Jurassic Park TCG Escapes Korea with English Edition Arriving in November

The officially licensed Jurassic Park Trading Card Game, until now largely confined to the South Korean market, is getting an English-language edition, with its first products scheduled to reach the US on 20th November 2026.

Life, uh, finds a way, and apparently so do trading cards.

Created by South Korea’s Young Cha Company in collaboration with Universal, the game launched in Korea after several years of development. Shinomoto Ryo, whose previous credits include work on One Piece Card Game and Dragon Ball Super Card Game, was involved in the development of the rules.

Welcome to Jurassic Park

The initial English range will consist of the game’s first main booster set, Silent Giant, the Raptor Strike EX-01 expansion, and two starter decks: ST-01 When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth and ST-02 The Gate is Open.

Silent Giant contains 101 different base cards, divided between 43 commons, 28 uncommons, 20 rares, eight super rares, and two special super rares. There are also 24 parallel cards to hunt down.

Raptor Strike is a smaller expansion containing 57 base cards - 24 commons, 15 uncommons, ten rares, six super rares, and two special super rares - as well as another 11 parallels.

The English boosters contain six cards, with 24 packs per display, while the starter decks include 75 cards each.

So how does the game actually work?

The Jurassic Park TCG uses four principle card types: Dinosaurs, Events, Characters, and Areas. Dinosaurs form the primary combat element, while Events provide one-off effects and Characters provide additional support. Area cards form the game’s resource system, with different colours used to pay the cost required to play other cards,

Players can have up to five dinosaurs on their field, and turns proceed through Refresh, Draw, Area, Main, and End phases. During the Main Phase, players can deploy dinosaurs by paying their Area costs, attack either the opposing player or eligible opposing dinosaurs, or play Event cards.

There are already quite a few keywords and tactical wrinkles. Dinosaurs can have abilities allowing them to attack immediately, intercept attacks, restrict combat according to traits such as aquatic or aerial, or inflict excess damage through an opposing dinosaur onto its player. In other words, this is not merely Top Trumps with velociraptors!

The English announcement is a bit of a surprise

As recently as August, Young Cha was still publicly saying that it was exploring an international release but nothing had yet been finalised. The company’s published roadmap said that overseas possibilities were under consideration and that confirmed information would be announced later.

Less than a month later we now have an actual English release date.

The English edition is being released into the US market by Cardmonster, with distribution exclusively through GTS Distribution. Retailer preorders are open with 30th September, ahead of the 20th November release.

There are also signs that the English edition may not remain purely an American affair. European distributor Luminous Cards is already listing English-language Jurassic Park TCG products and has mentioned that an organised play programme is in development, although no official tournament structure has been announced yet.

At the moment a specific UK retail launch has not been formally announced.

Can Jurassic Park compete?

The tabletop industry isn’t exactly short of collectible card games at the moment. Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! remain giants, while newer licenced games such as Disney Lorcana and Riftbound are competing for players, retailers, and increasingly limited organised play space.

But the CCG market is still massive business, with eBay this week introducing their own pricing guide and app for the UK market, and Jurassic Park does bring something rather useful to the fight…

Dinosaurs.

Not merely generic dinosaurs either, but one of the most recognisable dinosaur brands on the planet.

There’s also potentially a substantial amount of material available to Young Cha, and the games roadmap has been developed in consultation with Universal and indicates that further base sets, expansions, and starter decks are already planned.

The Korean edition has also shown that Young Cha are not just treating this as a one-and-done licensed product. Raptor Strike received a nationwide Korean release in March and the official site has supported tournaments and maintains dedicated rules, card lists and organised play information.

Whether there’s room for another collectible card game is another question entirely. But if you’re going to try forcing your way into an overcrowded ecosystem then turning up with a Tyrannosaurus Rex isn’t the worst strategy.