CollectableCardGame

A game played with special playing cards that you buy, often at great cost, in little silvery wrapping thingies ("booster packs" or "expansion packs", distinguished by the way you don't know what cards are contained in the booster until you open it).

: Unless the company messes up. Which every new company does for a few sets. --Vitenka (Read through the barcode...)

(An attempt to make this chronological - by no means complete -- Vitenka)

TopTrumps (heh)
MagicTheGathering (WizardsOfTheCoast)
GalacticEmpires
VampireTheMasquerade nee Jyhad (WizardsOfTheCoast)
StarTrek
Wyvern
WingCommander
NetRunner (WizardsOfTheCoast) <- best balanced CCG to date
StarWars (DecipherGames)
WerewolfTheApocalypse (WizardsOfTheCoast) <- awful
BabylonFive (DecipherGames) <- pretty good, and now out of print so there won't me a new set to come along and destroy your decks (No, unutterably awful. --Vitenka) Let's discuss this on the page BabylonFive...
BattleTech (WizardsOfTheCoast) <- oddly non-terrible
Pokemon (WizardsOfTheCoast) <- no comment, allegedly actually a playable game
WheelOfTime <- fails to live up to its potential
HarryPotter/CardGame (WizardsOfTheCoast) <- passable, but not exciting, which is disappointing if not unusual from a HP product; then again, I've not played it very much
LegendOfTheFiveRings (Vitenka hates it, but apparently lovely)
Warhammer40k (Another asymetric game, and fairly balanced though not perfect)
LordOfTheRings (It appears to be mandatory for every film and TV series now - I won't mention them all, just the noteworthy ones) <- apparently the game design is flawed
CardmasterConflict <- Ultros plays this extensively.
.hack//ENEMY <- being investigated by MoonShadow and AlexChurchill
StarChamber (online)

You skipped YuGiOh :) Was that deliberate? No idea were it goes though... After Pokemon and before .hack//ENEMY certainly. --Kazuhiko

: Very deliberate I should hope. The game as published is not actually playable to any level beyond "Hah, my card is bigger thaqn yours." I think that they later added checks and balances to try and limit it (you may not summon a creature of rarity >5 unless you already have a 4 in play, you may not apply more than one multiplyer to a creature) but these are basically patching a poor structure. --Vitenka (It comes before warhammer chronologically too - probably just after wheel of time)

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