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John Romero posted:place out here charging $50 for a starter and booster pack, ,insane loving hell, they know this has a public MSRP right? The starter decks are supposed to be $18
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Aug 12, 2023 03:29
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DalaranJ posted:loving hell, they know this has a public MSRP right? The starter decks are supposed to be $18 Yeah, like, my FLGS is charging over MSRP by a bit, but we're talking "6.49 for a pack, 150 for a box, 20 for starters" territory. Some of the prices I've seen have been utter nonsense.
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Aug 12, 2023 03:34
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Demand is high, supply is 'gently caress all'. Most places that I have talked to are lucky if they are getting 20% of what they ordered.
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Aug 12, 2023 04:50
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 Meant to post this earlier. So, uh... I'm not sure which is worse, MTGFinance Bros or Disney Adults.
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Aug 12, 2023 05:52
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Our locals are all around 50 for a starter. I signed up because I misread it as giving you two extra packs after the event is finished but it was an opportunity to buy 2 more packs Absolute insanity
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Aug 12, 2023 07:18
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The word from several LGS on the discord is that there are more waves for Set 1 coming this year, another in September and then one in ~December. And will likely keep getting printed all next year too while they build up the card pool. Singles should be really cheap in a couple months, especially commons through rares.
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Aug 12, 2023 19:21
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Am I right in thinking that Lorcana doesn't have a Uniqueness rule? You can have 4 "Anna, Heir to Arendelle" in play at once?
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Aug 12, 2023 22:44
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hyphz posted:Am I right in thinking that Lorcana doesn't have a Uniqueness rule? You can have 4 "Anna, Heir to Arendelle" in play at once? Correct. You can also have multiple versions of a character in play at the same time, so you could have up to 4 Aladdin heroic outlaw in play at the same time as you have up to 4 Aladdin street rat in play.
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Aug 12, 2023 23:36
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CitizenKeen posted:
Is this from an LGS? 50$ for a starter and the privilege of getting to play in an event for a day? This has gotta be a joke.
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Aug 13, 2023 01:02
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nomadotto posted:Is this from an LGS? 50$ for a starter and the privilege of getting to play in an event for a day? This has gotta be a joke. It's $50-80 at every LGS in a 30 mile radius from me. They've all already sold out spots for events.
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Aug 13, 2023 01:43
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nomadotto posted:Is this from an LGS? 50$ for a starter and the privilege of getting to play in an event for a day? This has gotta be a joke. That particular one is from Greg's Games in NJ, but it's representative of a lot of LGSes right now: https://twitter.com/GregsGamesLLC/status/1689328836414943234
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Aug 13, 2023 03:39
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Yeah, poo poo like that is making me so thankful for my LGS. I'd much rather wait for my fulfillment than my LGS basically be just as bad as the loving scalpers.
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Aug 13, 2023 03:47
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LifeLynx posted:It's $50-80 at every LGS in a 30 mile radius from me. They've all already sold out spots for events. I haven't seen Beanie Baby level furvor like this in a while. Maybe when Nintendo Amiibo were new? I have to assume everything will calm down when the cards actually hit retail in September? Meanwhile, my poor descision from Hill's WHolesale gaming arrived! Everything was there, and I'm living like it's 1997 again.  NOSTALGIA! I read an article back in the day that hyped these cards like crazy. Decipher was so proud of the printing! The set was sold in a portfolio at a premium price. It's really fun to be able to get cheap, because the print quality doesn't live up to the hype.
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Aug 13, 2023 04:07
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Failson posted:I haven't seen Beanie Baby level furvor like this in a while. Maybe when Nintendo Amiibo were new? I have to assume everything will calm down when the cards actually hit retail in September? They had some cute tricks in the print process for some of the cards (Locutus's laser going out of the frame) and there were some gimmicky add ins like the bubble gum. I remember it being fiendishly expensive; at half the price it could probably have been more palatable.
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WEM is talking about a press-only preview of a game called Altered. https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/151028/are-you-ready-get-altered-gen-con-2024 I am immediately pretty cold on it because it includes two things I find tiresome:
My first question is: who in their right mind is going to bother with that poo poo? "Okay I traded this to that guy, so I gotta scan it and then he's gotta scan it." or "Oh I loaned it to a friend but I forgot to move it on the app." That sounds more complicated than "Yeah, you can borrow my four copies of Urza's Sad Post-Divorce Bachelor Pad for that tourney." At the same point, if you don't scan your cards and they get stolen then they can gain ownership of them. So, everyone will likely be priced into this cockamamie app. Are there going to be deck scans at tournaments to check for compliance? How fast can the app read these things? That's not even the end of it. Typically CCGs only raise cybersecurity questions when they accidentally become the home for bitcoins, but now we have questions like "Is it possible for someone to steal my app account and then get reprints of my cards? If that happens, what happens to my cards? Can I use my card ownership to get my account back? If so, can someone social engineer that to get my account after stealing my cards?" Fundamentally these are extremely complicated solutions to the problems of CCG ownership. It sounds like it was conceived by an NFT bro or something, though I see no destructive blockchain crap. So, be thankful for small mercies I guess. Mechanically, it has some similarity to Lorcana and other Duel Masters clones with facedown cards as some form or resource, and something similar to Flesh And Blood's arsenal where you can play things "from memory" which is a non-hand hand it seems like. It also has the FAB thing of "different versions of a card with same name and art" but here they are stretched across rarities and appear to feature strictly better versions instead of varied tradeoffs for pitch value or card effects. Like, there's no universe in which this succeeds, right?
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Aug 14, 2023 14:17
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It has "unique" variants of the commons and rares. It's totally a pump-and-dump "investors buy all the stock" TCG.
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Aug 14, 2023 15:10
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Magnetic North posted:[*]QR codes[/list] This sounds like good news to me. It's obviously an NFT, but the term NFT has now become so toxic that you can't call it an NFT.
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Aug 14, 2023 15:39
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If you've ever looked at some old legendary cards from FFTCG's older sets and winced at paying $40 for an Al-Cid, good news. The 2024 Anniversary Box is reprinting some dizzyingly expensive legends from past sets, and with that amount of aggressive reprint value, it's possible that other extremely expensive staples like Amaterasu, Chocobo, etc. might be reprinted as well in the rare/hero rarity reprints as well. Given how good the 2022 anniversary box is as a starter option, this will make a perfect compliment to it.
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Aug 14, 2023 23:06
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Magnetic North posted:*Bad card game words* They're not just going to slap QR codes on the cards, right? Because that would be really ugly... ... They just slapped QR codes on the cards.
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Aug 15, 2023 00:58
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yo what the gently caress is weiss schwartz
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Aug 15, 2023 01:45
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Kyrosiris posted:If you've ever looked at some old legendary cards from FFTCG's older sets and winced at paying $40 for an Al-Cid, good news. The 2024 Anniversary Box is reprinting some dizzyingly expensive legends from past sets, and with that amount of aggressive reprint value, it's possible that other extremely expensive staples like Amaterasu, Chocobo, etc. might be reprinted as well in the rare/hero rarity reprints as well. how much they charge for one of these fuckers
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Aug 15, 2023 01:46
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You can still find the 22 box on amazon for $45.
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Aug 15, 2023 02:19
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John Romero posted:how much they charge for one of these fuckers I want to say MSRP is like $60? The 2022 kit is available for like 35-40 from most places, though, SE printed loads and I hope the 2024 box gets just as aggressively printed.
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Aug 15, 2023 02:21
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triple sulk posted:FWIW, I played a few games of Lorcana on the Pixelborn client.
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Aug 15, 2023 04:21
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John Romero posted:yo what the gently caress is weiss schwartz Waifu Schwarz? It's basically "let's take all of these hella mid slice of life moeblob animes, add a few bigger names to get the normies interested (like Attack on Titan, Fate, Persona, Jojo), and have them thunderdome it out." There's something called a climax, and there's even a special "climax zone", but iunno, when it comes to hearing people talk about young anime girls and climaxes at all, let alone in public, I get skeeved out pretty quick. Only saw a couple of people playing it in my area (which led to overhearing about said "climax zone"), but apparently from looking online it's been around since 2007? More power to people who like it, but it feels like something that would put me on an FBI watch list.
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Aug 15, 2023 05:20
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Okay I got two games of Lorcana in, I imported a starter deck just to see what's what. Verdict is it's pretty fun, it'll be interesting to see what an expansion or two and the meta bastards really sitting down to try and break poo poo make of it. Your experience will definitely be enhanced if the sentence "I was winning until the bastard just kept singing Be Prepared" is amusing to you. Because seriously, I was. Goddamn goose-stepping hyenas. CapnAndy fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Aug 15, 2023 |
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Aug 15, 2023 05:28
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Aniodia posted:Waifu Schwarz? It's basically "let's take all of these hella mid slice of life moeblob animes, add a few bigger names to get the normies interested (like Attack on Titan, Fate, Persona, Jojo), and have them thunderdome it out." There's something called a climax, and there's even a special "climax zone", but iunno, when it comes to hearing people talk about young anime girls and climaxes at all, let alone in public, I get skeeved out pretty quick. Only saw a couple of people playing it in my area (which led to overhearing about said "climax zone"), but apparently from looking online it's been around since 2007? More power to people who like it, but it feels like something that would put me on an FBI watch list. I liked Attack on Titan season 1, so I played it when that came out on Adult Swim. I stopped and sold my cards after the guys I was playing with got way too excited about some swimsuit set. I kind of liked how the game played, where cards were used multiple ways depending on what zone they were in, and the built-in catch-up mechanic, but it wasn't enjoyable once I looked at the other cards. Japan got a Star Wars set, which is pretty neat. But it wasn't printed in English because I think Fantasy Flight has the license for all Star Wars card games in English or something like that.
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Aniodia posted:Waifu Schwarz? It's basically "let's take all of these hella mid slice of life moeblob animes, add a few bigger names to get the normies interested (like Attack on Titan, Fate, Persona, Jojo), and have them thunderdome it out." There's something called a climax, and there's even a special "climax zone", but iunno, when it comes to hearing people talk about young anime girls and climaxes at all, let alone in public, I get skeeved out pretty quick. Only saw a couple of people playing it in my area (which led to overhearing about said "climax zone"), but apparently from looking online it's been around since 2007? More power to people who like it, but it feels like something that would put me on an FBI watch list. Weren't the first sets based on idol anime? I always thought the Climax zone was referring to the hight-point of a performance rather than orgasms.
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Aug 15, 2023 11:37
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CapnAndy posted:How'd you find games, do we have a local community or just trawling their discord? Assuming you didn't find it already, look up Pixelborn. It was a good enough solution to form an opinion on the game.
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Aniodia posted:Waifu Schwarz? It's basically "let's take all of these hella mid slice of life moeblob animes, add a few bigger names to get the normies interested (like Attack on Titan, Fate, Persona, Jojo), and have them thunderdome it out." There's something called a climax, and there's even a special "climax zone", but iunno, when it comes to hearing people talk about young anime girls and climaxes at all, let alone in public, I get skeeved out pretty quick. Only saw a couple of people playing it in my area (which led to overhearing about said "climax zone"), but apparently from looking online it's been around since 2007? More power to people who like it, but it feels like something that would put me on an FBI watch list. lol alright. No interest in playing it, I was just updating my son’s Pokémon in the Collectr app and accidentally swiped over to it. Surprisingly enough the swimsuit cards are worth the most money. The cards have an insane amount of small text on them too
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Pixelborn (the unofficial lorcana online client) has over 10,000 unique users now :O And here are some decks that have gone 2-0/3-0 in the tournament they are running, including a surprising Item deck. https://lorcanahq.com/seeing-the-meta-through-ruby-colored-glasses-decklists-inside/
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goodness posted:Pixelborn (the unofficial lorcana online client) has over 10,000 unique users now :O He is also running a Patreon which seems to be just asking for trouble..
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hyphz posted:He is also running a Patreon which seems to be just asking for trouble.. Also, it's frankly amazing that literally quicker than it took for the game to come out, some madlad threw together a client to play it online in Unity and it's a working, stable experience. If Ravensburger is smart, they'll keep the lawyers in their pocket and hire him.
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Aug 16, 2023 00:50
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John Romero posted:lol alright. No interest in playing it, I was just updating my son’s Pokémon in the Collectr app and accidentally swiped over to it. Surprisingly enough the swimsuit cards are worth the most money. The cards have an insane amount of small text on them too Not really a suprise, the waifu demographic has no shame. I stumbled into a box breaking stream for Weiss once and that is how I learned of the term "booba" among other things. If it's female and anime someone is creeping on it, doesn't matter the franchise.
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CapnAndy posted:Okay I got two games of Lorcana in, I imported a starter deck just to see what's what. Verdict is it's pretty fun, it'll be interesting to see what an expansion or two and the meta bastards really sitting down to try and break poo poo make of it. Tha got a lol from me. If I can win a game with a relentless barrage of "It's a Small World After All" I'm in.
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There are other viable archetypes, but Purple seems to be head and shoulders above any other Lorcana color because it's got all the goddamn card draw. Everyone else is burning their own hands down to the wick for ink and purple can just feed itself more cards every turn so they can keep inking up and have options.
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Just got a call from my FLGS that my Lorcana order (a Trove + all three starters) is available tomorrow. 
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Aug 18, 2023 01:38
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Reports coming in that one of the big three distributors didn't get Lorcana in time to ship out this weekend. Stores reporting they have to cancel launch events.
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CitizenKeen posted:Reports coming in that one of the big three distributors didn't get Lorcana in time to ship out this weekend. Stores reporting they have to cancel launch events. yeah all the places gouging here are getting theirs tho
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