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Well the turtle looks kinda cool at least. (http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/wow/en/news/article.aspx?aid=1243)

Good to see they resisted the temptation to put weapons and armor in as rewards since I have no intention of buying a single pack of cards.

The tabard is pretty good looking, reminds me of the Stormpike one, which means I'll be all over it for my Horde characters. The Hippogryph pet is also very nice, hopefully they won't be too difficult to snag.

My understanding is that the turtle is not at epic mount speed, nor even mount speed but at running speed.

Who cares ?  You're ON A TURTLE.

Fucking genius. Money ties to go with their money suits.

obligatory comic (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/08/26)

In front of the bank. Bouncing.

I don't see the attraction myself, but its your several hundred dollars for a few pre-order boxes.

Is this a kind of RMT? Blizzard $elling loot to players by card game proxy?

Yes and no.

None of the loot is useful. The turtle mount is as fast as a walking person, the pet is a show-off item like the normal pets and the Ogre suit.

Oh my the ogre suit.

It'll cost you something like $2-3k in card purchases to get one, unless you compete and earn points through official league matches.

OH, Don't forget this. (http://cgi.ebay.com/wow-ccg-Leeroy-Jenkins-EPIC-Free-Shipping_W0QQitemZ110049279582QQihZ001QQcategoryZ2535QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting)  No thread about the CCG is complete without it.

Great. World of Yu-Gi-Oh!craft.

Put naked NE chicks on the cards and we'll talk.

Scratch-n-turtle and the other "loser" markers are all over ebay ... in sets, even: bah (http://cgi.ebay.com/SnapJaw-HippoGryph-Landro-WOW-Loot-Set-ALL-3-IN-HAND_W0QQitemZ320043135467QQihZ011QQcategoryZ2535QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem).

So much for rarity.

But they're selling for a lot.  But since some people found some and put them on eBay clearly they aren't rare

(http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/wow/community/photos/art_galley/images/123174/372x425.aspx)
Sort of.


How is the actual game?  Anybody play?  Havent seen the rules yet, so dont know how fun it actually sounds/is.  (only CCG I ever played was magic).

Not a bad idea overall on blizzards part.  Very good that they didnt add in any meaningfull items to the cards.  I hope in the Onyxia boosters they have a "Half the fucking guild shows up late: Sit and do nothing for 15 minutes" card.

hehhahhahahh.

Good one.

There are 126 auctions for the turtle card on eBay alone and most are not asking a lot. I think the one I linked to is unrepresentative of the bidding.

Perhaps, but my point is that despite there being 100+ auctions for it on eBay we have no idea what scale the game was launched at, thus the eBay data proving almost nothing.

Giggidy.

/pizza

I don't know the actual rarity of the WoW cards (though I don't doubt that its published somewhere), but with CCGs that are popular, people who trade seriously will buy several hundred boxes (yes, boxes) and open them all, and then sell the rares in each box for the price of the box. The uncommons become profit and the commons filler for bulk sales. In MTG terms, the price on those three rare cards (for an existing set/expansion) is high - reflecting the novelty value of the in-game items and early demand. Similarly, rare cards with distinctly imbalanced mechanics and cards used in popular published 'decks' will have inflated prices. If you have a few grand to float your venture, its pretty easy to make a profit in CCGs - it just takes time and paying attention to the market and its publications.

Everything Righ's said meshes with my own early experience in M:TG back around The Dark/ Fallen Empire days.  Hell, I remember saving up precious college funds so I could buy a whole booster box of Fallen Empires (haha jokes on me).


I found a site last night that listed the commonality but no number of cards actually printed at this time. Google warcraft card list if you're interested.

As for the game itself,  I'm going to go with "it's pretty popular."

  I stopped in at the comic & card shop up the road from me to see if they had it.  (Wanted to buy a starter and see what the rules were like) I got a quick chuckle from the guy at the counter, who asked the guy in the back to explain what was up.  A heavy sigh later, and I knew I wasn't the first non-regular to stop in and ask.  He explained they hadden't bought any because they didn't think it was going to sell at all, and now their regional supplier is having a hard time getting boxes himself so they won't have any for a while, if at all.  Considering there's only 3 comic & card stores that I know of in N. KY, I think that says a lot about its (current) popularity.

Yeah, I think pretty much the entire print edition was sold in 2 days. If you want to know what the rules are like, the official site has a PDF of the rulebook that's found in the starter set, as well as some demo decks. You can also find a complete list of cards and the contents of each starter deck here (http://wowtcgdb.com/).

You know what would be cool? If they made an online game about the card game....

Then they could pull a final fantasy and combine the online card game with WoW, so that you can run up and challenge people in game to matchs.


The sad part is I think that could actually happen if the game takes off in popularity....

The sadder part is I would so do that.

So would I.  So would a lot of people.

I always wondered why Sabacc and Pazzak weren't implemented in SWG.  While I would do that kinda thing 'casually' the wife would have been glued to the screen.

Games within games are popular.  Look at the poker addon for WoW - It's getting regular play time on my server.

Just what I need, the ultra epiced out catass warrior first beating my ass in with his super deck, then promptly oneshotting me with his two hander right after.






Would be kind of funny though.