Card Games

[Itachi Uchiha]

Although the thread title isn't specific, I more referring to such card games such as Yugioh, Magic, Pokemon, etc. I'm sure everyone has played or at least seen such cards at least once in their lives but this is more directed at the players on TFF.

So as a general topic, does anyone here play any? Or rather yet if you do/ don't, what do you think of them?

I myself go through phases every now and then with these games as I drift between them depending on how well they grip me. The biggest one of all, which I’ve just come out of, is Yugioh. I used to play it alot as I'd spend most my Saturdays in town playing or entering a tournament. My friends were into it as well and we all played different decks. Mine were cyberdark and Evil Hero's (to those who play, you'll know what I mean). After the latest change in ban list and its limitations on my main tournament deck, I slowly came out of it and move onto my current hobby (Warhammer 40,000 but there will be a thread for that another time).

Apart from this, I also used to play some Pokemon (only as a kid) and was heavily into Duel Masters when it first game out. I even had a habit of buying cards off the net but that just shows how obsessive I was when I was younger.

[Unknown Entity]

The ONLY cards I ever collected were Dragon Ball Z ones... I musta collected more than 100 - about 150-200 if I was to include doubles.

To tell you the truth, I never understood how to play them! Me and my brother used to collect them to see who could find the strongest characters (I won when I found a Boo card! I think thats how you spell his name anyways...).

Its been a long time since I have seen the cards, but I'm gonna have a little hunt for them - bring back memories... lol...

[Rasler+]

Uh... do NBA cards count?
Nah, just kidding. Back then I loved collecting those Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, and I'd save up my money for a week just to buy a pack of `em. Now I guess I'm too old for them so I gave them to my little brother instead. ^^

[Blacksmith]

As a kid, I collected baseball cards and I think I still have the few rare ones lying around somewhere. The rarest one I had was worth 60$ at some time. Nowadays, I collect and play magic the gathering most of the time. Most other card games are either shit, got ridiculous tournament rules (yugioh for one as they've banned so many ****ing cards), or I hold no interest in. I'll be playing MTG till the end of time.

[Bleachfangirl]

I used to be a crazy Yu-Gi-Oh card kid. Back in the third and fourth grade, I was one of those kids that collected random cards and played after school with friends. It was a fun game. All card games are pretty fun if you know how to play them. I didn't really understand any of those other games, but Yu-Gi-Oh was kind of the simplest. Some of those other card games had so many rules and funky extra things that were confusing. I liked Yu-GI-Oh cards enough to go crazy over the card packs and building my own decks. I actually had three decks with different element monsters and strategy cards because I was so into the game. After a while though, it got old, and I gave them all away. Sometimes I miss them, but whatever.

[Crazy Chocobo]

I've never really collected cards before. I had received about three or four Pokemon cards once from my uncle who sadly passed away a few years ago and one of the cards was actually fake. I think I still have them somewhere but I never bought any more after that. The only things like that I collected were Tazos, they were awesome and I still have a heap in my room somewhere. They had many different types of those and I used to like collecting as many as I could!

I collect some bird cards which come out of the bird seed we get for my babies. They are cool cards, since I am a bird lover, I thought that it would be great to collect them. We seem to get a LOT of doubles though which can be a pain.

Besides that, I don't think I really collected any cards, not as a child really anyway. I knew a lot of people who did anyway, both in primary and high school. I used to see some people playing them near the art rooms in 8th/9th grade. I don't know what they were but it looked pretty cool.

[Silver]

I played a little Pokemon when I was little I vaguely remember. Up until they released the Pokemon Fossil expansion. I ended up selling a few and trading the rest to other kids for various things.

I played some yu-gi-oh as well, but mostly with other people's decks. At this point in time, I have but one card, and I really only keep it as a goodluck charm or something. It has sentimental value, even though it's probably worth nothing.

I was interested in Magic the Gathering for about a decade I think too. Up until the expansion with the dark steel cards came out. It's funny in that I collected them for some time, and now trying to remember the game, I barely can. I have a deck or two packed away somewhere I believe...

And finally there was Duelmasters. A game I never actually planned to get into. As fate would have it though, there was an event at a shopping centre I was at and I got a free deck of cards. I went on with the free cards winning tournaments and the like to get more free cards. Only local ones, but with all the free binders, deck boxes, booster packs and things I was getting, it was kind of fun. I sold most of my things since then, except for my two best decks and a Tournament of the 5 civilisations deck box I had that looked cool.
I'll be buggered if I know where they are now though.

I haven't played a card game other than poker in the past few years I don't think, but I do have that history...

[Refieth]

I only really collect and play Pokémon. Yu-Gi-Oh's tourny rules are just stupid, MTG's got no strategy whatsoever, Duel Masters's just a ripoff of YGO in my opinion, and I don't know any other decent-looking ones, so I ended up with Pokémon. Which really isn't as kiddy as it looks.

[Silver]

Originally Posted by Refieth

I only really collect and play Pokémon. Yu-Gi-Oh's tourny rules are just stupid, MTG's got no strategy whatsoever, Duel Masters's just a ripoff of YGO in my opinion, and I don't know any other decent-looking ones, so I ended up with Pokémon. Which really isn't as kiddy as it looks.

I tended to see Duel Masters as being more of a ripoff of MTG myself. And MTG was probably the most strategy filled card game I ever played. Yu-Gi-Oh pissed me off when I realised they had nothing against using counterfeit cards despite their official rules saying otherwise.

As for Pokemon, though I haven't been into it for 10 years? I don't know, the main thing that's made it seem 'kiddy' to me is the English version of the anime and all the merchandise released which tends to be cutesy and child orientated. The people behind all the Pokemon merchandise could probably do the same thing to many other great anime franchises.

[Draken Benvolaid]

I collected several different card games when I was younger.
Pokemon, DBZ, Yugioh, and finally Magic.

I wasn't really into Pokemon, just a have them thing from middle school. I still have some of them, but I gave most to my nephew.

DBZ I owned at. Had the strongest deck around. Wiped the floors with my friends just about every time. They wouldn't play me in it after the 43rd time of beating them in a row.

Yugioh, I stopped because the cards just got stronger as time went on, discarding the older ones like nothing. Not much use for haymaker type deck of old. Owned at that too. lol

Magic is probably what I'm stopping at. Just not enough opponents to face anywhere. Nor do I have all the right cards to finish my deck properly. Fine tuning and such. It still kills in more ways then one, though.


I see Duel Masters as the same as you Celt. Just a rip off of the better games out there. My friends were confusing them as both games used the word "Mana".


I could get Eye of Judgment, but I don't think I will. Another collect and win game. I'm more along the war path games now. FPS and Tactical game strategies.


When I'm at my peak with all the right strategies and such, I simply couldn't be beat in any of them. Kinda boring when you're at the top.


Of all of them, Magic was the hardest to get into, but the it has the most possibilities to offer. So many strategies you could make with so many different cards. You just need to know what you are doing before you build a deck. That's what my Sensei taught me. Like what kind of deck, what you want to do with it, do you want to trick your opponent, do you want to win through force or though spells... the list is literally endless.




On a side note, there was a MTG Club, but no one wants to play....
Like I said, It's kinda boring when you're at the top.... then again, I didn't play against anyone in TFF.. lol