Trading Card Games - A Rant!
Earlier this year I decided that I'm done with trading card games (otherwise known as TCGs). Strangely it was a piece of good fortune which caused this. I'd opened a booster pack of Star Wars Unlimited at a pre-release event to reveal a Darth Vader card. It was a good card and simply slapping it down on the table won me at least two games at the pre-release and again at a constructed event the next week. TCGs come in many varieties, but are typically games based around a deck of cards assembled based on a set of rules which may stipulate how many cards there are in total in a deck, how many copies of each card you may have, what sets you may use cards from and so on. Players then seek to build the most powerful deck within these guidelines. They can obtain cards to build their deck in a number of ways. They may buy a sealed pack of cards, known as a 'booster' pack, trade for them with other players, or buy them from vendors on what is termed the 'secondary market...