TCGplayer and Legend Story Studios Announce New Direct-to-Consumer Campaign to Benefit Local Hobby Stores

SYRACUSE, N.Y., June 17, 2022 – TCGplayer, the leading technology platform for the collectibles industry and operator of the largest online marketplace for trading card games, today announced a new direct-to-consumer (D2C) campaign with Legend Story Studios — the creators of the Flesh and Blood TCG – designed to benefit local hobby stores. In connection with this campaign, Legend Story Studios has released limited edition and exclusive Flesh and Blood products on the TCGplayer Marketplace. The new Uprising themed campaign builds on a series of successful D2C campaigns, which have allowed TCGplayer and Legend Story Studios to award $275,000 to retailers to date. Consistent with previous D2C campaigns, TCGplayer will manage all marketing, fulfillment and customer service efforts on behalf of Legend Story Studios, and each product sale will be credited to a participating local hobby store.

“We are excited to once again join forces with Legend Story Studios on a revolutionary direct-to-consumer campaign, which keeps brick-and-mortar retailers at the center of our gaming ecosystem,” said Chedy Hampson, Founder and CEO of TCGplayer. “Through this unique partnership, TCGplayer has continued to empower local hobby stores, awarding retailers $275,000 to date, while also bringing to the TCGplayer Marketplace limited-release and exclusive Flesh and Blood products. I look forward to building on our innovative partnership with James and the Legend Story Studios team in the months ahead.”

“TCGplayer has been a great partner over the last three years, making it easy to advance our mission across the United States — bringing people together in the flesh and blood through the common language of playing great games,” said James White, Founder and CEO of Legend Story Studios. “As our partnership with Chedy and his team has deepened we’ve been able to create innovative direct-to-consumer campaigns that continue to support the local game store community — the primary place we see our mission in action. I am grateful to the TCGplayer team for helping us once again put local hobby stores first and get exclusive Uprising products into the hands of Flesh and Blood fans around the country.”

As part of the direct-to-consumer campaign, TCGplayer and Legend Story Studios have created the TCGplayer Uprising Legendary Dragon Collection Box, which includes two Uprising booster boxes, limited edition Dragon Shield card sleeves, and exclusive products like rainbow foil promo cards, display boxes and certificates — available only on the TCGplayer Marketplace. The box will be available for sale on the Marketplace today at 12:00 pm ET, a week ahead of the official set release. 

Learn more about the TCGplayer Uprising Legendary Dragon Collection Box here.

About Legend Story Studios
Legend Story Studios is an independent game design and publishing company based in Auckland, New Zealand. They design and publish Flesh and Blood, which spent seven years in development before its worldwide debut in October 2019, with the release of Welcome to Rathe. Flesh and Blood challenges the fundamental laws of TCG design through a unique resource system and innovative combat dynamic, that has players engaged in full powered combat from the first turn of the game and fatiguing as the battle progresses.

About TCGplayer
TCGplayer is the leading technology platform for the collectibles industry. Founded as a digital media company specializing in trading card games within the collectibles space, TCGplayer has grown from its initial roots working with Syracuse-based hobby stores into an expansive ecommerce platform. The Company develops applications, data management tools and technologies like robotics automation that are revolutionizing the collectibles industry, connecting thousands of hobby stores and online sellers with customers and collectors around the globe. A mission-driven company, TCGplayer prides itself on creating a culture that fosters camaraderie, embraces diversity and exudes passion. It has been ranked among New York State's 50 best employers, Fortune.com's top 100 companies for women in the U.S. and certified a Great Place to Work by its employees. To learn more about TCGplayer visit https://careers.tcgplayer.com/. 

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