Display your tactical prowess by summoning units to your gates, outmanoeuvring your opponent, and cutting down the enemy summoner. The exciting card game of fantasy battlefield combat, Summoner Wars puts you in the role of a powerful summoner. The Summoner Wars Second Edition Master Set comes with six wildly different faction decks that keep the gameplay fresh and exciting! All-new deck-building rules and years worth of carefully planned quarterly expansions will keep players engaged and coming back for more! for his work on Heroscape and published by his independent game company Plaid Hat Games. This is a new and improved edition of a beloved and critically acclaimed hit game. Summoner Wars is a tabletop card game created by Colby Dauch. The Second Edition - which features new art and a perfected rules system - can be played in-person with physical cards or online with a browser-based app. Colby is an exceptional game designer and manager whose dedication and passion for the craft is infectious. We’ll remain at their side as a strong long-term partner for distribution.Summoner Wars Second Edition (designed by Colby Dauch) is a fully expandable, tactical dueling card game that features updated versions of beloved factions, along with exciting new factions ready to join the battle. Chief Executive Officer at Plaid Hat Games Dallas-Fort. Steve Horvath, Head of Publishing at Asmodee North America, commented: “I am thrilled that this opportunity has worked out for Colby and am excited to see what they do next. I am thankful to the many kind and creative people I’ve had the opportunity to work with at Asmodee and look forward to continuing our relationships with Asmodee's distribution units throughout the world.” Both Fantasy Flight Games and Z-Man Games are publishers belonging to the Asmodee Group.Ĭolby Dauch, Founder of Plaid Hat Games, commented: “These past years within the Asmodee Group have been amazing and I am excited to continue to lead Plaid Hat Games into the future. Mice and Mystics, Stuffed Fables, Aftermath, and Battlelands will be published and supported by Z-Man games. Going forward, Dead of Winter and Raxxon will be published and supported by Fantasy Flight Games. Asmodee has also retained the rights to the Adventure Book Games brand. On the 19th of February 2020 Plaid Hat Games’ Head of Studio and Founder – Colby Dauch and the Asmodee Group reached an agreement wherein Dauch reacquired the independent rights to the Plaid Hat Games brand and the publication rights to many, but not all, of Plaid Hat's current and past titles.Īsmodee retains the rights to publish the following game titles: Dead of Winter, Raxxon, Mice and Mystics, Stuffed Fables, Aftermath, and Battlelands. He pitched this Summoner Wars faction to Colby on the podcast and the two of them have been talking about these sticky froggies ever since. Global Nav Open Menu Global Nav Close Menu Apple. Notable titles from Plaid Hat Games during that time include Stuffed Fables and Aftermath, which are both members of the Adventure Book Games line. The newly independent (again) Plaid Hat Games crew discusses the going-ons of the board game industry and the games theyve got cooking up for you. Since that time Plaid Hat Games has continued to create and develop new game titles for publication and distribution by Asmodee. In 2015 the Asmodee Group acquired Plaid Hat Games along with Z-Man games as part of the F2Z acquisition, an acquisition that brought with it the rights to publish key titles in Plaid Hat’s catalog, including Mice and Mystics and Dead of Winter.
In 2015, Plaid Hat Games was acquired by Canadian game publisher F2Z Entertainment.
Board game designer Colby Dauch formed the board game publishing company in order to release the company's first game, Summoner Wars. The Asmodee Group is a leading international games publisher and distributor with operations located in Europe, North America, and China. Plaid Hat Games is a United States-based board game studio. Roseville, MN - Plaid Hat Games is a US-based tabletop games publisher, founded in 2009.