Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game
Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game is a Living Card Game (LCG) produced by Fantasy Flight Games (FFG). It is a two-player game set in the world of Rokugan. During the game, players take on the leadership of one of the Great Clans which define Rokugani society, and they are cast into conflict against another clan. The conflicts will decide the future of Rokugan. The game is an iteration of the Legend of the Five Rings collectible card game, produced by Alderac Entertainment Group in 1995. On 17th February  2021, FFG announced the completion of the game, "Under Fu Leng’s Shadow" being the last pack, released in June 2021. Released Card Sets. Core Set. The Core set was shown to the public during Gen Con Indy in August 2017, and was released October 5, 2017. In order to obtain a full playset for deck building, three copies of the Core Set must be purchased. Premium Expansions. The first two Premium Expansions contain 234 new cards each, covering every clan and dedicated theme. The third and last one contains 271 new cards, almost half of them being dedicated to  the "Shadowlands" faction. "Children of the Empire" Premium Expansion offered plenty of support for dueling. "Clan War" Premium Expansion introduced an Enlightenment format to the game, where three or more players race to claim all five elemental rings on their provinces. "Under Fu Leng's Shadow" Premium Expansion introduces two new game variants: cooperative and challenge. On cooperative variant, a player can either play solo or team up with friends to take on a mighty Shadowlands warlord. On challenge variant, one of the players will lead the forces of the Shadowlands into battle against two to four other players. Clan  Packs. Each Clan Pack contains 78 cards (3 copies each of 25 new cards and 1 copy each of 3 additional new cards) designed to augment deck building options for one specific clan. Dynasty Packs. Each Dynasty Pack typically contains 60 cards and has a complete playset of new cards (i.e. 3 copies each of 20 new cards). Dynasty packs are generally part of a six-pack "cycle" that follows a particular storyline and theme. A new pack is usually released monthly during the cycle. There was an exception with the initial Imperial cycle, where they released a new pack  weekly in order to quickly increase the card pool and improve deck building variety. Inheritance Cycle. This cycle introduced the "Disguised" keyword. Dominion Cycle. This cycle introduced the "Eminent" and "Rally" keywords. Temptations Cycle. This cycle introduced the "Dire" keyword.