About Fantasy Fantasy Baseball

Available June 2016

NEWS: Fantasy Fantasy Baseball made The Game Boy Geek’s Top 10 Anticipated Games for 2016.

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Draft your team. Use your magic. Battle for victories.

Fantasy Fantasy Baseball is an inventive new card game in which you are the Wizard manager of a baseball team of powerful and gruesome fantasy creatures battling through a season of fantasy baseball. Go head-to-head against other Wizard managers for Victory cards while building up your team’s statistics for even more Victory cards. But beware, your players may have spells cast on them.

Instead of the typical fantasy baseball experience taking months to play, the entire FFB experience is boiled down to 10 minutes per player. The amazing fantasy creatures provide something for the baseball fan and the gamer in all of us.

Baseball fans will love this game, but you don’t have to be a big sports fan or baseball fan in order to have a lot of fun with this game.

Developed by acclaimed designers Daryl Andrews and J.R. Honeycutt (now, those are two great baseball names) with art by Rob Lundy, Fantasy Fantasy Baseball is a roster-building card game where players must assemble and manage a team through a season full of unexpected challenges using players skills and magical abilities to win games.

Fantasy Fantasy Baseball weaves together all the best elements of fantasy baseball:

• head-to-head win system
• rotisserie stat tracking
• live draft
• setting your lineups
• final battle for the championship

Fantasy Fantasy Baseball uses a clever combination of game mechanics which fit together to deliver an authentic fantasy sports experience, including:

• Card drafting – Think of it as your live fantasy draft
• Action programming – Setting your lineup
• Hand management – Choose which players start and which sit
• Simultaneous action – Go head-to-head with your opponent
• Variable player powers – Use your specific player strengths at the right time

Fantasy Fantasy Baseball is the first game in CSE Games Fantasy Fantasy Sports series. The next two titles are…

• Fantasy Fantasy Football (with art by Adam McIver)
• Fantasy Fantasy Hockey (with art by Rob Lundy)

Game Contents

• 60 Character Cards (30 hitters + 30 pitchers // 30 Rookies, 8 Pros, 8 Specialists, 8 All-Stars, 6 Hall of Famers)
• 30 Win Cards
• 30 Event Cards (20 Evil, 10 Good)
• 5 Team Cards
• Game Board (“Rotisserie” Stat Tracker & Waiver Priority)
• 30 Scoring markers (6 cubes x 5 teams)
• Illustrated instructions

Fantasy Fantasy Baseball… where high fantasy and fantasy baseball meet.

Here is what top board game industry insiders are saying about Fantasy Fantasy Baseball:

“Elegant. Yet highly flavourful. Nice!”
– Eric Lang (designer of Dice Masters, Quarriors, and many more)

“A great idea. I can’t imagine it will be anything but awesome.”
– Dirk Hayhurst (MLB pitcher, broadcaster, author of The Bullpen Gospels, Out of my League, and more)

“A fantastic baseball game, in all senses of the word!”
– Lance Myxter (Undead Viking)

“I love seeing more sports-themed games coming out. This one is very innovative.”
– Mike Fitzgerald (designer of Baseball Highlights 2045, Diamonds, and many more)

“This is an interesting game with some new ideas, great artwork, a quick playtime and a fun theme.”
– Andrew Bucholtz (Yahoo! Sports)

“The game looks amazing! I think it has a chance to blow up.”
– Jason Kotarski (designer and publisher, Green Couch Games)

“Fantasy Fantasy Baseball is a really clever mash-up of both genres. It’s quick, full of fun and challenging decisions and finds the right balance between sport and sorcery to remain appealing to a wide audience.”
– Stephen Conway (The Spiel)

“You don’t have to like fantasy baseball to like Fantasy Fantasy Baseball.”
– Chris Zinsli (Cardboard Edison)

“… the Rotisserie board mechanism makes the choice of which players to start truly compelling. As the game progressed, I began to understand what my team was capable of… extremely rewarding.”
– Mike Mullins (co-designer of Bottom of the Ninth by Dice Hate Me Games)

“If you like baseball, fantasy, and fantasy baseball check out Fantasy Fantasy Baseball.”
– Chris Kirkman (Dice Hate Me Games)

“Fantasy Fantasy Baseball captures the fun of assembling your team while throwing in some unpredictable magic. A great combination!”
– Sean Jacquemain (The Daily Worker Placement)

“I designed games named DRINKING QUEST, I like dry humour in my titles… FANTASY FANTASY BASEBALL may have me beat”
– Jason Anarchy (designer of Drinking Quest)

“Gamers will like it for the drafting and hand-management. Sports fans will get all the references on the cards. And for those that like fantasy sports, it’s going to seem like a very natural fit.”
– Tyler Anderson (Bearded Meeple)

“I am not a fan of sports. But I am a fan of this game.”  
– Travis R. Chance (designer of Heroes Wanted, Scoundrel Society, and Infamy)

Click for the updated rules to Fantasy Fantasy Baseball.

Want to see the progress of the Fantasy Fantasy Baseball box art? Check out artist Rob Lundy in action:

About co-designer Daryl Andrews:

A member of the Game Artisans of Canada, Daryl is a lifelong baseball fan with two published games to his credit (Caffeine Rush and The Walled City) and several others scheduled for release in the next two years. Daryl is also the co-host of the Meeple Syrup Show (meeplesyrupshow.com), a video podcast of designers discussing design.

View Daryl’s BoardGameGeek profile and follow him on Twitter.

About co-designer J.R. Honeycutt:

Born and raised in Fort Worth, TX, J.R. has five published games (Doug, Doug, Goose, Caboose, North South East Quest, Takeout, Twirk and Unpub) with several more titles scheduled for release in 2016-17. J.R. is also the host of The Nerd Nighters (dfwnn.org), a video podcast and community of gamers helping others.

View J.R.’s BoardGameGeek profile and follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn.

CSE’s Fabio Del Rio briefly chatted with The Spiel about the up-coming Fantasy Fantasy Baseball at GenCon 2015:

http://thespiel.net/?q=node/1179

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