Collectible Card Games

I was just curious how the rest of you got started playing CCGs. I started off my gaming lifestyle with videogames, but was then introduced to CCG's and I instantly fell in love with them. I have always been the player who goes out of my way to try and break games. With videogames even using cheats/hacks you can only do so much, with CCG's however you get to go above and beyond the normal limits. To this day there are players who keep coming up with strategies so broken that the game companies have to change the rules in order to stop them. So again let me hear from you, tell me what game it is and what the most broken combo you have ever come up with is. for example mine for Yugioh is 1)Macro Cosmos,2)Gravekeepers Servant,3)Vanity's Emptiness, 4) Mask of Restrict, and 5) Imperial Custom. When all out on the field together it basically shuts the entire game down, of course you need to be prepared for other strategies and have multiples of most of these cards.

Malifaux

Malifaux is a game based around small squad combat. The best way I could describe the lore is steam punk combined with magic. It's played on a 3' x 3' square with whatever terrain you want scattered about. It is a highly strategic game that combines miniature figures as well as decks of cards. It's not a cheap game to get into, but it's also not ridiculously expensive. You could spend around $100 and never have to buy anything again which is why it appeals to some gamers, who are tired of the TCG model and having to spend sometimes 1000's of dollars to get specific cards that they want. I have enclosed a link to both a video of the game play mechanics, as well as the main page for the game.

Main site and Video

Yugioh TCG

As you can tell by the title today I will be talking about Yugioh. It's one of the only games I still actively play. I was thinking everybody must have their own favorite card, so I would like to hear from everybody out there what is your favorite card in the game? Please post in the comments below and tell me your favorite card and send a link or post a picture if you can. Thanks everybody and talk to you next time.