Babylon 5 CCG

[Corsair]

1) Does anyone play?

2) Does anyone know any retailers that still have boxes in stock?

3) Does anyone have cards lying around in decent condition that they are willing to part with for small sums of dollars?

 

[MerricB]

Used to play, but haven't for a while. Afraid I don't know anywhere that has cards still in stock... it's a long time since Precedence went under, although cards go up on e-bay every so often. (I still have my decks. )

Cjeers!

 

[Corsair]

I've found a couple places, ebay stores, that have Shadows boxes and some starters, but not much. Unfortunately I particularly want to expand my Crusade cards. Too many rares from that set that I really want, like Nova Dreadnoughts and General Ivanova. The big downside to Crusade is that it feels a bit cheesy if you build a deck based around some of the things introduced in Crusade, but don't give the other decks similar access. (I had a friend with a Well of Forever deck that basically could have been played solo, since at the time none of us had Crusade cards, therefore none of us had characters or fleets that could participate in the conflict.)

I still have 11 decks of my own, and two of my friend's in working order, along with a couple large flat card boxes full of cards. For anyone who cares:

Human (Bester): No One Can Stop Us -> Support of the Mighty
Human (4 Card Sheridan): Military
Human (Sinclair): Diplomacy
Narn (G'Kar): Military (Establish Base)
Narn (G'Kar): Diplomacy
Minbari (Transforming Delenn): Vorlon
Minbari (Neroon): Military, Full Mobilization
Centauri (Londo): Shadow/Intrigue
Centauri (Londo): Nanotech Plague
Centauri (Refa): Nightwatch diplomacy
Non-Aligned (Lemm Uh'Ekim, Vlur/Nhar): The Secret Masters

My favorite is easily the non-aligned deck. Who doesn't like taking over everyone else's characters?

 

[MerricB]

Oh, yes.

Crusade was the set where the game really jumped the shark; I was so glad it got cancelled after that. It always had a big problem with the rare uniques being necessary... and most events being crap.

The four decks I have around are...
Delenn Transformed... Grey Council/Diplomacy/Support of the Mighty
G'Kar Enlightened... Diplomacy/Support of the Mighty/some military
Emperor Refa... I have more Intrigue & Psi than you, plus Londo's Wives. (Support of the Mighty)
Captain Sinclair... Lord of Babylon 5.

Cheers!

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I have 99% of the cards from everything except Crusade. I never played, I just collect them for the B5ness of them. I haven't seen them in a long time, I bought most of mine right after it ended and cards were cheap. I have never seen Crusade cards and would buy them if I ever saw them.

 

[Corsair]

Unless people threw their cards away, I imagine large amounts of them still exist... somewhere... in people's basements, attics, etc. Clearly those people aren't using them, so I need to trick them into sending them to me.

Basically I'm in charge of providing decks when I convince my friends to play.

 

[Seonaid]

Thread Necromancy!

How are things going? I just dug up my old cards and categorized them. I don't have as many as I thought I did . . . probably not enough to make two good decks, definitely not enough to make three good ones, but I could get two decent ones and one really good one out of it. Anyone still looking to sell/trade?

 

[Crothian]

Every year at origins and Gen Con as well I imagine other conventions there are booths I like to call "Cards that time forgot" they sell all sorts of old ccgs that never took off for cheap. No idea if B5 stuff can be found there but I occasionally buy a box of Buffy CCGs for around 8$.

 

[Seonaid]

Also, anyone have any card lists for the starter decks? I'm trying to make some decks, but due to my limited card selection, I'll probably only be able to make "actual" decks that existed as starter decks. I'm not coming up with any hits for card lists for decks.

 

[Corsair]

Hey me again! I figured it had been a year, so I should give this a quick bump. I found my friend's old William Morgan Clark Nightwatch deck.


Anyways, I figured I'd check in again and see if anyone had any new leads on card sources. I've been able to find some boxes online now and then, but ideally I'm looking for people putting up entire collections on ebay. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be happening.