Trading Card Game (TCG)
Definisi
Trading Card Game (TCG) adalah permainan kartu di mana pemain membangun deck dari kumpulan kartu yang dikumpulkan, ditukar, dan dijual. Setiap kartu memiliki kelangkaan dan nilai berbeda.
Ciri-ciri
- Collectible — kartu terbatas
- Trading — bisa ditukar/dijual
- Deck building — strategi deck
- Tournament — kompetisi dengan prize
- Rarity — Common, Uncommon, Rare, Mythic Rare, dll
- Set releases — expansion berkala
- Secondary market — harga bisa tinggi (mis. Black Lotus $500K+)
TCG Utama
- Magic: The Gathering (1993, Wizards of the Coast) — tertua
- Pokémon TCG (1996, The Pokémon Company) — paling populer
- Yu-Gi-Oh! (1999, Konami) — Jepang
- Flesh and Blood (2019, Legend Story Studios)
- One Piece TCG (2022, Bandai)
- Disney Lorcana (2023, Ravensburger)
- Star Wars: Unlimited (2024, Asmodee)
- Digimon Card Game (2020)
- Cardfight!! Vanguard (2011, Bushiroad)
- Final Fantasy TCG (2023)
Pasar
- Magic: The Gathering — $1.2B+ revenue (2023)
- Pokémon TCG — $1.5B+ revenue
- Yu-Gi-Oh! — $200-300M
- Flesh and Blood — $100M+
- Total industri — $5-7B+ per tahun
Format
- Standard — hanya set terbaru
- Modern — semua set modern
- Legacy/Vintage (Magic) — semua set
- Commander/EDH — 100-kartu singleton
- Limited — Draft & Sealed
- Constructed — deck bawa dari rumah