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OLPL Fan Fest Vol. 7 – Guardians of the Library

The Oak Lawn Fan Fest is actually right around the corner. 2 weeks away. And, you know that we will be there once again. We had a great time last year, giving away Pokemon balloons to all the kids.

This year we don’t know what we’ll be doing, but we know that we’ll be there trying to teach everyone how to play FFTCG. As well, as having something special for the kids.

The Fan Fest starts at 9AM, and goes on until 4PM.

 

 

Oak Lawn Public Library
9427 South Raymond Avenue
Oak Lawn, IL 60453
708-422-4990

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Irregular Scheduled Programming

Just finished updating the site, with From Nightmares singles.

Hey, it only took us a month. Not too bad. Could have been worse. I just noticed I never posted the Rebellion’s Call singles. So, if you need some of those just send me a message. You can contact us through the contact page.

We’re still going through all the singles and adding more to the count for them. I believe we left off on Opus VI. Ice was the last element we sorted. I remember the stack of cards on my desk as I was opening From Nightmares Booster Boxes.

I ended up putting them all in a card tray and forgetting about them until the time would come to bring them back and slowly getting through the pile once again. And then one more time, because we bought a couple of collections, so we have to go through them.

Other than that, stay tuned for our irregular posts.

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Wave 1 – Auron – 1-001H

Starting off right at the beginning. This one is not confirmed, but my personal opinion. I noticed this by looking at a graded Wave 1 Foil. The foil pattern is different between the 2 Waves. Here are the two guides from the introduction post that will help you guide your way.

“Distinguishing Final Fantasy TCG Opus 1 Wave 1 from Future Waves”

“Differences in Opus I Wave 1 Printing vs Later Waves”

If you look closely, you can tell that the colors on the cards are a little different. The Wave 1 card looks a little dull compared to Wave 2 which is more vibrant.

Wave 1 is on the left, and Wave 2 is on the right.

First off, I noticed that the whole card is moved up, not just the Crystal. If you take a look at Auron’s boot there is more showing than what is on the Wave 2 card.

Something else I also noticed, but is not consistent on Wave 2 cards. Could be the difference between Wave 2 and Wave 3. There is a little, let’s call it a, blob on the left side of the card. Could just be a printing error, but it is something I noticed when I was studying the cards.

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Site Update 20230122

Happy New Year, and Lunar New Year and all the other holidays.

We’ve been back at work behind the seems as usual. Slowly adding more singles to the website. We finished Resurgence of Power, and slowly started Opus I.

We will be doing Opus I slowly, as we have Wave 1 cards mixed all together with Wave 2 and we need to slowly sort them all out. Plus we figured to slowly start a Wave 1 guide. We’ve been searching near and far and in between, and we believe we’re slowly starting to crack the code on all the cards that don’t have a distinct characteristic to show you that it is definitely Wave 1 or Wave 2.

As always these are our opinions and they may be wrong, unless we have something verified we won’t know 100% if we a right or wrong. The cards that we are 100% sure we will have “Verified” in the title. All the other cards will be just our opinion until they are verified.

Be on the lookout for more Events and Vendor Shows coming up.

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Nostalgix TCG

Finally, opened up a box of Nostalgix. It’s been something I’ve been meaning to do for quite a while now, and finally took it off the back-burner and dove right in. We’re going to be putting up Nostalgix Singles in the upcoming days. So be on the look out for that.

First thing I noticed was that the packs we’re pretty hard to open. Which doesn’t mean anything, but it was the first thing that stood out for me.

The cards themselves aren’t too flimsy like Pokemon cards, nor are they as durable as Final Fantasy cards, they are somewhere in between. Towards the flimsier side, my best guess would be like playing cards. But, if you put them in a triple sleeve, you probably couldn’t tell the difference between them.

A box has 36 packs at 10 cards each. A box will give you 360 cards where at least 1 will be a Void Rare. We got lucky and found 3 Void Rares. From what I’ve heard it is quite rare to get 3 of them. (Maybe my luck is finally turning, and I should open up a couple of Opus XI packs.)

The art is anything between 80’s cartoons and 3D graphics in early PS2 games. IF that makes any sense. I do see what inspired the art work, there are cards that sort of resemble Mimikyu, and Bullet Bill. While not exactly copying them they do tip their hat nostalgia.

The game play in itself seems pretty easy to pick up, if you’ve played other card games, but you’ll need a whole bunch of counters to keep track of everything. Now I haven’t played a game yet, but I’ve seen a couple of games in action.
As soon as I give this game a try, I will write an update on this. Right now, I will say that I do like the cards.

Now, to find someone to play a game with.

And let us not forget, here is a link to our Unboxing.