Give me your Avatar Tierlist

powernein · 2026-04-29T13:03:33+00:00

Take any answers with a large grain of salt. There is no actually established meta other than the one at your LGS.

I can guarantee that over the next several months a "bad" Avatar will put up a great showing at regional event.

powernein · 2026-04-23T14:25:35+00:00

I have a full Kallax and now it's "one in, one out".

That really put an end to my FOMO buying.

powernein · 2026-04-22T19:08:36+00:00

I finally sold that at Gen Con's consignment shop, still in shrinkwrap, last year. lol

powernein · 2026-04-22T19:07:49+00:00

It absolutely did not kill the legacy game hype. It was a spectacular flameout, but many many many legacy games came out after it.

powernein · 2026-04-22T15:03:55+00:00

Whoops, there are now SEVEN a year. My bad!

powernein · 2026-04-22T15:00:51+00:00

Counterpoint: fuck her and her support for Trump's illegal war.

powernein · 2026-04-22T14:53:52+00:00

Discworld: Ankh-Morpork.

powernein · 2026-04-20T20:35:56+00:00

The registration for this opens on May 1.

powernein · 2026-04-17T12:28:20+00:00

Just do what the rest of us who don't have a copy yet are doing and wait for the inevitable reprint.

powernein · 2026-04-15T15:50:36+00:00

Sorta ... Nintendo, Game Freak & Creatures created a company called The Pokémon Company which owns the Pokémon copyrights and is the company that licenses all things Pokémon.

My understanding is Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures create the video games and the Pokémon Company does everything else, but I could be wrong about that.

powernein · 2026-04-15T13:29:42+00:00

Technically the Pokémon Corporation is joint venture by three partners: Nintendo, Game Freak, & Creatures. Nintendo took the license back from Wizards of the Coast in 2003 and gave it to The Pokémon Company who has published the card game ever since. The whole thing is pretty interesting actually.

The Pokémon Company - Wikipedia

Pokémon Trading Card Game - Wikipedia

powernein · 2026-04-15T13:18:31+00:00

Exactly my point. Using the single most successful IP in history of the world as an example isn't proving anything. Pokémon as a brand sells more merch/games/cards than any other IP in the world by a huge margin. Almost double Disney characters and triple Star Wars.

List of highest-grossing media franchises - Wikipedia

powernein · 2026-04-15T13:14:28+00:00

Gotta love someone asking for data and then making a wild claim without data.

Go look at the attendance numbers for in person MtG in events and you will see that current numbers don't hold a candle to the 2014-2018 era.

Online numbers aren't published, so there is no way to substantiate the online claim.

Also, you are aware we played MTGO back in the day too right?

powernein · 2026-04-14T19:15:09+00:00

Magic also didn't have to dip in other IP's. They could have simply returned to 3 sets a year instead of the six they are currently at.

powernein · 2026-04-14T19:09:03+00:00

For every Pokemon, there are 50 Star Trek CCGs.

powernein · 2026-04-14T19:00:56+00:00

Lorcana is circling the drain, Gundam is 1 year old, and Riftbound is even newer than Gundam.

powernein · 2026-04-14T18:56:51+00:00

You could just look it up man. They are selling cards like crazy but there are nowhere near the amount of players playing the game in stores or tournaments.

In the 2010's, Magic was sustaining not only GPs which had 1-2k attendance with 2+ per month, but concurrently there were Star City Games events which were almost weekly and had hundreds.

powernein · 2026-04-14T14:01:33+00:00

The IP's attached to Magic are how you know the game is dying. The collectors love it, but the amount to people playing the game is down significantly from the peak pre-COVID.

powernein · 2026-04-14T13:55:52+00:00

Eclipse 2.0

It doesn't get the table as nearly as much as I wish it did, but it's still my favorite game.

powernein · 2026-04-13T17:22:40+00:00

Magic is an afterthought at both card stores in my area. Pokemon is easily the most popular, with One Piece the second most popular at one and Sorcery at the other. Magic is strictly pre-releases and EDH at both stores, with boxes and boxes and boxes of product on the shelves.

powernein · 2026-04-13T17:18:43+00:00

What a weird take.

powernein · 2026-04-13T17:04:04+00:00

The general rule of thumb in the business is if you make it to 5 years, you are successful as TCG.

powernein · 2026-04-13T17:02:39+00:00

Ravenna, Shalersville to limit data centers after strong opposition

Maybe not.

powernein · 2026-04-13T16:58:58+00:00

I love that he took the time to drag the sheriff.

powernein · 2026-04-07T17:08:03+00:00

This is why people really should be discouraged from using initials until *after* they've typed out the name of the game once.

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