by Julia DeKorte | 30 Sep 2025
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Neopets Battledome: War for the Obelisk, Jhudora’s Bluff, & Illusen’s Glade
I’m back with more from the world of Neopets! The trading card game is expanding, with new sets and structure decks to immerse yourself even further into Neopets world.
This time, I tried out some specialty decks, perfect for when you’re ready to add on to your collection:
Fun Extras:
War for the Obelisk
Introducing the Obelisk, a powerful object that has split the Neopets world into Factions that are competing to seek its power and learn its secrets. With this Booster Pack, you’ll get 24 card packs, each with 8 random cards inside. Collect Neopets, Equipment, Legends, Food, Paint Brushes, Potions, and more, all with the War for the Obelisk theme.
Introducing the Factions:
With the Faction cards, you can up your Neopets abilities, for example: by playing The Order of the Red Erisim card, as long as it has 5 or more Allegiance counters, whenever you deal damage to your opponent’s Neopet by card effect, deal 1 additional damage.
There’s also new Legends like The Duchess that are Faction-specific. With The Duchess, you roll 5 dice; store each result on your Sway Faction. Then if your Sway Faction has 5 matching cards stored on it, remove those results and take an extra turn after this one. For the rest of the game, whenever your roll a die, you may change its result to a result stored on your Sway Faction. If you do, remove that stored result from your Sway Faction

Jhudora’s Bluff
With this Structure Deck, you’ll receive a 60-card deck, 1 Grundo Code card, 10 Dice, a rule sheet and a Playsheet. Unlock a new theme centered around Jhudora, including themed Equipment, Potions, Food, and the Jhudora’s Bluff Location card.
You can play with the deck on its own or you can mix it into the rest of your collection, but don’t worry, you’ll know it’s part of the specialty Jhudora deck if it has her team icon in the top right corner of the card.
Here’s some of the specialty cards you’ll encounter:
Illusen’s Glade
With this Structure Deck, you’ll receive a 60-card deck, 1 Grundo Code card, 10 Dice, a rule sheet and a Playsheet. Unlock a new theme centered around Illusen, including themed Equipment, Potions, Food, and the Illusen’s Glade Location card.
Same goes for the Illusen’s Glade deck: you can play on its own or mix it with other decks, but you’ll always know it’s part of Illusen’s world if it has her team icon in the top right corner of the card.
Here’s some of the specialty cards you’ll encounter:
You can purchase these Structure Decks and Booster Packs on the Upper Deck website!
For more information on the history of Neopets and gameplay, check out my last Neopets review!
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