Hi all, this is my first post on these forums after my first game of Warhammer Invasion.

When I first came across the Living Card Game concept I will confess a great deal of excitement. At last there seemed to be card game more about deck building with finite resources than spending enormous amounts of money on booster packs that were unlikely to contain the cards you needed. However, after a little thought I realised that my initial optimism may be misplaced. Have FFGs just moved the goalpost a little?

What I mean to ask is, do players buys 2 core sets to build up some of the more powerful cards to the deck maximum of three. For example, is there someone out there with three core sets and hence three Bloodthirsters for his Chaos deck? Or for that matter someone who bought two or three copies of some of the expansion packs to max out a personal favourite card? If this is the case then what is the real difference between the Living Card game and collectable card game? I recognise that a great deal of the randomness has been removed in this system which I applaud but does it still come down to how much one is willing to spend?

I think what I'm really getting at is this, is it possible to build competitive decks after buying only one of each of the expansions and one core game?

I hope you'll forgive my rather rambling questions, I'm really trying to wrap my head around this new concept and who better to ask than those already well into the hobby.

Phil

A competetive deck can still be made with 1x of everything, plus starting with the next battlepack we will see 3x of every card in the packs (except for if there is anymore big expansions, which will have dispersed quantities, in order to make even and fair decks.)

Thanks for the response facepalm, after posting I came across the LCG forum and people were engaged with discussing the very points I raised above. FFG have learnt fairly fast that they need to include 3 copies of each card to keep people from buying multiple boxes. It seems my optimism wasn't premature after all.

All I need to do now is find a group locally. I love the idea that the game is about playing and deckbuilding skill above all other concerns. All I need now is a 40K version and I'm sorted!