Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Complete Comic Book Collecting Guide: My In Depth Review
Since the first printing of comic strips and crude comic books in Europe during the mid-1800's, comic books have gained the interest of both children and adults alike. Even to this day, comic books are one of the most highly read forms of printed materials.
Comic book collecting truly emerged during their heyday during the 1960's through the early 1980's in the United States. Comic book heroes like Batman and The Green Lantern were extremely famous among comic book enthusiasts and collectors. Events like Comic-Con, local comic book stores, and comic book collecting clubs truly began to make the comic book community and collecting very popular. Certain versions and printings of comics began to take on certain value among traders and collectors. Certain comic books weren't worth the change you carried in your pocket, while others could set you back the price of a brand new Ford Mustang. After years past, and comic book heroes changed, the market constantly changed and certain books that were once thrown in the garbage were now more valuable than your own house. Nowadays the market for older comics is much higher than the market for comics printed today. Knowing which comics have value, will continue to have value, and which comics to avoid can be the difference between taking out a Second Mortgage and having the finances to buy a brand new home in Hollywood, California.
Now of course this is a Yugioh blog, but I happen to be an avid comic book reader in addition to playing YuGiOh, Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, various Xbox 360 and Ps3 games, and numerous other hobbies. You cant just focus on being involved in one single hobby such as Yugioh cards. Personally I've accumulated a large sum of comic books and comic book related paraphernalia over the years, and I finally thought to myself: I wonder if these things are worth anything? I'm probably not the only one too. Maybe you were interested in buying some comic books as a long-term investment, or you are an experienced comic book collector yourself. This Ebook Guide can benefit even the most experienced collector and seller! The information contained is absolutely priceless; It paid for itself in the first sale I made and since then I've made more money selling comic books than I ever would have dreamed of selling Yugioh Cards! I highly recommend this book to anyone, especially my blog readers! You do not want to miss out on this chance to buy this excellent Comic Book Collecting Guide, as I have no idea how much longer it is going to be offered at this low price. Absolutely one of my favorite Ebooks I've bought in the last year, and I hope you would be smart enough to make the choice to get it as well! Enjoy.
My Absolute, Bar-None Favorite Comic Book Collecting Guide
How to Build Winning Yugioh Tournament Decks
By Caleb McLellan
Let's start from scratch. We all know that a basic deck must contain at least 40 yugioh cards. Although the rules allow you to have more than 40, tournament worthy decks are 99% made up of exactly 40 yugioh cards. In some cases, experts do play with 41 or 42 instead of 40. However, they usually have a very good reason for doing so. That is an advanced topic and will probably be best suited for another article altogether. Any new deck starts with 40.
The best reason for building a core of just 40 yugioh cards is simple mathematics. Yugioh decks are allowed no more than 3 copies of any one yugioh card. It doesn't matter if it's common or an ultra rare. No more than 3 -- that's all you get. So basic arithmetic shows that the chances of drawing a particular card from your deck is 7.5% (3 divided by 40). Compared to a 50 card deck, your chances decrease to 6.0% (3 divided by 50). The 1.5% difference may seem small now, but that only applies at the start of the game, when you're drawing your opening hand.
When you find yourself needing that one spell or trap card to win the game, the difference actually increases. Compare the edge mid-game with 15 cards already drawn from your deck. Assuming that you haven't drawn any of the 3 copies of your key cards, the difference is apparent. 12% (3 divided by 25 cards left) versus 8.6% (3 divided by 35 cards left). Imagine if you and your opponent are racing for a specific yugioh card in your respective decks. I've seen games like these. Whoever draws their key card first usually locks up the game. Sure there's luck, but you also have to sway luck towards you by building in the best chances into your yugioh deck.
The next key item is to find out any additional banned or restricted yugioh card list that the tournament has listed. Some tournaments restrict some rare yugioh cards to 1 copy per deck. The reason for any banning or restriction is because the card is too strong and/or easily exploited. What we're going to focus on is the restricted list. If a restricted yugioh card fits the theme or goal that your deck is trying to accomplish, then you definitely want it in your deck. If you know of yugioh cards that will eventually be banned or restricted, it's best to work those cards into your current tournament deck. If you can and if it makes sense, include 3 copies.
The final aspect of core deck-buidling is the metagame. The metagame is simply the breakdown of the types of decks your competition uses. A good estimate of the current metagame will allow you to build your deck to properly counter your competition. Let say that you estimate the current metagame in your area to be 40% beatdown decks, 40% turbo-combo decks, 5% dragon decks, 5% gadget decks, 5% spellcaster decks, 5% other. Most metagames lean towards 1-2 winning deck types from previous tournaments or a winning list published in a recent magazine. In this example, you will most likely run into a beatdown deck or turbo-combo deck. With this in mind, you can begin building your deck with specific yugioh cards that will help you against these types of decks. You will most likely end up building an antithesis of these decks or simply a better version of the decks because you will fare better in a mirror-match.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Yugioh Card Market Rising?
As an avid Ebay Buyer and Seller, I do take notice to the changes in market values for certain items. These items certainly include Yugioh cards. Based on my web surfing and selling different cards and card sets I have found that, for the last few weeks, alot more Yugioh Cards have been bought and sold. I have no idea what is behind this increase in sales, maybe just alot more people are starting to duel and collect, but I do know that this increase in activity is very good for the Yugioh community. Your collections have instantly increased in value, your cards will sell for alot more, and your cards now individually are worth more as well. Hopefullt the market will once again rise to what it used to be, but I wouldn't count on it. Enjoy it while it lasts, and maybe it will continue to increase. This has got me thinking; maybe I should start offering Yugioh Cards for sale on the blog? I have a few large collections full of rare and valuable cards I sure would like to liquidate!
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