Overcoming Fears of Collectable Gaming

There’s often a dread surrounding blind booster collectable games. For the uninitiated, that’s games like Pokemon or Magic: The Gathering, where you’re not a hundred percent sure what you’re getting in the pack. It is easy to understand why the fear and hatred. They can get expensive. So can biking, skiing, cooking, gardening, playing non-collectable games and pretty much any hobby you become passionate about.

I think the term Money Pit is most often associated with CxGs (collectable Card/Mini/Dice games). While this may be true, there are several tremendous advantages to CxG games.

While you may spend $500 on a single CxG fairly easily, opponents may argue that you could have had 15 other brand new games for that price.

Well, what if I don’t WANT 15 brand new games? What if I don’t want to buy games that will hit the table one or three times and vanish? What if I don’t want to skim a game and move on to the next? What if I want to get overly engrossed in a single system?

And what if I simply don’t like those other games as much as a CxG?

There’s also those who spend that $300 on a single board game (Oathsworn, anyone?) or drop the same amount on a huge bunch of random boosters for a single game. If the same amount of entertainment is gained, is there really any difference…