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Pokemon cards, especially rare ones, are as big as ever, possibly bigger since a certain brand of influencers have taken an interest. As ever, you can buy them in pretty much any applicable shop in the UK. Match Attax and other football cards are still going very healthily

I don't know or know of a child who is interested in Magic: The Gathering. Their target market is more like late teens and young adults.

If you want a more accurate usurper to trading cards, you're best looking at things like Fifa Ultimate Team[1] - which, honestly, have missed a trick in not branching into physical cards - and Skylanders. Possibly also collecting skins on Fortnite and that kind of thing

[1] a sort of virtual card-collecting football game made by EA where you open packs of cards containing football players and other items

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I stupidly got into FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) in one of the games from a cellphone couple years ago. I mistakenly assumed that your team from one annual release of FIFA would carry over to the next release, but I was shocked to find out that this isn't the case. EA basically deletes players FUT progress every year! Thankfully I didn't spend any money on it, so it was just time spent which was at least kind of fun, but I know some friends who have sunk a couple hundred bucks into it and they continue to buy and play the next game. I'm baffled that people put up with this. I will never touch FIFA again, until this changes. At least Fanatics can't delete your trading cards and you can resell them. Until there are similar guarantees for digital items, I don't think they will have nearly the same appeal. Valve has been the only company I know of that has done this decently with TF2, CSGO and Dota 2 skins.

I think the issue you have is real, but perhaps not quite in the way you think? if you have the full game on a console/PC, you can continue to play with your team from the previous year until maybe 3 or 4 years on when they turn off the servers, and all your work is lost forever. that's the thing I have an issue with. I'd love to go back and play with my teams from FIFA 13 or 15, but they're lost to the wind, or at least somewhere within EA's archives, at best

Your issue is an issue with the way they implement the app, which has always been a bit of an afterthought to the main game in general. Still a valid issue and must have been extremely annoying, but I suspect your case might be quite unusual in that you came into it via the app, rather than the main title. however admittedly I'm not as au fait with the FIFA world as I used to be, so that may be more common than I assume

I play M:TG with my 10 year old son and have done for a couple of years. I know of another family with boys roughly the same age who also play.

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