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Will Brinkman

It’s Community Blog time!

PAX it up, PAX it in

We’ve been reaching out to different media outlets and were lucky enough to meet a handful of them at PAX East a few weeks ago. The big news was the release of Assault on Icecrown Citadel, and everyone seemed pretty psyched to be able to play a game-in-a-box. Plus, new players could use three of the four decks in their local Core Constructed events. If you’d like to see how some of our new friends have to say about us or AICC, you can visit WoW Insider, Lorehound, G4TV. and Raid Warning.

You’ve got a friend in me
We’re probably a week or two out from launching the Cryptozoic Affiliate program. We’re waiting on a few things, but I don’t see any reason we won’t be able to launch with support before War of the Elements hits the streets. Yes, we’ll be able to provide card images so your eyes won’t explode as you read fuzzy internet scans. Heck, we'll even replace those Worldbreaker scans while we're at it.

Community site previews
Cryptozoic shipped a handful of preview cards to support community websites. Zapped Giants, Warcraft-TCG.de, WoWPlayers.it, WoWCCG.fr, and Daily Metagame were able to preview some of the most exciting cards in the set. Tim Rivera even got to preview his own character card. In the future, the distribution of the preview cards will be formalized through the affiliate program; we hope to incorporate even more community sites with Twilight of the Dragons.

Back to China
Just under two weeks ago, the Darkmoon Faire set up shop in Beijing, China, the first of three Asian DMFs for the year. Over two hundred players showed up for the main event—that number bested only by the over 300 players who showed up to the beginner’s event on Sunday. Check out that record crowd!

For those who take crafting literally, we had a cosplay team come in and join the party. I think Ming, Managing Director of Greater China, is playing the tank here in this party.

Through the weapons swinging and spells slinging, events on this scale need some order to them. Even among Rogues, there is some honor! Fifteen volunteers and judges made sense of the mayhem.

In the end, two local Beijing players battled for the title in a classic Rogue vs. Mage match-up. Qigeng Zhang (on the left) piloting Zorak’tul victimized Chao Niu’s Phosphus the Everburning. You can see the rest of the pictures on Facebook.

That’s all from the Community Blog this week. I’m off to Chicago for Darkmoon Faire, and we’ll be reporting all the breaking news—along with a few more War of the Elements spoilers—tomorrow from the Windy City.