Part 2- Margins of Card Prices


When you think "Trading Card Game", there are three parts.

Trading.
Card.
Game.

This blog is going to focus on that first word- Trading.


Let's be honest, outside of rogue players, how often do you actually complete a trade on a "I need this, you need that" basis?

Let me disect a booster of HS-Heartgold Soulsilver I opened recently:
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I have a 5 part Blog going on here, so if you miss anything I'm about to see, look out for these 5 Parts:

Part 1- Lack of a Diverse Cardpool
Part 2- Margins of Card Prices
Part 3- Luck
Part 4- The True Spirit of the Game
Part 5- ME TOO


So, without further ado, here is...


Part 1- Lack of a Diverse Cardpool

Now before I get started, this isn't about diverse decks. It's about the cardpool. If you...

That's it- I'm all done.

After over a year of playing, frustration, and upsets, I am done collecting the Pokemon TCG.

This game was a breakaway- I had just finished college, had sold all of my Magic the Gathering cards, and was introduced to this game in December of 2010. It was a time where I was led to believe a Theme Deck could be fun (My first purchase and collection for a week was the Umbreon UD Theme deck) and the store that I had played showed a variety. My first...

I just want to get this straight, so if anyone disagrees please feel free to tell me why:


Commons- half the pack. The most basic cards of the set.

Uncommons- 3/10 cards in the pack and moderately advanced.

Rares- 1/10 card in the pack. Skill level varying.

So we have the Pack Slots Rarity, with the Reverse Foil being a random card. So the tiers of Rarity are as follows, from least rare to most rare:

Basic Energy...

I said this in a thread, and I want to just make it a blog because...well I just want it to get out there because I made the idea of it up on a whim and as I thought more about it I liked my own reasoning. This is an explaination on why going second isn't so bad, and is sometimes beneficial!



The advantage to going second is that you are able to respond to cards played and work strategies around the type of deck you are playing against. The first turn player, without...