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August 02, 2011, 07:32:14 AM
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Knight-Who-Says-Nee

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When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« on: August 02, 2011, 07:32:14 AM »
I started playing when Realms of the Elf-lords came out in summer 2002.
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August 02, 2011, 08:40:45 AM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2011, 08:40:45 AM »
I started playing when Realms of the Elf-lords came out in summer 2002.

Same here.

August 02, 2011, 08:46:14 AM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2011, 08:46:14 AM »
The Two Towers Fall 2002

got addicted to the book and the movie so it all started that fall :P
i was 12 and i couldn't afford many rares, so my deck was predictable, simple elf + gondor / uruk. legolas greenleaf was my favorite card i never got my hands on :P

stopped playing after a year because club where we gathered moved to another location and slowly the game started dying, people were transferring their money to mtg and star wars.

never won a tournament although the biggest win was the one against nazgul deck (lots of stealths and aragorn defender saved me). one fotr booster was a great prize for that win :P

when bloodlines was released i dropped by to the club to see what is new and what happened to the game and saw that there are completely new rules that i hated and only 3-4 players were playing...

nice trip down the memory lane, thanks Knight :D
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August 02, 2011, 09:02:27 AM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2011, 09:02:27 AM »
Early 2005 I got a starter deck(Aragorn Two Towers)and then got a reflections booster box. I disliked anything after set 10. Got hardly any cards in the next 2 years and then stopped playing in 2007. Then I started playing in 2010 again.

August 02, 2011, 09:08:07 AM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2011, 09:08:07 AM »
Started just a few weeks before RotEL hit the shelves.

August 02, 2011, 01:48:38 PM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2011, 01:48:38 PM »
Somewhere between Rotel and TTT. And friend and I walked into this store, saw some boosters, sat down with the shopowner for 2,5 hours and we were hooked.
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August 02, 2011, 05:34:24 PM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2011, 05:34:24 PM »
I started when Fellowship came out.  I was reading an issue of Scrye that had a preview for the its coming release.  I loved the books already and I bought some starters and I was hooked.  I managed to mind a group to play with and regularly came in 2nd in all the tournaments and maybe won a couple.  I moved right after the Ents of Fangorn release tournament and I could never find another play group after that.  I still collected when I could, but could never find another real opponent.  Thank you GCCG

August 03, 2011, 07:59:15 AM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2011, 07:59:15 AM »
i started when two towers came out. my first starter decks were the aragorn/dunland deck from two towers and the gimli/sauron deck from mines of moria. gimli/sauron has remained my favorite deck til now, though the build is far from what it was.

August 03, 2011, 08:10:53 AM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2011, 08:10:53 AM »
I started at 11 years old with The Fellowship of the Ring base set. It had been a few years since the Pokemon craze. All my friends were starting up MTG. I did join them to an extent; however, I was too big of a Tolkien fan to not play the game after I saw it being played at my local gaming store.
My first deck had a bunch of hobbit tricks in it with Aragorn supporting them. At that time I changed my shadow deck every other week.
10 years later, I still love my favorite game I grew up with.

August 03, 2011, 12:04:16 PM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #9 on: August 03, 2011, 12:04:16 PM »
FOTR, I moved from Star Wars ccg into another Decipher game :) It helped that I am a Tolkien fan.

August 03, 2011, 02:59:49 PM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #10 on: August 03, 2011, 02:59:49 PM »
First thing I ever bought was the Mines Gimli starter (brother got TTT Theoden) and we played many a game with decks based off of those (I was always on the losing side of things). Between funding Star Trek 1st edition, 2nd edition, and LOTR as a kid, I never had a terrible amount invested in any. Once high school hit and Decipher started to die off, I picked up a bunch of LOTR cheap and introduced a few friends to the game.
No one in my area sells any of those games anymore, so I'm currently an MTG player and recently stumbled upon a store that sells Decipher's Star Wars, so I've started playing that. Hopefully, I can find decent card shops when I move to a new city next month that support SW, LOTR, and MTG.

August 03, 2011, 03:07:39 PM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #11 on: August 03, 2011, 03:07:39 PM »
Right away when FOTR came out.

August 03, 2011, 05:06:52 PM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #12 on: August 03, 2011, 05:06:52 PM »
Last year :P

August 03, 2011, 09:03:30 PM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #13 on: August 03, 2011, 09:03:30 PM »
The Two Towers Fall 2002
Friends were into it before that, but I got in at Fellowship.

10 years ago. Crazy.

Played through the release of Shadows, then picked it up again about 2 years ago
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August 03, 2011, 10:18:09 PM
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Re: When did you start playing LotR TCG?
« Reply #14 on: August 03, 2011, 10:18:09 PM »
I got caught up in the release of Fellowship. I still remember seeing my first site card (Prancing Pony, actually) and being all upset, claiming that they "were ripping off SWCCG," either briefly unaware that it was the same designers or I was just a stupid teenager.

...Sure was a long time ago. Kind of interesting taking stock of the changes that have occurred in those years. Some of what I am I could have predicted... most of me is nothing anybody could have imagined.

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