MTG thread

played the star wars CCG by dechiper(sp), rage, and MTG, was a place in florida, when pokemon dropped, they coudlnt sell the boxes, asked me and a friend if we'd buy them under cost so they'd get soem money back, never did then the ebay craze happened

Sterling said:

So many CCGs back then. Spellfire did predate Magic though. I tried so many of those games and almost all of them were so bad. Overpower, Middle Earth, Star Wars, Star Trek, Wyvern, Jyhad, etc.

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I see your hand of dead from day 1 products, and raise you: Hyborian Gates,

Ani-mayhem,

and Lord of Bad Ideas for a CCG: Heresy: Kingdom Come (cards are ~30% longer than regular cards and had a SUPER BRITTLE finish on them. Couldn't find sleeves for shit, and they almost shattered just shuffling a couple of times)

Did you assemble enough booster pack pyramids to go first in Hyperborean Gates?

I remember when that game came out my friend actually woodworked a "deckbox" for it, since nothing extant would hold them without damaging them.

Friends and I enjoyed Battletech and Illuminati CCGs. Battletech was also created by Garfield, and had 6 expansions, so it had some legs. Not long ones, but /shrug

Theros expected value dropping down near 70 TCG MId lel.

a_skeleton_02 said:

Was pretty obvious i'd say, Set doesn't really have anything in it.

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I'm good with there not being any multi-format sillyness like the 3 mana walkers or OUAT in a set.

Lendarios said:

I agree, not having ridiculous expensive cards is good for the game.

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There's always going to be best cards in sets. If there's sets where nothing is good enough even for Standard then that's just as bad as having over pushed nonsense.

Lendarios said:

I remembered when they did the Energy release, and it was so broken, that as soon as the next set came in they banned a lot of the energy cards. attune and rogue refiner

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They banned Marvel pretty early, but they didn't ban that other shit until later. Was the January 2018 B&R update I think. Also energy is a dumb mechanic. Anytime you can get around normal mana costs it's dangerous. Almost all the major fuckups have been this sort of thing. Phyrexian mana, Energy, Delve, Affinity, etc.

Lendarios said:

Yes, they banned the main energy generators once the new set came out and it did nothing to the old Temur Energy deck.

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That was 4 sets after Aether Revolt.

Part of the Theors EV being shit is the collector boosters are well. They have 3 "showcase" or whatever you want to call it cards per pack, and only mythics exist with those special extended art or alternate frames, so every path is 3 mythics. The prices on stuff like alternate art gods or planeswalkers is in the absolute shitter because of that and you can buy special versions of them for the same or less as the normal prints.