(December 16, 2016 at 3:23 pm)Asmodee Wrote: I was a HUGE fan of Magic: The Gathering until they decided to fuck their loyal fans when they came out with full art lands again. They chose to help profiteers over fans, and they used deceptive packaging to sell the holiday boxes they had just seriously raised the price on. Now I'm sitting on my cards until they have value, then dumping them. I'll likely never play again.
It was getting to expensive anyway. Even before screwing fans on the full art lands they were slowly upping the set sizes so that you had to buy more and more product to get complete sets, often opting to throw in pointless reprints of even recent cards, each set getting successively larger numbers of "junk" cards that weren't any good under any circumstance, even as "deck filler". But man, I did love the rules. If you knew the rules well you could use them to build unusual decks that nobody saw coming.
However, the game had a huge "specialty deck problem". You could build a specialized deck on a certain theme, elves, zombies, vampires, slivers, etc., which was absolutely unbeatable...UNLESS the opponent knew it was coming and played the appropriate counter-deck to it. Then it was a piece of cake.
From reading what you wrote about this game I can see it's an online CCG. I'm not interested in those. I want physical product and a night with friends. But I don't want it at $4 for a pack of cards with an average total value of less than $1, which was increasingly becoming a problem with MtG as they started throwing in more and more junk cards to pad the set size.
So, any tips on any other CCG games with physical product as good as, but cheaper than MtG? I don't do anything with funny Japanese names, though. No YuGiOh or Pokemon or any other such nonsense. I want cards with at least semi-serious sounding names. I'll take Nissa, Worldwaker, which sounds badass, over Pikachu which sounds stupid, any day as a card name.
Have you considered an LCG like Netrunner?
