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The '''''WARS Trading Card Game''''' is an out-of-print [[trading card game]] released by [[Decipher, Inc.|Decipher]] in October 2004 with [[List of science fiction themes|science fiction themes]], using [[game mechanics]] from the ''[[Star Wars CCG]]''.<ref name="GR">{{cite web| url=http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=103| title=A Weekend With Decipher – Lord of the Rings' Future and The WARS TCG Cometh| last=Sivils| first=Dan|date=June 2004| publisher=GamingReport.com| accessdate=2007-10-11}}</ref> After two releases, the game was officially "placed on hiatus" in May 2005.

 

 

 

 

From Decipher's April 30, 2004, press release: "It is Earth-year 2391. Through a vast tear in the fabric of the universe, alien warriors emerge to fight an already embattled humanity. The sky is burning. The Gateless Gate has opened. The cosmic rip meanders like a burning string across the galaxy and slices through the asteroid field near the orbit of Jupiter. The great opening becomes known as, 'The Mumon Rift' ...".{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}}

 

Meanwhile, among all the races, individuals with special abilities, called "Kizen", began appearing. Thus far the Kizen are mostly used as a gameplay device, but there were originally plans to introduce an anti-Kizen conflict storyline as well as somehow tie them with [[wave function collapse]] quantum mechanics to explain connections between Shi and humans.

 

Its existence was first hinted at in January 2002, shortly after Decipher revealed to the public that it was losing the Lucasfilm license for the ''Star Wars CCG'' (''SWCCG''). In late April 2004, the game was officially announced in a Radio Free Decipher webcast as the spiritual follow-up to ''SWCCG'', and the game immediately attracted massive attention from the hobby industry. For instance, at its public debut at [[Gen Con]] 2005, an introductory tournament using free demo decks is still Decipher's best-attended event in its existence, numbering over 200 people. There are still open-ended issues with the cash winners from that event never getting their prizes paid out to them.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}}

 

Its official name was in constant flux between April and August 2004. The game was originally called ''WARS: The Mumon Rip'', then ''WARS: The Mumon Rift'' following a player suggestion on Decipher's old Calder forums. The game then went through a logo change and was referred to officially as ''The Mumon Rift WARS Trading Card Game'' before undergoing a final logo change the day before Gen Con 2004 and simplified to ''WARS Trading Card Game''. It is most commonly referred to as ''Wars TCG'' without the idiosyncratic capitalization of the entire first word; or, simply as ''Wars'' and less commonly as ''wtcg''.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}}

 

The first release, ''Incursion'', came out on October 6, 2004, and had 330 cards. The second set, ''Nowhere to Hide'', was released on January 7, 2005, and had 167 cards. Many more releases{{spaced ndash}}three more total, at least{{spaced ndash}}were planned dependent on market conditions,{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}} but by April 2005 Decipher had determined that existing sales and pre-orders for set 3 did not justify continuing the game or even to justify publishing the third set.{{Citation needed|date=May 2012}}

 

Further planned product releases as of December 2004 were to be called ''Edge of a Sword'' (167 cards, 18-card collectible foil subset, May 2005), ''Motion of Mind'' (330+ cards, 18-card collectible foil subset, September 2005), and ''Eye of Insight'' (167 cards, 18-card collectible foil subset, January 2006).<ref>[http://nggnet.com/games/cgs/cgnews.html Collectible Game News]</ref>

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[[Category:Card games introduced in 2004]]

[[Category:Decipher, Inc. games]]