I had initially planned to do a review of the first expansion for
the WWF Raw Deal card game along with the main game, but
since the sources I go to cannot seem to get their act together on
what the release date is, I have to do a review of just the main
game. WWF Raw Deal is a collectable card game from the card
company Comic Images that is best known for their collectable
cards of anything from fantasy art to WWF Smackdown!
Cards. This is their first foray into the world of collectable card
games, and I think that they have done a good job.
The game is very simple to play. You and your opponent
each have a deck of sixty cards that contain various wrestling
moves from the basic punch and kick to special finishing moves
like Stone Cold Steve Austins Stunner or The Rocks Rock
Bottom. Also as part of your deck, you have a character card
representing the various wrestlers from the WWF with some
kind of special ability to make the game more interesting. The
premiere set has the characters The Rock, Stone Cold Steve
Austin, Kane, Undertaker, Mankind, HHH and Chris Jericho.
Each turn, you can play any number of move cards based on
your fortitude. Your fortitude starts out at zero and builds every
time you successfully play a move card. Your turn ends when
you either run out of cards to play, or your opponent plays a
reversal card to the type of move that you played. There are
special cards that you can play, that are not moves, called action
cards that allow you to do anything from putting cards from your
discard pile back into your deck to causing your opponent to
have to discard a card every turn.
The look of the game cards is okay. There are the move
cards that have a picture of some of the WWF Wrestlers
executing the move on the title of the card. Some of them are
taken from the matches from the WWF television shows like
Raw is War and WWF Smackdown! or what can be described
as taken from dark matches. Then there are those pictures that
are on the action cards that sometimes have no relation to the
card title at all or is so funny that you cannot help but laugh.
If I have wet your whistle, or you are a die-hard WWF fan
and want something fun for your collection, this would be a good
addition. The rules are easy to understand, the game is quick (no
more than half an hour) and it is just a blast to play. The main
game is out now and the first expansion, Fully Loaded, should
be out some time this month, if not sooner. This set includes new
wrestlers in starters for you to play like Tazz, Rikishi, Chyna,
Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle. Also for the first
time in boosters, you can find other wrestlers that you can make
decks for. They are Mr. Ass, X-Pac and Road Dogg and are
available in boosters as uncommon cards.
If you would like to read more about the game, you can visit
the Comic Images web site for the game at
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There you can see samples of the cards, read the rules and the FAQ.