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History
Grand Archive was created by passionate developers and fans of tcgs: Alan Phan, Hung Ly and Yu Liu. It was brought to life on January 1, 2022, through a successful campaign on Kickstarter with 1,539 backers and launched with Lorraine and Rai’s starter decks. [1]
Grand Archive is an anime trading card game with western game design and extreme collectability. It is [reportedly] the first anime card game that embraces card interface clarity, low stat numbers, and easily understood rules text. [1]
How to Play
In a game of Grand Archive, each player controls a champion. You win the game by defeating each opponent’s champion. This makes champion cards one of the most influential card types in deck building, and is considered the heart of your deck. [2]
Beginners Guide [3]
Lore [5]
The Grand Archive is an ancient and mystical megastructure built at the focal point of a multitude of universes eons ago, its creator forgotten to time. As if it were alive, this entity monitors worlds and protects them from calamity, preserving natural order through its agents, the Champions. The Archive selects champions from promising inhabitants of The Homeworld and intersecting realms. From the chosen, those that climb the ranks and accrue enough divine power have the chance to ascend to godhood. As envoys of The Grand Archive, these champions are assigned missions to various worlds on the brink of collapse in the hope that they may stop whatever sinister plot that may be brewing and save that world.
Characters / Champions & Stories [6][7]
Sets
Dawn of Ashes - Standard Set (2023)
Fractured Crown - Expansion Set (2023)
Alchemical Revolution - Standard Set (2024)
Mercurial Heart - Expansion Set (2024)