it's really funny that you mention Rarity Collection; It apparently did SO well, Konami already announce Rarity Collection 2 later this year. And it already has some great reprints announced, like Accesscode Talker

From 2009 until 2020, I believe ~6 TCGs got funded on Kickstarter. From 2020 until the end 2023...~63 TCGs got funded on Kickstarter.

Oh wow I thought there was a lot of hate down here but like 4/5 of these are one dude

As an illustrator, it is super refreshing to hear people outside of the traditional creative arts space voicing their distaste for image generation (particularly in the business space, but also just generally) and taking such a firm stance on the side of creators. Easy new subscription on top of your great content on TCG/Game Design.

Thanks for featuring Altered ! It warms my heart as one of the designers who worked on the Reserve mechanic. I'll be sure to share this video's insights to my coworkers. Also obligatory mention that our Kickstarter launches on January 30.

Kinda surprised you didn't mention the $1300 platinum DM in your "appeasing the scalpers" section. It's nice to see Konami getting pushback from the playerbase because it was both the worst product released from the 25th anniversary lineup and so universally panned that they retweeted the sale multiple times to no fanfare. Hopefully Konami learns to NEVER try this kind of stunt again (also hope Konami learns to lower the price of admission for competitive engine cards before the playerbase implodes, but looking at their history with nekroz and sky striker at release, I highly doubt they would).

I game I play with my friends sometimes is "One Dollar Deck", where you have one American dollar (not counting sales tax) to build a whole deck in Yu-Gi-Oh, based on current market value. It can be done, and has offered us some of the best games we've ever played together

Hoping Battle Sprits Saga is able to draw in a casual audience. The marketing focus on cash prizing and lack of intesting product past competitive play has seriously put a damper on a game that mechnically I have found very rewarding.

"... even the ones in the starter decks are not safe for work." I'm too used to anime related discussion, because I immediately assumed you were implying there was something sexual or gory about literal Pokemon cards.

I think One Piece looked bad for 1 or 2 sets, but nowadays most sets now have 90% original art. The rest of the 10% is divided between manga art, which is the majority of it and I think it looks good on the cards, plus anime cells, which are only used sometimes for leaders. It's a pretty aesthetically interesting game for fans of the series imo

I like the preamble about the Bland category. It reminds me of what Mark Rosewater (lead designer of Magic) has been saying for years if not decades: "If everybody likes your product, but nobody loves it, it will fail."

Always love that you don't dunk on smaller games and use the negatives as well as positives to be constructive and that you voice why it does or does not work well with clarity.

On Industry Trends, Flesh and Blood has been doing paper boosters since 2022 (Everfest). Atm only half their boosters are paper, but that should correct itself when their print shop in japan gets the tech.

My Shards of Alara starter Jund deck had a bonus pack in there. (It had at base 40 cards, not legal in any format though) I remember pulling a Predator Dragon, slotted right into the deck. It became my personally favorite card ever. I won so many games out of nowhere with it.

I only recently stumbled upon your channel, and honestly, I know very little about collectible games outside of some vague decades-out-of-date knowledge of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh; but your depth and breadth of knowledge about everything from games to the production end, your enthusiasm, and your optimistically-curious-but-critical attitude and general vibe are a delight. I'll listen to CCG videos meant for audiences familiar with the games for background noise but often won't absorb anything (which is probably how you ended up in my recs; and it's fine, I'm not shading them, they ARE meant for people who are familiar with the games they're talking about haha), but I feel like I'm actually learning a fair amount about the space and these games when I listen to yours; it's really inconvenient, because I keep getting distracted by getting absorbed in what you're talking about.

Man I don't even really play card games, but I always appreciate your insight on mechanical and production topics.

worth mentioning on the Lorcana front, they're already fixing the trove issue. Set 3's troves are going to contain acrylic dividers, AND dice for damsge tracking

The standard One Piece Cards might be boring, but their alt arts are amazing. Lorcana had a bad start, but I do like how they also did try to cater to people who actually wanted to play their game. Like selling at Local Game Store first, and printing more of set one as soon as they did without making them different from the first print run. There were many scalpers and speculative buyers that were very upset that precious "first edition" cards couldn't retain their value. And talking about Kickstarter TCG bloat I saw one project which was a Backrooms Solitaire TCG with no multiplayer options. I fell like that defeats part of the purpose of the TCG model.

Grand Archive is a really, really interesting game offering immense complexity and really living up to the 'familiar but fresh' label it puts on itself. Yes, the art is a bit meh but the game itself is incredibly awesome and is definitely not as derivative of Magic as some people think it might be. It reeaaally feels like its own thing and it has huge potential because of all the different directions it can take in the future.

You forgot one of the key elements of the Lorcana Troves; the Player's Guide booklet. It's currently one of the few places to get story details, and the paper card-list is coveted. I agree there should be more or cooler stuff in there. But, if you attend your locals- You'll easily receive foil promos, packs, pins, etc. I think that's why I'm okay with the "lackluster" offering for now, because those items exist to incentivize LGS attendance instead of get scalped by online shoppers. They should upgrade to acrylic tokens or dice, and include the cardboard spin-counter for lore, alongside the current contents for sure though. Also, uninkable cards are a key and important part of the game. You can build a deck without them if you want, it may limit your colors depending upon what you want in a deck but you could play Sapphire for Let it Go and have inkable removal, Amber has inkable removal within context, etc. Playing Sapphire also gives you access to a varied pool of ramp sources, so you can still ink your uninkable cards. The restrictions Lorcana has are certainly necessary right now. I'm waiting to grade the game until after set 3 has been in rotation for awhile. (First 3 sets were designed in parallel, so the "complete intended meta" is yet to come) As the guy who just boasted the claim that majority of players don't care about competitive level events, I hope you aren't upset about having to make meaningful decisions during deck construction regarding inkable ratio and/or how to bypass a high uninkable count- Then properly pilot that deck. You can still have your every card is resource deck, but you'll likely want to build around that concept entirely. You still get what you want in the every card is resource department, but I get interesting gameplay where the resource system is kinda like MtG, in reverse. Too many "power cards" and you won't be able to play them without a very intentional strategy behind them. You also have to be willing to lose cards to the inkwell, instead of praying you meet your land drops perfectly, not get manascrewed/flooded. It's at least a significant improvement from the feel-bad of MtG resource(s) because we've replaced a lot of the "feel bads" to a very meaningful and possibly game-changing decision of inking X over Y. I'm ranked 3rd at my best of 3 local tournament this season, losing to the two guys who have a more expansive card list to build decks from. My singular deck that I built at the start of set 2 has been consistently going 2-1, and a few 3-0's throughout the season. It's a "Pawpsicle Midrange" deck that I made myself, haven't seen any lists like it yet. (Aside from the obvious Pawpsicle-shell cards) I encourage you to stick with Lorcana for a bit- It's a really fun game, that I think could grow to Poke'mon/MtG/YuGiOh popularity with enough support. The D23 "chase rare" cards are worth a lot, but if you just want to play with those cards? Most expensive is Maleficent at ~$25... Like, the prices aren't ridiculous if you just want to play. It's still early, so I expect a little bit of balancing issues- But we generally have a solid rotation of 4-6 "staple" decks amongst 10-16 players, with a few people just playing whatever rogue/"non-meta" deck. The game is fun, feels healthy after the scalper market crash, has room to get even cheaper for singles, solid stream of content on the horizon. Official tournament series starting this year... As a player I feel they're doing almost everything correctly for now. They've seemingly fixed the product availability issues with set 2, the reprint of set 1, so we can safely bet set 3 won't be underprinted. I'm going to ride out this game at least until it stops being fun, unless they do something extremely customer/player unfriendly.

Battle city speed duel box pretty much destroyed the meta because it was basically "if you wanna win, you have to the use the my precious queen skill or else you have 90% to lose " to the point they had to FINALLY ban it. And its literally the only skill AND card that s currently banned. also yeah the 25th pack is amazing, beginner no longer have great staple locked being a paywall.

I truly agree about the AI art discourse, but I've heard around a couple of friends that just use AI art for art placeholders. They always tell me it is just to not have scribbles of pencils or just blank cards. I am not sure what to tell them, like they always speak of how convenient that kind of tool is.

It wasn't mentioned here, but I got into Flesh and Blood about a year ago and it has been great after more than a decade of Magic, this year had great art (like Eric Klug's cards), sets, and products (like the Tolarian multiplayer box).

Great video, i only have 1 thing to correct. (NO HATE AT ALL) While pokemon EX's, Gx's, V's, were undoubtedly centralizing and pushed non multi-prizers out of the game, the Scarlet and Violet's ex's have been absolutely great for the format for the following reasons: 1. evolution is back, the biggest problem with the EX and V is it turned the game into an aggressive big basics do big damage format making games into a race to 3 KOs. The evolution reliance of big 330 hp ex's add a wrinkle to the prize mapping of games, and make games longer by allowing sacrifice small 1 prizer turns a real strategy. 2. the reintroduction of strong comeback mechanics, while not necessarily due to ex's the cards that only work when you are behind in prizes makes the ex's actually a usable resource for prize fixing and more importantly allows slower decks like gardevoir. 3. they didnt forget single prizers. while yes there are strong ex only decks, this is the most diverse format weve had in a decade in terms of number of decks viable and also 1 and 2 prizers being viable. Lost Zone box is arguably the best archetype right now and there are ex, V,s and single prize (in any combination or omission) of ways to build the deck.

Always love an Elestrals Shoutout! Really looking forward to the full launch this year with First edition, Frostfall, Daybreak and the rest of their roadmap stuff!

Winds of Exchange revived Keyforge from the dead in 2023. It had a very well-funded kickstarter, and a resurgence in interest, but not the explosive growth necessary to make the cash prizes offered at tournaments worth it to the game's new owners. A new limited deckbuilding format that the company has been pushing has not met with much enthusiasm among the game's veterans, perhaps unsurprisingly given the nature of the game.

The "You can ESSEN my-" joke is fantastic.

"Make sure you actually like playing whatever's left in that bag you're holding." Such a good line, and so true

The pinkerton incident was also the straw that broke the camel's back for me too, sold all my mtg cards and quit buying products, gonna just proxy and play in tts now

Talking about reducing wastes: Oriental Wave, the company that is distributing Cardfight Vanguard in Italy (and basically turned it into its own thing - starting from the G era booster sets are shuffled around and merged together, also we are like halfway through the aforemented G era and not only we already use the V era card layout and Premium stride ruling but the Overdress Ride Deck has been introduced in late 2023 - using the DZ ruling of "50 cards deck + 4 cards Ride Deck" one month before the actual Japanese and English formats did that) improved their packaging this year. Starting from G Booster Set 7 they dropped the cellophane wrapping on booster boxes replacing it with a single strip of tape, and from G Booster Set 8 they replaced the usual metallic paper wrappers for booster packs with waxed paper.

I love the comparison to Arcadia Quest Inferno at 20:00, as Miniature Market has had multiple sales of it for $12-15, including all of its 36 miniatures, 300 cards, 300 tokens, etc. and its expansions for $6-15 each. If interested, I recommend looking out for those sales; insane value on a solid game.

Great video and insight. My only take is that digimon should have gotten more points for it's gameplay and artwork. Though Bandai has been on an engine spree of pumping out more and more tcgs. I certainly hope that this means that they have enough budget to improve on each franchise without compromising the other.

Just a big 'ole awesome video. Love the new transitions, lookin' sharp.

39:34 Technically, Games Workshop is slowly introducing recycling bins for sprues and empty paint pots in their stores. AFAIK it's only in the UK at the moment, but it's going to be spread worldwide by the end of the year I imagine.

I love card games. But I haven't engaged with the hobby except for a couple of games with friends once or twice a year, and honestly this video highlights why that is. I've been feeling card games would implode in on themselves for a while (since around the 2010's) because non of them have been able to balance the great aspects of exciting randomness and great design with reasonable prices and ethical design, but I'm surprised to see how resilient the market has been despite it frankly being so bonkers it's blowing my mind. At this point though, I'm not just blaming the game producers anymore, the fact such a bubble is happening is tied to the people who keep inflating this monster feeding it the slob it asks for. I have to just hope a genuinely fair and good card game with the design sensibilities I care for comes out, one good thing about the saturation is that it might make that more likely, but if not maybe I might just have to do it on my own and see how well it will go.

I won't say the art museum should have been ready for it, but I will say someone should have warned them. Like the pokemon company would have known, right?

With Ultraman TCG planned to be released this year, I hope they'll win the best launch category or at least get reviewed by you

Kohdok, what do you think about Varia? When I watch your videos, I see you showcase so many interesting-looking TCGs, CCGs, etc. that completely fly under my radar. I wonder if that's because I don't follow the right content creators/(news sites?) or if you just have a unique knack for keeping your finger on the pulse. I would love to see you do more content that highlights these "games you probably missed"! Sincerely, A lapsed TCG player looking for something too good for a LGS to stock

Kohdok ! Love your videos, they got me convinced to try and design a board game, obv avoiding the deadly sins... except one. Im bent on trying to use cards as board pieces... How would you go about defying everything you stand for to design this kind of game if you had to !!!

Hey Kohdok, love the vids! I was wondering, because I never fully saw it addressed, would it be possible to make a trading card game that didn’t have different rarities? Like every card is “common” for example What would be the drawbacks of this? It seems like it would make the financial barrier to entry a lot smaller

the thing with companies focusing on competitive tournaments is that if people like your game the comp scene will just form on its own

I will say having played a fair amount of Star Wars Unlimited leading into the launch this month, is actually a very fun game. The initiative system provides some very interesting risk reward situations and the aspect penalty system encourages coherent deck choices while still allowing for key splashes.

Granted I haven't played Lorcana at all but I had thought of the inkable cards as being similar to if every land was a MDFC from magic (the spells with lands in the back from zendikar rising). I wonder if as Lorcana design matures it will become more like that.

Hey Kohdok, great video. Been a big fan of your channel for years and I have just a few points in your video I want to talk about. 1. You said Pokemon's gen 3 ex cards kinda sucked and weren't used, but this isn't really true at all. They weren't overpowered or anything, but they were generally very strong and saw plenty of play in tournaments and championships. Many of the best decks 2003-2007 used a few of them. They were overall very well balanced cards, not weak but not too strong. 2. I felt like there could've been a stronger distinction between the double-prize Pokemon that improved their respective generations and the ones that didn't. Pokemon GX and the 2023 ex cards are much more balanced and well designed than the X and Y EX and gen 8 V cards. I imagine most Pokemon players would heavily disagree with your statement that all double-prize Pokemon in general have made the game boring and repetitive. Especially when Pokemon's Standard format has been very fun to play this year. Thank you for the video and keep up the good work

I think it’s a great point that these are games first and foremost and an investment second. I’m excited for next year with so many good options and many year 2s.

Lorcana somewhat fixed the side panels after just one release. That was a massive overlook.

Obviously I'm biased since I actively play it but I actually really like uninkables in lorcana, I think it's a smart way to balance cards and bring a deckbuilding cost back into "every card is resource", which I guess Lorcana technically isn't. For now with only two expansions we haven't seen it being super relevant since there have been only a few uninkables worth playing but as they make more strong uninkables players will really have to start to consider every slot in their deck. Even tough I'll agree they have been making very harmless cards uninkables for really no reason.

On the Union Arena defense, they are releasing multiple licenses at a time since the game does not allow you to cross over licenses. If you play Bleach, you only play Bleach in that deck. Because of this, they are able to double-dip on a lot of card ideas (each license can have it's multi-resource card, play-an-draw card, basic attackers, multi-attackers, etc.).

good to see you back, Kohdok. Feels like a while since I've seen anything by you

I was a bit confused on your reaction when it came to the Battle city speed duel box. Was that a good reaction? A bad one?

since Rarity Collection worked out so well i hope that konami can see the potential in improving the way they handle their product rarities in the TCG vs the OCG.

Shadowverse: Evolve unironically plays well, it's just that it already had a truer version online

Nice video! Was sad to see sorcery not mentioned.

Taking the opportunity to shout out Grand Archive. Been having a good time with it and the publisher is transparent. Also looking forward to Altered! Good video and thanks!

I do want to point out that just because something is small or indie doesn't mean it's free of criticism, so any time someone goes into a list like this saying "well I'm only gonna trash on big corporations and leave indie people out of it" it feels a little lopsided. _However,_ when the worst that can happen with an indie project being bad is "oh, that's annoying of them to do, anyway", and the worst that can happen with a corporation is stuff like the Pinkertons being dispatched or even worse given their absolute chokehold over the industry and how fast bad business practices spread... yeah, suddenly putting the spotlight on the corporations does make a lot more sense. I think the most baffling thing in this list is the Lorcana un-inkable thing. I've seen people praise Lorcana because "I don't have to put any boring resource cards in my deck! I can just use my regular cards as resources!", but if you're using a card that's inkable _because_ it's inkable over cards that are un-inkable...that's just a resource card! You put lands in your land-less game! Like Kohdok said, in a game where every card is a resource, you can STILL be mana screwed! Duel Masters solved this when I was a CHILD! HOW IS THIS STILL HAPPENING?! I think your statement on "a Lorcana card should be two of either effect, body, or resource" is really smart and it really sticks in my craw that they've went the completely wrong direction, that these clunky 7 mana cards and niche little options are the ones that get stranded in your hand while you have to agonize over whether you ink your playmaker or not.

So a slight thing I want to say: Yahtzee's main focus is in an Industry that has more Attention on it as a whole, and an Industry that has a metric ton of issues going on. So his "Negative Nancy" views can be more attributed to those side of things (Especially considering Yahtzee's own situation that happened a few months ago) and tends to ring much more louder rather. Especially when considering how rough the "Money/Business" side of the Industry really tends to be the deciding factor in how a Video Game turns out. Especially since a product failing can determine the fate of an IP and Developer. Also, especially in the Critic field, people can write glowing positive reviews. But the ones who find the flaws and point them out certainly reveal that not everything is as perfect as it seems. While Yahtzee's style is meant to invoke humor at the end of the day, there's something to be said about still providing a genuine review that looks at and criticizes every aspect of the medium, as opposed to just saying "This is extremely good!" The fact that Yahtzee only did that kind of Reveiw once, because the game was Undertale, could in and of itself reveals more about the game than he could ever put into a review; the phrase "Silence Speaks Volumes" can apply. And when one considers that Yahtzee is a Caustic Critic, for the Undertale review to be a 3 second long "Undertale is a Good Game!" review is funny and unexpected, follows his own "Reviewed Games Make the Lists" rule, and provides his genuine input on what he thinks of the game at the end of the day. Also, his in-depth views are in a video form, so if one wants a bit more clarification on why a game makes it to that section, they can look it up. Not so much trying to rag on your point of Yahtzee, but at least say that being a "Negative Nancy" isn't quite accurate while saying that the Video Game industry still has a large number of differences still. If he was basically trying to be more negative, he wouldn't have a "Best" section and just stick to a "Bland/Worst" list and be done.

Your video is very deep, insightful and carefuly researched! sub keep up the good work

Like the new secret lair being available for 6 hours. Also this reminds me of the 90s when we gor every game. Including killer instinct ccg.

I think the Pokemon's new exs are subtlely a big step up from previous generations. Powering up stage 2 multi prize pokemon is less so power creep and more a course correction from how much more powerful basic Vs and Stage 1 VStars and VMaxs were, putting them on the same level while promoting evolution as a core mechanic since stage 2 attackers were basically unplayed at any high level since 2019's tag teams. Setup based evolving decks can now compete and coexist with the aggro basic strategies that had dominated for years.

Kohdok would you be against opening a Booster Box of Otherverse TCG on the channel?

I find it a little funny that you mention the point with packaging waste and how a company would be in bank if that was a thing they could reliably do, cus Flesh and Blood has been doing this sorta thing since early 2022. it's actually be weird cus last year they got a second printing plant that's in japan, and people have complained about how the japanese product still uses plastic card packs, and they're actually harder to open than the standard packs. Paper card packaging is actually so good and leaves you feeling spoiled opening them compared to the other stuff

I can't believe this is where I hear someone calling Gear 5 a jumping the shark moment.

Rarity collection is arguably, possibly the greatest set Konami has ever made for the player base. It will probably never be topped. Really good pick tbh.

I need digimon to adapt the clay. The water color and the cgi style ones are cool and varied but the 3d physical medium ones would be sick

I have to agree with what you said about the One piece tcg, the artwork is getting ok now, but it was horrible, literal screenshots of the anime/manga. I hate when they do that, makes the game feel very cheap. Kinda sad that the Digimon tcg and Flesh and Blood did not get mentioned but a great video nevertheless. Nice job man.

Yea I mega called it on the Battle spirit saga the moment they said it was gonna be solely focused on the meta scene and featured cash price as an incentive it was bound to crash Good news is that the Digimon Tcg has been going strong and Vanguard-well-is Vanguard

Do you actually think Gear 5 is a shark jumping moment? Any actual game discussion aside, I do not think I could disagree with a stance more

pokemon has an entire format of play for non rule box pokemon called GLC. there are also multiple single prize pokemon that are competitive in the current format lmao and in the past couple there were a few decks entirely centered around them. There is more to pokemon than just how much HP it has, prize mapping is a huge part of the game and many non rule box pokemon and single prize pokemon have very solid attacks and effects. Their single prize status actually makes them have a favorable prize trade with a two prize attacker, making prize mapping more difficult etc. If anything, this current rendition of pokemon ex is far more balanced than previous big box mechanics. Yes their hp is high relative to say a EX pokemon, but that is because most of them aren't swinging that big on other rule box pokemon and are often not basics themselves. Barring a few exceptions like Charizard ex, most of them have pretty balanced attacks relative to their HP size, and even then decks like Charizard still have plenty of counter play. For a multitude of design reasons you are unlikely to see a move away from multi prize attackers, they add layers to design and most design teams aren't going to take the avenue to limit that. On top of that there is a sanctioned format of play that does not allow rule box pokemon(IE all multi prize attackers as well as a few other mechanics like radiant pokemon)and as such there is even less incentive to make the dominant format of play centered around that. Essentially, if you are tired of the status quo of pokemon, try things like GLC or maybe make a cube.

fatpacks aren't half boxes, full boxes have about 24 to 36 packs while fat packs are 8 packs and extra stuff.

Lorcana must have heard you because they added dice, dividers and a lore counter in set 3. lol

I watched this with bated breath but got distracted by the ad. The space lion thing looked cool.

What Korean game is that 41:03

Love the channel. I would like to send you a game for a honest review. Do you have a PO box?

What's the deal with Absolute Ice shield? i have 0 knowledge of BSS, why is it unbearable without a full set? honestly it looks kinda cool i guess but the only times i've ever been motivated to maybe play it were when i've seen colab cards so i feel like your assessment is spot on

Warhammer did start a sprue recycling service. The problem is that you have to do so at an official Games Workshop store. I live 2 1/2 hours from both of the two GWs near me so I’ll probably never end up using the program. It’s too bad, but at least I can use sprues for terrain projects

On the subject of appealing to scalpers, Yugioh has really been through it in terms of expensive engines. The Diabellestar engine is starting to reach TeleDAD levels of pricing, except this time it's not even for the full deck, just a set of ~8 cards! As of writing, pretty much every component of it has only one printing each, at functionally maximum rarity, and a lot of them are in different sets with next to no other cards of value in that set (looking at you, Bonfire). And they just keep creating new cards that make the engine better and more versatile...

so... we're just not going to mention the card game that released on November 10th, 2023? I know, it was supposed to release October 6th, 2023, but there was a delay. Sure, the Kickstarter campaign started on March 15, 2022 and ended on April 4, 2022, but I feel like it's safe to say that Sorcery: Contested Realm brought in way more players in 2023, and is, in my humble opinion, the best collectible card game of 2023. For under $40 for a 4-deck starter kit, I highly recommend checking it out (even if beta booster boxes might be out of the price range of someone who has never tried the game).

I heard about Sorcery from Questing Beast recently, is that from 2023 or did it come out in January

30:00 On the Double prizers, while they're all pretty boring at this point I want to give a dishonorable mention to double prizes that don't have to evolve (see EXs Tag Team GX's and V's) as not only do they not have to participate in a core mechanic of the game (evolution) but they ignore that mechanic as often the best cards of the sets their in. Combine this with the double damage weaknesses from most blocks outside of Gen 4 and it sometimes leads to games that are over in 3 turns, Before a stage 2 can reasonably do anything outside of using rare candy. This deal with the double prize problem is my worry about Pokemon TCG Pocket which only has 3 prizes despite having ex's. Even with the lower power level they'll need to be kept on an extremely tight leash lest every game becoming who can KO 2 pokemon first. Which sucks because I kinda like what they did with the Strikes of Gen 8 and Ancient/Future now, the tags don't do anything on their own but allow synergies with other cards with their tags which is cool, and I would've liked to see more of that other than a revolving door of ruleboxs that they need to have otherwise nobody would buy/play them.

So many card games coming out and we still don't have Rush Duels worldwide.

What did you pick up around 16:50?

Love your videos man! You have so much passion for this games

as a Dutchman & long time Pokémon Fan & Collector, I'm Truly disgusted by that side of the "Fanbase" even the Extra Wave is already getting pre-sold/scalped by many game stores its the worst PS: although unfortunate that I don't have one yet, I also kinda don't want it anymore, since it would make me feel Complicit to this whole spiel

Kind of surprised you praised the quality of Lorcana. They have some of the flimsiest, cheap feel to cards that I've ever laid my hands on. I do appreciate that extra booster though

I’ve been enjoying elestrals for what it is. Fun little game with a skillful resource management system

the cameo of it reminded me that I missed out on Pirates Constructible Strategy Game... by the time I learned of it, it was bargain bit dead game TT

Have you heard about Sorcery Tcg? It looks really cool to me and I hope you cover it!

This was a fantastic video! Will you make the sane video for 2024?

The battle spirits saga parts is a little worse than you described. As in Japan, there are cards that are using a certain license from toei, that being kamen rider, in Japan, there are sets of cards that represent multiple different seasons, including saber, hibiki, zero one, ooo, and more. This really bugs me because Kamen rider is one of the most important series to come from Japan, so if the cards were brought to America, it would’ve made them enough money to drown all of Texas in molten metal. I think there was also various ultraman cards, so, this is just one giant dropped ball.

8:43 I agree, that it is very important to gather and maintain a healthy casual audience. That said, I don't think competitive players are quite as irrelevant to a game's success, as it comes across here. 30:30 This is an interesting take. I always felt, that 2 prize pokemon added an additional axis of diversity to pokemon decks. Before pokemon differentiated themselves mostly by how much damage/utility they could dish out vs how much setup (in the form of energy and evolutions) they needed. 2-prizers, I feel, introduced an additional axis of risk, where a pokemon worth more prizes creates the risk, that your opponent can get ahead by KOing it efficiently. Utility 2-prizers are the best example of this, where they are commonly omitted from decks, because they would give up prizes to the opponent too easily. I do agree though, that multi-prizers (and especially attackers) have commonly been overtuned in recent years and that the new ex's and even their terrastal-variants haven't really been particularly interesting thus far.

Your video inspired me to check out battle spirits and I’m obsessed. I’m a world where magic can charge $1000 for 4 packs it’s nice to see a game with 25 boxes!

Thanks for these videos. I learn more from other people's mistakes.

the pikachu thing, i still cant believe it wasnt limited to one per costumer

Have you seen flesh and bloods paper packs its honestly amazing how easy they are to open

40:35 I am curious, since I assume you already know about Flesh and Blood, but are you not a fan of their paper boosters? I think their most recent set with them was Dynasty. But they are switching a bit back and forth, since I assume they don't want to put all their eggs in one basket in case they have some flaw we'll only see 10, 20 years down the line.

Love your content Kohdok

Where's this news about the 001/001 one ring not being unique after all the hype? Google and the hundreds of comments here didn't mention it.

When I started playing the Pokémon TCG, the weakness of the Pokémon cards was an integral part of the game. Chameleon, for example, is a much better card than charizard since it can deal 30 consistent damage with no discarding. Figuring that out was part of discovering why the game was so fun. You could make a bunch of crazy decks back in the day but like everything else, power creep sets in, haymaker and rain dance settle in, then the big shiny power cards show up and if you want a proper TCG experience now, you gotta whip out the Gameboy.

That is why Yahtzee is a good critic, he appreciates the craft of what he criticizes. I think the same of you. Critics who separates things on good and bad, don't like the craft, only when is done in a particular way.

I love that you took a string stance against A.I. I agree. It has no place in this medium.