Wednesday, 5 November 2025

XM Studios








这个礼拜会过得特别舒服

可以很悠哉的想做什么就做什么,想去哪就去哪













尽量让自己放松心灵状态就对了












Been playing a lot on OPTCG Simulator

Its the best learning tool there is to grasp about the game

Still enjoy playing with only the Red Shanks deck

Despite red being underpowered compared to other colors in terms of card draws


Still it helps to hone my skill and helped me to improve significantly

Spent quite some time to modify and finally settled down with a satisfied decklist

Pushing from an abysmal win rate to a minimum of 50% against any matchup


To summarise, this One Piece TCG is actually not an easy game at all

There is almost no room for mistake, every steps must be made perfectly to secure a win

Perhaps unless a deck is too overpowered

But from what I've seen playing against so many different matchups

The room for any error is close to 0


Comparing to Magic The Gathering where we could drag out for turns

For One Piece, every turn feels like a ticking timebomb

Every move made must be perfect like playing a Chess game?


But oh well, I'm really enjoying the game right now

And with me finally having the exact deck physically, looking forward for upcoming events :)


Representing the only Red-Haired deck player.... proudly flying the flag high

Hahaha

Well hes my favourite character in OP












Went to collect some cards today

While waiting, found some cool places of interests

















































First time visiting this XM Studio, and it really amazes me

Can't believe such a huge collections of high quality arts & figurines exists within that space

It feels like a museum




Man, really happy I get to chanced upon this place today

Totally made my day worthwhile




Monday, 13 October 2025

ONE PIECE TCG





After spending a few hundreds on several card games recently

I think the ONE PIECE TCG would be the way to go moving forward

It definitely has memory value for me, especially since I enjoy watching the anime since young

Lots of nostalgia when I hear their OPs & EDs....


Anyway, after comparing with several other TCGs, I will try to do a quick summary


For their art wise, there are lots of dedicated original artwork illustrated for the card games only

This makes it worth collecting, combined with their highly sought after Manga Ver. cards

and different Special Ver. cards such as Wanted Poster SPs & etcs.





These special cards are really beautiful and holds high value

I would say their prices will definitely spike in the future, especially their booster boxes / cases

Also with the popularity of the anime among global audiences, the ongoing stories

I think the future sets are looking to get more crazy


Imagine when the Rocks Pirate, God Valley, Elbaf, all these manga arcs and characters
 are being introduced into the cardset as SP rares in the future....

Definitely a lot of hype for fans and collectors to look forward to








Comparing to other TCGs

Final Fantasy I would not recommend

Though I admire their cardback qualities

Their card arts are mostly just recycled from their game's archive

Like captured footages from their in-game CG, turned into cards

These are the worst









For Digimon TCG, its great actually

The cards are not too crazy in price too, if you were to collect

With tons of original illustrated card artworks

So far I got the best luck in pulling from them

But I think I've gotten my fill, and since I'm not playing

I don't think I will want to keep spending on them








For other card games

Vanguards have pretty cool artworks

Lots of awesome creatures and characters

But not playing, so yeap, not gonna continue buying

I've already gotten enough cool cards that I'm satisfied with



Then of course, about Magic the Gathering, MTG

I've definitely played enough for my fill last time (laugh)

I know the Secret Lairs are going for tons of cash grabbing reaching into different genres

But you know, totally not interested

The FF Collabs seems cool, but the arts are okay for me

The prices are kinda too overpriced, like Pokemon (woops)

But this game is very playable, and with the player base

Only whether you like playing or not


For me I just don't spend on physical magic cards after transitioning to MTG Arena

And I don't even play it nowadays

Only hopped back a little to craft some FF MTG cards and played a little Brawl

And its enough for me

Had my fill I guess











Finally gotten these Sengoku Taisen cards today

Though I can't play with them

Oh well, just admire their awesome artworks








Just bought a box yesterday

Its a terrible box, but I've tried to make it to good use


I've actually labelled all the packs with numbers from 1 to 24

And did a tabulation of which packs actually yields the Secret, SR, R, Leader & Foil Don






I've gotten the statistics and used them to pick out the packs from new boxes at mart

Unfortunately, didn't hit.

But, I think I should do a  +1 - 1 with my numbers

Count from the Front, and from the Back

But due to financial contraints, I can't buy anymore

Oh well, next time


Another advice for beginner collectors or buyers

Don't really buy boxes or packs from Hako Outpost

Where people rent spaces of glass cabinet to sell stuffs

Because most of these boxes and packs are already filtered out

The sellers are definitely doing to earn positive value

Especially for ONE PIECE, where the SP cards are highly valued

Ratio is like 1:6 or more cases, which is roughly 1 in 72 Boxes?

Once found, people would definitely be confident to sell off all the remaining boxes


Most likely they already opened up the sought-after secrets or special cards in their case

And sold the rest of their boxes as such

Same for the box packs, pulled the wanted, and sold the rest of the packs as loose packs

Its even more expensive than their MSRP price

I've spent $85 for a crap box, where the pre-order value of a box is around $50


So the best would be to go down to a dedicated TCG Cardshop

Which I just found a new one, so near my place

Selling boxes at awesome MSRP prices


Looking forward to visiting and perhaps asking around learning to play ONE PIECE

So yeah





 
八戒长肉了!

当时应该去太早了,造型还没弄好。。。。哈哈哈


Tuesday, 7 October 2025

中秋

 


中秋节快乐

今晚的月亮很圆,很漂亮

没什么吃月饼了,因为大多都很甜,然后也是加工食品

不太健康,也不太想吃了











最近发现自己也有点沉迷在买游戏卡之中

虽然买的都是不太贵的,但积少成多,再继续就会是一笔数目了


发现这个习惯好像也不太好

觉得自己还是要注意花费







最近好像每个休日都会想买几包来开

不然感觉少了什么。。。有种说不出来的好与不好的感觉。。。







终于碰到一间不用 APP 就能购买的 luckin coffee

味道还真不错,只是价格也便宜不到哪里

试过了 可以了










有几首歌其实我很早前就弄到了一半

但累了,时间不早了

就没弄完,想存好下次弄


但直到现在我还是提不起精神去弄

所以我还是比较适合一次性的弄完

不然感觉和劲,容易跑掉