Trading Card Games

[Taleweaver]

I've got a few thousand Magic the gathering cards here, but I quit around the same time they started with mythic cards. The game is certainly fun, interesting and never the same, but man...it's so easy to keep spending money on it.

 

[Madridi]

Cuz I bought the completed set. It was not cheap, lol.


edit: wow can't edit my post properly

Ah ok I thought you had them before it became expensive lol. There is also a cloth playmat released for it that's almost impossible to find at a reasonable price.

It's different than the paper one that they released.

 

[3DSPoet]

I've got a few thousand Magic the gathering cards here, but I quit around the same time they started with mythic cards. The game is certainly fun, interesting and never the same, but man...it's so easy to keep spending money on it.

I stopped regularly buying Magic cards around the time 5th edition came out. They were pumping out new expansions like every 2 months, which isn't horrible in itself, but each expansion at the time was built on cards that could ONLY be countered IF you had that expansion...

An example are the Sliver cards....a type of creature that can ONLY be blocked by other Slivers...so if you didn't have that expansion, then you were likely to be taken out easily by someone using those cards. Now, if there were only a few cards, that'd be one thing..but it seemed like every single critter in that expansion was a Sliver...enough, at least, that you could build a deck with an entire army of the things and not a single non-sliver creature in it.

It's actually kind of funny. We complain about all the microtransactions and minimal content DLC pumped out by game companies these days.... Wizards of the Coast has been doing it for over 2 decades. At least with a DLC, you know what you're getting....paying $3 for a booster pack may yield you 8 cards you already had or that can't even be used (banned cards)

 

[Taleweaver]

An example are the Sliver cards....a type of creature that can ONLY be blocked by other Slivers...so if you didn't have that expansion, then you were likely to be taken out easily by someone using those cards. Now, if there were only a few cards, that'd be one thing..but it seemed like every single critter in that expansion was a Sliver...enough, at least, that you could build a deck with an entire army of the things and not a single non-sliver creature in it.

Not really. Slivers shared their abilities with all other slivers in play (no matter who controlled them). I believe that there was one that said that only slivers could block slivers. Meaning: (in theory) all you had to do was get rid of that one at a crucial time (e.g. during an attack in which they didn't anticipate being blocked).
You were probably thinking of shadow: the ability (of the same set, IIRC) that made the creature unblockable except by creatures with the same ability. The fact that they couldn't block other creatures wasn't much of a counterbalance.

 

[3DSPoet]

Ah, yes, that's right. Same expansion, but it was Shadow...but the point still stands.

 

[Deleted User]

i sometimes buy yugioh cards if i have extra cash, never had money in the past to buy the original starter decks. also bought 1 pokemon tin for lolz

 

[3DSPoet]

Ah, yes, that's right. Same expansion, but it was Shadow...but the point still stands.

I have all of the original Pokemon Starter decks INCLUDING the 2 player intro set! XD

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/2-Player_Starter_Set_(TCG)