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One of the things that made me stop playing MtG is that WotC bought TSR and they killed Spellfire. I do understand that it wasn't raking £€¥$ like MtG was, but still I loved Spellfire, I still keep all my cards in dossiers in plastic sleeves and taking good care of them.

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WoTC effectively killing Netrunner made me sad too. It was a really fun game.

Yeah. The new NESI cards look great, but my local community dried up shortly after official FFG support ended.

alasdair_ might be referring to WotC's lack of support for the 1996 Netrunner. One major expansion that really did fix a lot of things, then the poorly-distributed Classic (which had mechanics that showed great promise; facedown runner cards could have been a huge boon for bluffing complexity on that end of the board), and that was pretty much it.

That was 1997, you hold a pretty serious grudge...?

This is both really funny and really true.

I remember being incredibly upset that all my friends were abandoning Spellfire to play MtG – I ultimately realized the latter was the better (more complex, strategic) of the two games, but playing 3v3 Spellfire games was absolute chaotic fun and I don't think MtG was ever able to be as much casual fun as that, despite also being very good

I don't lose sleep over it, but every time I look at my (5) dossiers I remember how much I enjoyed playing with friends. It would be great to build a Spellfire community..

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