Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game
Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game
Legend of the Five Rings: The Card Game is a two-player Living Card Game by Fantasy Flight Games, set in the Rokugan world. Players lead one of the Great Clans and clash in battles that decide Rokugan’s future. It’s the successor to the 1995–2015 Legend of the Five Rings CCG. The game ran from 2017 to 2021, ending with the last pack, Under Fu Leng’s Shadow, released in June 2021. The Core Set was revealed at Gen Con Indy in August 2017 and released on October 5, 2017. To build a full deck, you need three Core Sets.
Key details
- Designers: Brad Andres, Erik Dahlman, Nate French
- Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games
- Publication: 2017–2021
- Players: 2
- Setup time: under 5 minutes
- Playing time: 45–90 minutes
- Chance: Some
- Skills: Card playing, Logic, Bluffing, Strategy
What’s inside and how it expanded
- Core Set: public reveal in 2017, three copies needed for a full playset
- Premium Expansions: three sets total
- Premium 1: 234 cards
- Premium 2: 234 cards
- Premium 3: 271 cards (many for the Shadowlands)
- Other expansions:
- Children of the Empire: support for dueling
- Clan War: introduces Enlightenment (3+ players race to claim all five elemental rings on provinces)
- Under Fu Leng’s Shadow: cooperative and challenge variants
- Packs and cycles:
- Clan Packs: 78 cards each (three copies of 25 new cards + one copy of 3 additional cards)
- Dynasty Packs: about 60 cards each (three copies of 20 new cards)
- Packs come in six-pack cycles released monthly; the Imperial cycle had weekly releases to quickly grow options
- New keywords introduced across sets: Disguised, Eminent, Rally, Dire
This game brings strategic card play, bluffing, and careful planning in a rich fantasy setting.
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