Grab three friends and roll the dice to see who gets to be the Lich King -- Cryptozoic Entertainment just released the
Assault on Icecrown Citadel four-player game! The game is built on the
WoW Trading Card Game, but rather than having to build and use your own deck, you take control of decks themed around Icecrown's biggest heroes: Tirion Fordring, Sylvanas Windrunner, and Jaina Proudmoore. Each hero plays differently, and you'll need all of their unique abilities and weapons to defeat the Lich King, also controlled by a player. To top it off, it's packaged with a special Treasure Pack containing cards unique to the set and Worldbreaker loot cards.
I was lucky enough to get to play the game before its release, and I can vouch for its fun factor. Being able to play as a lore hero instead of an average Joe gives the game a really epic feeling.
The Assault on Icecrown Citadel game retails for $39.99 and is available at retailers now.
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Mar 4th 2011 at 6:00PM 
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
vertigobliss86 Mar 4th 2011 6:38PM
Got mine in the mail today. Although I'd rather have my raid decks fight the Lich King instead of a preconstructed deack =C
Peddel Mar 5th 2011 7:42AM
You can use your own constructed decks, but you might need to tweak the rules a bit (like all the ingame bosses have 'Will of the Forsaken')
Bapo Mar 4th 2011 8:23PM
The game is built on the WoW Trading Card Game, but rather than having to build and use your own deck, you take control of decks themed around Icecrown's biggest heroes: Tirion Fordring, Sylvanas Windrunner, and Jaina Proudmoore.
So what you're saying is...
The player who uses the Tirion deck won't be able to do anything until the last turn, and the person who uses the Jaina deck will start crying and not really do anything? Gotcha. :P
Idk, I'm kinda surprised they used Jaina (not really, but ~kinda~) I mean, why not use a Mograine deck instead (granted, a redundancy in undead stuff)
Pyromelter Mar 4th 2011 8:58PM
I think it would be a really cool retcon if jaina, sylvanas, garrosh, and varian were all considered to be in the actual fight with arthas. And the consider the aftermath:
Garrosh stands over the fallen Arthas and lets out an orcish howl of victory
Sylvanas approaches the fallen Arthas and says something like "I have my revenge - now die like the foul prince you once were"
Varian steps back stoicly and says something to Tirion like "It is done," then turns to Garrosh and says "With this victory, we will recall our forces from Northrend. We will have no further quarrel with you here," and then walks off.
Jaina, it is only fitting that her magic give the killing blow - it would considered her frostbolt or fireball or pyroblast or whatever that delivered the final blow. After delivering the final magic missile, she collapses near Tirion, crying.
Tirion, watching everything, helps Jaina up and as she's sobbing on his shoulder, says something like "Be at peace. I know this is a bitter moment, but you have triumphed over your tragedy today." As Varian is walking away, Tirion helps Jaina over to him, and Varian leads her away while Garrosh and Sylvanas also walk into a sunsetting type scene.
After that, Tirion watches the scene between Arthas and Terenas, and the scene with bolvar plays out.
That's how I remember it anyway :)
DrPestilence Mar 4th 2011 10:32PM
@Pyromelter, Nice. Think that's how I'll remember it now too.
Bart Mar 5th 2011 5:43AM
I have the Cata CE deck...but nobody to play against =