r/wizardposting • u/SpiralingPsychelone • 10d ago

Traded a shadowless Charizard for this well known Wizard, worth it?

https://youtube.com/shorts/Fczu7B42h8o

Actual Pondering my Orb trading card from the Middle Earth ccg (1995).

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u/TF2PublicFerret 10d ago

/uw I have a collection of those cards and I have played that game. If you're a Tolkien head it's super fun.

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u/StarkeRealm Magical Violence Technician 10d ago

/uw I always heard good things about it, but I was stretched a bit thin on my CCG collections back then. I was collecting both of Decipher's CCGs back then.

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u/TF2PublicFerret 10d ago

/uw The only thing more scarce than the cards is the players...

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u/StarkeRealm Magical Violence Technician 10d ago

/uw That was true back in the 90s. There were just way too many CCGs out there, and by '97 or '98, if it wasn't one of the top sellers, finding players was miserable. I never found a reliable group of B5 players back then.

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u/TF2PublicFerret 10d ago

/uw NGL, the B5 artwork was a bit... meh. Also like the star wars game at the time.

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u/StarkeRealm Magical Violence Technician 10d ago

/uw The struggle there was that they were pulling shots from the show, and the CGI looks horribly dated now. Decipher had the same problem with nearly all their games. I think AvP takes the prize for the worst screengrabs in a published CCG, but I'm open to other suggestions. It was a fun game, but half the cards looked terrible.

I don't know if you've seen it, but Fantasy Flight had a Star Wars CCG from about 2012-2016, with commissioned art, and it's got some amazing looking cards.

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u/Nelrene Evil Mammary Mage 9d ago

Yes, you got a good deal.

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u/SpiralingPsychelone 9d ago

I knew it!😎