Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is coming to the Cyberpunk Trading Card Game in a big way. Developer WeirdCo officially announced the game’s second set and first expansion, Edgerunners: Burn Bright, on Tuesday morning. It launches in spring 2027, bringing characters, weapons, cyberware, and scenes from CD Projekt Red and TRIGGER’s Netflix anime to the tabletop.
And judging by Polygon’s exclusive reveal of two new card illustrations, developer WeirdCo knows exactly how to sucker punch fans of the show with traumatic memories. Our first look at the artwork for Caught in the Crossfire and Adam Smasher — Story Ends Here captures two very different expressions of Night City’s brutality. One features the franchise’s most recognizable walking nightmare.
The other revisits the tragedy that set David Martinez on his path to becoming an edgerunner in season 1 of the Netflix series. Caught in the Crossfire, with art by Studio Grafit, depicts David’s mother, Gloria Martinez. She's lying bloodied on the road, framed by shattered glass and a burning vehicle.
Fans will recognize the aftermath of the highway crash from the anime’s first episode, when an ordinary drive home becomes a tragedy. The perspective is remarkably similar to the anime, as if the camera is looking through David’s eyes as his mother lies hurt on the road. This new depiction is not a one-for-one recreation of that moment in the show, however, since we're able to see Gloria’s face here.
That's part of what makes this depiction that much more heartbreaking. Before the crash, Gloria and David argue about his future at Arasaka Academy. She works herself ragged to keep him enrolled, hoping an education will give him a chance at a comfortable corporate life.
David struggles to see a place for himself among his wealthy classmates. Then their car gets caught in a random shootout that has nothing to do with either of them. The violence is arbitrary, but what follows makes it especially cruel.
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