Star Quest (card game)

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Star Quest
Star Quest.png
Card back of the Star Quest CCG
Publishers Comic Images [1]
Players2 or more
Setup time< 5 minutes
Playing time< 60 minutes

Star Quest, also called Star Quest: The Regency Wars is an out-of-print collectible card game. [2] [3]

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Publication history

It was published by Comic Images and was released in August 1995. [2] The first set, titled The Regency Wars, had 325 cards sold in 53-card starter decks and 15-card booster packs. [4] Cards signed by the artist were also randomly inserted into some booster packs, and all starter decks included a random foil Homeworld card. [4] It featured art from Frank Frazetta, Luis Royo, and Ken Barr among others. [2] An expansion called Origins was planned for a January 1996 release but never materialized. [2]

Reception

Allen Varney of The Duelist said it was a "worse clone" of Magic: the Gathering . [5]

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References

  1. "Comic Images on BBG".
  2. 1 2 3 4 Miller, John Jackson (2003), Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist & Price Guide, Second Edition, pp. 544–545.
  3. "Star Quest: The Regency Wars (Premier Edition) White Buffalo Games - 1995". NSlists.com. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
  4. 1 2 "Card collector confidential". Scrye . No. 7. May–June 1995. p. 28.
  5. Varney, Allen (February 1997), "Inside the Industry", The Duelist, no. #15, p. 83

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