TCGs Ate My Brain

Most of the TCG Cards I've gotten lately have come from Whatnot streamers, with the great majority coming from: Kumiho   - mainly anime TCG cards, such as, Weiss Schwarz, Build Divide and Union Arena Versusgames_mtg  - Magic the Gathering      Versusgames_anime  - One Piece and Digimon Versusgames_tcgs  - Shadowverse and Weiss Schwarz I have also gotten some full boxes from the CardsHQ store in Atlanta, using store credit from selling cards. I like Whatnot because you are welcome to just be an observer and chat with the other people on the stream.  This is my main way to be social, since I work at home. Whatnot also has giveaways.  I've been very lucky with those, having gotten some full boxes and some really good hit cards. I have shopped group breaks, singles streams, surprise sets and pretty much any format.  Usually just getting a pack or two at a time. I've gotten some great hits from one to three pack purchases. I have made so...

I started collecting sports cards in 1977 so that was well before TCGs existed. My first TCG pack was a Magic the Gathering Fallen Empires booster pack and I collected most of that set. MTG appealed to me because I loved fantasy novels and had played Dungeons & Dragons.  Plus, it fed my card addiction. I got a few packs from other sets, like Ice Age, Mirage, etc. A few years ago I gave away all of my MTG cards, except for one.  This is from the Revised Base Set. I also bought cards from some of the other sets that came out after MTG, as TCGs were becoming popular. Sim City Star Wars The X-Files I also had cards from Star Trek, Spellfire, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle and others. I bougght one pack of Pokemon Team Rocket when it came out but didn't keep any of the cards. I stopped collecting MTG around 2001 or so and didn't start buying TCGs again until 2021, but starting big time collecting with the 2023 McDonald's Pokemon Happy Meal packs. Now I have way too many cards...

I left behind my blog, Sports Cards Ate My Brain, a few years ago when I got priced out of sports card collecting.  Since then, I started collecting TCG cards, in a large part thanks to McDonald's having Pokemon Happy Meals with cards in them. I try to collect mainly English language TCGs so I can catalog them on the Collectr app easily. I do have a large collection of Japanese TCG cards that I have gotten through various means over the years. My largest collections are Magic: The Gathering, Weiss Schwarz, Pokemon and Shadowverse, but I have cards from all sorts of games. I have English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, German and French cards. I play no TCGs,  but I have started on Magic Arena just to see if I would want to actually make a deck or two and play somewhere. This blog will highlight the various games and sets that I have, how I got them, and I why I got them. I don't claim to be an expert, but I hope everyone that stops by gets a little something from this blog. Thank ...