In honor of Maryland's official Diamondback Terrapin Day, Diamondback Trading Cards is offering a two for one deal on all sets of trading cards sold until midnight tonight. Buy any set and get any additional set for free. Sets can be different, use the comments field at purchase to designate which set you would like as your free set. This deal applies to regular sets and Collector's editions. Any set purchased gets a free set of your choice, period.

Its April 30th and today is Save the Frogs Day! In celebration of Save the Frogs Day, a worldwide event orchestrated by Savethefrogs.com, We are donating 100% of the proceeds on sets of Frog and Toad trading cards to savethefrogs.com for today only. If you are interested in the plight of Frogs worldwide, stop by savethefrogs.com and check out what they are trying to do to help. And remember, you can help too by buying a set of Frog and Toad trading cards today!

Here at Diamondback we have made great use of the resources available at The Center for North American Herpetology. Their website is arguably the best herpetological resource concerning North American herpetology. We are pleased to announce that for a limited time we are donating $2.00 to the CNAH for each set purchased using the CNAH donation code. To ensure that CNAH receives $2 from your purchase all you need to do is type the letters CNAH in the notes/comments field at the time of purchase and your donation will be sent. Click the link below to see the details:

CNAH Donation Instructions

The Diamondback Trading Card Exchange is now open to anyone who requests an invitation. It is a strictly moderated group that we have set up specifically for trading Diamondback cards. Trading Diamondbacks used to occur on our Facebook page but we have set up the exchange to assure that we have more control over the environment. We hope that this new safe web environment will encourage kids to drop in and trade their Diamondback duplicates online with other kids without fear because there is no anonymity and all new members posts are moderated before they can be seen by the rest of the group. Stop by the Diamondback Trading Card Exchange and request an invitation today. You can get there by using the large trade button near the top of the website menu.

Trading Diamondbacks online is about to become easier, safer and a lot more fun! Diamondback Trading Cards is currently testing out an online format where Diamondback Collector's will be able to find one another and trade their duplicate cards in a safe, private, moderated environment. We have actually been looking into this for some time because we felt that the current trading platform on our Facebook page potentially alienates some young collector's who may not be registered or want to register on Facebook. Our new platform will be using the Google groups environment and has a much greater potential for moderation and privacy, ensuring a safe and fun trading environment. We plan to announce the opening of the Diamondback Trading Card Exchange to the public very soon.

The collation method that was being used to produce the Collector's Edition sets has recently been changed. The contents will remain the same but we have altered the insertion method to ensure that the cards issued in the Collector's Edition are as randomly selected as possible. This has also introduced the possibility that some Collector's Edition sets may have duplicates in them. However, the amount of duplicates will remain relatively small, as it was (and still is) our intention to give you as many unique cards as possible in the very popular Collector's Edition.

We have just added a new jump to link on the bottom of the left hand menu bar that will take you to the most up to date Diamondback Trading Cards checklist. This checklist will be updated as soon as new cards come off the press so that our collectors can keep tabs on exactly what cards, including base set cards, sub set cards, promo cards, auto cards and special release cards, have been so far released from Diamondback. This list is authoritative and complete and represents the official Diamondback Trading Cards list. Please feel free to download or print the list for your own records.

Herpetologist and author Kate Jackson was kind enough to send us a small stack of autographed cards this week. Dr. Jackson is a Harvard trained Herpetologist who has authored over 20 scientific papers on the subject of herpetology including 2 general audience zoology books that have been highly acclaimed. She currently teaches at Whitman College in Washington state where we sent her a few sets of our Diamondback Trading Cards to give away to her current herpetology students. We are proud to have Dr Jackson's autographs in the Diamondback Autograph Collection, and we will be giving our fans several opportunities to pick one up. Right now you can receive your free autographed card from Kate or one of several other famous herpetology related people by completing your first trade on our facebook discussion board.

Melissa Frankford is on the final stretch of completing the art for the upcoming series 'Dinosaurs'! We are really excited to release this set. While Melissa's art is scientifically accurate in structure she has an amazing ability to use color and texture to create dinosaurs in a bright and fanciful nature that is sure to delight dinosaur lovers of all ages.

All of the dinosaurs above and many more will be seen in this upcoming series which is designed to educate and inform. Each card face features an individual dinosaur and each card back has facts and details relating what modern paleontology has discovered about these incredible beasts. Stay tuned to our website. We are hoping to announce the expected release date soon.