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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tyler Do'Urden" data-source="post: 8121799" data-attributes="member: 4601">As someone who played a LOT of collectible card games back in the day... at least two dozen...... I can count the number that I played that were mechanically better than M:TG on one finger, and the number on par on one hand:Better? Netrunner. And it was designed by the same guy.On par? Legend of the Five Rings, Middle Earth CCG, and MAYBE Decipher Star Wars (I had a saying about Decipher's CCGs - "Star Wars is a good game, but doesn't feel anything like Star Wars. Star Trek feels like Star Trek - and hence is a terrible game.)I'd imagine that there have probably been many better CCGs in the last 20 years (so many awful ones were shoveled out in the mid to late 90s) that I've never played, but there's a reason M:TG has had staying power - it is a really, really great design. It was invented by a guy with a math PhD - and it shows. (And Netrunner, of course, has been resurrected as a non-collectible, expandable card game by FFG - because it was too great a design to ignore)</blockquote>