A hockey card game
you own.

Three on three, overtime hockey, where the goalie is a card you hold in your hand and play the moment the shot leaves the stick.

A concept by Pamplemoose Games

A century of hockey cards.
Still no card game that stuck.

The collectible side is a hundred years old and worth billions, and nearly all of it is something you look at rather than play. Games have been tried. Cryptozoic put out a licensed NHL deck builder back in 2014 with real design behind it, and it came and went. Nobody has built the one that keeps going, the kind people learn properly and keep buying into.

And nobody has built one a player owns.

Half hockey, half card battler.

Two players, roughly thirty minutes, three rounds for three periods.

The goalie in your hand.

Your goalie does not start on the ice. He sits in your hand, face down, and you play him the moment a shot is taken. He costs Energy you have to have left over.

Why it works

The net is a bluff

The shooter never knows whether you are holding a goalie or holding a skill card. Every shot is a read on the man across the table.

Why it is hockey

Overspend and you are exposed

Load the ice with talent and you may not be able to afford the save. The goalie is the last thing you can pay for, exactly like the last man back.

Copies are odds.

Four copies of a player and you can count on drawing him, so he comes back out on the next line. One copy and he shows up when the deck says so. He plays exactly like any other card. Building a deck is deciding who you can rely on.

Concept cards. Placeholder art only, and final art would be commissioned. AI never touches the game design. Card values shown are illustrative and would be set in playtesting.

Some cards are plays.

You draw more cards than you can put on the ice, because the hand is where your options live. Some of them are people. Some of them are things you do.

Why they matter

Depth without roster bloat

Skills give a deck its personality without adding another forty faces, and they are where every expansion after set one gets its room to grow.

The one rule

Skills wait for your turn

Plays resolve on your own turn. The goalie stays the only card in the game that interrupts, which is what keeps that moment special.

The category is wide open.

Card games are having the best decade they have ever had, and hockey is the one major sport without a game that stuck. The analyst spread on that middle number is wide, so treat it as a category signal rather than a forecast.

The concept is done.
The game is not, yet.

One set is a game.
Many is a franchise.

A deck is built from copies and skills, so every new set is more roster and more plays without breaking anything that came before. The engine is built to keep taking cards.

You own the game.
We design it.

Being one of seven hundred names in a group license earns you a fractional check you never think about. Owning one game earns you a business.

We design card games.
That is the whole job.

We take a brand, a person, or an idea and turn it into something people actually sit down and play. Hockey has been on our list for a while.

Playable first. Everything else after.

There is a real budget behind that path and we are happy to walk you through all of it. That is a second conversation. This one is about whether the game is any good.

These two will never see a store.

We made them anyway. Every card in this game has to earn its place with a rule, and these two do, which is exactly why we could not leave them alone. Consider them a gift.

Joke cards, included for your entertainment. Neither would appear in a published set.

Let us put it on a table.

The fastest way to know if this is real is to play it. Give us a room and an hour and we will bring the thing.

And if your gut says this is not for you, that is a completely fair answer and we will say thanks for the time.

Zack Howe & Cole Beardsley · Pamplemoose Games · zack@pamplemoosegames.com

Concept pitch prepared by Pamplemoose Games LLC. This concept is independent and unaffiliated with the National Hockey League, the NHL Players' Association, or any club. No league or team marks are used or proposed. Game mechanics and designs are original work of Pamplemoose Games LLC. Placeholder art only; final art would be commissioned. AI never touches the game design. Not for distribution.