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    So I thought I'd check out the card game. I'm not a fan of Digimon and none of the starter decks appeal to me, so I ended up buying some loose cards on Mercari that looked cool to me that I could use to make my own deck.

    I find however that the cards have a major curling problem. Normally I might simply decide to toss the cards and decide the game probably wasn't worth it for me. But later I thought, this might be a fun little project trying to fix the bent cards just for the hell of it. I'm thinking of buying something like an oatmeal canister, or a water bottle, rolling pin, or Pringles can (anything cylindrical basically) then sleeving up the cards and taping them to the outside of the canister.

    And at first I thought a Pringles can is obviously too narrow and would ruin the cards. But later I was like, wait, it's not like the cards would contour 100% to the shape of the object. It depends on how much tape I use really. I could go all out and mummify the canister in tape until the cards were perfectly contoured to it. But then it would be a hassle getting the cards out afterwards. So maybe a narrow canister is best and I'd simply stick them on. In fact this lets me fine tune how much I want to bend them.

    Question is how long to leave them taped. I don't really have a plan for that. xD
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      Editing … oh yeah. I was meaning to tell you. I have some old postcards and I smelt them and they smelt exactly like a pack of new pokemon cards. I'm sure you would have enjoyed it.
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      Editing … They do smell good. I bought a pack of Pokemon not long ago just to see what they were like. They had that 'new pack smell' which I thought was interesting because MtG packs don't have that, even though I swear they used to at one point.. (or else how would I recognize what 'new pack smell' smelled like?)
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      Editing … Here's one of the cards I bought, btw. https://www.tcgplayer.com/product/268867/digimon-card-game-new-awakening-frosvelgrmon four copies. It's not worth anything, apparently, but it does look cool especially by Digimon standards. So by the end of this it would be nice to own a functioning deck with them in it.
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      Editing … I bet the Dewott card smells best
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      Editing … Oh, it could be a 2L soda bottle actually. Or a drinking glass. (Well, not that cause it would ruin the glass) I might have something just lying around I can use.
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      Editing … Fabulous killer peacock.
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      Editing … I just watched a how to play vid. This game is wild. Digimon can't block natively. When your opponent attacks, you lose life right away. But each card you flip from your life deck fights the attacking digimon. This means your life deck can actually kill an opposing creature. That is wild. I have never seen that before.
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      Editing … It's the heart of the cards
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      Editing … No, that cant be right. I must have misunderstood. If that were true then there would be zero player interaction in games. I'm gonna guess that digimon can attack other digimon. They just can't block unless they have the blocker ability.
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      Editing … Anyway, I found a anti curling method. I have a Gamegenic card album that I've been sitting on for over a year and nearly forgot about. It's not boarded or anything meaning it's completely bendable, like a paperback book. (This is probably why I never used it, lol. I must have subliminally felt it was unsafe to actually store cards in.) So anyway I thought, ill put my digimon cards in it and sort of roll/bend the binder against the direction of the curl. It worked out pretty well and it definitely was better being able to do this in real time instead of having to wait who knows how many days. I really had to bend it, though! The cards are really stubborn. I ended up causing a crack to appear on the back cover. Doesn't matter, though. The cards are a bit flatter now so it was worth it. I'll repeat this method as needed and for any new cards I may acquire. Glad I bought this stupid card album! xD
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      Editing … But even after all that, I tallied up my cards and realized that although I have a complete functioning deck with the cards I already bought so far, I kind of hate the deck and this seems to be a pervasive issue for the entire card game. What good is it if I have a cool peacock to top out with if the other 90 percent of the deck looks like it's for preschoolers. So maybe Digimon just isn't for me. That or I need to find a Digimon breed that I actually like. We'll see.
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      Editing … digimon is just discount pokemon anyway. Take your peacock and put it into a pokemon deck.
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      Editing … I played Pokemon TCG in the 2000s when it launched. I had a Blastoise deck. I also played the game boy game, and more recently the online client. (My favorite deck was the Charizard precon w Leon) So I'm kind of over Pokemon TCG. The game is also not that much fun anymore, since nowadays you just spam item cards to draw anything you need from your deck, causing turns to take forever. And not to mention, I already know the rules to Pokemon so I wouldn't be learning anything. Part of the reason to play Digimon is simply to see how it works. And its mana system seems really interesting. Nobody has done anything like it before.
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      Editing … I've never actually played the card game. As kids we would just trade cards and look at them. The only kid I knew who knew how to play and had a playing board would never actually play it with me. He said he didn't like it.
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      Editing … You are so right btw about it being a discount Pokemon.
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      Editing … but...... Why would you want to buy virtual cards you can't sniff?
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      Editing … It looks like you're meant to buy cards first and then figure out why afterwards.
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      Editing … Sounds like a good plan to get rich.
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      Editing … The battles look really simplified. It looks as though energy cards are omitted entirely. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=16duP6ga_Q8 (starts at 2:00) That's interesting.. so now the best Pokemon will be even more busted. I can only assume there will be some kind of deckbuilding restrictions to keep it fair. Maybe there won't be deckbuilding at all and it will simply have you draw random pokemon from your collection?
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      Editing … I sleeved up the blue digimon deck and I'm starting to warm up to it. Maybe i can salvage this. Currently i'm looking at meta decks to get a feel for what an optimal deck curve looks like. I see decks with blue that run 10-13 three drops (edit: I should call them Lv.2's actually, they happen to all cost 3 but that is not a hard rule) I currently only own seven, so that's something I'll have to get sorted out. Lv.3's are in the 9-12 range. Lv.4's should be 8-9. Lv.5's are 4-6. Some decks don't run a Lv.6 at all, but when they do it's 1-3 copies. And I hope to do that because I'm real big. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CttM9jZ711M
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      Editing … I downloaded Pokemon Pocket and started playing online. The actual dueling isn't available from the start, which is funny. It only becomes unlocked after you level up enough by opening packs. Anyway, this is a pretty big deal. I could almost see myself just playing this from now on.
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      Editing … This might be the best digital iteration of the game period. There *is* energy turns out, but you simply get 1 per turn a la Hearthstone instead of them being shuffled into your deck. This is such a massive improvement that I wonder if they might decide at some point to do complete relaunch the physical tcg with revamped rules that more closely resemble the app.
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