[Growing Your Local Community] Part 1: Getting Started and Using Online Resources

With the Energon Invitational serving as the capstone to the 2019 Transformers TCG competitive season and with a new wave releasing in April, now seems like an excellent time to refocus on building local communities for TFTCG. As of the publishing of this article, your local stores have a 3-week window between now (February 3rd) […]

[Wave 5 Speculation] THE WRECKERS (also maybe featuring Titan Masters or something, idk)

The long-awaited Wave 5 initial reveal happened yesterday, giving us our first look at the box art. Within the product description was this tasty morsel of information: The Wreckers: The fan-favorite Autobot special-forces team make their debut in Titan Masters Attack. Led by Sergeant Kup, the Wreckers get the toughest jobs done, no matter what […]

[Guest Article] Defeating Daring Escape Springer by Blaine Bublitz

Since building and playing Swoop,There It Is at the Energon Invitational, I’ve written a lot about it. This was in an attempt to provide the community with as much information as possible and hoping we could discover a consistent counter to the deck. I’ve heard a lot of people claiming that this deck is unbeatable—but […]

Wreck ‘n Rule 2019: A Year in Review

The Transformers Trading Card Game has been out for a little over a year now so we here at Wreck ‘n Rule will take a look back on our time in the game. RJ The last year has really been a whirlwind and it’s honestly hard to believe it’s been an entire year since the […]

[Guest Article] Energon Invitational Report – Swoop, There It Is by Blaine Bublitz

This article was planned to be released before my Wreck ‘N Rule gameplay video and “Making Of” article but due to unforeseen circumstances, it is the last in my series to be released. Sorry about that! At the Energon Invitational, I placed 11th overall, and was one of only a couple undefeated players during the […]

[GUEST ARTICLE] “Orange Theory” by Rich Ridge

EDITOR’S NOTE: Rich is one of our local players who jumped into the game from the very beginning. I’ve personally known Nick since the days when we were teenagers training for our black belt in Okinawan Kenpo, but we reconnected over playing card games (Destiny, then TFTCG). When it comes to deck-building, he’s a bit […]

[Guest Article] Energon Invitational Bugs Deck by Jonathan Clifton AKA megaclutz

Editor’s Note: Towards the end of the Energon Invitational, RJ, Joe, and Brian were all systematically challenged to exhibition games by a young gentleman named Eli, who proceeded to give us all a whooping. Afterwards, we’ve been in contact with his parents. Eli’s father (Jonathan Clifton AKA megaclutz) was kind enough to write up an […]

[Guest Article] “Swoop, There It Is” by Blaine Bublitz

Today’s article is from Blaine Bublitz, from Phoenix, Arizona, who has had very strong finishes at multiple large events during the history of organized play for TFTCG. Blaine went Top 4 at GenCon, running Bugs. More recently, Blaine went undefeated in the constructed portion of the Energon Invitational at PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia, ending up […]

[Guest Article] Secret Sentinels by Carl Endres AKA Technomagus

We’ve had the pleasure of meeting Carl Endres AKA Technomagus (his handle on Discord and Youtube) at multiple events at our home store (The Comic Book Store in Glassboro, NJ) and around the Maryland area, where Carl has a great group of excellent players, especially at his home store (Games and Stuff in Glen Burnie, MD, which is probably the nicest tabletop gaming […]

[Guest Article] “Specialist Escape” by Carl Endres AKA Technomagus