“Wait! Your attack activated my counter! Hexebalumon, Burst Digivolve to…… Imperialdramon Paladin Mode Ace!” Sara slammed her card down on the hardwood floor. “I remove all the cards from under Machinedramon. He is now weaker than my Digimon and gets deleted. And then on my turn I attack and win!”
Sara and I were sitting in the room next to the kitchen. We were practicing the trading card game. She was using her new Ice-Snow Deck, and I was playing with my Purple Core Machinedramon deck. I was being absolutely destroyed. We were playing all afternoon, and I hadn’t won yet. I told Sara I was done for now and packed up my cards. I headed over to the living room and sat next to David.
“Dude, we need better decks. My decks are hot garbage, and Sara’s aren’t much better. The only reason she’s winning is because mine are hot garbage and her’s are regular garbage.” I reached for the cellphone.
“Yea, I was thinking about that. I like the theme of our decks, but I was looking at the top-ranking decks online. The power difference between our decks and something like a Leviathan Deck are pretty drastic.” David pounder.
“Way ahead of you dude, I’m shopping for cards I need to make the deck that got third place in the last championships. I click buy…”
David snatched the cellphone. “Dude, don’t go buying that. Meta decks are expensive.”
Okay, but like…. We need to get better at Digimon. We had to cheat last time we got cornered by a rouge Digimon. Look, I went with the cheapest meta deck available. Think of it as an investment” I coaxed.
“Okay….fine” David groaned as he gave me back the phone. “Keep it reasonable. I am worried about what we are going to do the next time we get attacked by a stray Digimon”
“This card’s only 10 bucks. and this one is only 19 cents! ” I reassured him. “Add all to cart, click buy, and done.”
David snatched the phone and looked down. “Dude! Don’t buy without looking…..Grizzly, I know you did not just spend 200 bucks?!”
I gasped. “WHAT! That added up quick! Do you have any idea how much pizza that is! Cancel! Cancel the order! NOW!”
“WHY THE HECK DIDN’T YOU SEE HOW MUCH IT WAS, GRIZZLY!”
“The Leviathan cards were like 30 bucks each for just one card. The most expensive card in that deck was 10 bucks! How was i supposed to know it would still be all crazy!” I yelled. “CANCEL IT!”
“I’m trying! You know me and Dan are trying to save up to move into a bigger apartment. We cannot be spending hundreds of dollars on cards right now!” David whimpered.
“THERE IS NO TIME TO BLAME ME!”
Sara turned the corner. “What is going on in here?”
“Grizzly and I were going to get a better deck, but it added up to over 200 bucks. I’m messaging the sellers to request the orders be canceled before they send them” David said as he typed away on his phone screen.
Sara looked down on her deck, still in her hand from cleaning up the other room. “I like my deck. Dan, David, and I built it together. It’s got my cards, some cute bear cards, that cool Veemon evolution… It’s not the strongest, but it’s powerful enough to put up a fight and is in our price range. Besides, we don’t need to have championship level decks. All we do is go to locals and occasionally fight some stray Digimon. I know we have been losing a lot, but it’s really just a lack of skill. Besides, it’s not like we need to be the best in the world. What we need to do is keep practicing with the decks we already have. They are strong enough to win in the right hands.”
“Easy for you to say, My Gazimon decks suck. Nobody likes Millenium or Machinedramon.” I blurted out.
Sara smiled. “Is that what this is? You’re embarrassed because your deck isn’t ‘Meta’? Thats silly.”
“I am not embarrassed.” I growled.
David took a deep breath. “I could understand if he was. I’ve been embarrassed going to the locals with our decks. A lot of the other players there have really powerful decks.”
“Did they make fun of you?” Sara asked.
“No…. They were actually pretty nice. But it’s easy to be nice when you’re winning.”
“Well, speaking of easy…Seems to me like buying a new deck instead of learning to play with the ones you have is the easy way out…” Sara teased.
The Kid and I knew she was right. Luckily, David got ahold of the people and got most of our money back. After that, he changed his password on the card game store. I mean, I messed up, but not that badly…
Fine, I admit it. I was way too hasty. I’ll apologize to the Kid when he gets home from work.
Later.
Grizzly.
DedicatedGazi 