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Certified Guaranty Company, also known as CGC, is a Sarasota, Florida comic book grading service. CGC is an independent member of the Certified Collectibles Group of companies. It is the first independent and impartial third party grading service for comic books.
It has certified more than 60 million coins. NGC certification consists of authentication, grading, attribution, and encapsulation in clear plastic holders. NGC is a subsidiary of Certified Collectibles Group (CCG), which owns six collectible certification services and is in turn owned by Blackstone, a multibillion-dollar New York City hedge ...
A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) among other names, [note 1] is a type of card game that mixes strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards. [2] It was introduced with Magic: The Gathering in 1993. Cards in CCGs are specially designed sets of playing cards.
This is a list of known collectible card games.Unless otherwise noted, all dates listed are the North American release date. This contains games backed by physical cards; computer game equivalents are generally called digital collectible card games and are catalogued at List of digital collectible card games
Third-party grading (TPG) refers to coin grading & banknote grading authentication, attribution, and encapsulation by independent certification services.. These services will, for a tiered fee depending on the value of the coin, "slab" a coin and assign a grade of 1–70 on the Sheldon grading system, with 1 being the lowest grade, with only faint details visible to 70, a practically perfect ...
The following editions and expansion of The X-Files CCG were developed and released by USPCC: Premiere (November 1996) – This first edition of The X-Files CCG had a print run of roughly 80-million cards. [14] The set contained 354 distinct cards. Card images and concepts were taken from the first two seasons of the X-Files. [15]
Following the success of the first collectible card game (CCG), Wizards of the Coast's Magic: The Gathering in 1993, Galactic Empires by Companion Games was one of the "first wave" of CCGs that followed. [1]
A well-recognized Decipher game mechanic was used in Young Jedi. Weapons, unlike in SW:CCG, would not "kill" opposing characters, but instead increased the power of a character and included in most cases a "Destiny" draw. Each card had a number between 1 and 6 in the top right corner.