Sonic Trading Cards Page 1
These modern Sonic X based cards are also a game. Natually, they use cels from the show for most of their pictures. The character icons in the corners though, seem to be various stock arts, as you can immidetly recognize Sonic's poses from MANY common t-shirts
The main point of the game is to collect the Chaos Emeralds cards. You have to collect 3 in order to win. Each player puts 5 cards in a row on the placemat. Then they take turns flipping their cards over one at a time. You can discard the other player's card depending on the color and number of rings printed on the card. Then you can add up the total number of rings on all of your remaining face up cards. Whoever has the highest number of rings gets a Chaos Emerald card. You are apparently supposed to repeat the process until someone gets all 3.
As you can see, it seems to be based on luck of the draw over anything else...unlike current games like Yu Gi Oh and Pokemon or even Magic the Gathering, which requires strategy and has cards with different "Powers".
What does the game mat look like?
The game has had several "releases" or "editions" so there surely must be more different cards than what appears here. What are they like? Is the game really this simple? Also, the "Booster Boxes" (usually $50.00) need photos and details of exactly what you get in them.
In all, this could be an interesting Sonic item to collect, if you can find it. The recomended places to get the game are of course, your local comic book/card shop. (because you can ask them questions and see other boxes)
However, the Z-Store also has a very non-descript item you can buy that says it's "The card Game". It has 110 cards in a box, but doesn't say which series it is. It is $9.99 each, and comes with instructions. They'll ship most over-seas too, which is nice! Push the link above to go to their Sonic-X page if you want to buy it. (This page may also have the Sonic X show DVDs and Keychains)
