MYTHOS STARTER DECKS
Display #1300
10 decks 600 cards $89.50
Out of Print
Single Deck #1300-1
1 deck 60 cards
$8.95 Out of Print
EXPEDITIONS OF MISKATONIC UNIVERSITY
Booster Display #1301
36 packs 468 Cards $106.20 Place Order
Single Booster Pack #1301-1
1 pack 13 Cards $2.95
Place Order
CTHULHU RISING
Booster Display #1302
36 packs 468 Cards $106.20
Place Order
Single Booster Pack #1302-1
1 pack 13 Cards
$2.95 Place Order
LEGENDS OF THE NECRONOMICON
Booster Display #1303
36 packs 468 Cards $106.20
Place Order
Single Booster Pack #1303-1
1 pack 13 Cards
$2.95 Place Order
Limited Investigator Set #1305 Includes all ten limited
Investigators. $5.00 Place Order
We looked at various kinds of stock on which we could print the cards, and decided to use the more expensive poker stock. This paper resists the crimping suffered by other card games, it resists wear better, and it has the right sort of feel when playing the game.
Each Starter Deck, then, contains 60 playing cards printed on poker stock, a 32 page rulesbook, and a unique Mythos feature: a double-sized Investigator Card.
The Investigator Card serves to focus each player, indicating just where to play your cards on the table. It represents the "you" in a Mythos game -- that personality who confronts the horrors and denizens of the Mythos. Each Investigator Card offers the player the choice of two Investigators, each illustrated in full color and printed back-to-back. No two players in a Mythos game can use the same Investigator. There are 18 different Investigators on 9 Investigator Cards. COLLECTORS' NOTE: each display for our third booster set includes a free complete set of all the Investigator Cards.
* BOOSTERS: while we were hard at work designing the Mythos system, we also designed three booster sets. These are being printed at the same time as the starter decks, so that we can assure you of their timely release.
The first Mythos booster is titled The Expeditions of Miskatonic University, which will be released along with the starter decks. Here we expand the world of Mythos and explore the resources of Miskatonic University: its professors and noted students and the various tomes found in its vaunted library. Also, this set features many locations and allies from Europe, various new spells, and the luxury of travel aboard the quality ships of the time.
The second booster looks to the South Pacific and the fabled island of R'lyeh. Titled Cthulhu Rising, it includes exotic islands, weird Mythos locales such as R'lyeh, the deep one city of Y'ha Nthlei or the library on Celeano. Dread Cthulhu himself lurks here somewhere!
Finally, the third booster set that we will release is Legends of the Necronomicon. Here, the Middle East, and particularly the exotic city of Cairo, comes to life. Literally. This set of cards introduces the concept of travelling into the past to meet the greatest wizards of old including Abdul Alhazrad, also known as the Mad Arab, and the author of that dread tome sometimes known as the Necronomicon. As a bonus, each Legends of the Necronomicon display includes one complete, unfolded set of all nine Investigator Cards.
* CARD STOCK: we are using Zanders poker stock with a water-based varnish for the best playing-card feel and resistance to card crimping and wear. The Investigator Card measures 5"x3.5" and is folded in half and tucked into the box. It is printed four colors on two sides, providing two different investigators in each deck.
* ART: Some of the best artists in the cards, game, and comics industries have madly scrawled all over their walls at the Institution. Alphabetized they are: Salvatore Abbinanti, Chris Adams, Thomas Garrett Adams, Stephen Barnwell, Mike Blanchard, John Bridges, Dennis J. Calero, Tim Callender, Barry Chambers, Alan M. Clark, C. Brent Ferguson, Mark Ferrari, Scott M. Fischer, Earl Geier, Lee Gibbons, Justin Hampton, Ovi Hondru, Andrew T. Kalichack, Michael Kellner, Drashi Kendup, Scott Kirchner, Brian Krank-McLean, Meghan Krank-McLean, Todd Lockwood, Heather McKinney, Jeff Menges, Lee Moyer, Roger Raupp, Sam Shirley, R. Wayt Smith, John Snyder, Tom Sullivan, Joseph Sutliff, Strephon Taylor, Susan Van Camp, Eric Vogt, and Jason Voss.
The Mythos starter decks are created from an array of 200 cards and the nine Investigator Cards. In each starter deck is found 6 rare cards, 12 uncommon cards, and 42 common cards, plus one Investigator Card and a 32-page rulesbook.
Each booster contains 67 new cards plus a blend of the cards that appear in the Mythos starter decks, at the ratio of 2 rare cards, 3 uncommon, and 8 common cards for a total of 13 cards per pack.
The rarity level of the cards is identical across the Mythos starters and the boosters. A rare card found in the starter decks is printed in the same frequency as a rare card found only in a booster. Otherwise, a "rare" card from a booster would be more rare (there are fewer of them) than a "rare" card in the starters.