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Anonymous12/03/25, 09:07No.727413714
Why are TCGs like this?
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Anon12/03/25, 09:09No.727413775
this isn't /tg/
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Anon12/03/25, 09:09No.727413781
Hitting a cheeky combo feels better than steamrolling
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Anon12/03/25, 09:11No.727413885
The people making the TCG are at least able to hold down a corporate job so they can only be autistic enough to play their game at a moderate level of skill.
The people playing the TCG are maximally autistic mutants that devour every scrap of information and sit there making spreadsheets or smearing their shit on the wall drawing out every possible interaction of game mechanics.
The best the TCG company can do is see what wins tourneys and then tone it down for the next set
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Anon12/03/25, 09:16No.727414068
Because Exodia and other instawin cards are considered balanced as you need to work to set them up. Cards like Pot of Greed or Maxx C do mundane things, but they're mundane things that are so useful to one or the other strategy that playing them is either really good or flat out so broken it risks creating a monodeck that everyone needs to play in competitive to not get steamrolled (which is when it gets banned or limited).
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Anon12/03/25, 09:20No.727414228
TCG cards are all about economy management plus luck
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Anon12/03/25, 09:24No.727414402
Because the top card requires setup and an entire deck to build around, so it can only be as good as the cards that consistently bring him out, and ususally if a card auto wins they dont let it come out too often.The bottom card is good in every single deck ever made.Dragon Master Magia has an absolute insane negate effect.
But no one will tell you its a better card than Ash Blossom
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Anon12/03/25, 09:31No.727414686
back before the proliferation of the internet and online shopping, very few people could collect enough of these lesser to cards to make them a bannable offense
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Anon12/03/25, 09:40No.727415019
The gap between free and any number is much larger than you, your opponent or the creators of the game understand.
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Anon12/03/25, 09:41No.727415070
Add Poplar
Special Poplar
Activate Poplar
Link away Poplar
Activate GY Poplar
Set Poplar
Send Poplar
Reborn Poplar
Link away Poplar (2x)
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Anon12/03/25, 09:41No.727415081
Early game value is king
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Anon12/03/25, 09:43No.727415181
The second one is completely broken.
>call your opponents deck garbage
>eat it for free during your turn
>opponent can't play because no deck
>win
You just lack the mental acumen and creativity to utilize such powerful cards.
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Anon12/03/25, 09:43No.727415184
dies to terror
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Anon12/03/25, 09:45No.727415236
this card is so simple a monkey could understand and yet warps every format it's legal in around it
i hate it
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Anon12/03/25, 10:08No.727416062
Because every TCG ever has to copy Yugioh/MTGs retarded system. And when players discover something that could reasonably summon Horf'Dakath it gets banned because it's not an epic special shiny rare in the set that you have a 1/100 chance of pulling from a pack.
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Anon12/03/25, 10:30No.727416783
>The story behind our card game is that you are a powerful wizard who gains arcane power from the very land itself to cast power spells and summon mighty creatures and heroes to defeat your foes
>So, anyway, here's our officially licensed MCU card set
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Anon12/03/25, 10:44No.727417289
Its literally "The Bigger they are..." meme unironically.Big plays require big investments, and investments tend to fail, so putting all your eggs into one basket is generally bad. Having a ton of ok weak cards is generally better than a single good big card because if one weak card fails its not a big deal.
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Anon12/03/25, 10:47No.727417445
>top card
you didn't post requirements to summon the card and it always requires some convoluted setup of 6 different cards, provided you successfully draw all the correct cards in one turn and the opponent doesn't interfere with the setup at any point
>bottom card
simple effect, no activation requirements, annulling the cost of eating garbage makes other strats involving lack of garbage viable, it makes all cards that rely on filling you with garbage obsolete
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Anon12/03/25, 10:53No.727417645
0 mana 1/2 vs a quadrillion mana that just begs to be killed
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Anon12/03/25, 10:54No.727417707
blue is the worst archetype in magic and destroys the game
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Anon12/03/25, 11:15No.727418545
Horf'Dakath
>your opponent can just not blink while they use any removal option, all of which he has no defense against
>costs way too much, by the time you even build up to using him you've lost the gameRaccon
>cycles through all your garbage cards
>can generate endless sacrificial tokens for every garbage eaten, which can be used as fodder to fuel combos
>can eat parts or all of your opponent's deck, crippling their gameplan
>cheap and so easy to get onto the field you could literally win the game from turn 1
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Anon12/03/25, 11:24No.727418924
because the card above is probably incredibly hard to set up while the bottom card gets your win condition much easier.
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Anon12/03/25, 11:28No.727419109
>unconditional single-target damage spell
>draws you cards when played
>reduce the cost of other cards somehow
the trinity of "this will somehow break the game"
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Anon12/03/25, 11:32No.727419284
nah top card has too much powercreep but nu-players don't see it
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Anon12/03/25, 11:33No.727419324
>garbage for FREE
this means infinite garbage. if you can't see the potential you need to play another game.
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Anon12/03/25, 11:42No.727419671
>You may eat garbage for free
Garbage meaning "what's been discarded". The discard pile. For free.
Prepare yourself for my turn-1 50-card barrage. JK. You lost the game after only 3. The first one instantly destroyed your stomper btw.
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Anon12/03/25, 11:48No.727419959
Who cares, the entire genre is about top decking anyway
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Anon12/03/25, 11:53No.727420169
this card is fucking dumb. I hate green btw
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Anon12/03/25, 11:54No.727420186
I've been addicted to the one piece tcg recently. It's surprisingly cheap to get into, hardly any decks over 50 bucks, and you can try out any card/deck for free on the sim, which is pretty popular too. Even went to a local (and had fun)
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Anon12/03/25, 12:04No.727420630
I'm glad I never got into card games
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Anon12/03/25, 12:07No.727420792
Why does earthbend turns the land permanently into a creature?It should have been only during this turn and only during attacks
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Anon12/03/25, 12:10No.727420884
>for free
Absolutely broken, should be banned immediately
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Anon12/03/25, 12:14No.727421068
The problem is it's impossible to be interested in card games as a heterosexual.
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Anon12/03/25, 12:17No.727421209
Reynad said it best: things that come out early in the game are magnitudes more powerful than anything you can do in the late game.
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Anon12/03/25, 12:47No.727422631
Top is supposed to be strong, so it's balanced and therefore shit.
Bottom has an extremely exploitable effect that leads to use cases the creators couldn't even imagine when they first released it, so it's overpowered and will dominate everything else until it gets banned.
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Anon12/03/25, 12:53No.727422909
>Horf'Dakath
dies to Doomblade
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Anon12/03/25, 13:18No.727424139
>FREE card removal
Holy FUARK
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Anon12/03/25, 14:17No.727427160
Who would win an immortal dragon god or me cooking a cat in an oven over and over
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Anon12/03/25, 14:38No.727428198
Shut the fuck up and look at this shitty quality picture of my Neopet card collection
I'm stuck phoneposting right now, no bulli
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Anon12/03/25, 15:13No.727430054
Hey Magic guys I hear they made Vivi from FF9 OP as fuck , so how they're going to ban him if he's a crossover card?
Square is not going to throw a bitchfit about a breach of contract?
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Anon12/03/25, 15:23No.727430583
Bring back singleplayer focused TCGs
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Anon12/03/25, 15:30No.727430989
Is this the fate of all card games?
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Anon12/03/25, 15:42No.727431628
My heavyhitter from back in the dayToo bad mtg is dead.
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Anon12/03/25, 15:57No.727432485
Don't know. Wish I had the autism for deck building. Looks fun.
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Anon12/03/25, 15:58No.727432517
Love me a coon card
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Anon12/03/25, 15:58No.727432532
Because the second one allows you to relocate resources to somewhere you might have a better access to. For example YGO has way too many decks that LOVE having shit sent to the graveyard from the deck, and some to the "out of the game" zone. In this case you can pair racoon with something that has an effect when hitting the garbage AND also when eaten. At this point even "discard all your hand" cards would see play in some games
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Anon12/03/25, 16:06No.727433019
I don't know shit about tcgs but my brother got me into pokemon pocket recently and I uninstalled cause it sucks ass
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Anon12/03/25, 16:08No.727433107
Who would win?
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Anon12/03/25, 16:16No.727433591
What is a real world example for this?
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Anon12/03/25, 16:20No.727433890
Problem?
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Anon12/03/25, 16:21No.727433917
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Anon12/03/25, 16:25No.727434225
0 cost cards are always more broken than game winners
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Anon12/03/25, 16:33No.727434696
This thread is making me want to reinstall Magic Arena and play my annoying as fuck decks with no creatures and make people suffer.
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Anon12/03/25, 16:42No.727435340
>card LOOKS simple but it's actually insanely complex and skill-intensive
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Anon12/03/25, 16:45No.727435526
>game creates a counter annoying cards
>people bitch because they can't play without annoying cards
>card gets limited
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Anon12/03/25, 16:46No.727435625
>ruins your game forever
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Anon12/03/25, 16:50No.727435861
i want Horf'Dakath to fuck me haha...
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Anon12/03/25, 16:53No.727436061
Give me one reason why eating garbage for free every turn is bad.
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Anon12/03/25, 16:59No.727436548
meanwhile in the mature gamer's tcg....
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Anon12/03/25, 17:03No.727436831
Recc me some less known TCGs
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Anon12/03/25, 17:10No.727437284
Post your favorite cards
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Anon12/03/25, 17:11No.727437406
Any games you've gotten into recently, new or old. I just recently got into Digimon tcg and it's been fantastic. Genuine my favorite current tcg. Love the memory system and I think a lot of the decks are super fun. I've played the mastemon deck that a friend has and I personally built the magneticdramon deck and I fucking love it
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Anon12/03/25, 17:16No.727437716
Her UB is inevitable
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Anon12/03/25, 17:23No.727438221
Damn I wish there was an actual loli deck
Even Nemleria and Traptrix are mostly hags or monsters
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Anon12/03/25, 17:24No.727438327
Damn I wish all pedos would die
>inb4 "they're just drawings"
Drawings of what?
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Anon12/03/25, 17:31No.727438807
Kneel
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Anon12/03/25, 17:32No.727438847
because big is weaker than fast in card games
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Anon12/03/25, 17:34No.727439039
Economy.
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Anon12/03/25, 17:42No.727439618
Posting my most powerful card
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Anon12/03/25, 17:43No.727439672
It's time.
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Anon12/03/25, 17:58No.727440704
I do not understand.
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Anon12/03/25, 18:10No.727441487
obviously AI. but seems like most TCG games are focused in established IPS now.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3371140/Warmongers/
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Anon12/03/25, 18:15No.727441883
Eating garbage FOR FREE is fucking broken. It combos with this other card that lets me shit myself every time I eat garbage. It's insane advantage since not only do I get garbage (for free I must remind you) but also I get shit. Meanwhile relying on the opponent to blink is a shit plan because they can just not.