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.

Card Games

I thought today we would talk specifically about card games, trading card games to be precise. Trading Card Games, or TCGs for short, are card games that require each player to construct a deck in order to accomplish an objective. The most common way to collect the cards is to buy them as a starter deck (usually 40-60 cards), and then upgrade the deck by buying booster packs ( usually 9-15 cards). TCGs have been around for a while now and in many iterations, some are commonly seen today like Pokemon, Yugioh, and  UFS. One of the longest running card games out there is Magic the Gathering, commonly known as Magic, it has been around since 1994 and is just as popular today as it was back then.

I've told you about my card gaming history, comment and tell me about some TCGs that you have played.

Missed Introduction

I realized that I didn't really introduce myself in my first post. So I am going to rectify the situation. First thing I need to point out is that the name Quentarian has a history behind it. During each phase of my life I have picked up a name from somebody/somewhere. I have been known as Q, Q ball, Q-105, and Quinn. My latest title came from a very unlikely source, my Introduction to Computing instructor, Mr. Coopey. My first day of class when he took roll call, he mispronounced my name and called me Quentarian, and some of my class mates just ran with it. So I decided to go ahead and just adopt it.

Now that you know the name let me tell you a bit about myself. I am a 35 year old male who lives in State College, PA. I have been a gamer for as far back as I can remember starting on an early Commodore system. Eventually working my way up through the Nintendo era, into the Genesis era, past the original Playstation era, and finally on through to the next gen systems. I have gamed my entire life as a way to cope with my life at the time. I came from an abusive life and games literally changed my life, they allowed me to escape my situation by leading many other lives that I had full control over.

The Idea

I have had this idea knocking around in my head for a while now, and I figured it was about time I submitted it to the ether to get some feedback. I have been a gamer for as far back as I can remember, I have played all genres in the world of gaming. I was introduced to video games by playing a cheap knock off of Pac-Man, called Cosmic Cruncher on a Commodore computer. Throughout my life I have played Collectible Card Games (http://www.yugioh-card.com/), (http://magic.wizards.com/) , Role Playing Games (table top)(http://dnd.wizards.com/), Role Playing Games (video game), Collectible Miniatures Games(http://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Home?_requestid=2440432), and of course Board Games.

The area where I live at has a pretty abundant gaming community, but areas to game at or purchase supplies are pretty sparse. My idea is to start up a game store that has a little bit of everything. Tables with chairs for the card game players, and the table top role playing game players. Large tables in the back with built in terrain for collectible miniatures combat. My goal for this first post is to hear from people about what they would like to see in a gaming store. Please leave your comments and feedback, and I will be posting more information in the future ( i.e. graphs,statistics,surveys,polls,etc...)