Back in the 90s I was part of the whole Magic: The Gathering fad for a couple of years. My M:TG collection now collects dust in my parents attic somewhere, but I also tried out a few other collectible card games, games that are now all long defunct, but I actually still bring out a couple of them:

Illuminati: New World Order – me and couple of friends bought some dirt cheap display boxes back when the ccg bubble started bursting, and played it a lot. We still occasionally do a couple of round of crazy world domination, especially when we need to pass some time on conventions.

On The Edge – I'm a huge fan of Over The Edge and when I had collected all the books published for role-playing game, I started looking at the sister card game. I bought a collection on Ebay, and then started picking up really cheap boxes on Ebay - to an extent where my collection is near complete. I've played it a couple of times, and like the game-play, but today I mainly use the cards as inspiration and instant-npc-generation for my Over The Edge game.

Anyone else having fun with extinct and out-of-print collectible card games? And any recommendations for cool, dead, card games?

I actually really liked the 40k ccg, no one else did though.

I polayed a lot of VS even though it was stupidly rare and broken.

Really though, aren't all ccg's dead now

Over the last couple of months after a gap of several years, or longer, I've started playing a couple of games again.

Cyberpunk 2020: Picked a metric ton of cards for this game at rock bottom prices after it flopped. Just recently dragged it out again after a chat about cyberpunk among our rpg group.

Overpower: Loved this back in the day and playing the Marvel board game made me dust off my collection and start teaching a few friends to play.

Outside of the Magic stuff I've still got, the dead CCGs I got involved with wound up being bookmarks more than anything else over the years.

Still come across 'em, too, every now and then all tucked away a few pages from the end of the book.

I'd love to use the Heresy CCG for the backdrop of an RPG. It was going to be, but...

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Mythos, the older CoC CCG, remains excellent for solitaire play if you can't find anyone else who has the game, probably because even in the multiplayer mode the people around the table have rather little to do with each other during play.

Quote from: GrimGent;396291Mythos, the older CoC CCG, remains excellent for solitaire play...

The game that almost killed Chaosium?  Yeah, it was one of the many things I picked up from them in lieu of cash as payment for published work.  I only played it once or twice, and that over a decade ago -- I never realised that it could be played solo.  I'll have to dig it out again.

I have quite a few decks of Legend of the Five Rings that I've given to my son, though they're used almost exclusively for inspirational art, not actual play.

I'm too embarrassed to play my Vampire/Jyhad card collection.  Then there's the Star Trek: the Next Generation CCG that I never figured out how to play (I never felt that I was able to staff my ships adequately -- too many nurses and not enough bridge crew).

Probably the most playable collection I have is the Marvel Overpower game.  I had quite a few of the heavy-hitters from the era, though scant few of the action cards for them.  God damned collectible horseshit.

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Check out Middle-Earth from Ironcrown Enterprises - it's the best Middle-Earth RPG experience I've had (MERP never did anything for me).

7th Sea and Doomtown from AEG are good swashbuckling games. Cards from the early expansions are easy to find and relatively cheap.

My all-time favourite dead CCG is Netrunner - but it's been dead for so long that it's passed the trough of no value and the cards are hard (and expensive!) to find.

Doomtown was very clever, but the game quicly devolves into moving around trying to avoid getting called out. Turtletastic.

Legend of the Burning Sands was the best game though, well balanced but woefully underrated and supported.

Quote from: Ian Absentia;396311I'm too embarrassed to play my Vampire/Jyhad card collection.

I'm not sure what's embarrassing here. The game having WoD as background?   My friends and I had hours of awesomeness out of this game.

Quote from: boulet;396323I'm not sure what's embarrassing here. The game having WoD as background?   My friends and I had hours of awesomeness out of this game.

Besides, VTES isn't even "dead." Weirdly, it's the sole official remnant of the oWoD, and still being supported with new releases by White Wolf.

Quote from: GrimGent;396324Besides, VTES isn't even "dead." Weirdly, it's the sole official remnant of the oWoD, and still being supported with new releases by White Wolf.

Really? I did not know that. Some of my friends played a lot of Jyhad while the rest of us played M:TG. I might still have a Dieter Kleist-card lying around somewhere - for some reason he became a bit of a cult character.

I had a few Netrunner and Star Wars: CCG decks lying around also, but I don't think I ever played any of those games. Netrunner just didn't catch my attention and when no one got as much a single of the famous SW characters, but just pilots, TIE-fighters and javas, in any of our boosters and decks we lost interest.

Quote from: boulet;396323I'm not sure what's embarrassing here. The game having WoD as background?

Yes, though it's my personal embarrassment with the WoD at issue, not the intrinsic value of the setting.

People are still playing the game?  I had no idea.  Maybe someone would want my flat of cards (c.1995-96).

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Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;396325Really? I did not know that.

Yup. The latest expansion set, Heirs to the Blood, came out in January-February. Here is WW's own page for the game.

Quote from: DKChannelBoredom;396325Really? I did not know that. Some of my friends played a lot of Jyhad while the rest of us played M:TG. I might still have a Dieter Kleist-card lying around somewhere - for some reason he became a bit of a cult character.

I had a few Netrunner and Star Wars: CCG decks lying around also, but I don't think I ever played any of those games. Netrunner just didn't catch my attention and when no one got as much a single of the famous SW characters, but just pilots, TIE-fighters and javas, in any of our boosters and decks we lost interest.

Ah SWCCG. Where i live the world champs exist. Unfortunately they are without doubt among the most arrogant people you'd ever meet.

SWCCG had some great ideas but in order to get decent amounts of cards you needed to spend ridiculous amounts of money £20 for a single copy of the Lord Vader card (one of Darth's many in game iterations)!