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[Wichu]

God, Magic got so ridiculous.

The Gods are weaker than most of the cards you mentioned! Most of the time, they're just indestructible enchantments that give you a slight advantage (better combat, pumping a creature each turn), and are useless by themselves. You have to build your deck around them to actually turn them into creatures.

Anyway:

I really enjoyed playing with this guy back in the day. My brothers bought a ton more cards than I did, so their decks were loaded with Pokémon-ex and other powerful cards, but Quagsire pulled through for me. Heals off damage and status like a champ, and scales really well throughout the game.

How do you make my favourite card even better? Give him a badass sword, a nice stat buff, awesome dragon-slaying powers, and a pretty ridiculous free Spell-negation effect. The first time I saw this guy in my friend's collection, I was floored. I got my own one a few years later, which sat around in a box for a while, but I started playing casually again last year, dug him out, and made him a nice deck that can hold its own against all but the strongest decks. I even managed to fit Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (another card I really wanted when I was a kid) in there.

As for Magic, my favourite changes with the deck I'm playing. I've been playing a Soulflayer deck recently, so I suppose this guy is currently high on my list:

I've had a bestowed Chromanticore save me when I was on 1 life more than once. Bestow, swing for 8 lifelink, have a ridiculous blocker the next turn. Aww yeah.

Well, there's also the one and only:

Take 7. Discard your hand. Maybe even sacrifice seven permanents. Also blow up your enchantments and steal your creatures. SCREW THE COLOUR PIE, I'M NICOL BOLAS

Boy do I have some good news for you

Well, they're not coming out outside of Asia for over a year, so he does have a while to wait

 

[Fj0823]

Well, they're not coming out outside of Asia for over a year, so he does have a while to wait

Aren't they included in the WORLD SUPERSTARS Expansion?
Thought that was a set meant to print all asia exclusives here

 

[Prompto]

Favorite card. I almost always drew it when I needed it. Then some asshole stole it from me (along with some other cards) in the 6th grade and I stopped played card games alltogether after that.

 

[Wichu]

Aren't they included in the WORLD SUPERSTARS Expansion?
Thought that was a set meant to print all asia exclusives here

This year's World Superstars covers up to The New Challengers. The Cyber Dragon support is in Crossed Souls, two sets after The New Challengers - we'll probably get it in World Superstars 2 whenever that comes out (I expect it will be a yearly release).

 

[Zombine]

Favorite card. I almost always drew it when I needed it. Then some asshole stole it from me (along with some other cards) in the 6th grade and I stopped played card games alltogether after that.

I feel like Mirror Force and Magical Cylinders stung more than Raigeki. Raigeki and Feather Duster were awesome, but seeing those face down trap/magic cards and not having Jinzo on the field would make me sweat.

With that said:

The GOAT forever and always.

 

[Fj0823]

This year's World Superstars covers up to The New Challengers. The Cyber Dragon support is in Crossed Souls, two sets after The New Challengers - we'll probably get it in World Superstars 2 whenever that comes out (I expect it will be a yearly release).

Damn....Still, that means my Galaxy will finally be consistent

 

[NameGenerated]

The Gods are weaker than most of the cards you mentioned! Most of the time, they're just indestructible enchantments that give you a slight advantage (better combat, pumping a creature each turn), and are useless by themselves. You have to build your deck around them to actually turn them into creatures.

Yeah, I know, Force of Will is crazy OP. I guess I mean the "Legendary Enchantment Creature - God" part lol.

Also I really dislike "Indestructible" as a mechanic.

 

[Snake]

Rustling people's jimmies before it was even a meme.

 

[ScatheZombie]

 

[Yeef]

Simple, powerful but far from broken and great artwork.

 

[Frost_Ace]

it was shit, but I love the art so much.

 

[Regiruler]

I love these two so much. It actually was a decent deck though I haven't played it since they banned Return From the Different Dimension last year.

There's always Cyber Network.

Favorite card. I almost always drew it when I needed it. Then some asshole stole it from me (along with some other cards) in the 6th grade and I stopped played card games alltogether after that.

They unbanned it, funny enough.

In the OCG, Harpie's Feather duster is unbanned instead.

 

[crazyrabbits]

Let's not forget the Star Wars CCG. That game had tons of broken cards, but I only collected, never played.

Palpy was broken beyond all belief. He was essentially an out-of-battle character who could bury creatures like no one's business, was a tank in terms of stands and could be combined with many other cards for broken combs. He was so overpowered that Decipher had to introduce a "Mon Mothma" card to try and counter him, which accelerated the power creep even faster.

 

[borghe]

I loved this game

and for good measure

 

[Hamster]

Chaos Confetti for best effect in the game:

But seriously, there are so many awesome Un- cards, pity they haven't printed any new set.

Brushwagg has my favorite creature type in the game and i like the art (it's also on the reserved list for some reason).

Winter Orb is just my favorite card to play, it also makes sure that noone wants to play with me.

 

[ultron87]

Favorite flavor text pun:

 

[dc89]

An ugly Pikachu but a cool story behind it. These were accidentally inserted into printing presses and packs during the initial 1st Edition Print Run of the Pokemon Jungle Set, the regular Promo Pikachu #1 cards DO NOT have a 1st Edition stamp. The majority of these error cards were destroyed at the initial release, very few made it into public release.

 

[rhophiehalul78]

Can someone explain how YuGiOh became popular in the west? Judging from the art, it does not hold a candle to MTG and the texts and design are so messy though I get that the drawings are still fun.

 

[Ferrio]

Rustling people's jimmies before it was even a meme.

So simple, yet so good.

 

[Zombine]

An ugly Pikachu but a cool story behind it. These were accidentally inserted into printing presses and packs during the initial 1st Edition Print Run of the Pokemon Jungle Set, the regular Promo Pikachu #1 cards DO NOT have a 1st Edition stamp. The majority of these error cards were destroyed at the initial release, very few made it into public release.

I think I have one of these. I'm not 100% sure, but it looks familiar.

Can someone explain how YuGiOh became popular in the west? Judging from the art, it does not hold a candle to MTG and the texts and design are so messy though I get that the drawings are still fun.

 

[TestMonkey]

 

[bengraven]

I'm not cool like you all with your yoogies and your magicks and pokingmans.

We played D&D Spellfire. It was basically a light CCG re-using old D&D art and it was pretty fucking fun. You had a hero and you supported him with spells, attacks of opportunity and henchmen, all to keep your kingdom in check. Your kingdom was the map locations you placed in front of you in a 6 card pyramid. It was a ton of fun and I wish it had gotten more love.

The Ravenloft and Dark Sun expansions were my favorite.

Favorite cards that also kicked ass in the art dept.

and my personal favorite that I could never get a friend to trade me (full pic):

Aleyah dawnborn from WoWTCG.

The playmat is on my desk at work as a mousemat

I played a bit of WOW CCG and loved this card, too.

 

[Fj0823]

Can someone explain how YuGiOh became popular in the west? Judging from the art, it does not hold a candle to MTG and the texts and design are so messy though I get that the drawings are still fun.

Variety. That's the key. You get A LOT of art styles.

You get cards with art like this

and this

And cards like this.

There's something for everybody.
The series and the game being fun help a lot too

 

[Zombine]

 

[SuperChoco]

Boy do I have some good news for you

There's always Cyber Network.

They unbanned it, funny enough.

I didn't use a Cyber Dragon deck. It was a XYZ Dragon Cannon deck that revolved around abusing Stratos and Prisma to fill the grave to later use Eltanin, Roll-Out, Call of the Haunted, etc. It was pretty decent given that XYZ is an achetype all the way from Magician Force.

I don't play anymore though. There's too much of a power creep in the game and Konami seems content on releasing extremely broken cards and banning/limiting the next format.

 

[Fj0823]

I didn't use a Cyber Dragon deck. It was a XYZ Dragon Cannon deck that revolved around abusing Stratos and Prisma to fill the grave to later use Eltanin, Roll-Out, Call of the Haunted, etc. It was pretty decent given that XYZ is an achetype all the way from Magician Force.

I don't play anymore though. There's too much of a power creep in the game and Konami seems content on releasing extremely broken cards and banning/limiting the next format.

*Looks at Burning Abyss* lol.

But game's still a blast for casual play.
Meta is as messed as any meta TBH

Some more YGO swag

 

[SigmasonicX]

I've seen it mentioned before, but wow, a lot of these cards from Japanese TCGs are really really wordy.

Concerning concerns about power creep in Magic the Gathering, do note that Legacy tournaments, which use cards from all of Magic, rarely use cards from newer sets, and the one new card that turned out to be so good that it got banned in Legacy (Treasure Cruise) is a blue card-drawing spell that is perfectly fine in Standard tournaments (covering only the last few sets). Compared to many other TCGs, it isn't much of a problem at all.

Anyway, concerning good Magic art, you can't go without this.

Though seriously, Innistrad had some great art:

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[Regiruler]

I didn't use a Cyber Dragon deck. It was a XYZ Dragon Cannon deck that revolved around abusing Stratos and Prisma to fill the grave to later use Eltanin, Roll-Out, Call of the Haunted, etc. It was pretty decent given that XYZ is an achetype all the way from Magician Force.

I don't play anymore though. There's too much of a power creep in the game and Konami seems content on releasing extremely broken cards and banning/limiting the next format.

Network is literally RftDD for LIGHT machines. It's not Cyber Dragon only.

Nyarla is just creepy. The best one is Hastur:

 

[Venfayth]

Maybe kind of boring, but I really liked Jhoira

 

[Ruruja]

 

[Zombine]

Network is literally RftDD for LIGHT machines. It's not Cyber Dragon only.

Nyarla is just creepy. The best one is Hastur:

Holy shit. What set are some of these newer monsters from? I may have to get them.

 

[Wichu]

Holy shit. What set are some of these newer monsters from? I may have to get them.

Korea-exclusive for now. We might be getting a few in World Superstars, though.

 

[SigSig]

These were lots of fun:

Also these:

I built a deck around low level monsters when most of my friends were just pushing out their dragons with Level 56456.

I also remember when I got these

Loved them, but never really used them.

As any YGO player can see, I stopped playing ages ago. I played some other TCGs and finally ended up with Magic, but I'm terrible at it, so I don't know any interesting cards. I really liked the mechanically weird ones posted earlier.

Nowadays I just play Deckbuilding games, even though I could finally afford TCGs.

 

[Poodlestrike]

At work, so I can't go digging for an image, but my pick is Sisters of Stone Cold Death, as close I can recall the name. MTG, first Ravinica set. Utterly impractical card, but you could, with enough mana, remove an enemy's creature from play and bring it back under your control, all on one turn. Great stuff.

 

[Fj0823]

Korea-exclusive for now. We might be getting a few in World Superstars, though.

They stopped being Korean exclisve a while ago.
They're available in OCG-land.

TCG land keeps taking L's
Our only cool exclusives are the ones bases on the Divine Comedy.

 

[A Huge Battleship]

Cute girls doing cute things.

 

[jon bones]

such an awesome idea for a thread, OP. some great choices in here.


my favorite of all time is:

For me this question is "My Favorite MTG card" since, while I've played a bunch of other TCGs, MTG dominates. My favorite block was Odyssey, it was the one I played the most.

you have great taste

 

[Maxim726X]

Haven't played the game in over a decade, but let me say this is the most amazing card I've ever seen.

 

[Hankodank]

From Penny Arcade - one of my favorite webcomics - http://penny-arcade.com/comic

 

[Deadstar]

Good health and armor, decent attack and a chance for counter strike.

 

[joeygreco1985]

This fucking card. I put these in every black deck, regardless of play style.

 

[Haly]

Favorite character:

Favorite design:

Favorite combo enabler:

 

[jon bones]

Vampire Nighthawk is so ill.

fuck, i wanna play some MTG

some of my favs:

 

[Croll]

I'm a fan of all of Takahashi's updated artwork but my favorites have to be the 3 Egyptian gods.

I also thought the wind ups looked pretty cool in an adorable sort of way (if that makes sense). They were too OP during their brief format reign so I avoided playing them as it made me feel kinda dirty.

 

[Zombine]

What was the viability of the playable God cards? Do they have any place in the tournament scene or are they casual only?

 

[Croll]

What was the viability of the playable God cards? Do they have any place in the tournament scene or are they casual only?

Unless something has changed none of them are really usable. There are so many more powerful xyz, synchro, and now i guess fusions/rituals you can pull out for less. I think Obelisk is probably the most viable of the three but maybe someone with a better grasp of the current meta can correct me.

 

[SigmasonicX]

Haven't played the game in over a decade, but let me say this is the most amazing card I've ever seen.

That card's from 1998, though.

 

[Fj0823]

What was the viability of the playable God cards? Do they have any place in the tournament scene or are they casual only?

Obelisk and Slifer see some play in tribute heavy decks. They have pretty damn good effects despite being hard to summon

Ra, Im sorry to say, is a piece of crap...literally a suicide card, it has all the "PAY LP!" costs, but none of the OP effects. a 7900 ATK monster is not worth 7900 of your LP, many monsters get to even higher counts by far less costs.

 

[joelseph]

Can someone explain how YuGiOh became popular in the west? Judging from the art, it does not hold a candle to MTG and the texts and design are so messy though I get that the drawings are still fun.

The game is popular due to the cartoon and solid marketing and helped by the Pokemon phenomenon.

 

[Stormhammer]

I haven't played Yugioh in several years, and what I post will definitely reflect that lol

I'll probably post more once I get home to look at my collection :3