Cryptozoic announces Battle of the Aspects raid deck
by Mathew McCurley 
Mar 15th 2012 at 12:00PM
Raid decks allow players to take on the role of one of the four dragon aspects fighting against Deathwing. Each character has unique abilities and are displayed on oversized hero cards with (presumably) beautiful-as-always Cryptozoic art.
The coolest feature, in my opinion, is that Deathwing himself has different tentacles that you can add to the game that increase his power and the game's overall challenge. Cryptozoic promises that even veteran players will be up against the wall if they play on the hardest setting. There are even achievement cards that force you to change the rules or play the game differently in order to meet a new goal and still come out victorious. Suffice it to say, there's a lot of replayability.
Battle of the Aspects is part of the Aftermath block of the WoW TCG and will be launching in August for an MSRP of $30, with nine-card treasure packs for $6 each.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Drakkenfyre Mar 15th 2012 2:24PM
I find TCG artwork a mixed bag. Most of it is really good, but sometimes there are pieces I wonder "Why did Blizzard let them do that, and accept it?"
Races that look REALLY off-model. For example, a Human that looks like a Blood Elf, or a Tauren that looks way too skinny. Or even an artstyle which could be from a different game. When you have art for your card game which looks like it could have been pulled from Magic the Gathering, or a card game based on another MMO like LOTRO, with races that look similiar to WoW's races only superficially, you have to wonder why they accepted that.
Michael Sacco Mar 15th 2012 3:59PM
A lot of the early art was off, but nowadays the process is pretty locked down and few (if any) "off" pieces make it through.
Drakkenfyre Mar 15th 2012 6:26PM
Alot of the images I see are from postings on MMO-Champion, which mirror posts the official Blizzard site. Those images I am talking about are probably pretty old, and are just being put on the site.
And I know fantasy artists have always done risque images, but there is one in particular I do not know how it got past Blizzard. It's a human female Warrior or Paladin, wearing very tight leather-looking armor, and the design of her armor clearly simulates, for lack of a better word, nipples, and she has a camel toe.
greenthumbs Mar 15th 2012 4:25PM
Raid decks ftw.