The TCG Thread
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At some point, this may be a candidate for the public forums (or even a public companion thread) but let’s kick it off.
I last really played fifteen years ago and have been working hard to modernize my deck for the past year but success has been somewhat mixed. It seems the game has changed significantly over the last fifteen and has gotten exceedingly complex and playing catch up is taking a lot of effort. I may be on the homestretch, though, and may be able to complete the modernize with a few structure decks. If that doesn’t work, I’m leaning towards playing the format that uses the 2008 rules and cards while I catch up at my pace instead of trying to push it all through
Over time, this thread should become more than this sort of thing (hopefully!). Presumably, a lively discussion on TCGs will form but this is just to kick things off. 🙂
Games:
- Lorcana: https://www.disneylorcana.com/
- Magic the Gathering: https://magic.wizards.com/
- Pokemon: https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg
- Yu-Gi-Oh: https://www.yugioh-card.com/
Card Databases:
- Magic the Gathering: https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Default.aspx
- Pokemon: https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/pokemon-cards/
- Yu-Gi-Oh: https://www.db.yugioh-card.com/yugiohdb/
- Lorcana: https://dreamborn.ink/
Fan Formats:
- Goat Format: https://www.goatformat.com/
- Edison Format: https://www.edisonformat.com/
For collectors, here is a short list of the most popular grading services:
- Beckett: https://www.beckett.com/
- CGC Cards: https://www.cgccards.com/
- CGC Hub (additional services): https://www.cgcgrading.com/
- PSA: https://www.psacard.com/
Something to note with grading: if the card game is actively played, then grading may not be as beneficial as grading the card prevents it from being played (the grading service seals the card up), decreasing interest in the graded version.
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As it was my impression some of gaming houses that ran Magic, The Gathering were run by a bunch of creeps, never got into them, although Jyhad is a scream. Nowadays, there seems to be a set of more definitive rules in Pokémon, good if there is a venue nearby to try them out, otherwise surf online.. For my benefit at least, here’s a video on the basics:
I tried Magic a few years back but I couldn’t get into it either
Jyhad looks interesting, will need to ask around and see if there’s much of an interest for it here. Failing that, there may be an add-on for Tabletop Simulator 🙂
I do have some old Pokemon cards but I never did attempt to play it (Yugioh is more my area but, sadly, the local community here comes and goes making it difficult to play consistently) but could be worth a try.
I do play online some but I like playing in person so that I can be around people since there’s few other ways for me to socialize around here. Not exactly a good town for it and our transportation system isn’t very good. With the way the bus routes are, it’d take me two hours just to get downtown (same as walking) 🙁
Anyways! Bemoaning the lack of things to do is deviating from the purpose of the thread. That and I moan about it too much anyways…. 😛
Eventually, I do need to figure out a better way of keeping track of my cards. Been toying with the idea of entering them into a database (used to keep them in a spreadsheet years ago) but maybe that’s overkill?
Decided to pivot a bit and use a deck similar to what I use online. Didn’t look at it carefully before I ordered it, though, so it’s a bit haphazard meaning I’ll probably need to tweak it some later. Its strategy is a bit of a mishmash instead of being steady (too many Tuners from the looks of it) but we’ll see how it goes before I sit down and work on fixing it. Had trouble finding much regarding a modern deck for Blackwings so I mostly just picked one. They’re still popular and viable but decklists for them don’t seem to be popular, other than for the Edison format, which is kind of strange.
Figure it’s better than struggling to fix up my other somewhat crummy decks that’ll never be truly up to snuff for modern play. At least Blackwings can be updated!
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Just realized I probably could have taken an Edison deck and updated it with modern cards. Whelp, too late to worry about it now! 😛 Based on my figuring, I should be able to make it more viable with about 4 card changes though 🙂
Not exactly. After Maxx “C” is activated, whenever the other player summons a monster then the player who activated Maxx “C” draws a card. So: Summon -> Other Draws -> Summon -> Other draws rinse and repeat. If they draw Sales Ban, then you’re essentially out of luck with drawing during their turn as they’ll likely have other cards that’ll lock you down since their hand is likely now 15 at least instead of the usual 5 that you start with. Interestingly, Sales Ban is hardly used at all even though its effect is rather powerful. I haven’t used it myself but I may add it in to a deck just to see if it can be useful to counter other staple cards that are in fact legal over here in the TCG regions 🙂
Over here in TCG realm, a lot of folks have been calling for Maxx “C” to be banned in Master Duel (it’s not legal in the physical version of TCG, just the OCG) as it can be such a problematic card, sucking the fun out of the online game. They could fix the card by limiting how many cards it’ll let you draw, say maxing out at 3, but I’m not sure they’re so inclined. :shrug:
Pot of Greed is banned, interestingly enough, in all formats and that only lets the turn player draw 2. Unbanning it would actually be a good way to balance Maxx “C” without changing any card text
We used to see ads on the tele for Pokemon sets all the time, too, but haven’t seen any in several years. Not sure why. We also used to see video games more often and toy commercials. The board game ads were especially fun seeing the concept renditions 😀
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