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17 May
OP Blog - Summer's Sizzling
Summer means hot weather, running through sprinklers, and eating popsicles. We could all use some way to cool off. At least that’s what Ahune the Frost Lord believes! -
10 May
R&D Blog - Ben Stoll
R&D Blog kicks off a weekly series that introduces readers to the folks who make the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. -
09 May
OP Blog - The Hall of Champions
The Hall of Champions page is now live! -
27 Apr
OP Blog - The CZE Tour!
This summer, we want you to be able to experience the excitement of playing the game you love, with the people who make it happen. -
23 Apr
Affiliate Blog - Noblegarden Celebrations
One Affiliate decided to add a fun - and delicious - twist to his local Noblegarden celebration. -
04 Apr
Community Blog - Champions of the Month January & February
In today’s Community Blog, Christina Sims recognizes our Champions of the Black Flame of the Month for January and February 2012! -
30 Mar
R&D Blog - Keeping Everyone In Mind
R&D member Dan Clark talks about how every card has a purpose, and how sets are designed and tested with every demographic in mind. -
28 Mar
OP Blog - Convention Season
It's been a busy month for the Organized Play team, and the fun's just getting started! After all, it's convention season! -
27 Mar
Affiliate Blog - Bootcamp L.E.
Bootcamp L.E. and its members represent something that is awesome about the European World of Warcraft TCG scene. -
23 Mar
R&D Blog - Breaking Down Some Barriers
New R&D member Dan Clark talks about how in-depth the design and development process of certain cards can be. Just how many iterations did Ice Barrier go through, anyway? -
20 Mar
Affiliate Blog - TCG Browser, and an Introduction
Affiliate Program manager Mike Rosenberg kicks off a new blog this week, showcasing one of the many websites that is part of the Cryptozoic Affiliate Program. -
16 Mar
R&D Blog - Taking On Dragons
Phil Cape looks back fondly on the old school Onyxia Raid. He also talks about how R&D's bringing some of that old Raid style to the Batle of the Aspects Raid Deck. -
09 Mar
R&D Blog - Deck Building Basics
In this week's R&D Blog, Phil Cape shares his wisdom on deck building basics for players new to the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game. -
08 Mar
OP Blog - Sometimes we get it wrong
After the Honor Rewards announcement, our astute players immediately recognized that what we were trying to do was not very practical in terms of giving out an appropriate number of promo cards. As a result, it was back to the drawing board for this program. -
02 Mar
R&D Blog - Creating with Cape
Phil Cape delves further into the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game creation process in today's R&D Blog. -
01 Mar
OP Blog - Player Rewards and Event Updates
In this week's OP Blog, Christina Sims discusses the Player Rewards program, changes to the Darkmoon Faire Vegas format and gives you more information on the venue for the World Championships! -
23 Feb
R&D Blog - Living in Harmony
In this week's R&D Blog, Patrick Sullivan expounds on the Harmonize keyword mechanic and addresses some of the concerns revolving around it. -
23 Feb
OP Blog - Cloaks and Honor
Discover the new updates to the crafting program and Realm Season points! -
17 Feb
R&D Blog - Raids & Debates
Phil Cape gives us some insight on the R&D card creation process and some teasers of a future release! -
15 Feb
Community Blog - Love is in the Air
Love is in the Air at Cryptozoic, and in our community! -
10 Feb
R&D Blog – Champion Q&A
Today in our R&D Blog, members of our R&D Team answer some questions posed to them by our Champions of the Black Flame. -
09 Feb
OP Blog – Realm Qualifiers and Crown of the Heavens
With the introduction of Crown of the Heavens this week, players globally will be looking at new expansion and how these cards impact deck building for pretty much the rest of the Realm Season. -
08 Feb
Community Blog – Dragon Queen For A Day
The bet began innocently enough. Once a fellow employee mentioned a certain someone's ability to make costumes, the terms of the bet shifted dramatically. “Make the loser wear your Alexstrasza costume!” -
02 Feb
Community Blog – Champions and Cupcakes
Our World of Warcraft Trading Card Game events are exceptional due to the contributions, time, and effort of our rock star volunteers and judges. -
02 Feb
OP Blog – Darkmoon Faire Los Angeles Wrap Up
We’re grateful for all of our fans that took the time to travel and spend the weekend with the Cryptozoic Team at Darkmoon Faire Los Angeles last weekend. A few highlights from the weekend are featured in this photo blog. -
25 Jan
OP Blog – Crown of the Heaven Sneak Previews Events
This weekend there are a number of Sneak Preview locations being run around the world by the Cryptozoic Team. Come join us! -
20 Jan
Community Blog - A Note From Vanessa
Alexstrasza the Dragonqueen may be retired, but there’s a new gunslinging event waiting for you at this year’s Darkmoon Faires! -
17 Jan
R&D Blog - Phil Builds
Our newest R&D member Phil Cape gets this week's blog topic dropped on his desk -- literally. -
13 Jan
Community Blog - Introducing Christina Sims!
Give a big round of applause to Cryptozoic's latest team member. She'll be your community contact for all things WoWTCG, as well as Cryptozoic as a whole. -
11 Jan
Organized Play Blog - Darkmoon Faire Los Angeles
You are coming, right? See all the new stuff we're doing for 2012! -
10 Jan
R&D Blog - 8 Mile
Detroit's (what!) own Phil Cape joins us here at Cryptozoic Entertainment to begin living the dream: a gamer now making games! -
07 Jan
Community Blog – December’s Champion Contest Winners
For the month of December we ran a contest in which we asked our Champions to show how they could use social media to communicate with their local players and get them excited about upcoming products and events, or other news. The results were extremely positive! -
04 Jan
OP Blog – Battle for Honor, Get Rewards!
Players who play in sanctioned World of Warcraft Trading Card Game events earn honor points. Throughout the year, players earn rewards as they level up. -
22 Dec
Community Blog - Chase the Can Results
Over 50 stores worldwide participated in last week's Chase the Can Charity event and we have the results! -
21 Dec
OP Blog - 2012 Realm Qualifiers
Realm Qualifiers are coming, and we've buffed up the prizes for 2012. See the new 2012 Monster deckboxes right here! -
16 Dec
Community Blog – Tis the Season
Your enthusiasm for the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game and other Cryptozoic Entertainment products is something that we're thankful for this holiday season. We look forward to interacting with each of you in the New Year! -
14 Dec
OP Blog - Piles of Promos
Dive into this pile of promos like Scrooge McDuck! -
09 Dec
Community Blog - Chase the Can Season!
This year, hobby stores around the world will host their Chase the Can Charity Tournaments on December 17 & 18. -
08 Dec
OP Blog - The Promo Puzzle
And thus you see the puzzle in front of me. Currently, there are 38 cards on my list and each one is for a specific program that has a specific goal. -
02 Dec
Community Blog – Champions of the Month, Oct/Nov 2011
There are a great number of deserving Champions to choose to recognize, when making the decision of Champion of the Month. Today, Cryptozoic Entertainment would like to recognize two of our volunteers who have been consistently great with the titles of Champions of the Month for October and November. -
30 Nov
OP Blog – My Name Is Matthias
Hi, I'm Matthias. When it comes to Organized Play, running events, customer service and other tasks in Europe, I’m the person who is most involved. There are many elements to my job and while not every responsibility I have is all fun and games, I love my job. -
23 Nov
OP Blog – Team Up for Darkmoon Faire Baltimore
Darkmoon Faire Baltimore (April 13-15) will be Team Sealed. Each team will use six packs of Throne of the Tides and six packs of Crown of the Heavens. -
18 Nov
R&D Blog - World Championship
Head Developer Patrick Sullivan addresses the current Core metagame and forum feedback. -
16 Nov
OP Blog – Throne of the Tides Justice Redemption Is Now Live
Recently Justice Redemption cards have followed the flavor from the MMO closely, and Throne of the Tides Justice Redemption is no different. All of the gear that your online character has been outfitting himself (or herself) in as rewards from Justice Points is now available in the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game! -
10 Nov
OP Blog – Goblins of Anarchy Wrap Up
Last weekend players globally met at hobby stores in their local areas to participate in the Championship event wrapping up the Draft Rally season; the Goblins of Anarchy Showdown! -
04 Nov
Organized Play Blog - Show Them What They've Won!
The Top 16 of the World Championship will take home individually numbered Cairne, Earthmother's Chosen. -
20 Oct
OP Blog – Throne OP Policy Patch Notes
As a nod to MMO fans, we present the Throne of the Tides changes to the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game Policies Appendix in World of Warcraft MMO patch note style! -
11 Oct
Community Blog - WoWTCG Cup Recap
This week in the Community Blog, enthusiastic Champion of the Black Flame, Aric Jack, recaps The Cup series. -
05 Oct
R&D Blog - Throne of the Monsters
Did you not buy World of Warcraft Cataclysm? Well, go out and get it! And if you didn't, Drew Walker can guide you through the Monster races found in Throne of the Tides. -
22 Sep
OP Blog - State Championship Photo Blog
Over 600 World of Warcraft Trading Card Game players across North America brought their best Worldbreak block decks to compete against other local players in State Championships. -
02 Sep
Community Blog - Champion of the Month
Congratulations to Tobias Wagner, our Champion of the Month! -
30 Jul
Community Blog - Convention Season
Duck season. Convention Season. -
21 Jul
OP Blog – Twilight of the Dragons Sneak Preview Photo Blog
The Twilight of the Dragons is almost upon us, and the Cryptozoic Team had a great time seeing all of you last weekend at the Sneak Preview we hosted at our office. -
14 Jul
OP Blog – Block It Up
The last part of the Worldbreaker Block, Twilight of the Dragons, releases globally on Tuesday, July 26. Once this set releases it will become legal for Constructed play for all tournament formats, including the one I’m discussing today: Worldbreaker Block Constructed. -
09 Jul
Community Blog - Champion of the Month and Origins
In this week's Community Blog, Community Manager Mike Girard discusses our awesome booth at Origins Game Fair and he crowns his Champion of the Month. -
07 Jul
OP Blog – A Local Place to Play
Cryptozoic Entertainment is very committed to the idea of “fans first,” and we want to support our players wherever they play our games. We also want to give back to the gaming community, and provide support to the places that work hard to give you a consistent place to go play. -
01 Jul
OP Blog – Go With the Flow… Chart
Each year has a full schedule of tournament events ranging from your local hobby store’s weekly Battleground tournament to the World Championship. Included in this blog is a flow chart to help explain the flow of OP events. -
23 Jun
Community Blog - Cleaning Up Your Content 2
Last time, I wrote about pinning down what you want to write. For today’s feature, we’ll discuss the actual process of writing. -
15 Jun
OP Blog – Acing That Interview (Part 2)
We’ve had some openings in the Organized Play team, and we’ve been interviewing potential candidates for the last few weeks. Job experience is probably one of the most attractive things on a resume, but how does the average World of Warcraft TCG enthusiast get appropriate experience for the job? -
14 Jun
R&D Blog - Class Starter Decks
A significant change was giving each deck a theme. The first round of Class Starters was full of “stuff”. Some allies, some named abilities, maybe a striking weapon or two. -
12 Jun
OP Blog - Judge Seminar
I’ve hinted at this in other locations, but it’s time to officially announce it here. This year, the North American Continental Championship will play host to the 2011 Judge Seminar. -
09 Jun
OP Blog - Designing an Organized Play Program
To put it simply, the goals of our hobby store OP programs are to give World of Warcraft TCG fans a reason to get their game on and get them organized at the local hobby store level. Designing a good program that gets players to do this, maybe for the first time ever in the case of new players, is where our team comes in. -
02 Jun
Community Blog - Cleaning Up Your Content
If your goal is to eventually publish this work for the public to read, these are the questions you’ll need to ask yourself before you even hit the keyboard. -
01 Jun
OP Blog - What’s your OP up to?
I figured this would be a good time to bring you up to date on what Cryptozoic’s Organized Play team is working on globally. -
01 Jun
R&D Blog - Acing that Interview
Even if you aren’t interested with working with us specifically, these lessons can be applied just about everywhere. -
28 May
Community Blog - You Gnome Me
Today we are going to be talking about gnomes, judges, Bluegrass, Gen Con, oh…and what next week’s blog is all about! -
25 May
OP Blog - I Want My Shiny
A big component of making local hobby store events like Holiday Celebrations, or big regional events like Darkmoon Faires successful, is making sure that players are excited about the cards that they can acquire by attending, voluteering, or succeeding at these events. -
21 May
Community Blog - The World Wide Web
This week's blog entry covers strategy websites, forum clutter, the APCC, and localization. -
19 May
OP Blog - World Championship Weekend
We wanted each round to count a bit more, and the changes to the threshold give us a little more granularity in the levels. And no one lost honor, so this is just a "win-win" for everyone involved. -
12 May
Community Blog - Volunteer of the Month and More
He has been active in the community and helped organize one of the biggest World of Warcraft Trading Card Game tournament series in all of Europe, Triple Play V. -
10 May
R&D Blog - Fan Favorites
I asked the guys to take off their R&D hats and give me a card that they liked from a player perspective. -
06 May
Community Blog - What's Happening?
It's been a while. I hope to update you on a few things we have in store, as well as some fun interactions we've had with the community. -
03 May
OP Blog - For Great Honor
So here’s a preview of the Honor Calculator. It’s using live data, but we’re still doing some testing so it’s possible you might find some rough edges here and there. -
29 Apr
Community Blog - Making Your Own Fun
This week we are going to talk about a few new events that are happening around the world. We will take a look at a big event coming up in Germany and a few Champions have organized the first Facebook Team Face-Off. -
27 Apr
R&D Blog - Specific Generics
How do we go about making attractive generic cards that don’t scream, “Put me into every deck that you build!”? -
15 Apr
Community Blog - Under the Tucson Sun
You don’t have to Top 8 a DMF or win a Realm Championship to become well known in this game; all you have to do is show that you are dedicated, put in the hard work, and have a great personality. -
14 Apr
OP Blog - OP's OGs
Let’s take a look at the exciting life of Organized Play. Some might call this “OP OG”. But not Alex Charsky, because he has no idea who Public Enemy, Kool Moe Dee, or Rob Base are. -
13 Apr
R&D Blog - Grumpherys Vanity Card
The World of Warcraft TCG has a rich history of some less-than-serious cards. I love making these cards, and I think it’s important that we have the right amount of them. Here’s a short and incomplete history. -
08 Apr
Community Blog - North by Northwest
Thank you to all the active community members up in the 1-5 area for doing such incredible things, and best of luck to all the players out there battling for the 1-5 Cup! -
01 Apr
Community Blog - Friends Around the World
This week, the Community Blog features community previews, DMF Beijing, PAX East, and the upcoming Cryptozoic Affiliate program. -
30 Mar
OP Blog - Epic Con
Our plan is simple – we have a chance to give back to the community by sponsoring the convention so there are no badge costs for attendees as we don’t need to make any money from them. -
28 Mar
R&D Blog - Class Distinction
We’re much better off seeding a variety of “sideways” answers to cards that don’t destroy cards outright, but instead give the player a different way of handling the card in question. -
25 Mar
Community Blog - CZE Visits Chicago
...it's 2000+ miles to Chicago, we got multiple plane tickets, packed bags, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses... -
24 Mar
OP Blog - Time is Money
This week we were reviewing my notes from the World Cup, and one of the things I wanted to look at was the time limits, specifically of the quarterfinals. -
22 Mar
R&D Blog - Battlemasters
Players ask us all the time things like “Why can’t Hunter destroy abilities?” First of all, they can. But that’s not what they’re asking. They’re asking, “Why can’t Hunters get Dispel Magic?” -
17 Mar
Greetings From China!
To celebrate Darkmoon Faire Beijing happening this weekend, I'm handing over our community blog to community member IRIS from China with her 2010 WoWTCG Annual Championship Tournament report. -
14 Mar
R&D Blog - How to Succeed in Cards Without Really Trying
The whole thing got me to thinking, “Am I better suited as a competitive card player now than I was when I was actually trying to play card games competitively?” -
11 Mar
Community Blog - We're Hitting the Road
First up is GAMA in Las Vegas. The trade show is for manufacturers, distributors, and hobby store retailers. This is one of the first chances that manufacturers can show hobby retailers new and exciting products that are debuting this year. -
11 Mar
OP Blog - World Cup
Now that I’m back in the office and working on my review, and I was just reading through some of the comments about this weekend and wanted to compare them to my list of things to improve for 2012. -
07 Mar
R&D Blog - The History of a King
My first effort tried to tell the story of Dwarves’ legendary resolve – they became more powerful with the loss of their king. (Also, notice my sweet name.) -
02 Mar
Community Blog - World of Warcraft TCG Affiliate Program
First off, you’ll be able to identify yourself as a World of Warcraft Trading Card Game affiliate by displaying a graphic badge on your website. You’re in the club! Whooo! -
28 Feb
R&D Blog - Intuition
When designing individual cards, there can often be confusing interactions in the rules. This is unavoidable. Still, the desire to fulfill expectations can guide us towards an answer. -
25 Feb
Community Blog - The WoWTCG Cup
Enter a new Champion of the Black Flame run tournament series. A couple of the more motivated volunteers got together and decided to form such a tournament series. This series of events are collectively called the WoW TCG Cup. -
23 Feb
OP Blog - World Cup
We think this is a very cool way to capture the group competition, but also creates a bit of a hurdle. -
22 Feb
R&D Blog - The Card Whisperer
Ben Cichoski writes in this week with an entry about cards getting "blown up"-- sending them back to the drawing board. He'll show you how cards are identified as problems and gives one example of a card that slipped through the cracks. -
18 Feb
Community Blog - Champion of the Month and China
Mike G takes time to congratulate his Champion of the Month, and Will Brinkman dishes a few pictures from his trip to China. -
17 Feb
OP Blog - Fighting for Honor
If you’re reading this, there are two things that you need to do to make sure your Honor Points are always correct and you earn ranks and rewards. -
14 Feb
R&D Blog - Playtesting
Since players “play-test” and R&D “play-tests”, there is an assumption that these are roughly the same thing. In fact, not all of my time is spent doing what most people call “play-testing” -
11 Feb
Community Blog - Picture Time
This image was pulled off of the “the awesome stuff that we are currently working on” corkboard. -
10 Feb
OP Blog - Darkmoon Faire Wrap-Up
We’d like to extend a big “Thank You!” to everyone that braved canceled flights and clogged highways and made it down to hang out with us. -
07 Feb
R&D Blog - The Game is Afoot
You also need to observe how difficult mechanics are to learn, where the fun is, whether people want to play again, game length, turn length, the amount of interaction and a laundry list of other things. -
04 Feb
Community Blog - The Mad House
We all come from different backgrounds; some have extensive high-level tournament experience and others are playing their first TCG. -
02 Feb
OP Blog - Coming Up Through the Ranks
I even got to the point where I knew about 80% of the rules for Star Fleet Battles – if you’ve ever played this game, you know just how scary that is. -
31 Jan
R&D Blog - The Ups and Downs of Development
If we ask the right questions and answer them accurately, I believe we can maximize the amount of fun all players have at every level of play. -
27 Jan
Community Blog - For the Mind and Body
“It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?” – Yahoo Serious. -
26 Jan
OP Blog - It's Your Turn
We’ve been running these things called Realm Qualifiers for the last three weekends. And simply put – response has been insane. Average attendance is well over double what it was in Spring 2010. -
24 Jan
R&D Blog - Why You Should Make Games
They also told other people about it. Not in a “Hey, we have this weird son who makes games out of push pins, and we’re looking for a counselor” way, but in a “Hey, guess what cool thing our son did?” sort of way. -
20 Jan
Community Blog - Hey, That's You!
For today’s Community blog entry, I’m going to talk about one of the best things to come out of Cryptozoic, the Champions of the Black Flame program. -
19 Jan
Organized Play Blog - Why You Should Sanction Every Tournament
Welcome to the Organized Play blog, featuring Director of OP Ben Drago. Today he'll introduce you to the new Honor system (same function, better transparency) and why sanctioning matters. -
18 Jan
Welcome to the R&D Blog
I am often asked, “How did you get this job?” The emphasis is generally placed on one of two words: Emphasis on “How”—Implies “Holy crap your job is cool. How does someone get into the industry?” Emphasis on “You”—Implies “I can’t believe you of all people have this job.” -
17 Dec
Welcome to the World of Warcraft TCG home page!
We know it's been a bit of a wait, but I think it's worth it to have a world class home for the World of Warcraft TCG. It's clean, fast, and will grow with us over the years. We've made sure that every page can be easily updated, so it will also be the authorative source for all things related to the World of Warcraft TCG.
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