Ah, card games… an interesting little Star Wars Card Game. 6v1l1e
To play, you needed a 60-card deck with your characters, locations and effects. It was pricey to build a deck, especially if you were particular about packs of 15 cards at around $3 a pack. To get 36 packs, a fill box would run around $100. Each pack had several common and uncommon cards and one rare. These card games often become trading card games as well because you end up with so many duplicates of cards you don’t need and want that trading with your friends seems the economical way for everyone to be happy. Any way you slice it, you were going to be paying some money though.
So this is one reason I never Star Wars card game world championship.
In this article, he gives a lot of personal background into how he got into the game, his history with playing and then eventually, how he ended up at the World Championship. Here’s a snippet:
With my new strategies, I aced the tournament, World Championship event.
Alas, with single game out of six and finished near the bottom of the 64 competitors from around the world. (Philipp Jacobs, a German, won the tournament.)
Still, the trip wasn’t without perks. One night we dined with a man who was a personal assistant to Peter Jackson, the director; he said Jackson was working on adapting the Lord of the Rings trilogy into films.
In honor of The play online with virtual cards as well.