Forum:Do you stake at the beginning of a duel?

My question is: Do you guys have the guts to stake one of your most precious cards at the beginning of a duel? Do you trust the deck you've created so much that you would stake your most expensive card? Or do you guys duel for fun?--Dark-Magician 09:00, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Fun? Are you crazy. Card games are serious buisness. -- Deltaneos (talk) 12:30, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

 :Are you kidding me? Heck no. Some of my more 'valuable' cards are worth more then a dumb gamble. I have a few cards that are worth more then sixty bucks on their own, no way in heck am I going to do something as dumb as 'wager' my cards or my money.

There is no such thing as 'having the guts', please that whole macho thing is so over done, this is suppose to be about having fun, not about who has the bigger ego. Besides, it is logically unsound, why should I stake my most precious trading 'materials' on something as chancey like that?

Sandy Sagebrush 16:30, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

• I don't wager on duels, no. Trading is trading, and dueling is dueling. Even if I won someone's card, I'd feel bad accepting it because I do not feel they would have gotten something equal in return. That's why I'd rather trade for cards: we both get something out of it. Dueling for me is just for fun. It is a game, after all. You might as well ask me why I don't play Monopoly with real money.

~Specter (cow_pi) 19:06, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Heck no. I've learned my lesson with gambling a long time ago, when I bet a gameboy color game (and lost the bet) back when they were still like 20 bucks each. It's just stupid to risk losing anything that's worth something if you don't have to. OsmiuMap - You have no new messages. 19:15, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

• Its never about having so called "Guts" Its really just stupid to gamble the cards you either got lucky pulling from booster packs or bought for money. I never gamble on a card game that I treat as a hobby, it leaves too much up to chance. Besides as a hobby, the game is fun =/. Not frustrating when you lose so and so card you bought for so and so money.--Takuma. 19:19, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

You're all right on your own way, I'm sorry for having posted 'Do you have the guts', I didn't mean it like that. And it was just a question, just to look if you guys duel for fun or not. But, if the game is all about having fun, I have 1 question about it: at tournaments (national tournaments) do you win money if you've beaten everybody? Do you get some price? 'cause if that's so, I don't think much ppl will participate in a tournament just for fun... Am I right? :O --Dark-Magician 08:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

That is just it though, the tournaments usually are serious business, at least the regionals and sneak previews and what not because their both official and usually have prizes offered. I know at my last sneak preview the first 4 runner ups got nothing but a butt load of boosters but the first place person won boosters, some 'swag' and a friggan laptop.

You could kind of compare them to cyber athletes, people who compete in video game tournaments for a load of cash and or other prizes. And as for the tournaments themselves? As of now no one is really sure when or if they are coming back. There are usually trade off's as well, like at the local tourney's I have to pay 5 bucks to enter, which piles up rather quickly over time. So for the most part I do not enter but duel freely, helping myself and others in a less stress free enviroment where you don't have to worry about losing too much.

Sandy Sagebrush 17:25, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

I made this account explicitly for commenting on this subject, though hopefully I'll see more I can contribute to this Wiki/Community. I don't think I have the heart for 'wagering' cards--especially not my rarer cards. In addition to the fact I'm a fairly new duelist, and not terribly skilled, many of my favorite cards were gifts from people who mean a lot to me--recently I decided to try and find card-covers, since my first deck is starting to look a teensy bit worn (Despite it, or perhaps because of it, being the deck I like most so far.)

On the other hand, LOW-value stakes--ones like unpopular commons, ones that neither player really 'needs', could be used to add spice--or even actually offer more trading value to this 'trading' card game. I won't pretend to have a binder of rare and beautiful parallel rares, like some people I've seen, but even I have a fourth copy of, say, Short Circuit that I can't make use of. If someone offered me an older card, like a Skull Servant or a Celtic Guardian (The classic one, not the retrained one), I'd really like that sort of stake, since such cards are hard to come by without ordering them explicitly, probably from Ebay or the like. (There are no real 'card shops' near me.)

What if there were a sort of non-official event oriented around trading cards as well as holding duels, and duelists were encouraged to see each other's side deck--and freely offer trades between them, between matches? It might add spice to a lower-focus event, or encourage duelists to talk about what sorts of cards they find appealing aesthetically--Trade Binders would be kept in a locked safe or the like, to prevent theft or other such problems, during duels.

I'm not a duelist who has access to years-ago commons, but I find a lot of them nice--not the ace cards, either. Everyone knows Blue-Eyes White Dragon, but what about, say, The 13th Grave or Monster Egg? Someone just out and out GAVE me a Sparks, but there might be someone out there who has a collection devoted to, say, burn-damage spell cards. I think an ante/stake mechanic could have interesting results, if it was an out-and-out rule things of Rare rarity and higher weren't allowed to be the card you selected. How hard would YOU duel for, say, a Mammoth Graveyard?

DJSprings 23:01, 20 March 2009 (UTC)