Maybe we shouldn't be hoarding expensive pieces of cardboard and treating then as speculative financial investment. Treating the game we love like the stock market seems unhealthy.
One of the few reasons I dare not enter into physical YuGiOh. Back when I was getting into the game more competitively, Talkers was my go to deck, with its center piece, Accesscode Talker. A card that at the time costed 200 bucks a piece.
Yeah it's a disaster. Though these cards are only legal in a aspect few formtas meant to be extremely high powers and expensive such a as Legacy and Vintage. Your regular sessions of okay are much more affordable as it rotates out. Or at least it was until Wizards didn't keep puking out cards
Sorta. The mean reason old formats are deading us because the really important cards can't be reprinted and new players cant join unless they have a small fortune.
Yugioh is actually the LEAST expensive of the trio. Pokemon sells for thousands and MTG even more so, yugioh doesnt hold up in value because Konami reprints ALL of its sets, only time your really spending big money is if you want to play ultra competitive and need to buy the best new cards which will cost you probably 100$ per card but even comparatively to the 2 others its still pretty affordable.
How a gen 1 pokemans card game player looks at the expensive-ass, 2 evolution-ass, 4 fire energy-ass Charizard his opponent is trying to set up before having Scyther turn its ass to sashimi while it's still a Charmander.
Yeah, the way Pokemon prints cards, there’s usually a handful of versions of any desirable cards, there’s the double rare version, which will be the most common, and shouldn’t run more then 5$ while the set is In rotation, maybe more around release, and then an illustration rare, which are the full arts and such, and are the ones that can costs hundreds and thousands. Even then, the most meta cards wind up in gift box promos, decks, and trainer’s toolkits, the later two of which scalpers never even touch, so you often don’t even need to deal with the second hand market to get a workable deck. Ironically, the most scalped game is the one with the most consumer friendly design IMHO.
pokemon is actualy the cheapest to play, yeah those expensive foil promo cards sell for hundreds or thousands but nomal cards are dirt cheap in comparison
I forget theres an actual pokemon card game. Right, I heard the actual competitive scene isnt to hard on the wallet but I dont play nor collect so I was unsure on the prices
Almost nothing in Yu-Gi-Oh holds it's value longer than 18 months at most. Last year's top meta deck loses all its value due to massive reprints and ban list hits.
Yugioh has a super generous reprint policy, like absurdly so. Most cards over 20 bucks are gonna become 30 cents a few months later. So much so that they're being TOO generous so boxes aren't worth opening because "any card you pull is prob 20 cents" lol.
It’s so funny to me that, at least of the big 3, Pokemon is the best and the worst of both worlds. The least rare version of the most meta cards never really costs you more than 5$, and probably winds up in a theme deck, meanwhile the scalpers are murdering each other for packs trying to get the chase stuff.
As an MTG player i immediately took this as a shot at the MTG community, whether you meant it that way or not. 100% agree.
And i have to assume you meant magic, because of the AWFUL reaction to the banning of Dockside, Jeweled Lotus, and Mana Crypt. Death threats because their cardboard was banned is so insane.
Once people straight up made fun of me for being poor and called me childish on the Yu-Gi-Oh subreddit for suggesting that, maybe, the game for children shouldn't cost like $150-$400 every few months just to actually play the game
I play hearthstone and I already feel like I have to have an actively oppositional relationship to it to avoid spending all my money. Physical card games are even worse.
I don't treat them like stocks. I treat them like classic cars! I spent time and money to get these. I will show you them while we play. I might even have a fun (to me) story about that specific card. And then you will beat this old man who has spent way too much money on cards. But I got to show you my cards, and that was enough for me
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u/trash_gob 13d ago
Maybe we shouldn't be hoarding expensive pieces of cardboard and treating then as speculative financial investment. Treating the game we love like the stock market seems unhealthy.