If there’s one question we at Wise Wizard Games hear more than any other (aside from “when is the game coming back into stock?!”), it’s “when are you doing an expansion?” That’s why we’re very happy to announce the game’s first official expansion, Star Realms: Crisis, coming to your local game stores this holiday season!
Now a quick look at that top image may have you a bit confused, asking “what are those booster pack looking things?” Well Crisis is actually a set of four mini-expansion packs (MSRP $4.99), and each of the packs you see there includes twelve brand-new cards to help customize your Star Realms experience! This way, if there’s only one set of cards you’re really interested in, you only need buy that one pack. Though if you’re a major Star Realms fan, you’ll likely want to purchase the entire set!
So, without further ado, let’s take a look at what Crisis has to offer:
Crisis: Bases & Battleships
If you like to close out your games with big beefy battleships, this expansion pack is for you! Bases & Battleships includes a powerful new ship for each faction, along with eight additional ships & bases to add even more variation to your trade deck.
Here we see Mega Mech, one of the few cards in the game with the awesome ability to return bases to hand. Sometimes you’ll want to bounce your opponent’s Outpost to let your fleet slam in for big damage, but even cooler is returning one of your own powerful bases to hand so you can play it again!
Crisis: Fleets & Fortresses
Fleets & Fortresses is for those players who like to stock their side of the board with behemoth bases. The expansion pack is loaded up with a powerful new base for each faction, as well as eight new ships with a variety of cool abilities.
Death World will definitely be a favorite for Blob players, not only adding a massive four combat, but letting you remove off-faction cards from your deck in return for card draw. Very awesome.
Crisis: Events
Our first new card type, Events, add some serious fun to the Star Realms experience. When an event enters the trade row, it’ll immediately shake up the game, destroying bases, letting players draw extra cards, and more!
Supernova is a great example of how an Event can impact the board, sweeping the trade row clear while blasting each player for five authority. Events really are a ton of fun, especially in multiplayer!
Crisis: Heroes
The Heroes booster adds our second new card type to the game. Heroes are unique, because unlike other Star Realms cards, they immediately enter play when purchased! Each hero has a scrap ability which provides both a specific effect, as well as turning on ally abilities for the turn.
CEO Torres is a great buy for any player, letting you turn that extra 2 Trade into a quick 7 Authority. However the Trade Federation player will also get to activate their fleet’s ally abilities, and really put this powerful business-commander to good use!
Again, Star Realms: Crisis will be available this holiday season, so keep checking back for the official release date, as well as additional Crisis spoilers. Let us know in the comments if you have any questions about Crisis, and as always, keep conquering those Star Realms!
Vito Gesualdi
Star Realms Community Manager
@VitoGesualdi
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I bought 3 copies of the base game (gotta love the big multiplayer formats) I assume I’ll need 3 copies of each mini-expansion? That’s gonna get expensive, but worth it!
The expansions are entirely optional, though you can certainly purchase one per copy of the game you own and still keep the balance (we don’t recommend adding more beyond that number).
Great news ideas for expansions. Really like the Events and Heroes concepts.
Any chance Crisis will be shown (even if not sold) at Spiel in October?
Possibly! We’re not sure whether it’ll be ready in time for the show.
Will this go into the App as well? I sure would like to get both!
Hi guys! Looking cool and I’ll go buy all of it as soon as it is available! Having just gotten into the game, is there any chance the gambit set will become available again? I would like to be able to play some of the solitare formats. Thanks!!!
Can’t wait for this expansion! I got to participate in the beta for the game and bought the cards when they came out! This will make for an epic addition to the already superb game!
Made me nervous at first… Thought it was going CCG for a minute… I like this approach much better!
I completely agree my heart sunk when i saw the little boosters….. Thank you for not making it a CCG. Looks great and i will have to get all 4 😀
To repeat Stophle’s question: will these be included in the app as well?
Great. Love the game. I was dying to see some expansions
To repeat the question that was repeated: will the expansion be added to the app? If so (hoping the answer is “yes”), what’s the approximate timeline?
The cards will come to the mobile app sometime in 2015.
Because of paying the app, it could be usefull if paying user can use new cards and non-paying user will cannot use (sorry for my english)
But, please, add to the app BEFORE end of 2014
!! Oh no guys that is wayyy to long to wait!! Hire an extra developer/coder if need be, throw another kickstarter and I’ll pitch in to fund another programmer lolz we want the expansions in the digital game app ASAP
Sweeeeeeet! This can NOT be left out of the game app; crisis will make the game app intense!
Any chance to get this game and the expansions somewhere in germany? I’m still searching for it… :/
Yeah, I’ve been desperately searching for somewhere to get this in the UK without paying crazy postage/import prices. All your listed EU stockists appear to be sold out.
Will there be an update for mobile? You may as well just take my money now!
What do you think Blob heroes look like!? 🙂
I am excited to get this expansion!
will base game be reprinted soon? I want this game but don’t want to pay inflated prices if it is coming back in stock
Please, create a ‘pack’ with all of this expansions.
I obviously will bought them all, and it became expensive… please …
Any word when the gambit sets will be commercially released?
Quick question: do I need to have one pack per 1-2 players game, so for example, two packs of events is ideal for a 3-4 player game? What is the designer’s preference?
I have 2 packs of each expansion, just in case…
I believe that it is one deck for every two players, to maintain balance.
Thanks, Paul. I will keep all eight packs then.
These look like a great addition to the game! Will the promo cards (like the Megahauler and Battle Screecher) be included somewhere in these expansion packs?
Also hoping they add Merc Cruiser, Starbase Omega, Fortress Oblivion, Star Market, Breeding Site, The Ark, and Battle Barge as well as Hauler&Screecher! #fingerscrossed
Any news on when these are coming out? Will it be in time for Christmas?