[3] The Bleach Trading Card Game is played with two people.
Temporary effects are ended, and control is switched over to another player.
Promotional ("promo") cards were available through mail-in credits from Score, at tournaments, and at conventions.
The releases are as follows: Each set included (one per booster) extra, larger cards most of which fit together to form a nine-card poster.
The game ceased publication April 2009, just before the planned launch of its seventh expansion, Bleach Infiltration.
[7] This cancellation was attributed to the ongoing recession, which heavily affected TCG sales.
Score Entertainment assures its fans that the English Bleach TCG is its own game; not a direct copy of the Japanese version.