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News | Updates | InformationRules Changes for April 2017
As Epic Card Game changes over time, so too must its rules change. After a successful 2016 season, we reflected back on play at Epic Worlds and also saw how Epic Digital would impact the game going forward. After months of testing we have concluded that the following...
April Fools from Wise Wizard Games!
This was our April Fools article for 2017, including the video that we spent almost an hour working on. Please enjoy! Hi everybody! We are very excited to announce the Wise Wizard Games Premium Deck-Shuffling service! This is something we have been working on for a...
How I Prepped for Worlds, and other stories
In our Epic Guest Blogger series, we welcome Nicholas Heal, Epic 2016 World Championship competitor and all-around good guy. Hello! I'm Nicholas Heal, a 25-year-old card game enthusiast from Wakefield, MA! I recently competed in the Epic World...
Epic Card Game Digital
You've been asking for this since we first launched the Epic Card Game, and here it is! Like Star Realms, you can play cross-platform for a single price. If you are not yet an Epic Card Game player, the app will be a great way to learn to play. Kickstarter backers...
Epic Organized Play in 2017
2016 saw the crowning of our first World Champion and over $100,000 in cash prizes awarded. We will continue to create a great competitive environment for Epic Card Game in 2017 with a renewed focus on in-store events, the creation of a new Grand Qualifier program,...
The Ruling Class: Judging and Jennifer Lawrence
THE RULING CLASS by Ian Taylor Running tournaments can be intimidating, and being the judge...the one to answer questions, to keep it fun and fair, and deal with player-generated fires, that’s a job that people will avoid. So in this series, I’m going to talk about...
Epic Card Game Banned and Restricted Promotion
When your $10 rare gets banned from Standard, that is a bad feeling. When your $20 mythic rare gets banned, that is an even worse feeling. Epic Card Game is the strategy card game of mythic battles, designed by two Hall of Famers. Robert Dougherty and Darwin Kastle...
Dark Draft – Considering the Review Period by Josiah Fiscus
Dark Draft - Considering the Review Period This is a guest blogpost by Josiah Fiscus. Josiah Fiscus is a 31-year-old gamer from Pittsburgh, PA who has been playing CCGs and designer board games for over two decades. When he’s...
Epic Worlds 2016: A Retrospective by Josiah Fiscus
Epic Worlds 2016: A Retrospective This is a guest blogpost by Josiah Fiscus. Josiah Fiscus is a 31-year-old gamer from Pittsburgh, PA who has been playing CCGs and designer board games for over two decades. When he’s not...
Epic World Championships Retrospective
Nathan Davis is an editor and associate designer of Epic Card Game. This article is the first in a series of articles discussing Epic World Championship 2016 at Wise Wizards Game Fair. PART ONE: THE ROAD TO WORLDS The 2016 Epic World Championship is in the books, and...
Guest Post: Epic Combos and Rules Part II, by Derek Arnold
Epic Combos and Rules: Part II Expanding on my previous combo article, I bring you more combos! Some of these you may have seen before. Others may be new. They’re intended to be more fun than anything else. However, you may find yourself in a draft where you can take...
Epic Card Game Top 8 World Championship Report from Jonah Acosta
This is a guest blogpost by Jonah Acosta, who was in the Top 8 of the 2016 Epic Card Game World Championship. My name is Jonah Acosta. I am a 25 year old gamer from Poughkeepsie, New York. I am an Engineer for The RIU Hotel down in New York City where I spend most...
Lore: Cry Havoc
EPIC Cry Havoc by Ian Taylor The girl was most definitely lost. The city gate of Covenant was at least a mile away, but in what direction? She had no idea. The occasional glint of the sun that peeked between the high branches of the forest gave her few clues, and...
Epic Worlds 2016 Final Match
The Epic World Championship 2016 is in the books and we have a World Champion -- John Tatian! We are putting together a retrospective on the entire event and will be posting a lot more content to our YouTube channel in the near future (so please subscribe!). But, in...
Epic Card Game World Championship 2016 Tournament Report from Will Morgan
This is a guest blogpost from Will Morgan. Will is a gamer and programmer. He manages engineers at Factual, a startup based in Los Angeles, where he lives with his fiancee Nancy. In his free time, he writes simulation software to help him find winning strategies for...
Epic Worlds 2016: A Retrospective
This is a guest blogpost by Josiah Fiscus. Josiah Fiscus is a 31-year-old gamer from Pittsburgh, PA who has been playing CCGs and designer board games for over two decades. When he’s not at the game table, you’ll find him playing drums and serving as a deacon in his...
Darwin’s Take on Drafting Epic Card Game
This is a blogpost written by Darwin Kastle, Lead Developer of Epic Card Game. When drafting Epic, I have specific goals that I’m trying to accomplish with my picks. One of my biggest goals is being able to keep my hand size at the maximum of seven cards over the...
Epic Tournament Rules and You
The Epic tournament rules have been posted here. For most experienced tournament players, there are no real surprises. -Shuffle your deck properly -Don’t cheat -Don’t be a jerk -This is what Constructed and Limited are -Don’t be mean to judges. And so forth… ...