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Cardboard rehab: TCG/CCG thread
Tamer Anode/Cathode:
I figured we could use a thread for card games. MTG, YGO, Pokemon TCG, Vanguard, if there's a significant playerbase here it would be nice to get some discussion going.
Widermelonz:
Currently playing WeebWeiss Schwarz, just made a new deck (RIP wallet). In terms of preference I like WS > MTG > YGO. I quit YGO forever ages ago, couldn't stand its expensive cards and dumb metagame. Didn't get into Vanguard or Pokemon that much so I can't really judge.
Spotty Len:
We play a ton of Vanguard at our association, though when I say "we", I mean I just help organizing the tournaments because I'm more of a WS guy. I have a Railgun deck, and I am still sad Melty Blood is bottom tier.
I'm a big fan of Yu-gi-oh, though I don't play that much IRL. I wanted to make a Madolche/Ghostrick hybrid deck out of my Ghostrick deck, but the price of certains cards I want is ridiculous (Yuki Usagi, to name it), so I settled for a Quasar Synchron Deck, being a big fan of Synchros.
Maybe I'll try to make an Aromage deck once they're more supported, I like cute archetypes, like Naturia or Majespecter. :derp:
Mеа:
I have a couple friends here who play Magic, but personally I don't like it too much. Too slow, and half your deck is filler, you can get tanked so easily either waiting for mana cards or drawing nothing but mana cards.
I have one friend who plays Vanguard, but that's it, so I don't really find it worth it to play that either. The game kind of eludes me to be honest, it's a bit hard to understand. He also plays Yugioh, but again he's the only one I know of. We like to make fun of how stupid the game is becoming. It's sooo fast. I do half wish I had more card playing buddies like in high school, but it is a somewhat expensive hobby.
Art style wise, I think the full-card illustrations for Vanguard is really cool, but seems too anime-y. I like the Yugioh style better, it's anime-ish, but not weeaboo levels of it.
I stopped Yugioh a bit before XYZ was a thing. I had cyber dragons and a fortune lady deck. Both anime inspired really, they both sucked. Watching Arc-V though.
Those are the only three I know of unfortunately :/
commandercool:
I play Magic extensively (though casually). I also sort of play Weiss Scwarz and VS. System, although those are distant second and third place.
Now that we're on this topic, has anyone else picked up the new Vs. System reboot? For those who won't know, Vs. System was a superhero card game published by Upper Deck between 2004 and 2009. It played similarly to the arguably better-known World Of Warcraft CCG, and it was (mostly) great.
A few weeks ago Upper Deck released the first wave of their reboot of the brand after threatening to bring it back for years. It's published as an LCG now, the game is significantly different, and frankly it kind of blows. The card pool is tiny, the ruleset is so harshly simplified that it seriously harms gameplay, and there are virtually no utility effects in the game which makes it extremely topdeck-centric. I sort of hate it, but has anyone else played it? Am I not giving it enough of a chance?