In the early 1990s, the massive popularity of Richard Garfield’s tabletop card game Magic: The Gathering changed the world. It also created a slew of copycat trading card games, many of which, at least for a few years, became almost as popular as Magic. If you were hanging out in comic book stores or gaming shops after 1996, it wasn’t just Magic cards that were hot, but also the superhero-themed OverPower, the first run of Pokémon cards, and, from 1994 and onward, the Star Trek Customizable Card Game from Decipher Inc. And now, 31 years after Star Trek became a Magic-inspired card game, the boldly going franchise is going back to its gaming roots, with an actual Magic: The Gathering/Star Trek set of cards. |