Guys come on now you can still get cards from any game even ones that have been out of print for years, if there are people who want the cards and have the money to buy them then why not sell them i understand wanting to bring some value to the game but it is to soon to cut us off. You can find hundreds of black lotuses witch is the "rarest" card in ant ccg and it was printed over 20 years ago but you cant find any of the old ap boxes what is up with that ? Im worried that they will pull the plug on the game and we will be stuck fighting over the small amount of packs that are left and the game will just die off befor it even got started.

Joshua James Harper Bell

I'd be interested to learn the history of cthulhu reprints. Forty old cards will reappear in each future Special Expansion, give or take. Small solace for the AP hunt, I know. I haven't been on the trade site Mahatsama' what do you call it, to look at the cthulhu trade market. Perhaps that's an option. I wish I had more Bobby Orr and Julius Irving cards, and another Yithian deck. I remember when I had Yithians in every language but English. I remember when Dexter Asylum (in English), a beautiful useless promo, was so impossibly late in release and rarest in the finding. I remember when Cthulhu for President was released with a game magazine. Why did I rip it out? Wouldn't it be nice to have the T206 Honus Wagner card.

But it's different when the card is useful.

LCG has in this thread, revealed perhaps it's gravest weakness. Just as with a CCG, you can compete without all the cards, but are possibly at a disadvantage. Collecting LCG, as with CCG, is partly competition - keeping up, and possibly struggling to catch up. Perhaps one day the whole collection will sit on a store shelf, like Tintin books at a Borders book store. Conversely, it's reasonable to believe that, in time, the current cards will be as rare as Mountains and Ancient Horrors.

Maybe someone is more aware of it than me, but the way I see it, Cthulhu as a LCG isn't that old (2 years?3?), and shouldn't be considered dying. Where I stand, only now did the game arrive. Edge entertainment is translating the cards to Spanish. So, I'm guessing it shouldn't be faring too badly... I have no idea how it's going in the US nor the rest of the Europe though.

Furthermore, since the old Asylum Packs can't be found, I'm assuming they Sold Out. Every pack has virtually been sold (possibly there are some going around in smaller shops that aren't online). Shouldn't re-printing allow more sales? There are new markets in Europe (the European tournament sounds so awesome, I'm truly sad I can't get to Germany), there are folk in the US who don't have them... Sales = good, right?

In an LCG, I think the re-release of older packs is a way of consolidating your player base. Those who didn't have the chance to buy extra copies in the old days, may now feel like doing it, since you don't know when they shall disappear again. The (hopefully ever-growing) new players get gleefully happy, and everyone gets enough copies of the cards to feel confident to go to tournaments - which is also a problem, being addressed in another post.

What do you folks think it's the biggest drawback? To print and not sell enough? Do you reckon most shops aren't asking for those cards, so there's no market pressure?

Ok here goes ... What i was saying with out using mtg as in direct ways is this you can buy boster packs and even boxes of unlimited witch was the first mass produced ccg ever that was over 25 years ago and you can still get the cards. Now i know and understand that this is a lcg and they dont want to be the evil mtg however there is a problem with people wanting the cards and not being able to get the, some people will look for them and have fun in doing that however others, most likely the younger group of players, that is the largest group of players will just give up and run to there local game store and what will be there to comfort them but good old mtg. What I'm saying is this it worries me that a ffg would not produce more cards to sell it looks to me that they wanted to test the waters and not jump in. Every day that people cant get the cards they want is a day that wizards of the coasts hooks another player with there crap play and lack of story line.