** I found this post in my "Draft" folder...from October 2018! I don't know this post was overlooked for so long, but instead of just scrapping it I thought I'd go ahead and post it even though the contents is pretty outdated now.
I know most of my readers here come for sports cards, particularly baseball. However I can't be the only trading card fan, who likes things outside of sports...right? Anyhow, here are the contents to one of the booster packs I purchased.
The booster packs retail for $3.99 each and contain 8 cards. 7 of the cards are traditional trading/playing card size while the included foil card is oversized. I'm not too sure how I like this as I can't put these cards in regular 9 pocket pages. I've yet to hit my LCS to see if they have anything that will fit these larger cards, but I hope I can find something.
If nothing else these larger character cards do offer a larger view of the great artwork. Only one side has the holofoil treatment however, that being the side featuring the character's robot mode. If I'm reading the small text at the bottom of the card correctly, Jazz here is an Uncommon card. (you'll have to excuse the fact that these oversized cards don't come across any larger in my scans)
These four cards are all Commons. I've yet to figure out how to play the actual game, I'm waiting to buy a starter deck before I try that...but it seems pretty straight forward for a card game.
Even though I don't read the IDW Transformer comics, I do recognize some of the art and the artists. The cards in hand are quite beautiful and I'm sure at some point I'll sit down and create a section for these cards in my Transformers Bio Card Database.
I have seen some of the different series over on Big Bad Toy Store and thought about picking some up... just to collect the character cards. But I ended up deleting them from my cart.
ReplyDeleteI too prefer the character cards. Thankfully many of the singles can be purchased for a relative cheap price on the likes of eBay.
DeleteIt's a shame WOTC ended the game the way it did, I would have loved to see all the G1 characters represented. I have yet to see packs of the final release out in the wild.
ReplyDeleteAfter the Siege set I kinda lost track of what was going on w/ the game, though I had heard it got the axe. Now I'm starting too see boxes of booster packs from previous series getting discounted...but not cheap enough yet for me to pull the trigger.
DeleteBTW, what happened to your Transformers TCG blog? Are you just going to put the TCG images on the Transformers Card Database blog now?
DeleteTo be honest I bit off more than I could chew with the TCG stuff. I may eventually scan and upload some of the character cards I have, but I doubt I’ll ever mess with the game cards. Most of these sets are already cataloged at TCDB.com anyways.
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