Musings on Galactic Championship


Man.  Gaming has come a long way since I was a teenager.  Watching this was akin to watching ESPN except they were talking about things I actually cared about.  I remember bringing a board game to school so we could play during lunch and getting ridiculed.  Flash forward 4 decades; I lost hours on this stream with my son as we checked with each match whether we had the leader/base/cards to maybe build the deck.

 But it also made me realize that there is really another tier of play above what we're currently playing.  And it's about owning the right cards.  One of the things I loved about Vampire : The Eternal Struggle is that one of the strongest decks in the game could be made with mostly common cards.  It wasn't a game that required half of the deck to be legendary.

 I get it.  Everyone's out to make a buck.  But why my current favorite game :( 

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