CFB Pushes ‘Grand Archive’ TCGFrom youtube.com
CFB/TCGPlayer again attempts to play kingmaker here, this time with an US-based card game that has been quietly making the rounds for the last year after a successful kickstarter in early 2022. It bills itself as trying to marry a maximalist aesthetic typical of Japanese TCGs with ‘western’ design sensibilities (their words being exactly ‘an anime trading card game with western game design’, whatever that means, really — all ancestries of xCG design have a terrible relationship with complexity and while this streamlines things somewhat, it is still comparable to Final Fantasy TCG, BSS or Lorcana in rule complexity).
It is also run by a company called ‘Weebs of the Shore LLC’, which gives me pause.
Previously, it is my understanding that CFB’s distribution deal was the way Flesh and Blood found its way into wide circulation in the US.