I’m so late with this post, will my memory of last week hold up? We did a couple of different things last week as well as getting to our local armory.
My barber friend Levi had bought a box of Super Slam in the Black Friday sales so we recorded a box opening. My daughter and I popped along to Gateway Games for our local armory on Friday night and then on Saturday headed up to Auckland for the Card Market.
The Card Market was a bit like a heading back to the beginning in someways. We discovered FAB at the Auckland Card Show which we were at because my daughter collects Pokemon cards. The Card Market is organised by the same people and again we were there primarily for my daughter to look at Pokemon cards. However there was 1 FAB dealer there and I’ll talk about that in the emptying the wallet section.
News
There wasn’t really anything in the news last week. We’ve already had some juicy news this week but I should save that for next week’s post.
Emptying The Wallet
I wasn’t expecting much if any FAB at the Card Market. However we did take our cards up just in case. There was no playing of TCGs at all, it was all about collecting. As I mentioned above there was 1 person there buying and selling FAB cards. He had a folder of $1 majestic cards. I had to have a look through and there was nothing in there that either my daughter or I would play. However there was a Hala mentor card. The art work is lovely and of cause they are releasing her as a Hero next year. So I thought for a $1 it would be a nice card to have. I’ve not seen a mentor card before and as we hardly ever play blitz it’s not surprising that I haven’t seen one played. I don’t expect to ever play the card but it’s just nice to have one in the collection.
He went through our trade folder which no one has been interested in these cards at our local armories. There really isn’t that much trading that goes on from looking through folders. Normally people ask for specific cards in the chat group to do trades.
He took out a pile and some we decided to keep but in the end we got $68, so not a kings ransom. I did notice that he had some Welcome to Rathe boxes for sale at $140. We went for a walk around the rest of the show and decided that it would be fun to open a box of the original cards. Also maybe we’d pull a Spring Tunic or Ancestral Empowerment or Enlightening strike cards that we would like for our decks…
Look out for the box opening video of this box to see what we get.
What I have learnt since though is that back in the day the drop rate of legendary cards was 1 per 4 boxes. So people would buy a set of 4 boxes, if the first box they opened contained a legendary card. Then they would look at selling the other 3 as they believe there won’t be a legendary in them. So maybe we have bought a box that’s less likely to contain a legendary card. We’ll just have to wait and see.
For we week we were $140 for the box +$1 for Hala -$68 in sales +$12 Armory entry for a total of $85.
Armory - Gateway Games
We were an odd number again this week meaning byes were back in action. I was playing my main deck Pleiades so big hits were the order of the day.
First up I was against Slippy piloted by Fletcher. I started well but then got stuck with 3 all blue hands and 2 all Red hands that really stalled my progress. I did manage to wrestle back momentum with a big turn using Thump and Pummel to remove cards from his hand. However I couldn’t do anything with my hand the following turn so all was lost.
Then I played Qi Wei with Florian and this is one that I was always going to lose. An experienced player with a fully tuned deck….
I then got my sole win of the night via the bye and was paired with my daughter for round 4 but we were tired so bowed out and recorded it as a draw.
Cardboard
We got nothing really from the packs and I’ve talked about the card I bought earlier.
Meta Matters
The Gateway Games was back to being a fully diverse Meta with 11 decks and 11 heroes.
* Gravy
* Ira
* Verdance
* Prism
* Pleiades
* Arakni, 5L!p3d 7hRu 7h3 cR4X
* Arakni, Marionette
* Lyath
* Florian
* Osilio
* Kayo
Puffin and Vynnset bowed out from last week as well as 2 Ira decks. Lyath and Florian replaced the Ira decks. Returning players brought the 2 Arakni decks, Osilio and Kayo. A really diverse meta and I think the meta is in a really good place.
What’s Coming Up?
Next weekend we are heading down to Rotorua for their Christmas party. Bad Christmas jumpers have been bought as have secret santas.
Also I have a box of Welcome to Rathe to open…..
