After a long hiatus, I’m back with some recent loot from Hobby Search and loot that I got when I visited Hong Kong (this was in Feb. So, yeah…I’m just lazy to do these articles).
Part 1 will be covering the loot I got at Hobby Search. This is the first time I had ordered from Hobby Search. Service is like any other online site, not much hassle there. Packaging was done nicely, no damage to the products whatsoever.
What I got is what you see in the above picture. A pack of Steins;Gate card sleeves, a pack of oversize clear card sleeves, a poster set of the Persona 4 playable cast, and a box of Weiss Schwarz cards from the Da Capo/ Da Capo II Plus Communication expansion set.
-The Steins;Gate Sleeves
Steins;Gate, I believe, is made by the same companies that made Chaos;Head(Nitroplus and 5pb). The story revolves around a group of friends who figured out a way to send text messages to the past, and are being hunted down by some other group named SERN.
-A promo card that came with the sleeves
This is a promo card of Kurisu Makise. In the game she is voiced by Asami Imai (今井 麻美). She has also done the voices of Chihaya Kisaragi and Tsubaki Yayoi in The Idol M@ster and Blazblue respectively. The vocal version of Tsubaki’s theme is also sung by Asami-san, and is quite good I might add.
-The clear sleeves
Not much to say about these other than they can fit already sleeved cards. More on that in a bit.
-The box of Weiss Schwarz cards
This is my first full box of Weiss Schwarz cards. I got some cards from the other series when I was back in Hong Kong, but this box is from the Da Capo Series.Only watched the first Da Capo and haven’t really touched the second series. Story-wise, the series didn’t really do a great job of making me remember the story, other than the brother ends up doing his non-blood related sister…(apparently two of the characters in the second series are they’re grandchildren or something along those lines.) The art was nice on the cards from what I saw online thats what got me choosing this set.
-The set of Persona 4 posters
I haven’t opened them yet. Will post pics of the complete set once I put them up on the wall (hopefully for part 2).
-My MTG dragon deck in the sleeves
The Steins;Gate and oversize sleeves housing my Magic: The Gathering dragon deck. Well it’s more like just ‘a bunch of multi-coloured legendary cards’ deck. I’ll post the deck list if anyone is interested. It’s not type 2 and it was only made for fun but turned out pretty nicely. Quickest I got Nicol Bolas, the Planeswalker was 4th turn, I think that’s the quickest it can come out.
A comparison of the fully double sleeved deck by a regular MTG tournament pack box and a clear box. As you can see its quite fat even though its just a standard deck of 60 cards!
-The unopened WS box, my card boxes, sleeves and WS from HK, and the sleeved MTG deck.
Loot from HK which will be in the next part.
-The sleeves from HK housing a matching WS card!
-Right…
-Back…
-Left…
-Front…
-And top of the box. (bottom is just plain white so no picture for that lol)
-unveiling the packs of cards!
-20 packs to be exact!
-Playmat included…
-As well as 5 sleeves…
-A rules insert…
-And an ad for a figure from GSC with a WS promo card!
-The back of the pack
-a convenient notch to make opening the pack easier
-an open back and it’s contents
-includes 4 commons…
-2 uncommons…
-a rare…
-a climax card (don’t get any wrong ideas now!)…
-and some sort of ticket. I think if you get a certain number of them with a money pouch in the middle you can exchange for some stuff. Didn’t get any in the whole box to post a picture of sadly.
-My holographic card from the box.
You get one holographic card from a regular box of which there are 3 different rarity values. There is S-R which is the most common of the holographic cards 1 in every box that doesn’t contain on of the next 2 types. RRR which comes in every 4 boxes, and the SP which comes in every 8 boxes I believe. My card is that of the SP type so I got really lucky for my first box! What’s even more lucky is this is the SP card I would have wanted the most out of the 4 different SP cards!
For regular rares there are split into 2… R and RR. RR comes in 1 in every 5 packs. While the Rs come in every pack without anything rarer. Climax cards also have common types and rare type denoted as CC or CR. If you buy the box you get 8 CRs which is one of every card, because most set only have 8 different CR cards anyways.
For more info on upcoming sets, translations, etc. visit ws.nk-ds.org, It’s where I go to find translations since this game is almost all in Japanese other than the English Disgaea trial deck. I believe the admins for the site live in Singapore and Malaysia.
So far I haven’t met anyone who plays here in Toronto sadly. Trying to get my friends into it. So If you play Weiss Schwarz or plan on playing and live in Toronto just post a comment. I wouldn’t mind meeting up, since I actually haven’t played the game myself.
Gonna post part 2 hopefully before the anime convention rolls around…
