The Card Game Cooperative

Join James Mike and Will to hear what makes us play games, how we find time to play and how we get others to play with us.

Thanks to the lovely folks over at FFG we’ve been given another spoiler card! This time the card is for Marvel Champions, from the upcoming Age of Apocalypse expansion, we present Triage! if you disagree with our views on the card or just want to chat, click here to head over to our discord

Join us once again for episode 33 as we discuss the resource mechanics, the abstract nature of resources in the 3 LCGs and Steward of Gondor.

With two hosts having to drop out last-minute, James and Will thought they’d take a look at the cards previewed so far for the Feast of Hemlock Vale. See the full list of spoilers, past and upcoming on FFG’s website: https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2023/11/6/spoiling-for-hemlock/ You can listen to our spoiler episode where we went into detail on 2Continue reading "Episode 32: let the feast begin"

Its spoiler season for Arkham Horror the card game and FFG have very kindly provided us with two cards to spoil, check out the episode to hear our thoughts on the cards and scroll down past the spoiler break to see the good stuff! Michael has very helpfuly put together a graph to help workContinue reading "Surveillance Team 10 – Speak to the Dead and Blackmail File"

In our latest episode we discuss organised play – what makes a good OP event and what would be our perfect OP event. Join our Discord community here

Join us in episode 30 where we run down the Power Rankings for the Mad Titan's Shadow and Sinister Motives waves of Marvel Champions Wave 4 power rankings Wave 5 power rankings

Spoiler Time! FFG have very kindly provided us with a spoiler for the NeXt Evolution expansion for Marvel Champions! Feral will be a part of the Domino hero pre-con and we think she looks pretty good. Dont forget, theres still time to vote in our power rankings for waves 4 and 5 of Marvel Champions.Continue reading "Surveillance Team 9: Feral ally"

Join us in epiaode 29 where we discuss infighting in the coop-etetive scenarios avaliable for the coop living card games

Join us in our latest episode where we discuss the lack of news, followed by our main topic on the Arkham Horror LCG Iron Man concept along side analysis of our own Iron man (or should that be War Machine) of the Innsmouth Conspiracy cycle.

This episode the Card Game Cooperative are joined by Marvel Chamipons designer Tony Fanchi to talk Mojo Mania!

Join us as we catch up with LCG Community Legend Ian Martin, creator of The First Age expansion for Lord of the Rings, and the newest Arkham Horror Scenario: Fortune & Folly. You can find us on twitter here. You can find us on facebook here. You can join us on discord here. You canContinue reading "Episode 26: The Face"

Join us for this special bumper edition of Shadow of the Past where we look at the new Arkham Horror LCG scenario Fortune and Folly, released for Arkham Nights 2022. The beginning of the episode is spoiler free and a spoiler warning is given before we move into any specifics that haven’t already been announcedContinue reading "Shadow of the Past: Fortune and Folly"

Join us in episode 25 where we discuss the news, announce a winner for our Lord of the Rings LCG promo card giveaway and discuss our favourite spheres/aspects/classes from the LCGs. If you want to talk to us about your favourite sphere/aspect/class you can find us on Twitter here, Facebook here and join us onContinue reading "Episode 25: White Tower Watchmen"

Join us in episode 24 where we talk about Deck size. Big decks, small decks and everything in between all decks are welcome as long as they’re part of a Living card game! If you want to talk about how big your deck is, or you want to tell us why our opinions are wrong,Continue reading "Episode 24: Versatile"

Join James, Michael and Will as they could together in our latest episode to discuss the massive multiplayer aspects of the LCG’s we know and love. Find us on Twitter. Check us out on Facebook. Join our Discord

This is the second episode in our Lore of the Rings series with our friends at Critical Encounters podcast! In this episode we take a deeper look at the lore and the cards in the second quest from the LOTR LCG core set – Journey along the Anduin. If you’d like to join us toContinue reading "Lore of the Rings – Journey along the Anduin (core set part 2)"

Join Michael and James for the latest episode in our Shadow of the Past series as they take a deep delve into Escape from Mount Gram from the Angmar Awakened cycle of LOTR LCG If you like talking about LCGs you can come and join us on our Discord server to find out more aboutContinue reading "Shadow of the Past: Escape from Mount Gram"

Join us for another Surveillance tem episode as we reveal the Pinpoint ally from the Ironheart hero pack, kindly provided to us by FFG to spoil. You can join us on our Discord to discuss this spoiler!

Join us for another Surveillance Team episode as we reveal the wasp ally releasing in the Ironheart hero pack, kindly provided to us to spoil by FFG! You can join us on our Discord to discuss this spoiler!

Join James, Michael, Simon and Will for the latest arbitrary Marvel Champions power rankings, voted by you, the public! And then confirmed with our own choices! You can check out the power ranking s and the maths behind them here. If you’re reading this before 31 March 2022 and you live in the UK youContinue reading "Episode 22: We Are Groot"

Do you like Promo cards? If the answer is yes, you’re in luck! Our friends at Critical Encounters have sent us a set of promos including Doctor Strange, Captain America, Hulk and some full art player cards to give away. To be in with a chance to win, head over to our Facebook and likeContinue reading "Episode 21: Defiance"

If james’ custom ‘They’re taking rhe hobbits to isengard’ cards interest you, you can find them here.

This episode we are joined by the one and only Michael Boggs, designer of Marvel Champions the card game for a bit of a chat about a bit of everything! (we also talked about our first competition, which has now long-since closed)

In our next episode we will be discussing power rankings for Marvel Champions heroes and villains from the Rise of Red Skull through to Scarlet Witch. You can cast your vote HERE

For those of you that would like more podcasters in your arkham as well as more arkham in your podcast, you can find the custom midnight masks cultist that James recently published here. Who knows, you may spot some other familiar faces!

In our next episode we will be discussing the first 11 heroes from wave one of marvel champions and to help us with that, you can fill in our handy survey by clicking here, we’ll be comparing the community’s opinion to the hosts so make sure to tune in to find out just how wrongContinue reading "Episode 9: Legions of HYDRA"

a few rules clarifications from Caleb: “While Mockingbird is faceup under the side scheme she is in play but under no player's control” – so you can’t play core set Mockingbird whilst this scheme is in play. If you happen to have Made the Call to someone else’s Core Set Mockingbird when this comes out,Continue reading "Surveillance Team Episode 2 – Rise of the Red Skull"

join us, your remotely competent LCG loving hosts for our main topic of Alpha players and table talk, sandwiched between all the lovely GenCon news and us interrupting the FFG X-Wing live stream with a question thats on everyones minds!

After what feels like forever, we’re back with a bumper episode of fun as we discuss our favorite thematic cards and have a bit of a rant about a few cards which we feel dont fit the theme of their respective games.

Join us for episode 4 in which we discuss the latest news and releases, what we’ve been playing and methods of LCG remote play during a pandemic lockdown

In episode 3 we test out a new (and currently very necessary) recording format, discuss the latest news, ponder over life during a pandemic and add in a new, ongoing feature for you to play along with at home.