Card En Ciel -

TCG historians argue about the "first TCG." Many credit The Base Ball Card Game (1904) or Magic (1993). Card En Ciel sits in a weird limbo—it is arguably the first "anime-style" TCG and one of the first to use randomized booster packs.

It is the Nokia N-Gage of card games. The Laserdisc of collectibles. It failed commercially, but artistically? It is perfect. Card En Ciel

However, if you love the history of gaming, the melancholy of "lost media," or simply want to own a fragment of what TCGs could have been before Magic changed the world, Card En Ciel is a beautiful ghost. TCG historians argue about the "first TCG