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Wow, it's 2012! 2011 passed by super quickly for me. I almost can't believe it. It's January once again. Here's to another year of trading! \o/

LJ's release 88 completely revamped the comment system so that it's very different from before. The new comment style doesn't completely suit the TCG's needs, as subject lines have been taken out, and there is no preview button for players and mods to check to see if their comments display correctly. While LJ has given everyone the ability to edit comments, sometimes editing comments isn't exactly the best route to take (especially when time stamps are involved)! I'm not particularly fond of plus accounts because of ads, but I have changed

colors_tcg from a basic account to a plus account so that we can use S2, which allows for customized comment pages, which means we can have subject lines and the preview button back (for now, at least). Chuu has very helpfully tweaked a layout for us! I hope it's a good enough compromise for now. Since the community is currently a plus account, that also means we can have more links in the sidebar. I've only included the bare minimum (all of the links are displayed on our profile page and essential posts linked here, but if there are any other links you feel are necessary for the sidebar (or counterintuitive for not being in the sidebar in the first place), let me know!

The banner in the upper left corner was drawn by Nuge~, featuring our Colors characters! We'll possibly even have rotating banners in the future! :) (edit: we now have a few banners! Can you catch them all? ;)

Our trading and mod communities have not been touched. Unless anyone feels

colors_trade would benefit from an S2 style, with customized comment pages, the community will probably stay as is! (It would be nice to have a preview button, I suppose?)

Sort of but not entirely related to the above (my mind's just been on communities!), I have also been wondering if players would like an off-topic community, or if that would take away too much from

colors_trade (I'm always afraid of branching out too much and like my things centralized). An off-topic community has been suggested before, but I did consider things like friending memes, announcements about special Colors related projects, misc chats about Colors, etc, to belong in

colors_trade, so an off-topic community might take away from that (as there would be two different places to post, yet crossposting would maybe be overdoing it). Still, perhaps an off-topic community where (almost) anything goes might be nice? Where players can chat and be silly, and your chatter wouldn't have to be related to trading or TCGs. Share your thoughts - yes, no, maybe, doesn't matter? reasons? - and you can snatch yourself two character cards, one #20 character card and one #12 character card for 2012!

Our deck donation number has gone down a bit, but we were so close to what I like to see in each release - around 70 new character decks! We were short 2 decks this month, exactly like last month, actually. So you know what this means right? Please continue to donate lots of decks! For this release, I've noticed that we mostly have decks from series that's already part of the TCG. It's great seeing the casts from these series being filled out more! \o/ (But I hope this doesn't mean we've run out of series we want decks of!)

Here's the .rar file for all of our new cards from this release! For previous months', please visit our website, which also includes the complete zip courtesy of Ka-chan~

== 3 Special Decks ==
Pokemon Ground-type, Scrapbook: Twintails, Scrapbook: Winter

== 68 Character Decks ==

♥ Bakuman ♥
Aoki Kou, Iwase Aiko

♥ Bleach ♥
Kuchiki Byakuya

♥ Cardfight!! Vanguard ♥
Sendou Aichi

♥ Code Geass ♥
Jiang Lihua, Li Xingke

♥ Digital Devil Saga ♥
Serph

♥ Eternal Sonata ♥
Allegretto, Beat

♥ Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Zero ♥
Kotomine Kirei

♥ Fate/Zero ♥
Emiya Kiritsugu, Irisviel von Einzbern, Lancer

♥ Final Fantasy XIII ♥
Sazh Katzroy, Snow Villiers

♥ Fullmetal Alchemist ♥
Alex Louis Armstrong, Greed

♥ Gintama ♥
Sarutobi Ayame

♥ Gravitation ♥
Sakuma Ryuuichi, Seguchi Touma

♥ Higurashi no Naku Koro ni ♥
Hanyuu

♥ Hayate the Combat Butler! ♥
Maria

♥ Kaiba ♥
Chroniko

♥ Nyan Koi! ♥
Noir, Tama

♥ One Piece ♥
Trafalgar Law

♥ Saint Seiya ♥
Andromeda Shun, Aries Mu, Capricorn Shura, Cygnus Hyoga, Dragon Shiryu, Leo Aiolia, Libra Douko, Pegasus Seiya, Phoenix Ikki, Sagittarius Aiolos, Scorpio Milo, Taurus Aldebaran, Virgo Shaka

♥ Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas ♥
Aries Shion, Cancer Manigoldo, Capricorn El Cid

♥ Saya no Uta ♥
Saya

♥ School Days ♥
Kotonoha Katsura

♥ Seirei no Moribito ♥
Balsa

♥ Sekaiichi Hatsukoi ♥
Kisa Shouta, Onodera Ritsu, Takano Masamune, Yukina Kou

♥ Sengoku Basara ♥
Akechi Mitsuhide, Honda Tadakatsu, Koubayakawa Hideaki, Oichi, Saika Magoichi, Tsuruhime

♥ Shaman King ♥
Asakura You, Kyouyama Anna

♥ Shoujo Kakumei Utena ♥
Kaoru Kozue, Mikage Souji, Takatsuki Shiori, Tsuchiya Ruka

♥ Soulcalibur ♥
Kilik

♥ Tales of the Abyss ♥
Ion

♥ Touhou Project ♥
Cirno, Konpaku Youmu

♥ Uzumaki ♥
Saitou Shuuichi

♥ Yes! Precure 5 ♥
Akimoto Komachi, Minazuki Karen

♥ Freebies ♥

You may claim 8 character cards and 1 special card from the newly released decks above. They must all be from different decks! Comment with what you take.

If you donated to the Twintails or Winter decks, you may also claim the card you donated in addition to your other freebies. If you were the one who suggested one of the special decks released here through this post, you may also claim one card from the special deck you suggested in addition to your other freebies! Please comment with what you take~.

If your birthday is in January, please also label your subject with BIRTHDAY! to receive your birthday freebies of three random cards and 1 crayon. I will be passing this out!

♥ Referral Rewards ♥

The following players qualify for referral rewards. Thank you for the referrals! :D If your name is part of this list, please comment with REFERRAL! in the subject of your comment to this post to receive your rewards.

John x2

The coding of this post and cards3 was thanks to Moon! Thank you so much once again! :D

See you all in February! ;)