The other thing that happens in your 30s and 40s is having kids, which also triggers the nostalgia receptor. When trading cards reach their vintage age (around the 25-year-mark), Turner said it sees a surge of demand for authenticated and graded copies of these items, and the scarcity of the perfect and near-perfect cards helps drive the value of the market
Change 1 Defense Position monster your opponent controls to face-up Attack Position and reduce its ATK to 0
Ultimately that's the real fun of TCG, and we're not all losers, regardless: I'm playing a Dragonite deck at the moment, tinkering away with something that feels decidedly old-school and off-meta
Axels more advanced strategies never really made it in the Advanced Format, but they get a new lease on life in Speed Duels
Synergy with flickers and discard payoffs like Tinybones, Bauble Burglar, Entropic Battlecruiser and Waste Not, then backed up by counterspells and alternate plans like control, reanimator and wheels