Former Player planning return, few questions...

[kudesignguy]

Hi all, i originally posted this in the tourny section, but thought i might get a bit more response here.

I'm a former player (more collector really, my real passion games were star trek, star wars, lotr, etc.) and i'm really looking forward to busting out my old cards and playing again.

I'm planning on attending the tournament on the 23rd at A to Z in Blue Springs, i'll be driving up from lawrence, and had a few questions.

i'm looking to supplement what i have from 1st edition, and am torn on what to buy from the following readily available and inexpensive boxes:

arms and tactics boosters
four horsemen boosters
gathering starters

how many rares are in the starters? (it's been years since i bought one!) and also, for the gathering, did they replace all the rares from movie edition with the new gathering ones, or is it still possbile to get all the ME rares in gathering starters? i can't seem to find definite info on this anywhere online.

also, what was the distribution like on the sets i mentioned above, if anyone remembers? i've got a reasonable amount of cards from all the sets save arms and tactics, so i guess i just want to get what will best serve me as far as usable cards.

I don't have many premiums, and from some feeback that i've gotten so far the premiums are spead pretty evenly between the three sets i've expressed interest in. I really want to play The Kurgan, but since Movie Edition seems to be a missing in action set nowadays, i'm beggining to think it's a lost cause. (i have his persona, and some specifics, as well as masters head shot, skull helmet, and a few other rares, but that's it.)

wow, that is far too many questions for one post

JOHN NICHOLS

[dbaker]

The Gathering starters had more movie edition cards in them than the gathering cards. Boosters had more The Gathering cards than Movie. You should be able to get more Kurgan cards from those starter boxes. The premiums ranged from 1-4 in the Gathering starter boxes.

[nkeates]

The collation in arms and tactics and 4 horsemen was surprisingly good. Arms and tactics is a big set so the chance of getting anywhere near a full set from a box of boosters is nil. 4H was smaller so if you buy a box you may well get a playable set for the 4H immies.

The collation in the gathering boosters was awful however in the starters it was better. From what I remember in each starter there were 2 rare cards one from the gathering and one from ME. (some ME cards were reworded but essentially you got one ME rare). The uncommons and commons were more slanted towards ME. I think the general word of advice from TCG was if you wanted mainly ME cardss buy starters if you wanted mainly gathering cards buy boosters.

If you want Kurgan cards then gathering starters is definitely the route to go.

Hope that helps

N.

[kudesignguy]

thanks to all for the advice. Went ahead and ordered a Gathering Starter Box, it should be in my hands by friday, maybe i'll post my pulls just for the hell of it.

[lang]

All 3 sets are pretty important for 1E play and would reccomend getting a few boxes of each . Yes Movie Edition isnt around any more but The Gathering has all the movie cards in it and the Arms and Tactics and 4 Horsemen contain the 6 crystals alos very important .
-Lang