>>57571176No, you are 100% correct. It’s been over 25 years, and nothing has successfully taken long term roots alongside Pokemon and Yugioh. There have been many attempts, some with short term successes, but they all eventually fade away while those two persist.
>PokemonHad the anime, the games, a barrage of other merchandise, just a real deal cultural phenomenon that you had to have lived through to believe. Possibly the only one we will see in our lifetime
>YugiohHad an anime that made its cards look REALLY cool and in the eyes of a child, a more mature replacement for Pokemon cards to a demographic that was getting a little older. Just a perfect storm that followed a different perfect storm
MTG was just early 90s nerd culture materialized into a card game. There was no real TCG competition at the time, so it kinda just settled into an open parking spot. It helped that it was made by nerds, for nerds. Unlike now where it’s been hijacked by trannies and browns to push leftists agendas.
These are simply not recreatable scenarios. The One Piece TCG got a mini version, as it released very close to the hype wave created by the Netflix series. However, One Piece always has struggled in the west so this only lasted as long as normie attention spans did.
No one wants to hear this in a thread about Pokemon cards, but the franchise seems to be absorbing all the scalp sins. Pokemon card collectors suffer so that players of every other TCG can enjoy their games in relative peace.
