High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Released by Wizards of the Coast in 2000, the X-Men Trading Card Game was a collectible card game (CCG) designed to coincide with the popularity of the first X-Men movie. This set featured character art similar to that of the movie, even for characters who did not appear in the movie, such as Angel or Bishop. The X-Men Trading Card Game was a joint release of Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (WotC), Marvel Entertainment (Marvel), and Twentieth Century Fox (Fox). All three companies involved with the game required that certain stipulations be met in the final product, which was more than slightly instrumental in the game's all-too-rapid demise. WotC, naturally, was responsible for the structural design of the game; Marvel was to provide artwork; and Fox determined the overall look of the characters depicted in the cards, to wit, the black leather outfits worn by the actors of Fox's 'X-Men' feature film. The game's only promotional cards even featured Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, and James Marsden as their respective movie characters.