The Eye of Judgment Pricing and Availability

SCEA marketing manager Mark Valledor has updated the official PlayStation Blog with pricing and availability details for their upcoming fantasy PS3 collectible card game, The Eye of Judgment. Since this is the first time I’ve mentioned the game, I’ll also point you to a recent (and thorough) preview on Shacknews:

At its core, Eye of Judgment is about deck-building and strategy. Though the playing field is small and the goal–control five squares–seemingly simple, it gets quite deep, with all sorts of secondary actions going on–possessing enemy creatures, dealing with alignment-related positive or negative effects, flipping a zone’s alignment to mess with a creature deployed on it, and so on.

When it ships, the game will come with the equipment needed to play along with a standardized 30-card starter set and an eight-card random booster pack. Sony, in partnership with Wizards of the Coast, plans to market the game as a full-scale collectible card game. When the game launches October 23, the total set will be comprised of 110 cards. Four months later, a 100-card expansion will be released, adding new rules in addition to the new cards.

“It’s going to be the same principles, but build on it,” explained Zundel. “Every time Magic has a new set, they reinvent some game mechanics. We should be able to do that.” The companies have two years of expansions planned already, with more to come if the game is a success. I asked if players would be able to simply download the new rules through the PlayStation Network rather than installing them with physical media, but the team members responded that distribution plans have not yet been worked out.

This game could have some potential for the Magic: The Gathering fans out there.