroy the world, and it will take some equally mighty heroes to swoop in and save the day. Do you have what it takes to join their ranks?

Marvel Champions: The Card Game invites one to four players to embody the iconic heroes from Marvel Comics as they battle infamous villains and try to stop them from enacting their devious schemes. Each hero has their own strengths and abilities, and players can customize their hero’s deck with different heroic aspects, each with its own area of expertise. The scenarios are likewise customizable, with modular encounter sets allowing you to adjust the difficulty or mix up the forces arrayed against you. Mix and match to your heart’s content and create your own heroic adventures!