Upper Deck Offers a Full Stocking of This Year's Hottest Trading Card Games, Sports Collectibles and an Exclusive Comic Fine Art Piece for the 2005 Holiday Season

Business Wire, Oct 6, 2005

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Upper Deck:

--Upper Deck Entertainment Kicks off Holiday Season with Holiday Favorites Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME Collectible Tins and Master Collection, Volume 2

--Breakthrough Winx Club(TM) Magical Fairy Game Now Available at All Participating Retail Outlets in Time for Holiday Season

--Vs. System(TM) Powers Up with Exciting Collectible Tins Featuring Exclusive Artwork by Renowned Comic Artist Alex Ross

--Upper Deck Sports Collectibles Offers Powerful Line-Up of Trading Cards Featuring Mini-Jerseys and ESPN-Themed Sets

--Upper Deck Holds a Pocket Full of Aces with New Poker Collection

--Upper Deck Offers Exclusive Alex Ross "Avengers" Fine Art Piece For Great Holiday Gift Giving

Upper Deck brings joy to the upcoming holiday season with this year's top-selling trading card games, and action-packed sports collectible card sets. The holiday line-up includes: the highly-popular Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME; the Winx Club Magical Fairy Game; DC Comics TCG; Marvel TCG; and exciting new MLB, NFL, NHL and NBA collectible sets. In addition, Upper Deck will also offer the most spectacular art piece on the market -- "The Avengers," created by renowned comic artist Alex Ross.

Upper Deck offers an exciting array of Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME products to kick off this holiday season with the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Collectible Tins (September) and Master Collection, Volume 2 (October). Anticipated to be the hottest-selling toys of the season, the new Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG Collectible Tins and Master Collection gives the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG collectors a chance to collect previously released boosters, brand new cards and powerful variant cards. Additionally, Upper Deck will release the newest Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG expansion set Elemental Energy (November), complete with new Fusion Monsters from the new Yu-Gi-Oh! GX animated series, and Warrior's Triumph (November) -- the newest Structure Deck of the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG collection.

Upper Deck adds sparkle to this holiday season with the exciting Winx Club Magical Fairy Game, and the second installment of the Winx Club Comic Magazine (currently available), which features an exclusive Winx Club game card album. Made especially for girls, the Winx Club Magical Fairy Game and comic magazine follows the adventures of the five fashion savvy teenage girls -- Bloom, Stella, Musa, Flora and Tecna -- as they use special powers to transform into magical fairies and save the universe.

A perfect gift for Marvel comic fans, Upper Deck will release the Avengers(TM) Deluxe Collector Deck Boxes (November) featuring Marvel's most powerful team of super heroes. Each deluxe collector deck box will contain four expansion packs of the Avengers booster packs, four metal deck boxes featuring to store competitive decks, four variant Extended Art cards, and a case to store all four deck boxes featuring exclusive artwork by legendary comic artist Alex Ross. Additionally, Marvel fans can also purchase spectacular artwork by Ross with Upper Deck's first release of the newly launched fine arts collection -- "The Avengers" as featured on www.fineart.upperdeck.com.

Powering up this holiday season are Upper Deck's new Justice League of America(TM) Deluxe Collector Deck Boxes (November), featuring the World's Greatest Super Heroes(TM). Each deluxe collector deck box will contain four Justice League of America booster packs, four metal deck boxes to store competitive decks, four variant Extended Art cards, and a case to store all four deck boxes, which also features exclusive artwork by Ross.

Lastly, this year's holiday line-up would not be complete without Upper Deck's power-house full of sports collectible trading cards and poker collection. Perfect for sports enthusiasts, Upper Deck offers: the latest from the MLB and NFL ESPN (MLB set currently available, NFL available in November) card sets featuring an action-packed assortment of today's favorite MLB and NFL athletes, and ESPN personalities; MLB and NFL Mini-Jersey (currently available) card sets featuring an exclusive collection of replica mini jerseys of current and legendary players; and the highly-sought-after Upper Deck Poker Collection (Fall), featuring an assortment of MLB, NBA and NHL team-branded chips.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME Collectible Tins

Duelists can now stack their Decks with a collection of booster packs designed to increase complexity and power during monster Dueling matches. Each unique Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME Collectible Tins offers an assortment of the game's top-selling booster packs, which include Dark Beginning 1, Dark Revelation 1, Soul of the Duelist, The Lost Millennium, and Flaming Eternity. In addition, each tin will include one of six new cards, and feature the likes of "Gilford the Lightning," "Panther Warrior," "Exarion Universe," "Rocket Warrior," "Dark Magician Girl," and "Vorse Raider" on the tin. SRP: $19.99.

Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME Master Collection, Volume 2

The new Master Collection gives Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG collectors a chance to collect previously released boosters and new variant cards. This highly collectible set includes six exciting Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG boosters in a stylish, rainbow-colored, Egyptian-themed storage portfolio. Each folder will include Pharaonic Guardian, Magician's Force, Dark Crisis, Invasion of Chaos, Ancient Sanctuary booster packs, Exclusive Pack 1, and six variant cards -- one from each set. SRP: $34.99.