Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game

Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game
Designer	Eric Lang
Publisher	Fantasy Flight Games
Publication Date	2009
Genre	Living Card Game

Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game is a card-based game published by Fantasy Flight Games before being replaced by Arkham Horror: The Card Game.

The storyline is attributed to Darrell Hardy and names and texts are attributed to Pat Harrigan.

Gameplay

Gameplay involves two players, each in possession of a 60-card faction deck, who take turns playing cards in an effort to win rounds. Whoever wins the majority of three rounds wins the game. Decks may be preset ones found in the core set and various expansions, or built by players from cards permissible to their chosen faction.

Core Set

2009, 165 cards.

Main article: Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game Core Set

Deluxe Expansions

• Secrets of Arkham: 2010 (2014), 60 cards
• The Order of the Silver Twilight: 2011, 55 cards
• Seekers of Knowledge: 2011, 55 cards
• The Key and the Gate: 2013, 55 cards
• Terror in Venice: 2013, 55 cards
• Denizens of the Underworld: 2013, 55 cards
• The Sleeper Below: 2014, 55 cards
• For the Greater Good: 2014, 55 cards
• The Thousand Young: 2015, 55 cards
• The Mark of Madness: 2015, 55 cards

Cycle Expansion Sets

Summons of the Deep Cycle

2008, 120 cards

• The Spawn of the Sleeper
• The Horror Beneath the Surface
• The Antediluvian Dreams
• The Terror of the Tides
• The Thing from the Shore
• The Path to Y'ha-nthlei

Dreamlands Cycle

2008, 120 cards

• Twilight Horror
• In Memory of Day
• In the Dread of Night
• Search for the Silver Key
• Sleep of the Dead
• Journey to Unknown Kadath

The Yuggoth Contract Cycle

2010, 120 cards

• Whispers in the Dark
• Murmurs of Evil
• The Spoken Covenant
• The Wailer Below
• Screams from Within
• The Cacophony

The Rituals of the Order Cycle

2010, 120 cards

• The Twilight Beckons
• Perilous Trials
• Initiations of the Favored
• Aspirations of Ascension
• The Gleaming Spiral
• That Which Consumes

Forgotten Lore Cycle

120 cards

• At the Mountains of Madness
• Ancient Horrors
• Spawn of Madness
• Kingsport Dreams
• Conspiracies of Chaos
• Dunwich Denizens

Ancient Relics Cycle

128 cards

• The Shifting Sands
• Curse of the Jade Emperor
• The Breathing Jungle
• Never Night
• Into Tartarus
• Shadow of the Monolith

Revelations Cycle

120 cards

• Written and Bound
• Words of Power
• Ebla Restored
• Lost Rites
• The Unspeakable Pages
• Touched by the Abyss

External Links

• Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game at the Arkham Horror wiki

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