The Lord of the Rings and Arkham Horror Living Card Games – Expansions…
You may have noticed that we now carry the base game for both The Lord of the Rings and Arkham Horror Card Games. These are Living Card Games (LCG) where sets are released at a regular pace, generally once a month. We were on the ground floor with Marvel Champions, but with COVID that is a bit mixed up right now. In any case, I just wanted to let you know that we are in the process of obtaining expansions for both The Lord of the Rings and Arkham Horror. I have three initial orders coming in, starting Tuesday with the other two orders following close behind. Once these three orders come in it will take me a bit to get them loaded in the shop. For expansions not in these initial orders, they will be on backorder status and we will add them as they become available.
As you probably know, there are dozens of expansions for both games, so I figured it'd be easiest to show you what we have coming in, in case you were looking to pick up a specific one and didn't want to sort thru them once they hit the site. BTW, I've modified the shop layout so the all of the board games we carry now fall into different categories - of which Card Games is one. There were just too many products to keep everything in one page.
The Lord of the Rings
Arriving in the next 4 - 15 days:
MEC02 Hunt for Gollum
MEC03 Conflict at the Carrock
MEC04 A Journey to Rhosgobel
MEC05 The Hills of Emyn Muil
MEC06 The Dead Marshes
MEC07 Return to Mirkwood
MEC08 Khazad-dum Deluxe
MEC09 The Redhorn Gate
MEC13 Foundations of Stone
MEC14 Shadow and Flame
MEC16 The Hobbit - Over Hill and Under Hill
MEC19 The Druadan Forest
MEC20 Encounter at Amon Din
MEC21 Assault on Osgiliath
MEC22 The Blood of Gondor
MEC23 The Morgul Vale
MEC31 The Antlered Crown
MEC34 The Road Darkens
MEC40 Escape from Mount Gram
MEC42 The Treachery of Rhudaur
MEC43 The Battle of Carn Dum
MEC47 The Grey Havens Deluxe
MEC48 Flight of the Stormcaller
MEC49 The Thing in the Depths
MEC50 Temple of the Deceived
MEC51 The Drowned Ruins
Arkham Horror
Arriving in the next 4 - 15 days:
AH02 The Dunwich Legacy
AH04 The Essex County Express
AH07 Where Doom Awaits
ACH11 The Path to Carcosa
ACH14 A Phantom of Truth
ACH18 The Labyrinths of Lunacy
ACH19 The Forgotten Age
ACH20 Thread of Fate
ACH21 The Boundary Beyond
ACH22 Heart of the Elders
ACH23 The City of Archives
ACH24 The Depths of Yoth
ACH25 Shattered Aeons
ACH26 Return of the Night of the Zealot
ACH27 Guardians of the Abyss
ACH28 Return to the Dunwich
ACH29 The Circle Undone
ACH30 The Secret Name
ACH31 The Wages of Sin
AHC32 For the Greater Good
ACH33 Union and Disillusion
ACH34 In the Clutches of Chaos
ACH35 Before the Black Throne
ACH36 Return to the Path to Carcosa
AHC38 Murder at the Excelsior Hotel
AHC39 The Search for Kadath
ACH40 A Thousand Shapes of Horror
AHC41 Dark Side of the Moon
ACH43 Where the Gods Dwell
The items missing from this list are on backorder status. We do not know when, or if items on backorder status will be released. Also, the majority of these items were extremely limited in initial quantities, so if there is something in particular you want...you may want to grab it quickly. Once we see how popular these are we can better gauge restocks in the future.
Also, this may not be the time, but we hear about the cost of these games quite a bit. Obviously you could consider my opinion tainted because...you know, I run a shop... but, from Eric the Player's perspective, Living Card Games are really cost effective vs. my other card game passion - Magic the Gathering, which is a Collectible Card Game. So, with MTG, I purchase packs of cards - and I do not know what cards are in the pack, only that there is a single rare or mythic rare, three uncommon, with the rest of the pack common cards. Packs may or may not have a token, foil, etc. So, in order to get the cards I want, I'm going to spend quite a bit in raw packs to grab the right cards. The draw of LCGs is, a pack is a pack. You know what cards you are going to get and if you want to skip a theme or a few decks...no harm, no foul as the game keeps chugging along. All of the additional LCG cards just add to the base game, and across the board make the game so much better over time. So, for Eric the Player, LCGs are actually way more cost effective than my CCGs...but I find the funding to pay for them both...but that's just me. Which is also why I'm not into more than one CCG 😀 Do you have a similar story?
This is great, glad you restocked on some of these older expansions. I just got into LOTR LCG, when I’m ready for my next expansion I’ll be ordering from you. I hate ordering on Amazon and prefer to support game shops but my local shops don’t carry the older LOTR expansions.
That’s great to hear! Yes, we actually are working on obtaining even more of the older sets too – but those are a ways out. The next opportunity that we may score more is around the second week of July. We have our fingers crossed 😀 Take care! –Eric
Great! Thanks for the reply, I like what you do. Hope more people discover you.