A work of fiction can, whether intentionally or unintentionally, parallel real world things with fictional creatures, places, or issues. For example, the later novels in the Discworld series effectively use Dwarven society as a parallel to gender issues in the real world, using what was originally a joke (the old Lord of the Rings "nobody can tell Dwarf women apart from Dwarf men" thing) as a starting point for the comparison.
I do very much doubt that any serious parallel was intended by WOTC with that card, but it is still important for writers to think about how their work can be read.
sorry. Will try to get back on topic.
The dragon balls are a copy o Black Lotus.
edited 16th Apr '17 5:52:22 PM by Enlong
I have a message from another time...Sometimes you want to talk about Yu Gi Oh without getting too deep and falling down the rabbit hole again
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Don't be silly, the Dragon Balls have limitations.
You were turning DBZ into Yu-Gi-Oh!
Makes sense, but I didn't get it.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Halfway through I got confused and legitimately thought we were discussing the DBZ card game.
This song needs more love.I want to ask if anyone has ever played the DBZ card game or any weeaboo-type card game that isn't Yu Gi Oh (Magic isn't weeaboo), but technically that's still a derail.
So instead I'll leave it at this poor attempt at incepting the question.
Pokemon was my first TCG, my sister and I played ignoring energy and energy costs which was broken, but I got heavily into the Pokemon TCG video game later in life. My sister really just liked collecting the cards rather than playing, so we didn't play much. A couple of years back, my friend had two of the starter decks from when he was a kid (one was his brother's) and we played them properly. Despite being paired decks, the Gardevoir deck just walked all over the Blaziken deck. We played on an online simulator for a bit, but it was really frustrated because it only had the first four sets and the meta was entirely one deck - a super boring stall deck using Snorlax/Chansey/Gengar/Mr Mime to soak up damage counters and move them on to Chansey who would just heal it off.
I collected lots of Dragon Ball Z cards when it was popular at school, but everyone just collected instead of playing. I remember the gameplay being pretty weird for that one anyway.
Then it was Yu Gi Oh when it was HUEG, I tried Duel Masters and really prefer the mana system but it never caught on - again, had one of the video games for that.
After university I tried out Magic. Took it pretty seriously for a while due to friday night magic, won a game day, but fell out after the rotation came because I couldn't keep up with the cost. Now I still play casual Commander games with two of my friends, which has been pretty fun. We all have the exact same number of wins right now! That makes it more fun.
Oh, damn, this is taking me back. I remember when Charizard was, like, the card to get back when the TCG first started out. There was even a whole FoxTrot story arc that had Jason agree to be Eileen's field trip partner if she gave him a Charizard.
edited 17th Apr '17 7:34:04 AM by TyeDyeWildebeest
No beer?! But if there's no beer, then there's no beef or beans!Kinda yeah. Of the three rarities (common, uncommon, rare) individual cards might still be more rare than others of their rarity. In the base set, most of the rares were holofoil rares and appeared less frequently than non-holofoil rares. You were guaranteed one rare in every pack, and with most rares being holofoil-only that meant most boosters contained the same few non-holofail Pokemon in their rare slot. With the amount of boosters in circulation, most people I know had a number of holofoil rares.
That's similar to Yu Gi Oh, where a given card in a set (say, Dark Magician) will be of one set rarity and that depends on whether it is holofoil, has gold name text, etc. Yugioh has a fucking ridiculous number of rarities.
Later sets have changed things somewhat, there are both holofoil and non-holofoil versions of most rares in a set and even common/uncommon cards can be foils, though it's a different type. They recently re-released the base set with updated stats on the cards, and as an example one booster pack I opened had a holofoil rare Magenton and a holofoil common Nidoran. Which is closer to Magic, where any given card in a booster might be a foil, regardless of the rarity.
Yugioh has a lot of rarities, but the ones I mostly remember were: Secret Rare, normal Rare, Gold Rare, Ultra Rare, Ultimate Rare, and Ghost Rare. Depending on the card, those shits went for fucking crack money. I remember dropping $60-$120 a box just to get one, and then sell it.
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Do you guys remember when we used to talk about Dragon Ball Z Abridged? Those were the times.
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