A new kind of trading card game is emerging from the underground.

Our debut title, Cataclysm Arcade, fuses strategy, storytelling, and cinematic world-building into one living universe.Where every pack, play, and moment builds the story.

Mothership Games is led by BrianDavid-Marshall, longtime Magic: The Gathering historian and TCG industry veteran, and Jay Van Hoy, an award-winning film producer whose credits include The Witch and The Lighthouse. Together, they bring decades of experiencein competitive gaming and independent filmmaking to a new kind of tabletopexperience.

Our game is playable right out of a pack.In fact, we call each 15-card randomized pack a Booster Deck. Each one contains everything you need to jump in, be a Boss, and start shaping your saga. Our goal is simple: we want to make trading card games more cinematic, more social, and remove the barriers to play that so many of us have encountered when first picking up a TCG.

First Look at PAX Unplugged

We have something special for PAX Unplugged:the Cataclysm Arcade Demo Tape, a limited-edition preview of the game’s firstplayable content. Each Demo Tape contains two playable Booster Decks housed inretro cassette packaging inspired by 1980s physical media culture, like uncovering a broadcast from a world that never stopped playing.

A very limited number of Demo Tapes will be available exclusively through Top Deck Games, who will host live demos with the game’s designers and sell the Cataclysm Arcade Demo Tapes and select promo cards at their booth.

Cataclysm Arcade has been built from the ground up to be played by two or more people.If you’re attending PAX Unplugged, there will be opportunities to playhead-to-head or in pods of four: our favorite way to play the game!

Follow along for more transmissions, reveals, and behind-the-scenes updates at mothership.games in the days leading up to PAX Unplugged.

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