Collecting Cards

Cards, no I'm not talking about the birthday vareity (But I'm sure some people out there will be collecting Birthday cards) I'm talking about the playing types. The three most popular are Pokemon, Yugioh and in Amercia I belive baseball cards, these are the ones people collect the most (Correct me if I'm wrong). Anyway I was just wondering if anybody else collects them.

I was thinking of starting up a collection of Pokemon and Yugioh cards, not really for playing agaisnt other people because nobody I know plays the games. I dont even know how to play the Pokemon card game lol. I want to collect them as there not only easy to obtain and relativly cheap and they are easy to store (Ringbinders with card holders).

But I really like Pokemon and Yugioh, I used to play the Yugioh card game as a kid and it may be complicated at first, but I learnt how to play it by also watching the original TV show. It does get really good and requires intelligence and tactics, plus there cool.

Also I don't know if anybody else gets like this aswell but when you buy booster packs it is rather exitiing to see what you've got, hoping for a rare but you end up with a bunch of commons :P. Anyway it is fun.

So anybody else collect them?

Yeah,

From my High School and University Days, 

About 50,000 cards for Magic The Gathering Cards, 10k in Star Trek CCG (Gen 1), and then a bunch of other stuff like Xfiles, Middle Earth, Vampire, junk like that. 

*sigh*

listing...

Baseball
Marvel Comics (X-Men, X-Force, Marvel, Spider-man, ect.)
G.I.Joe
Some dinosaur thing (very violent and graphic, I forgot the name though)
Magic the Gathering
Star Trek CCG
WCW
Pokemon CCG
Yu-Gi-Oh!

Cass - Tamogatchi's were the inspiration for pokemon, and proof that Digimon came first. Tamogatci's had a boy version called "Digital monsters" A.K.A. Digimon.

looks like we are all just nice and nerdy ^_^

But how do you guys organise yours, alphabet, class, type, HP, what?Hizang

For Magic and Star Trek its generally the same drill. 

For Commons and Uncommons I have those large white cake boxes that hold about 3000-5000 cards and label each one.  

In the case of Magic: Green, White, Red, Blue, Black, Land, Artifacts. 

Then within those I will have a divider to seperate out creatures from enchantments, enchant creatures etc. 

Then for the Rares I just have binders for each color, with the standard nine sheets. 

Well, I don't have near as many as WitlsWisdom, but I have a ton of baseball cards that I collected as a kid. And, shockingly, I actually still have them all! They survived my '00 - '01 collections sell-off that included my entire video game collection at the time as well as a massive 'Hot Wheels' collection, 100s of which were still in the bubble packages! (Though I admit I made bank off my Hot Wheels!)

And I never really got into any of those card battling games like Pokemon or the likes. Though this thread did remind me of a funny story from my university days. The Harry Potter books came out and were super popular at the time I was attending the University of Kansas (Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk Baby!!). And of course, I was a dork who loved the books and would read them right on campus and in public embarrassing my friend, Rocky. He would, jokingly, berate me everytime I pulled out a copy and start reading.

Anyway, I was walking through a Hastings store one day and saw that they had come out with cards, like Pokemon, for Harry Potter! I thought it would be funny to buy a few packs and take them back to the apartment to hassle Rocky. You know what! We actually got hooked on those stupid cards for about two weeks...playing with those few packs I had bought nearly every night!! I still can't believe we did that, lol! And though I'm not sure whatever happened to those packs of Harry Potter cards I had...Rocky never made fun of me again for reading the books! :P

Well, I don't have near as many as WitlsWisdom, but I have a ton of baseball cards that I collected as a kid. And, shockingly, I actually still have them all! They survived my '00 - '01 collections sell-off that included my entire video game collection at the time as well as a massive 'Hot Wheels' collection, 100s of which were still in the bubble packages! (Though I admit I made bank off my Hot Wheels!)

And I never really got into any of those card battling games like Pokemon or the likes. Though this thread did remind me of a funny story from my university days. The Harry Potter books came out and were super popular at the time I was attending the University of Kansas (Rock, Chalk, Jayhawk Baby!!). And of course, I was a dork who loved the books and would read them right on campus and in public embarrassing my friend, Rocky. He would, jokingly, berate me everytime I pulled out a copy and start reading.

Anyway, I was walking through a Hastings store one day and saw that they had come out with cards, like Pokemon, for Harry Potter! I thought it would be funny to buy a few packs and take them back to the apartment to hassle Rocky. You know what! We actually got hooked on those stupid cards for about two weeks...playing with those few packs I had bought nearly every night!! I still can't believe we did that, lol! And though I'm not sure whatever happened to those packs of Harry Potter cards I had...Rocky never made fun of me again for reading the books! :P

mijahi

Harry Potter WAS the new Pokemon fad over-all anyway.

Well my card 9 by 9 sleeves came today, just waiting for the two ringbinders.

Aside from Pokemon and Yugioh and Magic the Gathering are there any other cards worth collecting? Any good video games one?

Well my card 9 by 9 sleeves came today, just waiting for the two ringbinders.

Aside from Pokemon and Yugioh and Magic the Gathering are there any other cards worth collecting? Any good video games one?

Hizang

nintendo power used to come with cards. there was also a great nintendo card pack that was complete with terrible gum, tip cards, stickers and other strange things... I believe Killer Instint  also made a CCG...

I only really collected pokemon cards, and grew out of them.

Yu-gi-oh was big when I was in the end of elementary up till high school, but it just wasn't for me any more. The cards were always fun to look at, and I almost regret selling them, but like everything else I sell, I'll never use them again, they'll just collect dust and be admired every few years.

Once I get paid I'm going to buy a third folder and also collect Magic the Gathering cards :)

I also ordered a mix of 50 random cards for both Pokemon and Yugioh for like 2.00 quidd each

I've been collecting Magic The Gathering Cards for 6-7 years now and I was collecting World Of Warcraft cards until I stopped playing.dzms

I would argue that Magic is a more expensive habit then smack. 

Got back into Magic the Gathering recently,

I cannot stress how unoriginal and generally useless the new sets are. 

I have reccently converted from a Christian to a Wiccan recently, so I may choose to pick up some Tarot Cards