![]() With so little product available, and prices sky high outside of the trickle of product from our local comics and games stores, constructed events are currently a mixture of players with barely more than a starter deck, and small number of very dedicated players with decks that are approximating top-tier meta decks (a meta which exists mostly because of resourceful players finding ways to play digitally). The short supply, however, means that luck and capital, rather than player skill, have so far been the determinant of the local constructed ladder. This policy has had the happy effect of preventing predatory resellers from buying up the scarce product near MSRP in hopes of flipping it on ebay, and keeping the cards in the hands of people who are investing in growing the local scene. The simple rules and the thematic use of Disney characters promised to grab my children in ways that Magic had not, and the idea of gaming with my family was exciting! My first trip to my new LGS to look for the product, however, was a confrontation with the reality we’ve all now encountered: my LGS was getting less than 25% of its requested order, and all product would be relegated to folks showing up for league play. When I first heard about Lorcana, I was eager to learn to play and share this game. You know what, this can wait until Christmas. Oh, they’re also $300, and they don’t have any for sale anyways because they need all their product to run the draft and sealed events they scheduled. ![]() I could check one of the bigger game stores in the city, in Manhattan. Maybe TCGPlayer? Oh, they’re almost $400 there. Maybe I can get one on Amazon? Oh they’re $300 when the MSRP is like $144. “We’re only getting four boxes.” Uh… what? So no, I could not have one because I didn’t ask quick enough. “Can I get some of the new wave of Lorcana product,” I asked, over the phone, like a normal human being (just kidding, it was Discord again). No Lorcana.Īnd then Ravensburger announced there would be more! More cards! They’re coming in October! And then we’re printing even more for the holidays! Hooray! Walgreens/CVS/Duane Reade in (every 10 feet, you can’t spit in New York without hitting a Starbucks and a Drug Store at the same time). I stopped in at Gamestop in Long Island City. What do I look like? Someone who plays Magic? Someone who writes about Magic? Someone who runs a content site dedicated to Magic the Gathering?! Do I want some Magic cards? Absolutely not. Do I want some Pokemon cards? No, I do not. Some people bought all of it on the first day. I thought it was in stock at big box stores now. So a few minutes pass (just kidding, it was like a week later) and we make a Target run, and I check the card area. You know what, I’ll grab some packs next time I’m at Target (which, for those of you who, like me, have kids, and a wife who loves Target, is like three times a week). Other stores have product, but it’s not like I’m looking to play competitively. It’s a wonderful store run by wonderful people who do everything they can to work with the limited space they have to create an environment for their players to get in games of Warhammer and the occasional card game. And there’s a great crossover between the arts and crafts product and the game product, especially for this store’s primary game: Warhammer.īut they also carry Magic, and Pokemon, and Yu-Gi-Oh, because their small but dedicated customer base wants to buy those products and wants to buy them from a store that they want to support financially. The owners live in the building above the store. They have everything you’d ever want or dream of for knitting, sewing, crafting, and all kinds of other projects. Let me talk for a moment about my local store. What do you mean there isn’t enough? “Their distributors have limited product and they’re reserving it for stores that run tournaments, which we don’t have the space for.” ![]() ![]() “No, we’re not getting any, there isn’t enough to go around.” This was about six weeks ago just before the set was supposed to release at game stores (Ravensburger released product to game stores a few weeks ahead of big box stores to give them a boost). So I called up my local game store (just kidding, I’m a millennial, I messaged the store owner on their Discord server) and I asked them if they were getting any Lorcana product.
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