Tomb Raider Collectible Card Game

In 1999, Eidos teamed up Precedence Publishing to create a set of cards that were not only collectible but also playable. The first set released was called 'Premier', and later a further two sets were created: 'Slippery When Wet', which was focused on the ocean aspects of Tomb Raider, and 'Big Guns'.

The Premier Cards, numbered 201-209 include clues for a competition, which you can read more about here.

To view all cards, follow these links to the individual sets: Premier | Slippery When Wet | Big Guns

In 2001, the TR CCG series came to an end. Below is the official statement published on the Precedence website, declaring why it was ending:

SOLD OUT
Precedence Entertainment has officially sold out of the Tomb Raider series as of the GAMA 2001 Trade Show.

Due to production and licensing issues, we are currently unable to progress any further with more expansions to the Tomb Raider CCG line.  This has resulted in Precedence having to make the hard decision that we must discontinue further expansions for the Tomb Raider CCG.  This will also result in having to pull active tournament and demonstration support for the game beyond that which is already scheduled.  We will continue to have the website up and running with Tomb Raider information, rules updates, galleries, email and phone support for players, etc.

This was a hard decision to make for Precedence.  Overall Tomb Raider has done fairly well and is one of the more talked about CCG's in the industry.  However, without approvals in on some of the newer video game releases in the series and no license for imagery from the movie, we have found it increasingly difficult to come up with enough unique imagery to put together a cohesively themed expansion.  Most of these problems fall in the range of the Action Cards.  How many different ways can one show a picture of Lara running down a hall and make a different action out of it?  This leads us to either needing many more artists, or obtaining custom imagery outside the scope of the existing video game releases that we have approval to work with at this time.  Either way this would serve to push the cost of the product up quite higher than it has been, and we cannot in good conscience, ask our retailers and consumers to carry that cost for us.

We also face the problem of potentially having to reprint older materials for new players.  This will unfortunately devalue the existing cards, unless we make cosmetic changes to each card to make them slightly different, and we know that is not what our collectors will want.  We also would then risk having a large quantity of product when our license expires, and not being necessarily able to still distribute it.

Therefore we have had to make this very hard decision.  We had hoped that we would have enough support product remaining to reach this year's Western and Eastern Hemisphere Championships, but that will not happen without having to turn away already scheduled and requested support from both retailers and our "Raider" Prec-Reps.  This we will not do.  Again, we will continue standard support, and you will not see the Tomb Raider area of this website fade away, it will continue on, we will take support questions, keep enough stock for the occasional damaged card that comes out of a pack, and we will stay here to assist players and collectors with their Tomb Raider product.  We know that even though we are out of sellable stock, distributors and retailers are not, and even when they are, then our labour of love sits in the hands of the players and collectors around the world, and supporting them is an utmost priority in this new millennium.

As a final way of saying thank you, we are placing all the new promotional cards from the game that were not given a chance to find standard release, up for sale at our online store.  Though we have very limited quantities, we will add what we have to the promotional card order form that will appear at the online store in early-mid April, so that you can complete your collections as easily as possible.
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We thank you all for your support, we hope you continue to enjoy the Tomb Raider product line (as well as our other series), and love playing and collecting it as much as we loved making it.

Sincerely,
Richard E. Don
Marketing Manager
Precedence Entertainment

This was not the end of Tomb Raider CCGs as there is a Japanese set. You can read what we have discovered HERE and official fansite Raider Daze has managed to put together a complete list of Mars-16 cards, which you can read HERE.

'The Treasure Vault', created by ​Sam Black, mahasamatman.com, and Penguin Flight Dynamics, was the first website to upload and list detailed information and imagery of the Precedence CCG. The website included a feature where you could sort the cards by number, alphabetical or by rarity and it even lists the rules and any updates in the rules. In fact, even the official Precedence TR CCG game endorsed the website as a go-to gallery.

If you wish to download the CCGs for yourself, Core-Design has the complete set, found here.

Sell Sheets

Promo Cards

The Promo Cards released during the sales of the Premier Set are as follows: The Lenticular Card, Lara Croft Explorer, Karmic Balance and ​Lil Ol Me.

The Promo Cards released during the sales of the Slippery When Wet Set are as follows: Small Favor, Keep Your Cool and Lara Croft Siren​.

The Promo Cards released during the sales of the Big Guns Set are as follows: ​Cheat Codes, Dressed to Kill, Heavy Firepower, Murphy's Law, Sandstorm, Secret Surveillance and Lara Croft Renegade.

And an 000 card, Goddess, which was supposedly a test card.

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Sources

Precedence End Statement
http://web.archive.org/web/20010413012154/http://www.eternity.com/trccg/index.html

Goddess Promo Card
https://www.nslists.com/tombrcc3.htm