Cyberpunk TCG Is Raising So Much Money So Fast on Kickstarter Its Designer Can't Keep Up With the Stretch Goals

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An authoritative Cyberpunk Trading Card Game has raised $7.5 cardinal connected Kickstarter, hitting its $100,000 extremity successful conscionable 5 minutes and becoming the most-funded trading paper crippled (TCG) successful the crowdfunding platform's history.

Developed by WeirdCo successful conjunction with CD Projekt Red, the TCG volition bring the Cyberpunk franchise to the "physical trading paper abstraction for the archetypal time." The debut Cyberpunk TCG set, Welcome to Night City, is acceptable to motorboat aboriginal this year, and includes iconic characters similar V, Jackie Welles, Johnny Silverhand, and Judy Álvarez. Players tin premix and lucifer their favourite characters successful competitory decks oregon idiosyncratic collections, with Set 2 expanding the crippled further and afloat introducing characters from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Within 5 minutes of going live, the Kickstarter's $100,000 extremity was met. "Hey chooms, we did it," the squad wrote. "Thanks to your unthinkable support, Cyberpunk TCG has been funded successful conscionable 5 minutes! Seeing the task scope its extremity truthful rapidly has been surreal. All of america present astatine WeirdCo person spent a agelong clip gathering up to this moment, from designing the cards to processing the gameplay systems, moving with astonishing artists, and preparing for this run launch."

It didn't halt there, however. The run past sailed past $5 cardinal successful "just nether 3 hours," prompting WeirdCo's squad to write: "You gonks are crazy. We already broke our $3m agelong goal! You're blowing past these goals earlier we tin ever merchandise them — THANK YOU!"

Unsurprisingly, WeirdCo has present added further agelong goals, including a Legend Pack Upgrade: Johnny Silverhand astatine $8.5 million, paper sleeves astatine $9 million, and different fable battalion upgrade, this clip Saburo Arasaka, astatine $9.5 million. Hit the heady $10 cardinal milestone, and each backers from Common Cyberdecks to Night City Legend tiers volition person a Kickstarter exclusive Nova Rare Rebecca: Having a Moment card, and 1 further Legend Pack volition beryllium added to the Beta Box.

Cyberpunk TCG - Kickstarter

Cyberpunk TCG - Kickstarter

Pledge rewards commencement from $49 for 2 starter decks.

By contributing to the Kickstarter fund, players tin entree different exclusive items and paper arts that volition lone beryllium disposable arsenic a Beta products, and alteration them to "get successful connected the crushed level with the assemblage of Cyberpunk TCG and assistance signifier the aboriginal absorption with your feedback and participation."

The TCG is, of course, based connected CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077, the non-linear sci-fi RPG based connected renowned pen-and-paper-RPG decorator Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk system. CD Projekt precocious confirmed it has nary plans for further DLC oregon expansions for Cyberpunk 2077, adjacent arsenic it is reportedly acceptable to uncover a concealed DLC for The Witcher 3.

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